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The New York Times Book Review

February 15, 2024

Not to be confused with The New York Review of Books.

The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry.[2] The magazine's offices are located near Times Square in New York City.

The New York Times Book Review
The cover of the June 13, 2004 New York Times Book Review
EditorGilbert Cruz[1]
FrequencyWeekly
First issueOctober 10, 1896 (1896-10-10)
CompanyThe New York Times Company
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City, New York
LanguageEnglish
Websitenytimes.com/section/books/review
ISSN0028-7806

Overview edit

The New York Times has published a book review section since October 10, 1896, announcing: "We begin today the publication of a Supplement which contains reviews of new books ... and other interesting matter ... associated with news of the day."[3] In 1911, the review was moved to Sundays, on the theory that it would be more appreciatively received by readers with a bit of time on their hands.[4]

The target audience is an intelligent, general-interest adult reader.[2] The Times publishes two versions each week, one with a cover price sold via subscription, bookstores and newsstands; the other with no cover price included as an insert in each Sunday edition of the Times (the copies are otherwise identical).

Each week the NYTBR receives 750 to 1000 books from authors and publishers in the mail, of which 20 to 30 are chosen for review.[2] Books are selected by the "preview editors" who read over 1,500 advance galleys a year.[5] The selection process is based on finding books that are important and notable, as well as discovering new authors whose books stand above the crowd.[2] Self-published books are generally not reviewed as a matter of policy.[2] Books not selected for review are stored in a "discard room" and then sold.[2] As of 2006, Barnes & Noble arrived about once a month to purchase the contents of the discard room, and the proceeds are then donated by NYTBR to charities.[2] Books that are actually reviewed are usually donated to the reviewer.[2]

As of 2015, all review critics are freelance; the NYTBR does not have staff critics.[6] In prior years, the NYTBR did have in-house critics, or a mix of in-house and freelance.[2] For freelance critics, they are assigned an in-house "preview editor" who works with them in creating the final review.[2] Freelance critics might be employees of The New York Times whose main duties are in other departments.[6] They also include professional literary critics, novelists, academics and artists who write reviews for the NYTBR on a regular basis.[6]

Other duties on staff include a number of senior editors and a chief editor; a team of copy editors; a letter pages editor who reads letters to the editor; columnists who write weekly columns, such as the "Paperback Row" column; a production editor; a web and Internet publishing division; and other jobs.[2] In addition to the magazine there is an Internet site that offers additional content, including audio interviews with authors, called the "Book Review Podcast".[2]

The book review publishes each week the widely cited and influential New York Times Best Seller list, which is created by the editors of the Times "News Surveys" department.[7]

In 2021, on the 125th anniversary of the Book Review, Parul Sehgal a staff critic and former editor at the Book Review, wrote a review of the NYTBR titled "Reviewing the Book Review".[8]

Pamela Paul was editor from 2013 to 2022, succeeding Sam Tanenhaus,[9] who was editor from 2004 to 2013.

Podcast edit

"Inside The New York Times Book Review" is the oldest and most popular podcast at The New York Times. The debut episode was released on April 30, 2006 and the show has been recorded weekly ever since.[10]

1983 Legion court case edit

In 1983, William Peter Blatty sued the New York Times Book Review for failing to include his 1983 novel, Legion, in its best-seller list. The New York Times had previously claimed that it based its "best-seller list" is based on computer-processed sales figures from 2,000 bookstores across the United States. Blatty contended that Legion had sold enough copies to be included on the list. Lawyers for The New York Times did not deny this, but stated that the content of the New York Times best-seller list is editorial in content, and is not an objective compilation of information. The court ruled in favor of The New York Times.[11][12]

Best Books of the Year and Notable Books edit

Each year since 1968, around the beginning of December, a list of notable books and/or editor's choice ("Best Books") is announced. Beginning in 2004, it consists of a "100 Notable Books of the Year" list[13] which contains fiction and non-fiction titles, 50 of each. From the list of 100, 10 books are awarded the "Best Books of the Year" title, five each of fiction and non-fiction. Other year-end lists include the Best Illustrated Children's Books, in which 10 books are chosen by a panel of judges.

1990s edit

2000s edit

2010s edit

2020s edit

Studies edit

In 2010, Stanford professors Alan Sorenson and Jonah Berger published a study examining the effect on book sales from positive or negative reviews in the New York Times Book Review.[64][65] They found all books benefited from positive reviews, while popular or well-known authors were negatively impacted by negative reviews.[64][65] Lesser-known authors benefited from negative reviews; in other words, bad publicity actually boosted book sales.[64][65]

A study published in 2012, by university professor and author Roxane Gay, found that 90 percent of the New York Times book reviews published in 2011 were of books by white authors.[66] Gay said, "The numbers reflect the overall trend in publishing where the majority of books published are written by white writers."[66] At the time of the report, the racial makeup of the United States was 72 percent white, according to the 2010 census (it includes Hispanic and Latino Americans who identify as white).[66]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Gilbert Cruz Is Our Next Books Editor". The New York Times Company. July 28, 2022. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Inside The New York Times Book Review". C-SPAN. October 17, 2006. Retrieved April 12, 2015. A behind-the-scenes tour of the offices of the New York Times Book Review showed how an issue is created. Editor Sam Tanenhaus guided the tour through the editorial and production process of review while staff members described their various responsibilities. Included were selecting and rejecting books; choosing reviewers for books; fact checking and editing the review; composing the layout design; creating headlines, blurbs, and artwork; and selecting and editing letters from readers.
  3. ^ The New York Times, October 10, 1896. Inaugural book review issue (announced on page 4, column 1)
  4. ^ Dunlap, David W. (August 18, 2016). "1896 | The Book Review Is Born". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  5. ^ Noah Charney (August 8, 2012). "Inside the NYT Book Review: 'How I Write' Interviews Sam Tanenhaus". The Daily Beast. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
  6. ^ a b c Pamela Paul (January 1, 2016). "Answering the Most Frequent Questions About the Book Review". New York Times Book Review. Retrieved January 2, 2016.
  7. ^ Allen Pierleoni (January 22, 2012). . The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on January 25, 2012. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  8. ^ Parul Sehgal (February 26, 2021). "Reviewing the Book Review". The New York Times Book Review. Retrieved February 27, 2021.
  9. ^ Paoletta, Sam (April 21, 2022). "The New York Times Book Review at a Crossroads". The Nation. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  10. ^ Paul, Pamela (September 14, 2015). "Listening to the Book Review". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  11. ^ Hager, Philip (October 8, 1986). "Best-Seller Listing Is Issue in Lawsuit by Author". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 11, 2023.
  12. ^ Laura J. Miller (2000). "The Best-Seller List as Marketing Tool and Historical Fiction". In Ezra Greenspan (ed.). Book History. Vol. 3. Penn State Press. pp. 286–304. ISBN 0271020504.
  13. ^ "HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE; 100 Notable Books of 2010". The New York Times. December 5, 2010. p. 28. Retrieved January 7, 2011. (Page has links to previous years also.)
  14. ^ "Notable Books 1998". The New York Times. December 6, 1998. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  15. ^ "The 11 Best Books 1998". The New York Times. December 6, 1998. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  16. ^ "Notable Books 2000". The New York Times. December 5, 1999. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  17. ^ "The 11 Best Books 1999". The New York Times. December 5, 1999. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  18. ^ "Notable Books 2000". The New York Times. December 3, 2000. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  19. ^ "The 10 Best Books 1999". The New York Times. December 3, 2000. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  20. ^ "Notable Books 2001". The New York Times. December 2, 2001. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  21. ^ "The 9 Best Books 2001". The New York Times. December 2, 2001. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  22. ^ "Notable Books 2002". The New York Times. December 8, 2002. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  23. ^ "The 7 Best Books 2002". The New York Times. December 8, 2002. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  24. ^ "Notable Books 2003". The New York Times. December 7, 2003. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  25. ^ "The 9 Best Books 2003". The New York Times. December 7, 2003. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  26. ^ "100 Notable Books 2004". The New York Times. December 5, 2004. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  27. ^ "The 10 Best Books 2004". The New York Times. December 12, 2004. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  28. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2005". The New York Times. December 4, 2005. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  29. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2005". The New York Times. December 11, 2005. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  30. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2006". The New York Times. December 3, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  31. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2006". The New York Times. December 10, 2006. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  32. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2007". The New York Times. December 2, 2007. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  33. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2007". The New York Times. December 9, 2007. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  34. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2008". The New York Times. November 26, 2008. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  35. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2008". The New York Times. December 3, 2008. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  36. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2009". The New York Times. December 6, 2009. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  37. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2009". The New York Times. December 13, 2009. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  38. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2010". The New York Times. November 24, 2010. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  39. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2010". The New York Times. December 1, 2010. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  40. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2011". The New York Times. November 21, 2011. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  41. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2011". The New York Times. November 30, 2011. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  42. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2012". The New York Times. November 27, 2012. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  43. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2012". The New York Times. November 30, 2012. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  44. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2013". The New York Times. November 27, 2013. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  45. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2013". The New York Times. December 4, 2013. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  46. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2014". The New York Times. December 2, 2014. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  47. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2014". The New York Times. December 4, 2014. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  48. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2015". The New York Times. November 27, 2015. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  49. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2015". The New York Times. December 3, 2015. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  50. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2016". The New York Times. November 23, 2016. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  51. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2016". The New York Times. December 1, 2016. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  52. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2017". The New York Times. November 22, 2017. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  53. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2017". The New York Times. November 30, 2017. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  54. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2018". The New York Times. November 18, 2018. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  55. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2018". The New York Times. November 29, 2018. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  56. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2019". The New York Times. November 25, 2019. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  57. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2019". The New York Times. November 22, 2019. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  58. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2020". The New York Times. November 20, 2020. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  59. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2020". The New York Times. November 23, 2020. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 28, 2020.
  60. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2021". The New York Times. November 22, 2021. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
  61. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2021". The New York Times. November 30, 2021. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
  62. ^ "100 Notable Books of 2022". The New York Times. November 22, 2022. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
  63. ^ "The 10 Best Books of 2022". The New York Times. November 29, 2022. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 30, 2022.
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  65. ^ a b c Jenny Thai, "Bad publicity may boost book sales", the Stanford Daily, February 23, 2011.
  66. ^ a b c Roxane Gay (June 6, 2012). "Where Things Stand". The Rumpus. Retrieved June 13, 2012.

External links edit

  • The New York Times Book Review, home page.
  • The New York Times, October 10, 1896. Inaugural book review issue (announced on page 4, column 1)
  • Interviews with senior editors and writers at the NYTBR, by Michael Orbach, The Knight News, Issue date: 2/8/07 Section: Knight Life
  • "Are The New York Times Book Reviews Fair?", Tell Me More, National Public Radio, August 20, 2010
  • Choire (February 24, 2007). . Gawker. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012.
  • Delkic, Melina (October 10, 2018). "How The New York Times Book Review Chooses Its Reviewers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  • Temple, Emily (December 15, 2016). "10 Things You Didn't Know About How the NY Times Book Review Works". Literary Hub.
  • Answering the Most Frequent Questions About the Book Review

February 15, 2024
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Not to be confused with The New York Review of Books The New York Times Book Review NYTBR is a weekly paper magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non fiction and fiction books are reviewed It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry 2 The magazine s offices are located near Times Square in New York City The New York Times Book ReviewThe cover of the June 13 2004 New York Times Book ReviewEditorGilbert Cruz 1 FrequencyWeeklyFirst issueOctober 10 1896 1896 10 10 CompanyThe New York Times CompanyCountryUnited StatesBased inNew York City New YorkLanguageEnglishWebsitenytimes wbr com wbr section wbr books wbr reviewISSN0028 7806 Contents 1 Overview 2 Podcast 3 1983 Legion court case 4 Best Books of the Year and Notable Books 4 1 1990s 4 2 2000s 4 3 2010s 4 4 2020s 5 Studies 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksOverview editThe New York Times has published a book review section since October 10 1896 announcing We begin today the publication of a Supplement which contains reviews of new books and other interesting matter associated with news of the day 3 In 1911 the review was moved to Sundays on the theory that it would be more appreciatively received by readers with a bit of time on their hands 4 The target audience is an intelligent general interest adult reader 2 The Times publishes two versions each week one with a cover price sold via subscription bookstores and newsstands the other with no cover price included as an insert in each Sunday edition of the Times the copies are otherwise identical Each week the NYTBR receives 750 to 1000 books from authors and publishers in the mail of which 20 to 30 are chosen for review 2 Books are selected by the preview editors who read over 1 500 advance galleys a year 5 The selection process is based on finding books that are important and notable as well as discovering new authors whose books stand above the crowd 2 Self published books are generally not reviewed as a matter of policy 2 Books not selected for review are stored in a discard room and then sold 2 As of 2006 update Barnes amp Noble arrived about once a month to purchase the contents of the discard room and the proceeds are then donated by NYTBR to charities 2 Books that are actually reviewed are usually donated to the reviewer 2 As of 2015 all review critics are freelance the NYTBR does not have staff critics 6 In prior years the NYTBR did have in house critics or a mix of in house and freelance 2 For freelance critics they are assigned an in house preview editor who works with them in creating the final review 2 Freelance critics might be employees of The New York Times whose main duties are in other departments 6 They also include professional literary critics novelists academics and artists who write reviews for the NYTBR on a regular basis 6 Other duties on staff include a number of senior editors and a chief editor a team of copy editors a letter pages editor who reads letters to the editor columnists who write weekly columns such as the Paperback Row column a production editor a web and Internet publishing division and other jobs 2 In addition to the magazine there is an Internet site that offers additional content including audio interviews with authors called the Book Review Podcast 2 The book review publishes each week the widely cited and influential New York Times Best Seller list which is created by the editors of the Times News Surveys department 7 In 2021 on the 125th anniversary of the Book Review Parul Sehgal a staff critic and former editor at the Book Review wrote a review of the NYTBR titled Reviewing the Book Review 8 Pamela Paul was editor from 2013 to 2022 succeeding Sam Tanenhaus 9 who was editor from 2004 to 2013 Podcast edit Inside The New York Times Book Review is the oldest and most popular podcast at The New York Times The debut episode was released on April 30 2006 and the show has been recorded weekly ever since 10 1983 Legion court case editIn 1983 William Peter Blatty sued the New York Times Book Review for failing to include his 1983 novel Legion in its best seller list The New York Times had previously claimed that it based its best seller list is based on computer processed sales figures from 2 000 bookstores across the United States Blatty contended that Legion had sold enough copies to be included on the list Lawyers for The New York Times did not deny this but stated that the content of the New York Times best seller list is editorial in content and is not an objective compilation of information The court ruled in favor of The New York Times 11 12 Best Books of the Year and Notable Books editEach year since 1968 around the beginning of December a list of notable books and or editor s choice Best Books is announced Beginning in 2004 it consists of a 100 Notable Books of the Year list 13 which contains fiction and non fiction titles 50 of each From the list of 100 10 books are awarded the Best Books of the Year title five each of fiction and non fiction Other year end lists include the Best Illustrated Children s Books in which 10 books are chosen by a panel of judges 1990s edit 1998The Notable Books were announced December 6 1998 14 The eleven Editor s Choice books were announced December 6 1998 15 Lorrie Moore Birds of America Russell Banks Cloudsplitter Richard Fortey Life A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible David Gates Preston Falls Ron Chernow Titan The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr Richard Holbrooke To End a War Hilary Spurling The Unknown Matisse Graham Robb Victor Hugo A Biography Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families Stories from Rwanda 1999The Notable Books were announced December 5 1999 16 The eleven Editor s Choice books were announced December 5 1999 17 Richard A Posner An Affair of State The Investigation Impeachment and Trial of President Clinton Annie Proulx Close Range Wyoming Stories Richard Holmes Coleridge Darker Reflections 1804 1834 J M Coetzee Disgrace Antonio Damasio The Feeling of What Happens Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness John Keegan The First World War Michael Frayn Headlong Jean Strouse Morgan American Financier Inga Clendinnen Reading the Holocaust Judith Thurman Secrets of the Flesh A Life of Colette Roddy Doyle A Star Called Henry 2000s edit 2000The Notable Books were announced December 3 2000 18 The 10 Editor s Choice books were announced December 3 2000 19 Jim Crace Being Dead Unknown Beowulf translation by Seamus Heaney Matt Ridley Genome The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters John Updike Gertrude and Claudius Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius A Memoir Based on a True Story Philip Roth The Human Stain Tom Segev One Palestine Complete Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate Graham Robb Rimbaud A Biography Frances FitzGerald Way Out There In the Blue Reagan Star Wars and the End of the Cold War Zadie Smith White Teeth 2001The Notable Books were announced December 2 2001 20 The 9 Editor s Choice books were announced December 2 2001 21 W G Sebald Austerlitz Paula Fox Borrowed Finery A Memoir Jonathan Franzen The Corrections Alice Munro Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage Colson Whitehead John Henry Days Louis Menand The Metaphysical Club A Story of Ideas in America Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang Oliver Sacks Uncle Tungsten Memories of a Chemical Boyhood 2002The Notable Books were announced December 8 2002 22 The 7 Editor s Choice books were announced December 8 2002 23 Miranda Carter Anthony Blunt His Lives Ian McEwan Atonement Lorna Sage Bad Blood Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex Margaret MacMillan Paris 1919 Six Months That Changed the World William Kennedy Roscoe Timothy Ferris Seeing in the Dark How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril 2003The Notable Books were announced December 7 2003 24 The 9 Editor s Choice books were announced December 7 2003 25 Caroline Alexander The Bounty The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty Monica Ali Brick Lane T Coraghessan Boyle Drop City Jonathan Lethem The Fortress of Solitude William Taubman Khrushchev The Man and His Era Edward P Jones The Known World Gabriel Garcia Marquez Living to Tell the Tale Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family Love Drugs Trouble and Coming of Age in the Bronx 2004The 100 Notable Books were announced December 5 2004 26 The 10 Best Books were announced December 12 2004 27 Ron Chernow Alexander Hamilton Bob Dylan Chronicles Volume One David Hackett Fischer Washington s Crossing Stephen Greenblatt Will in the World How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Ha Jin War Trash Alice Munro Runaway Orhan Pamuk Snow Marilynne Robinson Gilead Philip Roth The Plot Against America Colm Toibin The Master 2005The 100 Notable Books were announced December 4 2005 28 The 10 Best Books were announced December 11 2005 29 Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking Mary Gaitskill Veronica Jonathan Harr The Lost Painting The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece Tony Judt Postwar A History of Europe Since 1945 Ian McEwan Saturday Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore George Packer The Assassins Gate America in Iraq Curtis Sittenfeld Prep Zadie Smith On Beauty Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan de Kooning An American Master 2006The 100 Notable Books were announced December 3 2006 30 The 10 Best Books were announced December 10 2006 31 Richard Ford The Lay of the Land Amy Hempel The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel Claire Messud The Emperor s Children Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics Nathaniel Philbrick Mayflower A Story of Courage Community and War Michael Pollan The Omnivore s Dilemma A Natural History of Four Meals Gary Shteyngart Absurdistan Rory Stewart The Places In Between Danielle Trussoni Falling Through the Earth A Memoir Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower Al Qaeda and the Road to 9 11 2007The 100 Notable Books were announced December 2 2007 32 The 10 Best Books were announced December 9 2007 33 Roberto Bolano The Savage Detectives Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City Inside Iraq s Green Zone Linda Colley The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh A Woman in World History Joshua Ferris Then We Came to the End Denis Johnson Tree of Smoke A Novel Mildred Armstrong Kalish Little Heathens Per Petterson Out Stealing Horses Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise Listening to the Twentieth Century Michael Thomas Man Gone Down A Novel Jeffrey Toobin The Nine Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court 2008The 100 Notable Books were announced November 26 2008 34 The 10 Best Books were announced December 14 2008 35 Julian Barnes Nothing to Be Frightened Of Roberto Bolano 2666 Drew Gilpin Faust This Republic of Suffering Death and the American Civil War Dexter Filkins The Forever War Patrick French The World Is What It Is The Authorized Biography of V S Naipaul Jhumpa Lahiri Unaccustomed Earth Jane Mayer The Dark Side The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals Steven Millhauser Dangerous Laughter Thirteen Stories Toni Morrison A Mercy Joseph O Neill Netherland 2009The 100 Notable Books were announced December 6 2009 36 The 10 Best Books were announced December 13 2009 37 Liaquat Ahamed Lords of Finance The Bankers Who Broke the World David Finkel The Good Soldiers Richard Holmes The Age of Wonder How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Mary Karr Lit A Memoir Jonathan Lethem Chronic City Maile Meloy Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It Lorrie Moore A Gate at the Stairs Carol Sklenicka Raymond Carver A Writer s Life Kate Walbert A Short History of Women Jeannette Walls Half Broke Horses 2010s edit 2010The 100 Notable Books were announced November 24 2010 38 The 10 Best Books were announced December 1 2010 39 Ann Beattie The New Yorker Stories Emma Donoghue Room Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad Jonathan Franzen Freedom Jennifer Homans Apollo s Angels A History of Ballet Siddhartha Mukherjee The Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer Stacy Schiff Cleopatra A Life Stephen Sondheim Finishing the Hat William Trevor Selected Stories Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America s Great Migration 2011The 100 Notable Books were announced November 21 2011 40 The 10 Best Books were announced November 30 2011 41 Ian Brown The Boy in the Moon A Father s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son Amanda Foreman A World on Fire Britain s Crucial Role in the American Civil War Chad Harbach The Art of Fielding Eleanor Henderson Ten Thousand Saints Christopher Hitchens Arguably Essays Daniel Kahneman Thinking Fast and Slow Stephen King 11 22 63 Manning Marable Malcolm X A Life of Reinvention Tea Obreht The Tiger s Wife Karen Russell Swamplandia 2012The 100 Notable Books were announced November 27 2012 42 The 10 Best Books were announced November 30 2012 43 Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers Life Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity Robert Caro The Passage of Power Dave Eggers A Hologram for the King Jim Holt Why Does the World Exist An Existential Detective Story Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies David Nasaw The Patriarch The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P Kennedy Kevin Powers The Yellow Birds Andrew Solomon Far From the Tree Parents Children and the Search for Identity Zadie Smith NW Chris Ware Building Stories 2013The 100 Notable Books were announced November 27 2013 44 The 10 Best Books were announced December 4 2013 45 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah Kate Atkinson Life After Life Peter Baker Days of Fire Bush and Cheney in the White House Alan S Blinder After the Music Stopped The Financial Crisis the Response and the Work Ahead Christopher Clark The Sleepwalkers How Europe Went to War in 1914 Sonali Deraniyagala Wave Sheri Fink Five Days at Memorial Life and Death in a Storm Ravaged Hospital Rachel Kushner The Flamethrowers Donna Tartt The Goldfinch George Saunders Tenth of December Stories 2014The 100 Notable Books were announced 46 The 10 Best Books were announced December 14 2014 47 Eula Biss On Immunity An Inoculation Roz Chast Can t We Talk about Something More Pleasant A Memoir Anthony Doerr All the Light We Cannot See Lily King Euphoria Phil Klay Redeployment Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction An Unnatural History Hermione Lee Penelope Fitzgerald A Life Jenny Offill Dept of Speculation Akhil Sharma Family Life Lawrence Wright Thirteen Days in September Carter Begin and Sadat at Camp 2015The 100 Notable Books were announced November 27 2015 48 The 10 Best Books were announced December 3 2015 49 Paul Beatty The Sellout Sven Beckert Empire of Cotton A Global History Lucia Berlin A Manual for Cleaning Women Selected Stories Ta Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me Rachel Cusk Outline Elena Ferrante The Story of the Lost Child Book 4 The Neapolitan Novels Maturity Old Age Helen Macdonald H Is for Hawk Asne Seierstad One of Us The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway Magda Szabo The Door Andrea Wulf The Invention of Nature Alexander von Humboldt s New World 2016The 100 Notable Books were announced November 23 2016 50 The 10 Best Books were announced December 1 2016 51 Sarah Bakewell At the Existentialist Cafe Freedom Being and Apricot Cocktails Matthew Desmond Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City Susan Faludi In the Darkroom Stefan Hertmans War and Turpentine Han Kang The Vegetarian Karan Mahajan The Association of Small Bombs Hisham Matar The Return Fathers Sons and the Land in Between Jane Mayer Dark Money The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right Ian McGuire The North Water Colson Whitehead The Underground Railroad 2017The 100 Notable Books were announced November 22 2017 52 The 10 Best Books were announced November 30 2017 53 Naomi Alderman The Power Ron Chernow Grant James Forman Jr Locking Up Our Own Crime and Punishment in Black America Caroline Fraser Prairie Fires The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder Mohsin Hamid Exit West Min Jin Lee Pachinko Patricia Lockwood Priestdaddy A Memoir Richard Prum The Evolution of Beauty How Darwin s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World and Us Ali Smith Autumn Jesmyn Ward Sing Unburied Sing 2018The 100 Notable Books were announced November 18 2018 54 The 10 Best Books were announced November 29 2018 55 Shane Bauer American Prison A Reporter s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment Lisa Brennan Jobs Small Fry David W Blight Frederick Douglass Prophet of Freedom Esi Edugyan Washington Black Lisa Halliday Asymmetry Rebecca Makkai The Great Believers Tommy Orange There There Michael Pollan How to Change Your Mind What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness Dying Addiction Depression and Transcendence Leila Slimani Lullaby Tara Westover Educated 2019The 100 Notable Books were announced November 25 2019 56 The 10 Best Books were announced November 22 2019 57 In 2019 for the first time the 10 Best Books were announced prior to the 100 Notable Books Kevin Barry Night Boat to Tangier Sarah M Broom The Yellow House Leo Damrosch The Club Johnson Boswell and the Friends Who Shaped an Age Ted Chiang Exhalation Stories Adam Higginbotham Midnight in Chernobyl The Untold Story of the World s Greatest Nuclear Disaster Patrick Radden Keefe Say Nothing A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland Ben Lerner The Topeka School Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive Julia Phillips Disappearing Earth Rachel Louise Snyder No Visible Bruises What We Don t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us 2020s edit 2020The 100 Notable Books were announced November 20 2020 58 The 10 Best Books were announced November 23 2020 59 Fiction Lydia Millet A Children s Bible James McBride Deacon King Kong Maggie O Farrell Hamnet Ayad Akhtar Homeland Elegies Brit Bennett The Vanishing Half Victoria Chang Obit Nonfiction Robert Kolker Hidden Valley Road Barack Obama A Promised Land James Shapiro Shakespeare in a Divided America Anna Wiener Uncanny Valley Margaret MacMillan War How Conflict Shaped Us 2021The 100 Notable Books were announced November 22 2021 60 The 10 Best Books were announced November 30 2021 61 Fiction Imbolo Mbue How Beautiful We Were Katie Kitamura Intimacies Honoree Fanonne Jeffers The Love Songs of W E B Du Bois Patricia Lockwood No One Is Talking About This Benjamin Labatut When We Cease to Understand the WorldNonfiction Tove Ditlevsen The Copenhagen Trilogy Clint Smith How the Word is Passed Andrea Elliott Invisible Child Poverty Survival and Hope in an American City Annette Gordon Reed On Juneteenth Heather Clark Red Comet The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath 2022The 100 Notable Books were announced November 22 2022 62 The 10 Best Books were announced November 29 2022 63 Fiction Jennifer Egan The Candy House Claire Louise Bennett Checkout 19 Barbara Kingsolver Demon Copperhead Namwali Serpell The Furrows Hernan Diaz TrustNonfiction Ed Yong An Immense World How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Hua Hsu Stay True A Memoir Rachel Aviv Strangers to Ourselves Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Linda Villarosa Under the Skin The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation Fintan O Toole We Don t Know Ourselves a Personal History of Modern IrelandStudies editIn 2010 Stanford professors Alan Sorenson and Jonah Berger published a study examining the effect on book sales from positive or negative reviews in the New York Times Book Review 64 65 They found all books benefited from positive reviews while popular or well known authors were negatively impacted by negative reviews 64 65 Lesser known authors benefited from negative reviews in other words bad publicity actually boosted book sales 64 65 A study published in 2012 by university professor and author Roxane Gay found that 90 percent of the New York Times book reviews published in 2011 were of books by white authors 66 Gay said The numbers reflect the overall trend in publishing where the majority of books published are written by white writers 66 At the time of the report the racial makeup of the United States was 72 percent white according to the 2010 census it includes Hispanic and Latino Americans who identify as white 66 See also editBooks in the United StatesReferences edit Gilbert Cruz Is Our Next Books Editor The New York Times Company July 28 2022 Retrieved August 24 2022 a b c d e f g h i j k l Inside The New York Times Book Review C SPAN October 17 2006 Retrieved April 12 2015 A behind the scenes tour of the offices of the New York Times Book Review showed how an issue is created Editor Sam Tanenhaus guided the tour through the editorial and production process of review while staff members described their various 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