On Monday, the good folks at The New York Times released its annual Holiday Gift Guide, which includes its annual “notable books” list.This year’s list, the “New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011,” includes titles in two broad categories, Fiction & Poetry and Nonfiction. Forty-five books were listed in the Fiction & Poetry category, and the nonfiction category included 55 books.
What follows is a complete list of the books that made this year’s list:
FICTION & POETRY
1. THE ANGEL ESMERALDA: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo
2. THE ART OF FIELDING by Chad Harbach
3. THE BARBARIAN NURSERIES by Héctor Tobar
4. BIG QUESTION by Anders Brekhus Nilsen
5. THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC by Julie Otsuka
6. CANTI, written by Giacomo Leopardi and translated by Jonathan Galassi
7. THE CAT’S TABLE by Michael Ondaatje
8. CHANGÓ’S BEADS AND TWO-TONE SHOES by William Kennedy
9. COME ON ALL YOU GHOSTS by Matthew Zapruder
10. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
11. THE FREE WORLD by David Bezmozgis
12. GHOST LIGHTS by Lydia Millet
13. THE GRIEF OF OTHERS by Leah Hager Cohen
14. GRYPHON: New and Selected Stories by Charles Baxter
15. HOUSE OF HOLES: A Book of Raunch by Nicholson Baker
16. THE LAST WEREWOLF by Glen Duncan
17. THE LEFTOVERS by Tom Perrotta
18. LIFE ON MARS by Tracy K. Smith
19. THE LONDON TRAIN by Tessa Hadley
20. LONG, LAST, HAPPY: New and Selected Stories by Barry Hannah
21. LOST MEMORY OF SKIN by Russell Banks
22. THE MARRIAGE PLOT by Jeffrey Eugenides
23. A MOMENT IN THE SUN by John Sayles
24. MR. FOX by Helen Oyeyemi
25. MY NEW AMERICAN LIFE by Francine Prose
26. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
27. OPEN CITY by Teju Cole
28. THE PALE KING: An Unfinished Novel by David Foster Wallace
29. PARALLEL STORIES, written by Peter Nadas and translated by Imre Goldstein
30. SAY HER NAME by Francisco Goldman
31. SCENES FROM VILLAGE LIFE by Amos Oz
32. THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by Julian Barnes
33. SEVEN YEARS, written by Peter Stamm and translated by Michael Hofmann
34. SHARDS by Ismet Prcic
35. SPACE, IN CHAINS by Laura Kasischke
36. STONE ARABIA by Dana Spiotta
37. THE STRANGER’S CHILD by Alan Hollinghurst
38. THE SUBMISSION by Amy Waldman
39. SWAMPLANDIA! by Karen Russell
40. TALLER WHEN PRONE: Poems by Les Murray
41. TEN THOUSAND SAINTS by Eleanor Henderson
42. THIS BEAUTIFUL LIFE by Helen Schulman
43. THE TIGER’S WIFE by Téa Obreht
44. THE TRAGEDY OF ARTHUR by Arthur Phillips
45. TRAIN DREAMS by Denis Johnson
NONFICTION
46. AND SO IT GOES. Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields
47. ARGUABLY: Essays by Christopher Hitchens
48. THE ART OF CRUELTY: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson
49. ASSASSINS OF THE TURQUOISE PALACE by Roya Hakakian
50. THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY by David Deutsch
51. BELIEVING IS SEEING by Errol Morris
52. THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE By Steven Pinker
53. BLOOD, BONES AND BUTTER by Gabrielle Hamilton
54. BLUE NIGHTS by Joan Didion
55. THE BOY IN THE MOON by Ian Brown
56. CARAVAGGIO: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon
57. CATHERINE THE GREAT: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
58. CLARENCE DARROW: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
59. COCKTAIL HOUR UNDER THE TREE OF FORGETFULNESS by Alexandra Fuller
60. DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC by Candice Millard
61. THE ECSTASY OF INFLUENCE: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem
62. 1861: The Civil War Awakening by Adam Goodheart
63. EXAMINED LIVES: From Socrates to Nietzsche by James Miller
64. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
65. GEORGE F. KENNAN: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
66. GREAT SOUL by Joseph Lelyveld
67. HARLEM IS NOWHERE by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
68. HOLDY WAR by Nigel Cliff
69. IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS by Erik Larson
70. INFERNO: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
71. THE INFORMATION: A History. A Theory. A Flood by James Gleick
72. INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY by Janet Reitman
73. IS THAT A FISH IN YOUR EAR? By David Bellos
74. JERUSALEM: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore
75. THE KEATS BROTHERS: The Life of John and George by Denise Gigante
76. KNOCKING ON HEAVEN’S DOOR by Lisa Randall
77. MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
78. THE MEMORY CHALET by Tony Judt
79. MIDNIGHT RISING by Tony Horwitz
80. MOBY-DUCK by Donovan Hohn
81. MY SONG: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte with Michael Shnayerson
82. THE NET DELUSION: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov
83. ONE DAY I WILL WRITE ABOUT THIS PLACE by Binyavanga Wainaina
84. THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER by Francis Fukuyama
85. PAULINE KAEL: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
86. PULPHEAD by John Jeremiah Sullivan
87. THE QUEST by Daniel Yergin
88. RIGHTS GONE WRONG by Richard Thompson Ford
89. RIN TIN TIN: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
90. [SIC]: A Memoir by Joshua Cody
91. THE STORM OF WAR by Andrew Roberts
92. THE SWERVE: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
93. THINKING, FAST AND SLOW by Daniel Kahneman
94. TO A MOUNTAIN IN TIBET by Colin Thubron
95. TO END ALL WARS by Adam Hochschild
96. A TRAIN IN WINTER by Caroline Moorehead
97. VAN GOGH: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
98. WHO’S AFRIAD OF POST-BLACKNESS? by Toure
99. WHY THE WEST RULES – FOR NOW by Ian Morris
100. A WORLD ON FIRE by Amanda Foreman
To read more about the books on this list and to see notable books lists from years past, visit http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/22/books/review/100-notable-books-of-2011.html?_r=2&ref=books.
In the end, how many of the books mentioned above have you had the chance to read this year? Which did you like or dislike and why? Which would you recommend and why? Are there any books that weren’t on the list that should have been included? Let us know in the comments section below.
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