This year’s New York Times Notable Books of the Year list is out. At 100 titles, the list is more of a catalog of the noteworthy than a distinction. Sticking with the fiction exclusively, it appears that we touched upon a few of these books as well:
- The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates (A Virtuoso at Work: Joyce Carol Oates Turns 75)
- All That Is by James Salter (All You Have Is What You Remember: The Millions Interviews James Salter, James Salter’s All That Is: From Dream to Reality)
- The Circle by Dave Eggers (A Little Bit Beta: On Dave Eggers’s The Circle)
- The Color Master by Aimee Bender (Childish Things: Aimee Bender’s The Color Master)
- The Dinner by Herman Koch (After The Dinner: A Round Up of Newly Translated Dutch Fiction)
- Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem (Queens As a Metaphor for the World: On Jonathan Lethem’s Dissident Gardens)
- Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (Everything I Know About America I Learned from Stephen King)
- The End of the Point by Elizabeth Graver (The Life that Develops In-Between: On Elizabeth Graver’s The End of the Point)
- The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (Rachel Kushner Is Well On Her Way to Huges)
- A Guide to Being Born by Ramona Ausubel (The Chemistry between Fiction and Reality: The Millions Interviews Ramona Ausubel, a Millions contributor)
- Half The Kingdom by Lore Segal (The Smile in the Bone: Lore Segal’s Half The Kingdom)
- The Infatuations by Javier Marías (The Darkness is Deep Indeed: On Javier Marías’s The Infatuations)
- The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer (Sing It, Sister! On Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings)
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (When the Stars Align: On Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries)
- MaddAdam by Margaret Atwood (The Past is What Matters: On Margaret Atwood’s Vision of the Future)
- A Marker to Measure Drift by Alexander Maksik (Something Stark and Essential: On Alexander Maksik’s A Marker to Measure Drift)
- Schroder by Amity Gaige (Living a Lie: The Millions Interviews Amity Gaige)
- The Son by Philipp Meyer (The Last of the Comanches: Philipp Meyer’s The Son, Delusion is Crucial: The Millions Interviews Philipp Meyer)
- Tenth of December by George Saunders (George Saunders and the Question of Greatness)
- Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (Peeling Back the Oprah Seal: Ayana Mathis’s Twelve Tribes of Hattie)
- Woke Up Lonely by Fiona Maazel (Alienation for Two: Fiona Maazel’s Woke Up Lonely, a Millions contributor)
