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 and authors as well:
- The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan (I Want Complete Freedom When I Write: An Interview with Karan Mahajan)
- Barkskins by Annie Proulx (A Summer Reading List for Wretched Assholes Who Prefer to Wallow in Someone Else’s Misery)
- Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein (Humanity’s Dogged Endurance: On Alexander Weinstein’s Children of the New World)
- Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer (A Year in Reading: Jonathan Safran Foer)
- The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay (Martin Seay’s The Mirror Thief as Explained by Martin Seay)
- Moonglow by Michael Chabon (Two Kinds of Aboutness: The Millions Interviews Michael Chabon)
- Ninety-Nine Stories of God by Joy Williams (50 Reasons Why You Should Read Joy Williams)
- Nutshell by Ian McEwan (The Body Doesn’t Lie: On Ian McEwan’s Nutshell)
- Still Here by Laura Vapnyar (Making Strange: On Laura Vapnyar’s Still Here)
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith (Nameless and Undefined: On Zadie Smith’s Swing Time)
- Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Scars That Never Fade: On Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad)
- The Vegetarian by Han Kang (Taste Is the Only Morality: On Han Kang’s The Vegetarian)
- War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans (Brutal and Tender: On Stefan Hertmans’s War and Turpentine)
- Zero K by Don DeLillo (The End of the Self Is the End of the Universe)
