The list, to be published in the Book Review’s December 8 print edition, is available online in its entirety now.
Here are this year’s Penguin Random House NYTBR “Notable Books”:
Fiction & Poetry
- AMERICAN SPY by Lauren Wilkinson (Random House)
- BANGKOK WAKES TO RAIN by Pitchaya Sudbanthad (Riverhead)
- THE BODY IN QUESTION by Jill Ciment (Pantheon)
- DISAPPEARING EARTH by Julia Phillips (Knopf)
- EXHALATION: Stories by Ted Chiang (Knopf)
- FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Random House)
- GRAND UNION: Stories by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press)
- LAST DAY by Domenica Ruta (Spiegel & Grau)
- LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE by Valeria Luiselli (Knopf)
- LOT: Stories by Bryan Washington (Riverhead)
- THE MEMORY POLICE by Yoko Ogawa, Translated by Stephen Snyder (Pantheon)
- THE NICKEL BOYS by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
- NIGHT BOAT TO TANGIER by Kevin Barry (Doubleday)
- NORMAL PEOPLE by Sally Rooney (Hogarth)
- THE OCTOPUS MUSEUM: Poems by Brenda Shaughnessy (Knopf)
- THE OLD DRIFT by Namwali Serpell (Hogarth)
- RED AT THE BONE by Jacqueline Woodson (Riverhead)
- RUSTY BROWN by Chris Ware (Pantheon)
- SPRING by Ali Smith (Pantheon)
- THE TESTAMENTS by Margaret Atwood (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday)
- In addition, we have one fiction entry from a Penguin Random House Publisher Servicesclient publisher: RABBITS FOR FOOD by Binnie Kirshenbaum (Soho Press)
Nonfiction
- ANTISOCIAL: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of American Conversation by Andrew Marantz (Viking)
- BECOMING by Michelle Obama (Crown)
- THE BENEFICIARY: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father by Janny Scott (Riverhead)
- FURIOUS HOURS: Murder, Fraud,and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep (Knopf)
- GOOD TALK: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob (One World)
- GUEST HOUSE FOR YOUNG WIDOWS: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni (Random House)
- THE HEARTBEAT OF WOUNDED KNEE: Native America From 1890 to the Present by David Treuer (Riverhead)
- HORIZON by Barry Lopez (Knopf)
- HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST by Ibram X. Kendi (One World)
- IF: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years by Christopher Benfey (Penguin Press)
- THE IMPEACHERS: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation by Brenda Wineapple (Random House)
- KNOW MY NAME: A Memoir by Chanel Miller (Viking)
- THE LOST ART OF SCRIPTURE: Rescuing the Sacred Texts by Karen Armstrong (Knopf)
- MARGARET THATCHER: The Authorized Biography — Herself Alone by Charles Moore (Knopf)
- THE MASTERMIND: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. by Evan Ratliff (Random House)
- OUR MAN: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century by George Packer (Knopf)
- SAY NOTHING: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe (Doubleday)
- SHE SAID: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (Penguin Press)
- STONY THE ROAD: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Penguin Press)
- TRICK MIRROR: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino (Random House)
- THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (Tim Duggan)
- THE UNWINDING OF THE MIRACLE: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After by Julie Yip-Williams (Random House)
- THE WAR BEFORE THE WAR: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul From the Revolution to the Civil War by Andrew Delbanco (Penguin Press)
- WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché. (Penguin Press)
- WOMEN’S WORK: A Reckoning With Work and Home by Megan K. Stack (Doubleday)