As of yesterday, the New York Times list of top 10 books of the year is no longer a subject of speculation. It includes just three of their individual critics' top 10 lists, which makes one wonder who decides on the final line-up. For the second year in a row, critic Dwight Garner's nonfiction-focused choices were left out of the overall top 10, which must cause him some reflection. The fiction list is surprising for its inclusion of two collections of previously-published stories, which is perhaps a comment on the quality of the top runners this year.And here it is:
Fiction
Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
The New Yorker Stories, by Ann Beattie
Room, by Emma Donoghue
Selected Stories, by William Trevor
A Visit from the Good Squad, by Jennifer Egan
Nonfiction
Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet, by Jennifer Homans
Cleopatra: A Life, by Stacy Schiff
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981), by Stephen Sondheim
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, by Isabel Wilkerson
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