Yesterday the NYT posted their top ten books of the year. This time around the list overlaps with just three of their individual critics’ top 10 lists (whereas last year’s top 10 included five critics’ favorites). For the second year in a row, critic Dwight Garner’s nonfiction-focused choices were completely shut out from the overall top 10. The fiction list is surprising for its inclusion of two collections of previously-published stories: FictionFreedom, by Jonathan FranzenThe New Yorker Stories, by Ann BeattieRoom, by Emma DonoghueSelected Stories, by William TrevorA Visit from the Good Squad, by Jennifer Egan NonfictionApollo’s Angels: A History […]
