Best Of: NYPL

The New York Public Library released its extensive list of best books of the year. Their top picks for fiction and non-fiction are:

Fiction
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Blackouts by Justin Torres
The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
The Hive and the Honey: Stories by Paul Yoon
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang
The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
This Is Salvaged: Stories by Vauhini Vara
Vengeance Is Mine by Marie NDiaye, translated by Jordan Stump

Nonfiction
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me  by Patrick Bringley
Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America,
and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust
Start Here: Instructions For Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla El-Waylly
Thin Skin: Essays by Jenn Shapland
When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey
Wild Girls: How the Outdoors Shaped the Women Who Challenged a Nation by Tiya Miles