Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2021
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Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2021
Fictie
HOW BEAUTIFUL WE WERE By Imbolo Mbue. INTIMACIES – Katie Kitamura
THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DUBOIS – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS – Patricia Lockwood
WHEN WE CEASE TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD – Benjamín Labatut(vertaald door Adrian Nathan West)
Non-fictie
THE COPENHAGEN TRILOGY: Childhood; Youth; Dependency By Tove Ditlevsen (vertaald door Tiina Nunnally en Michael Favala Goldman)
HOW THE WORD IS PASSED: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America – Clint Smith INVISIBLE CHILD: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City – Andrea Elliott
ON JUNETEENTH – Annette Gordon-Reed
RED COMET: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath – Heather Clark
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Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2020
Fictie
A CHILDREN’S BIBLE – Lydia Millet
DEACON KING KONG – James McBride
HAMNET – Maggie O’Farrell
HOMELAND ELEGIES – Ayad Akhtar
THE VANISHING HALF – Brit Bennett.
Non-fictie
HIDDEN VALLEY ROAD – Robert Kolker
A PROMISED LAND – Barack Obama
SHAKESPEARE IN A DIVIDED AMERICA – James Shapiro
UNCANNY VALLEY – Rachel Anna Wiener
WAR – Margaret MacMillan
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2019
Fictie
DISAPPEARING EARTH – Julia Phillips
THE TOPEKA SCHOOL By Ben Lerner. EXHALATION – Ted Chiang
LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE – Valeria Luiselli
NIGHT BOAT TO TANGIER – Kevin Barry.
Non-fictie
SAY NOTHING – Patrick Radden Keefe
THE CLUB – Leo Damrosch
THE YELLOW HOUSE – Sarah M. Broom
NO VISIBLE BRUISES – Rachel Louise Snyder
MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL – Adam Higginbotham.
Zie hier de top 10 beste boeken over het geheugen.
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2018
Fictie
ASYMMETRY – Lisa Halliday
THE GREAT BELIEVERS – Rebecca Makkai
THE PERFECT NANNY – Leila Slimani (vertaald door Sam Taylor)
THERE THERE – Tommy Orange
WASHINGTON BLACK – Esi Edugyan.
Non-fictie
AMERICAN PRISON: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment – Shane Bauer
EDUCATED: A Memoir – Tara Westover
FREDERICK DOUGLASS: Prophet of Freedom – David W. Blight
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence – Michael Pollan
SMALL FRY: A Memoir – Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2017
Fictie
AUTUMN – Ali Smith
EXIT WEST – Mohsin Hamid
PACHINKO – Min Jin Lee
THE POWER – Naomi Alderman
SING, UNBURIED, SING – Jesmyn Ward
Non-fictie
THE EVOLUTION OF BEAUTY: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us – Richard O. Prum
GRANT – Ron Chernow
LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America – James Forman Jr.
PRAIRIE FIRES: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder – Caroline Fraser
PRIESTDADDY – Patricia Lockwood.
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Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2016
Fictie
THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS – Karan Mahajan
THE NORTH WATER – Ian McGuire
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD – Colson Whitehead
THE VEGETARIAN – Han Kang (vertaald door Deborah Smith)
WAR AND TURPENTINE – Stefan Hertmans (vertaald door David McKay)
Non-fictie
AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFÉ: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails – Sarah Bakewell
DARK MONEY: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right – Jane Mayer
EVICTED: Poverty and Profit in the American City – Matthew Desmond
IN THE DARKROOM – Susan Faludi
THE RETURN: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between – Hisham Matar
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Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2015
Fictie
THE DOOR – Magda Szabo (vertaald door Len Rix)
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN: Selected Stories – Lucia Berlin (bewerkt door Stephen Emerson)
OUTLINE – Rachel Cusk
THE SELLOUT By Paul Beatty
THE STORY OF THE LOST CHILD: Book 4, The Neapolitan Novels: “Maturity, Old Age” – Elena Ferrante. (vertaald door Ann Goldstein)
Non-fictie
BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME – Ta-Nehisi Coates
EMPIRE OF COTTON: A Global History – Sven Beckert
H IS FOR HAWK – Helen Macdonald
THE INVENTION OF NATURE: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World – Andrea Wulf
ONE OF US: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway – Asne Seierstad (vertaald door Sarah Death)
Editors’ Picks
The Power of Negative Thinking
Joni Mitchell Reclaims Her Voice at Newport
How Much Should I Spend to Keep My Elderly Dog Alive?
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2014
Fictie
ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE By Anthony Doerr
DEPT. OF SPECULATION By Jenny Offill
EUPHORIA By Lily King. FAMILY LIFE By Akhil Sharma. REDEPLOYMENT By Phil Klay.
Non-fictie
CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? – Roz Chast
ON IMMUNITY: An Inoculation – Eula Biss
PENELOPE FITZGERALD: A Life – Hermione Lee
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: An Unnatural History – Elizabeth Kolbert
THIRTEEN DAYS IN SEPTEMBER: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David – Lawrence Wright.
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Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2013
Fictie
AMERICANAH – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
THE FLAMETHROWERS – Rachel Kushner
THE GOLDFINCH – Donna Tartt
LIFE AFTER LIFE – Kate Atkinson
TENTH OF DECEMBER: Stories – George Saunders.
Non-fictie
AFTER THE MUSIC STOPPED: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead – Alan S. Blinder
DAYS OF FIRE: Bush and Cheney in the White House – Peter Baker
FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital – Sheri Fink
THE SLEEPWALKERS: How Europe Went to War in 1914 – Christopher Clark
WAVE – Sonali Deraniyagala.
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2012
Fictie
BRING UP THE BODIES – Hilary Mantel
BUILDING STORIES – Chris Ware
A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING – Dave Eggers
NW – Zadie Smith
THE YELLOW BIRDS – Kevin Powers.
Non-fictie
BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity – Katherine Boo
FAR FROM THE TREE: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity – Andrew Solomon
THE PASSAGE OF POWER: The Years of Lyndon Johnson – Robert A. Caro
THE PATRIARCH: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy – David Nasaw
WHY DOES THE WORLD EXIST? An Existential Detective Story – Jim Holt.
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2011
Fictie
THE ART OF FIELDING – Chad Harbach
11/22/63 – Stephen King
SWAMPLANDIA! – Karen Russell
TEN THOUSAND SAINTS – Eleanor Henderson
THE TIGER’S WIFE – Téa Obreht.
Non-fictie
ARGUABLY: Essays – Christopher Hitchens
THE BOY IN THE MOON: A Father’s Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son – Ian Brown
MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention – Manning Marable
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW – Daniel Kahneman
A WORLD ON FIRE:Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War – Amanda Foreman.
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2010
Fictie
FREEDOM – Jonathan Franzen
THE NEW YORKER STORIES – Ann Beattie
ROOM – Emma Donoghue
SELECTED STORIES – William Trevor
A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD – Jennifer Egan.
Non-fictie
APOLLO’S ANGELS: A History of Ballet – Jennifer Homans
CLEOPATRA: A Life – Stacy Schiff
THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES: A Biography of Cancer – Siddhartha Mukherjee
FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes – Stephen Sondheim
THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration – Isabel Wilkerson.
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2009
Fictie
BOTH WAYS IS THE ONLY WAY I WANT IT – Maile Meloy
CHRONIC CITY – Jonathan Lethem
A GATE AT THE STAIRS – Lorrie Moore
HALF BROKE HORSES: A True-Life Novel – Jeannette Walls
A SHORT HISTORY OF WOMEN – Kate Walbert.
Non-fictie
THE AGE OF WONDER: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science – Richard Holmes
THE GOOD SOLDIERS – David Finkel
LIT: A Memoir – Mary Karr
LORDS OF FINANCE: The Bankers Who Broke the World – Liaquat Ahamed
RAYMOND CARVER: A Writer’s Life – Carol Sklenicka
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2008
Fictie
DANGEROUS LAUGHTER: Thirteen Stories – Steven Millhauser
A MERCY – Toni Morrison
NETHERLAND – Joseph O’Neill
2666 – Roberto Bolaño (vertaald door Natasha Wimmer)
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH – Jhumpa Lahiri
Non-fictie
THE DARK SIDE: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals – Jane Mayer
THE FOREVER WAR – Dexter Filkins
NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF – Julian Barnes
THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING:Death and the American Civil War – Drew Gilpin Faust
THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul – Patrick French.
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2007
Fictie
MAN GONE DOWN – Michael Thomas
OUT STEALING HORSES – Per Petterson (vertaald door Anne Born)
THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES – Roberto Bolaño (vertaald door Natasha Wimmer
THEN WE CAME TO THE END – Joshua Ferris
TREE OF SMOKE – Denis Johnson.
Non-fictie
IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone – Rajiv Chandrasekaran
LITTLE HEATHENS: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression – Mildred Armstrong Kalish.
THE NINE: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court – Jeffrey Toobin
THE ORDEAL OF ELIZABETH MARSH: A Woman in World History – Linda Colley
THE REST IS NOISE: Listening to the Twentieth Century – Alex Ross.
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2006
Fictie
ABSURDISTAN – Gary Shteyngart
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF AMY HEMPEL
THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN – Claire Messud
THE LAY OF THE LAND – Richard Ford
SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS – Marisha Pessl.
Non-fictie
FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH: A Memoir – Danielle Trussoni
THE LOOMING TOWER: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 – Lawrence Wright
MAYFLOWER: A Story of Courage, Community, and War – Nathaniel Philbrick
THE OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA: A Natural History of Four Meals – Michael Pollan
THE PLACES IN BETWEEN – Rory Stewart
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2005
Fictie
KAFKA ON THE SHORE – Haruki Murakami
ON BEAUTY – Zadie Smith
PREP – Curtis Sittenfeld
SATURDAY – Ian McEwan
VERONICA – Mary Gaitskill.
Non-fictie
THE ASSASSINS’ GATE: America in Iraq – George Packer
DE KOONING:An American Master – Mark Stevens en Annalyn Swan
THE LOST PAINTING – Jonathan Harr
POSTWAR: A History of Europe Since 1945 – Tony Judt
THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING – Joan Didion
Beste boeken volgens The New York Times 2004
Fictie
GILEAD – Marilynne Robinson
THE MASTER – Colm Toibin
THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA – Philip Roth
RUNAWAY – Alice Munro
SNOW – Orhan Pamuk
WAR TRASH – Ha Jin.
Non-fictie
ALEXANDER HAMILTON – Ron Chernow
CHRONICLES: Volume One – Bob Dylan
WASHINGTON’S CROSSING – David Hackett Fischer
WILL IN THE WORLD: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare – Stephen Greenblatt
