New Reader List: The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2021

 

A new Reader List is now available on the Lincoln City Libraries' BookGuide reader advisory resource pages -- The New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of 2021.

Don't forget -- you can submit your own short lists of recommended titles to share with others at BookGuide's Reader List page.

The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2021
submitted in January 2022 by BookMan

I look forward to this list every year, to see whether my own reading interests cross over with the critics. Here’s the New York Times Book Review's “10 best" list for the 2021 publishing year! (BTW – I’d only read one of these, so I have a lot to look forward to!)

FICTION

How Beautiful We Were
by Imbolo Mbue

Intimacies
by Ktie Kitamura

The Love Song of W.E.B. DuBois: A Novel
by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

No One is Talking About This
by Patricia Lockwood

When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West (eBook and eAudiobook only)

NON-FICTION

The Copenhagen Trilogy
by Tove Ditlevsen, translated by Tiina Nunnally and Michael Favala Goldman (Biography Ditlevsen)

How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith (306.362 Smi)

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
by Andrea Elliott (print book on order, eBook available) 

On Juneteenth
by Annette Gordon-Reed (306.8 AfrYg)

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
by Heather Clark (Biography – Plath)

New Booklist - NYT 100 Notable Books of 2011

A new booklist has been added to the web pages of the libraries' BookGuide readers advisory site! The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2011 is a collection of the 100 most noteworthy books, in both fiction and non-fiction, released in the English language during the course of 2011. At least, in so far as The New York Times Book Review's staff is considered.

At the time of the list's release, in the December 4th issue of the Book Review, the Lincoln City Libraries has 61 of the 100 titles in our collection. This online booklist has those 61 titles hotlinked into our catalog. We encourage you the use the libraries' InterLibrary Loan service to request the remaining titles, or fill out our online Suggest-a-Title form to recommend them for our collection!

New York Times Book Reviews' 10 Best Books of 2009

In their December 13th, 2009 issue, the New York Times Book Review listed their Ten Best Books of 2009.

The list included five fiction and five non-fiction titles, of which the Lincoln City Libraries own most. Here's the list, with hotlinks into the library catalog for the titles already owned. The others will be ordered!

Fiction

Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
A Short History of Women by Kate Walbert

Non-Fiction

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life by Carol Sklenicka