![rw-book-cover](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/04/29/books/review/29BestBooks2000-jpg/29BestBooks2000-jpg-facebookJumbo.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[https://www.nytimes.com/by/the-new-york-times-books-staff]] - Full Title: The Book Review’s Best Books Since 2000 - Category: #articles - Summary: Explore the best fiction and nonfiction books from 2000 to 2023 chosen by editors at The New York Times. The list includes top books from each year, with notable mentions as well. Before 2005, the annual list was known as Editors’ Choice and included more than 100 notable books. - URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/top-books-list.html?referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb&smid=nytcore-ios-share ## Full Document ### The Book Review’sBest Books Since 2000 Looking for your next great read? We’ve got 3,228. Explore the best fiction and nonfiction from 2000 – 2023 chosen by our editors. Best Books fiction & nonfiction 2000 – 2023 #### The 10 Best Books of 2023 ![book cover for The Bee Sting](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b0bb869aaf.jpg) ![book cover for Chain Gang All Stars](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9afaa6ea75.jpg) ![book cover for Eastbound](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0294320d56.jpg) ![book cover for The Fraud](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ad0a7479db.jpg) ![book cover for North Woods](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/a89fe3de07.jpg) ![book cover for The Best Minds](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9d5db4e6ee.jpg) ![book cover for Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/19f075cb9a.jpg) ![book cover for Fire Weather](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f4504d9adc.jpg) ![book cover for Master Slave Husband Wife](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2e46ffba72.jpg) ![book cover for Some People Need Killing](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/8587d27f0d.jpg) Notable Books of 2023 ![book cover for After Sappho: A Novel](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2509dd43a7.jpg) ![book cover for All the Sinners Bleed](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/504d5e32c0.jpg) ![book cover for Biography of X](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/fd95d5b701.jpg) ![book cover for Birnam Wood](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/3bc558571b.jpg) ![book cover for Blackouts](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9f888b7040.jpg) ![book cover for Bright Young Women](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c3281438d1.jpg) ![book cover for The Covenant of Water](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/5ca5c82be4.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2022 ![book cover for The Candy House](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/4891b9b47c.jpg) ![book cover for Checkout 19](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/8a2c7db986.jpg) ![book cover for Demon Copperhead](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/264956ab6c.jpg) ![book cover for The Furrows](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/e7a97fe3b6.jpg) ![book cover for Trust](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/6baa8f343a.jpg) ![book cover for An Immense World](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/66d198f426.jpg) ![book cover for Stay True](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/bf583e5fba.jpg) ![book cover for Strangers to Ourselves](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9122ac0a33.jpg) ![book cover for Under the Skin](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/1f22e976d8.jpg) ![book cover for We Don't Know Ourselves](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7c99d7d66a.jpg) Notable Books of 2022 ![book cover for Afterlives](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2ec9e2c0cd.jpg) ![book cover for Avalon](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/d4c225852c.jpg) ![book cover for The Bangalore Detectives Club](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/aa64a15de8.jpg) ![book cover for Best Barbarian](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2bf9ad1cc6.jpg) ![book cover for Bliss Montage](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/68216a53bf.jpg) ![book cover for The Books of Jacob](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f1d3e760b7.jpg) ![book cover for Case Study](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/4fc86bb9f1.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2021 ![book cover for How Beautiful We Were](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/63482ea938.jpg) ![book cover for Intimacies](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/70ee9d5279.jpg) ![book cover for The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/23b822f1ef.jpg) ![book cover for No One Is Talking About This](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/01a00f4607.jpg) ![book cover for When We Cease to Understand the World](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/5c5f11a0e3.jpg) ![book cover for The Copenhagen Trilogy](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/fa041d0ce5.jpg) ![book cover for How the Word Is Passed](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f36105ea41.jpg) ![book cover for Invisible Child](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b9d9ba3049.jpg) ![book cover for On Juneteenth](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/d8993bfa5b.jpg) ![book cover for Red Comet](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/09bf7bade5.jpg) Notable Books of 2021 ![book cover for Afterparties](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/aa276aa5bd.jpg) ![book cover for Appleseed](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/42e10cf4bc.jpg) ![book cover for Beautiful World, Where Are You](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/71e4d749b7.jpg) ![book cover for Bewilderment](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/d7bde96a9d.jpg) ![book cover for The Book of Mother](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/768bf79b69.jpg) ![book cover for Build Your House Around My Body](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/75d2b7babe.jpg) ![book cover for Burnt Sugar](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/fb38335189.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2020 ![book cover for A Children's Bible: A Novel](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/cbf188aa3d.jpg) ![book cover for Deacon King Kong](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2d9f77f1b7.jpg) ![book cover for Hamnet](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/8448722e5d.jpg) ![book cover for Homeland Elegies](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9a962c90e9.jpg) ![book cover for The Vanishing Half](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/1848bf3b20.jpg) ![book cover for Hidden Valley Road](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/4a3e2b8ac0.jpg) ![book cover for A Promised Land](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/98a46866d3.jpg) ![book cover for Shakespeare in a Divided America](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b773de774f.jpg) ![book cover for Uncanny Valley](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/44c8a9ab37.jpg) ![book cover for War](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/4e1d27d9af.jpg) Notable Books of 2020 ![book cover for The Aosawa Murders](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/254b0ee3e0.jpg) ![book cover for The Beauty of Your Face](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/8d5371b2af.jpg) ![book cover for Beheld](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2219f3e57c.jpg) ![book cover for Blacktop Wasteland](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/de093891c7.jpg) ![book cover for The Boy in the Field](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f3f0f2eba1.jpg) ![book cover for Breasts and Eggs](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/79df42001e.jpg) ![book cover for A Burning](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/aa28b02c66.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2019 ![book cover for Disappearing Earth](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/65f632bd20.jpg) ![book cover for Exhalation](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f97c3e1061.jpg) ![book cover for Lost Children Archive](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ad0cd0cf9e.jpg) ![book cover for Night Boat to Tangier](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/11dc2a59cd.jpg) ![book cover for The Topeka School](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/6912ae1921.jpg) ![book cover for The Club](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ec25613813.jpg) ![book cover for Midnight in Chernobyl](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/aead6b5026.jpg) ![book cover for No Visible Bruises](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2b4683b4cf.jpg) ![book cover for Say Nothing](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/75bc30964d.jpg) ![book cover for The Yellow House](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/74600f1f90.jpg) Notable Books of 2019 ![book cover for American Spy](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/373597b280.jpg) ![book cover for Bangkok Wakes to Rain](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c38e614f7e.jpg) ![book cover for The Body in Question](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b6ae1ca613.jpg) ![book cover for Cherokee America](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/308647d0e1.jpg) ![book cover for Deaf Republic](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/36688156f2.jpg) ![book cover for Ducks, Newburyport](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/415f43db66.jpg) ![book cover for The Dutch House](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/a243449c6e.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2018 ![book cover for Asymmetry](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/904245f6f1.jpg) ![book cover for The Great Believers](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/68cf65c0f9.jpg) ![book cover for The Perfect Nanny](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/75d1421c4f.jpg) ![book cover for There There](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2338ef4fd6.jpg) ![book cover for Washington Black](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ec9efc179e.jpg) ![book cover for American Prison](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/d6ae8dd1c5.jpg) ![book cover for Educated](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2bed26ae35.jpg) ![book cover for Frederick Douglass](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/95467ead47.jpg) ![book cover for How to Change Your Mind](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/907a855fdd.jpg) ![book cover for Small Fry](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/d0b4b6e24e.jpg) Notable Books of 2018 ![book cover for An American Marriage](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2f8fcb9819.jpg) ![book cover for Brown](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0070e4f6f4.jpg) ![book cover for Cherry](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2d7306d4b3.jpg) ![book cover for Crudo](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/30c45a7f71.jpg) ![book cover for Early Work](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/e349a44ec2.jpg) ![book cover for Eternal Life](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/a6e461ce04.jpg) ![book cover for Everything Under](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/539616063b.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2017 ![book cover for Autumn](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/e28d5dfd24.jpg) ![book cover for Exit West](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0902ea27cd.jpg) ![book cover for Pachinko](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0eb81ca30c.jpg) ![book cover for The Power](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/4a9fb41304.jpg) ![book cover for Sing, Unburied, Sing](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f799c96525.jpg) ![book cover for The Evolution of Beauty](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/88c7930a8c.jpg) ![book cover for Grant](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/dd2410de2b.jpg) ![book cover for Locking Up Our Own](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/30a28ed293.jpg) ![book cover for Prairie Fires](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7565a5046a.jpg) ![book cover for Priestdaddy](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/734217f733.jpg) Notable Books of 2017 ![book cover for 4 3 2 1](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b15441474c.jpg) ![book cover for American War](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f10eb745a0.jpg) ![book cover for Anything Is Possible](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/99207432ed.jpg) ![book cover for Bad Dreams](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/76fe28ab45.jpg) ![book cover for Beautiful Animals](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/a274c95017.jpg) ![book cover for The Book of Joan](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/d90772e326.jpg) ![book cover for A Boy in Winter](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ec4d30713f.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2016 ![book cover for The Association of Small Bombs](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/42c5b81a05.jpg) ![book cover for The North Water](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/e80fdb233d.jpg) ![book cover for The Underground Railroad](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/5713fb5181.jpg) ![book cover for The Vegetarian](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/cba35be37b.jpg) ![book cover for War and Turpentine](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/51034131ea.jpg) ![book cover for At the Existentialist Café](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/e8444caa3c.jpg) ![book cover for Dark Money](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c46dd49552.jpg) ![book cover for Evicted](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/63b1f4e085.jpg) ![book cover for In the Darkroom](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/d41cfb086b.jpg) ![book cover for The Return](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b8559a57fe.jpg) Notable Books of 2016 ![book cover for All That Man Is](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/8b315f1646.jpg) ![book cover for Another Brooklyn](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f2c1091bd7.jpg) ![book cover for Barkskins](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c23c79ad68.jpg) ![book cover for Before the Fall](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/420b26e52e.jpg) ![book cover for Behold the Dreamers](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/5903b91f57.jpg) ![book cover for Black Water](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/8c0b798fcd.jpg) ![book cover for Children of the New World](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/1a74a401f9.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2015 ![book cover for The Door](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/18db133a08.jpg) ![book cover for A Manual for Cleaning Women](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9987fa65fc.jpg) ![book cover for Outline](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/1c495d9656.jpg) ![book cover for The 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Bureaucrat](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/70bb2a4575.jpg) ![book cover for Beauty Is a Wound](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/632a90a0a1.jpg) ![book cover for Citizen](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c1e4d0b7f2.jpg) ![book cover for City on Fire](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7794d0f52e.jpg) ![book cover for The Complete Stories](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/dd38a7f2b1.jpg) ![book cover for Delicious Foods](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7c777e6dc7.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2014 ![book cover for All the Light We Cannot See](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c64834cb09.jpg) ![book cover for Dept. of Speculation](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/902c5ba87b.jpg) ![book cover for 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Walk](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9758c4672b.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2011 ![book cover for 11/22/63](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/48d9d6fd0b.jpg) ![book cover for The Art of Fielding](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c2ade5de39.jpg) ![book cover for Swamplandia!](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/4dd41260b6.jpg) ![book cover for Ten Thousand Saints](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c26b5573cf.jpg) ![book cover for The Tiger's Wife](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/4f4d3e6ff0.jpg) ![book cover for Arguably](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/29a80ddadf.jpg) ![book cover for The Boy in the Moon](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/27e154768c.jpg) ![book cover for Malcolm X](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/34e58a4b68.jpg) ![book cover for Thinking, Fast and Slow](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/394d4f46c6.jpg) ![book cover for A World on Fire](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2929917247.jpg) Notable Books of 2011 ![book cover for 1Q84](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0dd609c724.jpg) ![book cover for The Angel Esmeralda](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/889b33ee7b.jpg) ![book cover for The Barbarian Nurseries](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7fb79dfb41.jpg) ![book cover for BIG QUESTIONS. 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The Ask](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ac83aeb043.jpg) ![book cover for Bound](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/242b2d05dd.jpg) ![book cover for Comedy in a Minor Key](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/35675effe6.jpg) ![book cover for Double Happiness](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/8c4c90e597.jpg) ![book cover for Foreign Bodies](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0fdefdd54b.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2009 ![book cover for Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/41c5ba0610.jpg) ![book cover for Chronic City](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0486ec45a6.jpg) ![book cover for A Gate at the Stairs](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/5ef1650224.jpg) ![book cover for Half Broke Horses](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/875619e754.jpg) ![book cover for A Short History of Women](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9edd865d48.jpg) ![book cover for The Age of Wonder](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7bfe7cfb7b.jpg) ![book cover for The Good Soldiers](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c099d7c002.jpg) ![book cover for Lit](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/4c93a3f2a5.jpg) ![book cover for Lords of Finance](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/76f12bff7c.jpg) ![book cover for Raymond Carver](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7ca5628253.jpg) Notable Books of 2009 ![book cover for Amateur Barbarians](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/1ec24ed922.jpg) ![book cover for American Rust](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/928cb28cb2.jpg) ![book cover for The Anthologist](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/e79c955bbc.jpg) ![book cover for The Art Student's War](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2062ad3cb0.jpg) ![book cover for Asterios Polyp](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b5e85da685.jpg) ![book cover for Await Your Reply](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/531ec5b004.jpg) ![book cover for The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c3122ea763.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2008 ![book cover for 2666](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2bedf2be55.jpg) ![book cover for Dangerous Laughter](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/850bbe5783.jpg) ![book cover for A Mercy](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0e5852a219.jpg) ![book cover for Netherland](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b783eb959d.jpg) ![book cover for Unaccustomed Earth](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/5401f22e47.jpg) ![book cover for The Dark Side](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/dcfd8dfc0d.jpg) ![book cover for The Forever War](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7c66bebf53.jpg) ![book cover for Nothing to Be Frightened Of](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c07a7f7d96.jpg) ![book cover for This Republic of Suffering](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/cba9dca7aa.jpg) ![book cover for The World Is What It Is](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/471ef6d430.jpg) Notable Books of 2008 ![book cover for American Wife](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/34659341c6.jpg) ![book cover for Atmospheric Disturbances](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ab8b1328f3.jpg) ![book cover for Bass Cathedral](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/bf4e83eb13.jpg) ![book cover for Beautiful Children](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/4eaec4f483.jpg) ![book cover for Beijing Coma](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/15422b838c.jpg) ![book cover for A Better Angel](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/a52609556b.jpg) ![book cover for Black Flies](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/49c8092462.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2007 ![book cover for Man Gone Down](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/37bcfc8479.jpg) ![book cover for Out Stealing Horses](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/1db75e4fc9.jpg) ![book cover for The Savage Detectives](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/392691a49d.jpg) ![book cover for Then We Came to the End](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/a298411173.jpg) ![book cover for Tree of Smoke](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ab3f7c2bef.jpg) ![book cover for Imperial Life in the Emerald City](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2f7c48d71e.jpg) ![book cover for Little Heathens](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/27de33eb04.jpg) ![book cover for The Nine](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/21022777a6.jpg) ![book cover for The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0b963a5d87.jpg) ![book cover for The Rest Is Noise](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/35cb491f3b.jpg) Notable Books of 2007 ![book cover for The Abstinence Teacher](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b558ca3809.jpg) ![book cover for After Dark](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/40a8aae883.jpg) ![book cover for The Bad Girl](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/460a415252.jpg) ![book cover for Bearing the Body](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0c941c0088.jpg) ![book cover for The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/823fe4153b.jpg) ![book cover for Bridge of Sighs](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/597c4b6581.jpg) ![book cover for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/396aea57bf.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2006 ![book cover for Absurdistan](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/a0135ac983.jpg) ![book cover for The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/626ae22aed.jpg) ![book cover for The Emperor's Children](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/12fd4b478a.jpg) ![book cover for The Lay of the Land](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/4363ed173d.jpg) ![book cover for Special Topics in Calamity Physics](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/66badfcb5b.jpg) ![book cover for Falling Through the Earth](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f1450d7bfa.jpg) ![book cover for The Looming Tower](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/beba5e1d60.jpg) ![book cover for Mayflower](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/5ad297f97b.jpg) ![book cover for The Omnivore's Dilemma](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9eb430f68d.jpg) ![book cover for The Places in Between](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f2ed26ed2f.jpg) Notable Books of 2006 ![book cover for After This](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0c9d79cc87.jpg) ![book cover for Against the Day](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9da798616b.jpg) ![book cover for Alentejo Blue](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/27ce1e277e.jpg) ![book cover for All Aunt Hagar's Children LP](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/556393a6f1.jpg) ![book cover for Apex Hides the Hurt](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/733fc5cc9a.jpg) ![book cover for Arthur & George](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/5fc002d5f3.jpg) ![book cover for Averno](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/823d3ea7c5.jpg) #### The 10 Best Books of 2005 ![book cover for Kafka on the Shore](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/0652fd8c90.jpg) ![book cover for On Beauty](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/23683944db.jpg) ![book cover for Prep](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ba6b9544f7.jpg) ![book cover for Saturday](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f780a4bc81.jpg) ![book cover for Veronica](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/027243bd08.jpg) ![book cover for The Assassins' Gate](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/1eaaeabd03.jpg) ![book cover for De Kooning](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/6a3415e6c5.jpg) ![book cover for The Lost Painting](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b03c2e2fdd.jpg) ![book cover for Postwar](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/6a04e00b27.jpg) ![book cover for The Year of Magical Thinking](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b51e9e5073.jpg) Notable Books of 2005 ![book cover for Beyond Black](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/3708cccf0a.jpg) ![book cover for A Changed Man](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/057ce7355c.jpg) ![book cover for Empire Rising](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f8cc43ac0b.jpg) ![book cover for Envy](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/db9e49271f.jpg) ![book cover for Europe Central](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/de7f2d7687.jpg) ![book cover for Follies](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2d724f6ad0.jpg) ![book cover for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2c468ce0e7.jpg) #### Editors’ Choice 2004 ![book cover for Gilead](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/642371469b.jpg) ![book cover for The Master](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/31f1e93f23.jpg) ![book cover for The Plot Against America](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/bfece538bf.jpg) ![book cover for Runaway](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/32d8d89cff.jpg) ![book cover for Snow](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/02b5cdec0b.jpg) ![book cover for War Trash](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/787637ba2d.jpg) ![book cover for Alexander Hamilton](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7d0221fc74.jpg) ![book cover for Chronicles](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/429189e94b.jpg) ![book cover for Washington's Crossing](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f32f232736.jpg) ![book cover for Will in the World](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/689339738c.jpg) Notable Books of 2004 ![book cover for Aloft](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b0b1b91124.jpg) ![book cover for The Amateur Marriage](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/530cc23b27.jpg) ![book cover for American Smooth](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/817b4755cb.jpg) ![book cover for Bandbox](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/4f1887a895.jpg) ![book cover for A Bit on the Side](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/bcda30565b.jpg) ![book cover for Cloud Atlas](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/333416df98.jpg) ![book cover for Collected Poems of Donald Justice](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/506cae94e6.jpg) #### Editors’ Choice 2003 ![book cover for The Bounty](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/3101b8613d.jpg) ![book cover for Brick Lane](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/2c71ef9ffe.jpg) ![book cover for Drop City](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/77ccd916fa.jpg) ![book cover for The Fortress of Solitude](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/651597de19.jpg) ![book cover for The Known World](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/26d81f8233.jpg) ![book cover for Khrushchev](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/b4d736c2f3.jpg) ![book cover for Living to Tell the Tale](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9bc9e3d14e.jpg) ![book cover for Random Family](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/15d5b48134.jpg) ![book cover for Samuel Pepys](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/30a16de51d.jpg) Notable Books of 2003 ![book cover for Abandon](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/30d62cc371.jpg) ![book cover for All Over Creation](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/036ce23972.jpg) ![book cover for Altered Carbon](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f4f5d39d53.jpg) ![book cover for American Woman](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/3e2f1bea7e.jpg) ![book cover for And Now You Can Go](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/76528b0abe.jpg) ![book cover for Anja the Liar](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/472e553cb6.jpg) ![book cover for Any Human Heart](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/07321589db.jpg) #### Editors’ Choice 2002 ![book cover for Atonement](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/d5d4195a33.jpg) ![book cover for Middlesex](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/6b55665b6c.jpg) ![book cover for Roscoe](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c2b7f4d72f.jpg) ![book cover for Anthony Blunt](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/8e1a063376.jpg) ![book cover for Bad Blood](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/wcjxvtayh3.jpg) ![book cover for Paris 1919](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/a45826d083.jpg) ![book cover for Seeing in the Dark](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/70aa5cdb50.jpg) Notable Books of 2002 ![book cover for 10th Grade](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/1b150ae5f3.jpg) ![book cover for 2182 KHz](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9d24d20aab.jpg) ![book cover for 6-Dec](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7e2a67d2ea.jpg) ![book cover for Accidents in the Home](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c549ee8f51.jpg) ![book cover for Across the Nightingale Floor](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ac06b1cf13.jpg) ![book cover for The Adventures of Miles and Isabel](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/91a9b31459.jpg) ![book cover for After Nature](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/6113596dc7.jpg) #### Editors’ Choice 2001 ![book cover for Austerlitz](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f1609d4003.jpg) ![book cover for The Corrections](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/adac4d77f4.jpg) ![book cover for Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/1f9d624d43.jpg) ![book cover for John Henry Days](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ff88a4dd0b.jpg) ![book cover for True History of the Kelly Gang](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7375576256.jpg) ![book cover for Borrowed Finery](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7169b713f5.jpg) ![book cover for John Adams](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c205de05f2.jpg) ![book cover for The Metaphysical Club](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/a6db152c4c.jpg) ![book cover for Uncle Tungsten](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/6ce0051d93.jpg) Notable Books of 2001 ![book cover for The Abomination](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/59a2153cfe.jpg) ![book cover for According to Queeney](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ad275f56f8.jpg) ![book cover for Afterimage](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c3899e6b85.jpg) ![book cover for Against Love Poetry](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/3e7bda36c7.jpg) ![book cover for Aiding and Abetting](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9af96bf749.jpg) ![book cover for Almost](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9b596a5bc4.jpg) ![book cover for American Son](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/cc13d913d5.jpg) #### Editors’ Choice 2000 ![book cover for Being Dead](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ih4kj7rk97.jpg) ![book cover for Beowulf: A New Verse Translation](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/l63qxb1274.jpg) ![book cover for Gertrude and Claudius](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/lt2f9c5snj.jpg) ![book cover for Human Stain](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/d51ff341ef.jpg) ![book cover for White Teeth](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f7f6f78032.jpg) ![book cover for Genome](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/7erpqapgpj.jpg) ![book cover for A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/f64836f3dc.jpg) ![book cover for One Palestine, Complete](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/293n6g16mb.jpg) ![book cover for Rimbaud](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/q2stk9iwbs.jpg) ![book cover for Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/i8xwpoc5i4.jpg) Notable Books of 2000 ![book cover for Abe](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/761feb0c51.jpg) ![book cover for Abyssinian Chronicles](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/9f060b25d0.jpg) ![book cover for After the War](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/ce7b3d20f9.jpg) ![book cover for Afterburn](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/cc0ffb9bdc.jpg) ![book cover for The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/1db24d1301.jpg) ![book cover for The Angel On The Roof](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/a35477074b.jpg) ![book cover for Anil's Ghost](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2024-02-09-books-survey/covers/c70173710b.jpg) *Note: Before 2005, the annual list of top books was called Editors’ Choice, and there were not always 10. There were also more than 100 notable books. The original list of notables from the year 2000 included some books from 1999, which we've removed from this page. You can view the original **[notables from 2000 here](https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/12/03/reviews/001203.03notablt.html)**.* *Designed and produced by Aliza Aufrichtig. Additional production by Tina Jordan, Joumana Khatib, Alicia Desantis, Lauryn Stallings, Tasman Tobey, Josh Katz and Hubert Mandeville.*