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It’s that time of
year! As a Thanksgiving treat, we offer a feast of books to accompany your
regularly scheduled feeding. Posted here a bit early are our 100 Notable Books of 2017. As always,
editors at the Book Review have selected the 50 best fiction and 50 best
nonfiction books of the year from the thousands reviewed since Dec. 4, 2016.
While 100 sounds like a lot, narrowing the choices down to just 50 in each
category (with fiction covering poetry as well) is not easy. Many great books
are necessarily eliminated as we winnow.
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But our hope is that
this process of curation will give you plenty of books to discover and
discuss over the holiday dinner, and to dip into over the long weekend.
Perhaps it will give you a helpful Black Friday start on your
holiday shopping. And you can look forward to our 10 Best Books selected from
these Notables, coming next week.
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This issue of the
Book Review is largely devoted to hearth and home. Our cover review is a
biography of the storied homesteader Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of “Little House on the Prairie.” Caroline
Fraser makes the case in her expansive look at Wilder’s life and work that
the story of the American West cannot fully be told without reexamining the
pivotal role of women in that history. She also joins us on this week’s podcast.
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Thanksgiving is, of
course, about our shared American history, about gratitude, about family. But
it’s also about food. So indulge in reviews of two very personal books, Anne
Fadiman’s “The Wine Lover’s Daughter” and
Jane Kramer’s “The Reporter’s Kitchen,” as well
as Justin Spring’s “The Gourmands’ Way.” Still
hungry? Anthony Bourdain answers this
week’s By the Book.
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Please stay in touch
and let us know what you think – whether it’s about this newsletter, our
reviews, our podcast or what you’re reading. Send me your letters
to the editor. We read and ponder all of it. I even write back, albeit
belatedly. You can email me a books@nytimes.com.
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Pamela Paul
Editor of The New York Times Book Review @PamelaPaulNYT |
Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
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