The Book Review Section of the New York Times has released it’s annual list of books selected as the most notable books of the year.   There are 100 books on the list.  The ten ‘best’ books are:

Fiction

DANGEROUS LAUGHTER:Thirteen Stories  By Steven Millhauser    Alfred A. Knopf

A MERCY  By Toni Morrison   Alfred A. Knopf

NETHERLAND   By Joseph O’Neill   Pantheon Books

2666   By Roberto Bolaño. Translated by Natasha Wimmer.  Farrar, Straus & Giroux

UNACCUSTOMED EARTH    By Jhumpa Lahiri  Alfred A. Knopf

Non Fiction

THE DARK SIDE: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
By Jane Mayer.  Doubleday

THE FOREVER WAR By Dexter Filkins.  Alfred A. Knopf

NOTHING TO BE FRIGHTENED OF  By Julian Barnes Alfred A. Knopf

THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING: Death and the American Civil War  By Drew Gilpin Faust  Alfred A. Knopf

THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul  By Patrick French   Alfred A. Knopf

See the list of all 100 books chosen this year by the editors of the New York Times Book Review.