Culture
The New York City Half Marathon Has a Star-Studded Lineup
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Final December, Sam Grotewold, who leads the skilled working program at New York Highway Runners, began scratching out a listing of individuals he hoped to lure to the New York Metropolis Half Marathon.
Three months later — and three years after the final time practically 25,000 folks completed this race — the sector for Sunday’s New York Metropolis Half is absurdly stacked.
By no means in Grotewold’s wildest goals did he suppose the group would come with the next: Des Linden, the 2018 Boston Marathon champion; Galen Rupp, a two-time Olympic medalist and the winner of the 2017 Chicago Marathon and the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Olympic Trials marathons; Rhonex Kipruto of Kenya, the 10-kilometer street world-record holder; Sara Corridor, who set the American file within the half-marathon in January and has reached the rostrum at each the London and Chicago marathons; Emma Bates, who completed second within the Chicago Marathon in October; and Ben True, who gained the New York Metropolis Half in 2018.
“You have got your concepts, that this may be an attention-grabbing story to inform or particular person to have within the race,” Grotewold stated in a current interview. “We had 250 to 300 credible certified athletes who threw their hat within the ring. Lots of people needed to run.”
The group will probably be on the beginning line Sunday for the return of one of many nation’s largest half-marathons. The 2020 New York Metropolis Half was one of many first main races to fall to the coronavirus pandemic. Final yr’s race was additionally canceled.
The New York Metropolis Half has loads of promoting factors for elite and beginner runners alike. Eye-popping views alongside the journey from Prospect Park in Brooklyn to Central Park in Manhattan, particularly as runners cross the East River over the Manhattan Bridge. Massive crowds. Crisp, however usually not frigid, late winter climate. And this yr organizers in London once more shifted their marathon to the autumn, clearing the calendar for some prime runners.
However that solely partly explains its attraction to elite runners, and the advantages that severe middle-of-the-pack folks can acquire from it, particularly those that are working one of many massive spring marathons, like Boston, which is able to happen on April 18.
Certainly, it’s one in every of a handful of half-marathons the place the most important names can acquire a five-figure look payment, which is very interesting when many are simply getting again into the swing of normal participation in main races.
Linden, who plans to run Boston in April like all the time, stated the half has served completely different functions relying on the yr.
“I’ve used it as a health gauge after placing in months of labor, simply seeing the place I’m at and if there’s something I take away that factors to what we are able to tweak over the past month of coaching,” Linden stated. “And this yr it’s actually simply a chance to get in a race, one thing I haven’t accomplished in awhile.”
In fact, there are many runners at each stage for whom the race is the top of their spring seasons.
Rupp, the highest American marathoner of his era, shouldn’t be working a spring marathon. He has not often raced in New York, however he’s planning to run the half, after which focus all his power and the subsequent 4 months on preparations for the marathon on the observe and discipline world championships this summer season.
“He was perhaps the primary athlete we reached out to,” Grotewold stated. “It match together with his schedule.”
It additionally helped that Rupp is not coached by Alberto Salazar, the disgraced former coach of the Nike Oregon Venture. Salazar is serving a four-year suspension for doping violations that included trafficking in testosterone and tampering with the doping management course of. Earlier this yr, an arbitrator upheld a lifetime ban that america Middle for SafeSport issued for an alleged sexual assault of an athlete. Salazar stated he had “by no means engaged in any type of inappropriate sexual contact or sexual misconduct.”
Then there’s Corridor, the Energizer bunny of elite street racing. Corridor, who has made a behavior of piling up distance races, completed eighth within the Tokyo Marathon on March 6 with a time of two hours 22 minutes 56 seconds. She plans to run the New York Metropolis Half, then the Boston Marathon, in all probability the New York Mini 10K in June, and the marathon on the world championships.
Corridor stated in an interview final week that the primary lure of the New York Metropolis Half was “the enjoyable of it.” She was unhappy to have missed racing in 2020, and in 2021 she examined optimistic for the coronavirus, which disrupted her coaching and racing schedule. Additionally, she has by no means run this race, despite the fact that she has notched a number of different high-profile wins in New York.
“It’s a nice prep for Boston, simply competing over a hilly course,” stated Corridor, who shouldn’t be centered on a specific time. “I’m simply centered on competing greater than the clock.”
So what can a middle-of-the-pack runner be taught from the elites about how a half-marathon matches into a bigger coaching schedule?
Ben Rosario, who leads the group of runners from Hoka NAZ Elite in Arizona, stated anybody working the half-marathon as a precursor to a full marathon later within the spring mustn’t again off from a marathon coaching plan. Whereas that in all probability eliminates the chance to run a quick time for 13.1 miles, a slower half-marathon can function a useful coaching stimulus.
For instance, in 2020, Aliphine Tuliamuk ran the Houston Half Marathon in preparation for the U.S. Olympic trials marathon weeks later. The week of the half, Tuliamuk did a 15×1-mile exercise.
“She solely acquired nineteenth within the race, however 1 hour and 9 seconds on drained legs wasn’t too shabby,” Rosario stated.
Six weeks later, Tuliamuk gained the Olympic trials marathon.
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Culture
Tour de France cyclist fined for kissing wife and son
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Julien Bernard had a dreamy homecoming Friday. During the stage seven time trial of the Tour de France, held in Bernard’s home region of Burgundy, the French cyclist soaked up his local crowd and shared a costly embrace with his wife and son.
For stopping his ride to kiss his family, Bernard was slapped with a fine of 200 Swiss francs ($223) by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) for what the governing body deemed “unseemly or inappropriate behavior during the race and damage to the image of sport.”
The smooch — which drew a rousing ovation from his hundreds of local fans cheering — came in a cinematic moment as Bernard pushed up a steep hill with one arm raised in the air as his friends and family crowded the course, slapping him on the back, waving signs and playing instruments.
In the middle of the pack was his beaming wife carrying their son.
Amazing scenes for Julien Bernard with incredible fan support and stopping with his family during the time trial.#TDF2024 📺: Peacock pic.twitter.com/FjIhSOWtjx
— NBC Sports Cycling (@NBCSCycling) July 5, 2024
On social media, Bernard took the fine in jest.
“Sorry UCI for having damaged the image of sport,” Bernard wrote on X. “But I am willing to pay 200 (francs) every day and relive this moment.”
Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel eventually won the hilly 23.5 km (14.6 mile) stage.
Bernard’s time of 32:03 was the 61st fastest time of the stage. His Lidl-Trek teammate Giulio Ciccone finished in 31:19 for 41st in the stage.
Another Lidl-Trek teammate, Toms Skujins, responded to Bernard’s fine with similar sarcastic confusion.
UCI doing UCI things
😂 pic.twitter.com/VFrIDWYL2I— Toms Skujiņš (@Tomashuuns) July 5, 2024
“I knew my wife and my friends did something on the climb, and I was looking forward to seeing them,” Bernard said in an interview after the trial, later adding, “I wanted to enjoy everyone second with my friend and family. It was dream moment for me.”
“On a time trial, you have time to enjoy yourself. It’s these moments that keep me going and cycling.”
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Culture
The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century
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As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of
The New York Times Book Review.
Many of us find joy in looking back and taking stock of our reading lives, which is why we here at The New York Times Book Review decided to mark the first 25 years of this century with an ambitious project: to take a first swing at determining the most important, influential books of the era. In collaboration with the Upshot, we sent a survey to hundreds of literary luminaries, asking them to name the 10 best books published since Jan. 1, 2000.
Stephen King took part. So did Bonnie Garmus, Claudia Rankine, James Patterson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Elin Hilderbrand, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Roxane Gay, Marlon James, Sarah MacLean, Min Jin Lee, Jonathan Lethem and Jenna Bush Hager, to name just a few.
As we publish the list over the course of this week, we hope you’ll discover a book you’ve always meant to read, or encounter a beloved favorite you’d like to pick up again. Above all, we hope you’re as inspired and dazzled as we are by the breadth of subjects, voices, opinions, experiences and imagination represented here.
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100
Tree of Smoke
Like the project of the title — an intelligence report that the newly minted C.I.A. operative William “Skip” Sands comes to find both quixotic and useless — the Vietnam-era warfare of Johnson’s rueful, soulful novel lives in shadows, diversions and half-truths. There are no heroes here among the lawless colonels, assassinated priests and faith-stricken NGO nurses; only villainy and vast indifference.
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99
How to Be Both
This elegant double helix of a novel entwines the stories of a fictional modern-day British girl and a real-life 15th-century Italian painter. A more conventional book might have explored the ways the past and present mirror each other, but Smith is after something much more radical. “How to Be Both” is a passionate, dialectical critique of the binaries that define and confine us. Not only male and female, but also real and imaginary, poetry and prose, living and dead. The way to be “both” is to recognize the extent to which everything already is. — A.O. Scott, critic at large for The Times
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98
Bel Canto
A famed opera singer performs for a Japanese executive’s birthday at a luxe private home in South America; it’s that kind of party. But when a group of young guerrillas swoops in and takes everyone in the house hostage, Patchett’s exquisitely calibrated novel — inspired by a real incident — becomes a piano wire of tension, vibrating on high.
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97
Men We Reaped
Sandwiched between her two National Book Award-winning novels, Ward’s memoir carries more than fiction’s force in its aching elegy for five young Black men (a brother, a cousin, three friends) whose untimely exits from her life came violently and without warning. Their deaths — from suicide and homicide, addiction and accident — place the hidden contours of race, justice and cruel circumstance in stark relief.
![Book cover for Wayward Lives,<br /> Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2024/06/30/books/books-additional-skewsksk-slide-ATV5/books-additional-skewsksk-slide-ATV5-superJumbo.png)
96
Wayward Lives,
Beautiful Experiments
A beautiful, meticulously researched exploration of the lives of Black girls whom early-20th-century laws designated as “wayward” for such crimes as having serial lovers, or an excess of desire, or a style of comportment that was outside white norms. Hartman grapples with “the power and authority of the archive and the limits it sets on what can be known” about poor Black women, but from the few traces she uncovers in the historical record, she manages to sketch moving portraits, restoring joy and freedom and movement to what, in other hands, might have been mere statistics. — Laila Lalami, author of “The Other Americans”
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95
Bring Up the Bodies
The title comes from an old English legal phrase for summoning men who have been accused of treason to trial; in the court’s eyes, effectively, they are already dead. But Mantel’s tour-de-force portrait of Thomas Cromwell, the second installment in her vaunted “Wolf Hall” series, thrums with thrilling, obstinate life: a lowborn statesman on the rise; a king in love (and out of love, and in love again); a mad roundelay of power plays, poisoned loyalties and fateful realignments. It’s only empires, after all.
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94
On Beauty
Consider it a bold reinvention of “Howards End,” or take Smith’s sprawling third novel as its own golden thing: a tale of two professors — one proudly liberal, the other staunchly right-wing — whose respective families’ rivalries and friendships unspool over nearly 450 provocative, subplot-mad pages.
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93
Station Eleven
Increasingly, and for obvious reasons, end-times novels are not hard to find. But few have conjured the strange luck of surviving an apocalypse — civilization preserved via the ad hoc Shakespeare of a traveling theater troupe; entire human ecosystems contained in an abandoned airport — with as much spooky melancholic beauty as Mandel does in her beguiling fourth novel.
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92
The Days of Abandonment
There is something scandalous about this picture of a sensible, adult woman almost deranged by the breakup of her marriage, to the point of neglecting her children. The psychodrama is naked — sometimes hard to read, at other moments approaching farce. Just as Ferrante drew an indelible portrait of female friendship in her quartet of Neapolitan novels, here, she brings her all-seeing eye to female solitude.
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91
The Human Stain
Set during the Clinton impeachment imbroglio, this is partly a furious indictment of what would later be called cancel culture, partly an inquiry into the paradoxes of class, sex and race in America. A college professor named Coleman Silk is persecuted for making supposedly racist remarks in class. Nathan Zuckerman, his neighbor (and Roth’s trusty alter ego), learns that Silk, a fellow son of Newark, is a Black man who has spent most of his adult life passing for white. Of all the Zuckerman novels, this one may be the most incendiary, and the most unsettling. — A.O. Scott
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90
The Sympathizer
Penned as a book-length confession from a nameless North Vietnamese spy as Saigon falls and new duties in America beckon, Nguyen’s richly faceted novel seems to swallow multiple genres whole, like a satisfied python: political thriller and personal history, cracked metafiction and tar-black comedy.
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89
The Return
Though its Pulitzer Prize was bestowed in the category of biography, Matar’s account of searching for the father he lost to a 1990 kidnapping in Cairo functions equally as absorbing detective story, personal elegy and acute portrait of doomed geopolitics — all merged, somehow, with the discipline and cinematic verve of a novel.
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88
The Collected Stories
of Lydia Davis
Brevity, thy name is Lydia Davis. If her work has become a byword for short (nay, microdose) fiction, this collection proves why it is also hard to shake; a conflagration of odd little umami bombs — sometimes several pages, sometimes no more than a sentence — whose casual, almost careless wordsmithery defies their deadpan resonance.
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87
Detransition, Baby
Love is lost, found and reconfigured in Peters’s penetrating, darkly humorous debut novel. But when the novel’s messy triangular romance — between two trans characters and a cis-gendered woman — becomes an unlikely story about parenthood, the plot deepens, and so does its emotional resonance: a poignant and gratifyingly cleareyed portrait of found family.
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86
Frederick Douglass
It is not hard to throw a rock and hit a Great Man biography; Blight’s earns its stripes by smartly and judiciously excavating the flesh-and-bone man beneath the myth. Though Douglass famously wrote three autobiographies of his own, there turned out to be much between the lines that is illuminated here with rigor, flair and refreshing candor.
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85
Pastoralia
An ersatz caveman languishes at a theme park; a dead maiden aunt comes back to screaming, scatological life; a bachelor barber born with no toes dreams of true love, or at least of getting his toe-nubs licked. The stories in Saunders’s second collection are profane, unsettling and patently absurd. They’re also freighted with bittersweet humanity, and rendered in language so strange and wonderful, it sings.
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84
The Emperor of All Maladies
The subtitle, “A Biography of Cancer,” provides some helpful context for what lies between the covers of Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, though it hardly conveys the extraordinary ambition and empathy of his telling, as the trained oncologist weaves together disparate strands of large-scale history, biology and devastating personal anecdote.
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83
When We Cease to Understand the World
You don’t have to know anything about quantum theory to start reading this book, a deeply researched, exquisitely imagined group portrait of tormented geniuses. By the end, you’ll know enough to be terrified. Labatut is interested in how the pursuit of scientific certainty can lead to, or arise from, states of extreme psychological and spiritual upheaval. His characters — Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger, among others — discover a universe that defies rational comprehension. After them, “scientific method and its object could no longer be prised apart.” That may sound abstract, but in Labatut’s hands the story of quantum physics is violent, suspenseful and finally heartbreaking. — A.O. Scott
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82
Hurricane Season
Her sentences are sloping hills; her paragraphs, whole mountains. It’s no wonder that Melchor was dubbed a sort of south-of-the-border Faulkner for her baroque and often brutally harrowing tale of poverty, paranoia and murder (also: witches, or at least the idea of them) in a fictional Mexican village. When a young girl impregnated by her pedophile stepfather unwittingly lands there, her arrival is the spark that lights a tinderbox.
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81
Pulphead
When this book of essays came out, it bookended a fading genre: collected pieces written on deadline by “pulpheads,” or magazine writers. Whether it’s Sullivan’s visit to a Christian rock festival, his profile of Axl Rose or a tribute to an early American botanist, he brings to his subjects not just depth, but an open-hearted curiosity. Indeed, if this book feels as if it’s from a different time, perhaps that’s because of its generous receptivity to other ways of being, which offers both reader and subject a kind of grace.
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Methodology
In collaboration with the Upshot — the department at The Times focused on data and analytical journalism — the Book Review sent a survey to hundreds of novelists, nonfiction writers, academics, book editors, journalists, critics, publishers, poets, translators, booksellers, librarians and other literary luminaries, asking them to pick their 10 best books of the 21st century.
We let them each define “best” in their own way. For some, this simply meant “favorite.” For others, it meant books that would endure for generations.
The only rules: Any book chosen had to be published in the United States, in English, on or after Jan. 1, 2000. (Yes, translations counted!)
After casting their ballots, respondents were given the option to answer a series of prompts where they chose their preferred book between two randomly selected titles. We combined data from these prompts with the vote tallies to create the list of the top 100 books.
Culture
Stephen King, Sarah Jessica Parker and More Share Their Top Books of the 21st Century
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Stephen King
Stephen King has written more than 60 books, many of which have been adapted for film and television. His latest is the story collection YOU LIKE IT DARKER.
“Atonement,” by Ian McEwan ● “Christine Falls,” by Benjamin Black ● “The Goldfinch,” by Donna Tartt ● “Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn ● “No Country for Old Men,” by Cormac McCarthy ● “Oryx and Crake,” by Margaret Atwood ● “The Paying Guests,” by Sarah Waters ● “The Plot Against America,” by Philip Roth ● “The Sympathizer,” by Viet Thanh Nguyen ● “Under the Dome,” by Stephen King
1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.
(This page will update throughout the
week.)
Min Jin Lee
Min Jin Lee has written two novels: FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES and PACHINKO, which was one of The Times’s 10 Best Books of 2017.
“All the Light We Cannot See,” by Anthony Doerr ● “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” by Katherine Boo ● “Brooklyn,” by Colm Tóibín ● “The Buddha in the Attic,” by Julie Otsuka ● “Educated,” by Tara Westover ● “Evicted,” by Matthew Desmond ● “Gilead,” by Marilynne Robinson ● “The Known World,” by Edward P. Jones ● “Nickel and Dimed,” by Barbara Ehrenreich ● “Redeployment,” by Phil Klay
Karl Ove Knausgaard
Karl Ove Knausgaard is a Norwegian writer and essayist best known for MY STRUGGLE, a series of six autobiographical novels.
“2666,” by Roberto Bolaño ● “The Argonauts,” by Maggie Nelson ● “The Days of Abandonment,” by Elena Ferrante ● “The Flame Alphabet,” by Ben Marcus ● “The Kingdom,” by Emmanuel Carrère ● “Never Let Me Go,” by Kazuo Ishiguro ● “Small Things Like These,” by Claire Keegan ● “Storm Still,” by Peter Handke ● “Train Dreams,” by Denis Johnson ● “Voices from Chernobyl,” by Svetlana Alexievich
1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.
(This page will update throughout the
week.)
Bonnie Garmus
Bonnie Garmus is the author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, which was named Barnes & Noble’s book of the year in 2022.
“Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates ● “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver ● “Educated,” by Tara Westover ● “Genome,” by Matt Ridley ● “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” by J.K. Rowling ● “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” by Dave Eggers ● “Henry David Thoreau,” by Laura Dassow Walls ● “Pobby and Dingan,” by Ben Rice ● “The Underground Railroad,” by Colson Whitehead ● “The Worst Hard Time,” by Timothy Egan
Nana Kwame Adjei‑Brenyah
Nana Kwame Adjei‑Brenyah’s debut novel, CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS, was one of The Times’s 10 Best Books of 2023.
“Drinking Coffee Elsewhere: Stories,” by ZZ Packer ● “Ghost Of,” by Diana Khoi Nguyen ● “Greenwood,” by Michael Christie ● “Look,” by Solmaz Sharif ● “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee ● “Pastoralia,” by George Saunders ● “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” by Jesmyn Ward ● “Stories of Your Life and Others,” by Ted Chiang ● “Tenth of December,” by George Saunders ● “The Underground Railroad,” by Colson Whitehead
1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.
(This page will update throughout the
week.)
Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz is an author whose books include THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
“Americanah,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ● “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” by Katherine Boo ● “Brother, I’m Dying,” by Edwidge Danticat ● “Kingdom Animalia,” by Aracelis Girmay ● “The Known World,” by Edward P. Jones ● “Out,” by Natsuo Kirino ● “The Savage Detectives,” by Roberto Bolaño ● “Say Her Name,” by Francisco Goldman ● “Stories of Your Life and Others,” by Ted Chiang ● “Tuff,” by Paul Beatty
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sarah Jessica Parker is an Emmy-winning actress and the founder of Zando’s literary imprint, SJP Lit.
“An American Marriage,” by Tayari Jones ● “The Bee Sting,” by Paul Murray ● “A Burning,” by Megha Majumdar ● “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena,” by Anthony Marra ● “The Corrections,” by Jonathan Franzen ● “The Goldfinch,” by Donna Tartt ● “A History of Burning,” by Janika Oza ● “The Nickel Boys,” by Colson Whitehead ● “Say Nothing,” by Patrick Radden Keefe ● “Wave,” by Sonali Deraniyagala
James Patterson
James Patterson has written more than 200 books across various genres, including collaborations with Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton. His latest books include CONFESSIONS OF THE DEAD, which he wrote with J.D. Barker, and TIGER, TIGER.
“11/22/63,” by Stephen King ● “The Book Thief,” by Markus Zusak ● “Educated,” by Tara Westover ● “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” by Stieg Larsson ● “Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn ● “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” by J.K. Rowling ● “Kitchen Confidential,” by Anthony Bourdain ● “Life,” by Keith Richards with James Fox ● “Mystic River,” by Dennis Lehane ● “Seabiscuit,” by Laura Hillenbrand
Elin Hilderbrand
Elin Hilderbrand, often referred to as the queen of beach reads, recently announced that SWAN SONG, released in June, would be the last of her Nantucket summer novels.
“Alice & Oliver,” by Charles Bock ● “American Wife,” by Curtis Sittenfeld ● “Dirt Music,” by Tim Winton ● “Euphoria,” by Lily King ● “Every Last One,” by Anna Quindlen ● “Fates and Furies,” by Lauren Groff ● “Hamnet,” by Maggie O’Farrell ● “Luster,” by Raven Leilani ● “May We Be Forgiven,” by A.M. Homes ● “The Night Circus,” by Erin Morgenstern
Annette Gordon‑Reed
Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor at Harvard University whose 2008 history, THE HEMINGSES OF MONTICELLO, won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award…
… and she also included it on her ballot, telling us,
“I couldn’t help it.”
“Between the World and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates ● “The Emperor of All Maladies,” by Siddhartha Mukherjee ● “Gilead,” by Marilynne Robinson ● “The Hemingses of Monticello,” by Annette Gordon-Reed ● “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” by Rebecca Skloot ● “The Metaphysical Club,” by Louis Menand ● “The Plot Against America,” by Philip Roth ● “The Underground Railroad,” by Colson Whitehead ● “The Warmth of Other Suns,” by Isabel Wilkerson ● “Wolf Hall,” by Hilary Mantel
1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.
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Rebecca Roanhorse
Rebecca Roanhorse is a Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction and fantasy novelist whose works include BLACK SUN and TRAIL OF LIGHTNING.
“Ancillary Justice,” by Ann Leckie ● “Exhalation,” by Ted Chiang ● “The Fifth Season,” by N.K. Jemisin ● “The Ministry for the Future,” by Kim Stanley Robinson ● “The Only Good Indians,” by Stephen Graham Jones ● “The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories,” by Ken Liu ● “Ring Shout,” by P. Djèlí Clark ● “The Round House,” by Louise Erdrich ● “The Saint of Bright Doors,” by Vajra Chandrasekera ● “Selected Stories,” by Theodore Sturgeon
Marlon James
Marlon James is the author of five novels, including A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS, which won the 2015 Booker Prize.
“2666,” by Roberto Bolaño ● “As Meat Loves Salt,” by Maria McCann ● “Evicted,” by Matthew Desmond ● “The Fifth Season,” by N.K. Jemisin ● “The Good Lord Bird,” by James McBride ● “The Line of Beauty,” by Alan Hollinghurst ● “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee ● “Skippy Dies,” by Paul Murray ● “Wolf Hall,” by Hilary Mantel ● “The World Is What It Is,” by Patrick French
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an editor, essayist and author whose best-selling nonfiction includes BAD FEMINIST and HUNGER. She is also a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times.
“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” by Michael Chabon ● “The Brutal Language of Love,” by Alicia Erian ● “Girl, Woman, Other,” by Bernardine Evaristo ● “Heavy,” by Kiese Laymon ● “Her Body and Other Parties,” by Carmen Maria Machado ● “NW,” by Zadie Smith ● “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee ● “Room,” by Emma Donoghue ● “Salvage the Bones,” by Jesmyn Ward ● “State of Wonder,” by Ann Patchett
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem is a writer best known for his 1999 novel MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN.
“Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson ● “Dear Cyborgs,” by Eugene Lim ● “The Employees,” by Olga Ravn ● “Erasure,” by Percival Everett ● “Hawthorn & Child,” by Keith Ridgway ● “Houses of Ravicka,” by Renee Gladman ● “How the Dead Dream,” by Lydia Millet ● “The Last Samurai,” by Helen DeWitt ● “Pity the Beast,” by Robin McLean ● “Trance,” by Christopher Sorrentino
Sarah MacLean
Sarah MacLean is an award-winning romance writer whose most recent novel is KNOCKOUT.
“After Hours on Milagro Street,” by Angelina M. Lopez ● “Again the Magic,” by Lisa Kleypas ● “Bet Me,” by Jennifer Crusie ● “Circe,” by Madeline Miller ● “Dark Needs at Night’s Edge,” by Kresley Cole ● “Forbidden,” by Beverly Jenkins ● “Georgie, All Along,” by Kate Clayborn ● “Hana Khan Carries On,” by Uzma Jalaluddin ● “A Heart of Blood and Ashes,” by Milla Vane ● “Ravishing the Heiress,” by Sherry Thomas
Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and the author of AN IMMENSE WORLD and I CONTAIN MULTITUDES.
“Bel Canto,” by Ann Patchett ● “Chain-Gang All-Stars,” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ● “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama,” by Nathan Thrall ● “Exit West,” by Mohsin Hamid ● “H Is for Hawk,” by Helen Macdonald ● “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” by Rebecca Skloot ● “Saving Time,” by Jenny Odell ● “The Swimmers,” by Julie Otsuka ● “This Is How You Lose the Time War,” by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone ● “Trust,” by Hernan Diaz
1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.
(This page will update throughout the
week.)
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Thomas Chatterton Williams, a staff writer at The Atlantic, is the author of LOSING MY COOL and SELF-PORTRAIT IN BLACK AND WHITE.
“All Aunt Hagar’s Children,” by Edward P. Jones ● “Biography of X,” by Catherine Lacey ● “Eat the Document,” by Dana Spiotta ● “Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories,” by Joan Silber ● “Malcolm X,” by Manning Marable ● “The Round House,” by Louise Erdrich ● “Runaway,” by Alice Munro ● “Stay True,” by Hua Hsu ● “Veronica,” by Mary Gaitskill ● “The Warmth of Other Suns,” by Isabel Wilkerson
Paul Tremblay
Paul Tremblay is an award-winning horror novelist whose latest book is HORROR MOVIE.
“2666,” by Roberto Bolaño ● “House of Leaves,” by Mark Z. Danielewski ● “Lady Joker, Vol. 1,” by Kaoru Takamura ● “The Maniac,” by Benjamín Labatut ● “Never Let Me Go,” by Kazuo Ishiguro ● “No Country for Old Men,” by Cormac McCarthy ● “The Only Good Indians,” by Stephen Graham Jones ● “Our Share of Night,” by Mariana Enriquez ● “Treasure Island!!!,” by Sara Levine ● “The Underground Railroad,” by Colson Whitehead
Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby is best known for comic novels like HIGH FIDELITY and ABOUT A BOY.
“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” by Michael Chabon ● “Austerity Britain,” by David Kynaston ● “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” by Ben Fountain ● “Empire Falls,” by Richard Russo ● “Gilead,” by Marilynne Robinson ● “Olive Kitteridge,” by Elizabeth Strout ● “On Beauty,” by Zadie Smith ● “Pictures at a Revolution,” by Mark Harris ● “Random Family,” by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ● “Say Nothing,” by Patrick Radden Keefe
1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.
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Scott Turow
Scott Turow is an attorney and writer best known for legal thrillers like PRESUMED INNOCENT and THE BURDEN OF PROOF.
“Bel Canto,” by Ann Patchett ● “Dreamland,” by Sam Quinones ● “The Good Lord Bird,” by James McBride ● “My Brilliant Friend,” by Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein. ● “On Tyranny,” by Timothy Snyder ● “The Orphan Master’s Son,” by Adam Johnson ● “The Story of a New Name,” by Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein ● “The Story of the Lost Child,” by Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein ● “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” by Daniel Kahneman ● “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay,” by Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein
1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.
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Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón is a novelist (LOST CITY RADIO) and contributing writer at The New Yorker whose long-running Spanish-language podcast, Radio Ambulante, is distributed by NPR.
“The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” by Junot Díaz ● “Citizen,” by Claudia Rankine ● “Exit West,” by Mohsin Hamid ● “The Known World,” by Edward P. Jones ● “Lincoln in the Bardo,” by George Saunders ● “My Brilliant Friend,” by Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein. ● “NW,” by Zadie Smith ● “Random Family,” by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ● “The Savage Detectives,” by Roberto Bolaño ● “Say Nothing,” by Patrick Radden Keefe
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is a poet and professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. Her debut novel, THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DU BOIS, was one of The Times’s 10 Best Books of 2021.
“Brother, I’m Dying,” by Edwidge Danticat ● “Built from the Fire,” by Victor Luckerson ● “Feminism Is For Everybody,” by bell hooks ● “Gathering Blossoms,” by Alice Walker ● “The Known World,” by Edward P. Jones ● “A Mercy,” by Toni Morrison ● “The Source of Self-Regard,” by Toni Morrison ● “Stamped from the Beginning,” by Ibram X. Kendi ● “Ties that Bind,” by Tiya Miles ● “The Warmth of Other Suns,” by Isabel Wilkerson
Lucy Sante
Lucy Sante is a writer whose last book, I HEARD HER CALL MY NAME, is a memoir of her gender transition.
“Anniversaries,” by Uwe Johnson. Translated by Damion Searls ● “Feral City,” by Jeremiah Moss ● “The Friend,” by Sigrid Nunez ● “It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track,” by Ian Penman ● “Jacket Weather,” by Mike DeCapite ● “The Mars Room,” by Rachel Kushner ● “Same Bed Different Dreams,” by Ed Park ● “The Savage Detectives,” by Roberto Bolaño ● “Stay True,” by Hua Hsu ● “Voices from Chernobyl,” by Svetlana Alexievich
Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart has written five novels, one of which, ABSURDISTAN, was named one of The Times’s 10 Best Books of 2006.
“Bangkok Wakes to Rain,” by Pitchaya Sudbanthad ● “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel,” by Amy Hempel ● “Educated,” by Tara Westover ● “Exit West,” by Mohsin Hamid ● “The Master,” by Colm Tóibín ● “Netherland,” by Joseph O’Neill ● “Outline,” by Rachel Cusk ● “Postwar,” by Tony Judt ● “Veronica,” by Mary Gaitskill ● “The Warmth of Other Suns,” by Isabel Wilkerson
Anand Giridharadas
Anand Giridharadas is a writer and former foreign correspondent whose books include THE PERSUADERS and WINNERS TAKE ALL.
“The Argonauts,” by Maggie Nelson ● “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” by Katherine Boo ● “Dark Money,” by Jane Mayer ● “Far From the Tree,” by Andrew Solomon ● “A Little Life,” by Hanya Yanagihara ● “Maximum City,” by Suketu Mehta ● “My Struggle: Book 2,” by Karl Ove Knausgaard ● “One of Us,” by Asne Seierstad ● “Random Family,” by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ● “The Year of Magical Thinking,” by Joan Didion
Jessamine Chan
Jessamine Chan’s debut novel, THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS, was named by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of 2022.
“Chain-Gang All-Stars,” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah ● “Cinema Love,” by Jiaming Tang ● “Easy Beauty,” by Chloé Cooper Jones ● “Invisible Child,” by Andrea Elliott ● “Kairos,” by Jenny Erpenbeck ● “Matrix,” by Lauren Groff ● “Minor Feelings,” by Cathy Park Hong ● “Never Let Me Go,” by Kazuo Ishiguro ● “Pure Colour,” by Sheila Heti ● “Torn Apart,” by Dorothy Roberts
Michael Robbins
Michael Robbins is the author of several poetry collections, including WALKMAN and THE SECOND SEX.
“Alien vs. Predator,” by Michael Robbins ● “Communal Luxury,” by Kristin Ross ● “Cruel Optimism,” by Lauren Berlant ● “Fossil Capital,” by Andreas Malm ● “Keats’s Odes,” by Anahid Nersessian ● “Lila,” by Marilynne Robinson ● “Planet of Slums,” by Mike Davis ● “Poemland,” by Chelsey Minnis ● “Stolen Life,” by Fred Moten ● “Veronica,” by Mary Gaitskill
Alma Katsu
Alma Katsu is a genre-spanning writer whose books include RED WIDOW and THE HUNGER.
“Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn ● “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell,” by Susanna Clarke ● “Lincoln in the Bardo,” by George Saunders ● “The Little Friend,” by Donna Tartt ● “The Little Stranger,” by Sarah Waters ● “Never Let Me Go,” by Kazuo Ishiguro ● “The Only Good Indians,” by Stephen Graham Jones ● “The Swimmers,” by Julie Otsuka ● “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” by Audrey Niffenegger ● “Wolf Hall,” by Hilary Mantel
Megan Abbott
Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of 11 novels, including DARE ME, THE TURNOUT and BEWARE THE WOMAN.
“Blonde,” by Joyce Carol Oates ● “Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn ● “Life After Life,” by Kate Atkinson ● “A Little Life,” by Hanya Yanagihara ● “Lost Girls,” by Robert Kolker ● “My Sister, the Serial Killer,” by Oyinkan Braithwaite ● “Nemesis,” by Philip Roth ● “Random Family,” by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ● “Winter’s Bone,” by Daniel Woodrell ● “The Year of Magical Thinking,” by Joan Didion
Joshua Ferris
Joshua Ferris has written five novels, including THEN WE CAME TO THE END, which won the 2008 PEN/Hemingway Award.
“The Corrections,” by Jonathan Franzen ● “The Gathering,” by Anne Enright ● “Gilead,” by Marilynne Robinson ● “The Known World,” by Edward P. Jones ● “No Country for Old Men,” by Cormac McCarthy ● “No One Is Talking About This,” by Patricia Lockwood ● “NW,” by Zadie Smith ● “The Savage Detectives,” by Roberto Bolaño ● “Tinkers,” by Paul Harding ● “Wolf Hall,” by Hilary Mantel
Ann Napolitano
Ann Napolitano is a novelist whose last book, HELLO BEAUTIFUL, was the 100th pick of Oprah’s Book Club.
“Americanah,” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ● “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” by Junot Díaz ● “Cloud Atlas,” by David Mitchell ● “Demon Copperhead,” by Barbara Kingsolver ● “Far From the Tree,” by Andrew Solomon ● “Homegoing,” by Yaa Gyasi ● “The Master,” by Colm Tóibín ● “Station Eleven,” by Emily St. John Mandel ● “The Underground Railroad,” by Colson Whitehead ● “Wolf Hall,” by Hilary Mantel
1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.
(This page will update throughout the
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John Irving
John Irving is the author of THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES and A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY, among other novels.
“The Absolutist,” by John Boyne ● “Burma Sahib,” by Paul Theroux ● “Cutting for Stone,” by Abraham Verghese ● “Last Night,” by James Salter ● “The Nix,” by Nathan Hill ● “Peeling the Onion,” by Günter Grass ● “A Saint from Texas,” by Edmund White ● “Shadow Country,” by Peter Matthiessen ● “Warlight,” by Michael Ondaatje ● “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?,” by Jeanette Winterson
Tiya Miles
Tiya Miles is a professor of history at Harvard University whose books include ALL THAT SHE CARRIED, which won the 2021 National Book Award for nonfiction, and the just-published NIGHT FLYER.
“Frederick Douglass,” by David W. Blight ● “The Hemingses of Monticello,” by Annette Gordon-Reed ● “Less,” by Andrew Sean Greer ● “The Omnivore’s Dilemma,” by Michael Pollan ● “People Love Dead Jews,” by Dara Horn ● “The Round House,” by Louise Erdrich ● “Salvage the Bones,” by Jesmyn Ward ● “The Swerve,” by Stephen Greenblatt ● “The Underground Railroad,” by Colson Whitehead
1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.
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Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg is a writer whose new novel, A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN, comes out in September.
“Bright Dead Things,” by Ada Limón ● “The Corrections,” by Jonathan Franzen ● “Fun Home,” by Alison Bechdel ● “Grief Is For People,” by Sloane Crosley ● “Heavy,” by Kiese Laymon ● “How to Write an Autobiographical Novel,” by Alexander Chee ● “Just Kids,” by Patti Smith ● “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee ● “There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé,” by Morgan Parker ● “True Biz,” by Sara Novic
Stephen L. Carter
Stephen L. Carter, a professor at Yale Law School, has written critically acclaimed nonfiction as well as six novels, including THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK.
“Bourgeois Dignity,” by Deirdre McCloskey ● “Exit West,” by Mohsin Hamid ● “The Fabric of Civilization,” by Virginia Postrel ● “The Human Stain,” by Philip Roth ● “Inventing The Enemy,” by Umberto Eco ● “March,” by Geraldine Brooks ● “The Overstory,” by Richard Powers ● “Silence,” by Jane Brox ● “That All Shall Be Saved,” by David Bentley Hart ● “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky,” by Lesley Nneka Arimah
1 of these, so far, appears on the 100 Best list.
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Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright and nonfiction writer whose most recent book is LET THE RECORD SHOW.
“Citizen,” by Claudia Rankine ● “The Freezer Door,” by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore ● “Memorial Drive,” by Natasha Trethewey ● “Minor Detail,” by Adania Shibli ● “The Rediscovery of America,” by Ned Blackhawk ● “They Were Her Property,” by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers ● “Vanguard,” by Martha S. Jones ● “The Viral Underclass,” by Steven W. Thrasher ● “We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I,” by Raja Shehadeh ● “The Women’s House of Detention,” by Hugh Ryan
Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand is the author of 20 novels, most recently A HAUNTING ON THE HILL.
“The Enchanted,” by Rene Denfeld ● “Henry Darger,” by John M. MacGregor ● “Ill Will,” by Dan Chaon ● “James Tiptree Jr.,” by Julie Phillips ● “Just Kids,” by Patti Smith ● “The Little Stranger,” by Sarah Waters ● “Magic for Beginners,” by Kelly Link ● “Night of the Living Rez,” by Morgan Talty ● “The Old Ways,” by Robert Macfarlane ● “Pattern Recognition,” by William Gibson
Dion Graham
Dion Graham is an actor whose award-winning audiobook narrations include Jonathan Eig’s KING and Colson Whitehead’s CROOK MANIFESTO.
“American War,” by Omar El Akkad ● “Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” by Marlon James ● “Chasing Me to My Grave,” by Winfred Rembert ● “The Dark Forest,” by Cixin Liu ● “Evicted,” by Matthew Desmond ● “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” by Dave Eggers ● “His Name Is George Floyd,” by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa ● “King: A Life,” by Jonathan Eig ● “Washington Black,” by Esi Edugyan
Jeremy Denk
Jeremy Denk is a classical pianist and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.” His memoir, EVERY GOOD BOY DOES FINE, was published in 2022.
“Austerlitz,” by W.G. Sebald ● “Consider the Lobster,” by David Foster Wallace ● “Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi,” by Geoff Dyer ● “A Little Devil in America,” by Hanif Abdurraqib ● “Luster,” by Raven Leilani ● “The Possessed,” by Elif Batuman ● “Random Family,” by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ● “The Rest Is Noise,” by Alex Ross ● “Runaway,” by Alice Munro ● “Sound Within Sound,” by Kate Molleson
Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins is a journalist, editor and the author of several books, including THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING.
“Barracoon,” by Zora Neale Hurston ● “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,” by Haruki Murakami ● “Erasure,” by Percival Everett ● “The Future Is History,” by Masha Gessen ● “Girl, Woman, Other,” by Bernardine Evaristo ● “How to Say Babylon,” by Safiya Sinclair ● “In the Dream House,” by Carmen Maria Machado ● “Looking for Lorraine,” by Imani Perry ● “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” by Jesmyn Ward
Michael Roth
Michael Roth is the president of Wesleyan University.
“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” by Michael Chabon ● “The Argonauts,” by Maggie Nelson ● “In Love,” by Amy Bloom ● “Lose Your Mother,” by Saidiya Hartman ● “Lost Children Archive,” by Valeria Luiselli ● “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” by Ocean Vuong ● “Septology,” by Jon Fosse. Translated by Damion Searls ● “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” by Daniel Kahneman ● “The Topeka School,” by Ben Lerner ● “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” by Jennifer Egan
Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday is the author of 12 books, including RIGHT THING, RIGHT NOW and THE DAILY STOIC, and co-owns a bookstore in Bastrop, Texas.
“Caste,” by Isabel Wilkerson ● “The Choice,” by Edith Eger ● “Deep Work,” by Cal Newport ● “How the Word Is Passed,” by Clint Smith ● “Mastery,” by Robert Greene ● “The River of Doubt,” by Candice Millard ● “The Road,” by Cormac McCarthy ● “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,” by Jon Ronson ● “The Tiger,” by John Vaillant ● “Tunnel 29,” by Helena Merriman
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