Each year, the editors of the New York Times Book Review narrow down the best 100 books of the year and refine that list to the top 10 Best Books of the Year from that selection.

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Fiction
FREEDOM by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
THE NEW YORKER STORIES by Ann Beattie (Scribner)
ROOM by Emma Donoghue (Little, Brown & Company)
SELECTED STORIES by William Trevor (Viking)
A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan (Alfred A. Knopf)

Nonfiction
APOLLO'S ANGELS: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans (Random House)
CLEOPATRA: A Life by Stacy Schiff (Little, Brown & Company)
THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee (Scribner)
FINISHING THE HAT: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) With Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines and Anecdotes by Stephen Sondheim (Alfred A. Knopf)
THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)