Classifiche - The New York Times - I libri notevoli Scheda generale

1998
	Lorrie Moore - Ballando in America (Birds of America)
	Russell Banks - Cloudsplitter
	Richard Fortey - Età: quattro miliardi di anni (Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth)
	Alice Munro - Il sogno di mia madre (The Love of a Good Woman)
	Barbara Kingsolver - Gli occhi negli alberi (The Poisonwood Bible)
	David Gates - Preston Falls (Preston Falls)
	Ron Chernow - Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
	Richard Holbrooke - To End a War
	Hilary Spurling - The Unknown Matisse
	Graham Robb - Victor Hugo: A Biography
	Philip Gourevitch - Desideriamo informarla che domani verremo uccisi con le nostre famiglie. Storie dal Ruanda (We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda)

1999
	Richard A. Posner - An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton
	Annie Proulx - Distanza ravvicinata (Close Range: Wyoming Stories)
	Richard Holmes - Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
	J. M. Coetzee - Vergogna (Disgrace)
	Antonio Damasio - Emozione e conoscenza (The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness)
	John Keegan -  La prima guerra mondiale. Una storia politico-militare (The First World War)
	Michael Frayn - A testa bassa (Headlong)
	Jean Strouse - Morgan: American Financier
	Inga Clendinnen - Reading the Holocaust
	Judith Thurman - Una vita di Colette. I segreti della carne (Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette)
	Roddy Doyle - Una stella di nome Henry (A Star Called Henry)

2000
	Jim Crace - Una storia naturale dell'amore (Being Dead)
	Beowulf (tradotto da Seamus Heaney)
	Matt Ridley - Genoma. L'autobiografia di una specie in ventitré capitoli (Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters)
	John Updike - Una storia in Danimarca (Gertrude and Claudius)
	Dave Eggers -  L'opera struggente di un formidabile genio (A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story)
	Philip Roth - La macchia umana (The Human Stain)
	Tom Segev - One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
	Graham Robb - Rimbaud (Rimbaud: A Biography)
	Frances FitzGerald - Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War

2001
	W.G. Sebald - Austerlitz (Austerlitz)
	Paula Fox - Il vestito della festa (Borrowed Finery: A Memoir)
	Jonathan Franzen - Le correzioni (The Corrections)
	Alice Munro - Nemico, amico, amante (Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage)
	Colson Whitehead -  John Henry festival (John Henry Days)
	Louis Menand -  Il Circolo metafisico: la nascita del pragmatismo in America (The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America)
	Peter Carey - La ballata di Ned Kelly (True History of the Kelly Gang)
	Oliver Sacks - Zio Tungsteno. Ricordi di un'infanzia chimica (Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood)

2002
	Miranda Carter - Anthony Blunt: His Lives
	Ian McEwan - Espiazione (Atonement)
	Lorna Sage - Bad Blood
	Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex (Middlesex)
	Margaret MacMillan - Parigi 1919. Sei mesi che cambiarono il mondo (Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World)
	William Kennedy - Roscoe
	Timothy Ferris - Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril

2003
	Caroline Alexander - The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
	Monica Ali - Sette mari tredici fiumi (Brick Lane)
	T. Coraghessan Boyle - Drop City
	Jonathan Lethem - La fortezza della solitudine (The Fortress of Solitude)
	William Taubman - Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
	Edward P. Jones - Il mondo conosciuto (The Known World)
	Gabriel García Márquez - Vivere per raccontarla (Living to Tell the Tale)
	Adrian Nicole LeBlanc - Una famiglia a caso: amore, droga e guai nel Bronx (Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx)

2004
	Ron Chernow - Alexander Hamilton
	Bob Dylan - Chronicles: Volume One
	David Hackett Fischer - Washington's Crossing
	Stephen Greenblatt -  Shakespeare. Una vita nel teatro (Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare)
	Ha Jin - War Trash (War Trash)
	Alice Munro - In fuga (Runaway)
	Orhan Pamuk - Neve (Snow)
	Marilynne Robinson - Gilead (Gilead)
	Philip Roth - Il complotto contro l'America (The Plot Against America)
	Colm Tóibín - The Master (The Master)

2005
	Joan Didion - L'anno del pensiero magico (The Year of Magical Thinking)
	Mary Gaitskill - Veronica (Veronica)
	Jonathan Harr -  Il Caravaggio perduto (The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece)
	Tony Judt - Dopoguerra. Come è cambiata l'Europa dal 1945 a oggi (Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945)
	Ian McEwan - Sabato (Saturday)
	Haruki Murakami - Kafka sulla spiaggia (Kafka on the Shore)
	George Packer - The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
	Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep (Prep)
	Zadie Smith - Della bellezza (On Beauty)
	Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan - de Kooning. L'uomo l'artista (de Kooning: An American Master)

2006
	Richard Ford - Lo stato delle cose (The Lay of the Land)
	Amy Hempel - Ragioni per vivere: tutti i racconti (The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel)
	Claire Messud - I figli dell'imperatore (The Emperor's Children)
	Marisha Pessl - Teoria e pratica di ogni cosa (Special Topics in Calamity Physics)
	Nathaniel Philbrick - Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
	Michael Pollan - Il dilemma dell'onnivoro (The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals)
	Gary Shteyngart - Absurdistan (Absurdistan)
	Rory Stewart - In Afganistan (The Places In Between)
	Danielle Trussoni - Falling Through the Earth: A Memoir
	Lawrence Wright - Le altissime torri: come Al-Qaeda giunse all'11 settembre (The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11)

2007
	Roberto Bolaño - I detective selvaggi (The Savage Detectives)
	Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Green Zone: il lato oscuro dell'impero americano a Baghdad (Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone)
	Linda Colley - L'odissea di Elizabeth Marsh. Sogni e avventure di una viaggiatrice instancabile (The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History)
	Joshua Ferris - E poi siamo arrivati alla fine  (Then We Came to the End)
	Denis Johnson - Albero di fumo (Tree of Smoke: A Novel)
	Mildred Armstrong Kalish - Little Heathens
	Per Petterson - Fuori a rubar cavalli (Out Stealing Horses) (Ut og stjæle hester)
	Alex Ross - Il resto è rumore. Ascoltando il XX secolo (The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century)
	Michael Thomas - Un uomo a pezzi (Man Gone Down: A Novel)
	Jeffrey Toobin - The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

2008
	Julian Barnes - Niente paura (Nothing to Be Frightened Of)
	Roberto Bolaño - 2666 (2666)
	Drew Gilpin Faust - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
	Dexter Filkins - Guerra per sempre (The Forever War)
	Patrick French - The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
	Jhumpa Lahiri - Una nuova terra (Unaccustomed Earth)
	Jane Mayer - The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
	Steven Millhauser - Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories
	Toni Morrison - Il dono (A Mercy)
	Joseph O'Neill - La città invincibile (Netherland)

2009
	Liaquat Ahamed - Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
	David Finkel - I bravi soldati (The Good Soldiers)
	Richard Holmes - The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
	Mary Karr - Lit: A Memoir
	Jonathan Lethem - Chronic City (Chronic City)
	Maile Meloy - Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
	Lorrie Moore - Oltre le scale (A Gate at the Stairs)
	Carol Sklenicka - Raymond Carver. Una vita da scrittore (Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life)
	Kate Walbert - A Short History of Women
	Jeannette Walls - Half Broke Horses

2010
	Ann Beattie - The New Yorker Stories
	Emma Donoghue - Stanza, Letto, Armadio, Specchio (Room)
	Jennifer Egan - Il tempo è un bastardo (A Visit from the Goon Squad)
	Jonathan Franzen - Libertà (Freedom)
	Jennifer Homans - Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet
	Siddhartha Mukherjee - L'imperatore del male. Una biografia del cancro (The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer)
	Stacy Schiff - Cleopatra. Una vita (Cleopatra: A Life)
	Stephen Sondheim - Finishing the Hat
	William Trevor - Racconti scelti (Selected Stories)
	Isabel Wilkerson - Al calore di soli lontani: il racconto epico della grande migrazione afroamericana (The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration)

2011
	Ian Brown - The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His Extraordinary Son
	Amanda Foreman - A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War
	Chad Harbach - L'arte di vivere in difesa (The Art of Fielding)
	Eleanor Henderson - Diecimila santi (Ten Thousand Saints)
	Christopher Hitchens - Galateo contemporaneo (Arguably: Essays)
	Daniel Kahneman - Pensieri lenti e veloci (Thinking, Fast and Slow)
	Stephen King - 22/11/63 (11/22/63)
	Manning Marable - Malcolm X. Tutte le verità oltre la leggenda (Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention)
	Téa Obreht - L'amante della Tigre (The Tiger's Wife)
	Karen Russell - Swamplandia! (Swamplandia!)

2012
	Katherine Boo - Belle per sempre (Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity)
	Robert Caro - The Passage of Power
	Dave Eggers - Ologramma per il re  (A Hologram for the King)
	Jim Holt - Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story
	Hilary Mantel - Anna Bolena, una questione di famiglia (Bring Up the Bodies)
	David Nasaw - The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
	Kevin Powers - Yellow Birds (The Yellow Birds)
	Andrew Solomon -  Lontano dall'albero: storie di genitori e figli che hanno imparato ad amarsi (Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity)
	Zadie Smith - NW (NW)
	Chris Ware - Building Stories

2013
	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah (Americanah)
	Kate Atkinson - Vita dopo vita (Life After Life)
	Peter Baker - Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
	Alan S. Blinder - After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
	Christopher Clark - I sonnambuli: Come l'Europa arrivò alla Grande Guerra (The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914)
	Sonali Deraniyagala - Onda (Wave)
	Sheri Fink - Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
	Rachel Kushner -  I lanciafiamme (The Flamethrowers)
	Donna Tartt - Il cardellino (The Goldfinch)
	George Saunders - Dieci dicembre (Tenth of December: Stories)

2014
	Eula Biss - Immunità: vaccini, virus e altre paure (On Immunity: An Inoculation)
	Roz Chast - Cambiamo argomento, per favore?  Una storia vera (Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir)
	Anthony Doerr - Tutta la luce che non vediamo (All the Light We Cannot See)
	Lily King - Euforia (Euphoria)
	Phil Klay - Fine missione (Redeployment)
	Elizabeth Kolbert - La sesta estinzione (The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History)
	Hermione Lee - Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
	Jenny Offill - Sembrava una felicità (Dept. of Speculation)
	Akhil Sharma - Vita in famiglia (Family Life)
	Lawrence Wright - Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp

2015
	Paul Beatty - Lo schiavista (The Sellout)
	Sven Beckert - L'impero del cotone (Empire of Cotton: A Global History)
	Lucia Berlin - La donna che scriveva racconti (A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories)
	Ta-Nehisi Coates -  Tra me e il mondo (Between the World and Me)
	Rachel Cusk - Resoconto (Outline)
	Elena Ferrante - Storia della bambina perduta (The Story of the Lost Child: Book 4, The Neapolitan Novels: “Maturity, Old Age”)
	Helen Macdonald - Io e Mabel, ovvero L'arte della falconeria (H Is for Hawk)
	Åsne Seierstad - Uno di noi (One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway)
	Magda Szabó - La porta (The Door)
	Andrea Wulf - L'invenzione della natura. Le avventure di Alexander Von Humboldt, l'eroe perduto della scienza (The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World)

2016
	Sarah Bakewell - Al caffè degli esistenzialisti. Libertà, essere e cocktail (At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails)
	Matthew Desmond -  Sfrattati. Miseria e profitti nelle città americane (Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City)
	Susan Faludi - Nella camera oscura (In the Darkroom)
	Stefan Hertmans - Guerra e trementina (War and Turpentine)
	Han Kang - La vegetariana (The Vegetarian)
	Karan Mahajan - Stella bianca, acciaio rovente (The Association of Small Bombs)
	Hisham Matar - Il ritorno. Padri, figli e la terra fra di loro (The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between)
	Jane Mayer - Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
	Ian McGuire -  Le acque del nord (The North Water)
	Colson Whitehead - La ferrovia sotterranea (The Underground Railroad)

2017
	Naomi Alderman - Ragazze elettriche (The Power)
	Ron Chernow - Grant
	James Forman Jr. - Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
	Caroline Fraser - Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
	Mohsin Hamid - Exit West (Exit West)
	Min Jin Lee - La moglie coreana (Pachinko)
	Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy. Mio papà, il sacerdote (Priestdaddy: A Memoir)
	Richard Prum - L'evoluzione della bellezza (The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin’s Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World — and Us)
	Ali Smith - Autunno (Autumn)
	Jesmyn Ward - Canta, spirito, canta (Sing, Unburied, Sing)

2018
	Shane Bauer - American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
	Lisa Brennan-Jobs - Pesciolino (Small Fry)
	David W. Blight - Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
	Esi Edugyan - Le avventure di Washington Black (Washington Black)
	Lisa Halliday - Asimmetria (Asymmetry)
	Rebecca Makkai - I grandi sognatori (The Great Believers)
	Tommy Orange - Non qui, non altrove (There There)
	Michael Pollan - Come cambiare la tua mente (How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence)
	Leïla Slimani - Ninna nanna (Lullaby)
	Tara Westover - L'educazione (Educated)

2019
	Kevin Barry - L'ultima nave per Tangeri (Night Boat to Tangier)
	Sarah M. Broom - The Yellow House
	Leo Damrosch - The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
	Ted Chiang - Respiro (Exhalation: Stories)
	Adam Higginbotham - Mezzanotte a Cernobyl'. La storia mai raccontata del più grande disastro nucleare del XX secolo (Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster)
	Patrick Radden Keefe - Non dire niente: un caso di omicidio e tradimento nell'Irlanda del Nord (Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland)
	Ben Lerner - Topeka School (The Topeka School)
	Valeria Luiselli - Archivio dei bambini perduti (Lost Children Archive)
	Julia Phillips - La terra che scompare (Disappearing Earth)
	Rachel Louise Snyder - No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

2020
Fiction
	Lydia Millet - I figli del diluvio (A Children's Bible)
	James McBride - Deacon King Kong
	Maggie O'Farrell - Nel nome del figlio. Hamnet (Hamnet)
	Ayad Akhtar - Elegie alla patria (Homeland Elegies)
	Brit Bennett - La metà scomparsa (The Vanishing Half)
Nonfiction
	Robert Kolker - Hidden Valley Road. Nella mente di una famiglia americana (Hidden Valley Road)
	Barack Obama - Una terra promessa (A Promised Land)
	James Shapiro - Shakespeare in a Divided America
	Anna Wiener - La valle oscura (Uncanny Valley)
	Margaret MacMillan - War: How Conflict Shaped Us

2021
Fiction
	Imbolo Mbue - How Beautiful We Were
	Katie Kitamura - Intimacies
	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
	Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
	Benjamín Labatut - Quando abbiamo smesso di capire il mondo (When We Cease to Understand the World)
Nonfiction
	Tove Ditlevsen - The Copenhagen Trilogy
	Clint Smith - How the Word is Passed
	Andrea Elliott - Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City
	Annette Gordon-Reed - On Juneteenth
	Heather Clark - Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

2022
Fiction
Nonfiction