The Times’s staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and nonfiction works of the year.

#a-promised-land-book, #a-woman-like-her-the-story-behind-the-honor-killing-of-a-social-media-star-book, #african-american-poetry-250-years-of-struggle-and-song-book, #akhtar-ayad, #belton-catherine-journalist, #books-and-literature, #buford-bill, #carter-zachary-d-journalist, #caste-the-origins-of-our-discontents-book, #chatelain-marcia, #cleanness-book, #death-in-mud-lick-a-true-story-of-corporate-pill-pushers-in-small-town-america-book, #demick-barbara, #dirt-adventures-in-lyon-as-a-chef-in-training-father-and-sleuth-looking-for-the-secret-of-french-cooking-book, #disturbance-surviving-charlie-hebdo-book, #eat-the-buddha-life-and-death-in-a-tibetan-town-book, #eilenberger-wolfram, #eyre-eric-w, #fiebre-tropical-book, #franchise-the-golden-arches-in-black-america-book, #greenwell-garth-1978, #guibert-herve, #halberstadt-alex, #holladay-hilary, #homeland-elegies-book, #hong-cathy-park, #irby-samantha, #lancon-philippe-1963, #lopera-juli-delgado, #machado-de-assis-joaquim-maria, #maher-sanam, #memorial-drive-a-daughters-memoir-book, #minor-feelings-an-asian-american-reckoning-book, #murugan-perumal-1966, #obama-barack, #paul-celia-1959, #putins-people-how-the-kgb-took-back-russia-and-then-took-on-the-west-book, #rijneveld-marieke-lucas, #saunt-claudio, #self-portrait-book, #serious-noticing-selected-essays-1999-2019-book, #the-discomfort-of-evening-book, #the-lying-life-of-adults-book, #the-posthumous-memoirs-of-bras-cubas-book, #the-power-of-adrienne-rich-a-biography-book, #the-price-of-peace-money-democracy-and-the-life-of-john-maynard-keynes-book, #the-story-of-a-goat-book, #time-of-the-magicians-wittgenstein-benjamin-cassirer-heidegger-and-the-decade-that-reinvented-philosophy-book, #to-the-friend-who-did-not-save-my-life-book, #trethewey-natasha, #two-thousand-twenty, #uncanny-valley-a-memoir-book, #unworthy-republic-the-dispossession-of-native-americans-and-the-road-to-indian-territory-book, #what-are-you-going-through-book, #wiener-anna, #wilkerson-isabel, #wood-james-1965, #wow-no-thank-you-essays-book, #young-heroes-of-the-soviet-union-a-memoir-and-a-reckoning-book