The editors of the Barnes & Noble Review selected their favorite titles of the year — fiction, nonfiction, and beyond. View the reviews…
FICTION 
* The Anthologist, by Nicholson Baker
* Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
* Finch, by Jeff Vandermeer
* The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, by Lydia Davis
* White is for Withcing, by Helen Oyeyemi
* Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
* Blame, by Michelle Huneven
* Fying, by Eric Kraft
* Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada
* Brothers, by Yu Hua
NONFICTION
* Lit, by Mary Karr
* The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes
* The Last Journey, by Darrell Griffin Jr. & Sr.
* Charles Dickens, by Michael Slater
* The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday, by Neil MacFarquhar
* My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness, by Adina Hoffman
* Somewhare Towards the End, by Diana Athill
* Banquet at Delmonicos, by Barry Werth
* Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman
* Lords of Finance, by Liaquat Ahamed
BEYOND CATEGORY
* Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way, by Francis Mallmann and Peter Kaminsky
* Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, by Katharine Harmon and Gayle Clemans
* The Letters of Van Gogh: The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition
* Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
* The Red Book, by C .G. Jung
* Garner’s Modern American Usage, by Bryan Garner
* The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929-1940
* The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965, by Sam Stephenson and W. Eugene Smith
* Popular Obsessions, by Paul Nicklen
* Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City, by Eric W. Sanderson
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