All year long, the staff of The New York Times Book Review conducts a running discussion over what belongs on its year-end Top 10 list. In this week’s episode, host Gilbert Cruz gathers a group of fellow Book Review editors to talk about the most exciting fiction and nonfiction of the year.

Here are the books discussed in this week’s episode:

Fiction

“The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny,” by Kiran Desai
“Angel Down,” by Daniel Kraus
“The Sisters,” by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
“The Director,” by Daniel Kehlmann
“Stone Yard Devotional,” by Charlotte Wood

Nonfiction

“A Marriage at Sea,” by Sophie Elmhirst
“Wild Thing,” by Sue Prideaux
“Mother Emanuel,” by Kevin Sack
“There Is No Place for Us," by Brian Goldstone
“Mother Mary Comes to Me,” by Arundhati Roy

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