The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

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Selected by Paul Kedrosky, a venture capitalist and a research fellow at MIT’s Institute on the Digital Economy.

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Credit...Jack Smyth Supported by By The New York Times Books Staff Each January, the ...