38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader
38 Years on Books: The Essential Michiko Kakutani Reader - The New York Times

For nearly four decades, Michiko Kakutani, who has decided to step down as chief book critic of The New York Times, has anointed new talent, charted the peaks and valleys of literary careers and memorialized writers when they’re gone.

  • “Less Than Zero” by Bret Easton Ellis (1985)
  • “The Sportswriter” by Richard Ford (1986)
  • “Beloved” by Toni Morrison (1987)
  • “London Fields” by Martin Amis (1990)
  • “Rabbit at Rest” by John Updike (1990)
  • “The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov” (1995)
  • “The Moor’s Last Sigh” by Salman Rushdie (1995)
  • “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace (1996)
  • “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline” by George Saunders (1996)
  • “Mason & Dixon” by Thomas Pynchon (1997)
  • Underworld” by Don DeLillo (1997)
  • “American Pastoral” by Philip Roth (1997)
  • “Birds of America” by Lorrie Moore (1998)
  • “Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan” by Edmund Morris (1999)
  • “White Teeth” by Zadie Smith (2000)
  • “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” by Dave Eggers (2000)
  • “The Corrections” by Jonathan Franzen (2001)
  • “My Life” by Bill Clinton (2004)
  • “The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion (2005)
  • "Saul Bellow (2005)
  • “Team of Rivals” by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2005)
  • "Books About the Bush Administration and the Iraq War (2006)
  • “A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey (2006)
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” by J. K. Rowling (2007)
  • "John Updike (2009)
  • “Life” by Keith Richards (2010)
  • “Known and Unknown: A Memoir” by Donald Rumsfeld (2011)
  • “On China” by Henry Kissinger (2011)
  • "Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” (2013)
  • "Lou Reed (2013)
  • “A Brief History of Seven Killings” by Marlon James (2014)
  • "Literature by Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans (2014)
  • "Gabriel García Márquez (2014)
  • “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee (2015)
  • "Oliver Sacks (2015)
  • “Hitler: Ascent 1889-1939” by Volker Ullrich (2016)
  • "Books About Donald Trump (2016)
  • "Interview With Barack Obama (2017)

Michiko Kakutani, Times’s Feared and Revered Book Critic, Is Stepping Down
Michiko Kakutani, Times’s Feared and Revered Book Critic, Is Stepping Down - The New York Times
Literary World Reacts to Michiko Kakutani’s Departure
Literary World Reacts to Michiko Kakutani’s Departure - The New York Times