The Years (French: Les Années) is a 2008 non-fiction book by Annie Ernaux.

[1][2][3] Ernaux's English publisher, Seven Stories Press, described it as an autobiography that is "at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective.

"[3] In the book, Ernaux writes about herself in the third person (elle, or "she" in English) for the first time, providing a vivid look at French society just after the Second World War until the early 2000s.

With this feature of book, Edmund White described it as a "collective autobiography", in his review for The New York Times.

[8] Alison L. Strayer's English translation was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019.