2024 New York Times Best Books

In the New York Times Best Books list selected 100 books.

Broadlist has categorized these selections as:

• Verylonglist (90 books)
• Shortlist (10 books)

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Source: 2024 New York Times Best Books

Very Long List

• A Film in Which I Play Everyone Mary Jo BangBuy →
• A Walk in the Park Kevin FedarkoBuy →
• A Wilder Shore Camille PeriBuy →
• All Things Are Too Small Becca RothfeldBuy →
• All the Worst Humans Phil ElwoodBuy →
• Be Ready When the Luck Happens Ina GartenBuy →
• Beautyland Marie-Helene BertinoBuy →
• Black River anjana RoyBuy →
• Bluff Danez SmithBuy →
• Challenger Adam HigginbothamBuy →
• Chop Fry Watch Learn Michelle T. KingBuy →
• Circle of Hope Eliza GriswoldBuy →
• Cocktails With George and Martha Philip GefterBuy →
• Colored Television Danzy SennaBuy →
• Connie Connie ChungBuy →
• Creation Lake Rachel KushnerBuy →
• Cue the Sun! Emily NussbaumBuy →
• Dead in Long Beach, California Venita BlackburnBuy →
• Do Something Guy TrebayBuy →
• Every Valley Charles KingBuy →
• Fi Alexandra FullerBuy →
• Forest of Noise Mosab Abu TohaBuy →
• Funny Story Emily HenryBuy →
• Ghostroots ’Pemi AgudaBuy →
• Godwin Joseph O'NeillBuy →
• Great Expectations Vinson CunninghamBuy →
• Headshot Rita BullwinkelBuy →
• Health and Safety Emily WittBuy →
• I Just Keep Talking Nell Irvin PainterBuy →
• Intermezzo Sally RooneyBuy →
• John Lewis David GreenbergBuy →
• Joy in Service on Rue Tagore Paul MuldoonBuy →
• Knife Salman RushdieBuy →
• Language City Ross PerlinBuy →
• Long Island Compromise Taffy Brodesser-AknerBuy →
• Lovely One Ketanji Brown JacksonBuy →
• Madness Antonia HyltonBuy →
• Modern Poetry Diane SeussBuy →
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book 2 Emil FerrisBuy →
• Neighbors and Other Stories Diane OliverBuy →
• No One Gets to Fall Apart Sarah LabrieBuy →
• Our Evenings Alan HollinghurstBuy →
• Piglet Lottie HazellBuy →
• Praiseworthy Alexis WrightBuy →
• Private Revolutions Yuan YangBuy →
• Rakesfall Vajra ChandrasekeraBuy →
• Reboot Justin TaylorBuy →
• Rejection Tony TulathimutteBuy →
• Salvage Dionne BrandBuy →
• Shred Sisters Betsy LernerBuy →
• Smoke Kings Jahmal MayfieldBuy →
• Soldiers and Kings Jason de LeónBuy →
• Someone Like Us Dinaw MengestuBuy →
• Splinters Leslie JamisonBuy →
• Stolen Pride Arlie Russell HochschildBuy →
• The Achilles Trap Steve CollBuy →
• The Anxious Generation Jonathan HaidtBuy →
• The Black Box Henry Louis GatesBuy →
• The Black Utopians Aaron RobertsonBuy →
• The Bluestockings Susannah GibsonBuy →
• The Book of Love Kelly LinkBuy →
• The Bright Sword Lev GrossmanBuy →
• The Coin Yasmin ZaherBuy →
• The Empusium Olga TokarczukBuy →
• The Familiar Leigh BardugoBuy →
• The God of the Woods Liz MooreBuy →
• The Hidden Globe Atossa Araxia AbrahamianBuy →
• The Hunter Tana FrenchBuy →
• The Message Ta-Nehisi CoatesBuy →
• The Mighty Red Louise ErdrichBuy →
• The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels Janice HallettBuy →
• The New India Rahul BhatiaBuy →
• The New York Game Kevin BakerBuy →
• The Pairing Casey McQuistonBuy →
• The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain Sofia SamatarBuy →
• The Rebel’s Clinic Adam ShatzBuy →
• The Return of Great Powers Jim SciuttoBuy →
• The Safekeep Yael van der WoudenBuy →
• The Sequel Jean Hanff KorelitzBuy →
• The Silence of the Choir Mohamed Mbougar SarrBuy →
• The Swans of Harlem Karen ValbyBuy →
• The Women Kristin HannahBuy →
• There’s Always This Year Hanif AbdurraqibBuy →
• Undivided Hahrie HanBuy →
• Wandering Stars Tommy OrangeBuy →
• Whale Fall Elizabeth O'ConnorBuy →
• What Does It Feel Like? Sophie KinsellaBuy →
• When the Clock Broke John GanzBuy →
• Wild Houses Colin BarrettBuy →
• You Should Be So Lucky Cat SebastianBuy →

Short List

• All Fours by Miranda July Buy on Bookshop →
• Cold Crematorium by József Debreczeni Buy on Bookshop →
• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer Buy on Bookshop →
• Good Material by Dolly Alderton Buy on Bookshop →
• I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante Buy on Bookshop →
• James by Percival Everett Buy on Bookshop →
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar Buy on Bookshop →
• Reagan by Max Boot Buy on Bookshop →
• The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides Buy on Bookshop →
• You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue Buy on Bookshop →

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