The New Yorker Essential Reads 2024

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25 participants (150 books)

Overview

Best of the year 2024

Challenge Books

1

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

2

All Fours by Miranda July

All Fours

Miranda July

3

The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

The Anthropologists

Ayşegül Savaş

4

The Burning Earth: A History by Sunil Amrith

The Burning Earth: A History

Sunil Amrith

5

On the Calculation of Volume I by Solvej Balle

On the Calculation of Volume I

On the Calculation of Volume #1

Solvej Balle

6

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham

7

The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

The Empusium

Olga Tokarczuk

8

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

9

Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha

Forest of Noise: Poems

Mosab Abu Toha

10

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano

The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture

Tricia Romano

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Health and Safety: A Breakdown by Emily Witt

Health and Safety: A Breakdown

Emily Witt

12

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney