The New Yorker Essential Reads 2024

aggreenhouse Host

25 participants (150 books)

Overview

Best of the year 2024

Challenge Books

13

James by Percival Everett

James

Percival Everett

14

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

15

LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana

LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

Marie Arana

16

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

17

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

18

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

The Mighty Red

Louise Erdrich

19

Modern Poetry: Poems by Diane Seuss

Modern Poetry: Poems

Diane Seuss

20

My Friends by Hisham Matar

My Friends

Hisham Matar

21

Patriot by Alexei Navalny

Patriot

Alexei Navalny

22

Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot

Reagan: His Life and Legend

Max Boot

23

Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

Rejection

Tony Tulathimutte

24

The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

The Silence of the Choir

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr