The New Yorker Essential Reads 2024

aggreenhouse Host

25 participants (150 books)

Overview

Best of the year 2024

Challenge Books

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Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe by Jared Sullivan

Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe

Jared Sullivan

26

Ingrained: The Story of a Passion for Wood and the Evolution of a Craftsman by Callum Robinson

Ingrained: The Story of a Passion for Wood and the Evolution of a Craftsman

Callum Robinson

27

The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius by Patchen Barss

The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius

Patchen Barss

28

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse

Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers

Jean Strouse

29

Blood Test: A Comedy by Charles Baxter

Blood Test: A Comedy

Charles Baxter

30

Selected Amazon Reviews by Kevin Killian

Selected Amazon Reviews

Kevin Killian

31

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age by James Chappel

Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age

James Chappel

32

The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan by Domenico Starnone

The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan

Domenico Starnone

33

Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory by Martin Mittelmeier

Naples 1925: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory

Martin Mittelmeier

34

Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis by Ryann Liebenthal

Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis

Ryann Liebenthal

35

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America by Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz

The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz

36

Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love by Julie Sedivy

Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love

Julie Sedivy