The New Yorker Essential Reads 2024

aggreenhouse Host

25 participants (150 books)

Overview

Best of the year 2024

Challenge Books

37

Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture by Eric Nakamura

Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture

Eric Nakamura

38

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Rebecca Nagle

39

The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages by Shane Bobrycki

The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages

Shane Bobrycki

40

Alexander Von Humboldt: A Concise Biography by Andreas W. Daum

Alexander Von Humboldt: A Concise Biography

Andreas W. Daum

41

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America by Stephanie Gorton

The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America

Stephanie Gorton

42

Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery

Women's Hotel

Daniel M. Lavery

43

The Spirit of Hope by Byung-Chul Han

The Spirit of Hope

Byung-Chul Han

44

Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami

Under the Eye of the Big Bird

Hiromi Kawakami

45

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel by Edwin Frank

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Edwin Frank

46

Kent State: An American Tragedy by Brian VanDeMark

Kent State: An American Tragedy

Brian VanDeMark

47

Quarterlife by Devika Rege

Quarterlife

Devika Rege

48

How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America by Caroline Winterer

How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America

Caroline Winterer