The New Yorker Essential Reads 2024

aggreenhouse Host

25 participants (150 books)

Overview

Best of the year 2024

Challenge Books

85

Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin

Scaffolding

Lauren Elkin

86

I Will Do Better: A Father's Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love by Charles Bock

I Will Do Better: A Father's Memoir of Heartbreak, Parenting, and Love

Charles Bock

87

Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York by Guy Trebay

Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York

Guy Trebay

88

Abortion in the Age of Unreason by Warren M. Hern

Abortion in the Age of Unreason

Warren M. Hern

89

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

Richard Beck

90

Sonny Boy by Al Pacino

Sonny Boy

Al Pacino

91

Vox ex Machina: A Cultural History of Talking Machines by Sarah A. Bell

Vox ex Machina: A Cultural History of Talking Machines

Sarah A. Bell

92

Elevator in Saigon by Thuận

Elevator in Saigon

Thuận

93

Q: A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown

Q: A Voyage Around the Queen

Craig Brown

94

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild

95

Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics by Julia Sonnevend

Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics

Julia Sonnevend

96

Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams

Concerning the Future of Souls

Joy Williams