100 Notable Books of 2024

katieprewett Host

5 participants (100 books)

26 Nov 2024—31 Dec 2026

Overview

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Challenge Books

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A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko

488 pages • 2024 • 5 editions

nonfiction nature travel adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced
A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson

Camille Peri

480 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography emotional reflective medium-paced
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

432 pages • 2024 • 7 editions

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church by Hahrie Han

Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

Hahrie Han

295 pages • 2024 • 3 editions

nonfiction religion emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

334 pages • 2024 • 10 editions

nonfiction essays memoir sports emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Karen Valby

292 pages • 2024 • 10 editions

nonfiction art history emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

Leslie Jamison

272 pages • 2024 • 10 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck by Dionne Brand

Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

Dionne Brand

224 pages • 2024 • 5 editions

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War by Jim Sciutto

The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

368 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction politics medium-paced
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang

Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China

Yuan Yang

320 pages • 2024 • 11 editions

nonfiction feminism sociology challenging emotional informative medium-paced