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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No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir by Sarah Labrie

No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir

Sarah Labrie

224 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City by Kevin Baker

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

Kevin Baker

520 pages • 2024 • 3 editions

nonfiction history sports informative medium-paced
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

393 pages • 2024 • 3 editions

nonfiction politics sociology informative reflective sad medium-paced
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy by Rahul Bhatia

The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

Rahul Bhatia

440 pages • 2024 • 8 editions

nonfiction history politics dark informative reflective medium-paced
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

235 pages • 2024 • 18 editions

nonfiction essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz

The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Adam Shatz

464 pages • 2024 • 5 editions

nonfiction biography history medium-paced
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

368 pages • 2024 • 11 editions

nonfiction history race dark informative sad medium-paced
Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson

Lovely One

Ketanji Brown Jackson

425 pages • 2024 • 8 editions

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

209 pages • 2024 • 40 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg

John Lewis: A Life

David Greenberg

768 pages • 2024 • 3 editions

nonfiction biography informative medium-paced