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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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays by Nell Irvin Painter

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Nell Irvin Painter

456 pages • 2024 • 3 editions

nonfiction essays memoir hopeful informative inspiring slow-paced
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition by Lucy Sante

I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

Lucy Sante

240 pages • 2024 • 9 editions

nonfiction autobiography gender lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

324 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction economics politics informative reflective sad medium-paced
Health and Safety: A Breakdown by Emily Witt

Health and Safety: A Breakdown

Emily Witt

264 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography emotional reflective medium-paced
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

534 pages • 2024 • 12 editions

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel's Messiah by Charles King

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times that Made Handel's Messiah

Charles King

352 pages • 2024 • 6 editions

nonfiction biography history music hopeful informative medium-paced
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

245 pages • 2024 • 2 editions

nonfiction art memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Emily Nussbaum

459 pages • 2024 • 8 editions

nonfiction art history informative reflective medium-paced
The Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni

The Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

József Debreczeni

256 pages • 1950 • 27 editions

nonfiction history memoir challenging emotional sad medium-paced
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

Jason De León

367 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

nonfiction biography politics dark informative reflective medium-paced