NYT 10 Best Books of 2024

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The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction... and we read them!

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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

480 pages • 2017 • 120 editions

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

429 pages • 2024 • 10 editions

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative medium-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 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
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

You Dreamed of Empires

Álvaro Enrigue

224 pages • 2022 • 14 editions

fiction historical literary adventurous challenging dark medium-paced
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

331 pages • 2024 • 40 editions

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced
James by Percival Everett

James

Percival Everett

303 pages • 2024 • 57 editions

fiction historical literary adventurous emotional tense fast-paced
Good Material by Dolly Alderton

Good Material

Dolly Alderton

352 pages • 2023 • 56 editions

fiction contemporary literary emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Reagan by Max Boot

Reagan

Max Boot

32h 6m • 2024 • 4 editions

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nonfiction biography history politics informative 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 • 10 editions

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced