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New York Times 2024 Best Books of the 21st Century Public

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As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

  1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by 

    The novel begins in 1939 with the arrival of 19-year-old Josef "Joe" Kavalier as a refugee in New York City, …

  2. The Sellout by 

    A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, …

  3. Lincoln in the Bardo by 

    February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation …

  4. Say Nothing by 

    “Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this …

  5. Erasure by 

    Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the …

  6. Evicted by 

    WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE GENERAL NON-FICTION

    From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of …

  7. Behind the Beautiful Forevers by 

    Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a …

  8. Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage by  (Thorndike Press large print women's fiction series)

    Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" -- …

  9. The overstory by ,

    A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways …

  10. Random family by 

    The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, …

  11. Atonement by 

    Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a …

  12. Americanah by 

    From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race …

  13. Cloud Atlas by ,

    A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; an ambitious …

  14. The Last Samurai by 

  15. Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel by 

    A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD

    In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her …