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.
New York Times 2024 Best Books of the 21st Century Public
Created by sorinb
-
-
The warmth of other suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Robin Miles
4 stars
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American …
-
4 stars
In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man, Thomas Cromwell, dares to gamble his life to …
-
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
4 stars
Henry Townsend, a black farmer, bootmaker, and former slave, has a fondness for Paradise Lost and an unusual mentor -- …
-
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
4 stars
A comic, tragic epic stretching from the Midwest of the Midcentury to the Wall Street and Easter Europe of today, …
-
4 stars
An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border …
-
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
4 stars
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad …
-
Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald
4 stars
Over thirty years, in the course of conversations that take place across Europe, a man named Jacques Austerlitz tells a …
-
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
4 stars
Kathy, a clone about to donate all her organs and die, reflects on her past about her school and the …
-
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (Gilead Quartet, #1)
4 stars
Gilead is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson published in 2004. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and …
-
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
4 stars
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a 2007 novel written by Dominican American author Junot Díaz. Although a …
-
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
4 stars
"this happened on December 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won't when it happens to you …
-
-
-
