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
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
4 stars
The novel begins in 1939 with the arrival of 19-year-old Josef "Joe" Kavalier as a refugee in New York City, …
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4 stars
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, …
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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
4 stars
February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation …
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Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
5 stars
“Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast home in 1972. In this …
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4 stars
Thelonius "Monk" Ellison is an erudite, accomplished but seldom-read author who insists on writing obscure literary papers rather than the …
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4 stars
WINNER OF THE 2017 PULITZER PRIZE GENERAL NON-FICTION
From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of …
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
4 stars
Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a …
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Hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage by Alice Munro (Thorndike Press large print women's fiction series)
4 stars
Alice Munro has long been heralded for her penetrating, lyrical prose, and in "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" -- …
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The overstory by Richard L. Powers, Richard Powers
4 stars
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways …
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Random family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
4 stars
The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, …
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4 stars
Ian McEwan’s symphonic novel of love and war, childhood and class, guilt and forgiveness provides all the satisfaction of a …
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4 stars
From the award-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, a dazzling new novel: a story of love and race …
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Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, David Mitchell
4 stars
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in between-the-wars Belgium; an ambitious …
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Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
4 stars
A SEARING AND PROFOUND SOUTHERN ODYSSEY BY NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER JESMYN WARD
In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her …
