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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4 stars
White Teeth is a 2000 novel by the British author Zadie Smith. It focuses on the later lives of two …
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The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
4 stars
It is the summer of 1983, and twenty-year-old Nick Guest has moved into an attic room in the Notting Hill …
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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
4 stars
Salvage the Bones is the second novel by American author Jesmyn Ward and published by Bloomsbury in 2011. The novel …
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4 stars
A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An …
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4 stars
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, …
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Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4 stars
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns …
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5 stars
« La photo en noir et blanc d'une petite fille en maillot de bain foncé, sur une plage de galets. …
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The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
4 stars
Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The Savage Detectives was chosen as …
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A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
4 stars
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and …
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H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
4 stars
When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, Helen had never before …
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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
5 stars
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New …
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
4 stars
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 is a 2005 non-fiction book written by British historian and scholar Tony Judt …
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The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #1)
4 stars
This is the way the world ends. Again.
Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living …
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The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson, Maggie Nelson
4 stars
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, …
