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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Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Kingsolver
4 stars
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single …
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10:04 by Ben Lerner
4 stars
"A beautiful and utterly original novel about making art, love, and children during the twilight of an empire Ben Lerner's …
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3 stars
When I was young, my mother read me a story about a wicked little girl. She read it to me …
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The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
4 stars
A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and …
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The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
4 stars
In an astonishing feat of narrative invention, our most ambitious novelist imagines an alternate version of American history. In 1940 …
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Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
4 stars
From the National Book Award-winning author of the “brave…deeply humane…open-minded, critically informed, and poetic” (The New York Times) The Noonday …
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The Friend: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez
4 stars
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.
When a …
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, Karen Chilton, Michelle Alexander
5 stars
As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young …
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All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer …
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The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tiina Nunnally, Tove Ditlevsen, Michael Favala Goldman, and 1 other
5 stars
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Secondhand Time by Svetlana Aleksievich
4 stars
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest …
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The passage of power by Robert A. Caro (The years of Lyndon Johnson)
5 stars
Continues Johnson's career from the 1960 elections through his vice presidency to the first months of his presidency.
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Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
4 stars
At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired …
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4 stars
"In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet-- sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, …
