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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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
4 stars
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and …
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An American marriage by Tayari Jones (Thorndike Press large print African-American)
4 stars
Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young …
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A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
4 stars
"Stories from a lost American classic "in the same arena as Alice Munro" (Lydia Davis) "In the field of short …
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Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante
5 stars
Elena Ferrante‘s The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women—the brilliant, …
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Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan, John Jeremiah Sullivan
4 stars
"A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America's cultural landscape--from high to low to lower than low--by the award-winning young star …
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Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes
4 stars
The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse—by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals—propels the …
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When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West
4 stars
A fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery, ethics and the unsettled distinction between genius and madness.
Albert Einstein opens …
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The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
4 stars
The story of cancer is a human one - a tale of chance discoveries, seized opportunities and human endurance. From …
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Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
5 stars
As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught …
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Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
4 stars
A whipsmart debut about three women--transgender and cisgender--whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest …
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The collected stories of Lydia Davis. by Lydia Davis
4 stars
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal …
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4 stars
When Hisham Matar was a nineteen-year-old university student in England, his father went missing under mysterious circumstances. Hisham would never …
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