New York Times 2024 Best Books of the 21st Century Public

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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.

  1. The Human Stain by  (The American Trilogy, #3)

    4 stars

    Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment …

  2. Station Eleven by 

    4 stars

    Dans un monde où la civilisation s’est effondrée suite à une pandémie foudroyante, une troupe d’acteurs et de musiciens nomadise …

  3. On Beauty by 

    4 stars

    On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on Howards End by E. M. Forster. …

  4. Bring up the bodies by 

    4 stars

    Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give …

  5. Bel Canto by 

    3 stars

    Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in …

  6. How to be both by 

    4 stars

    This is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's …

  7. Tree of Smoke by 

    4 stars

    This mammoth odyssey about the Vietnam War transcends all other attempts to write about Vietnam, and makes them look like …

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