Whether you're looking for some gift ideas or simply a recommendation for your own reading pleasure, the "best of" lists of 2024 provide loads of suggestions. Here we have links to some of the end-of-the-year lists, as well as a sampling of the New York Times Notable Books from our collection below.
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The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024
Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2024
The Atlantic Best 10 Books of 2024
Selections from the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024:
 | Godwin O'Neill, Joseph 2024-06 - Pantheon Books 9780593701324 Check Our Catalog THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - From the acclaimed author of Netherland (a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the year): the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might change their fortunes. Mark Wolfe, a brilliant if self-thwarting technical writer, lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Sushila, …More |
 | James Everett, Percival 2024-03 - Doubleday Books 9780385550369 Check Our Catalog AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE BOOKER PRIZE - KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER - A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg - A Best Book of the Year of the …More |
 | The Mighty Red: A Novel Erdrich, Louise 2024-10 - Harper 9780063277052 Check Our Catalog NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK - A FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION "[A] sweeping, tender-hearted epic." --Harper's Bazaar In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces, …More |
 | Martyr! Akbar, Kaveh 2024-12 - Vintage 9780593685778 Check Our Catalog NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the …More |
 | Rejection Tulathimutte, Tony 2024-09 - William Morrow & Company 9780063337879 Check Our Catalog LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION - A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE "A master comedian with a virtuoso prose style has produced an audacious, original and highly disturbing book . . . an incandescent satire." --Giles Harvey, The New York Times Magazine From …More |
 | The Safekeep Van Der Wouden, Yael 2024-05 - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster 9781668034347 Check Our Catalog *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE* A "razor-sharp, perfectly plotted" (The Sunday Times, …More |
 | Someone Like Us Mengestu, Dinaw 2024-07 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780385350006 Check Our Catalog THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home. After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah--a photographer whose way of seeing the …More |
 | Shred Sisters Lerner, Betsy 2024-10 - Grove Press 9780802163707 Check Our Catalog LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister. "I love this book. It moves like a souped-up pickup truck." -- Patti Smith, author of Just Kids and M Train From Betsy Lerner, celebrated author of The Bridge Ladies, comes a wry and riveting debut novel about …More |
 | Whale Fall O'Connor, Elizabeth 2024-05 - Pantheon Books 9780593700914 Check Our Catalog THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dissonance of finding oneself by exploring life outside one's community "Both blunt and exquisite . . . O'Connor's excellent debut . . . is an example of precisely observed writing that makes a character's specific existence glimmer with …More |
 | The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story Tokarczuk, Olga Translator Lloyd-Jones, Antonia 2024-09 - Riverhead Books 9780593712948 Check Our Catalog AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! "A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone ... elegant and genuinely unsettling." -The New York Times Book Review The Nobel Prize winner's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas |
| The Safekeep Van Der Wouden, Yael 2024-05 - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster 9781668034347 Check Our Catalog *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE* A "razor-sharp, perfectly plotted" (The Sunday Times, …More |
 | Bluff: Poems Smith, Danez 2024-08 - Graywolf Press 9781644452981 Check Our Catalog Written after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd, Bluff is Danez Smith's powerful reckoning with their role and responsibility as a poet and with their hometown of the Twin Cities. This is a book of awakening out of violence, guilt, shame, …More |
 | Colored Television Senna, Danzy 2024-09 - Riverhead Books 9780593544372 Check Our Catalog AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK "A laugh-out-loud cultural comedy... This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard." -LA Times A …More |
 | Great Expectations Cunningham, Vinson 2025-02 - Hogarth Press 9780593448250 Check Our Catalog NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man's life in this "coming of age story that captures the soul of America" (The Washington Post), the debut novel from one of The New Yorker magazine's young stars and Pulitzer Prize finalist Vinson Cunningham. "Brilliantly written, piercingly smart, quietly subversive, …More |
 | The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Life of Frantz Fanon Shatz, Adam 2024-01 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux 9780374176426 Check Our Catalog Named a best book of 2024 so far by The New York Times The New Yorker Vulture Longlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction "Nimble and engrossing . . . [An] exemplary work of public intellectualism." --Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post "Undoubtedly the best [biography of Fanon] . . . A remarkable achievement." …More |
 | Challenger: An American Tragedy Higginbotham, Adam 2024-05 - Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster 9781982176617 Check Our Catalog Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize - Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Stunning...A heart-pounding thriller...Challenger is a remarkable book." --The Atlantic - "Devastating...A universal story that transcends time." --The New York Times - "Dramatic...a moving …More |
 | Splinters: A Memoir Jamison, Leslie 2024-02 - Little Brown and Company 9780316374880 Check Our Catalog From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes "a blazing, unputdownable memoir" (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the "piercing, intimate" story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art, and new love. Leslie Jamison has become one of our most …More |
 | The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia 2024-10 - Riverhead Books 9780593329856 Check Our Catalog "Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable...What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn't the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect." -- Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker "A season of unrest looms ahead, and The Hidden Globe lays out the unvarnished truth in a luminous feat of …More |
 | The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook Sides, Hampton 2024-04 - Doubleday Books 9780385544764 Check Our Catalog NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW - A "thrilling and superbly crafted" (The Wall Street Journal) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day. "Hampton …More |
 | The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq Coll, Steve 2024-02 - Penguin Press 9780525562269 Check Our Catalog "Excellent . . . A more intimate picture of the dictator's thinking about world politics, local power and his relationship to the United States than has been seen before." --The New York Times "Another triumph from one of our best journalists." --The Washington Post "Voluminously researched and compulsively readable." --Air Mail From …More |
 | Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Hylton, Antonia A. 2024-01 - Legacy Lit 9781538723692 Check Our Catalog New York Times Bestseller In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, that the New York Times described as "fascinating...meticulous research" and bestselling author Clint Smith endorsed it as "a book that …More |
 | Private Revolutions: How Ordinary Women Are Taking on China's New Social Order Yang, Yuan 2024-07 - Viking 9780593493908 Check Our Catalog A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE PICK "Riveting . . . a powerful snapshot of four young Chinese women attempting to assert control over the direction of their lives." --The New York Times Book Review "As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary." --British Vogue A sweeping yet intimate portrait of modern China …More |
 | Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Rushdie, Salman 2024-04 - Random House 9780593730249 Check Our Catalog NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance …More |
 | I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays Painter, Nell Irvin 2024-04 - Doubleday Books 9780385548908 Check Our Catalog From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it. Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries …More |
 | A Walk in the Park: The True Story of an Epic Misadventure in the Grand Canyon Fedarko, Kevin 2024-05 - Scribner Book Company 9781501183058 Check Our Catalog "A triumph. Fedarko doesn't describe awe; he induces it." --The New York Times Book Review * "Passionate...memorable...life-affirming." --The Wall Street Journal From the author of the beloved bestseller The Emerald Mile, a rollicking and poignant account of an epic 750-mile odyssey, on foot, through the heart of America's most magnificent national park and the …More |
 | The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History Valby, Karen 2024-04 - Pantheon Books 9780593317525 Check Our Catalog THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history--until now. "This is the kind of history I wish I learned as a child dreaming of the stage!" --Misty Copeland, author of Black Ballerinas: My Journey to Our Legacy "Utterly absorbing, …More |
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