Year-End Lists

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2024

Fiction

• All Fours
  Miranda July
• Beautyland
  Marie-Helene Bertino
• Black River
  Nilanjana Roy
• Bluff
  Danez Smith
• The Book of Love
  Kelly Link
• The Bright Sword

  A Novel of King Arthur
  Lev Grossman
• The Coin
  Yasmin Zaher
• Colored Television
  Danzy Senna
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• Dead in Long Beach, California
  Venita Blackburn
• The Empusium

  A Health Resort Horror Story
  Olga Tokarczuk
• The Familiar

  A Novel
  Leigh Bardugo
• A Film in Which I Play Everyone

  Poems
  Mary Jo Bang
• Forest of Noise

  Poems
  Mosab Abu Toha
• Funny Story
  Emily Henry
• Ghostroots
  'Pemi Aguda
• The God of the Woods
  Liz Moore
• Godwin
  Joseph O'Neill
• Good Material
  Dolly Alderton
• Great Expectations
  Vinson Cunningham
• Headshot
  Rita Bullwinkel
• The Hunter
  Tana French
• Intermezzo
  Sally Rooney
• James
  Percival Everett
• Joy in Service on Rue Tagore

  Poems
  Paul Muldoon
• Long Island Compromise
  Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• The Mighty Red
  Louise Erdrich
• Modern Poetry
  Diane Seuss
• My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two
  Emil Ferris
• The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
  Janice Hallett
• Neighbors and Other Stories
  Diane Oliver
• Our Evenings
  Alan Hollinghurst
• The Pairing
  Casey McQuiston
• Piglet
  Lottie Hazell
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
  Sofia Samatar
• Praiseworthy
  Alexis Wright
• Rakesfall
  Vajra Chandrasekera
• Reboot
  Justin Taylor
• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte
• The Safekeep
  Yael van der Wouden
• The Sequel
  Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Shred Sisters
  Betsy Lerner
• The Silence of the Choir
  Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
• Smoke Kings
  Jahmal Mayfield
• Someone Like Us
  Dinaw Mengestu
• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• Whale Fall
  Elizabeth O'Connor
• What Does It Feel Like?
  Sophie Kinsella
• Wild Houses
  Colin Barrett
• The Women
  Kristin Hannah
• You Dreamed of Empires
  Álvaro Enrigue
• You Should Be So Lucky
  Cat Sebastian

Nonfiction

• The Achilles Trap

  Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
  Steve Coll
• All the Worst Humans

  How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
  Phil Elwood
• All Things Are Too Small

  Essays in Praise of Excess
  Becca Rothfeld
• The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
  Jonathan Haidt
• Be Ready When the Luck Happens

  A Memoir
  Ina Garten
• The Black Box

  Writing the Race
  Henry Louis Gates Jr.
• The Black Utopians

  Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
  Aaron Robertson
• The Bluestockings

  A History of the First Women's Movement
  Susannah Gibson
• Challenger

  A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
  Adam Higginbotham
• Chop Fry Watch Learn

  Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
  Michelle T. King
• Circle of Hope

  A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
  Eliza Griswold
• Cocktails with George and Martha

  Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Philip Gefter
• Cold Crematorium

  Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
  József Debreczeni
• Connie

  A Memoir
  Connie Chung
• Cue the Sun!

  The Invention of Reality TV
  Emily Nussbaum
• Do Something

  Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York
  Guy Trebay
• Every Valley

  The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
  Charles King
• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

  The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
  Jonathan Blitzer
• Fi

  A Memoir of My Son
  Alexandra Fuller
• Health and Safety

  A Breakdown
  Emily Witt
• The Hidden Globe

  How Wealth Hacks the World
  Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
• I Heard Her Call My Name

  A Memoir of Transition
  Lucy Sante
• I Just Keep Talking

  A Life in Essays
  Nell Irvin Painter
• John Lewis

  A Life
  David Greenberg
• Knife

  Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  Salman Rushdie
• Language City

  The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
  Ross Perlin
• Lovely One

  A Memoir
  Ketanji Brown Jackson
• Madness

  Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
  Antonia Hylton
• The Message
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The New India

  The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy
  Rahul Bhatia
• The New York Game

  Baseball and the Rise of a New City
  Kevin Baker
• No One Gets to Fall Apart

  A Memoir
  Sarah LaBrie
• Private Revolutions

  Four Women Face China's New Social Order
  Yuan Yang
• Reagan

  His Life and Legend
  Max Boot
• The Rebel's Clinic

  The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
  Adam Shatz
• The Return of Great Powers

  Russia, China, and the Next World War
  Jim Sciutto
• Salvage

  Readings from the Wreck
  Dionne Brand
• Soldiers and Kings

  Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
  Jason De León
• Splinters

  Another Kind of Love Story
  Leslie Jamison
• Stolen Pride

  Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
  Arlie Russell Hochschild
• The Swans of Harlem

  Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
  Karen Valby
• There's Always This Year

  On Basketball and Ascension
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Undivided

  The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church
  Hahrie Han
• A Walk in the Park
  Kevin Fedarko
• When the Clock Broke

  Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
  John Ganz
• The Wide Wide Sea

  Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
  Hampton Sides
• A Wilder Shore

  The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
  Camille Peri