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100 Notable Books of 2024

katieprewett Host

5 participants (100 books)

26 Nov 2024—31 Dec 2026

Overview

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the year, selected by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

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Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church

Eliza Griswold

337 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction religion challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food by Michelle T. King

Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food

Michelle T. King

336 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction food and drink informative medium-paced
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham

576 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history science technology challenging informative sad medium-paced
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by Aaron Robertson

The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America

Aaron Robertson

375 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction history race sociology informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Philip Gefter

Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Philip Gefter

363 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history memoir informative reflective medium-paced
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement by Susannah Gibson

The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement

Susannah Gibson

338 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction feminism history informative slow-paced
The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Black Box: Writing the Race

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

304 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history medium-paced
The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

The Anxious Generation: How The Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

400 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction psychology self help technology informative reflective medium-paced
Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot

Reagan: His Life and Legend

Max Boot

880 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction biography history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York by Ross Perlin

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

Ross Perlin

432 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction sociology hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced