The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024

1.
James
James 4.47 avg rating — 372,180 ratings
2.
Creation Lake
Creation Lake 3.38 avg rating — 28,184 ratings
3.
The Safekeep
The Safekeep 4.10 avg rating — 49,254 ratings
4.
Martyr!
Martyr! 4.19 avg rating — 111,566 ratings
5.
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness 4.34 avg rating — 134,678 ratings
6.
All Fours
All Fours 3.46 avg rating — 160,831 ratings
7.
Beautyland
Beautyland 4.08 avg rating — 29,403 ratings
8.
Colored Television
Colored Television 3.55 avg rating — 20,885 ratings
9.
Modern Poetry: Poems
Modern Poetry: Poems 4.28 avg rating — 973 ratings
10.
Good Material
Good Material 3.84 avg rating — 225,233 ratings
11.
Headshot
Headshot 3.50 avg rating — 12,025 ratings
11.
Intermezzo
Intermezzo 3.85 avg rating — 264,512 ratings
13.
What Does It Feel Like?
What Does It Feel Like? 4.24 avg rating — 43,525 ratings
14.
Whale Fall
Whale Fall 3.81 avg rating — 12,180 ratings
15.
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space 4.52 avg rating — 14,492 ratings
16.
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV 3.92 avg rating — 8,640 ratings
17.
A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems
A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems 3.53 avg rating — 196 ratings
18.
Forest of Noise: Poems
Forest of Noise: Poems 4.71 avg rating — 2,530 ratings
19.
Funny Story
Funny Story 4.20 avg rating — 1,118,321 ratings
20.
The God of the Woods
The God of the Woods
by: Liz Moore
4.13 avg rating — 589,931 ratings
21.
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story 3.78 avg rating — 18,276 ratings
22.
The Mighty Red
The Mighty Red 3.83 avg rating — 25,331 ratings
23.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations 3.26 avg rating — 3,042 ratings
24.
Long Island Compromise
Long Island Compromise 3.75 avg rating — 38,724 ratings
25.
Rejection
Rejection 3.83 avg rating — 19,625 ratings
26.
The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)
The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) 3.62 avg rating — 17,272 ratings
27.
Neighbors and Other Stories
Neighbors and Other Stories 4.02 avg rating — 2,246 ratings
28.
The Women
The Women 4.60 avg rating — 1,327,386 ratings
29.
You Dreamed of Empires
You Dreamed of Empires 3.76 avg rating — 12,195 ratings
30.
Wandering Stars
Wandering Stars 3.83 avg rating — 32,860 ratings
30.
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq 4.37 avg rating — 2,540 ratings
32.
Someone Like Us
Someone Like Us 3.52 avg rating — 2,434 ratings
33.
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Be Ready When the Luck Happens 4.25 avg rating — 97,879 ratings
34.
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz 4.54 avg rating — 4,383 ratings
35.
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah 3.94 avg rating — 746 ratings
36.
The Message
The Message 4.51 avg rating — 34,560 ratings
37.
Lovely One: A Memoir
Lovely One: A Memoir 4.46 avg rating — 8,570 ratings
38.
Reagan: His Life and Legend
Reagan: His Life and Legend
by: Max Boot
4.17 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
39.
Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order
Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order
by: Yuan Yang
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
40.
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension 4.29 avg rating — 11,373 ratings
41.
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook 4.46 avg rating — 15,111 ratings
42.
Black River
Black River 3.97 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
43.
Bluff: Poems
Bluff: Poems 4.38 avg rating — 914 ratings
44.
The Book of Love
The Book of Love 3.48 avg rating — 9,207 ratings
45.
The Bright Sword
The Bright Sword 3.97 avg rating — 18,519 ratings
46.
The Coin
The Coin 3.47 avg rating — 7,305 ratings
47.
Dead in Long Beach, California
Dead in Long Beach, California 3.12 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
48.
The Familiar
The Familiar 3.76 avg rating — 117,265 ratings
49.
Ghostroots: Stories
Ghostroots: Stories 4.02 avg rating — 2,545 ratings
50.
Godwin
Godwin 3.58 avg rating — 1,907 ratings
51.
The Hunter
The Hunter 4.08 avg rating — 61,817 ratings
52.
Joy in Service on Rue Tagore
Joy in Service on Rue Tagore 3.45 avg rating — 67 ratings
53.
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 3,744 ratings
54.
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels 3.90 avg rating — 28,284 ratings
55.
Our Evenings
Our Evenings 3.94 avg rating — 6,481 ratings
56.
The Pairing
The Pairing 3.69 avg rating — 39,872 ratings
57.
Piglet
Piglet 3.40 avg rating — 38,346 ratings
58.
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain 3.78 avg rating — 2,556 ratings
59.
Praiseworthy
Praiseworthy 3.83 avg rating — 634 ratings
60.
Rakesfall
Rakesfall 3.33 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
61.
Reboot
Reboot 2.97 avg rating — 842 ratings
62.
Shred Sisters
Shred Sisters 3.82 avg rating — 11,192 ratings
63.
The Silence of the Choir
The Silence of the Choir 4.07 avg rating — 651 ratings
64.
Smoke Kings
Smoke Kings 3.81 avg rating — 921 ratings
65.
Wild Houses
Wild Houses 3.71 avg rating — 7,454 ratings
66.
You Should Be So Lucky
You Should Be So Lucky 4.29 avg rating — 13,688 ratings
67.
All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians
All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians 3.90 avg rating — 3,661 ratings
68.
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess 3.55 avg rating — 1,126 ratings
69.
The Black Box: Writing the Race
The Black Box: Writing the Race 4.25 avg rating — 366 ratings
70.
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America 3.82 avg rating — 182 ratings
71.
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement 3.94 avg rating — 399 ratings
72.
Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food 3.83 avg rating — 450 ratings
73.
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church 3.98 avg rating — 967 ratings
74.
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4.03 avg rating — 579 ratings
75.
Connie: A Memoir
Connie: A Memoir 4.11 avg rating — 6,099 ratings
76.
Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York
Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of '70s New York 3.61 avg rating — 327 ratings
77.
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis 4.47 avg rating — 6,870 ratings
78.
Fi: A Memoir of My Son
Fi: A Memoir of My Son 3.89 avg rating — 1,504 ratings
79.
Health and Safety: A Breakdown
Health and Safety: A Breakdown 3.52 avg rating — 1,868 ratings
80.
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World 3.55 avg rating — 529 ratings
81.
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition
I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition 3.55 avg rating — 2,685 ratings
82.
I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays 4.18 avg rating — 45 ratings
83.
John Lewis: A Life
John Lewis: A Life 4.56 avg rating — 664 ratings
84.
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder 4.01 avg rating — 24,302 ratings
85.
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York 4.21 avg rating — 670 ratings
86.
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum 4.23 avg rating — 6,030 ratings
87.
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy 3.55 avg rating — 166 ratings
88.
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City 4.35 avg rating — 706 ratings
89.
No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir
No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir 3.41 avg rating — 1,252 ratings
90.
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon 4.21 avg rating — 397 ratings
91.
The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War
The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War 3.89 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
92.
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck 4.17 avg rating — 144 ratings
93.
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling 4.30 avg rating — 2,220 ratings
94.
Splinters
Splinters 3.81 avg rating — 5,603 ratings
95.
Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right 4.06 avg rating — 1,077 ratings
96.
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History 4.22 avg rating — 1,730 ratings
97.
Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church
Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church 4.18 avg rating — 258 ratings
98.
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon 4.25 avg rating — 11,237 ratings
99.
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
by: John Ganz
4.08 avg rating — 3,613 ratings
100.
A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson 3.93 avg rating — 619 ratings