100 Notable Books of 2024

Hosted by katieprewett

4 participants, 100 books added

Starts: Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Ends: Thursday, 31 December 2026

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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A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko

509 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction nature travel adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced
A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri

A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson

Camille Peri

480 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction biography emotional reflective medium-paced
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

432 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced
Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church by Hahrie Han

Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

Hahrie Han

295 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction religion
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

334 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction essays memoir sports emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Karen Valby

292 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction art history emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story by Leslie Jamison

Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story

Leslie Jamison

272 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck by Dionne Brand

Salvage: Readings from the Wreck

Dionne Brand

224 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War by Jim Sciutto

The Return of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War

Jim Sciutto

368 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction politics medium-paced
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang

Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China

Yuan Yang

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction feminism sociology challenging emotional informative medium-paced