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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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No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir by Sarah Labrie

No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir

Sarah Labrie

224 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective medium-paced
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City by Kevin Baker

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

Kevin Baker

520 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history sports informative medium-paced
Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild

393 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology informative reflective sad medium-paced
The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy by Rahul Bhatia

The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

Rahul Bhatia

440 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history politics dark informative reflective medium-paced
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

235 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz

The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Adam Shatz

464 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction biography history medium-paced
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

368 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history race dark informative sad medium-paced
Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson

Lovely One

Ketanji Brown Jackson

425 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

211 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg

John Lewis: A Life

David Greenberg

768 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative medium-paced