Year-End Lists

The New Yorker: The Best Books of 2024, a list of "essential reads" that accompanies a long list of further recommendations

[see also The Best Books of 2023 • The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022 • The Best Nonfiction of 2022 • The Best Books We Read in 2020]

Nonfiction

• The Achilles Trap

  Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
  Steve Coll
• The Burning Earth

  An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years
  Sunil Amrith
• Challenger

  A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
  Adam Higginbotham
• Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

  The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
  Jonathan Blitzer
• The Freaks Came Out to Write

  The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture
  Tricia Romano
• Health and Safety

  A Breakdown
  Emily Witt
• Knife

  Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  Salman Rushdie
• LatinoLand

  A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
  Marie Arana
• The Light Eaters

  How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
  Zoë Schlanger
• Madness

  Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
  Antonia Hylton
• Patriot

  A Memoir
  Alexei Navalny
• Reagan

  His Life and Legend
  Max Boot

Fiction & Poetry

• All Fours
  Miranda July
• The Anthropologists
  Aysegül Savas
• On the Calculation of Volume
  Solvej Balle
• The Empusium

  A Health Resort Horror Story
  Olga Tokarczuk
• Forest of Noise

  Poems
  Mosab Abu Toha
• Intermezzo
  Sally Rooney
• James
  Percival Everett
• The Mighty Red
  Louise Erdrich
• Modern Poetry
  Diane Seuss
• My Friends
  Hisham Matar
• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte
• The Silence of the Choir
  Mohamed Mbougar Sarr