47 PRH Titles Make The ‘100 Notable Books of 2024’ List
Every autumn, the “New York Times Book Review,” the literary supplement of the “New York Times,” publishes its highly regarded list of 100 Notable Books. This year, 47 of the books listed are from Penguin Random House U.S. publishers. They include 23 works of fiction and poetry, as well as 24 nonfiction books and memoir titles. The list features bestsellers by authors including Salman Rushdie, Olga Tokarczuk, Sophie Kinsella, and Percival Everett.
Every autumn, the “New York Times Book Review,” the literary supplement of the renowned U.S. daily, publishes its list of 100 Notable Books – standout books of the past year as picked by the “New York Times” editors. The much-publicized list is an important guide for bookstores and readers in the U.S., especially as the holiday shopping season gets underway. This year, publishers by Penguin Random House U.S. are once again well represented with their bestsellers. They account for 47 of the 100 Notable Books of 2024.
This year, a total of 23 works of fiction and poetry and 24 nonfiction books and biographies on the list are published by PRH imprints. Among them are numerous bestsellers by well-known authors such as Salman Rushdie, Olga Tokarczuk, Sophie Kinsella, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Also featured are two of the three Penguin Random House titles that won National Book Awards this year: “James” by Percival Everett and “Soldiers And Kings” by Jason De León.
In the days ahead, the New York Times Book Review experts will filter out “The 10 Best Books of 2024” from the “100 Notable Books,” for an even more effective decision-making aid when doing one’s Christmas book shopping.
The 47 Penguin Random House books on the “100 Notable Books of 2024” list
Fiction & Poetry
- “All Fours” by Miranda July (Riverhead)
- “The Book Of Love” by Kelly Link (Random House)
- “The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur” by Lev Grossman (Viking)
- “Colored Television” by Danzy Senna (Riverhead)
- “The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story” by Olga Tokarczuk
- “Forest Of Noise” by Mosab Abu Toha (Knopf)
- “Funny Story” by Emily Henry (Berkley)
- “The God Of The Woods” by Liz Moore (Riverhead)
- “Godwin” by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)
- “Good Material” by Dolly Alderton (Knopf)
- “Great Expectations” by Vinson Cunningham (Hogarth)
- “Headshot” by Rita Bullwinkel (Viking)
- “The Hunter” by Tana French (Viking)
- “James” by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
- “Long Island Compromise” by Taffy Brodesser-Akner (Random House)
- “Martyr!” by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
- “Our Evenings” by Alan Hollinghurst (Random House)
- “Reboot” by Justin Taylor (Pantheon)
- “Someone Like Us” by Dinaw Mengestu (Knopf)
- “Wandering Stars” by Tommy Orange (Knopf)
- “Whale Fall” by Elizabeth O’Connor (Pantheon)
- “What Does It Feel Like?” by Sophie Kinsella (The Dial Press)
- “You Dreamed Of Empires” by Álvaro Enrigue (Riverhead)
Nonfiction & Memoir
- “The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq” by Steve Coll (Penguin Press)
- “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” by Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Press)
- “Be Ready When The Luck Happens: A Memoir” by Ina Garten (Crown)
- “The Black Box: Writing the Race” by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Penguin Press)
- “Cue The Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV” by Emily Nussbaum (Random House)
- “Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ‘70s New York” by Guy Trebay (Knopf)
- “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s ‚Messiah’” by Charles King (Doubleday)
- “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin)
- “Health And Safety: A Breakdown” by Emily Witt (Pantheon)
- “The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World” by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (Riverhead)
- “I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition” by Lucy Sante (Penguin Press)
- “I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays” by Nell Irvin Painter (Doubleday)
- “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder” by Salman Rushdie (Random House)
- “Lovely One: A Memoir” by Ketanji Brown Jackson (Random House)
- “The Message” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
- “The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City” by Kevin Baker (Knopf)
- “Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China’s New Social Order” by Yuan Yang (Viking)
- “The Return Of Great Powers: Russia, China, and the Next World War” by Jim Sciutto (Dutton)
- “Soldiers And Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling” by Jason De León (Viking)
- “The Swans Of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History” by Karen Valby (Pantheon)
- “There’s Always This Year” by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
- “Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church” by Hahrie Han (Knopf)
- “The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook” by Hampton Sides (Doubleday)
- “A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis
- "Stevenson” by Camille Peri (Viking)
