‘New York Times Book Review’ Unveils 10 Best Books of 2024
The “New York Times Book Review” has published its highly acclaimed list of the year’s best books. Eight of “The 10 Best Books of 2024” are published by Penguin Random House imprints The New York Times literary supplement’s list of best books serves as an important holiday season buying guide for bookstores and readers across the country.
In the U.S., “The 10 Best Books of 2024” list compiled by the “New York Times Book Review, the literary supplement of the renowned “New York Times,” is regarded as something like the ultimate annual best books list. It is in turn based on the list of “100 Notable Books of 2024” published last week (see BENET report), from which the literary experts of the “New York Times Book Review” have now filtered out their ultimate favorites. And of the “10 Best Books of 2024” this year, a whopping eight are Penguin Random House U.S. titles. Bookstores and readers across the country tend to use the annual best list as a buying guide in the run-up to the holiday season and beyond.
This year, all five books in the Fiction category and three works in the Nonfiction category are Penguin Random House titles. In Fiction, “All Fours” by Miranda July (Riverhead), “Good Material” by Dolly Alderton (Knopf), “James” by Percival Everett (Doubleday), “Martyr!” by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf), and “You Dreamed Of Empires” by Álvaro Enrigue (Riverhead) were picked as the year’s best novels. In Nonfiction, the editors of the “New York Times Book Review” selected “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here. The United States, Central America, And The Making Of A Crisis” by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin Books), “I Heard Her Call My Name. A Memoir Of Transition” by Lucy Sante (Penguin Press), and “The Wide Wide Sea. Imperial Ambition, First Contact And The Fateful Final Voyage Of Captain James Cook” by Hampton Sides (Doubleday) as three of the year’s five best books.
Penguin Random House U.S. publishers already had an impressive 47 titles on the “100 Notable Books of 2024” list published earlier by the “New York Times Book Review”: 23 works of fiction and poetry, and 24 nonfiction books and memoirs. They included bestsellers by authors such as Salman Rushdie, Olga Tokarczuk, Sophie Kinsella and Percival Everett.
