# The New York Times' 10 best books of 2024

The ten books the New York Times Book Review picked as the best of 2024: five fiction and five non-fiction.

- 6 votes · 10 items
- Dec 20, 2025 · gdanskbookworm
- https://even.best/en/l/1632/the-new-york-times-10-best-books-of-2024

## Top 10

1. **All Fours — Miranda July** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fiction.
2. **James — Percival Everett** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fiction.
3. **You Dreamed of Empires — Álvaro Enrigue** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fiction.
4. **Cold Crematorium — József Debreczeni** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
5. **The Wide Wide Sea — Hampton Sides** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
6. **Good Material — Dolly Alderton** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
7. **Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Fiction.
8. **Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here — Jonathan Blitzer** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
9. **I Heard Her Call My Name — Lucy Sante** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Non-fiction.
10. **Reagan — Max Boot** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Non-fiction.

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