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The New York Times' 10 best books of 2024

The top 3 according to 6 votes from people: All Fours — Miranda July · James — Percival Everett · You Dreamed of Empires — Álvaro Enrigue. (Updated Dec 20, 2025.)

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

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Top 10

  1. 1

    All Fours — Miranda July

    Fiction.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  2. 2

    James — Percival Everett

    Fiction.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  3. 3

    You Dreamed of Empires — Álvaro Enrigue

    Fiction.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  4. 4

    Cold Crematorium — József Debreczeni

    Non-fiction.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  5. 5

    The Wide Wide Sea — Hampton Sides

    Non-fiction.

    ▲ 1 ▼ 0

    1
  6. 6

    Good Material — Dolly Alderton

    Fiction.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  7. 7

    Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar

    Fiction.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  8. 8

    Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here — Jonathan Blitzer

    Non-fiction.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  9. 9

    I Heard Her Call My Name — Lucy Sante

    Non-fiction.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 0

    0
  10. 10

    Reagan — Max Boot

    Non-fiction.

    ▲ 0 ▼ 1

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