The 10 Best Books of 2024

The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Here they are — the 10 Best Books of 2024.

At the Book Review, we spend all year getting ready for this moment. We begin debating our annual best-of list in the spring, going to the mat for what we love. By fall, we’re preparing for rhetorical slugfests.

Ultimately, we aim to pick the books that made lasting impressions: the stories that imprinted on our hearts and psyches, the examining of lives that deepened what we thought we already knew.