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New York Times Best Books of 2024.

What do we think of this list?

I have only read 2
Fiction
All Fours - Miranda July ✅
Good Material - Dolly Alderman
James - Percival Everett ✅
Martyr! Kayeh Akbar
You Dreamed of Empires - Álvaro Enrigue
NF
Cold Crematorium -
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
I Heard Her Call My Name
Reagan
The Wide Wide Sea

As always, I am stuck in the past...

But it's fun to see if I recognize any of NYT's "100 Notable Books of 2024".

Thank you for the gift link @Chelsea.Poole - I love a list, although it‘s not good for my TBR!

Lots of the non-fiction I‘d never even heard of…. 🤔

And I‘m only part-way through two of these, Someone Like Us from the #ToBlonglist and Language City.

Oh wow only 3!! Lots on my TBR though.

This is the New York Times notable list of 100 books (fiction and non-fiction). Link in the comments.

Thanks for the link @Chelsea.Poole to the NYT Notable Books of the Year.
So many I haven‘t even heard of, while I‘ve been thinking I‘m on top of things 😂

I‘ve read just these twelve (to be honest, one of them I am still reading!) and have five more sitting on my shelves. I had more books in common with the NPR Books We Love-list!

I‘ve read 21 from the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024 so far. I‘m hoping to add a few more to this graphic before the end of the year. Interested? I‘ll put the link in the comments below.

Wow this list is very different from others I have seen. I have only read 7, but I have 5 more at home waiting for me.

I cannot wait to really go through this there are so many I didn't know and my TBR is going to explode.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/26/books/notable-books.html

The list in real live newsprint rather than online!

NYTBR came out with their Readers Choice list of the 100 best books of the 21st century, and this feels much more in line with what books people actually read. I have a problem with calling a list “the best” when it includes so many obscure selections (how can they be the best when hardly anyone has read them outside academia/publishing?). The original list I only had read 9 from, but this list I have read 53/100! Just in the top ten I‘ve read 7!

Very surprised by the selection of books in this list. First, why are we already canonizing the best books of the 21st century after only 25 years? Second, I get that the NYTBR is very high brow compared to the taste of the average reader, but I was still confused by the not insignificant number of books in translation that were originally published prior to 2000, but translated after.

Plus, The Goldfinch was ranked way too low in my opinion!

Some puzzling omissions on this list but these always spur some good discussions! now to take a look at my tbr and figure out what to prioritize-out of the 34 I want to read-I always want to read the latest buzzy titles tho.

Apparently I‘m better at buying the books than I am at reading them!

In case you can‘t read the covers:
The Corrections
The Overstory
Atonement
Americanah
White Teeth
H is for Hawk
Demon Copperhead
An American Marriage
Station Eleven
Bel Canto

Which one do I need to read first?

#100bestbooksofthe21stcentury #tbr

Here‘s my list of books I‘ve read, although I included a few bailed on. Thanks to @Bookwomble for making this accessible! Like others, I was not into number one at all and didn‘t even finish it.

My TBR from #NYTBest100: about 12 are available in audio in my library and weren‘t already on my list.

After I read through the 100 books again, I chose 29 I may want to read at some point. A few I already own. #TBR #NYTinesBookReview

I‘ve read 20 of these and didn‘t care for two of them (The Goldfinch and The Plot Against America). There are also several on the complete list that I have no interest in reading.

Modern Mrs. Darcy‘s gift link: https://modernmrsdarcy.com/links-i-love-461/

And here‘s my TBR from the #NYTBest100 list! I just postponed a library hold for Demon Copperhead, and eight others are on my shelves already—maybe I‘ll get to those sooner, maybe not 😆

I was eyeing these #NYTBest100 posts with envy yesterday, sad because the list was paywalled—thank you to all those who posted the tip for a gift link via Modern Mrs. Darcy!

Some of these I loved, some not so much—but I do love a good list, whether I agree with the choices or not. This was unsurprisingly focused on lit fic, but it was nice to see Fifth Season and some graphic novels make the list as well.

I do love a list! 😁

My TBR list! #nytbest100 #nybest100

Not bad, but some of these I hated 😂 so many are on my TBR shelf. Weird only wolf hall is splayed.

Thanks @Bookwomble for helping me find the link.

I‘ll put a link in the comments so you can play too! #nytbest100 #nybest100

I'm not surprised that I've only read 12 of the NYT's best 100 books of the 21st century, and that a few more of them I DNFed. There were plenty of titles there I have deliberately not picked up. I think the diversity of this list would have been improved by only including one book per author.

The only ones here I'd include in my personal list of the best books of the 21st century would be The Fifth Season, Detransition, Baby, and Fun Home.

Two of these are among my all-time favorites, and one is among my all-time NOT favorites.

I recognize many of the books on the list as “usual suspects” that I‘ve seen on similar lists, and I used to take that kind of list and swallow it whole. Now I‘m more intentional about what I add to my TBR list. All that is to say that 6 of these are there. I might add more after checking out some that are new to me.

Meanwhile, I have DNF‘d 5. 😎

NYT List of the The100Best Books of the 21st Century is out!

I love a book list. Lots of thoughts on this one. It is strange to me that there are so many authors with multiple books, while genres like Sci-Fi and romance were mostly ignored.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html?auth...

My very small dent in a very large list #NYTtop100

My husband sent this list to me. I have read 20 out of the 100 books listed. It‘s a start! #newyorktimesbookreview #top100

It‘s Sunday.Sometimes I treat myself!

Oh go on then.

Sarraute was born Natacha Tserniak in tsarist Russia to assimilated, upwardly mobile Jewish parents who spoke Russian and French, not Yiddish. Her father, Ilya, a loving figure of stability in her life, was a chemist who owned a dye factory in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, northeast of Moscow, This was an industrial area that saw some of the first workers‘ strikes... Living in Paris years later, Ilya played chess with Lenin and Trotsky in the Café du Lion.

I‘m going to attempt the full #NYTtopten2022
Several of these were already on my radar or on hold.
Just listened to Rachel Avis‘s Strangers to Ourselves and it was great! May make my top of the year list as well.

#PoetryMatters Day 15: #Death or dying. 💕 Louise Gluck is 💕

This is James Baldwin, reviewing Langston Hughes in *1956*. Plus ça change, plus c‘est la même chose.

My second #bookspin book, a library book. I checked this out on a whim and read it in bits. It's a pretty interesting historical record. I especially enjoyed the reviews of all the “trashy“ books and writers, like Jackie Collins, because the reviewers wrote with such relish.