Fiction
All Fours by Miranda July
Good Material by Dolly Alderton
James by Percival Everett
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
You Dreamed of Empires by Alvaro Enrique; translated by Natasha Wimmer

Non-Fiction
Cold Crematorium by Jozsef Debreczeni; translated by Paul Olchvary
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here by Jonathan Blitzer
I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante
Reagan by Max Boot
The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueLit/comments/1h5s6cr/the_best_10_books_of_2024_the_new_york_times/

Also, here’s the list from 2022:

Fiction books
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
Trust by Hernan Diaz

Non-fiction books
An Immense World: How Animals Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueLit/comments/z8q29n/the_10_best_books_of_2022_the_new_york_times/

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