Best Books New York Times 2024. The staff of the new york times book review has chosen the year’s top fiction and nonfiction. Percival everett made the list for james, his retelling of mark twain’s adventures of huckleberry finn told from the point of view of the enslaved jim.

As for how these titles got chosen, the introduction says, “ultimately, we aim to pick the books that made lasting impressions: The novel won both the kirkus prize and the national book award, and it was named barnes & noble’s.