I love midyear best lists, so I was very excited when The New York Times released a list of the best books of 2024 (so far). Let's look at what made it and talk about what missed. Expand for more information.

Links
The Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/bo...

Further Viewing
The Book Review’s Best Books of 2023:    • The New York Times Book Review’s 10 B...  
The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2023:    • The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books...  
My Pride Month Pile of Possibilities:    • My TBR for June and Pride Month  
Do I Still Want to Read These Books (Featuring Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight)?    • Do I Still Want to Read These Books?  

Titles Mentioned
James, Percival Everett: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97803855...
Good Material, Dolly Alderton: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97805938...
Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97805935...
The Hunter, Tana French: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97805934...
Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97805933...
Headshot, Rita Bullwinkel: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97805936...
Beautyland, MarieHelene Bertino: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97803741...
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97805937...
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, Jonathan Blitzer: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97819848...
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, Hampton Sides: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97803855...
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, Adam Shatz: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97803741...
Fi: A Memoir, Alexandra Fuller: https://bookshop.org/a/99775/97808021...

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