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Overview
New York Times list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century released the week of July 8-12 2024.
The books have been chosen and voted on by "503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review."
Notes on the books are directly from the New York Times list found here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html?campaign_id=69&emc=edit_bk_20240712&instance_id=128589&nl=books®i_id=164072357&segment_id=171975&te=1&user_id=3ab9436b06f81b9833612400b0023456#book-80
There is no start or end date for this challenge.
The books have been chosen and voted on by "503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review."
Notes on the books are directly from the New York Times list found here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html?campaign_id=69&emc=edit_bk_20240712&instance_id=128589&nl=books®i_id=164072357&segment_id=171975&te=1&user_id=3ab9436b06f81b9833612400b0023456#book-80
There is no start or end date for this challenge.
NYT Best 100 Books of the 21st Century
40 participants (100 books)
Overview
New York Times list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century released the week of July 8-12 2024.
The books have been chosen and voted on by "503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review."
Notes on the books are directly from the New York Times list found here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html?campaign_id=69&emc=edit_bk_20240712&instance_id=128589&nl=books®i_id=164072357&segment_id=171975&te=1&user_id=3ab9436b06f81b9833612400b0023456#book-80
There is no start or end date for this challenge.
The books have been chosen and voted on by "503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review."
Notes on the books are directly from the New York Times list found here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/books/best-books-21st-century.html?campaign_id=69&emc=edit_bk_20240712&instance_id=128589&nl=books®i_id=164072357&segment_id=171975&te=1&user_id=3ab9436b06f81b9833612400b0023456#book-80
There is no start or end date for this challenge.
Challenge Books
97
Men We Reaped
Jesmyn Ward
Sandwiched between her two National Book Award-winning novels, Ward’s memoir carries more than fiction’s force in its aching elegy for five young Black men (a brother, a cousin, three friends) whose untimely exits from her life came violently and without warning. Their deaths — from suicide and homicide, addiction and accident — place the hidden contours of race, justice and cruel circumstance in stark relief.
98
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett
My wife and I share books we love with our kids, and after I raved about “Bel Canto” — the voice, the setting, the way romance and suspense are so perfectly braided — I gave copies to my kids, and they all loved it, too. My son was in high school then, and he became a kind of lit-pusher, pressing his beloved copy into friends’ hands. We used to call him the Keeper of the Bel Canto. — Jess Walter, author of “Beautiful Ruins”
99
How to Be Both
Ali Smith
This elegant double helix of a novel entwines the stories of a fictional modern-day British girl and a real-life 15th-century Italian painter. A more conventional book might have explored the ways the past and present mirror each other, but Smith is after something much more radical. “How to Be Both” is a passionate, dialectical critique of the binaries that define and confine us. Not only male and female, but also real and imaginary, poetry and prose, living and dead. The way to be “both” is to recognize the extent to which everything already is. — A.O. Scott, critic at large for The Times
100
Tree of Smoke
Denis Johnson
Like the project of the title — an intelligence report that the newly minted C.I.A. operative William “Skip” Sands comes to find both quixotic and useless — the Vietnam-era warfare of Johnson’s rueful, soulful novel lives in shadows, diversions and half-truths. There are no heroes here among the lawless colonels, assassinated priests and faith-stricken NGO nurses; only villainy and vast indifference.