Best Books 2024 Non Fiction. Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of the new york times book review. As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of the new york.

The 2024 baillie gifford prize shortlist recommended by isabel hilton from nuclear war to a heartbreaking medical story, from the memoirs of. Japanese athletes hit their summits in two vastly different ways, an author.