New York Times Best So Far

The New York Times released its list of the best books of 2024 so far.

Fiction
James, by Percival Everett
Good Material, by Dolly Alderton
Martyr!, by Kaveh Akbar
The Hunter, by Tana French
Wandering Stars, by Tommy Orange
Headshot, by Rita Bullwinkel
Beautyland, by Marie-Helene Bertino

Nonfiction
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, by Salman Rushdie
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, by Jonathan Blitzer
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook, by Hampton Sides
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, by Adam Shatz
Fi: A Memoir, by Alexandra Fuller