The New Yorker's Best Nonfiction Books of 2024
These are the New Yorker's editors and critics essential nonfiction reads of 2024. Among the selected books are a two-time Pulitzer winner's enlightening retrospective of the Iraq War, a compelling portrait of the humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny's posthumously published memoir, and an illuminating look at plant intelligence.
12 books
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
Steve Coll
Noreen MaloneHardcover, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger
Megha Majumdar & Beronda L. Montgomery—🌿#LessonsFromPlants🌿Hardcover, 2024
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Health and Safety: A Breakdown
Emily WittHardcover, 2024
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Burning Earth: A History
Sunil AmrithHardcover, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny
Alexandra Alter & The AtlanticHardcover, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer
Gus Bova 🗒️Hardcover, 2024
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Salman Rushdie
Gary Shteyngart & Dwight GarnerHardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reagan: His Life and Legend
Max BootHardcover, 2024
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
Marie Arana
Miguel SalazarHardcover, 2024
$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Antonia HyltonHardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book