Best Books 2024 New Yorker. New yorker writers recommend books for the summer of 2024, including “the puttermesser papers,” “the phantom tollbooth,” “in the freud archives,” and “suttree.” The best books we read this week.

The new yorker announces the 2024 national book awards longlists for young people’s literature, translated literature, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. 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 times book.