Book reviews, November 2024
60 books reviewed by the critics in November 2024, most-reviewed first.
Long Island
Colm Tóibín
4 of 6 critics positive · 11 reviews
Didion & Babitz
Lili Anolik
1 of 4 critics positive · 8 reviews
The Proof of My Innocence
Jonathan Coe
3 of 5 critics positive · 8 reviews
Gliff
Ali Smith
5 of 6 critics positive · 7 reviews
Hum
Helen Phillips
5 of 5 critics positive · 7 reviews
The Land in Winter
Andrew Miller
4 of 4 critics positive · 7 reviews
Fire Exit
Morgan Talty
4 of 4 critics positive · 6 reviews
The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad
Simon Parkin
2 of 2 critics positive · 5 reviews
The Memoir: Part One
Cher
2 of 3 critics positive · 5 reviews
V13
Emmanuel Carrère
3 of 3 critics positive · 5 reviews
War
Bob Woodward
1 of 4 critics positive · 5 reviews
Augustus the Strong
Tim Blanning
2 of 2 critics positive · 4 reviews
Herscht 07769
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
2 of 2 critics positive · 4 reviews
Raising Hare
Chloe Dalton
4 reviews, verdicts not stated · 4 reviews
She's Always Hungry
Eliza Clark
2 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
That Librarian
Amanda Jones
2 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Haruki Murakami
0 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Genetic Book of the Dead
Richard Dawkins
2 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Party
Tessa Hadley
3 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Position of Spoons, and Other Intimacies
Deborah Levy
3 of 3 critics positive · 4 reviews
The Serviceberry
Robin Wall Kimmerer
3 of 4 critics positive · 4 reviews
We Who Wrestle With God
Jordan B. Peterson
1 of 4 critics positive · 4 reviews
Citizen: My Life After the White House
President Bill Clinton
0 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
Downfall
Nadine Dorries
0 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
Her Lotus Year
Paul French
2 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
Juice
Tim Winton
3 of 3 critics positive · 3 reviews
My Beloved Monster
Caleb Carr
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Chronicles of Doom
S. H. Fernando Jr.
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
The Elements of Marie Curie
Dava Sobel
2 of 2 critics positive · 3 reviews
All That Matters
Sir Chris Hoy
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Box Office Poison
Tim Robey
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
Dawn’s Early Light
Kevin Roberts
0 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know
Mark Lilla
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Killing Time
Alan Bennett
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Leave the Girls Behind
Jacqueline Bublitz
1 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism
Rachel Shabi
2 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Stay With Me
Hanne Ørstavik
1 of 1 critics positive · 2 reviews
The Gates of Gaza
Amir Tibon
2 reviews, verdicts not stated · 2 reviews
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh
Ingrid Persaud
1 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
Thirst
Giles Foden
0 of 2 critics positive · 2 reviews
A Beginner's Guide to Dying
Simon Boas
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
A Short History of British Architecture
Simon Jenkins
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
A Thousand Threads
Neneh Cherry
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
An Improbable Psychiatrist
Rebecca Lawrence
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Anfield Road
Chris Shepherd
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Barrowbeck
Andrew Michael Hurley
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Wendy Pratt
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Max Dupain: A Portrait
Helen Ennis
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
On Bullfighting
A. L. Kennedy
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
On Mysticism: The Experience of Ecstasy
Simon Critchley
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Poor Artists
The White Pube
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe
Vivien Goldman
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
Suggested in the Stars
Yoko Tawada
1 review, verdicts not stated · 1 review
The American No
Rupert Everett
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Biden Crime Family
Rudy Giuliani
0 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
William Saroyan
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Enigma Girl
Henry Porter
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Strangers
Ekow Eshun
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
The Thinning
Inga Simpson
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review
You Are Here
David Nicholls
1 of 1 critics positive · 1 review