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That's OMGS.com. Even if you read a lot, there are still only so many hours in a given year or a given

lifetime that you can spend with your nose in a book. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands

of new books are released every year just by traditional

publishers and just in English. I, for one, love some expert guidance to help me figure out which

ones are worth my time. From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Chris Boyd. At the end of last

year, we talked with New York Times book review editor Gilbert Cruz about his staff's selections for the very best titles of 2024. It was such a great guide for my own holiday vacation reading that I selfishly wanted to do it all over again for this year. So here we are. Gilbert Cruz returns with a fresh list of excellent books pulled together by a group of highly discerning readers. And we are going to talk about all the ones that made that top 10 list. Gilbert, welcome back to think.

Oh, thanks for having me back. We don't need to spend too much time nitpicking about what the word best means. But I guess I do want to know whether your team

chose to emphasize like how enjoyable and compelling it was to read each of these books as

opposed to putting literary or social value on top. Or was everyone free to define best for

themselves however they chose to?

So I think everyone individually was given the license to define best for themselves.

But when you come together as a group, something different happens, right? So very quickly, the process is, over the course of the entire year,

our editors who are reading so many books and reading months ahead of when the books

actually come out, are looking for that spark, something that feels special, something

that feels different. It can be a book that has incredible literary quality. The language just sort of, you know,

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