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The 19 best books of 2024 — chosen by our critics

Our critics have spent the past 11 months trawling through every kind of book — novels, history, memoirs, thrillers, science and more — to find the very best reads of 2024

The 100 bestselling books of the past 50 years

To celebrate 50 years of the Sunday Times bestseller list, we have calculated the nation’s most popular books over the past five decades — how many have you read?

I Finally Befriended My Idol Tavi Gevinson. Would It Fall Apart Over Taylor Swift?

The writer Annie Hamilton yearned to get close to Tavi Gevinson. When she finally found an opening, circumstances threatened to derail the relationship before it even started.

Cocaine Inc: how British drugs cash is turned into solid gold in Dubai

For the past year reporters from The Times, The Sunday Times and News Corp Australia have been unlocking the secrets of the global cocaine industry for a new podcast, Cocaine Inc. This is the inside...

Israeli hostages rescued by IDF from Gaza refugee camp

The four people, including Noa Argamani, were kidnapped at the Nova festival on October 7

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The Divorced Dad Whose Date Is a Little Too Wild in Bed

This week’s sex diary.

Labour on track for its biggest election victory in history, MRP poll says

Detailed polling suggests party will do far better than Blair in 1997 and Tory cabinet ministers such as Jeremy Hunt and Grant Shapps will lose their seats