Finding Comfort in the Classics
This is one of the 759 lists we use to generate our main The Greatest Books list.
About this list
NY Times, 21 Books
Editors and writers on the Books desk — along with colleagues from the newsroom — recommend some time-tested books that offer escape from the present moment. This list came out during COVID
who voted:
Trade sources differ: a C-SPAN–based 2015 blog post tallied roughly 16 New York Times Book Review staffers, while a 2023 Publishers Weekly profile said the desk now has “more than 20 editors, critics and reporters” To keep our rankings conservative, we therefore credit each NYT list to 10 voters.
This list was originally published in 2020 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.
