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The Most Recommended Books of 2024

We counted 6,338 entries from 140 sources in 2024. James by Percival Everett appeared on 34, 11 more than any other book.

A source counts once per book, whatever the result: a win, a shortlist place, or a list pick. We show books named by 3 or more sources. 2024 is the award or list year, not the publication year.

34 sources

  1. James by Percival Everett

23 sources

  1. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

19 sources

  1. Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

18 sources

  1. All Fours by Miranda July

17 sources

  1. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

  2. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

16 sources

  1. Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

15 sources

  1. Colored Television by Danzy Senna

14 sources

  1. My Friends by Hisham Matar

  2. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

13 sources

  1. Challenger by Adam Higginbotham

  2. The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

  3. This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud

12 sources

  1. Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

  2. Headshot: A Novel by Rita Bullwinkel

  3. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

  4. Long Island by Colm Tóibín

  5. Playground by Richard Powers

  6. Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

  7. The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

  8. The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides

  9. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

11 sources

  1. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

  2. Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham

  3. Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst

  4. Small Rain by Garth Greenwell

  5. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

  6. Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa

10 sources

  1. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson

  2. The Book of Love: A Novel by Kelly Link

9 sources

  1. By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight For Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle

  2. Fire Exit by Morgan Talty

  3. Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

  4. Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

  5. Swift River by Essie Chambers

  6. The Achilles Trap by Steve Coll

  7. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

  8. The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

  9. The Women by Kristin Hannah

8 sources

  1. All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby

  2. Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

  3. Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold

  4. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls

  5. Funny Story by Emily Henry

  6. Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman

  7. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition by Lucy Sante

  8. Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell

  9. Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny

  10. Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu

  11. The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by Aaron Robertson

  12. The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing

  13. The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz

  14. When The Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

  15. Wild Houses by Colin Barrett

7 sources

  1. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams

  2. A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez

  3. Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

  4. Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

  5. Black Girl You Are Atlas by Renée Watson

  6. Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo

  7. Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

  8. Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

  9. Clear by Carys Davies

  10. Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum

  11. Enlightenment by Sarah Perry

  12. Entitlement by Rumaan Alam

  13. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

  14. Go Forth and Tell by Breanna J. McDaniel

  15. Godwin by Joseph O'Neill

  16. Good Material by Dolly Alderton

  17. Guide Me Home (A Highway 59 Novel) by Attica Locke

  18. Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa

  19. Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

  20. Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot

  21. Real Americans by Rachel Khong

  22. Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León

  23. Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

  24. The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

  25. The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur by Lev Grossman

  26. The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

  27. The Most by Jessica Anthony

  28. The Wedding People by Alison Espach

  29. Traveling by Ann Powers

  30. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

6 sources

  1. Ariel Crashes a Train by Olivia A. Cole

  2. Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford

  3. Consent by Jill Ciment

  4. Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay

  5. Fi by Alexandra Fuller

  6. Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker

  7. Ghostroots: Stories by Pemi Aguda

  8. God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer by Joseph Earl Thomas

  9. Health and Safety: A Breakdown by Emily Witt

  10. Held by Anne Michaels

  11. Here After: A Memoir by Amy Lin

  12. How It All Ends by Emma Hunsinger

  13. How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

  14. Hum by Helen Phillips

  15. Icarus by K. Ancrum

  16. In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

  17. John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg

  18. Joyful Song: A Naming Story by Lesléa Newman

  19. Kindling by Traci Chee

  20. Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of A Whale Fall by Lynn Brunelle

  21. Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang

  22. Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

  23. Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams

  24. My Daddy Is A Cowboy by Stephanie Seales

  25. Orbital by Samantha Harvey

  26. Ours by Phillip B. Williams

  27. Sandwich by Catherine Newman

  28. Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh

  29. Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

  30. The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

  31. The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk

  32. The Enigma Girls by Candace Fleming

  33. The Judgment of YoYo Gold by Isaac Blum

  34. The Last Stand by Antwan Eady

  35. The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

  36. The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry

  37. The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz

  38. Twenty-four Seconds From Now: A Love Story by Jason Reynolds

  39. Wrong Norma by Anne Carson

  40. You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue

  41. You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian

5 sources

  1. A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri

  2. Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel by Jeff VanderMeer

  3. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

  4. Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

  5. Bluff by Danez Smith

  6. Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

  7. Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White

  8. Connie by Connie Chung

  9. Dragonfruit by Makiia Lucier

  10. Final Cut by Charles Burns

  11. Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K. Reilly

  12. Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai

  13. Hide by Tracy Clark

  14. I Was a Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones

  15. Island of Whispers by Frances Hardinge

  16. LatinoLand: A Portrait of America’s Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana

  17. Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

  18. Made in Asian America: A History for Young People by Erika Lee and Christina Soontornvat

  19. Madness by Antonia Hylton

  20. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood's Hidden Genius by Carrie Courogen

  21. Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon

  22. My Antarctica by G. Neri

  23. My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss

  24. Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles

  25. Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle

  26. Question 7 by Richard Flanagan

  27. Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson

  28. Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck

  29. Rising From the Ashes: Los Angeles, 1992 : Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and A City on Fire by Paula Yoo

  30. Safiyyah's War by Hiba Noor Khan

  31. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi

  32. Splinters by Leslie Jamison

  33. The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

  34. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark

  35. The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

  36. The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

  37. The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne

  38. The Golden Gate by Amy Chua

  39. The Husbands by Holly Gramazio

  40. The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya

  41. The Iguanodon's Horn by Sean Rubin

  42. The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey

  43. The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  44. The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

  45. The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

  46. The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Rescue by Ben Macintyre

  47. Time’s Undoing by Cheryl A. Head

  48. Undue Burden by Shefali Luthra

  49. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne

  50. We Are Definitely Human by X. Fang

  51. When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson

  52. Worry by Alexandra Tanner

4 sources

  1. [...] by Fady Joudah

  2. 49 Days by Agnes Lee

  3. A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia

  4. A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin

  5. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak

  6. A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

  7. All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld

  8. An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin

  9. Animal Albums from A to Z by Cece Bell

  10. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

  11. Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace

  12. Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj

  13. Bitter Crop by Paul Alexander

  14. Bride by Ali Hazelwood

  15. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr

  16. Charlie Hustle by Keith O'Brien

  17. Christopher Isherwood Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell

  18. Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia

  19. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József Debreczeni

  20. Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams

  21. Death at the Sign of the Rook: A Jackson Brodie Book by Kate Atkinson

  22. Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik

  23. Don't Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews

  24. Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts

  25. Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper

  26. Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Robert Morgan

  27. Forest of Noise by Mosab Abu Toha

  28. Godfather Death by Sally Nicholls

  29. Heatwave by Lauren Redniss

  30. Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

  31. House of Bone and Rain by Gabino Iglesias

  32. I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

  33. I'm Sorry You Got Mad by Kyle Lukoff

  34. Lazarus Man by Richard Price

  35. Leaving by Roxana Robinson

  36. Let's Go!: Haw êkwa! by Julie Flett

  37. Liars by Sarah Manguso

  38. Libertad by Bessie Flores Zaldívar

  39. Magnolia Wu Unfolds it All by Chanel Miller

  40. Memory Piece by Lisa Ko

  41. Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills

  42. Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss

  43. Monster Hands by Karen Kane

  44. Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice

  45. Neighbors and Other Stories by Diane Oliver

  46. Next Stop by Debbie Fong

  47. Night Owls by A. R. Vishny

  48. Noodles on A Bicycle by Kyo Maclear

  49. Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

  50. On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle

  51. Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan

  52. Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1944-2022 by Frank Trentmann

  53. Parade by Rachel Cusk

  54. Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías

  55. Red Bird Danced by Dawn Quigley

  56. Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World by Patrick Joyce

  57. Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin & the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA by Tanya Lee Stone

  58. Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote by Michael Eric Dyson

  59. Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco

  60. Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel by Jennine Capó Crucet

  61. Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy

  62. Shark Teeth by Sherri Winston

  63. Smoke Kings by Jahmal Mayfield

  64. Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune

  65. State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg

  66. Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

  67. Stranger Than Fiction by Edwin Frank

  68. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss

  69. The Color of a Lie by Kim Johnson

  70. The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano

  71. The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez

  72. The History of Sound: Stories by Ben Shattuck

  73. The Hunter by Tana French

  74. The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters

  75. The Playbook by James Shapiro

  76. The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

  77. The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  78. The Showman by Simon Shuster

  79. The Spoiled Heart by Sunjeev Sahota

  80. The Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei

  81. The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

  82. The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

  83. The Water Outlaws by S. L. Huang

  84. The Yellow Bus by Loren Long

  85. There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak

  86. Thirsty by Jas Hammonds

  87. To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People by Noah Feldman

  88. To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

  89. Touch the Sky by Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic

  90. Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan

  91. We Will Be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo

  92. We're Alone by Edwidge Danticat

  93. Weirdo by Tony Weaver Jr.

  94. Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor

  95. Witch King by Martha Wells

3 sources

  1. A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur

  2. A Film in Which I Play Everyone by Mary Jo Bang

  3. A Flicker of Hope: A Story of Migration by Cynthia Harmony

  4. A Place for Vanishing by Ann Fraistat

  5. A Termination by Honor Moore

  6. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of A Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

  7. All About U.S: A Look at the Lives of 50 Real Kids From Across the United States by Matt Lamothe

  8. All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art by Orlando Whitfield

  9. Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti

  10. American Scary by Jeremy Dauber

  11. Amrikan: 125 Recipes from the Indian American Diaspora by Khushbu Shah

  12. Ask Me Again by Clare Sestanovich

  13. Beautiful Days by Zach Williams

  14. Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life by Ferris Jabr

  15. Behind My Doors: The Story of the World's Oldest Library by Hena Khan

  16. Being Home by Traci Sorell

  17. Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

  18. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

  19. Black Star by Kwame Alexander

  20. Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru

  21. Bright Objects by Ruby Todd

  22. Brownstone by Samuel Teer

  23. Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan

  24. Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

  25. Call Me Iggy by Jorge Aguirre

  26. Call Me Roberto!: Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos by Nathalie Alonso

  27. Carson McCullers by Mary V. Dearborn

  28. Cesaria Feels the Beat by Denise Rosario Adusei

  29. Choice by Neel Mukherjee

  30. Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody by Patrick Ness

  31. Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin

  32. Daughter of the Light-Footed People by Belen Medina

  33. Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson

  34. Deer Run Home by Ann Clare LeZotte

  35. Double Exposure by Robert Sullivan

  36. Dutch Threat by Josh Pachter

  37. Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko

  38. Emergency Quarters by Carlos Matias

  39. Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

  40. Eve by Cat Bohannon

  41. Evidence!: How Dr. John Snow Solved the Mystery of Cholera by Deborah Hopkinson

  42. Eynhallow by Tim McGregor

  43. Familiaris by David Wroblewski

  44. Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse

  45. Fierce Desires by Rebecca L. Davis

  46. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

  47. Finders: Justice, Faith and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction by Anjili Babbar

  48. Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast by John Vaillant

  49. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

  50. Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known by George M. Johnson

  51. Fledgling: The Keeper's Records of Revolution by S.K. Ali

  52. Frighten the Horses by Oliver Radclyffe

  53. Frostbite by Nicola Twilley

  54. Gooseberry by Robin Gow

  55. Gretel and the Great War by Adam Ehrlich Sachs

  56. Heir by Sabaa Tahir

  57. Henry and the Something New by Jenn Bailey

  58. Highway Thirteen by Fiona McFarlane

  59. I Am La Chiva!: The Colorful Bus of the Andes by Karol Hernández

  60. I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue

  61. I Just Keep Talking by Nell Irvin Painter

  62. I Will Do Better by Charles Bock

  63. I'll Have What He's Having by Adib Khorram

  64. Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare

  65. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face-to-Face With the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

  66. In Praise of Mystery by Ada Limón

  67. In Utero by Chris Gooch

  68. Isabel and the Rogue by Liana De la Rosa

  69. Jimmy's Rhythm & Blues: The Extraordinary Life of James Baldwin by Michelle Meadows

  70. Just Another Epic Love Poem by Parisa Akhbari

  71. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez

  72. Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck

  73. Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi

  74. Keeping the Faith by Brenda Wineapple

  75. Kent State: An American Tragedy by Brian VanDeMark

  76. Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell

  77. Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan

  78. Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

  79. Little Shrew by Akiko Miyakoshi

  80. Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak

  81. Malas by Marcela Fuentes

  82. Max in the House of Spies by Adam Gidwitz

  83. My Black Country: A Journey through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future by Alice Randall

  84. Myrtle, Means, and Opportunity by Elizabeth C. Bunce

  85. Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi

  86. No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir by Sarah LaBrie

  87. No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tangled Way We Tell the Story of the Holocaust by Chris Heath

  88. Not Quite a Ghost by Anne Ursu

  89. Olivetti by Allie Millington

  90. On the Bright Side by Anna Sortino

  91. Orris and Timble: The Beginning by Kate DiCamillo

  92. Our Enemies will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence by Yaroslav Trofimov

  93. Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams

  94. Pearl by Sherri L. Smith

  95. Pick the Lock by A. S. King

  96. Piglet by Lottie Hazell

  97. Play the Fool by Lina Chern

  98. Power to the Parasites! by Chelsea L. Wood

  99. Prairie Edge by Conor Kerr

  100. Pride and Preston Lin by Christina Hwang Dudley

  101. Private Revolutions by Yuan Yang

  102. Punk Rock Karaoke by Bianca Xunise

  103. Q by Craig Brown

  104. Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch

  105. Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera

  106. Rebel Girl by Kathleen Hanna

  107. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson

  108. Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

  109. Road Home by Rex Ogle

  110. Same As It Ever Was by Claire Lombardo

  111. Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips

  112. Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji

  113. Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger and Rovina Cai

  114. Shred Sisters by Betsy Lerner

  115. Sidetracks by Bei Dao

  116. Slaveroad by John Edgar Wideman

  117. Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane

  118. Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy

  119. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

  120. Sona and the Golden Beasts by Rajani LaRocca

  121. Songlight by Moira Buffini

  122. Sonny Boy by Al Pacino

  123. Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor

  124. Starter Villain by John Scalzi

  125. Stealing Little Moon: The Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools by Dan SaSuWeh Jones

  126. Stella & Marigold by Annie Barrows

  127. Stolen Pride by Arlie Russell Hochschild

  128. The Adversary by Michael Crummey

  129. The Axeman’s Carnival by Catherine Chidgey

  130. The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

  131. The Bard and the Book by Ann Bausum

  132. The Black Box by Henry Louis Gates Jr

  133. The Book That Almost Rhymed by Omar Abed

  134. The Breakup Lists by Adib Khorram

  135. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

  136. The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

  137. The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan

  138. The Dictionary Story by Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston

  139. The Extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft

  140. The Fetishist by Katherine Min

  141. The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly

  142. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

  143. The Girl Who Sang : A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival by Estelle Nadel

  144. The Great Lakes: Our Freshwater Treasure by Barb Rosenstock

  145. The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste

  146. The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry

  147. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

  148. The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

  149. The House Before Falling Into the Sea by Ann Suk Wang

  150. The Impossible Man by Patchen Barss

  151. The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

  152. The Lucky Ones by Zara Chowdhary

  153. The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

  154. The Mistress of Bhatia House by Sujata Massey

  155. The Observologist: A Handbook for Mounting Very Small Scientific Expeditions by Giselle Clarkson

  156. The Other Side of Tomorrow by Tina Cho

  157. The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard

  158. The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

  159. The Puzzle Box: A Novel by Danielle Trussoni

  160. The Race to Be Myself by Caster Semenya

  161. The Rent Collectors: Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA by Jesse Katz

  162. The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

  163. The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma

  164. The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster by John O'Connor

  165. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  166. The Silence of the Choir by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

  167. The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov

  168. The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon

  169. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan

  170. The Talk by Darrin Bell

  171. The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong

  172. The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava

  173. The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté

  174. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder

  175. The Winner by Teddy Wayne

  176. The Work of Art by Adam Moss

  177. The Wrong Way Home by Kate O'Shaughnessy

  178. There Was a Party for Langston by Jason Reynolds, Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey

  179. This Could Be Us by Kennedy Ryan

  180. This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune

  181. Three Summers: A Memoir of Sisterhood, Summer Crushes, and Growing up on the Eve of the Bosnian Genocide by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess

  182. Time to Make Art by Jeff Mack

  183. Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1 by Taiyō Matsumoto

  184. Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan

  185. Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal

  186. Translation State by Ann Leckie

  187. Twelve Trees: The Deep Roots of Our Future by Daniel Lewis

  188. Twenty Years by Sune Engel Rasmussen

  189. Us Fools by Nora Lange

  190. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

  191. We Are Big Time by Hena Khan

  192. We Loved It All by Lydia Millet

  193. We Who Produce Pearls by Joanna Ho and Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya

  194. What I Know About You by Éric Chacour

  195. When I Wrap My Hair by Shauntay Grant

  196. When Women Ran Fifth Avenue by Julie Satow

  197. Witness by Jamel Brinkley

  198. Woodworm by Layla Martínez

  199. Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

  200. You Like It Darker by Stephen King

  201. Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest by Isabel Greenberg

  202. Yr Dead by Sam Sax

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