Year archive

Best books of 2024

Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2024, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.

Selections: 367
Authors: 365
Lists & prizes: 16

Showing 289–336 of 367

2024Nonfiction

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

Manjula Martin

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Last Hour Between Worlds

Melissa Caruso

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2024Poetry

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell

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2024Fiction & literature

The Lion Women of Tehran

Marjan Kamali

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2024Mystery & crime

The Lost Story

Meg Shaffer

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2024Nonfiction

The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

Annabelle Tometich

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2024Nonfiction

The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir

Susan Lieu

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2024Nonfiction

The Mesmerist

Caroline Woods

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2024Nonfiction

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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2024Mystery & crime

The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley

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2024Fiction & literature

The Mighty Red

Louise Erdrich

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2024Young readers

The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science

Kate McKinnon

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley

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2024Fiction & literature

The Most

Jessica Anthony

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2024Nonfiction

The Mountains Are High

Alec Ash

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2024Mystery & crime

The Murder of Mr. Ma

SJ Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee

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2024Nonfiction

The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

Rahul Bhatia

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2024Poetry

The Nightmare Box and Other Stories

Cynthia Gómez

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2024Nonfiction

The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

Michael Waters

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2024Fiction & literature

The Pairing

Casey McQuiston

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2024Mystery & crime

The Phoenix Crown

Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

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2024Fiction & literature

The Physics of Sorrow

Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel

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2024Mystery & crime

The Return of Ellie Black

Emiko Jean

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2024Nonfiction

The SalviSoul Cookbook: Salvadoran Recipes and the Women Who Preserve Them

Karla Tatiana Vasquez

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2024Nonfiction

The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster

John O'Connor

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2024Mystery & crime

The Seventh Veil of Salome

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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2024Nonfiction

The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

Simon Shuster

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2024Nonfiction

The Spamalot Diaries

Eric Idle

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2024Nonfiction

The Stardust Grail

Yume Kitasei

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2024Fiction & literature

The Stone Home

Crystal Hana Kim

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2024Fiction & literature

The Storm We Made

Vanessa Chan

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2024Nonfiction

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Karen Valby

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2024Mystery & crime

The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

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2024Nonfiction

The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism

Marjorie N. Feld

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2024Fiction & literature

The Truth According to Ember

Danica Nava

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2024Nonfiction

The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

Pamela Prickett and Stefan Timmermans

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2024Fiction & literature

The Women

Kristin Hannah

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2024Young readers

The Wonderful Wisdom of Ants

Philip Bunting

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Woods All Black

Lee Mandelo

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2024Nonfiction

The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing

Adam Moss

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2024Young readers

The Yellow Bus

Loren Long

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2024Fiction & literature

There Are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak

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2024Nonfiction

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

This Great Hemisphere

Mateo Askaripour

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2024Fiction & literature

This Motherless Land

Nikki May

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2024Fiction & literature

This Summer Will Be Different

Carley Fortune

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

Those Beyond the Wall

Micaiah Johnson

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2024Poetry

Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

Sonia Sulaiman

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