Year-End Lists

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2024

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• All Fours
  Miranda July
• The Book of Love
  Kelly Link
• By the Fire We Carry

  The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
  Rebecca Nagle
• The Heart That Fed

  A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War
  Carl Sciacchitano
• Herscht 07769
  László Krasznahorkai
• James
  Percival Everett
• My Friends
  Hisham Matar
• Survival Is a Promise

  The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
  Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• Traveling

  On the Path of Joni Mitchell
  Ann Powers
• When the Clock Broke

  Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
  John Ganz

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2024

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• Bluff
  Danez Smith
• The Invention of the Darling
  Li-Young Lee
• Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space
  Catherine Barnett
• Wrong Norma
  Anne Carson
• A Year of Last Things
  Michael Ondaatje

Jordan Cronk: Top Ten Films of 2024 as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll, listed alphabetically

[see also The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2023 • Top Ten Films of 2023 • The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2022 • Top Ten Films of 2022 • Top Ten Films of 2021 • Top Ten Films of 2020 • The 50 Best Films of the 2010s • Top 20 Films of 2019 • Top 20 Films of 2018 • Top Ten Films of 2017]

• By the Stream
  Hong Sang-soo
• Caught by the Tides
  Jia Zhang-ke
• It's Not Me
  Leos Carax
• exergue - on documenta 14
  Dimitris Athyridis
• Grand Tour
  Miguel Gomes
• Henry Fonda for President
  Alexander Horwath
• Megalopolis
  Francis Ford Coppola
• Misericordia
  Alain Guiraudie
• Scénarios
  Jean-Luc Godard
• The Shrouds
  David Cronenberg

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2024

[see also Fiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• Challenger

  A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
  Adam Higginbotham

Finalists

• The Achilles Trap

  Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
  Steve Coll
• Feeding Ghosts

  A Graphic Memoir
  Tessa Hulls
• Undue Burden

  Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
  Shefali Luthra
• The Garden Against Time

  In Search of a Common Paradise
  Olivia Laing
• Another Word for Love

  A Memoir
  Carvell Wallace

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2024

[see also Nonfiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• James
  Percival Everett

Finalists

• Say Hello to My Little Friend
  Jennine Capó Crucet
• Playground
  Richard Powers
• The Mighty Red
  Louise Erdrich
• Prophet Song
  Paul Lynch
• Margo's Got Money Troubles
  Rufi Thorpe

National Book Award: Poetry 2024

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2013]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• Wrong Norma
  Anne Carson
• […]
  Fady Joudah
• Mother
  m.s. RedCherries
• Modern Poetry
  Diane Seuss
• Something about Living
  Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Longlist

• Life on Earth
  Dorianne Laux
• Spectral Evidence
  Gregory Pardlo
• Silver
  Rowan Ricardo Phillips
• The Book of Wounded Sparrows
  Octavio Quintanilla
• Liontaming in America
  Elizabeth Willis

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2024

[see also Fiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• Soldiers and Kings

  Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
  Jason De León
• Circle of Hope

  A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
  Eliza Griswold
• Unshrinking

  How to Face Fatphobia
  Kate Manne
• Knife

  Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  Salman Rushdie
• Whiskey Tender

  A Memoir
  Deborah Jackson Taffa

Longlist

• There's Always This Year

  On Basketball and Ascension
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Our Moon

  How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
  Rebecca Boyle
• The War Below

  Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
  Ernest Scheyder
• A Great Disorder

  National Myth and the Battle for America
  Richard Slotkin
• Magical/Realism

  Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
  Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

National Book Award: Fiction 2024

[see also Nonfiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• Ghostroots
  'Pemi Aguda
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• James
  Percival Everett
• All Fours
  Miranda July
• My Friends
  Hisham Matar

Longlist

• The Most
  Jessica Anthony
• Catalina
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• Yr Dead
  Sam Sax
• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2024

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• TBA

Shortlist

• Held
  Anne Michaels
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• Orbital
  Samantha Harvey
• James
  Percival Everett
• The Safekeep
  Yael van der Wouden
• Stone Yard Devotional
  Charlotte Wood

Longlist

• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• Wild Houses
  Colin Barrett
• This Strange Eventful History
  Claire Messud
• Playground
  Richard Powers
• Enlightenment
  Sarah Perry
• My Friends
  Hisham Matar
• Headshot
  Rita Bullwinkel

Women's Prize: Best Fiction of 2024

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2024 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Fiction of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Fiction of 2013 • Best Fiction of 2012 • Best Fiction of 2011]

Winner

• Brotherless Night
  V.V. Ganeshananthan

Shortlist

• Restless Dolly Maunder
  Kate Grenville
• River East, River West
  Aube Rey Lescure
• Soldier Sailor
  Claire Kilroy
• Enter Ghost
  Isabella Hammad
• The Wren, the Wren
  Anne Enright

Longlist

• Western Lane
  Chetna Maroo
• 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
  Mirinae Lee
• And Then She Fell
  Alicia Elliott
• Hangman
  Maya Binyam
• In Defence of the Act
  Effie Black
• The Blue, Beautiful World
  Karen Lord
• The Maiden
  Kate Foster
• Ordinary Human Failings
  Megan Nolan
• A Trace of Sun
  Pam Williams
• Nightbloom
  Peace Adzo Medie