Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Best Novels of 2024

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2024 • Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Novels of 2023 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022 • Favorite Novels of 2022 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021 • Favorite Novels of 2021 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 • Favorite Novels of 2020 • 15 Best Novels of 2019 • 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019]

The Top 5 Novels of the Year

• Beautyland
  Marie-Helene Bertino
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• Housemates
  Emma Copley Eisenberg
• The Storm We Made
  Vanessa Chan
• City of Laughter
  Temim Fruchter

Additional Favorite Novels

• Colored Television
  Danzy Senna
• Memory Piece
  Lisa Ko
• James
  Percival Everett
• Come and Get It
  Kiley Reid
• Anita de Monte Laughs Last
  Xóchitl González
• All Fours
  Miranda July
• Worry
  Alexandra Tanner
• The Coin
  Yasmin Zaher
• The Anthropologists
  Aysegül Savas
• Cinema Love
  Jiaming Tang
• Great Expectations
  Vinson Cunningham
• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte
• Malas
  Marcela Fuentes
• The American Daughters
  Maurice Carlos Ruffin
• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• Intermezzo
  Sally Rooney
• The Extinction of Irena Rey
  Jennifer Croft
• Broughtupsy
  Christina Cooke
• Exhibit
  R.O. Kwon
• Devil Is Fine
  John Vercher