Year-End Lists

Literary Hub: 38 Favorite Books of 2024

[see also Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022 • Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021 • Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020 • The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s • The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s • Favorite Books of 2018]

• Beautyland
  Marie-Helene Bertino
• James
  Percival Everett
• Set My Heart on Fire
  Izumi Suzuki
• Wild Houses
  Colin Barrett
• When the Clock Broke

  Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
  John Ganz
• A Magical Girl Retires
  Park Seolyeon
• Headshot
  Rita Bullwinkel
• All Fours
  Miranda July
• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte
• The Book of Love
  Kelly Link
• My Lesbian Novel
  Renee Gladman
• Consent

  A Memoir
  Jill Ciment
• Blurry
  Dash Shaw
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• The Extinction of Irena Rey
  Jennifer Croft
• The Most
  Jessica Anthony
• The God of the Woods
  Liz Moore
• The Heart in Winter
  Kevin Barry
• Attachments

  Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances
  Lucas Mann
• The Bright Sword
  Lev Grossman
• Liars
  Sarah Manguso
• The Morningside
  Téa Obreht
• Waiting for the Fear
  Oguz Atay
• Victim
  Andrew Boryga
• All Things Are Too Small

  Essays in Praise of Excess
  Becca Rothfeld
• The Pairing
  Casey McQuiston
• Practice
  Rosalind Brown
• Colored Television
  Danzy Senna
• Felling
  Kelan Nee
• American Rapture
  C.J. Leede
• States of Emergency
  Chris Knapp
• […]
  Fady Joudah
• Good Material
  Dolly Alderton
• Memory Piece
  Lisa Ko
• Nuclear War

  A Scenario
  Annie Jacobsen
• Some Strange Music Draws Me In
  Griffin Hansbury
• Lesser Ruins
  Mark Haber
• Ghost Pains
  Jessi Jezewska Stevens