Year-End Lists

Time Magazine: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024

[see also The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020 • The 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 • Best Books of 2018 • Top 20 Books of 2017]

• Absolution
  Jeff VanderMeer
• Accordion Eulogies

  A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico
  Noé Álvarez
• All Fours
  Miranda July
• All Things Are Too Small

  Essays in Praise of Excess
  Becca Rothfeld
• American Diva

  Extraordinary, Unruly, Fabulous
  Deborah Paredez
• Anita de Monte Laughs Last
  Xóchitl González
• Another Word for Love

  A Memoir
  Carvell Wallace
• The Anthropologists
  Aysegül Savas
• The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
  Jonathan Haidt
• The Barn

  The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
  Wright Thompson
• Be Ready When the Luck Happens

  A Memoir
  Ina Garten
• Beautyland
  Marie-Helene Bertino
• The Black Utopians

  Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
  Aaron Robertson
• Bluff
  Danez Smith
• The Book Censor's Library
  Bothayna Al-Essa
• The Book of Love
  Kelly Link
• The Bookshop

  A History of the American Bookstore
  Evan Friss
• The Bright Sword
  Lev Grossman
• Catalina
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• The Coin
  Yasmin Zaher
• Colored Television
  Danzy Senna
• Coming Home
  Brittney Griner with Michelle Burford
• A Complicated Passion

  The Life and Work of Agnès Varda
  Carrie Rickey
• Connie

  A Memoir
  Connie Chung
• Consent

  A Memoir
  Jill Ciment
• Devil Is Fine
  John Vercher
• Didion and Babitz
  Lili Anolik
• Dinner for Vampires

  Life on a Cult TV Show
  Bethany Joy Lenz
• The Eyes Are the Best Part
  Monika Kim
• Feeding Ghosts

  A Graphic Memoir
  Tessa Hulls
• Fi

  A Memoir of My Son
  Alexandra Fuller
• Fire Exit
  Morgan Talty
• The Friday Afternoon Club

  A Family Memoir
  Griffin Dunne
• Funny Story
  Emily Henry
• Get the Picture

  A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
  Bianca Bosker
• Ghostroots
  'Pemi Aguda
• The God of the Woods
  Liz Moore
• The Great Divide
  Cristina Henríquez
• Greta & Valdin
  Rebecca K. Reilly
• Grief Is for People
  Sloane Crosley
• Headshot
  Rita Bullwinkel
• Health and Safety

  A Breakdown
  Emily Witt
• Help Wanted
  Adelle Waldman
• Hip-Hop Is History
  Questlove
• How to End a Love Story
  Yulin Kuang
• Hum
  Helen Phillips
• The Hypocrite
  Jo Hamya
• I Cannot Control Everything Forever

  A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art
  Emily C. Bloom
• I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself

  One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris
  Glynnis MacNicol
• Intermezzo
  Sally Rooney
• James
  Percival Everett
• Knife

  Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  Salman Rushdie
• Lessons for Survival

  Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"
  Emily Raboteau
• Lies and Weddings
  Kevin Kwan
• The Light Eaters

  How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
  Zoë Schlanger
• The Lions' Den
  Iris Mwanza
• Long Island
  Colm Tóibín
• Long Island Compromise
  Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• The Lucky Ones
  Zara Chowdhary
• Margo's Got Money Troubles
  Rufi Thorpe
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• Memory Piece
  Lisa Ko
• The Mighty Red
  Louise Erdrich
• Mina's Matchbox
  Yoko Ogawa
• More, Please

  On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"
  Emma Specter
• The Most
  Jessica Anthony
• My Friends
  Hisham Matar
• Perfume & Pain
  Anna Dorn
• Playground
  Richard Powers
• Private Equity

  A Memoir
  Carrie Sun
• Rebel Girl

  My Life as a Feminist Punk
  Kathleen Hanna
• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte
• The Rich People Have Gone Away
  Regina Porter
• Root Fractures

  Poems
  Diana Khoi Nguyen
• The Safekeep
  Yael van der Wouden
• Shanghailanders
  Juli Min
• Sidetracks
  Bei Dao
• The Skunks
  Fiona Warnick
• Slaveroad
  John Edgar Wideman
• Soldiers and Kings

  Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
  Jason De León
• Someone Like Us
  Dinaw Mengestu
• Splinters
  Leslie Jamison
• State of Paradise
  Laura van den Berg
• A Sunny Place for Shady People
  Mariana Enriquez
• Survival Is a Promise

  The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
  Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• Tell Me Everything
  Elizabeth Strout
• There Is No Ethan

  How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
  Anna Akbari
• There's Always This Year

  On Basketball and Ascension
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Traveling

  On the Path of Joni Mitchell
  Ann Powers
• Undue Burden

  Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
  Shefali Luthra
• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• We Loved It All

  A Memory of Life
  Lydia Millet
• We Were the Universe
  Kimberly King Parsons
• The Wedding People
  Alison Espach
• The Wide Wide Sea

  Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
  Hampton Sides
• Whiskey Tender

  A Memoir
  Deborah Jackson Taffa
• Whoever You Are, Honey
  Olivia Gatwood
• You Glow in the Dark
  Liliana Colanzi
• Your Utopia
  Bora Chung
• […]
  Fady Joudah