The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024
Gripping novels and short stories, eye-opening histories, moving memoirs, and more. These are the books that entertained and enlightened us.


Absolution
by Jeff VanderMeer

Accordion Eulogies
by Noé Álvarez

All Fours
by Miranda July

All Things Are Too Small
by Becca Rothfeld

American Diva
by Deborah Paredez

Anita de Monte Laughs Last
by Xochitl Gonzalez

Another Word for Love
by Carvell Wallace

The Anthropologists
by Ayşegül Savaş

The Anxious Generation
by Jonathan Haidt

The Barn
by Wright Thompson

Be Ready When the Luck Happens
by Ina Garten

Beautyland
by Marie-Helene Bertino

The Black Utopians
by Aaron Robertson

Bluff
by Danez Smith

The Book Censor's Library
by Bothayna Al-Essa

The Book of Love
by Kelly Link

The Bookshop
by Evan Friss

The Bright Sword
by Lev Grossman

Catalina
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The Coin
by Yasmin Zaher

Colored Television
by Danzy Senna

Coming Home
by Brittney Griner

A Complicated Passion
by Carrie Rickey

Connie
by Connie Chung

Consent
by Jill Ciment

Devil Is Fine
by John Vercher

Didion and Babitz
by Lili Anolik

Dinner for Vampires
by Bethany Joy Lenz

The Eyes Are the Best Part
by Monika Kim

Feeding Ghosts
by Tessa Hulls

Fi
by Alexandra Fuller

Fire Exit
by Morgan Talty

The Friday Afternoon Club
by Griffin Dunne

Funny Story
by Emily Henry

Get the Picture
by Bianca Bosker

Ghostroots
by 'Pemi Aguda

The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore

The Great Divide
by Cristina Henríquez

Greta & Valdin
by Rebecca K Reilly

Grief Is for People
by Sloane Crosley

Headshot
by Rita Bullwinkel

Health and Safety
by Emily Witt

Help Wanted
by Adelle Waldman

Hip-Hop Is History
by Questlove

How to End a Love Story
by Yulin Kuang

Hum
by Helen Phillips

The Hypocrite
by Jo Hamya

I Cannot Control Everything Forever
by Emily C. Bloom

I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself
by Glynnis MacNicol

Intermezzo
by Sally Rooney

James
by Percival Everett

Knife
by Salman Rushdie

Lessons for Survival
by Emily Raboteau

Lies and Weddings
by Kevin Kwan

The Light Eaters
by Zoë Schlanger

The Lions' Den
by Iris Mwanza

Long Island
by Colm Tóibín

Long Island Compromise
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Lucky Ones
by Zara Chowdhary

Margo's Got Money Troubles
by Rufi Thorpe

Martyr!
by Kaveh Akbar

Memory Piece
by Lisa Ko

The Mighty Red
by Louise Erdrich

Mina's Matchbox
by Yoko Ogawa

More, Please
by Emma Specter

The Most
by Jessica Anthony

My Friends
by Hisham Matar

Perfume and Pain
by Anna Dorn

Playground
by Richard Powers

Private Equity
by Carrie Sun

Rebel Girl
by Kathleen Hanna

Rejection
by Tony Tulathimutte

The Rich People Have Gone Away
by Regina Porter

Root Fractures
by Diana Khoi Nguyen

The Safekeep
by Yael Van Der Wouden

Shanghailanders
by Juli Min

Sidetracks
by Bei Dao

The Skunks
by Fiona Warnick

Slaveroad
by John Edgar Wideman

Soldiers and Kings
by Jason de León

Someone Like Us
by Dinaw Mengestu

Splinters
by Leslie Jamison

State of Paradise
by Laura van den Berg

A Sunny Place for Shady People
by Mariana Enriquez

Survival Is a Promise
by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Tell Me Everything
by Elizabeth Strout

There Is No Ethan
by Anna Akbari

There's Always This Year
by Hanif Abdurraqib

Traveling
by Ann Powers

Undue Burden
by Shefali Luthra

Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange

We Loved It All
by Lydia Millet

We Were the Universe
by Kimberly King Parsons

The Wedding People
by Alison Espach

The Wide Wide Sea
by Hampton Sides

Whiskey Tender
by Deborah Jackson Taffa

Whoever You Are, Honey
by Olivia Gatwood

You Glow in the Dark
by Liliana Colanzi

Your Utopia
by Bora Chung

[…]: Poems
by Fady Joudah
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