Electric Lit’s Best Novels of 2024
“Here are Electric Lit’s Top 5 novels of 2024, followed by the best novels of the year.”
Public Picks 2024
This is NOT your ordinary list. I guarantee you’ll find something here that interests you that isn’t included on all the other “best books of 2024” lists. This list of “the books of 2024 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us” is from the editorial staff of Public Books: A Magazine of Ideas, Arts, and Scholarship.
The 167 Best Book Covers of 2024
Emily Temple of LitHub consulted with 54 book cover designers to compile this list.
Maureen Corrigan picks her favorite books from an ‘unprecedented’ 2024
From NPR.
More Lists from Five Books
- The Best Sports Books of 2024
- 10 Award-Winning Nonfiction Books of 2024
- Notable Poetry Books of 2024: The Inaugural PEN Heaney Prize Shortlist
Books We Love: Great Reads, Thoughtfully Curated by NPR
The Best (Old) Books We Read in 2024
Most Best Books of the Year Lists focus on new publications. But for this list LitHub editor Emily Temple asked her staff about the best books they read this year that were not published in 2024. “After all,” Temple writes, “books are not only important during the year of their publication, and you never know when you’ll pick up something old, weird, and randomly incredible.”
Curl Up With the Best Books We Read This Year
From the Mother Jones staff, because “Everyone deserves a break from the news.”
The New Republic’s Books of the Year
“A far from exhaustive guide to the books that our critics most admired in 2024”
Best Books of 2024 — After analyzing 39 end-of-year lists — THE TOP 50!
Book blogger Anne has done all the work here so that you and I don’t have to.
THE TOP 60 FROM THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024 LIST OF LISTS
Like the list above, this one comes from Kate, a book blogger. Since Kate is from Australia, she often has a different selection of books to work with than we typically have in the U.S..
World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translations of 2024
“It’s time to celebrate another year of translations, and there’s plenty to celebrate,” writes Michelle Johnson.
CBC: The Best Canadian Books of 2024
The 10 Best Books of 2024
Laura Miller, book critic for Slate, writes:
Some pith and a bit of froth seemed the perfect reading recipe for this stressful and ultimately dismaying year. I don’t think that I’m alone as a reader in craving both substance and the occasional, very welcome escape, with a minimum of preachiness and a maximum of nuance. Here are the books that delivered in 2024.
The 10 Best Books of 2024
Here’s another list from Slate, this one by books editor Dan Kois:
It shouldn’t be surprising that my list of my favorite books of 2024 includes a number of works by older writers working out what it means to make art as a career—what their creative future might look like. After all, I’m an older writer trying to work out what my future might look like. But I was also thrilled to discover new and new-to-me writers this year, many of whom are writing brilliantly about our current moment and thinking about what everyone’s future might look like.
And there’s no overlap between this list and the one above.
The Best Books of 2024
From Five Books. I’ve included some specific lists earlier, but here’s the mother lode. Keep scrolling down, because more list links will continue to appear.
The 12 best biographies of 2024
From BookPage.
What We’re Reading 2024
“It’s become a tradition: the writers and editors at JSTOR Daily share our thoughts on this year’s pleasure reading.”
© 2024 by Mary Daniels Brown
Whew! This is a lot of “bests” to choose from!