The 10 Best Books of 2024

by The Wall Street Journal

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10 books

The year’s outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction, selected by the Journal’s Books editors.

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See the source list and commentary at www.wsj.com

The Anxious Generation

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt, 2024

Charlie Hustle

The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien, 2024

Choice: A Novel

Neel Mukherjee, 2024

Countdown

The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons

Sarah Scoles, 2024

A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind

Stephen Budiansky, 2024

The Extinction of Irena Rey

Jennifer Croft, 2024

The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins, 2024

Rejection

Tony Tulathimutte, 2025

Shock Values

Prices and Inflation in American Democracy

Carola Binder, 2024

Vows

The Modern Genius of an Ancient Rite

Cheryl Mendelson, 2024