Best Adult Books of 2024

by NY Public Library
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42 books
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Biography & Memoir
Comics
Crime, Mysteries & Thrillers
Fantasy
Fiction

Banal Nightmare

A Novel
Halle Butler, 2024

The Coin

Yasmin Zaher, 2024

Glorious Exploits

A Novel
Ferdia Lennon, 2024

Gretel and the Great War

A Novel
Adam Ehrlich Sachs, 2024

If Only

Vigdis Hjorth, 2024

Lesser Ruins

Mark Haber, 2024

Martyr!

A Novel
Kaveh Akbar, 2024

Rejection

Fiction
Tony Tulathimutte, 2024

Small Rain

A Novel
Garth Greenwell, 2024

You Dreamed of Empires

A Novel
Álvaro Enrigue, 2024
Nonfiction

The Black Utopians

Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
Aaron Robertson, 2024

Challenger

A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Adam Higginbotham, 2024

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer, 2024

Gaslight

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future
Jonathan Mingle, 2024

The Light Eaters

How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger, 2024

Nuclear War

A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen, 2024

Rat City

Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun
Jon Adams, Edmund Ramsden, 2024

Technofeudalism

What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis, 2024

There's Always This Year

On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib, 2024
Romance
Science Fiction