Best Books of 2024

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20 books

That’s (almost) a wrap for 2024. After reading so many incredible books this year, our staff selected 20 titles that helped guide them, comfort them, and offer an escape—a new place to live for a span of a book.

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The Women

Kristin Hannah, 2024

James

Percival Everett, 2024

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney, 2024

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar, 2024

Just for the Summer

Abby Jimenez, 2024

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley, 2024

The Waiting

Michael Connelly, 2025

Funny Story

Emily Henry, 2024

The Blue Hour

Paula Hawkins, 2024

The Last One at the Wedding

Jason Rekulak, 2024

The Swans of Harlem

Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Karen Valby, 2025

The Wide Wide Sea

Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides, 2024

The Mercy of Gods

James S. A. Corey, 2024

Ghostroots: Stories

'Pemi Aguda, 2024

Creation Lake

Rachel Kushner, 2024

The God of the Woods

Liz Moore, 2024

Kingmaker

Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue

Sonia Purnell, 2024

The Siege

A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation That Shocked the World

Ben Macintyre, 2024

Challenger

A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham, 2024