Year-End Lists

Book Riot: Best Books of 2024

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2017]

• An Academy for Liars
  Alexis Henderson
• Here We Go Again
  Alison Cochrun
• James
  Percival Everett
• Libby Lost and Found
  Stephanie Booth
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• Midnight Rooms
  Donyae Coles
• Moon of the Turning Leaves
  Waubgeshig Rice
• No Son of Mine

  A Memoir
  Jonathan Corcoran
• Not Quite a Ghost
  Anne Ursu
• Queen of Dreams
  Kit Rocha
• Self-Mythology

  Poems
  Saba Keramati
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In
  John Wiswell
• Stories Are Weapons

  Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
  Annalee Newitz
• Swordcrossed
  Freya Marske
• The Book of Love
  Kelly Link
• The City in Glass
  Nghi Vo
• The Deep Dark
  Molly Knox Ostertag
• The Diablo's Curse
  Gabe Cole Novoa
• The God of the Woods
  Liz Moore
• The Husbands
  Holly Gramazio
• The Lotus Empire
  Tasha Suri
• The Silence of the Choir
  Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
• The Stars Too Fondly
  Emily Hamilton
• There's Always This Year

  On Basketball and Ascension
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Thunder Song

  Essays
  Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
• We Need No Wings
  Ann Dávila Cardinal
• We Used to Live Here
  Marcus Kliewer