Year-End Lists

Laura Miller: The 10 Best Books of 2024, as published by Slate

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

• The Barn

  The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
  Wright Thompson
• Cher

  The Memoir, Part One
  Cher
• Great Expectations
  Vinson Cunningham
• I Heard Her Call My Name

  A Memoir of Transition
  Lucy Sante
• Knife

  Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  Salman Rushdie
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• The Ministry of Time
  Kaliane Bradley
• Our Evenings
  Alan Hollinghurst
• This Strange Eventful History
  Claire Messud
• When the Clock Broke

  Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
  John Ganz