Year-End Lists

Shelf Awareness: 2024 Best Books of the Year

Fiction

• James
  Percival Everett
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• The Ministry of Time
  Kaliane Bradley
• Ocean's Godori
  Elaine U. Cho
• Ours
  Phillip B. Williams
• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte
• This Strange Eventful History
  Claire Messud
• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• The Women
  Kristin Hannah
• Your Absence Is Darkness
  Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Nonfiction

• The Backyard Bird Chronicles
  Amy Tan
• The Blue Mimes

  Poems
  Sara Daniele Rivera
• Cactus Country

  A Boyhood Memoir
  Zoë Bossiere
• The Editor

  How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
  Sara B. Franklin
• Feeding Ghosts

  A Graphic Memoir
  Tessa Hulls
• Grief Is for People
  Sloane Crosley
• Into the Great Wide Ocean

  Life in the Least Known Habitat on Earth
  Sönke Johnsen
• The Serviceberry

  Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
  Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Slow Noodles

  A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
  Chantha Nguon
• The Wide Wide Sea

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