Year-End Lists

Town & Country: The Best Books of 2024

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2010s]

• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions
  Ed Zwick
• Get the Picture

  A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
  Bianca Bosker
• The Book of Love
  Kelly Link
• Cocktails with George and Martha

  Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Philip Gefter
• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• The Anxious Generation

  How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
  Jonathan Haidt
• You Dreamed of Empires
  Álvaro Enrigue
• Great Expectations
  Vinson Cunningham
• The Familiar

  A Novel
  Leigh Bardugo
• The Bright Sword

  A Novel of King Arthur
  Lev Grossman
• The Ministry of Time
  Kaliane Bradley
• The Extinction of Irena Rey
  Jennifer Croft
• Knife

  Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  Salman Rushdie
• Lies and Weddings
  Kevin Kwan
• Once Upon a Time
  Elizabeth Beller
• When Women Ran Fifth Avenue

  Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
  Julie Satow
• The Friday Afternoon Club

  A Family Memoir
  Griffin Dunne
• Long Island Compromise
  Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• All That Glitters

  A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art
  Orlando Whitfield
• Liars
  Sarah Manguso
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• The Life Impossible
  Matt Haig
• Kingmaker

  Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue
  Sonia Purnell
• Intermezzo
  Sally Rooney
• Our Evenings
  Alan Hollinghurst
• Be Ready When the Luck Happens

  A Memoir
  Ina Garten
• Q

  A Voyage Around the Queen
  Craig Brown
• The Message
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Hypocrite
  Jo Hamya