Year-End Lists

Vanity Fair: 21 Best Books of 2024

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2022 • 2020]

• Cue the Sun!

  The Invention of Reality TV
  Emily Nussbaum
• The Bright Sword

  A Novel of King Arthur
  Lev Grossman
• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• Be Ready When the Luck Happens

  A Memoir
  Ina Garten
• Black Meme

  A History of The Images That Make Us
  Legacy Russell
• The Last Kilo

  Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced America
  T.J. English
• The Message
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Barn

  The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
  Wright Thompson
• Another Word for Love

  A Memoir
  Carvell Wallace
• James
  Percival Everett
• All Fours
  Miranda July
• Street-Level Superstar

  A Year With Lawrence
  Will Hodgkinson
• Suzanne and Louise
  Hervé Guibert
• The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory

  American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
  Tim Alberta
• The Hypocrite
  Jo Hamya
• Scaffolding
  Lauren Elkin
• The Anthropologists
  Aysegül Savas
• The Garden
  Clare Beams
• State of Paradise
  Laura van den Berg
• The Ministry of Time
  Kaliane Bradley