Year-End Lists

WBEZ: The 18 Best Reads of 2024

Fiction

• Heartless Hunter
  Kristen Ciccarelli
• Great Expectations
  Vinson Cunningham
• James
  Percival Everett
• All Fours
  Miranda July
• Sandwich
  Catherine Newman
• The God of the Woods
  Liz Moore
• State of Paradise
  Laura van den Berg
• The Bright Sword

  A Novel of King Arthur
  Lev Grossman
• Not Till We Are Lost
  Dennis E. Taylor
• The Hunter
  Tana French
• You Dreamed of Empires
  Álvaro Enrigue

Nonfiction

• There's Always This Year

  On Basketball and Ascension
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• The Light Eaters

  How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
  Zoë Schlanger
• War & Peace & War

  Twenty Years in Afghanistan
  Andrew North
• Never Saw Me Coming

  How I Outsmarted the FBI and the Entire Banking System—and Pocketed $40 Million
  Tanya Smith
• How to Build a Fashion Icon

  Notes on Confidence from the World's Only Image Architect
  Law Roach
• Carson the Magnificent
  Bill Zehme with Mike Thomas

Graphic

• Tender
  Beth Hetland