Year-End Lists

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2024

[see also Fiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• The Achilles Trap

  Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
  Steve Coll
• Feeding Ghosts

  A Graphic Memoir
  Tessa Hulls
• Undue Burden

  Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
  Shefali Luthra
• Challenger

  A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
  Adam Higginbotham
• The Garden Against Time

  In Search of a Common Paradise
  Olivia Laing
• Another Word for Love

  A Memoir
  Carvell Wallace

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2024

[see also Nonfiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• Say Hello to My Little Friend
  Jennine Capó Crucet
• James
  Percival Everett
• Playground
  Richard Powers
• The Mighty Red
  Louise Erdrich
• Prophet Song
  Paul Lynch
• Margo's Got Money Troubles
  Rufi Thorpe

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2024

[see also Fiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• Soldiers and Kings

  Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
  Jason De León
• Circle of Hope

  A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
  Eliza Griswold
• Unshrinking

  How to Face Fatphobia
  Kate Manne
• Knife

  Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  Salman Rushdie
• Whiskey Tender

  A Memoir
  Deborah Jackson Taffa

Longlist

• There's Always This Year

  On Basketball and Ascension
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Our Moon

  How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
  Rebecca Boyle
• The War Below

  Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
  Ernest Scheyder
• A Great Disorder

  National Myth and the Battle for America
  Richard Slotkin
• Magical/Realism

  Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
  Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

National Book Award: Fiction 2024

[see also Nonfiction 2024 • Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• TBA

Finalists

• Ghostroots
  'Pemi Aguda
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• James
  Percival Everett
• All Fours
  Miranda July
• My Friends
  Hisham Matar

Longlist

• The Most
  Jessica Anthony
• Catalina
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• Yr Dead
  Sam Sax
• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2024

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• TBA

Shortlist

• Held
  Anne Michaels
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• Orbital
  Samantha Harvey
• James
  Percival Everett
• The Safekeep
  Yael van der Wouden
• Stone Yard Devotional
  Charlotte Wood

Longlist

• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• Wild Houses
  Colin Barrett
• This Strange Eventful History
  Claire Messud
• Playground
  Richard Powers
• Enlightenment
  Sarah Perry
• My Friends
  Hisham Matar
• Headshot
  Rita Bullwinkel

Women's Prize: Best Fiction of 2024

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2024 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Fiction of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Fiction of 2013 • Best Fiction of 2012 • Best Fiction of 2011]

Winner

• Brotherless Night
  V.V. Ganeshananthan

Shortlist

• Restless Dolly Maunder
  Kate Grenville
• River East, River West
  Aube Rey Lescure
• Soldier Sailor
  Claire Kilroy
• Enter Ghost
  Isabella Hammad
• The Wren, the Wren
  Anne Enright

Longlist

• Western Lane
  Chetna Maroo
• 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
  Mirinae Lee
• And Then She Fell
  Alicia Elliott
• Hangman
  Maya Binyam
• In Defence of the Act
  Effie Black
• The Blue, Beautiful World
  Karen Lord
• The Maiden
  Kate Foster
• Ordinary Human Failings
  Megan Nolan
• A Trace of Sun
  Pam Williams
• Nightbloom
  Peace Adzo Medie

Women's Prize: Best Nonfiction of 2024, the first nonfiction prize awarded by this group, after years of awarding a highly regarded fiction prize

[see also Best Fiction of 2024 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2022 • Best Fiction of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Fiction of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Fiction of 2013 • Best Fiction of 2012 • Best Fiction of 2011]

Winner

• Doppelganger

  A Trip into the Mirror World
  Naomi Klein

Shortlist

• All That She Carried

  The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
  Tiya Miles
• Code Dependent

  Living in the Shadow of AI
  Madhumita Murgia
• A Flat Place

  Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma
  Noreen Masud
• Thunderclap

  A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
  Laura Cumming
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair

Longlist

• Intervals
  Marianne Brooker
• Wifedom

  Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
  Anna Funder
• Shadows at Noon

  The South Asian Twentieth Century
  Joya Chatterji
• Eve

  How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
  Cat Bohannon
• Some People Need Killing

  A Memoir of Murder in My Country
  Patricia Evangelista
• The Dictionary People

  The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
  Sarah Ogilvie
• Vulture Capitalism

  Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
  Grace Blakeley
• Young Queens

  Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
  Leah Redmond Chang
• The Britannias

  An Archipelago's Tale
  Alice Albinia
• Matrescence

  On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
  Lucy Jones

Dazed: The Best Novels of 2023

• Brainwyrms
  Alison Rumfitt
• Penance
  Eliza Clark
• The Fraud
  Zadie Smith
• Birnam Wood
  Eleanor Catton
• The Bee Sting
  Paul Murray
• Yellowface
  R.F. Kuang
• The List
  Yomi Adegoke
• The Guest
  Emma Cline
• Ordinary Human Failings
  Megan Nolan

New Statesman: The 20 Best Books of 2023

[see also 2021]

Non-fiction

• A Memoir of My Former Self

  A Life in Writing
  Hilary Mantel
• What Is a Doctor?

  A GP's Prescription for the Future
  Phil Whitaker
• Red Memory

  The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
  Tania Branigan
• A Northern Wind

  Britain 1962-65
  David Kynaston
• Quartet

  How Four Women Changed The Musical World
  Leah Broad
• Material World

  The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
  Ed Conway
• Watford Forever

  How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other
  John Preston and Elton John
• An Uneasy Inheritance

  My Family and Other Radicals
  Polly Toynbee
• Johnson at 10

  The Inside Story
  Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell
• Matrescence

  On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood
  Lucy Jones
• The Tragic Mind

  Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
  Robert D. Kaplan

Fiction

• The Iliad
  Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
• Cuddy
  Benjamin Myers
• Kick the Latch
  Kathryn Scanlan
• Burning Angel and Other Stories
  Lawrence Osborne
• Old God's Time
  Sebastian Barry
• Ordinary Human Failings
  Megan Nolan
• Small Worlds
  Caleb Azumah Nelson
• Forbidden Notebook
  Alba de Céspedes
• Bright Fear
  Mary Jean Chan

Auraist: The Best-Written Books of 2023, "the year's most stylishly written publications"

Literary fiction

• Big Swiss
  Jen Beagin
• Chrysalis
  Anna Metcalfe
• I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
  Lorrie Moore
• After Sappho
  Selby Wynn Schwartz
• Kit
  Megan Barker
• Open Throat
  Henry Hoke
• Prophet Song
  Paul Lynch
• Caret
  Adam Mars-Jones
• The Variations
  Patrick Langley
• America Fantastica
  Tim O'Brien
• Never Was
  H. Gareth Gavin
• All the Colour in the World
  C.S. Richardson
• Kick the Latch
  Kathryn Scanlan
• Pay As You Go
  Eskor David Johnson
• Moonrise Over New Jessup
  Jamila Minnicks
• Orbital
  Samantha Harvey
• Blackouts
  Justin Torres

Nonfiction

• Ways of Life

  Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists
  Laura Freeman
• Wish I Was Here

  An Anti-Memoir
  M. John Harrison
• Natural Light

  The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science
  Julian Bell
• Orwell

  The New Life
  D.J. Taylor
• Come Back in September

  A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
  Darryl Pinckney
• Retroland

  A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction
  Peter Kemp
• Party Lines

  Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain
  Ed Gillett
• Twist

  An American Girl
  Bertei Adele
• The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021: ‘Far away from Myself’
  Clinton Heylin
• How to Say Babylon

  A Memoir
  Safiya Sinclair
• Ordinary Notes
  Christina Sharpe
• Accidental Gods

  On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
  Anna Della Subin
• Taking Flight

  The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing
  Lev Parikian
• Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story

  Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
  Daniel Rachel

Speculative fiction (sci fi, fantasy, horror)

• Goliath
  Tochi Onyebuchi
• Spear
  Nicola Griffith
• Spear
  Nicola Griffith
• The Genesis of Misery
  Neon Yang
• Red Smoking Mirror
  Nick Hunt
• Pink Slime
  Fernanda Trías
• The Circumference of the World
  Lavie Tidhar
• Girlfriend on Mars
  Deborah Willis

Crime fiction/thrillers

• Code of the Hills
  Chris Offutt
• Kala
  Colin Walsh
• My Men
  Victoria Kielland
• Flags on the Bayou
  James Lee Burke
• Everybody Knows
  Jordan Harper