Year-End Lists

Esquire: The 25 Best Books of 2024

• Rejection
  Tony Tulathimutte
• The Sequel
  Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Absolution
  Jeff VanderMeer
• The Extinction of Experience

  Being Human in a Disembodied World
  Christine Rosen
• By the Fire We Carry

  The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
  Rebecca Nagle
• Consent

  A Memoir
  Jill Ciment
• The Stardust Grail
  Yume Kitasei
• The Husbands
  Holly Gramazio
• The Winner
  Teddy Wayne
• Code Dependent

  Living in the Shadow of AI
  Madhumita Murgia
• Filterworld

  How Algorithms Flattened Culture
  Kyle Chayka
• Beautyland
  Marie-Helene Bertino
• The Bullet Swallower
  Elizabeth Gonzalez James
• The Book of Love
  Kelly Link
• I Heard Her Call My Name

  A Memoir of Transition
  Lucy Sante
• This American Ex-Wife

  How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
  Lyz Lenz
• Working in the 21st Century

  An Oral History of American Work in a Time of Social and Economic Transformation
  Mark Larson
• Splinters

  Another Kind of Love Story
  Leslie Jamison
• Whiskey Tender

  A Memoir
  Deborah Jackson Taffa
• Grief Is for People
  Sloane Crosley
• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• Great Expectations
  Vinson Cunningham
• Annie Bot
  Sierra Greer
• James
  Percival Everett
• Who’s Afraid of Gender?
  Judith Butler