Year-End Lists

Harper’s Bazaar: The 44 Best Books of 2024, although I only count 43 (sorry to do a little tallying)

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

• The City and Its Uncertain Walls
  Haruki Murakami
• Intermezzo
  Sally Rooney
• Margo's Got Money Troubles
  Rufi Thorpe
• Real Americans
  Rachel Khong
• Adam & Evie's Matchmaking Tour
  Nora Nguyen
• The Divorcées
  Rowan Beaird
• Health and Safety

  A Breakdown
  Emily Witt
• The God of the Woods
  Liz Moore
• Black in Blues

  How a Color Tells the Story of My People
  Imani Perry
• Memory Piece
  Lisa Ko
• How to End a Love Story
  Yulin Kuang
• Didion and Babitz
  Lili Anolik
• The Book of Love
  Kelly Link
• Long Island Compromise
  Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• The Mighty Red
  Louise Erdrich
• Rental House
  Weike Wang
• City of Night Birds
  Juhea Kim
• James
  Percival Everett
• Sugar, Baby
  Celine Saintclare
• The Fetishist
  Katherine Min
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• Come and Get It
  Kiley Reid
• Greta & Valdin
  Rebecca K. Reilly
• Splinters

  Another Kind of Love Story
  Leslie Jamison
• Great Expectations
  Vinson Cunningham
• Fire Exit
  Morgan Talty
• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• Anita de Monte Laughs Last
  Xóchitl González
• Annie Bot
  Sierra Greer
• Worry
  Alexandra Tanner
• Who’s Afraid of Gender?
  Judith Butler
• The Age of Magical Overthinking

  Notes on Modern Irrationality
  Amanda Montell
• Little Rot
  Akwaeke Emezi
• All Fours
  Miranda July
• Exhibit
  R.O. Kwon
• Ambition Monster

  A Memoir
  Jennifer Romolini
• Tehrangeles
  Porochista Khakpour
• Blue Sisters
  Coco Mellors
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• Funny Story
  Emily Henry
• The Familiar
  Leigh Bardugo
• I Was a Teenage Slasher
  Stephen Graham Jones
• Parasol Against the Axe
  Helen Oyeyemi