Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2024

• Aednan

  An Epic
  Linnea Axelsson
• All Fours
  Miranda July
• The Axeman's Carnival
  Catherine Chidgey
• Beautiful Days

  Stories
  Zach Williams
• Behind You Is the Sea
  Susan Muaddi Darraj
• The Book of George
  Kate Greathead
• Cahokia Jazz
  Francis Spufford
• Catalina
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Clear
  Carys Davies
• Come and Get It
  Kiley Reid
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• Enlightenment
  Sarah Perry
• Entitlement
  Rumaan Alam
• Great Expectations
  Vinson Cunningham
• Held
  Anne Michaels
• Herscht 07769
  László Krasznahorkai
• The Husbands
  Holly Gramazio
• I Cheerfully Refuse
  Leif Enger
• Intermezzo
  Sally Rooney
• Lazarus Man
  Richard Price
• Lesser Ruins
  Mark Haber
• Long Island
  Colm Tóibín
• Long Island Compromise
  Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• The Magnificent Ruins
  Nayantara Roy
• Margo's Got Money Troubles
  Rufi Thorpe
• Martyr!
  Kaveh Akbar
• Mice 1961
  Stacey Levine
• The Mighty Red
  Louise Erdrich
• The Most
  Jessica Anthony
• Neighbors and Other Stories
  Diane Oliver
• On the Calculation of Volume

  Book I
  Solvej Balle
• The Other Valley
  Scott Alexander Howard
• Our Evenings
  Alan Hollinghurst
• Real Life and Other Fictions
  Susan Coll
• Reboot
  Justin Taylor
• The Rich People Have Gone Away
  Regina Porter
• The Safekeep
  Yael van der Wouden
• Same As It Ever Was
  Claire Lombardo
• The Sequel
  Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Shy Creatures
  Clare Chambers
• Small Rain
  Garth Greenwell
• Someone Like Us
  Dinaw Mengestu
• The Spoiled Heart
  Sunjeev Sahota
• Swift River
  Essie J. Chambers
• Wandering Stars
  Tommy Orange
• The Waters
  Bonnie Jo Campbell
• Wild Houses
  Colin Barrett
• The Wildes

  A Novel in Five Acts
  Louis Bayard
• The Women Behind the Door
  Roddy Doyle
• Worry
  Alexandra Tanner