Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

Books
City of Night Birds - Juhea Kim

Best Books of 2024 San Francisco Chronicle

Worry - Alexandra Tanner

The 24 Best Books of 2024 BBC Culture

James - Percival Everett

The 10 Best Books of 2024 The i Paper: Anna Bonet

Alphabetical Diaries - Sheila Heti

The Best Books of 2024 Our Culture

Colored Television - Danzy Senna

The Best Novels of 2024 Paste

Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar

Best Books of 2024 Passerby

Table for Two - Amor Towles

The Best Books of 2024 Minneapolis Star Tribune

Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange

The 44 Best Books of 2024 Harper’s Bazaar

Colored Television - Danzy Senna

Top Books of 2024 Here & Now: Traci Thomas

The Ministry of Time - Kaliane Bradley

The 10 Best Fiction Books Released in 2024 You Magazine

The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt

Favorite Books of 2024 Barack Obama

Stone Yard Devotional - Charlotte Wood

The Best (New) Books I Read in 2024 Jezebel: Nora Biette-Timmons

Ordinary Human Failings - Megan Nolan

The Best Books of 2024 Vogue

Colored Television - Danzy Senna

The 30 Best Books of 2024 New York Post

Private Rites - Julia Armfield

The Best Books of 2024 Dazed

Wandering Stars - Tommy Orange

The Best Books of 2024 Boston Globe

Martyr! - Kaveh Akbar

Favourite Books of 2024 The Skinny

James - Percival Everett

10 Best Books of 2024 California Review of Books

The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Best Nonfiction of 2024 Electric Lit

The Barn - Wright Thompson

The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Beautyland - Marie-Helene Bertino

Best Novels of 2024 Electric Lit

The God of the Woods - Liz Moore

The Best Books of 2024 Fresh Air: Maureen Corrigan

James - Percival Everett

The 15 Best Books of 2024 Los Angeles Times

All Fours - Miranda July

The 10 Best Books of 2024 Slate: Dan Kois