Best books of 2024

119 readers and authors share their 3 favorite reads of the year.

Best nonfiction books of 2024
Book cover of An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Book cover of Memoirs of Hadrian Book cover of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Best fiction books of 2024
Book cover of James Book cover of Demon Copperhead Book cover of Memoirs of Hadrian
Best kids books of 2024
Book cover of Jane Eyre Book cover of This Is Sadie Book cover of Out of My Mind
Best business books of 2024
Book cover of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need Book cover of Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High Book cover of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Best crime books of 2024
Book cover of Slow Horses Book cover of Killing Floor Book cover of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Best fantasy books of 2024
Book cover of Parable of the Sower Book cover of East of Eden Book cover of Uprooted
Best historical fiction books of 2024
Book cover of James Book cover of Demon Copperhead Book cover of Memoirs of Hadrian
Best history books of 2024
Book cover of Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster Book cover of Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Book cover of Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
Best mystery books of 2024
Book cover of Slow Horses Book cover of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Book cover of Killing Floor
Best romance books of 2024
Book cover of Tom Lake Book cover of Jane Eyre Book cover of The Book of Lost Names
Best science fiction books of 2024
Book cover of Parable of the Sower Book cover of Never Let Me Go Book cover of Project Hail Mary
Best thriller books of 2024
Book cover of Slow Horses Book cover of The Spy Who Came in From the Cold Book cover of Killing Floor
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