Readers’ favorite books of

2024

James

By Percival Everett,

Tap Dancing on Everest

By Mimi Zieman,

The Women

By Kristin Hannah,

Demon Copperhead

By Barbara Kingsolver,

North Woods

By Daniel Mason,

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By Gabrielle Zevin,

The Covenant of Water

By Abraham Verghese,

Project Hail Mary

By Andy Weir,

Fourth Wing

By Rebecca Yarros,

The Frozen River

By Ariel Lawhon,

Remarkably Bright Creatures

By Shelby Van Pelt,

Tom Lake

By Ann Patchett,

Lessons in Chemistry

By Bonnie Garmus,

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By James McBride,

The Wager

By David Grann,

Prophet Song

By Paul Lynch,

All Fours

By Miranda July,

The Ministry of Time

By Kaliane Bradley,

Babel

By R. F. Kuang,

Table for Two

By Amor Towles,

The Wedding People

By Alison Espach,

Hello Beautiful

By Ann Napolitano,

Tress of the Emerald Sea

By Brandon Sanderson,

The Lincoln Highway

By Amor Towles,

The Demon of Unrest

By Erik Larson,

Tell Me Everything

By Elizabeth Strout,

A Gentleman in Moscow

By Amor Towles,

The Song of Achilles

By Madeline Miller,

Piranesi

By Susanna Clarke,

The Name of the Wind

By Patrick Rothfuss,

Slow Horses

By Mick Herron,

Cloud Cuckoo Land

By Anthony Doerr,

An Immense World

By Ed Yong,

The Sentence

By Louise Erdrich,

The Will of the Many

By James Islington,

All the Colors of the Dark

By Chris Whitaker,

Margo's Got Money Troubles

By Rufi Thorpe,

Playground

By Richard Powers,

Funny Story

By Emily Henry,

Nexus

By Yuval Noah Harari,

Anxious People

By Fredrik Backman,

Pachinko

By Min Jin Lee,

Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury,

Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy,

The Dutch House

By Ann Patchett,

Dungeon Crawler Carl

By Matt Dinniman,

Still Life

By Sarah Winman,

Flowers For Algernon

By Daniel Keyes,

Trust

By Hernan Diaz,

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By Maggie Smith,

Yellowface

By R. F. Kuang,

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

By Heather Fawcett,

Romantic Comedy

By Curtis Sittenfeld,

The Vaster Wilds

By Lauren Groff,

The River We Remember

By William Kent Krueger,

Starter Villain

By John Scalzi,

The Reformatory

By Tananarive Due,

Absolution

By Alice McDermott,

The Bee Sting

By Paul Murray,

The Husbands

By Holly Gramazio,

The Briar Club

By Kate Quinn,

The Secret Hours

By Mick Herron,

The God of the Woods

By Liz Moore,

Love in the Archives

By Eileen Vorbach Collins,

The Golden Phoenix and the Blue Jackal

By Chris Mustache,

All the Light We Cannot See

By Anthony Doerr,

Circe

By Madeline Miller,

Regeneration

By Pat Barker,

Rebecca

By Daphne du Maurier,

1984

By George Orwell,

Where the Crawdads Sing

By Delia Owens,

Never Let Me Go

By Kazuo Ishiguro,

The Boys in the Boat

By Daniel James Brown,

All Systems Red

By Martha Wells,

Mistborn

By Brandon Sanderson,

The Silent Patient

By Alex Michaelides,

Pride and Prejudice

By Jane Austen,

The Hobbit

By J.R.R. Tolkien,

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By Toshikazu Kawaguchi,

Verity

By Colleen Hoover,

The Count of Monte Cristo

By Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (translator),

Six of Crows

By Leigh Bardugo,

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

By Taylor Jenkins Reid,

I Am Pilgrim

By Terry Hayes,

The Master and Margarita

By Mikhail Bulgakov, Richard Pevear (translator), + 1 more ⌄ Larissa Volokhonsky (translator)

A Man Called Ove

By Fredrik Backman,

It Ends with Us

By Colleen Hoover,

The Way of Kings

By Brandon Sanderson,

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

By Dennis E. Taylor,

Billy Summers

By Stephen King,

Horse

By Geraldine Brooks,

Rhythm of War

By Brandon Sanderson,

One Dark Window

By Rachel Gillig,

The Passenger

By Cormac McCarthy,

The Postcard

By Anne Berest, Tina Kover (translator),

Birnam Wood

By Eleanor Catton,

Fairy Tale

By Stephen King,

Holly

By Stephen King,

Mad Honey

By Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan,

Lady Tan's Circle of Women

By Lisa See,

Determined

By Robert M. Sapolsky,

The Eyes and the Impossible

By Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (illustrator),

All the Sinners Bleed

By S. A. Cosby,

Unruly

By David Mitchell,

The Comfort of Crows

By Margaret Renkl,

First Lie Wins

By Ashley Elston,

Nuclear War

By Annie Jacobsen,

Assistant to the Villain

By Hannah Nicole Maehrer,

Les Miserables

By Victor Hugo, Jillian Tamaki (illustrator), + 1 more ⌄ Christine Donougher (translator)

The Wide Wide Sea

By Hampton Sides,

The Light Eaters

By Zoë Schlanger,

You Are Here

By David Nicholls,

Eve

By Cat Bohannon,

Long Island

By Colm Tóibín,

The Hunter

By Tana French,

Red Side Story

By Jasper Fforde,

Murder Your Employer

By Rupert Holmes,

Time's Echo

By Jeremy Eichler,

Intermezzo

By Sally Rooney,

Orbital

By Samantha Harvey,

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By Kirsten Miller,

The Morning Star

By Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken (translator),

The Myth of Sisyphus

By Albert Camus,

Jane Eyre

By Charlotte Brontë,

The Alchemist

By Paulo Coelho,

Memoirs of Hadrian

By Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick,

Braiding Sweetgrass

By Robin Wall Kimmerer,

The Devil in the White City

By Erik Larson,

The Four Agreements

By Don Miguel Ruiz,

The Stranger

By Albert Camus,

Sapiens

By Yuval Noah Harari,

Factfulness

By Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, + 1 more ⌄ Ola Rosling

The Lord of the Rings

By J.R.R. Tolkien,

Atomic Habits

By James Clear,

Lonesome Dove

By Larry McMurtry,

Dune

By Frank Herbert,

The Ministry for the Future

By Kim Stanley Robinson,

Hamnet

By Maggie O'Farrell,

The Three-Body Problem

By Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (translator),

Dracula

By Bram Stoker,

The Lincoln Lawyer

By Michael Connelly,

The Bell Jar

By Sylvia Plath,

The Fifth Season

By N. K. Jemisin,

Wool

By Hugh Howey,

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

By Elisabeth Tova Bailey,

The Grapes of Wrath

By John Steinbeck,

Being Mortal

By Atul Gawande,

A Discovery of Witches

By Deborah Harkness,

Gates of Fire

By Steven Pressfield,

Gathering Moss

By Robin Wall Kimmerer,

Frankenstein

By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley,

The Shadow of the Wind

By Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lucia Graves (translator),

We the Animals

By Justin Torres,

Station Eleven

By Emily St. John Mandel,

The House on the Strand

By Daphne du Maurier,

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

By Becky Chambers,

The House in the Cerulean Sea

By TJ Klune,

Howl's Moving Castle

By Diana Wynne Jones,

11/22/63

By Stephen King,

The Lies of Locke Lamora

By Scott Lynch,

The Fault in Our Stars

By John Green,

Animal Farm

By George Orwell,

The Last House on Needless Street

By Catriona Ward,

The Snow Child

By Eowyn Ivey,

Outer Dark

By Cormac McCarthy,

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

By Becky Chambers,

My Brilliant Friend

By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translator),

The Catcher in the Rye

By J.D. Salinger,

The Sun Also Rises

By Ernest Hemingway,

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

By Neil Gaiman, Elise Hurst (illustrator),

Giovanni's Room

By James Baldwin,

The Selection

By Kiera Cass,

Fresh Water for Flowers