Readers’ favorite reads 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,

Remarkably Bright Creatures

By Shelby Van Pelt,

The Covenant of Water

By Abraham Verghese,

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By Gabrielle Zevin,

Fourth Wing

By Rebecca Yarros,

Project Hail Mary

By Andy Weir,

Tom Lake

By Ann Patchett,

All Fours

By Miranda July,

The Frozen River

By Ariel Lawhon,

Lessons in Chemistry

By Bonnie Garmus,

The Ministry of Time

By Kaliane Bradley,

The Wedding People

By Alison Espach,

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By James McBride,

Prophet Song

By Paul Lynch,

Babel

By R. F. Kuang,

Table for Two

By Amor Towles,

The Wager

By David Grann,

Margo's Got Money Troubles

By Rufi Thorpe,

Tell Me Everything

By Elizabeth Strout,

Hello Beautiful

By Ann Napolitano,

Tress of the Emerald Sea

By Brandon Sanderson,

The Will of the Many

By James Islington,

All the Colors of the Dark

By Chris Whitaker,

The God of the Woods

By Liz Moore,

A Gentleman in Moscow

By Amor Towles,

The Song of Achilles

By Madeline Miller,

Piranesi

By Susanna Clarke,

Slow Horses

By Mick Herron,

Cloud Cuckoo Land

By Anthony Doerr,

The Sentence

By Louise Erdrich,

The Lincoln Highway

By Amor Towles,

Yellowface

By R. F. Kuang,

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

By Heather Fawcett,

The Bee Sting

By Paul Murray,

The Demon of Unrest

By Erik Larson,

Playground

By Richard Powers,

Funny Story

By Emily Henry,

Martyr!

By Kaveh Akbar,

Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy,

The Name of the Wind

By Patrick Rothfuss,

Mistborn

By Brandon Sanderson,

A Little Life

By Hanya Yanagihara,

An Immense World

By Ed Yong,

Horse

By Geraldine Brooks,

Romantic Comedy

By Curtis Sittenfeld,

The Vaster Wilds

By Lauren Groff,

The Briar Club

By Kate Quinn,

The Hunter

By Tana French,

Nexus

By Yuval Noah Harari,

Intermezzo

By Sally Rooney,

Anxious People

By Fredrik Backman,

Pachinko

By Min Jin Lee,

Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury,

Never Let Me Go

By Kazuo Ishiguro,

All Systems Red

By Martha Wells,

Six of Crows

By Leigh Bardugo,

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

By Taylor Jenkins Reid,

The Dutch House

By Ann Patchett,

Dungeon Crawler Carl

By Matt Dinniman,

The Way of Kings

By Brandon Sanderson,

Still Life

By Sarah Winman,

Flowers For Algernon

By Daniel Keyes,

Trust

By Hernan Diaz,

The Postcard

By Anne Berest, Tina Kover (translator),

Birnam Wood

By Eleanor Catton,

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By Maggie Smith,

Fairy Tale

By Stephen King,

Holly

By Stephen King,

The River We Remember

By William Kent Krueger,

Starter Villain

By John Scalzi,

The Reformatory

By Tananarive Due,

Absolution

By Alice McDermott,

The Anxious Generation

By Jonathan Haidt,

The Husbands

By Holly Gramazio,

The Light Eaters

By Zoë Schlanger,

Long Island

By Colm Tóibín,

The Secret Hours

By Mick Herron,

Death at the Sign of the Rook

By Kate Atkinson,

Love in the Archives

By Eileen Vorbach Collins,

Orbital

By Samantha Harvey,

Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By Kirsten Miller,

The Golden Phoenix and the Blue Jackal

By Chris Mustache,

Moby-Dick

By Herman Melville,

Braiding Sweetgrass

By Robin Wall Kimmerer,

All the Light We Cannot See

By Anthony Doerr,

Circe

By Madeline Miller,

Sapiens

By Yuval Noah Harari,

Regeneration

By Pat Barker,

The Road

By Cormac McCarthy,

Atomic Habits

By James Clear,

Cutting for Stone

By Abraham Verghese,

Hamnet

By Maggie O'Farrell,

Rebecca

By Daphne du Maurier,

1984

By George Orwell,

Where the Crawdads Sing

By Delia Owens,

The Boys in the Boat

By Daniel James Brown,

The Shadow of the Wind

By Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lucia Graves (translator),

Station Eleven

By Emily St. John Mandel,

The Silent Patient

By Alex Michaelides,

Howl's Moving Castle

By Diana Wynne Jones,

11/22/63

By Stephen King,

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),

My Brilliant Friend

By Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein (translator),

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

By Neil Gaiman, Elise Hurst (illustrator),

I Am Pilgrim

By Terry Hayes,

The Master and Margarita

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

The Maid

By Nita Prose,

A Man Called Ove

By Fredrik Backman,

The Secret History

By Donna Tartt,

Between Two Fires

By Christopher Buehlman,

It Ends with Us

By Colleen Hoover,

On Tyranny

By Timothy Snyder,

Small Things Like These

By Claire Keegan,

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

By Dennis E. Taylor,

Nettle & Bone

By T. Kingfisher,

Billy Summers

By Stephen King,

The Kaiju Preservation Society

By John Scalzi,

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

By Megan Bannen,

Rhythm of War

By Brandon Sanderson,

One Dark Window

By Rachel Gillig,

The Passenger

By Cormac McCarthy,

Mad Honey

By Jodi Picoult, Jennifer Finney Boylan,

Lady Tan's Circle of Women

By Lisa See,

In Memoriam

By Alice Winn,

The Spear Cuts Through Water

By Simon Jimenez,

Determined

By Robert M. Sapolsky,

The Eyes and the Impossible

By Dave Eggers, Shawn Harris (illustrator),

All the Sinners Bleed

By S. A. Cosby,

None of This is True

By Lisa Jewell,

The Tainted Cup

By Robert Jackson Bennett,

Impossible Creatures

By Katherine Rundell,

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,

Good Material

By Dolly Alderton,

Wellness

By Nathan Hill,

Les Miserables

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

The Wide Wide Sea

By Hampton Sides,

You Are Here

By David Nicholls,

Eve

By Cat Bohannon,

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By Amy Tan,

Red Side Story

By Jasper Fforde,

Murder Your Employer

By Rupert Holmes,

Shakespeare

By Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea,

Time's Echo

By Jeremy Eichler,

The Friday Afternoon Club

By Griffin Dunne,

Same As It Ever Was

By Claire Lombardo,

Quicksilver

By Callie Hart,

The Morning Star

By Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken (translator),

The Myth of Sisyphus

By Albert Camus,

Jane Eyre

By Charlotte Brontë,

The Rape of Nanking

By Iris Chang,

The Invention of Nature

By Andrea Wulf,

The Alchemist

By Paulo Coelho,

Memoirs of Hadrian

By Marguerite Yourcenar, Grace Frick,

The Devil in the White City

By Erik Larson,

The Four Agreements

By Don Miguel Ruiz,

The Overstory

By Richard Powers,

The Stranger

By Albert Camus,

Factfulness

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

The Lord of the Rings

By J.R.R. Tolkien,

The Body Keeps the Score

By Bessel Van Der Kolk,

Lonesome Dove