“What are the best Science Fiction And Fantasy books released in 2024?” We looked at 209 of the top Science Fiction And Fantasy books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 75 books, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Science Fiction And Fantasy” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 130+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.

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Top 75 Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books From 2024

75.) A Magical Girl Retires written by Park Seolyeon

Lists It Appears On:

• Lit Hub
• Waterstones

74.) A Sunny Place for Shady People written by Mariana Enriquez

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Waterstones

73.) A Sweet Sting of Salt written by Rose Sutherland

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Goodreads

72.) Archangels of Funk written by Andrea Hairston

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Esquire

71.) Baby X written by Kira Peikoff

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads 2
• NPR

70.) Blood of the Old Kings (The Bleeding Empire, 1) written by Sung-il Kim, translated by Anton Hur

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• NPR

69.) Buried Deep and Other Stories written by Naomi Novik

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Polygon

68.) Calypso written by Oliver K Langmead

Lists It Appears On:

• Esquire
• The Guardian

67.) Cascade Failure: A Novel (Ambit’s Run #1) written by L. M. Sagas

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Geek Girl Authority

66.) Dead in Long Beach, California written by Venita Blackburn

Lists It Appears On:

• New York Times
• NPR

65.) Empire of the Damned (Empire of the Vampire, #2) written by Jay Kristoff

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• Waterstones

64.) Exodus: The Archimedes Engine written by Peter F. Hamilton

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Waterstones

63.) Faebound written by Saara El-Arifi

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Elle

62.) Five Broken Blades (The Broken Blades, #1) written by Mai Corland

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Goodreads

61.) Floating Hotel written by Grace Curtis

Lists It Appears On:

• Esquire
• Waterstones

60.) Glass Houses written by Madeline Ashby

Lists It Appears On:

• Esquire
• NPR

59.) Hum written by Helen Phillips

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• NYPL

58.) I Cheerfully Refuse written by Leif Enger

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Goodreads 2

57.) In Ascension written by Martin MacInnes

Lists It Appears On:

• Esquire
• Goodreads 2

56.) In Universes written by Emet North

Lists It Appears On:

• Esquire
• Lit Hub

55.) Lake of Souls written by Ann Leckie

Lists It Appears On:

• Esquire
• Geek Girl Authority

54.) Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel written by Kiersten White

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Waterstones

53.) Midnight Rooms written by Donyae Coles

Lists It Appears On:

• BookRiot
• Publishers Weekly

52.) Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) written by Waubgeshig Rice

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads 2
• Publishers Weekly

51.) Navola written by Paolo Bacigalupi

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• NYPL

50.) Nicked written by M. T. Anderson

Lists It Appears On:

• NPR
• Polygon

49.) She Who Knows written by Nnedi Okorafor

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Polygon

48.) Sky Full of Elephants written by Cebo Campbell

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Goodreads 2

47.) The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5) written by Deborah Harkness

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• Waterstones

46.) The Bog Wife written by Kay Chronister

Lists It Appears On:

• Lit Hub
• NPR

45.) The Fury of the Gods written by John Gwynne

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Indigo

44.) The Other Valley written by Scott Alexander Howard

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads 2
• Polygon

43.) The Teller of Small Fortunes written by Julie Leong

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Polygon

42.) The Woods All Black written by Lee Mandelo

Lists It Appears On:

• NPR
• Polygon

41.) Toward Eternity written by Anton Hur

Lists It Appears On:

• Geek Girl Authority
• The Guardian

40.) Voyage of the Damned written by Frances White

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• Waterstones

39.) When Among Crows written by Veronica Roth

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Goodreads

38.) When the Moon Hatched: A Novel written by Sarah A. Parker

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble

37.) A Song to Drown Rivers written by Ann Liang

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Goodreads
• Indigo

36.) An Academy for Liars written by Alexis Henderson

Lists It Appears On:

• BookRiot
• Goodreads
• NPR

35.) Beautyland written by Marie-Helene Bertino

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Lit Hub
• New York Times

34.) Blood Over Bright Haven written by M. L. Wang

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Elle
• Waterstones

33.) Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) written by Heather Fawcett

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Elle
• Goodreads

32.) Heir written by Sabaa Tahir

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• NPR
• Polygon

31.) Pink Slime written by Fernanda Trías, translated by Heather Cleary

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Esquire
• NPR

30.) Rakesfall written by Vajra Chandrasekera

Lists It Appears On:

• Esquire
• New York Times
• NPR

29.) Service Model written by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Goodreads 2
• Waterstones

28.) Sunbringer – The Fallen Gods Trilogy Book 2 written by Hannah Kaner

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Polygon
• Waterstones

27.) The Dead Cat Tail Assassins written by P. Djèlí Clark

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• NPR
• NYPL

26.) The Lost Story written by Meg Shaffer

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Goodreads
• NPR

25.) The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain written by Sofia Samatar

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Esquire
• New York Times

24.) The Siege of Burning Grass written by Premee Mohamed

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Esquire
• Geek Girl Authority

23.) The Spellshop written by Sarah Beth Durst

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Elle

22.) The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1) written by Robert Jackson Bennett

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Goodreads
• NPR

21.) The Warm Hands of Ghosts written by Katherine Arden

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Goodreads
• Waterstones

20.) Those Beyond the Wall written by Micaiah Johnson

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Esquire
• NPR

19.) A Fate Inked in Blood: Book One of the Saga of the Unfated written by Danielle L. Jensen

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Elle
• Polygon

18.) Annie Bot written by Sierra Greer

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Goodreads 2
• NPR
• Polygon

17.) Metal from Heaven written by August Clarke

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Geek Girl Authority
• NPR
• Publishers Weekly

16.) The Book of Doors: A Novel written by Gareth Brown

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Goodreads
• Indigo
• Waterstones

15.) The Butcher of the Forest written by Premee Mohamed

Lists It Appears On:

• Geek Girl Authority
• Lit Hub
• NPR
• Polygon

14.) The Fox Wife written by Yangsze Choo

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Geek Girl Authority
• Goodreads
• Polygon

13.) Wind and Truth (Stormlight Archive Series #5) written by Brandon Sanderson

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Elle
• Waterstones

12.) Absolution: A Southern Reach Novel written by Jeff Vandermeer

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Elle
• Geek Girl Authority
• Indigo
• Waterstones

11.) Long Live Evil (Time of Iron #1) written by Sarah Rees Brennan

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Geek Girl Authority
• Indigo
• NPR

10.) Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2) written by T.J. Klune

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Goodreads
• Indigo
• NPR

9.) The City in Glass written by Nghi Vo

Lists It Appears On:

• BookRiot
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Geek Girl Authority
• NPR
• Publishers Weekly

8.) The Stardust Grail written by Yume Kitasei

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Esquire
• Geek Girl Authority
• Goodreads 2
• NPR

7.) Someone You Can Build a Nest In written by John Wiswell

Lists It Appears On:

• BookRiot
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Geek Girl Authority
• Lit Hub
• NPR
• Polygon

6.) The Book of Love written by Kelly Link

Lists It Appears On:

• BookRiot
• Elle
• Lit Hub
• New York Times
• NPR
• Polygon

5.) The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur written by Lev Grossman

Lists It Appears On:

• Elle
• Goodreads
• Lit Hub
• New York Times
• NPR
• Polygon

4.) A Sorceress Comes to Call written by T. Kingfisher

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Elle
• Geek Girl Authority
• Goodreads
• NPR
• Polygon

3.) The Ministry of Time written by Kaliane Bradley

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Elle
• Esquire
• Geek Girl Authority
• Goodreads 2
• NPR
• The Guardian
• Waterstones

2.) The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War #1) written by James S. A. Corey

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Elle
• Esquire
• Geek Girl Authority
• Goodreads 2
• Indigo
• NYPL
• Publishers Weekly

1.) The Familiar written by Leigh Bardugo

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Elle
• Geek Girl Authority
• Goodreads
• New York Times
• NPR
• NYPL
• Polygon
• Waterstones

The 130+ Additional Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books Released In 2024

76) A Better World – Sarah Langan List: (NPR)

77) A Darkness Returns – The Dragonwar Saga Book 1 – Raymond E. Feist List: (Waterstones)

78) A Mask of Flies – Matthew Lyons List: (Lit Hub)

79) A Monsoon Rising – Thea Guanzon List: (Barnes & Noble)

80) A Short Walk Through a Wide World – Douglas Westerbeke List: (NPR)

81) Alien Clay – Adrian Tchaikovsky List: (Esquire)

82) American Rapture – CJ Leede List: (Lit Hub)

83) An Education in Malice – S.T. Gibson List: (Polygon)

84) Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant and the Villain, 2) – Hannah Nicole Maehrer List: (Amazon)

85) Asunder – Kerstin Hall List: (Geek Girl Authority)

86) Barrowbeck – Andrew Michael Hurley List: (Waterstones)

87) Blackheart Man – Nalo Hopkinson List: (NPR)

88) Bloodguard – Cecy Robson List: (Barnes & Noble)

89) Blue Lard – Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton List: (NPR)

90) Bride – Ali Hazelwood List: (NPR)

91) Cahokia Jazz – Francis Spufford List: (NPR)

92) Cuckoo – Gretchen Felker-Martin List: (NPR)

93) Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art (Twelve Tomorrows) – List: (Esquire)

94) Dragonfruit – Makiia Lucier List: (NPR)

95) Dreadful – Caitlin Rozakis List: (Barnes & Noble)

96) Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman List: (Lit Hub)

97) Earthflown: A Potable Study of Love and Collusion – Indigo Exclusive Edition – Frances Wren List: (Indigo)

98) Evocation: Book I in The Summoner’s Circle – S.T. Gibson List: (Waterstones)

99) Extinction – Douglas Preston List: (Goodreads 2)

100) Fate Breaker – Victoria Aveyard List: (Waterstones)

101) Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of Revolution – S. K. Ali List: (NPR)

102) Ghost Station – S.A. Barnes List: (Geek Girl Authority)

103) Gothikana – RuNyx List: (Barnes & Noble)

104) Green Frog – Gina Chung List: (NPR)

105) Haunt Sweet Home – Sarah Pinsker List: (NPR)

106) Heads Will Roll – Josh Winning List: (Waterstones)

107) Heartless Hunter – Kristen Ciccarelli List: (Elle)

108) Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch – Emily C. Hughes List: (NPR)

109) Horror Movie – Paul Tremblay List: (NPR)

110) House of Flame and Shadow – Sarah J. Maas List: (NPR)

111) How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying – Django Wexler List: (Polygon)

112) I Was A Teenage Slasher – Stephen Graham Jones List: (NPR)

113) I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom – Jason Pargin List: (Goodreads 2)

114) Immortal Dark – Tigest Girma List: (Elle)

115) In the Sight – Tobias Carroll List: (Lit Hub)

116) Itasca Books North Continent Ribbon – Ursula Whitcher List: (Esquire)

117) Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions – Nalo Hopkinson List: (Esquire)

118) Januaries – Olivie Blake List: (Waterstones)

119) Juice – Tim Winton List: (The Guardian)

120) King of Dead Things – Nevin Holness List: (Elle)

121) Kinning – Nisi Shawl List: (Elle)

122) Lady Macbeth – Ava Reid List: (Waterstones)

123) Lost Ark Dreaming – Suyi Davies Okungbowa List: (Geek Girl Authority)

124) Lunar Boy – Jes and Cin Wibowo List: (NPR)

125) Memorials – Richard Chizmar List: (Publishers Weekly)

126) Mirrored Heavens – Rebecca Roanhorse List: (Elle)

127) Model Home – Rivers Solomon List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

128) Mood Swings – Frankie Barnet List: (Elle)

129) New Adventures in Space Opera, edited by Jonathan Strahan – List: (Esquire)

130) Ninetails: Nine Tales – Sally Wen Mao List: (Elle)

131) Not a Speck of Light – Laird Barron List: (NPR)

132) Not Quite a Ghost – Anne Ursu List: (NPR)

133) On Vicious Worlds – Bethany Jacobs List: (Esquire)

134) Orbital – Samantha Harvey List: (Goodreads 2)

135) Ours – Phillip B. Williams List: (NPR)

136) Phantasma – Kaylie Smith List: (Barnes & Noble)

137) Private Rites – Julia Armfield List: (Polygon)

138) Queen B – Juno Dawson List: (Waterstones)

139) Queen of Dreams – Kit Rocha List: (BookRiot)

140) Real Americans – Rachel Khong List: (NPR)

141) Red Side Story – Jasper Fforde List: (Waterstones)

142) Remember You Will Die – Eden Robins List: (Esquire)

143) Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store – Miye Lee List: (Waterstones)

144) Revenant-X – David Wellington List: (Indigo)

145) Rewitched – Lucy Jane Wood List: (Indigo)

146) Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe – Darcie Little Badger, illustrated by Rovina Cai List: (NPR)

147) So Let Them Burn – Kamilah Cole List: (Elle)

148) Space Oddity – Catherynne M. Valente List: (Esquire)

149) Spark of the Everflame: A Novel – Penn Cole List: (Barnes & Noble)

150) Spin of Fate – A.A. Vora List: (Elle)

151) State of Paradise – Laura van den Berg List: (NPR)

152) Suggested in the Stars – Yōko Tawada List: (NYPL)

153) Swordcrossed – Freya Marske List: (BookRiot)

154) That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon – Kimberly Lemming List: (Amazon)

155) The Bad Ones – Melissa Albert List: (NPR)

156) The Blueprint – Rae Giana Rashad List: (Goodreads 2)

157) The Book of Elsewhere – Keanu Reeves List: (Waterstones)

158) The Book of Witching – C.J. Cooke List: (Waterstones)

159) The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy) – Mark Lawrence List: (Amazon)

160) The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, Book 5) – Nghi Vo List: (NPR)

161) The Bullet Swallower – Elizabeth Gonzalez James List: (NPR)

162) The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands – Sarah Brooks List: (Waterstones)

163) The Cemetery of Untold Stories – Julia Alvarez List: (NPR)

164) The City and Its Uncertain Walls – Haruki Murakami List: (NPR)

165) The Coven – Harper L. Woods List: (Barnes & Noble)

166) The Daughters’ War – Christopher Buehlman List: (Polygon)

167) The Diablo’s Curse – Gabe Cole Novoa List: (BookRiot)

168) The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years – Shubnum Khan List: (NPR)

169) The Family Experiment – John Marrs List: (Goodreads 2)

170) The Full Moon Coffee Shop – Mai Mochizuki, trans. from the Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood List: (Publishers Weekly)

171) The Games Gods Play – Abigail Owen List: (Barnes & Noble)

172) The Great When: A Long London Novel – Alan Moore List: (Waterstones)

173) The Husbands – Holly Gramazio List: (NPR)

174) The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles – Malka Older List: (Esquire)

175) The Jinn Daughter – Rania Hanna List: (Elle)

176) The Last Gifts of the Universe – Riley August List: (Waterstones)

177) The Last Hour Between Worlds – Melissa Caruso List: (NPR)

178) The Lotus Empire – Tasha Suri List: (BookRiot)

179) The Mars House – Natasha Pulley List: (Lit Hub)

180) The Masquerades of Spring: The Brand New Rivers of London Novella – Ben Aaronovitch List: (Waterstones)

181) The Night Ends with Fire (The Night Ends with Fire, #1) – K.X. Song List: (Goodreads)

182) The Night Guest – Hildur Knútsdóttir Mary Robinette Kowal List: (Lit Hub)

183) The Nightmare Box and Other Stories – Cynthia Gómez List: (NPR)

184) The Prisoner’s Throne – Holly Black List: (Elle)

185) The Psychographist – Carson Winter List: (Lit Hub)

186) The Ragpicker – Joel Dane List: (Esquire)

187) The Songbird and the Heart of Stone – Carissa Broadbent List: (Barnes & Noble)

188) The Stars Are Dying – Chloe C. Peñaranda List: (Barnes & Noble)

189) The Storm Beneath the World – Michael R. Fletcher List: (Polygon)

190) The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn, Vol. 1 – Tri Vuong List: (Polygon)

191) The Veiled Kingdom (The Veiled Kingdom Series) – Holly Renee List: (Amazon)

192) The Wings Upon Her Back – Samantha Mills List: (Esquire)

193) These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart – Izzy Wasserstein List: (Esquire)

194) This Great Hemisphere – Mateo Askaripour List: (NPR)

195) Three Eight One – Aliya Whiteley List: (The Guardian)

196) Throne of Secrets – Kerri Maniscalco List: (Barnes & Noble)

197) Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction – Sonia Sulaiman List: (NPR)

198) Time’s Agent – Brenda Peynado List: (Esquire)

199) Tiny Threads – Lilliam Rivera List: (Lit Hub)

200) Under the Eye of the Big Bird – Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda List: (Esquire)

201) Vilest Things: A Novel – Chloe Gong List: (Barnes & Noble)

202) Where I End – Sophie White List: (Lit Hub)

203) Where the Library Hides – Isabel Ibañez List: (Elle)

204) Womb City – Tlotlo Tsamaase List: (Elle)

205) Wrath of the Triple Goddess – Rick Riordan List: (Geek Girl Authority)

206) You Dreamed of Empires – Álvaro Enrigue List: (NPR)

207) You Like It Darker – Stephen King List: (Waterstones)

208) Your Utopia – Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur) List: (Esquire)

209) Yours for the Taking – Gabrielle Korn List: (Goodreads 2)

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