“What are the best Fiction books released in 2024?” We looked at 440 of the top Fiction books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 53 books, all appearing on 4 or more “Best Fiction” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 375+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.

All of the books have Amazon affiliate links attached to them, but I will be building out Bookshop versions of these lists HERE in the next week for those who would rather support a local book store. Honestly, just use the bookshop link for books (Or even better go in person somewhere). If you are going to buy something else expensive from Amazon, feel free to click on the link before buying so I get an affiliate percentage, but these are the only articles I post on here each year, so I don’t expect to make any real money from this site anymore. I’ve just made these articels for enough years in a row that I can’t stop now. Plus I like using to see what books I missed or need to get myself.

Our other Best Of 2024 Articles:

• The Best Art, Photography, And Coffee Table Books
• The Best AudioBooks
• The Best Biography And Memoir Books
• The Best Graphic Novels And Comics
• The Best Cookbooks
• The Best Fiction Books
• The Best Books (All Catergories)
• The Best History Books
• The Best Kids, Children, and Youth Books
• The Best Mystery, Horror, and Thriller Books
• The Best Nonfiction Books
• The Best Picture Books
• The Best Poetry Books
• The Best Science And Nature Books
• The Best Science Fiction And Fantasy Books
• The Best Young Adult Books

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Top 53 Best Fiction Books From 2024

53.) Beautyland written by Marie-Helene Bertino

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Electric Lit
• New York Times
• TIME

52.) Blue Sisters written by Coco Mellors

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Goodreads
• Independent
• Waterstones

51.) Come and Get It written by Kiley Reid

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• NPR
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post

50.) Fire Exit written by Morgan Talty

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• NPR
• The New Yorker
• TIME

49.) Funny Story written by Emily Henry

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Bookshop Santa Cruz 2
• New York Times
• Waterstones

48.) Good Material written by Dolly Alderton

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Goodreads
• Indigo 2
• New York Times

47.) Held written by Anne Michaels

Lists It Appears On:

• The Guardian
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

46.) Neighbors and Other Stories written by Diane Oliver

Lists It Appears On:

• New York Times
• STLPR
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post

45.) Same As It Ever Was written by Claire Lombardo

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Goodreads
• NPR
• Washington Post

44.) Sandwich written by Catherine Newman

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Goodreads
• NPR

43.) Swift River written by Essie Chambers

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• NPR
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post

42.) Table for Two: Fictions written by Amor Towles

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• NPR
• Star Tribune
• Waterstones

41.) The Heart in Winter written by Kevin Barry

Lists It Appears On:

• Listener
• Star Tribune
• The Guardian
• Waterstones

40.) This Strange Eventful History written by Claire Messud

Lists It Appears On:

• BookPage
• Publishers Weekly
• The Globe
• The New Yorker

39.) Worry written by Alexandra Tanner

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• NPR
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post

38.) You Dreamed of Empires written by Álvaro Enrigue

Lists It Appears On:

• New York Times
• NYPL
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker

37.) Caledonian Road written by Andrew O’Hagan

Lists It Appears On:

• Independent
• Listener
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker

36.) Glorious Exploits written by Ferdia Lennon

Lists It Appears On:

• Independent
• NYPL
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• Waterstones

35.) Great Expectations written by Vinson Cunningham

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• New York Times
• NPR
• Publishers Weekly
• Washington Post

34.) Margo’s Got Money Troubles written by Rufi Thorpe

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Goodreads
• NPR
• Washington Post

33.) My Friends written by Hisham Matar

Lists It Appears On:

• BookPage
• NPR
• The Globe
• The New Yorker
• Waterstones

32.) Someone Like Us written by Dinaw Mengestu

Lists It Appears On:

• BookPage
• New York Times
• Publishers Weekly
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post

31.) The Anthropologists written by Ayşegül Savaş

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• Publishers Weekly
• The New Yorker
• TIME
• Vulture

30.) The Book of Love written by Kelly Link

Lists It Appears On:

• BookRiot
• New York Times
• The New Yorker
• TIME
• Vulture

29.) The City and Its Uncertain Walls written by Haruki Murakami

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Indigo
• The Globe
• The New Yorker
• Waterstones

28.) Wild Houses written by Colin Barrett

Lists It Appears On:

• New York Times
• Publishers Weekly
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post

27.) You Are Here written by David Nicholls

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Independent
• Listener
• The Guardian
• Waterstones

26.) Clear written by Carys Davies

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

25.) Enlightenment written by Sarah Perry

Lists It Appears On:

• NPR
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

24.) Orbital written by Samantha Harvey

Lists It Appears On:

• Financial Times
• Listener
• STLPR
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• Waterstones

23.) Real Americans written by Rachel Khong

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Goodreads
• Independent
• Indigo 2
• NPR

22.) Tell Me Everything written by Elizabeth Strout

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Financial Times
• Goodreads
• Listener
• NPR
• Waterstones

21.) The Empusium A Health Resort Horror Story written by Olga Tokarczuk

Lists It Appears On:

• BookPage
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• New York Times
• Readings
• The New Yorker
• Waterstones

20.) The Ministry of Time written by Kaliane Bradley

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Independent
• Indigo 2
• Listener
• The Globe
• The New Yorker

19.) Entitlement written by Rumaan Alam

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Listener
• NPR
• The Globe
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

18.) Rejection written by Tony Tulathimutte

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Electric Lit
• New York Times
• NPR
• NYPL
• Publishers Weekly
• The New Yorker

17.) Small Rain written by Garth Greenwell

Lists It Appears On:

• BookPage
• Financial Times
• NPR
• NYPL
• Publishers Weekly
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post

16.) The God of the Woods written by Liz Moore

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• BookRiot
• New York Times
• Star Tribune
• STLPR
• The Globe
• The New Yorker

15.) Long Island Compromise written by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Financial Times
• New York Times
• NPR
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

14.) The Coin written by Yasmin Zaher

Lists It Appears On:

• Electric Lit
• Independent
• New York Times
• NYPL
• Publishers Weekly
• The New Yorker
• TIME
• Vulture

13.) Creation Lake written by Rachel Kushner

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Independent
• New York Times
• NPR
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

12.) Headshot written by Rita Bullwinkel

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Independent
• New York Times
• NPR
• Readings
• Star Tribune
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker

11.) Long Island written by Colm Tóibín

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Listener
• Readings
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

10.) Playground written by Richard Powers

Lists It Appears On:

• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Goodreads
• Indigo
• Listener
• NPR
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker
• Waterstones

9.) Wandering Stars written by Tommy Orange

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Electric Lit
• Goodreads
• Indigo
• New York Times
• The Guardian
• Washington Post

8.) Colored Television written by Danzy Senna

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Electric Lit
• Goodreads
• Indigo 2
• New York Times
• NPR
• The Globe
• The New Yorker
• Vulture

7.) Our Evenings written by Alan Hollinghurst

Lists It Appears On:

• BookPage
• Financial Times
• Listener
• New York Times
• Publishers Weekly
• Readings
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

6.) The Mighty Red written by Louise Erdrich

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• BookPage
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Goodreads
• Indigo 2
• New York Times
• NPR
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post

5.) The Safekeep written by Yael van der Wouden

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• BookPage
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Listener
• New York Times
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

4.) All Fours written by Miranda July

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• BookPage
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Electric Lit
• Goodreads
• Independent
• Listener
• New York Times
• NPR
• Readings
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker
• TIME
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

3.) Martyr! written by Kaveh Akbar

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• BookRiot
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Electric Lit
• Goodreads
• Indigo
• New York Times
• NPR
• NYPL
• STLPR
• The Globe
• The New Yorker
• TIME
• Vulture
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

2.) Intermezzo written by Sally Rooney

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Electric Lit
• Financial Times
• Goodreads
• Independent
• Indigo
• Indigo 2
• Listener
• New York Times
• NPR
• Publishers Weekly
• Readings
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post
• Waterstones

1.) James: A Novel written by Percival Everett

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• BookPage
• BookRiot
• Bookshop Santa Cruz
• Electric Lit
• Financial Times
• Independent
• Indigo
• Listener
• New York Times
• Readings
• Star Tribune
• STLPR
• The Globe
• The Guardian
• The New Yorker
• TIME
• Waterstones

The 375+ Additional Best Fiction Books Released In 2024

54) Behind You Is the Sea – Susan Muaddi Darraj List: (NPR, The New Yorker, Washington Post)

55) Butter – Asako Yuzuki List: (Independent, Readings, The New Yorker)

56) Greta & Valdin – Rebecca K. Reilly List: (Goodreads, NPR, Waterstones)

57) Here One Moment: A Novel – Liane Moriarty List: (Goodreads, Indigo 2, NPR)

58) Highway Thirteen – Fiona McFarlane List: (Listener, Star Tribune, The New Yorker)

59) I Cheerfully Refuse – Leif Enger List: (Amazon, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Washington Post)

60) My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two – Emil Ferris List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2, New York Times, The New Yorker)

61) Piglet – Lottie Hazell List: (New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker)

62) Poor Deer – Claire Oshetsky List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, NPR, The New Yorker)

63) Praiseworthy – Alexis Wright List: (New York Times, Publishers Weekly, The Globe)

64) Shy Creatures – Clare Chambers List: (Independent, Washington Post, Waterstones)

65) The Life Impossible – Matt Haig List: (Barnes & Noble, Indigo 2, Waterstones)

66) The Most – Jessica Anthony List: (Barnes & Noble, NPR, Washington Post)

67) The Sequel – Jean Hanff Korelitz List: (New York Times, The New Yorker, Washington Post)

68) The Silence of the Choir – Mohamed Mbougar Sarr List: (BookRiot, New York Times, The New Yorker)

69) The Wedding People – Alison Espach List: (Amazon, Bookshop Santa Cruz, Goodreads)

70) There Are Rivers In The Sky – Elif Shafak List: (Amazon, Listener, Waterstones)

71) Wrong Norma – Anne Carson List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, Listener, The New Yorker)

72) A Sunny Place for Shady People – Mariana Enriquez List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2, Publishers Weekly)

73) Aednan – Linnea Axelsson, translated by Saskia Vogel List: (The Guardian, Washington Post)

74) Anita de Monte Laughs Last – Xochitl Gonzalez List: (Electric Lit, NPR)

75) Beautiful Days – Zach Williams List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

76) Before We Forget Kindness – Toshikazu Kawaguchi List: (Barnes & Noble, Indigo 2)

77) Blood Test – Charles Baxter List: (NPR, The New Yorker)

78) By Any Other Name – Jodi Picoult List: (Amazon, Waterstones)

79) Cahokia Jazz – Francis Spufford List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

80) Catalina – Karla Cornejo Villavicencio List: (NPR, Washington Post)

81) Dayspring – Anthony Oliveira List: (Indigo, The Globe)

82) Dead in Long Beach, California – Venita Blackburn List: (New York Times, NPR)

83) Exhibit – R. O. Kwon List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, Electric Lit)

84) Forest of Noise – Mosab Abu Toha List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

85) Forgottenness – Tanja Maljartschuk, translated by Zenia Tompkins List: (NPR, The New Yorker)

86) Fourteen Days – Margaret Atwood List: (The New Yorker, Waterstones)

87) Fury: A Novel – Clyo Mendoza List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, Publishers Weekly)

88) Gabriel’s Moon – William Boyd List: (Listener, Waterstones)

89) Ghostroots – Pemi Aguda List: (New York Times, TIME)

90) God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer – Joseph Earl Thomas List: (NPR, Publishers Weekly)

91) Godwin – Joseph O’Neill List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

92) Gretel and the Great War – Adam Ehrlich Sachs List: (NYPL, The New Yorker)

93) Hair for Men – Michelle Winters List: (Indigo 2, The Globe)

94) Help Wanted – Adelle Waldman List: (NPR, The New Yorker)

95) Here We Go Again – Alison Cochrun List: (BookRiot, Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

96) I Hope This Finds You Well – Natalie Sue List: (Goodreads, NPR)

97) In Ascension – Martin MacInnes List: (The Globe, The New Yorker)

98) Juice – Tim Winton List: (Listener, Readings)

99) Lazarus Man – Richard Price List: (Publishers Weekly, Washington Post)

100) Lesser Ruins – Mark Haber List: (NYPL, Washington Post)

101) Malas – Marcela Fuentes List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, Electric Lit)

102) Memory Piece – Lisa Ko List: (Electric Lit, NPR)

103) Mina’s Matchbox – Yoko Ogawa List: (BookPage, The New Yorker)

104) Model Home – Rivers Solomon List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2, The New Yorker)

105) Modern Poetry – Diane Seuss List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

106) My Favourite Mistake – Marian Keyes List: (Independent, Waterstones)

107) Old King – Maxim Loskutoff List: (NPR, Publishers Weekly)

108) On the Calculation of Volume – Solvej Balle List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

109) Parade – Rachel Cusk List: (The Globe, The New Yorker)

110) Private Rites – Julia Armfield List: (Independent, Waterstones)

111) Reboot – Justin Taylor List: (New York Times, Washington Post)

112) Rosarita – Anita Desai List: (Financial Times, The Guardian)

113) Scaffolding – Lauren Elkin List: (Readings, The New Yorker)

114) Someone You Can Build a Nest In – John Wiswell List: (BookRiot, Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

115) Stone Yard Devotional – Charlotte Wood List: (The Guardian, Waterstones)

116) The Alternatives – Caoilinn Hughes List: (Listener, Readings)

117) The Book of George – Kate Greathead List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

118) The City in Glass – Nghi Vo List: (BookRiot, Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

119) The Echoes – Evie Wyld List: (Readings, The Guardian)

120) The Extinction of Irena Rey – Jennifer Croft List: (Electric Lit, NPR)

121) The Familiar – Leigh Bardugo List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2, New York Times)

122) The Fetishist – Katherine Min List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, The New Yorker)

123) The History of Sound: Stories – Ben Shattuck List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, NPR)

124) The Hunter – Tana French List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2, New York Times)

125) The Husbands – Holly Gramazio List: (BookRiot, Washington Post)

126) The Land in Winter – Andrew Miller List: (The Guardian, Waterstones)

127) The Other Valley – Scott Alexander Howard List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz, Washington Post)

128) The Pairing – Casey McQuiston List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2, New York Times)

129) The Proof of My Innocence – Jonathan Coe List: (The Guardian, Waterstones)

130) The Rich People Have Gone Away – Regina Porter List: (The New Yorker, Washington Post)

131) The Spoiled Heart – Sunjeev Sahota List: (Publishers Weekly, Washington Post)

132) The Voyage Home – Pat Barker List: (Financial Times, Waterstones)

133) The Women Behind the Door – Roddy Doyle List: (The Guardian, Washington Post)

134) The Women: A Novel – Kristin Hannah List: (Amazon, Barnes & Noble)

135) Think Again – Jacqueline Wilson List: (Independent, Waterstones)

136) Time Of The Child – Niall Williams List: (Listener, Star Tribune)

137) Whale Fall – Elizabeth O’Connor List: (New York Times, The New Yorker)

138) Women’s Hotel – Daniel M. Lavery List: (NPR, The New Yorker)

139) Woo Woo – Ella Baxter List: (NPR, Readings)

140) You Should Be So Lucky – Cat Sebastian List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2, New York Times)

141) 17 Years Later – JP Pomare List: (Listener)

142) A Film in Which I Play Everyone Poems – Mary Jo Bang List: (New York Times)

143) A Great Country – Shilpi Somaya Gowda List: (Indigo 2)

144) A House Built On Sand – Tina Shaw List: (Listener)

145) A Love Song for Ricki Wilde – Tia Williams List: (STLPR)

146) A Sorceress Comes to Call – T. Kingfisher List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

147) A Way to Be Happy – Caroline Adderson List: (The Globe)

148) After Annie – Anna Quindlen List: (Barnes & Noble)

149) All the Colors of the Dark: A Read with Jenna Pick – Chris Whitaker List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

150) American Spirits – Russell Banks List: (NPR)

151) An Academy for Liars – Alexis Henderson List: (BookRiot)

152) An Image of My Name Enters America – Lucy Ives  List: (Vulture)

153) And So I Roar: A Novel – Abi Daré List: (Amazon)

154) Annie Bot – Sierra Greer List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

155) Ask Me Again – Clare Sestanovich List: (The New Yorker)

156) Babe in the Woods or, The Art of Getting Lost – Julie Heffernan List: (BookPage)

157) Babylonia – Costanza Casati List: (Waterstones)

158) Bad Cree VERSION FRANÇAISE – Jessica Johns List: (Indigo 2)

159) Bad Habit – Alana S Portero, translated by Mara Faye Lethem List: (The Guardian)

160) Banal Nightmare – Halle Butler List: (NYPL)

161) Batshit Seven – Sheung-King List: (The Globe)

162) Be at Peace – List: (The Guardian)

163) Bear – Julia Phillips List: (NPR)

164) Big Time – Jordan Prosser List: (Listener)

165) Bitter and Sweet: A Lowcountry Novel – Rhonda McKnight List: (STLPR)

166) Bitter Water Opera – Nicolette Polek List: (The New Yorker)

167) Black River – Nilanjana Roy List: (New York Times)

168) Blade by Blade – Danusha Laméris List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

169) Blood on the Brain – Esinam Bediako List: (NPR)

170) Blood Over Bright Haven – M. L. Wang List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

171) Bluff – Danez Smith List: (New York Times)

172) Blurry – Dash Shaw List: (STLPR)

173) Boy Island – Leo Fox List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

174) Bride – Ali Hazelwood List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

175) Bright I Burn – Molly Aitken List: (The New Yorker)

176) Bright Objects – Ruby Todd List: (The New Yorker)

177) Broughtupsy – Christina Cooke List: (Electric Lit)

178) Buried Deep and Other Stories – Naomi Novik List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

179) Burn Man – Mark Anthony Jarman List: (The Globe)

180) Camp Zero – Michelle Min Sterling List: (The Globe)

181) Canoes – Maylis De Kerangal List: (The New Yorker)

182) Cascade Failure: A Novel (Ambit’s Run #1) – L. M. Sagas List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

183) Change – Édouard Louis List: (The New Yorker)

184) Choice – List: (The Guardian)

185) Cinema Love – Jiaming Tang List: (Electric Lit)

186) City of Laughter – Temim Fruchter List: (Electric Lit)

187) Clean – Alia Trabucco Zerán List: (The New Yorker)

188) Code Noir – Canisia Lubrin List: (The Globe)

189) Concerning the Future of Souls – Joy Williams List: (The New Yorker)

190) Crooked Seeds – Karen Jennings List: (The Guardian)

191) Curiosities – Anne Fleming List: (The Globe)

192) De si remarquables creatures – Shelby Van Pelt List: (Indigo 2)

193) Dear Dickhead – Virginie Despentes List: (The New Yorker)

194) Death At The Sign Of The Rook – Kate Atkinson List: (Listener)

195) Death by a Thousand Cuts – Shashi Bhat List: (The Globe)

196) Delirious – Damien Wilkins List: (Listener)

197) Devil Is Fine – John Vercher List: (Electric Lit)

198) Dogs and Monsters – Mark Haddon List: (The Guardian)

199) Dusk – Robbie Arnott List: (Readings)

200) Elevator in Sài Gòn – Thuân List: (The New Yorker)

201) Elise and the New Partisans – Tardi Dominique Grange Jenna Allen & 1 more List: (The New Yorker)

202) Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) – Heather Fawcett List: (The Globe)

203) Evenings and Weekends – Oisín McKenna List: (Independent)

204) Everybody Knows – Jordan Harper List: (Listener)

205) Fang Fiction: A Novel – Kate Stayman-London List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

206) Faraway the Southern Sky – Joseph Andras List: (The New Yorker)

207) Final Cut – Charles Burns List: (The New Yorker)

208) Flint Kill Creek – Joyce Carol Oates List: (The New Yorker)

209) Flying Through Water – Mamle Wolo List: (NPR)

210) For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus – Varun Gauri List: (NPR)

211) Four Squares – Bobby Finger List: (NPR)

212) Ghost Cities – Siang Lu List: (Readings)

213) Gifted – Suzumi Suzuki List: (The New Yorker)

214) Girl in the Making – List: (The Guardian)

215) Gliff – Ali Smith List: (Waterstones)

216) Glory Days – Simon Rich List: (The New Yorker)

217) Going Home – Tom Lamont List: (The Guardian)

218) Green Dot – Madeleine Gray List: (Independent)

219) Grown Women – Sarai Johnson List: (The New Yorker)

220) Heart, Be – List: (The Guardian)

221) Henry Henry – Allen Bratton List: (NPR)

222) Hera – Jennifer Saint List: (Waterstones)

223) Here in Avalon – Tara Isabella Burton List: (The New Yorker)

224) Herscht 07769 – László Krasznahorkai List: (Washington Post)

225) Hey, Zoey – Sarah Crossan List: (The New Yorker)

226) Hi, It’s Me – Fawn Parker List: (The Globe)

227) Hirayasumi, Vol. 1 – Keigo Shinzo List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

228) Hombrecito – Santiago Jose Sanchez List: (NPR)

229) Home Truths – Charity Norman List: (Listener)

230) Houris – Kamel Daoud List: (Indigo 2)

231) Housemates – Emma Copley Eisenberg List: (Electric Lit)

232) How to End a Love Story – Yulin Kuang List: (NPR)

233) How to Leave the House – Nathan Newman List: (The New Yorker)

234) Hum – Helen Phillips List: (The New Yorker)

235) Hungry for What – María Bastarós, translated by Kevin Gerry Dunn List: (The Guardian)

236) Hunted – Abir Mukherjee List: (Listener)

237) I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both – Mariah Stovall List: (NPR)

238) I’ll Have What He’s Having – Adib Khorram List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

239) I’m F*cking Amazing – Anoushka Warden List: (Independent)

240) If Only – Vigdis Hjorth List: (NYPL)

241) Impossible Creatures – Katherine Rundell List: (The New Yorker)

242) In Tongues – Thomas Grattan List: (The New Yorker)

243) In Winter I Get Up at Night – Jane Urquhart List: (The Globe)

244) Influenca – Jade Lft Peters List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

245) Jacaranda – Gaël Faye List: (Indigo 2)

246) Joy in Service on Rue Tagore Poems – Paul Muldoon List: (New York Times)

247) Kairos – Jenny Erpenbeck List: (Listener)

248) Kataraina – Becky Manawatu List: (Listener)

249) Last Date in El Zapotal – Mateo García Elizondo, translated by Robin Myers List: (NPR)

250) Leave The Girls Behind – Jacqueline Bublitz List: (Listener)

251) Leaving – Roxana Robinson List: (The New Yorker)

252) Les Indiens s’amusent – Thomas King List: (Indigo 2)

253) LES YEUX DE MONA – Thomas Schlesser List: (Indigo 2)

254) Liars – Sarah Manguso List: (NPR)

255) Libby Lost and Found – Stephanie Booth List: (BookRiot)

256) Lies and Weddings – Kevin Kwan List: (NPR)

257) Life on Earth – Dorianne Laux List: (The New Yorker)

258) Life Wants You Dead – Evan Waite List: (The New Yorker)

259) Light Comes to Shadow Mountain – Toni Buzzeo List: (STLPR)

260) Like Happiness – Ursula Villarreal-Moura List: (NPR)

261) Lilith – Eric Rickstad List: (NPR)

262) Listen for the Lie: A Novel – Amy Tintera List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

263) Little Rot – Akwaeke Emezi List: (NPR)

264) Long Live Evil (Time of Iron #1) – Sarah Rees Brennan List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

265) Lucky – Jane Smiley List: (The New Yorker)

266) Madwoman – Chelsea Bieker List: (NPR)

267) Mania – Lionel Shriver List: (Listener)

268) May Our Joy Endure – Kevin Lambert List: (The Globe)

269) Medea – Rosie Hewlett List: (Waterstones)

270) Metal from Heaven – August Clarke List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

271) Mice 1961 – Stacey Levine List: (Washington Post)

272) Mid-Air – Alicia D. Williams, illustrated by Danica Novgorodoff List: (NPR)

273) Midnight Rooms – Donyae Coles List: (BookRiot)

274) Missing White Woman – Kellye Garrett List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

275) Mongrel – Hanako Footman List: (Waterstones)

276) Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) – Waubgeshig Rice List: (BookRiot)

277) More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop – Morisaki Bookshop – Satoshi Yagisawa List: (Waterstones)

278) Mrs. Gulliver – Valerie Martin List: (BookPage)

279) My Beloved Life – Amitava Kumar List: (The New Yorker)

280) My First Book – Honor Levy List: (The New Yorker)

281) My Heavenly Favourite – Lucas Rijneveld, translated by Michele Hutchison List: (The Guardian)

282) Napalm in the Heart – Pol Guasch List: (The New Yorker)

283) Nero – The Nero Trilogy – Conn Iggulden List: (Waterstones)

284) New Stories – Owen Marshall List: (Listener)

285) New Testaments: Stories – Dagoberto Gilb List: (NPR)

286) No Church in the Wild – Murray Middleton List: (Readings)

287) No Will Know – Rose Carlyle List: (Listener)

288) Nonfiction – Julie Myerson List: (The New Yorker)

289) Nosy Neighbors – Freya Sampson List: (NPR)

290) Obligations to the Wounded – Mubanga Kalimamukwento List: (Star Tribune)

291) Odyssey – Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths – Stephen Fry List: (Waterstones)

292) One of Us Knows: A Thriller – Alyssa Cole List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

293) Ours – Phillip B. Williams List: (The New Yorker)

294) Pages of Mourning – Diego Gerard Morrison List: (NPR)

295) Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961-2023 – Margaret Atwood List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

296) Peggy: A Novel – Rebecca Godfrey List: (Indigo)

297) Pink Slime – Fernanda Trías, translated by Heather Cleary List: (Publishers Weekly)

298) Practice – Rosalind Brown List: (NPR)

299) Prairie Edge – Conor Kerr List: (The Globe)

300) Precipice – Robert Harris List: (Listener)

301) Pretty Ugly – Kirsty Gunn List: (Listener)

302) Quarterlife – Devika Rege List: (The New Yorker)

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

304) Querida: Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) – Nathan Xavier Osorio List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

305) Rakesfall – Vajra Chandrasekera List: (New York Times)

306) Ready or Not – Cara Bastone List: (NPR)

307) Real Life and Other Fictions – Susan Coll List: (Washington Post)

308) real ones: a novel – Katherena Vermette List: (Indigo)

309) Rental House – Weike Wang List: (NPR)

310) Reservoir Bitches: Stories – Dahlia de la Cerda, translated by Heather Cleary and Julia Sanches List: (NPR)

311) Return To Blood – Michael Bennett List: (Listener)

312) Rough Trade – Katrina Carrasco List: (The New Yorker)

313) Say Hello to My Little Friend – Jennine Capó Crucet List: (Vulture)

314) Season of the Swamp: A Novel – Yuri Herrera List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

315) Service – Sarah Gilmartin List: (NPR)

316) Service Model – Adrian Tchaikovsky List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

317) Sex, Lies and Sensibility – Nikki Payne List: (NPR)

318) She Who Knows – Nnedi Okorafor List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

319) She’s Always Hungry – Eliza Clark List: (The Guardian)

320) Shred Sisters – Betsy Lerner List: (New York Times)

321) Sidetracks – Bei Dao, translated by Jeffrey Yang List: (The New Yorker)

322) Sipsworth – Simon Van Booy List: (Star Tribune)

323) Sister Deborah – Scholastique Mukasonga List: (Publishers Weekly)

324) Sky Full of Elephants – Cebo Campbell List: (STLPR)

325) Smoke Kings – Jahmal Mayfield List: (New York Times)

326) Songs for the Brokenhearted – Ayelet Tsabari List: (The Globe)

327) Spent Light – List: (The Guardian)

328) Sunday – Olivier Schrauwen List: (The New Yorker)

329) Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) – Elin Hilderbrand List: (Goodreads)

330) Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories – Colombe Schneck List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

331) Swordcrossed – Freya Marske List: (BookRiot)

332) Sylvia’s Second Act – Hillary Yablon List: (NPR)

333) Termush – Sven Holm List: (The New Yorker)

334) Terrasses: Ou notre long baiser si longtemps retardé – Laurent Gaudé List: (Indigo 2)

335) Thanks for Having Me – Emma Darragh List: (Readings)

336) The Adversary – Michael Crummey List: (The New Yorker)

337) The American Daughters – Maurice Carlos Ruffin List: (Electric Lit)

338) The Axeman’s Carnival – Catherine Chidgey List: (Washington Post)

339) The Beholders – Hester Musson List: (Waterstones)

340) The Borrowed Hills – Scott Preston List: (The Guardian)

341) The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur – Lev Grossman List: (New York Times)

342) The Burrow – Melanie Cheng List: (Readings)

343) The Call – Gavin Strawhan List: (Listener)

344) The Capital of Dreams – Heather O’Neill List: (Indigo)

345) The Cemetery of Untold Stories – Julia Alvarez List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

346) The Cliffs – J. Courtney Sullivan List: (NPR)

347) The Coast Road – Alan Murrin List: (The New Yorker)

348) The Cracked Mirror – Chris Brookmyre List: (Listener)

349) The Cure for Drowning – Loghan Paylor List: (The Globe)

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

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

352) The Drowned – John Banville List: (Listener)

353) The First Friend – Malcolm Knox List: (Listener)

354) The Fox Wife – Yangsze Choo List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

355) The Freaks Came Out to Write The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture – Tricia Romano List: (Vulture)

356) The Gentleman From Peru – Andre Aciman List: (Waterstones)

357) The Glassmaker – Tracy Chevalier List: (Waterstones)

358) The Horse – Willy Vlautin List: (NPR)

359) The House of Broken Bricks – Fiona Williams List: (Independent)

360) The Hunger and the Dusk, Vol. 1 – G. Willow Wilson List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

361) The Hypocrite – Jo Hamya List: (Independent)

362) The Improvisers – Nicole Glover List: (STLPR)

363) The Invention of the Darling – Li-Young Lee List: (The New Yorker)

364) The Judgment of Yoyo Gold – Isaac Blum List: (NPR)

365) The Leap Year Gene – Shelley Wood List: (The Globe)

366) The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth – Zoë Schlanger List: (Vulture)

367) The Limits – Nell Freudenberger List: (The New Yorker)

368) The Lodgers – Holly Pester List: (The Guardian)

369) The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh – List: (The Guardian)

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

371) The Magnificent Ruins – Nayantara Roy List: (Washington Post)

372) The Map of Bones – Kate Mosse List: (Waterstones)

373) The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War #1) – James S. A. Corey List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

374) The Mires – Tina Makereti List: (Listener)

375) The Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan – Domenico Starnone List: (The New Yorker)

376) The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels – Janice Hallett List: (New York Times)

377) The Night Alphabet – List: (The Guardian)

378) The Night We Lost Him – Laura Dave List: (Barnes & Noble)

379) The Pages of the Sea – Anne Hawk List: (The Globe)

380) The Physics of Sorrow – Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel List: (NPR)

381) The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain – Sofia Samatar List: (New York Times)

382) The Propagandist – Cécile Desprairies List: (The New Yorker)

383) The Prospects: A Novel – KT Hoffman List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

384) The Repeat Room – Jesse Ball List: (The New Yorker)

385) The Road from Belhaven – Margot Livesey List: (The New Yorker)

386) The Royal Free – Carl Shuker List: (Listener)

387) The Rumor Game – Thomas Mullen List: (Star Tribune)

388) The Seventh Veil of Salome – Silvia Moreno-Garcia List: (BookPage)

389) The Silence In Between – Josie Ferguson List: (Waterstones)

390) The Sons of El Rey – Alex Espinoza List: (The New Yorker)

391) The Stars Too Fondly – Emily Hamilton List: (BookRiot)

392) The Storm We Made – Vanessa Chan List: (Electric Lit)

393) The Temperature – Katerina Gibson List: (Readings)

394) The Third Realm – Karl Ove Knausgaard List: (The New Yorker)

395) The Tower – Flora Carr List: (The New Yorker)

396) The Tree Doctor – Marie Mutsuki Mockett List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

397) The Truth According to Ember – Danica Nava List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

398) The Unwilding – List: (The Guardian)

399) The Warm Hands of Ghosts – Katherine Arden List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

400) The Waters – Bonnie Jo Campbell List: (Washington Post)

401) The Wildes A Novel in Five Acts – Louis Bayard List: (Washington Post)

402) The Winner – Teddy Wayne List: (The New Yorker)

403) The Women – Kristin Hannah List: (New York Times)

404) The Wood at Midwinter – Susanna Clarke List: (Waterstones)

405) There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension – Hanif Abdurraqib List: (Vulture)

406) This Is How You Remember It – Catherine Prasifka List: (Independent)

407) This Motherless Land – Nikki May List: (NPR)

408) This Summer Will Be Different – Carley Fortune List: (The Globe)

409) Thunderhead – Miranda Darling List: (Readings)

410) Time of the Flies – Claudia Piñeiro List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

411) To the Letter: Poems – Tomasz Rozycki List: (The New Yorker)

412) Tom Lake – Ann Patchett List: (Listener)

413) Toute la couleur du monde – C. S. Richardson List: (Indigo 2)

414) Triple Sec – TJ Alexander List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

415) Twilight Territory – Andrew X. Pham List: (The New Yorker)

416) Under the Eye of the Big Bird – Hiromi Kawakami List: (The New Yorker)

417) Until August – Gabriel García Márquez List: (Waterstones)

418) Us Fools – Nora Lange List: (NPR)

419) Vera Bushwack – Sig Burwash List: (BookPage)

420) Victim – Andrew Boryga List: (NPR)

421) Waiting for the Fear – Oğuz Atay List: (The New Yorker)

422) We Need No Wings – Ann Dávila Cardinal List: (BookRiot)

423) We Solve Murders – Richard Osman List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

424) We Used to Live Here – Marcus Kliewer List: (BookRiot)

425) We Were the Universe – Kimberly King Parsons List: (TIME)

426) Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop – Hwang Bo-Reum List: (Goodreads)

427) What Does It Feel Like? – Sophie Kinsella List: (New York Times)

428) What I Know About You – Éric Chacour List: (The Globe)

429) What Kingdom – Fine Gråbøl List: (The New Yorker)

430) When I Arrived at the Castle – E. M. Carroll List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

431) When I Open The Shop – Romesh Dissanayake List: (Listener)

432) Where They Last Saw Her: A Novel – Marcie R. Rendon List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

433) Woman, Life, Freedom – Marjane Satrapi List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz 2)

434) Women and Children First – Alina Grabowski List: (NPR)

435) Woodworm – Layla Martínez List: (The New Yorker)

436) Yellowface: VERSION FRANÇAISE – R. F. Kuang List: (Indigo 2)

437) You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World – Ada Limón List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

438) You Glow in the Dark – Liliana Colanzi List: (The New Yorker)

439) Your Absence Is Darkness – Jón Kalman Stefánsson, trans. from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton List: (Publishers Weekly)

440) Yr Dead – Sam Sax List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)

29 Best Fiction Book Sources/Lists