https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/1h3c3sx/collection_of_best_books_of_2024_and_2024/
created by vincoug on 30/11/2024 at 13:01 UTC*
276 upvotes, 24 top-level comments (showing 24)
Welcome readers,
We're coming up on the end of the year and that means various "Best Books of 2024" lists are being released and prizes are being awarded! We'll be using this thread to collect these "Best of" lists and awards into one place and will be updating it as more lists and awards are released. Without further ado, here's your list of lists:
┌─────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐ │ Organization │ Type of List │ Link │ ╞══════════��══════════════╪══════════════════════════╪═════════════════════════╡ │ Amazon │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[1] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Publishers Weekly │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[2] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Barnes & Noble │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[3] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Time │ Must Read Books of 2024 │ Link[4] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Financial Times │ Books of the Year │ Link[5] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Sports Illustrated │ Best Sports Books of │ Link[6] │ │ │ 2024 │ │ ├─���───────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Telegraph │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[7] │ │ │ Ranked │ │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The New Statesman │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[8] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Book Riot │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[9] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Chicago Public Library │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[10] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Kirkus Reviews │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[11] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Debutiful │ Best Debut Books of 2024 │ Link[12] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Waterstones │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[13] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ School Library Journal │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[14] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Vogue │ Best Books to Gift │ Link[15] │ ├──���──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Pitchfork │ Best Music Books of 2024 │ Link[16] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Globe and Mail │ 100 Best Books of 2024 │ Link[17] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Washington Post │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[18] │ ├────────────��────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Military.com │ Best Military Books of │ Link[19] │ │ │ 2024 │ │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Economist │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[20] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Audible │ Best Audio Books of 2024 │ Link[21] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ People │ Best Celebrity Memoirs │ Link[22] │ │ │ of 2024 │ │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ NPR │ Books We Love │ Link[23] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Chicago Tribune │ 10 Best Books of 2024 │ Link[24] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Vanity Fair │ 21 Best Books of 2024 │ Link[25] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ them │ 16 Best LGBTQ+ Books of │ Link[26] │ │ │ 2024 │ │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼───────────���─────────────┤ │ Food & Wine │ Our Favorite Food Books │ Link[27] │ │ │ of 2024 │ │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ New York Public Library │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[28] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Den of Geek │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[29] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────��───────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ New York Times │ 100 Notable Books of │ Link[30] │ │ │ 2024 │ │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ New York Times │ 10 Best Books of 2024 │ Link[31] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Times │ 19 Best Books of 2024 │ Link[32] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ New Scientist │ Best Books of 2024 │ Popular Science[33] - │ │ │ │ Sci-Fi[34] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Smithsonian Magazine │ Best Books of 2024 │ List[35] - History[36] │ │ │ │ - Food[37] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Guardian │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[38] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Independent │ Best Books of 2024 │ Fiction[39] - │ │ │ │ Nonfiction[40] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Vulture │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[41] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────���───────────┤ │ Lit Hub │ Our 38 Favorite Books of │ Link[42] │ │ │ 2024 │ │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Conversation │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[43] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Wall Street Journal │ 10 Best Books of 2024 │ Link[44] │ ├─────────────────────────┼────────────────────��─────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Atlantic │ 10 Best Books of 2024 │ Link[45] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Age │ Best Reads of 2024 │ Link[46] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Bill Gates │ Books to Keep You Warm │ Link[47] │ │ │ this Holiday Season │ │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The New Yorker │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[48] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Electric Literature │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[49] │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Vox │ Best Books of 2024 │ Link[50] │ ├─────────────────────────┼───────────���──────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ │ 78 Books Scientific │ │ │ Scientific American │ American Recommends in │ Link[51] │ │ │ 2024 │ │ ├─────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Barack Obama │ Favorite Books of 2024 │ Link[52] │ └─────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
1: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Books-of-2024-So-Far/b?ie=UTF8&node=3003015011
2: https://best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/2024
3: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/awards/best-books-of-the-year/_/N-29Z8q8Z1qrh
4: https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2024/
5: https://www.ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
6: https://www.si.com/onsi/top-pick/general/10-best-sports-books-released-in-2024
8: https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2024/11/best-books-year-2024
9: https://bookriot.com/best-books-2024/
10: https://www.chipublib.org/news/cpl-best-of-the-best-books-2024/
11: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2024/
12: https://debutiful.net/2024/11/18/the-best-debut-books-of-2024/
13: https://www.waterstones.com/blog/best-of-2024
14: https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/page/best-books-2024
15: https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/best-books-to-gift-holidays
16: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-music-books-of-2024/
17: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-the-globe-100-the-best-books-of-2024/
18: https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/11/22/10-best-books/
19: https://www.military.com/off-duty/books/2024/11/22/best-military-books-we-read-2024.html
20: https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/11/22/the-best-books-of-2024-as-chosen-by-the-economist
21: https://www.audible.com/ep/best-of-the-year-editorial-2024
22: https://people.com/best-celebrity-memoirs-2024-8749126
23: https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2024
24: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/11/26/best-books-2024/
25: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/best-books-2024
26: https://www.them.us/story/best-books-2024-coming-home-mean-boys-housemates-lgbtq
27: https://www.foodandwine.com/best-food-books-2024-8751758
28: https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/best-books/adults?year=2024&facets_query=
29: https://www.denofgeek.com/books/den-of-geeks-best-books-of-2024/
30: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/26/books/notable-books.html
31: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/books/best-books-2024.html
32: https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/the-best-books-of-2024-5spv735xb?region=global
33: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435190-300-the-best-new-popular-science-books-of-2024/
34: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435190-400-the-best-new-science-fiction-books-of-2024/
36: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ten-best-history-books-of-2024-180985531/
37: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-ten-best-books-about-food-of-2024-180985539/
38: https://www.theguardian.com/books/best-books-of-2024
41: https://www.vulture.com/article/best-books-2024-new-novels-fiction.html
42: https://lithub.com/lit-hubs-38-favorite-books-of-2024/
43: https://theconversation.com/best-books-of-2024-our-experts-share-their-standout-reads-244149
44: https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-10-best-books-of-2024-b67ada25
47: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Holiday-Books-2024
48: https://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2024
49: https://electricliterature.com/electric-lits-best-novels-of-2024/
50: https://www.vox.com/culture/389984/best-books-2024-martyr-kaveh-akbar-small-rain-garth-greenwell
52: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDzs2zOvM8b/?igsh=MXFyeDM2eXgyeW9kZA==
┌──────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────┐ │ Award │ Winner │ Link │ ╞══════════════════════════╪═════════════════════════╪═════════════════════════╡ │ Nobel Prize │ Han Kang │ Link[53] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Fiction[55] - Drama[56] │ │ │ │ - History[57] - │ │ │ │ Biography 1[58] and │ │ Pulitzer Prize[54] │ Multiple │ Biography 2[59] - Memoi │ │ │ │ r/Autobiography[60] - │ │ │ │ Poetry[61] │ │ │ │ Nonfiction[62] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Fiction[64] - │ │ │ │ Nonfiction[65] - │ │ National Book Award[63] │ Multiple �� Poetry[66] - Translated │ │ │ │ Literature[67] - YP │ │ │ │ Lit[68] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Booker Prize[69] │ *Orbital* by Samantha │ Link[70] │ │ │ Harvey │ │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The International Booker │ *Kairos* Jenny │ │ │ Prize[71] │ Erpenbeck, translated │ Link[72] │ │ │ by Michael Hofmann │ │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Hugo Awards │ *Some Desperate Glory* │ Link[73] │ │ │ by Emily Tesh │ │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Dublin Literary │ *Solenoid* by Mircea │ │ │ Award[74] │ Cărtărescu, Translated │ Link[75] │ │ │ by Sean Cotter │ │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Next Generation Indie │ Multiple │ Link[76] │ │ Book Awards │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ The Goldsmiths Prize[77] │ *Parade* by Rachel Cusk │ Link[78] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Rubery Book Award │ Multiple │ Link[79] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Windham Campbell Prizes │ Multiple │ Link[80] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Caine Prize for African │ *Bridling* by Nadia │ Link[81] Story[82] │ │ Writing │ Davids │ │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼────────���────────────────┤ │ Queen Mary Wasafiri New │ TBA │ │ │ Writing Prize │ │ │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Edgar Allan Poe Awards │ Multiple │ Link[83] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ PEN Literary Awards │ Multiple │ Link[84] │ ├──────────────────────────┼──────────────��──────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ World Fantasy Awards │ Multiple │ Link[85] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Giller Prize │ *Held* by Anne Michaels │ Link[86] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Novel[88] - Novella[89] │ │ │ │ - Novelette[90] - Short │ │ Nebula Awards[87] │ Multiple │ Story[91] - Middle │ │ │ │ Grade and Young Adult │ │ │ │ Fiction[92] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Shirley Jackson Awards │ Multiple │ Link[93] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Bram Stoker Awards │ Multiple │ Link[94] │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Women's Prize for │ *Brotherless Night* by │ Link[95] │ │ Fiction │ V. V. Ganeshananthan │ │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ Women's Prize for Non- │ *Doppelganger* by Naomi │ Link[96] │ │ fiction │ Klein │ │ ├──────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┤ │ │ │ Fiction[98] - │ │ │ │ Historical Fiction[99] │ │ │ │ - Mystery and │ │ │ │ Thriller[100] - │ │ │ │ Romance[101] - │ │ │ │ Romantasy[102] - │ │ │ │ Fantasy[103] - Science │ │ Goodreads Awards[97] │ Multiple │ Fiction[104] - │ │ │ │ Horror[105] - │ │ │ │ Debut[106] - │ │ │ │ Audiobook[107] - YA │ │ │ │ Fantasy[108] - YA │ │ │ │ Fiction[109] - │ │ │ │ Nonfiction[110] - │ │ │ │ Memoir[111] - History │ │ │ │ and Biography[112] │ └──────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘
Comment by Jaythreef at 30/11/2024 at 16:30 UTC
133 upvotes, 8 direct replies
For those who may be overwhelmed by the amount of data here, LitHub puts out a list at the very end of the year that ranks books by how many times they appear on these Best Of lists, if that makes sense. Here's last year's list, for example:
https://lithub.com/the-ultimate-best-books-of-2023-list/
Obviously this post is more granular, but if you're only looking for like, a Top 5 Overall to put on your TBR, that might help. Still a few weeks before it comes out, though.
Comment by TheTwoFourThree at 30/11/2024 at 13:08 UTC
18 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thank you. Time to update the tbr list again.
Comment by Atlastitsok at 30/11/2024 at 13:16 UTC
18 upvotes, 3 direct replies
This is awesome!
Any know of a website or link to aggregate these into a common list?
Comment by whoooook at 30/11/2024 at 15:08 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Thank you!! But what about the Women’s Prize?
Comment by lateintheseason at 01/12/2024 at 03:22 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The Nobel Prize winner is Han Kang, not Han King. And thanks for curating this!
Comment by cianfrusagli at 01/12/2024 at 01:00 UTC
6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Just FYI, there is a mistake for the International Booker Prize for *Kairos*, the author´s name is **Jenny Erpenbeck**. Eleanor Wachtel, who is mistakenly named as the author in this list, was the Chair of the International Booker Prize 2024 judges.
Thanks for the great overview, my reading list is ever growing!!
Comment by dethequeen at 30/11/2024 at 13:06 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thank you so much for this !!
Comment by jarrettbrown at 30/11/2024 at 14:42 UTC
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I was going to ask if there was one for entertainment related books and then I saw pitchfork's list for music. Is there one for movie related books?
Comment by vada_buffet at 30/11/2024 at 15:52 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Managed to get my TBR below 300 this year, here we go again!
Comment by GhostProtocol2022 at 30/11/2024 at 16:27 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I decided to read Orbital after seeing it won an award. I love nonfiction about space, NASA and also sci-fi so it seemed like a good option. I was bored to tears. I'm glad it was short. It seems either people love it or hate it from what I've seen.
Comment by hellocloudshellosky at 30/11/2024 at 15:38 UTC
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thank you so, so much for doing this. Happy reading in 2025!
Comment by Blooberryx at 30/11/2024 at 15:41 UTC
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Oh boy. This is not good. Only got through one post and already added a few to the TBR. I mean a book called rat city? Non fiction about a city built for rats that’s over populated. How could I not read that?
Thanks for the lists.
Comment by blacksheeping at 01/12/2024 at 00:09 UTC
3 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Does anyone have access to the financial times list. Neither way back machine or 10ft wall works on their website.
Comment by jdeart at 30/11/2024 at 14:53 UTC
6 upvotes, 2 direct replies
cool, thx.
would be amazing if anyone could collate all the generic best of lists to create a kind of master list, even though personal preference plays such a bis role in books it would be interesting to see.
thought I could maybe use one of the AI bots to do it, but obviously as soon as you want these stupid things to do anything useful, complex or interesting they are utterly lost and unable to do anything...
Comment by Nodan_Turtle at 01/12/2024 at 09:15 UTC
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I really don't like it when lists lump science fiction and fantasy under the same category. I appreciate the NY Public Library's list and the Financial Times for separating sci-fi into its own section. I hope more sites do that in the future.
Comment by 0b0011 at 01/12/2024 at 23:59 UTC
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Isn't it a little early? There are still books yet to come out. My most awaited for the year isn't out for a few days for example.
Comment by amancalledj at 30/11/2024 at 14:08 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Amazing post. Thank you.
Comment by South_Honey2705 at 01/12/2024 at 00:53 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is such a really great comprehensive list thank you💯
Comment by RMKHAUTHOR at 01/12/2024 at 02:44 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
WOW Thanks a lot!!!
Comment by visual_overflow at 01/12/2024 at 14:53 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Very cool, thanks for sharing! My backlog is about to get a lot bigger!
Comment by simplyelegant87 at 01/12/2024 at 16:29 UTC
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Thank you for putting all of this together. My TBR is already massive but I’d still love to add more.
Comment by al_135 at 01/12/2024 at 19:41 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Comment by scientificamerican at 18/12/2024 at 19:19 UTC
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We just released a list of 78 books our magazine's staff recommend! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/78-books-scientific-american-recommends-in-2024/?utm%5C_campaign=socialflow&utm%5C_medium=social&utm%5C_source=reddit[1][2] Would love to see it featured here and would love the feedback of this excellent subreddit.
Comment by InAnAltUniverse at 30/11/2024 at 15:41 UTC
-5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Wth, the Hugo Awards? What a joke! Literally the first paragraph describing humankind.
"Humans did evolve as apex predators ....They are stronger and faster than most people". Lol .. that's like defining a steering wheel to someone who already has a car. The Hugo!!?