The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 (TIME)
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About this list
TIME Magazine, 100 Books
The 100 must-read books of 2024 picked by by Lucy Feldman and Annabel Gutterman
This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17163 | Absolution | Jeff VanderMeer | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Accordion Eulogies | Noé Álvarez | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8431 | All Fours | Miranda July | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10605 | All Things Are Too Small | Becca Rothfeld | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | American Diva | Deborah Paredez | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Anita De Monte Laughs Last | Xóchitl González | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Another Word For Love | Carvell Wallace | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | The Anthropologists | Ayşegül Savas | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10410 | The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Barn | Wright Thompson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10628 | Be Ready When The Luck Happens | Ina Garten | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10529 | Beautyland | Marie-Helene Bertino | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10639 | The Black Utopians | Aaron Robertson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10440 | Bluff | Danez Smith | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Book Censor's Library | Bothayna Al-Essa | 2024 | Kuwaiti | Arabic | |
| 10492 | The Book Of Love | Kelly Link | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | The Bookshop | Evan Friss | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10419 | The Bright Sword | Lev Grossman | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Catalina | Karla Cornejo Villavicencio | 2024 | American | Unknown | |
| 10550 | The Coin | Yasmin Zaher | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10103 | Colored Television | Danzy Senna | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Coming Home | Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | A Complicated Passion | Carrie Rickey | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Connie | Connie Chung | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10693 | Consent | Jill Ciment | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Devil Is Fine | John Vercher | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Didion & Babitz | Lili Anolik | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Dinner For Vampires | Bethany Joy Lenz | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 11026 | The Eyes Are The Best Part | Monika Kim | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Feeding Ghosts | Tessa Hulls | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10716 | Fi | Alexandra Fuller | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Fire Exit | Morgan Talty | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 10522 | The Friday Afternoon Club | Griffin Dunne | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10513 | Funny Story | Emily Henry | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Get The Picture | Bianca Bosker | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10703 | Ghostroots | 'Pemi Aguda | 2024 | Nigerian | English | |
| 6157 | The God Of The Woods | Liz Moore | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | The Great Divide | Cristina Henríquez | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7991 | Greta And Valdin | Rebecca K Reilly | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
| 10227 | Grief Is For People | Sloane Crosley | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8461 | Headshot | Rita Bullwinkel | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Health And Safety | Emily Witt | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 14985 | Help Wanted | Adelle Waldman | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Hip Hop Is History | Questlove | 2024 | American | Unknown | |
| 10581 | How To End A Love Story | Yulin Kuang | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10713 | Hum | Helen Phillips | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10707 | The Hypocrite | Jo Hamya | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17163 | I Cannot Control Everything Forever | Emily C. Bloom | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | I'm Mostly Here To Enjoy Myself | Glynnis MacNicol | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 4472 | Intermezzo | Sally Rooney | 2024 | Irish | English | |
| 2807 | James | Percival Everett | 2024 | American | English | |
| 7129 | Knife | Salman Rushdie | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17163 | Lessons For Survival | Emily Raboteau | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Lies And Weddings | Kevin Kwan | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10289 | The Light Eaters | Zoë Schlanger | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | The Lions' Den | Iris Mwanza | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 6598 | Long Island | Colm Toibin | 2024 | Irish | Unknown | |
| 10233 | Long Island Compromise | Taffy Brodesser-Akner | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Lucky Ones | Zara Chowdhary | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 14985 | Margo's Got Money Troubles | Rufi Thorpe | 2024 | American | English | |
| 5805 | Martyr! | Kaveh Akbar | 2024 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Memory Piece | Lisa Ko | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10570 | The Mighty Red | Louise Erdrich | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 14985 | Mina's Matchbox | Yōko Ogawa | 2024 | Japanese | English | |
| 17163 | More, Please | Emma Specter | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 14985 | The Most | Jessica Anthony | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7784 | My Friends | Hisham Matar | 2024 | British | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Perfume And Pain | Anna Dorn | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 8980 | Playground | Richard Powers | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Private Equity | Carrie Sun | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Rebel Girl | Kathleen Hanna | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 6302 | Rejection | Tony Tulathimutte | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | The Rich People Have Gone Away | Regina Porter | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Root Fractures | Diana Khoi Nguyen | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 6369 | The Safekeep | Yael van der Wouden | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Shanghailanders | Juli Min | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Sidetracks | Bei Dao | 2024 | Chinese | Chinese | |
| 17163 | The Skunks | Fiona Warnick | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Slaveroad | John Edgar Wideman | 2024 | American | English | |
| 9065 | Soldiers And Kings | Jason De León | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10608 | Someone Like Us | Dinaw Mengestu | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10526 | Splinters | Leslie Jamison | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | State Of Paradise | Laura Van den Berg | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10539 | A Sunny Place For Shady People | Mariana Enríquez | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 10500 | Survival Is A Promise | Alexis Pauline Gumbs | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8840 | Tell Me Everything | Elizabeth Strout | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | There Is No Ethan | Anna Akbari | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7566 | There's Always This Year | Hanif Abdurraqib | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10625 | Traveling | Ann Powers | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Undue Burden | Shefali Luthra | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10507 | Wandering Stars | Tommy Orange | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | We Loved It All | Lydia Millet | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | We Were The Universe | Kimberly King Parsons | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 14985 | The Wedding People | Alison Espach | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7952 | The Wide Wide Sea | Hampton Sides | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Whiskey Tender | Deborah Jackson Taffa | 2024 | American | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Whoever You Are, Honey | Olivia Gatwood | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | You Glow In The Dark | Liliana Colanzi | 2022 | Unknown | Spanish | |
| 14232 | Your Utopia | Bora Chung | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Ellipsis | Fady Joudah | 2024 | Unknown | English |