The 75 Best Books of 2024 (Boston Globe)

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Boston Globe, 50 Books

The 75 Best Books of 2024 from the Boston Globe critics. Note I only added fiction and nonfiction so there's only 50 books.

Who voted
Shoshana Flax, Kitty Flynn, Elissa Gershowitz, Lauren LeBlanc, Wadzanai Mhute, Chris Vognar and Kate Tuttle

This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
10529 Beautyland Marie-Helene Bertino 2024 Unknown English
17163 Catalina Karla Cornejo Villavicencio 2024 American Unknown
10080 Creation Lake Rachel Kushner 2024 American English
17163 The Fetishist Katherine Min 2024 Unknown English
10701 Great Expectations Vinson Cunningham 2024 Unknown English
17163 This Great Hemisphere Mateo Askaripour 2024 Unknown English
17163 Housemates Emma Copley Eisenberg 2024 Unknown English
10713 Hum Helen Phillips 2024 American English
10707 The Hypocrite Jo Hamya 2024 British English
2807 James Percival Everett 2024 American English
14985 Margo's Got Money Troubles Rufi Thorpe 2024 American English
5805 Martyr! Kaveh Akbar 2024 American English
7784 My Friends Hisham Matar 2024 British Unknown
17163 My Parents’ Marriage Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond 2024 Unknown Unknown
17163 Neighbors And Other Stories Diane Oliver 2024 American English
17163 Obligations To The Wounded Mubanga Kalimamukwento 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Road To The Country Chigozie Obioma 2024 Unknown English
10398 Scaffolding Lauren Elkin 2024 Unknown English
10279 This Strange Eventful History Claire Messud 2024 Unknown English
17163 Swift River Essie Chambers 2024 Unknown English
17163 A Thousand Times Before Asha Thanki 2024 Unknown English
17163 Untethered Angela Jackson-Brown 2024 Unknown English
17163 Us Fools Nora Lange 2024 Argentinian English
10507 Wandering Stars Tommy Orange 2024 Unknown English
17163 Who Will Bury You? Chido Muchemwa 2024 Unknown English
10650 3 Shades Of Blue James Kaplan 2024 Unknown English
17163 American Scary Jeremy Dauber 2024 Unknown English
10639 The Black Utopians Aaron Robertson 2024 Unknown English
17163 The Barn Wright Thompson 2024 Unknown English
10687 The Black Box Henry Louis Gates Jr. 2024 Unknown English
17163 Briefly Perfectly Human Alua Arthur 2024 Unknown English
9059 Challenger Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English
17163 Circle Of Hope Eliza Griswold 2024 American English
10368 Cue The Sun! Emily Nussbaum 2024 Unknown English
17163 God And The Devil Peter Cowie 2024 Unknown English
10227 Grief Is For People Sloane Crosley 2024 Unknown English
17163 I Just Keep Talking Nell Irvin Painter 2024 Unknown English
17163 Imagination Ruja Benjamin 2024 Unknown Unknown
17163 I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying Youngmi Mayer 2024 Unknown Unknown
10289 The Light Eaters Zoë Schlanger 2024 Unknown English
17163 Missing Persons Clair Wills 2024 Unknown English
17163 The New York Game Kevin Baker 2024 American English
17163 Shakespeare’s Sisters Ramie Targoff 2024 Unknown English
17163 Stranger Than Fiction Edwin Frank 2024 Unknown English
9065 Soldiers And Kings Jason De León 2024 Unknown English
17163 A Termination Honor Moore 2024 Unknown English
7566 There's Always This Year Hanif Abdurraqib 2024 American English
7633 When The Clock Broke John Ganz 2024 Unknown English
17163 Whiskey Tender Deborah Jackson Taffa 2024 American Unknown
17163 The World She Edited Amy Reading 2024 Unknown English