The year in books: Writers pick the best reads of 2024 (The Age)
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The Age, 119 Books
The Age asked 56 authors what they loved reading in 2024. Note, some of these books were released before 2024
who voted?
56 authors all named in the article
This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8431 | All Fours | Miranda July | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Rapture | Emily Maguire | 2024 | Australian | English | |
| 2807 | James | Percival Everett | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Näku Dhäruk | Clare Wright | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10655 | Chinese Postman | Brian Castro | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8554 | Our Evenings | Alan Hollinghurst | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 6853 | Kairos | Jenny Erpenbeck | 2023 | German | German | |
| 10361 | Liars | Sarah Manguso | 2024 | American | English | |
| 7213 | Question 7 | Richard Flanagan | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Restless Dolly Maunder | Kate Grenville | 2023 | Australian | English | |
| 10526 | Splinters | Leslie Jamison | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 3172 | The Bee Sting | Paul Murray | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17163 | Deep Water | James D. Bradley | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 6598 | Long Island | Colm Toibin | 2024 | Irish | Unknown | |
| 10670 | 36 Ways Of Writing A Vietnamese Poem | Nam Le | 2024 | Multiple | English | |
| 17163 | A Brilliant Life | Rachelle Unreich | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | A Little Trickerie | Rosanna Pike | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | A Season Of Death | Mark Raphael Baker | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 14985 | Affinities | Brian Dillon | 2023 | British | English | |
| 17163 | All About Yves | Yves Rees | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Always Was Always Will Be | Thomas Mayo | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Always Will Be | Mykaela Saunders | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | American Mother | Colum McCann | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Australian Gospel | Lech Blaine | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Because I Am Not Myself, You See | Ariane Beetson | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Benjamin Franklin | Walter Isaacson | 2003 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Bird | Courtney Collins | 2012 | Australian | English | |
| 10652 | Blue Sisters | Coco Mellors | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10440 | Bluff | Danez Smith | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Border | Kassa Kappabova | 2017 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Borderland | Graham Akhurst | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Breakdown | Cathy Sweeney | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Bright Crockery Days | Robert Gray | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Burma Sahib | Paul Theroux | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Burn Book | Kara Swisher | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Chasing Hope | Nicholas Kristof | 2024 | American | English | |
| 14985 | Cheri | Jo Ann Beard | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Children Of Paradise | Camilla Grudova | 2022 | Canadian | English | |
| 10643 | Clear | Carys Davies | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 10103 | Colored Television | Danzy Senna | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10080 | Creation Lake | Rachel Kushner | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Crimes Of The Cross | Anne Manne | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10368 | Cue The Sun! | Emily Nussbaum | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Danger Baby | Ender Baskan | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 10673 | Day One | Abigail Dean | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Depth Of Field | Kirsty Iltners | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10676 | Dirrayawadha | Anita Heiss | 2024 | Australian | English | |
| 10732 | Dirt Poor Islanders | Winnie Dunn | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Elixir | Kassa Kappabova | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 14985 | Elon Musk | Walter Isaacson | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret | Benjamin Stevenson | 2024 | Australian | English | |
| 17163 | Excitable Boy | Dominic Gordon | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Faces Of Moderation | Aurelian Craiutu | 2016 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Faith Hope And Carnage | Nick Cave, Sean O'Hagan | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Firelight | John Morrissey | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Flight Notes | Hasib Hourani | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
| 3114 | Foster | Claire Keegan | 2010 | Irish | English | |
| 17163 | France On Trial | Julian Jackson | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Frank Moorhouse, Strange Paths | Matthew Lamb | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Ghost Mountain | Rónán Hession | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 5426 | Glorious Exploits | Ferdia Lennon | 2024 | Irish | English | |
| 17163 | Gunflower | Laura Jean McKay | 2023 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 8461 | Headshot | Rita Bullwinkel | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 14985 | Here One Moment | Liane Moriarty | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Highway 13 | Fiona McFarlane | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Host City | David Owen Kelly | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | If This Is The End | Bebe Oliver | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | If You Go | Alice Robinson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | In The Jingle Jangle Jungle | Joel Gion | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Jade And Emerald | Michelle See-Tho | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 15880 | John Berger And Me | Nikos Papastergiadis | 1975 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Juice | Tim Winton | 2024 | Australian | English | |
| 17163 | Justice And Hope | Raimond Gaita | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Karla's Choice | Nick Harkaway | 2024 | British | English | |
| 7129 | Knife | Salman Rushdie | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17163 | Kubrick | Nathan Abrams and Robert Kolker | 2020 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Ladivine | Marie NDiaye | 2013 | French | French | |
| 17163 | Lest | Mark Dapin | 2019 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Lost Wonders | Tom Lathan | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8022 | Loved And Missed | Susie Boyt | 2023 | British | English | |
| 28 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | 1871 | British | English | |
| 2243 | Milkman | Anna Burns | 2018 | Irish | English | |
| 17163 | Mortal Secrets | Frank Tallis | 2008 | British | English | |
| 14985 | My Death | Lisa Tuttle | 2004 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | My Friend Fox | Heidi Everett | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Naked Portrait | Rose Boyt | 1993 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | New Animal | Ella Baxter | 2021 | Australian | English | |
| 17163 | New Australian Fiction | Suzy Garcia | 2019 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Nine Minds | Daniel Tammet | 2024 | British | English | |
| 17163 | No Church In The Wild | Murray Middleton | 2015 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Noble Fragments | Michael Visontay | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 4507 | North Woods | Daniel Mason | 2023 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Nuked | Andrew Fowler | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 9071 | Old God's Time | Sebastian Barry | 2023 | Irish | English | |
| 17163 | Only Sound Remains | Hossein Asgari | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7584 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Ordinary Matter | Laura Elvery | 2020 | Australian | English | |
| 17163 | Our Concealed Ballast | Marian Macken | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 13591 | Papyrus | Irene Vallejo | 2019 | Spanish | Spanish | |
| 10210 | Peripathetic | Cher Tan | 2020 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Peterdown | David Annand | 2021 | British | English | |
| 5343 | Plainsong | Kent Haruf | 1999 | American | English | |
| 8980 | Playground | Richard Powers | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Rock Flight | Hasib Hourani | 2021 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Rombo | Esther Kinsky | 2022 | German | German | |
| 17163 | Safe Haven | Shankari Chandran | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Sarah Evans | Bernice Barry | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10398 | Scaffolding | Lauren Elkin | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17163 | Shakespeare Is Hard, But So Is Life | Fintan O'Toole | 2002 | Irish | English | |
| 2345 | Small Things Like These | Claire Keegan | 2021 | Irish | English | |
| 17163 | Soil | Camille T. Dungy | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 10608 | Someone Like Us | Dinaw Mengestu | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17163 | Song In The Grass | Kate Fagan | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Stellar Atmospheres | Alicia Sometimes | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 4940 | Stone Yard Devotional | Charlotte Wood | 2023 | Australian | English | |
| 17163 | Swift River | Essie Chambers | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 585 | Tao Te Ching | Lao Tsu | -300 | Chinese | Classical chinese | |
| 8840 | Tell Me Everything | Elizabeth Strout | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17163 | Thanks For Having Me | Emma Darragh | 2024 | Unknown | English |