The Globe 100: The best books of 2024
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About this list
The Globe and Mail, 100 Books
The Globe and Mail’s editors, writers and critics present their annual guide(2024) to the best in fiction, non-fiction, thrillers, graphic novels, kid-lit and cookbooks.
who voted
Margaret Cannon, Jeffrey Canton, Emily Donaldson, Lara Pingue,
Judith Pereira, Julie van Rosendaal, and Rebecca Tucker
This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17162 | A Way To Be Happy | Caroline Adderson | 2024 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | Death By A Thousand Cuts | Shashi Bhat | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | What I Know About You | Éric Chacour | 2024 | Unknown | French | |
| 14985 | Parade | Rachel Cusk | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 14985 | Emily Wilde's Map Of The Otherlands | Heather Fawcett | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Curiosities | Anne Fleming | 2024 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | This Summer Will Be Different | Carley Fortune | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Pages Of The Sea | Anne Hawk | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Burn Man | Mark Anthony Jarman (Biblioasis | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Prairie Edge | Conor Kerr | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | May Our Joy Endure | Kevin Lambert | 2022 | Canadian | French | |
| 17162 | Camp Zero | Michelle Min Sterling | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Code Noir | Canisia Lubrin | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10278 | This Strange Eventful History | Claire Messud | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Hi, It's Me | Fawn Parker | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Cure For Drowning | Loghan Paylor | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Batshit Seven | Sheung -King | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Songs For The Brokenhearted | Ayelet Tsabari | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | In Winter I Get Up At Night | Jane Urquhart | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Leap Year Gene | Shelley Wood | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Hair For Men | Michelle Winters | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Dayspring | Anthony Oliveira | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8431 | All Fours | Miranda July | 2024 | American | English | |
| 2807 | James | Percival Everett | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10079 | Creation Lake | Rachel Kushner | 2024 | American | English | |
| 6369 | The Safekeep | Yael van der Wouden | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 6598 | Long Island | Colm Toibin | 2024 | Irish | Unknown | |
| 4472 | Intermezzo | Sally Rooney | 2024 | Irish | English | |
| 8980 | Playground | Richard Powers | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 8461 | Headshot | Rita Bullwinkel | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Enlightenment | Sarah Perry | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10642 | Clear | Carys Davies | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 5805 | Martyr! | Kaveh Akbar | 2024 | American | English | |
| 6157 | The God Of The Woods | Liz Moore | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10102 | Colored Television | Danzy Senna | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7784 | My Friends | Hisham Matar | 2024 | British | Unknown | |
| 8532 | The Ministry Of Time | Kaliane Bradley | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 5426 | Glorious Exploits | Ferdia Lennon | 2024 | Irish | English | |
| 14232 | In Ascension | Martin MacInnes | 2024 | British | English | |
| 5356 | Praiseworthy | Alexis Wright | 2024 | Australian | English | |
| 17162 | Entitlement | Rumaan Alam | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7584 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | The City And Its Uncertain Walls | Haruki Murakami | 2023 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 17162 | In Exile | Sadiya Ansari | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Crosses In The Sky | Mark Bourrie | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Knowing | Tanya Talaga | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | What She Said | Elizabeth Renzetti | 2024 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | The Traitor's Daughter | Roxana Spicer | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | Shepherd's Sight | Barbara McLean | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Here After | Amy Lin | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Invisible Prisons | Lisa Moore, Jack Whalen | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | Everything And Nothing At All | Jenny Heijun Wills | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Rogers V. Rogers | Alexandra Posadzki | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The War We Won Apart | Nahlah Ayed | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Montreal Standard Time | Mavis Gallant | 2024 | Canadian | Unknown | |
| 17162 | Sing Like Fish | Amorina Kingdon | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Widow's Guide To Dead Bastards | Jessica Waite | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Our Crumbling Foundation | Gregor Craigie | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | An Open Ended Run | Layne Coleman | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | Sir John A. Macdonald And The Apocalyptic Year 1885 | Patrice Dutil | 2024 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | The Impossible Man | Patchen Barss | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10367 | Cue The Sun! | Emily Nussbaum | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7129 | Knife | Salman Rushdie | 2024 | British | English | |
| 7952 | The Wide Wide Sea | Hampton Sides | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10288 | The Light Eaters | Zoë Schlanger | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10448 | Patriot | Alexei Navalny | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10624 | Traveling | Ann Powers | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Garden Against Time | Olivia Laing | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Undue Burden | Shefali Luthra | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | On Freedom | Timothy Snyder | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10715 | Fi | Alexandra Fuller | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8650 | Raising Hare | Chloe Dalton | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Notebook | Roland Allen | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Still As Bright | Christopher Cokinos | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Showman | Simon Shuster | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | What The Wild Sea Can Be | Helen Scales | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Every Living Thing | Jason Roberts | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Blood Rubies | Mailan Doquang | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 9030 | The Hunter | Tana French | 2024 | Irish | English | |
| 17162 | The Sequel | Jean Hanff Korelitz | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17162 | Death At The Sign Of The Rook | Kate Atkinson | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | House Of Glass | Sarah Pekkanen | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Only One Survives | Hannah Mary McKinnon | 2024 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | Guide Me Home | Attica Locke | 2024 | American | English | |
| 17162 | The Grey Wolf | Louise Penny | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | One Perfect Couple | Ruth Ware | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Return Of Ellie Black | Emiko Jean | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Wildful | Kengo Kurimoto | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | The Runaway | Nancy Vo | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Sos Water | Yayo | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Let's Go | Julie Flett | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Noodles On A Bicycle | Kyo Maclear | 2024 | Canadian | English | |
| 17162 | Age 16 | Rosena Fung | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Little Moons | Jen Storm | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Who We Are In Real Life | Victoria Koops | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Matty Matheson | Richard Matheson | 2024 | American | Unknown | |
| 17162 | Chuck's Home Cooking | Chuck Hughes | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Babette's Bread | Babette Frances Kourelos | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 17162 | I Love You | Pamela Anderson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 17162 | Good Food, Healthy Planet | Puneeta Chhitwal-Varma | 2024 | Unknown | English |