The 100 Greatest Books of 2024
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The Greatest Books, 100 Books
This list is aggregated from 30+ best of 2024 lists by various sources by The Greatest Books
Since this is an aggregation of many 2024 specific lists, I am using a voter count of 150
This list was originally published in 2024 and was added to this site over 1 year ago.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2806 | James | Percival Everett | 2024 | American | English | |
| 5804 | Martyr! | Kaveh Akbar | 2024 | American | English | |
| 8431 | All Fours | Miranda July | 2024 | American | English | |
| 8461 | Headshot | Rita Bullwinkel | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 5425 | Glorious Exploits | Ferdia Lennon | 2024 | Irish | English | |
| 4471 | Intermezzo | Sally Rooney | 2024 | Irish | English | |
| 7129 | Knife | Salman Rushdie | 2024 | British | English | |
| 8532 | The Ministry Of Time | Kaliane Bradley | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8554 | Our Evenings | Alan Hollinghurst | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10075 | Creation Lake | Rachel Kushner | 2024 | American | English | |
| 6156 | The God Of The Woods | Liz Moore | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10098 | Colored Television | Danzy Senna | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8603 | Small Rain | Garth Greenwell | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7633 | When The Clock Broke | John Ganz | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10152 | You Dreamed Of Empires | Alvaro Enrigue | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10173 | The Haunted Wood | Sam Leith | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7566 | There's Always This Year | Hanif Abdurraqib | 2024 | American | English | |
| 6507 | Wild Houses | Colin Barrett | 2024 | Irish | English | |
| 6598 | Long Island | Colm Toibin | 2024 | Irish | Unknown | |
| 6301 | Rejection | Tony Tulathimutte | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10222 | Grief Is For People | Sloane Crosley | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10228 | Long Island Compromise | Taffy Brodesser-Akner | 2024 | American | English | |
| 7584 | Orbital | Samantha Harvey | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 10275 | This Strange Eventful History | Claire Messud | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10285 | The Light Eaters | Zoë Schlanger | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7784 | My Friends | Hisham Matar | 2024 | British | Unknown | |
| 7213 | Question 7 | Richard Flanagan | 2023 | Unknown | English | |
| 10357 | Liars | Sarah Manguso | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10364 | Cue The Sun! | Emily Nussbaum | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10376 | Nuclear War | Annie Jacobsen | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 10388 | Spent Light | Lara Pawson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10394 | Scaffolding | Lauren Elkin | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8839 | Tell Me Everything | Elizabeth Strout | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 10406 | The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10415 | The Bright Sword | Lev Grossman | 2024 | American | English | |
| 6368 | The Safekeep | Yael van der Wouden | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 10436 | Bluff | Danez Smith | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10445 | Patriot | Alexei Navalny | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10489 | The Book Of Love | Kelly Link | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10497 | Survival Is A Promise | Alexis Pauline Gumbs | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10504 | Wandering Stars | Tommy Orange | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10510 | Funny Story | Emily Henry | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10519 | The Friday Afternoon Club | Griffin Dunne | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10523 | Splinters | Leslie Jamison | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10526 | Beautyland | Marie-Helene Bertino | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10536 | A Sunny Place For Shady People | Mariana Enríquez | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 7634 | The Golden Road | William Dalrymple | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 8979 | Playground | Richard Powers | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 10547 | The Coin | Yasmin Zaher | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10553 | The Burning Earth | Sunil Amrith | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10562 | A Walk In The Park | Kevin Fedarko | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10567 | The Mighty Red | Louise Erdrich | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7952 | The Wide Wide Sea | Hampton Sides | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10578 | How To End A Love Story | Yulin Kuang | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 9018 | The Message | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 10584 | The Rebel's Clinic | Adam Shatz | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 9029 | The Hunter | Tana French | 2024 | Irish | English | |
| 10590 | Salvage | Dionne Brand | 2024 | Canadian | English | |
| 9039 | Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here | Jonathan Blitzer | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 9041 | All The Colours Of The Dark | Chris Whitaker | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10602 | All Things Are Too Small | Becca Rothfeld | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10605 | Someone Like Us | Dinaw Mengestu | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10610 | Evenings And Weekends | Oisin McKenna | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10621 | Traveling | Ann Powers | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10624 | Be Ready When The Luck Happens | Ina Garten | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 9058 | Challenger | Adam Higginbotham | 2024 | British | English | |
| 10636 | The Black Utopians | Aaron Robertson | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 9064 | Soldiers And Kings | Jason De León | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10640 | Clear | Carys Davies | 2024 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 10647 | 3 Shades Of Blue | James Kaplan | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10649 | Blue Sisters | Coco Mellors | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7855 | Heart, Be At Peace | Donal Ryan | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10652 | Chinese Postman | Brian Castro | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 9079 | Good Material | Dolly Alderton | 2024 | British | English | |
| 10662 | Forest Of Noise | Mosab Abu Toha | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10663 | You Should Be So Lucky | Cat Sebastian | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10665 | Barcelona | Mary Costello | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10667 | 36 Ways Of Writing A Vietnamese Poem | Nam Le | 2024 | Multiple | English | |
| 10670 | Day One | Abigail Dean | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10673 | Dirrayawadha | Anita Heiss | 2024 | Australian | English | |
| 7781 | The Pairing | Casey McQuiston | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10678 | The Use Of Photography | Annie Ernaux, Marc Marie | 2024 | French | English | |
| 9096 | The Familiar | Leigh Bardugo | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10682 | Shy Creatures | Clare Chambers | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10684 | The Black Box | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10687 | Your Face Belongs To Us | Kashmir Hill | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10690 | Consent | Jill Ciment | 2024 | American | English | |
| 8020 | The Story Of A Heart | Rachel Clarke | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10695 | Blue Ruin | Hari Kunzru | 2024 | British | English | |
| 10698 | Great Expectations | Vinson Cunningham | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10700 | Ghostroots | 'Pemi Aguda | 2024 | Nigerian | English | |
| 4939 | Stone Yard Devotional | Charlotte Wood | 2023 | Australian | English | |
| 10704 | The Hypocrite | Jo Hamya | 2024 | British | English | |
| 10706 | The Extinction Of Irena Rey | Jennifer Croft | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10708 | The Lodgers | Holly Pester | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 10710 | Hum | Helen Phillips | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10713 | Fi | Alexandra Fuller | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 9108 | Gabriel's Moon | William Boyd | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 7592 | The Women | Kristin Hannah | 2024 | American | English | |
| 10718 | My Good Bright Wolf | Sarah Moss | 2024 | Unknown | English |