The Economist · 2024

The Economist's Books of the Year 2024

The Economist's Books of the Year 2024 is a 2024 best-books selection from The Economist, featuring 87 titles. Below is the full list with our Consensus Score for each book.

SHORTLIST archives the fact of each title's inclusion on The Economist's 2024 selection; our commentary is our own and we link to the original list.

Source: The Economist — original list ↗

James
Percival Everett
The Anxious Generation
Jonathan Haidt
Gray Matters
Theodore H. Schwartz
Cue the Sun!
Emily Nussbaum
Revolusi
David Van Reybrouck
How the World Made the West
Josephine Quinn
Medieval Horizons
Ian Mortimer
Autocracy, Inc.
Anne Applebaum
The Wide Wide Sea
Hampton Sides
Kingmaker
Sonia Purnell
Patriot
Alexei Navalny
How Economics Explains the World
Andrew Leigh
The Book-Makers
Adam Smyth
Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
Playground
Richard Powers
Long Island
Colm Toibin
Every Living Thing
Jason Roberts
The Eastern Front
Nick Lloyd
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
Reagan
Max Boot
Smoke and Ashes
Amitav Ghosh
The Year of Living Constitutionally
A.J. Jacobs
The Catalyst
Thomas R. Cech
The Achilles Trap
Steve Coll
The Editor
Sara B. Franklin
Maurice and Maralyn
Sophie Elmhirst
Metamorphoses
Karolina Watroba
One Way Back
Christine Blasey Ford
Troubled
Rob Henderson
Wild Thing
Sue Prideaux
The Afterlife of Data
Carl Ohman
The Art of Uncertainty
David Spiegelhalter
Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick
Dark Wire
Joseph Cox
Money: A Story of Humanity
David McWilliams
Playing with Reality
Kelly Clancy
The Power and the Money
Tevi Troy
Slow Productivity
Cal Newport
The Whole Story
John Mackey
All That Glitters
Orlando Whitfield
Get the Picture
Bianca Bosker
Gobsmacked!
Ben Yagoda
The Haunted Wood
Sam Leith
Origin Uncertain
Anatoly Liberman
Stranger Than Fiction
Edwin Frank
Written in Water
Rochelle Gurstein
The Empusium
Olga Tokarczuk
Fire Exit
Morgan Talty
Going Home
Tom Lamont
The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry
Help Wanted
Adelle Waldman
Hum
Helen Phillips
Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Karla's Choice
Nick Harkaway
Mania
Lionel Shriver
Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst
The Road to the Country
Chigozie Obioma
The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
The Silence of the Choir
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
The Forbidden Garden
Simon Parkin
The Horse
Timothy C. Winegard
Impossible Monsters
Michael Taylor
The Invention of Good and Evil
Hanno Sauer
Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
David Chaffetz
Spycraft
Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman
The Siege
Ben Macintyre
Venice
Dennis Romano
Why War?
Richard Overy
Born to Rule
Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman
Counter-Intelligence
Robert Hannigan
Failed State
Sam Freedman
How Tyrants Fall
Marcel Dirsus
Infantilised
Keith J. Hayward
Our Enemies Will Vanish
Yaroslav Trofimov
Twenty Years
Sune Engel Rasmussen
World on the Brink
Dmitri Alperovitch
The Genetic Book of the Dead
Richard Dawkins
More and More and More
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
Origin Story
Howard Markel
Reentry
Eric Berger
Tits Up
Sarah Thornton
Twelve Trees
Daniel Lewis
The Underworld
Susan Casey
The Abiy Project
Tom Gardner
At the Louvre
Antoine Caro
Heresy
Catherine Nixey
New Answers to Old Questions
Aaron Connelly