The Guardian · 2024

The Best Fiction of 2024

The Best Fiction of 2024 is a 2024 best-books selection from The Guardian, featuring 100 titles. Below is the full list with our Consensus Score for each book.

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

Source: The Guardian — original list ↗

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Sally Rooney
Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst
Caledonian Road
Andrew O'Hagan
Choice
Neel Mukherjee
Enlightenment
Sarah Perry
The Echoes
Evie Wyld
Stone Yard Devotional
Charlotte Wood
The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh
Ingrid Persaud
Rosarita
Anita Desai
Held
Anne Michaels
Crooked Seeds
Karen Jennings
You Are Here
David Nicholls
The Proof of My Innocence
Jonathan Coe
Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Unwilding
Marina Kemp
All Fours
Miranda July
Playground
Richard Powers
James
Percival Everett
Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner
Orbital
Samantha Harvey
Long Island
Colm Toibin
The Women Behind the Door
Roddy Doyle
Heart, Be at Peace
Donal Ryan
Wandering Stars
Tommy Orange
The Voyage Home
Pat Barker
Gliff
Ali Smith
The Lodgers
Holly Pester
The Night Alphabet
Joelle Taylor
Spent Light
Lara Pawson
Headshot
Rita Bullwinkel
Girl in the Making
Anna Fitzgerald
Only Here, Only Now
Tom Newlands
The Pages of the Sea
Anne Hawk
Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking
Han Smith
The Borrowed Hills
Scott Preston
Wild Houses
Colin Barrett
The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
Going Home
Tom Lamont
Glorious Exploits
Ferdia Lennon
The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry
Clear
Carys Davies
Dogs and Monsters
Mark Haddon
She's Always Hungry
Eliza Clark
The Land in Winter
Andrew Miller
A Voyage Around the Queen
Craig Brown
Kingmaker
Sonia Purnell
Didion and Babitz
Lili Anolik
The Strangers
Ekow Eshun
The Rebel's Clinic
Adam Shatz
Hardy Women
Paula Byrne
Wild Thing
Sue Prideaux
Maurice and Maralyn
Sophie Elmhirst
My Family: The Memoir
David Baddiel
My Family and Other Rock Stars
Tiffany Murray
Nightshade Mother
Gwyneth Lewis
Something Lost, Something Gained
Hillary Clinton
Citizen
Bill Clinton
The Art of Power
Nancy Pelosi
A Woman Like Me
Diane Abbott
We Will Not Be Saved
Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Question 7
Richard Flanagan
Sonny Boy
Al Pacino
Cher: The Memoir, Part One
Cher
A Thousand Threads
Neneh Cherry
You're Embarrassing Yourself
Desiree Akhavan
What a Way to Go
Bella Mackie
The List of Suspicious Things
Jennie Godfrey
Nightwatching
Tracy Sierra
The Peacock and the Sparrow
I.S. Berry
Bonehead
Mo Hayder
Hunted
Abir Mukherjee
A City on Mars
Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
Everything Is Predictable
Tom Chivers
The Elements of Marie Curie
Dava Sobel
The Impossible Man
Patchen Barss
The Last of Its Kind
Gisli Palsson
The Story of a Heart
Rachel Clarke
Twelve Trees
Daniel Lewis
Your Face Belongs to Us
Kashmir Hill
The Secret Public
Jon Savage
1984: The Year Pop Went Queer
Ian Wade
Street-Level Superstar
Will Hodgkinson
Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe
Vivien Goldman
Hip-Hop Is History
Questlove
Aednan
Linnea Axelsson
Hungry for What
Maria Bastaros
You Dreamed of Empires
Álvaro Enrigue
Bad Habit
Alana S Portero
My Heavenly Favourite
Lucas Rijneveld
The Genetic Book of the Dead
Richard Dawkins
Cypria
Alex Christofi
Why Animals Talk
Arik Kershenbaum
Rat City
Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden
Sociopath
Patric Gagne
Rumbles
Elsa Richardson
Playing with Reality
Kelly Clancy
Everything to Play For
Marijam Did
The Afterlife of Data
Carl Ohman
How the World Made the West
Josephine Quinn