The Ultimate 2024 Reading List

Each year, NPR releases their favorite books. 2023 was wrapped with 381 books spanning all age ranges and genres. We narrowed it down to 80 so you have a book for every week of 2024 and then some. Whether you like romance, mystery/thriller, sci-fi, historical fiction, different cultures, LGBTQ+, memoirs, and non-fiction, the list has it.

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1. The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore

2. Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

3. How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

4. Blackouts by Justin Torres

5. Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

6. Tom Lake by Ann Hatchett

7. I have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkah

8. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

9. the happy couple by Naoise Dolan

10. Loot by Tania James

11. Homestead by Melinda Moustakis

12. The Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro

13. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe

14. The Witching Tide by Margaret Meyer

15. Casandra in Reverse by Holly Smale

16. The Peacock and the Sparrow by I.S. Berry

17. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice on Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

18. Wellness by Nathan Hill

19. The Woman In Me by Britney Spears

20. This Bird Has Flown by Susanna Hoffs

21. 19 Claws and a Black Bird by Augustine Bazterrica

22. Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo

23. The Magician's Daughter by HG Parry

24. Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

25. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer

26. Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

27. The Laughter by Sonora Jha

28. Cousins by Aurora Venturini

29. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

30. Today Tonight Forever by Madeline Kay Sneed

31. Take What You Need by Idra Novey

32. The Girl Before Her by Line Papin

33. Something Wild and Wonderful by Anita Kelly

34. Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

35. The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

36. A Perfect Vintage by Chelsea Fagan

37. The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt

38. Sunshine Nails by Mai Nguyen

39. Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah

40. Starter Villain by John Scalzi

41. A Lesson in Drowning by Ava Reid

42. The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

43. The Great Escape: A True Story of Forced Labor and Immigrant Dreams in America by Saket Soni

44. The Stolen Coast by Dwyer Murphy

45. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks

46. The Last Animal by Ramona Ausubel

47. You, Again by Kate Goldbeck

48. Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead

49. The Guest Lecture by Martin Riker

50. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon

51. Roommates: A Totally Uplifting, Dramatic and Emotional Women's Fiction Novel by Ola Tundun

52. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

53. 40 Men and 12 Rifles: Indochina 1954 by Marcelino Truong

54. The God of Good Looks by Breanne Mc Ivor

55. Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

56. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

57. To Shape a Dragon's Breath: The First Book of Nampeshiweisit by Moniquill Blackgoose

58. Day by Michael Cunningham

59. The Porcelain Moon: A Novel of France, the Great War, and Forbidden Love by Janie Chang

60. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus

61. The Roaring Days of Zora Lily by Noelle Salazar

62. Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

63. The Last Devil to Die: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery by Richard Osman

64. Künstlers in Paradise by Cathleen Schine

65. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A new fantasy series set a thousand years before The City of Brass by Shannon Chakraboty

66. Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfield

67. Once More With Feeling by Elissa Sussman

68. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

69. Our Hideous Progeny by C.E. McGill

70. We Could Be So Good by Cat Sevastian

71. Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson

72. Berlin by Bea Setton

73. Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes

74. Tress of the Emerald Sea: A Cosmere Novel

75. Pay As You Go by Eskor David Johnson

76. The Reformatory by Tananarive Due

77. Evil Eye by Etaf Rum

78. Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal

79. The Golden Spoon by Jessa Maxwell

80. Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Click here to view NPR's full 2023 book list.

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