It's time to check in: how's the year in books coming along for you, dear reader? Halfway through 2024, we’re enjoying an embarrassment of literary riches—and now, we’re here to spread the gospel about our favorites.
The best books of the year (so far) are taking us to dazzling new frontiers. In the fiction landscape, a spate of new novels offer visions of humanity from unlikely narrators, including robots, aliens, and the undead. Meanwhile, it’s shaping up to be an outstanding year for memoirs; new outings from luminaries like Leslie Jamison, Sloane Crosley, and Lucy Sante will grab you by the heartstrings and refuse to let go. In the nonfiction space, some of our finest intellectuals have released titles that help us make sense of our changing world, from the culture-flattening force of algorithms to the future of work.
Here are the Best Books of 2024 (so far). Watch this space—we’ll continue adding to our list as the year progresses.
