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Slate Best Books of the Year 2024

Slate Best Books of the Year 2024 names 10 books. 9 of them also won or were shortlisted for an award.

  1. Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Chersource (opens in a new tab)
  2. Great Expectations by Vinson Cunninghamsource (opens in a new tab)
  3. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition by Lucy Santesource (opens in a new tab)
  4. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdiesource (opens in a new tab)
  5. Martyr! by Kaveh Akbarsource (opens in a new tab)
  6. Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurstsource (opens in a new tab)
  7. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompsonsource (opens in a new tab)
  8. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradleysource (opens in a new tab)
  9. This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messudsource (opens in a new tab)
  10. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganzsource (opens in a new tab)

About the Slate Best Books of the Year

One list a year: Slate's own top books of the year, stored as category Best Books. 2012-2014 are the Slate Book Review Top 10, picked by the Book Review's editors. 2015-2025 are book critic Laura Miller's 10 best (or favorite) books of the year. 2006-2011 are missing: Slate ran only staff picks pieces then, where writers named books they enjoyed, often older titles, so they are left out. Also left out: the yearly Slate staff picks, Overlooked Books, Dan Kois's and other critics' personal lists (Katy Waldman, Mark O'Connell), and audiobook, comics and book-jacket lists. All lists come from slate.com pages; none is ranked. Two author names misspelled on the page are corrected (Ottessa Moshfegh 2018, Michelle de Kretser 2022).

Organization: Slate. Official site (opens in a new tab)

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