Year archive
Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2024, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
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Touch the Sky by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic, illustrated by Chris Park appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, for music lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Twenty-Four Seconds from Now ... by Jason Reynolds appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, young adult, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back by Ruth Chan appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Us Fools by Nora Lange appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Victim by Andrew Boryga appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Victory Parade by Leela Corman appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, for art lovers, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice by David S. Tatel appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
War by Bob Woodward appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
We're Alone: Essays by Edwidge Danticat appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, short stories, essays & poetry, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Whale Fall by Elizabeth O’Connor appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, family matters, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
What Can a Mess Make? by Bee Johnson appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
What Goes with What: 100 Recipes, 20 Charts, Endless Possibilities by Julia Turshen appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life by Billy Dee Williams appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
When Southern Women Cook: History, Lore, and 300 Recipes with Contributions from 70 Women Writers by America's Test Kitchen appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, staff picks, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
With My Back to the World: Poems by Victoria Chang appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Una Dimitrijevic appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, comics & graphic novels, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Women and Children First by Alina Grabowski appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Women's Hotel by Daniel M. Lavery appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, staff picks, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Woo Woo by Ella Baxter appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Worry by Alexandra Tanner appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, family matters, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limón appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, short stories, essays & poetry, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, translated by Natasha Wimmer appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2024 Ten Best Books list in fiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, love & romance, for sports lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis, illustrated by Gianluca Costantini appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
