Time’s 100 Best Books of 2024!

TIME has released its list of the best books of 2024 and it decided to list a 100 books in their end of year list. And we will be looking at Time’s 100 best books of 2024 list and see how it holds up!

Yesterday, Amazon released its picks for the best books of 2024 list and TIME was right behind with their own list. Amazon’s list was pretty solid but TIME has a lot more books so it has a lot to offer. But did they get it right or was a 100 books to big a list?

For the most part, TIME’s list is a good one. But they did leave off maybe one of the best books of the year The Women by Kristin Hannah. Leaving this novel off the list feels like a crime to me. With a hundred picks, you could easily have added this incredible novel. It is hard to argue that there are a hundred books better than The Women.

Overall, the list has most of the books that everyone is talking about in 2024. Books like The God of The Woods by Liz Moore and Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange are two of the many books that everyone should read. You can see the full list below and share with us your favorite books of the year!

Time’s 100 Best Books of 2024

• Absolution by Jeff VanderMeer
• Accordion Eulogies by Noé Álvarez
• All Fours by Miranda July
• All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld
• American Diva by Deborah Paredez
• Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez
• Another Word for Love by Carvell Wallace
• The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş
• The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
• The Barn by Wright Thompson
• Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
• Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
• The Black Utopians by Aaron Robertson
• Bluff by Danez Smith
• The Book Censor’s Library by Bothayna Al-Essa
• The Book of Love by Kelly Link
• The Bookshop by Evan Friss
• The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman
• Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
• Colored Television by Danzy Senna
• Coming Home by Brittney Griner
• A Complicated Passion by Carrie Rickey
• Connie by Connie Chung
• Consent by Jill Ciment
• Devil Is Fine by John Vercher
• Didion and Babitz by Lili Anolik
• Dinner for Vampires by Bethany Joy Lenz
• The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim
• Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls
• Fi by Alexandra Fuller
• Fire Exit by Morgan Talty
• The Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne
• Funny Story by Emily Henry
• Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker
• Ghostroots by Pemi Aguda
• The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
• The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez
• Greta & Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly
• Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley
• Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel
• Health and Safety by Emily Witt
• Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
• Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove
• How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
• Hum by Helen Phillips
• The Hypocrite by Jo Hamya
• I Cannot Control Everything Forever by Emily C. Bloom
• I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself by Glynnis MacNicol
• Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
• James by Percival Everett
• Knife by Salman Rushdie
• Lessons for Survival by Emily Raboteau
• Lies and Weddings by Kevin Kwan
• The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
• The Lions’ Den by Iris Mwanza
• Long Island by Colm Tóibín
• Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• The Lucky Ones by Zara Chowdhary
• Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
• Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
• The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich
• Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa
• More, Please by Emma Specter
• The Most by Jessica Anthony
• My Friends by Hisham Matar
• Perfume and Pain by Anna Dorn
• Playground by Richard Powers
• Private Equity by Carrie Sun
• Rebel Girl by Kathleen Hanna
• Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
• The Rich People Have Gone Away
• by Regina Porter
• Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen
• The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
• Shanghailanders by Juli Min
• Sidetracks by Bei Dao
• The Skunks by Fiona Warnick
• Slaveroad by John Edgar Wideman
• Soldiers and Kings by Jason de León
• Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu
• Splinters by Leslie Jamison
• State of Paradise by Laura van den Berg
• A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez
• Survival Is a Promise by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
• There Is No Ethan by Anna Akbari
• There’s Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
• Traveling by Ann Powers
• Undue Burden by Shefali Luthra
• Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
• We Loved It All by Lydia Millet
• We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons
• The Wedding People by Alison Espach
• The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
• Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa
• Whoever You Are, Honey by Olivia Gatwood
• You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi
• Your Utopia by Bora Chung
• […]: Poems by Fady Joudah