Best Books Of 2024 So Far Ew. Our critics have spent the past 11 months trawling through every kind of book — novels, history, memoirs, thrillers, science and more — to find the very best reads of 2024 Here are the books we’ve read and loved, the breakout titles, the works that enjoyed the best reviews and the offbeat choices you won’t find anywhere else.
The best books of the year (so far) are taking us to dazzling new frontiers. From lydia millet’s exploration of our collapsing planet to kaveh akbar’s portrait of an orphaned son looking for answers about his family’s history, these narratives interrogate deep feelings.