Best SFF of 2024: The Washington Post

The Washington Post included numerous genre works on their Best of the Year lists.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy list featured 11 titles chosen by their critic Charlie Jane Anders:

• The Fox Wife, Yangsze Choo (Holt)
• Metal From Heaven, August Clarke (Erewhon)
• Annie Bot, Sierra Greer (Mariner)
• The Wings Upon Her Back, Samantha Mills (Tachyon)
• The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed (Tor.com)
• The Tusks of Extinction, by Ray Nayler (Tordotcom)
• The Mars House, Natasha Pulley (Bloomsbury)
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tor.com)
• Ninetails, Sally Wen Mao (Penguin)
• Ours, Phillip B. Williams (Viking)
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In, John Wiswell (DAW)

Their general Fiction list also included several titles of genre interest:

• On the Calculation of Volume (Book 1), Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara Haveland (New Directions)
• I Cheerfully Refuse, Leif Enger (Grove)
• The Husbands, Holly Gramazio (Doubleday)
• The Other Valley, Scott Alexander Howard (Atria)
• Cahokia Jazz, Francis Spufford (Scribner)
• Beautiful Days, Zach Williams (Doubleday)

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