Amazon Best Books of 2024

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• #1 Pick: The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo (Flatiron)

• Navola, Paolo Bacigalupi (Knopf)
• The Ministry of Time, Kaliane Bradley (Avid Reader)
• The Book of Doors, Gareth Brown (William Morrow)
• The Mercy of Gods, James S.A. Corey (Orbit)
• Five Broken Blades, Mai Corland (Red Tower)
• The Spellshop, Sarah Beth Durst (Bramble)
• A Fate Inked in Blood, Danielle L. Jensen (Del Rey)
• Blood of the Old Kings, Sung-il Kim (Tor)
• A Sorceress Comes to Call, T. Kingfisher (Tor)
• Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune (Tor)
• The Book That Broke the World, Mark Lawrence (Ace)
• That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon, Kimberly Lemming (Orbit)
• A Song to Drown Rivers, Ann Liang (St. Martin’s)
• Apprentice to the Villain, Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Red Tower)
• When the Moon Hatched, Sarah A. Parker (Avon)
• The Veiled Kingdom, Holly Renee (Holly Renee)
• Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson (Tor)
• The Lost Story, Meg Shaffer (Ballantine Books)
• Lucy Undying, Kiersten White (Del Rey)

Literature & Fiction

• #1 Pick: James, Percival Everett (Doubleday)

• Martyr!, Kaveh Akbar (Vintage)
• And So I Roar, Abi Daré (Dutton)
• Clear, Carys Davies (Scribner)
• I Cheerfully Refuse, Lief Enger (Grove)
• The Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich (Harper)
• The Wedding People, Alison Espach (Henry Holt and Co.)
• The Women, Kristin Hannah (St. Martin’s)
• Creation Lake, Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
• The God of the Woods, Liz Moore (Riverhead)
• Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange (Knopf)
• By Any Other Name, Jodi Picoult (Ballantine)
• There Are Rivers in the Sky, Elif Shafak (Knopf)
• Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout (Random House)
• Fire Exit, Morgan Talty (Tin House)
• Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Rufi Thorpe (William Morrow)
• Long Island, Colm Tóibín (Scribner)
• Table for Two, Amor Towles (Viking)
• You Are Here, David Nicholls (Harper)
• The Safekeep, Yael van der Wouden (Avid Reader)
• You Are Here, David Nicholls (Harper)

Mysteries and Thrillers

• #1 Pick: The God of the Woods, Liz Moore (Riverhead)

• A Calamity of Souls, David Baldacci (Grand Central)
• Lost Man’s Lane, Scott Carson (Emily Bestler)
• Kill for Me, Kill for You, Steve Cavanagh (Atria)
• Broiler, Eli Cranor (Soho Crime)
• First Lie Wins, Ashley Elston (Pamela Dorman)
• The Return of Ellie Black, Emiko Jean (Simon & Schuster)
• Pony Confidential, Christina Lynch (Berkley)
• What Happened to Nina?, Dervla McTiernan (William Morrow)
• What You Leave Behind, Wanda M. Morris (William Morrow)
• House of Glass, Sarah Pekkanen (St. Martin’s)
• The Sicilian Inheritance, Jo Piazza (Dutton)
• The Last One at the Wedding, Jason Rekulak (Flatiron)
• Black River, Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Vertigo)
• Wordhunter, Stella Sands (Harper)
• Deadly Animals, Marie Tierney (Henry Holt and Co.)
• Listen for the Lie, Amy Tintera (Celadon)
• The Unquiet Bones, Loreth Anne White (Montlake)
• All the Colors of the Dark, Chris Whitaker (Crown)
• The Excitements, CJ Wray (William Morrow)

Young Adult

• #1 Pick: When the World Tips Over, Jandy Nelson (Dial)

• Children of Anguish and Anarchy, Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt and Co.)
• Full Shift, Jennifer Dugan, Kit Seaton (Putnam Young Readers)
• Immortal Dark, Tigest Girma (Little, Brown Young Readers)
• The Reappearance of Rachel Price, Holly Jackson (Delacorte)
• Pick the Lock, A.S. King (Dutton Young Readers)
• With Love, Echo Park, Laura Taylor Namey (Atheneum Young Readers)
• Road Home, Rex Ogle (Norton Young Readers)
• The Deep Dark, Molly Knox Ostertag (Graphix)
• Sixteen Minutes, K.J. Reilly (Nancy Paulsen)
• Everything We Never Had, Randy Ribay (Kokila)
• The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry, Ransom Riggs (Dutton Young Readers)
• Ruthless Vows, Rebecca Ross (Wednesday)
• On the Bright Side, Anna Sortino (Putnam Young Readers)
• Heir, Sabaa Tahir (Putnam Young Readers)
• Under the Surface, Diana Urban (Putnam Young Readers)
• Two Sides to Every Murder, Danielle Valentine (Putnam Young Readers)
• For She Is Wrath, Emily Varga (Wednesday)
• Ash’s Cabin, Jen Wang (First Second)
• Blood at the Root, LaDarrion Williams (Labyrinth Road)