Best Fiction 2024 Goodreads 2024. After digging—in some cases, literally—through as many books as the elle office could squeeze in, we decided to split our annual “best of 2024” list into five categories: 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.

In the first round there are 20 books in each of the 15 categories, and members can vote for one book in each category. Five freshly released and hotly anticipated new novels that you should have on your reading list in the fall of 2024: