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Best Fiction of 2024

All Fours by Miranda July

All Fours
by Miranda July

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey.

Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

Intermezzo
by Sally Rooney

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

The Mighty Red
by Louise Erdrich

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich tells a story of love, natural forces and the tragic impact of big business.

Havoc by Christopher Bollen

Havoc
by Christopher Bollen

A fast-paced literary thriller for fans of The Bad Seed, set in a crumbling luxury hotel in Egypt, in which an elderly widow and an 8 year old boy find themselves rivals, locked in a gleefully criminal psychological game of cat-and-mouse.

The Women by Kristin Hannah

The Women
by Kristin Hannah

In 1965, the world is changing, and twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath impulsively joins the Army Nurse Corps as her brother serves in Vietnam. She’s overwhelmed by the chaos and destruction of war, as well as the unexpected trauma of coming home to a changed and politically divided America.

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Martyr!
by Kaveh Akbar

A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.

The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

The Life Impossible
by Matt Haig

When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend’s life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace must first come to terms with her past.