Essential and Interesting “Best Books of 2024” Lists

From 2008-2022, I aggregated every online year-end book list I discovered into one post.

This year (like last year), I will collect essential and interesting year-end book lists in this post and update it daily.

Please feel free to e-mail me with a magazine, newspaper, or other online list I have missed.

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The Advocate (best Louisiana-ish books)
AEI (favorite books)
Air Mail (best coffee table books)
Amateur Photographer (best books)
Amazon (best books)
American Birding Podcast (best bird books)
The Art Newspaper (favourite books)
ArtsHub (top books)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (best Southern books)
The Atlantic (best books)
Autostraddle (best queer books)

Barack Obama (favorite books)
Barnes & Noble (best books)
Behavioral Scientist (best books)
Big Issue (best children’s books)
Black Joy (favorite books)
Bloomberg (best books about cities)
Bon Appetit (best cookbooks)
Book Riot (best books)
BookPage (best fiction)
BookPage (best nonfiction)
Bookshop Santa Cruz (best books)
Boston Globe (best books)
The British Blacklist (best books)
Brittle Paper (notable African Books)
Brooklyn Rail (best art books)
Broadsheet (best Australian cookbooks)

California Review of Books (best books)
CBC (best Canadian books)
CBC (best Canadian fiction)
Chicago Public Library (top books)
Chicago Review of Books (best books)
Chicago Tribune: Christopher Borrelli (best books)
Chronicle of Higher Education (best scholarly books)
CLASH (best music books)
Climate & Capitalism (best books for reds & greens)
Colossal (favorite art books)
Colours of Us (best multicultural picture books)
Comic Book Club (best comic books)
Common Sense Family Doctor (favorite public health and health care books)
Commonweal (best books)
Conde Nast Traveler (best books)
The Conversation (best books)
The Conversation (best non-fiction books)
Counterpunch (best books)
CrimeReads (best books)
Crimereads (best nonfiction crime books)

DAZED (best books)
Debutiful (best debut books)
Decanter (best wine and spirits)
delicious. (best cookbooks)
delish (best cookbooks)
Den of Geek (best books)
Digital Camera World (best photography books)
The Dirt (best books)

The Economist (best books)
Electric Literature (best nonfiction)
Electric Literature (best novels)
ELLE (favorite books)
The Emancipator (best radical books)
Emma Straub (top books)
Engadget (favorite books)
Esquire (best cookbooks)

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (best books about Alaska)
Financial Times (best books)
Five Books (best books)
Flood (best music books)
Food & Wine (best cookbooks)
Foreign Affairs (best books)
Fresh Air – Maureen Corrigan (favorite books)
Frieze (favourite books)

Galleries West (notable art books)
Garden & Gun (best design books)
Geek Girl Authority (best fantasy books)
Geek Girl Authority (best science fiction books)
Geographical (best books about climate)
Geographical (best books about photography)
Glasgow Times (best Glasgow books)
Glasstire (favorite art books)
Globe and Mail (best books)
God Is in the TV (favourite music books)
Good Food (favorite cookbooks)
Goodreads (best books)
Greater Good (best books for educators)
Greater Good (favorite books)
Greater Good (favorite parenting books)
Guardian (best Australian books)
Guardian (best books)
Guardian (best music books)

Harper’s Bazaar (best books)
Harper’s Bazaar (best coffee table books)
Harvard Public Health Magazine (best public health books)
Heavy Feather Review (favorite books)
Highbrow Magazine (best books)
Hill Times (best books)
Hip Latina (best books by LatinX authors)
Hot Press (best books)
Houston Chronicle (best books about Texas)
Hyperallergic (best art books)

I Heart Sapph Fic (top Sapphic books)
The i Paper (best books)
Imagination Soup (best picture books)
Independent (best fiction)
Independent (best non-fiction books)
Indigo (best books)
Innocence Project (best books)
Irish Examiner (best music books)
Irish Times (best books)

Jezebel -Nora Biette-Timmons (best books)

KAXE (best books)
Kyiv Independent (best Ukraine-based books)

L.A. Taco (best books)
LAist (must-read books)
Libby (best books)
The Listener (best books)
Literary Hub (best science fiction, fantasy, and horror books)
Literary Hub (favorite books)
Literary Hub (notable nonfiction books)
London Evening Standard (favourite books)
Los Angeles Magazine (top Los Angeles books)
Los Angeles Public Library (best books)
Los Angeles Times (best books)
Los Angeles Times (best cookbooks)
LSE (best books)
Lunate (favourite books)

Medievalists.net (best Medieval books)
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel (best books)
Ministry of Pop Culture (best pop culture books)
Minnesota Public Radio (best books)
Minnesota Star-Tribune (best books)
Modern Mrs. Darcy (favorite books)
Mother Jones (best books)
Ms. (favorite books)

National Post (best cookbooks)
Nature (best science books)
Nature (essential science books)
New Scientist (best popular science books)
New Lines (best books)
New Statesman (best books)
New Statesman (books)
New York Magazine (best cookbooks)
New York Magazine (best kids books)
New York Post (best books)
New York Public Library (best books)
New York Times (best art books)
New York Times (best books)
New York Times (best children’s books)
New York Times (best cookbooks)
New York Times (best graphic novels)
New York Times (best historical fiction)
New York Times (best horror fiction)
New York Times (best poetry books)
New York Times (best romance novels)
New York Times (best science fiction)
New York Times (best wine books)
New York Times (notable books)
New York Times / New York Public Library (best children’s illustrated books)
New Yorker (best books)
Newsweek (favorite books)
No Depression (best music books)
NPR (best books)
NPR (cookbooks)

Oakland Public Library (favorite books)
Observer (best children’s & YA books)
Observer (best food books)
Oprah Daily (best books)
Oregon Public Broadcasting (best books)
Our Culture (best books)

Paris for Dreamers (best Paris books)
Paris Review (best books)

passerby (best books)
PBS NewsHour (best books)
People (best kids books)
People (best books)
photo-eye (favorite photobooks)
Pitchfork (best music books)
Portland Press Herald (Mainers’ favorite books)

Planetizen (top urban planning books)
The Progressive (favorite books)
Public Books (best books)
Publishers Weekly (best books)

Readings (best Australian fiction)
Red (best books)
Red Sauce America (best Italian cookbooks)
Rolling Stone (best music books)
RTE (best Irish cookbooks)

Salon (thought-provoking books)
San Francisco Chronicle (best books)
Santa Barbara Independent (best books)
Saveur (best cookbooks)
The Scholarly Kitchen (chef’s best books)
School Library Journal (best books)
Science News (favorite science books)
Scientific American (books)
Serious Eats (best cookbook)
SheKnows (best books)
The Skinny (favourite books)
Slate (best literary discoveries)
Slate – Dan Kois (best books)
Slate – Laura Miller (best books)
Slurrp (top cookbooks)
Smithsonian Magazine (best books)
Southwest Review (must-read books)
Spectator (best books)
Spectrum Culture (favorite books)
The Spinoff (best New Zealand books)
Sports Collectors Digest (best baseball books)
St. Louis on the Air (librarians’ best books)
Sydney Morning Herald (writer’s best books)
Sunday Times (best books)

Tasting Table (best cookbooks)
Tasting Table (best vegan and vegetarian cookbooks)
Telegraph (best books)
them (best LGBTQ+ books)
TIME (best fiction books)
TIME (best nonfiction books)
TIME (must-read books)
Toronto Star (best books)
travelpulse (best travel books)
Tricycle (best Buddhist books)

USA Today (best books)

Vanity Fair (best books)
VegNews (best vegan cookbooks)
Verso Books (books)
Vogue (best books)
Vulture (best books)
Vulture (books)
Vulture (best comedy books)

W Magazine (best coffee table books)
Wall Street Journal (best books)
Wall Street Journal (best books about aging and retirement)
Wallpaper (best cookbooks)
Wanderlust (best travel books)
Washington Independent Review of Books (favorite books)
Washington Post (best books)
Washington Post (best cookbooks)
Washington Post (notable fiction)
Washington Post (notable nonfiction)
Waterstones (best books)
WBEZ (favorite books)
Words Without Borders (best books)
World Architecture Community (best architecture books)

You Magazine (best fiction)

Zestful Kitchen (favorite cookbooks)

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