The Top 20 books of 2024 as rated by the BookBrowse community.

Small Rain

A Novel

by Garth Greenwell

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Sep 2025

A medical crisis brings one man close to death―and to love, art, and beauty―in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.

Everything We Never Had

by Randy Ribay

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Aug 2025

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.

Tell Me Everything

A Novel

by Elizabeth Strout

Hardcover: Sep 2024 | Paperback: Aug 2025

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.

The Lion Women of Tehran

by Marjan Kamali

Hardcover: Jul 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.

There Are Rivers in the Sky

A Novel

by Elif Shafak

Hardcover: Aug 2024 | Paperback: Jul 2025

In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign.

The Wide Wide Sea

Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

by Hampton Sides

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this ...

Daughters of Shandong

by Eve J. Chung

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the Communist revolution sweeps through China, by debut author Eve J. Chung, based on her family story.

Becoming Madam Secretary

by Stephanie Dray

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an American heroine Frances Perkins.

Clear

A Novel

by Carys Davies

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Mar 2025

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote island off of Scotland to "clear" the last remaining inhabitant, who has no intention of leaving—an unforgettable tale of resilience, change, and ...

My Friends

A Novel

by Hisham Matar

Hardcover: Jan 2024 | Paperback: Jan 2025

A luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Booker Prize–nominated and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Return

Prophet Song

by Paul Lynch

Hardcover: Dec 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024

Exhilarating, terrifying and surprisingly intimate, Prophet Song offers a shocking vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.

The Frozen River

A Novel

by Ariel Lawhon

Hardcover: Dec 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that...