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The Best Books of 2024

 The novels and nonfiction that gave us unique perspectives on what it’s like to experience the world in all its sorrow and wonder. By Maris Kreizman
best of 2024

The Best Comedy Books of 2024

 The most delightful, thought-provoking, educational, and just all in all funny. By Brian Boone
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The Perfect Fantasy Novel for These Uncertain Times

 The last book in Tad Williams’s influential Osten Ard series has a strong anti-authoritarian streak. By Sarah Jones
  1. mystery and intrigue
    Oh, Colleen Hoover’s Next Movie Is Going to Be UnhingedDakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway are having a diva-off.
    By Jason P. Frank
  2. year in culture
    The Bests of 2024All the books, podcasts, and anime (plus TV, movies, music, and more) that captivated our critics (and John Waters) this year.
    By Vulture Editors
  3. year in culture
    Vulture’s 20 Most-Read Stories of 2024From brat summer to a scandalous fall, here’s what our readers loved most this year.
    By Vulture Editors
  4. reading is fundamental
    Vulture’s 2024 Books Gift GuideA dearth of celebrity memoirs doesn’t mean a dearth of gossip.
    By Vulture Staff
  5. vulture lists
    9 Great Queer Holiday Romance Novels to Cozy Up With This DecemberFeaturing house swaps, fake dates, and conveniently placed mistletoe.
    By Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner
  7. rip
    Nikki Giovanni, Treasured Poet, Dead at 81She died of complications from lung cancer.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  8. paws up lil zazzters
    HBO Is Making a Decade-Long Harry Potter SeriesAnd has reportedly offered Paapa Essiedu the role of Severus Snape.
    By Rebecca Alter
  9. this is me trying
    Taylor Swift’s Error-Laden Eras Tour Book Is Still a HitThe typo-filled tome has sold more than 800,000 copies.
    By Justin Curto
  10. vulture lists
    2024 Book-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your Reading ListIncluding an ancient epic poem, a magic-realism masterpiece, and a Bob Dylan biography.
    By Emily Maskell
  11. why’d you make this film?
    Just How Queer Is Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Anyway?I didn’t recognize the William Burroughs I knew in it. So I got on a Zoom with the director.
    By Ira Silverberg
  12. chat room
    If You Think That’s How Becky Lynch Is Going Out, You’re WrongThe WWE superstar knows that letting fans peek behind the curtain can hook them even more.
    By Anne Victoria Clark
  13. the work of art
    How Jonathan Franzen Learned to Write a Franzen NovelTo finish The Corrections, he had to kill his protagonist — and his idea of what a book should be.
    By Adam Moss
  14. scene report
    The Party Goes Late at the 75th National Book AwardsSipping prosecco amid the black-tie crowd at the packed publishing-world event in lower Manhattan.
    By Emma Alpern
  15. books
    Percival Everett Can’t Be Pinned DownHis masterful new novel, James, cements his status as one of our most idiosyncratic writers.
    By James Yeh
  16. the pluck of the irish
    The Best Irish Novels From the Past 15 YearsWhich works by Sally Rooney, Colm Toibin, and Claire Keegan among others, reign supreme?
    Edited by Tomi Obaro
  17. if i could turn back time
    14 Stunning Stories From Cher’s (First) MemoirFrom Warren Beatty asking her out when she was a teenager to her “chicken joke†with Carol Burnett.
    By Justin Curto
  18. chapters
    I Thought the Sun Rose and Set on His Sicilian AssSonny Bono was one of the most charming — and possessive — men I’d ever met.
    By Cher
  19. book review
    Haruki Murakami Has Lost the SauceTwo new works read more like fan fiction set in the extended Murakami universe than the thrillingly strange novels he’s famous for.
    By Bailey Trela
  20. books
    Samantha Harvey Wins Booker Prize for Space-Station Novel OrbitalIt’s the second-shortest book to be awarded the prize.
    By Emma Alpern
  21. books
    Literary AssassinRevealing the secret histories of Joan Didion, Donna Tartt, and Eve Babitz.
    By Lili Anolik
  22. obits
    Bastard Out of Carolina Author Dorothy Allison Dies at 75She was a voice for poor, rural queer people across the country.
    By Bethy Squires
  23. read me read me read me
    Robert Smith Is a Big Ol’ Book NerdTracking the not-so-hidden literary references on the Cure’s new album.
    By Chris Stanton
  24. vulture lists
    10 Books With Grotesquerie VibesWhether you’re into creepy Catholic-coded camp or just here for Travis Kelce.
    By Mikaella Clements & Onjuli Datta
  25. anonymous in publishing
    Who’s Really Writing Celebrity Novels?The writers and agents working behind the scenes tell us how it actually works.
    By Sophie Vershbow
  26. what happened here?
    What It’s Like to Be a NovelistSometimes the books just don’t work.
    By Choire Sicha
  27. tributes
    Gary Indiana’s Exuberant VenomThe late critic and novelist documented the seedy vanities and sorrows of American life with bitchiness and, sometimes, sympathy.
    By Brandon Sanchez
  28. announcements
    Sign Up for Book GossipA monthly newsletter about what we’re reading and what we actually think about it.
    By Emily Gould
  29. celebrity memoir
    ‘Please Tell Me, What’s Wrong With Me?’In his new memoir, Sonny Boy, Al Pacino looks back on his “moon shot†of a life in Hollywood — and a few acute regrets.
    By Chris Stanton
  30. sexual abuse
    Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley Asks Ex-Manager to Testify ‘Under Oath’ Over AllegationsGreig Nori has denied claims he groomed and abused Whibley.
    By Justin Curto
  31. required reading
    Professor Taylor Swift Assigns More Reading to The Tortured Poets DepartmentIt’s an Eras Tour book.
    By Justin Curto
  32. presley industrial complex
    From Here to the Great Unknown Is a Presley-Family Therapy SessionLisa Marie’s new memoir, co-authored by her daughter Riley Keough, lets the family grieve on its own terms.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  33. politics
    In Praise of Bad ReadersIn a time of war, there is a danger in surveying the world as if it were a novel.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  34. vulture lists
    A Beginner’s Guide to Junji Ito14 stories to go down the horror-manga auteur’s spiral.
    By Daniel Dockery
  35. memoirs
    Everything Lisa Marie Presley Shared in Her Memoir So FarIncluding memories of grieving both Elvis and her son, plus claims that Michael Jackson was a virgin when they started dating.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  36. chapters
    Enjoy J. Smith-Cameron’s Martini-Themed Crossword Puzzle ‘With a Twist’An excerpt from A24’s new book of puzzles, 99 TV Crosswords.
    By J. Smith-Cameron
  37. book review
    Alan Hollinghurst Tries to AtoneThe writer has tended to fetishize marginal POC characters in his novels. In Our Evenings, he puts a biracial man at the center for the first time.
    By Sam Worley
  38. best of 2024
    The Best Horror Books of 2024 (So Far)Fiction that feels like a primal scream.
    By Emily C. Hughes
  39. social studies
    The Return of Ta-Nehisi CoatesA decade after “The Case for Reparations,†he is ready to take on Israel, Palestine, and the American media.
    By Ryu Spaeth
  40. explainer
    What’s Going on With That Fake Kim Porter Memoir?After the book shot to No. 1 on Amazon’s best-seller ranking the week of Diddy’s indictment, Amazon has now removed it from its site.
    By Victoria Bekiempis
  41. splendid
    Nicholas Sparks’s Splenda Chicken Salad Sounds FowlGuy dinner.
    By Rebecca Alter
  42. book review
    Has Olga Tokarczuk Been Struck by the Nobel Curse?Her latest novel, The Empusium, is more focused on dictating a salient political message than pushing the bounds of art.
    By Robert Rubsam
  43. close read
    Hot CommodityIn Sally Rooney’s novels, love is always being bought, sold, or reduced to tropes. But this is also what makes it real.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  44. it wasn’t paradise
    All the Semi-Salacious Non-Scandals in The Third Gilmore GirlDid anyone think a memoir by Kelly Bishop would be anything but classy?
    By Bethy Squires
  45. vulture lists
    Forgotten YA Adaptations, Ranked by Cultural ImpactWill Netflix’s Uglies leave a bigger mark than these 15 Twilight–Harry Potter–Hunger Games rip-offs?
    By Rory Doherty
  46. booked and busy
    The National Book Foundation’s 2024 Fiction LonglistFeaturing three debut novels, two short-story collections, and one Miranda July.
    By Emma Alpern
  47. happy birthday
    The Twilight Saga’s Renesmee Cullen Is Old Enough to VoteThree questions for the Cullens as the 2024 election approaches.
    By Bethy Squires
  48. beach read book club
    ‘Too Much Hugging and Learning’Our book club discusses the ending of Long Island Compromise.
  49. profile
    In the Shack With Robert CaroThe Power Broker is turning 50. His final LBJ book is almost — well, he won’t say exactly, but he’s trying for 900 words a day.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  50. remembrance
    Noel Parmentel Jr., the Man Joan Didion Left BehindWhen she said good-bye to all that.
    By Linda Hall
  51. book review
    Is Rejection the First Great Incel Novel?Tony Tulathimutte’s second book is a hilariously brutal story collection about elder millennials grappling with their sexual failures.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
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