This list is updated monthly with new “best of the year” worthy titles. We still have a few months left in 2024, but this year has already been a treasure trove of exciting new books.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Folk horror, twisted slashers, and a nightmare road trip make up some of the best horror books of 2024 so far.

In Absolution, the fourth novel in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach saga, scientists try to know the unknowable ...

Nick Harkaway’s novel “Karla’s Choice” revisits the British spy George Smiley a few years after the construction of the ...

The Message marks Coates’ first non-fiction book in nearly a decade ... she feels a chasm grow between her current and past self, constantly juggling between identities, cultures, family ...

Kudlow' panelists Mike Waltz, Jason Chaffetz and Tammy Bruce react to the former president working as a fry cook at ...

Environmental anxiety, no surprise, continues to be a preoccupation in both fiction (David Huebert, Louise Erdrich, Richard Powers) and non-fiction. Elsewhere in non-fiction, two new books by ...

The prestigious Locus Poll Award for best science-fiction novel went to Del Rey authors Julian May and Isaac Asimov in 1982 ...

Check out my picks for the best horror books of 2024, too! I love sci-fi and fantasy. Along with Sherlock Holmes, science ...