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Collecting links to book lists I’ll want to come back to, figured I’d share.

This page is a list of Best-of’s, award winners and other lists that I follow at this time of year. It’ll be updated regularly, so come back when you’re looking for a gift for someone or yourself. If there’s something I missed, please let me know and I’ll add it.

Best of 2024

Year Zero (me):

Book Riot: Best Books of 2024

Debutiful: Best Debut Books of 2024 – mostly fiction and some nonfiction

Economist: Best Fiction of 2024 (archive) – both fiction and nonfiction

Electric Lit: The Most Exciting Debut Short Story Collections of 2024

Financial Times: Books of the year 2024:

Financial Times: Books of the year 2024

Globe and Mail: 100 Best Books of 2024

Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen):

New York Public Library: Best Books of 2024

New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2024 (gift link)

NPR: Books We Love 2024

Pitchfork: Best Music Books 2024

Rough Trade (music): Books of the Year 2024

Smithsonian Magazine: 10 Best History Books of 2024

Waterstones: Best of 2024

Award winners

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Winner: Question 7
Runners up” Revolusi, Wild Thing, A Man of Two Faces, Nuclear War, The Story of a Heart

Booker Prize

Winner: Orbital
Runners up: Held, Creation Lake, James, The Safekeep, Stone Yard Devotional

Giller: I’ve read none of these

National Book Award

Fiction winner: James
Runners up: Martyr!, All Fours, My Friends, Catalina, Rejection, The Most, Creation Lake, Yr Dead
Nonfiction winner: Soldiers and Kings
Runners up: Circle of Hope, Unshrinking, Knife, Whiskey Tender

Waterstones Book of the Year: Butter by Asako Yuzuki