Washington Post Picks the Best Books of 2024

It's that time of year when best-of lists begin to percolate, and the Washington Post is among the first with its list of the top 10 books of 2024. The unnumbered list is split between fiction and nonfiction. The list:

Fiction

• Colored Television by Danzy Senna
• James by Percival Everett
• My Friends by Hisham Matar
• Playground by Richard Powers
• This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud

Nonfiction

• The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
• I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition by Lucy Sante
• Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
• V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrere, translated by John Lambert
• When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

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