2024 Booklist Editors Choice (Awarded by ALA: The American Library Association)

Awards List

Adult

The Fetishist
(*)
Katherine Min

Martyr!
(*)
Kaveh Akbar

The Hunter
(*)
Tana French

James
(*)
Percival Everett

Wandering Stars
(*)
Tommy Orange

Funny Story
(*)
Emily Henry

One of Us Knows
(*)
Alyssa Cole

The Stone Home
(*)
Crystal Hana Kim

Sweetness in the Skin
(*)
Ishi Robinson

All Fours
(*)
Miranda July

This Strange Eventful History
(*)
Claire Messud

Daughter of Calamity
(*)
Rosalie M. Lin

Enlightenment
(*)
Sarah Perry

Malas
(*)
Marcela Fuentes

Sandwich
(*)
Catherine Newman

Southern Man
(*)
Greg Iles

The God of the Woods
(*)
Liz Moore

Between Friends and Lovers
(*)
Shirlene Obuobi

The Pairing
(*)
Casey McQuiston

The Cottage Around the Corner
(*)
D.L. Soria

Intermezzo
(*)
Sally Rooney

Where They Last Saw Her
(*)
Marcie R. Rendon

Absolution
(*)
Jeff VanderMeer

Our Evenings
(*)
Alan Hollinghurst

Adult Books for Young Adults

Some Strange Music Draws Me In
(*)
Griffin Hansbury

Bless Your Heart
(*)
Lindy Ryan

Sweetness in the Skin
(*)
Ishi Robinson

Road to Ruin
(*)
HaNa Lee

I Was A Teenage Slasher
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins
(*)
P. Djeli Clark

We Burn Daylight
(*)
Bret Anthony Johnston

The Border between Us
(*)
Rudy Ruiz

Lola in the Mirror
(*)
Trent Dalton

Adult: Genre Fiction

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
(*)
Tia Williams

Help Wanted
(*)
Adelle Waldman

The Morningside
(*)
Tea Obreht

Pride and Joy
(*)
Louisa Onome

Colton Gentry's Third Act
(*)
Jeff Zentner

The Last Murder at the End of the World
(*)
Stuart Turton

Fire Exit
(*)
Morgan Talty

I Was A Teenage Slasher
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

Masquerade
(*)
O.O. Sangoyomi

The Night the River Wept
(*)
Lo Patrick

Blackheart Man
(*)
Nalo Hopkinson

The Wedding People
(*)
Alison Espach

Creation Lake
(*)
Rachel Kushner

Youth: Middle Readers

Godfather Death
(*)
Sally Nicholls

Max in the House of Spies
(*)
Adam Gidwitz

Sona and the Golden Beasts
(*)
Rajani LaRocca

Mid Air
(*)
Alicia D. Williams

Olivetti
(*)
Allie Millington

The Wrong Way Home
(*)
Kate O'Shaughnessy

Gooseberry
(*)
Robin Gow

The Labyrinth of Lost and Found
(*)
Jordan Lees

Red Bird Danced
(*)
Dawn Quigley

It Happened to Anna
(*)
Tehlor Kay Mejia

The House on Yeet Street
(*)
Preston Norton

Bye Forever, I Guess
(*)
Jodi Meadows

Lone Wolf Gets a Pet
(*)
Kiah Thomas

Mishka
(*)
Edward Van De Vendel

Harriet Hound
(*)
Kate Foster

Youth: Older Readers

Bright Red Fruit
(*)
Safia Elhillo

My Throat an Open Grave
(*)
Tori Bovalino

Ariel Crashes a Train
(*)
Olivia A. Cole

Just Another Epic Love Poem
(*)
Parisa Akhbari

Kindling
(*)
Traci Chee

Dear Wendy
(*)
Ann Zhao

Dispatches from Parts Unknown
(*)
Bryan Bliss

I'll Be Waiting for You
(*)
Mariko Turk

Unbecoming
(*)
Seema Yasmin

The Dark We Know
(*)
Wen-yi Lee

Compound Fracture
(*)
Andrew Joseph White

Desert Echoes
(*)
Abdi Nazemian

Everything We Never Had
(*)
Randy Ribay

The Hysterical Girls of St. Bernadette's
(*)
Hanna Alkaf

Libertad
(*)
Bessie Flores Zaldivar

Night Owls
(*)
A.R. Vishny

Don't Let the Forest In
(*)
C.G. Drews

Youth: Younger Readers

Elijah's Easter Suit
(*)
Brentom Jackson

If You Run Out of Words
(*)
Felicita Sala

Monster Hands
(*)
Karen Kane

The Spaceman
(*)
Randy Cecil

Touch the Sky
(*)
Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic

Cesaria Feels the Beat
(*)
Denise Rosario Adusei

Dante Plays His Blues
(*)
Allen R. Wells

Pasta Pasta Lotsa Pasta
(*)
Aimee Lucido

That Always Happens Sometimes
(*)
Kiley Frank

The Yellow Bus
(*)
Loren Long

We Are Definitely Human
(*)
X. Fang

Mr. Fox's Game of No!
(*)
David LaRochelle

My Olive Tree
(*)
Hazar Elbayya

Mad at Dad
(*)
Janie Hao

A Map for Falasteen
(*)
Maysa Odeh

Award Categories

Adult

Adult Books for Young Adults

Adult: Audio

Adult: Genre Fiction

Adult: Graphic Novel

Youth

Youth: Audio

Youth: Graphic Novel

Youth: Middle Readers

Youth: Older Readers

Youth: Younger Readers

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