2024 Library Journal Best Books (Awarded by Library Journal)

Awards List

Crime Fiction

Murder Road
(*)
Simone St. James

The Murder of Mr. Ma
(*)
S.J. Rozan

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

The Briar Club
(*)
Kate Quinn

The Wharton Plot
(*)
Mariah Fredericks

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

The Murderess
(*)
Laurie Notaro

The Puzzle Box
(*)
Danielle Trussoni

The Secret War of Julia Child
(*)
Diana Chambers

Pony Confidential
(*)
Christina Lynch

Graphic Novels

Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1
(*)
Taiyo Matsumoto

Search and Destroy Vol. 1
(*)
Atsushi Kaneko

Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir
(*)
Denise Dorrance

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two
(*)
Emil Ferris

Final Cut
(*)
Charles Burns

Big Jim and the White Boy: A Graphic Novel Retelling of an American Classic
(*)
David F. Walker

The Hidden Life of Trees: The Graphic Adaptation
(*)
Peter Wohlleben

Horror

This Wretched Valley
(*)
Jenny Kiefer

Eynhallow
(*)
Tim McGregor

The Haunting of Velkwood
(*)
Gwendolyn Kiste

Craft
(*)
Ananda Lima

Horror Movie
(*)
Paul Tremblay

Bury Your Gays
(*)
Chuck Tingle

I Was A Teenage Slasher
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

House of Bone and Rain
(*)
Gabino Iglesias

So Thirsty
(*)
Rachel Harrison

Coup De Grace
(*)
Sofia Ajram

Literary Fiction

Martyr!
(*)
Kaveh Akbar

Hard by a Great Forest
(*)
Leo Vardiashvili

The Extinction of Irena Rey
(*)
Jennifer Croft

James
(*)
Percival Everett

Honey
(*)
Victor Lodato

Ghostroots: Stories
(*)
Pemi Aguda

The Coin
(*)
Yasmin Zaher

The Goodbye Process: Stories
(*)
Mary Jones

Mina's Matchbox
(*)
Yoko Ogawa

Creation Lake
(*)
Rachel Kushner

Pop Fiction

The Queen of Sugar Hill
(*)
ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Anita de Monte Laughs Last
(*)
Xochitl Gonzalez

Sweetness in the Skin
(*)
Ishi Robinson

Familiaris
(*)
David Wroblewski

Sandwich
(*)
Catherine Newman

54 Miles
(*)
Leonard Pitts Jr.

The God of the Woods
(*)
Liz Moore

Long Island Compromise
(*)
Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The Wedding People
(*)
Alison Espach

The Wildes
(*)
Louis Bayard

Romance

At First Spite
(*)
Olivia Dade

A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
(*)
Tia Williams

Pride and Preston Lin
(*)
Christina Hwang Dudley

Funny Story
(*)
Emily Henry

How to End a Love Story
(*)
Yulin Kuang

Cross the Line
(*)
Simone Soltani

The Paradise Problem
(*)
Christina Lauren

You Should Be So Lucky
(*)
Cat Sebastian

The Irish Goodbye
(*)
Amy Ewing

I'll Have What He's Having
(*)
Adib Khorram

SF/Fantasy

Moon Of The Turning Leaves
(*)
Waubgeshig Rice

A Letter to the Luminous Deep
(*)
Sylvie Cathrall

Someone You Can Build a Nest In
(*)
John Wiswell

Lost Ark Dreaming
(*)
Suyi Davies Okungbowa

The God and the Gumiho
(*)
Sophie Kim

Service Model
(*)
Adrian Tchaikovsky

Full Speed to a Crash Landing
(*)
Beth Revis

Somewhere Beyond the Sea
(*)
T.J. Klune

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door
(*)
H.G. Parry

The Teller of Small Fortunes
(*)
Julie Leong

Award Categories

Crime Fiction

Graphic Novels

Horror

Literary Fiction

Pop Fiction

Romance

SF/Fantasy

Short Stories

World Literature

Award Years

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018