• The Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Novels - Translation State by Ann Leckie
  • The Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Novels - Witch King by Martha Wells
  • The Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Novels - The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
  • The Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Novels - The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi: A Novel by Shannon Chakraborty
  • The Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Novels - Starter Villain by John Scalzi
  • The Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Novels - Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

The Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy Novels, as Chosen by Fans: the 2024 Hugo Award, recommended by Sylvia Bishop

Every year, members of the World Science Fiction Society nominate writers for the Hugo Award, then vote for the winner. All speculative fiction is eligible – fantasy as well as sci-fi – and the shortlist is one of the most prestigious for both genres. Here, Sylvia Bishop introduces us to the nominees for the title of the best speculative novel of 2024 – and the page-turning champion. See all our best science fiction books, fantasy fiction, and best novels of 2024 recommendations.

  • Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - Brotherless Night: A Novel by V. V. Ganeshananthan
  • Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright
  • Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - Restless Dolly Maunder by Kate Grenville
  • Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad
  • Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - Soldier Sailor: A Novel by Claire Kilroy
  • Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure

Recent Fiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Monica Ali

Each summer, the judges for the Women’s Prize for Fiction highlight the best new fiction books by female writers published over the previous twelve months. We asked Monica Ali, the acclaimed novelist and chair of this year’s jury, to talk us through the six novels that made the 2024 shortlist. See all our best novels of 2024 recommendations

  • Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
  • Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
  • Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
  • Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
  • Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
  • Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist - How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

Recent Nonfiction Highlights: The 2024 Women’s Prize Shortlist, recommended by Suzannah Lipscomb

Since 1996, the Women’s Prize has been awarded the best new novels by female writers. This year, for the very first time, an equivalent prize has been established for female nonfiction writers—whose books receive less coverage and lower advances than those of their male counterparts. Suzannah Lipscomb, historian and chair of the inaugural judging panel, introduces us to the six books that made the 2024 Women’s Prize for Nonfiction shortlist.