• The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist - Orbital by Samantha Harvey
  • The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist - Held by Anne Michaels
  • The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist - Creation Lake: A Novel by Rachel Kushner
  • The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist - James: A Novel by Percival Everett
  • The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist - The Safekeep: A Novel by Yael van der Wouden
  • The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist - Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

The Best Novels of 2024: The Booker Prize Shortlist, recommended by Nitin Sawhney

Every year, the £50,000 Booker Prize is awarded to a work of fiction newly published in English. We spoke to the composer Nitin Sawhney, one of this year’s judges, about their search for a shortlist, and why these six books—including the winning title, Samantha Harvey’s space station novel Orbital—are the best novels of 2024.

  • The Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024 - The Cemetery of Untold Stories: A Novel by Julia Alvarez
  • The Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024 - Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
  • The Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024 - Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty
  • The Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024 - The Limits: A Novel by Nell Freudenberger
  • The Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024 - James: A Novel by Percival Everett
  • The Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024 - The Women by Kristin Hannah

The Best Fiction Audiobooks of 2024, recommended by AudioFile Editors

Always looking for the perfect audiobook to listen to in the car, during exercise, or while cleaning—and never know where to start? We've got you. Our friends at AudioFile magazine have put together their definitive guide to the best audiobooks of 2024. Here are the recent fiction releases they recommend most strongly: six novels read by gifted narrators that will keep you captivated.

  • Books by Nobel Prize in Literature Winners - The Years by Annie Ernaux & translator - Alison Strayer
  • Books by Nobel Prize in Literature Winners - The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić
  • Books by Nobel Prize in Literature Winners - The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Books by Nobel Prize in Literature Winners - Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka
  • Books by Nobel Prize in Literature Winners - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Gregory Rabassa

Books by Nobel Prize in Literature Winners, recommended by Five Books Interviewees

The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually since 1901 and remains one of the most prestigious prizes a writer can aspire to. It’s also been consistently international, with many novelists and writers from around the globe winning the award for books written in an array of languages. Not all are accessible, and picking out which ones to read can be a tough call. To help, here’s our list of books by winners of the Nobel literature prize that have been recommended on Five Books.

  • The Best Adventure Novels: The 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize - Light Over Liskeard by Louis de Bernières
  • The Best Adventure Novels: The 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize - Blessings: A Novel by Chukwuebuka Ibeh
  • The Best Adventure Novels: The 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize - Our Hideous Progeny by C. E. McGill
  • The Best Adventure Novels: The 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize - The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B Miller
  • The Best Adventure Novels: The 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize - Saltblood by Francesca de Tores
  • The Best Adventure Novels: The 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize - Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili

The Best Adventure Novels: The 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize, recommended by Emma Styles

If you love adventure stories, you’ll be delighted to hear that there’s a book prize fully focused on them. Novelist Emma Styles, one of the judges for the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, talks us through the shortlist for best published novel, from pirates in the Caribbean to World War II Italy, from Victorian London to a dystopian future Britain—by way of Nigeria and Tbilisi, Georgia.

  • Notable New Novels of Summer 2024 - Parade: A Novel by Rachel Cusk
  • Notable New Novels of Summer 2024 - Long Island Compromise: A Novel by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
  • Notable New Novels of Summer 2024 - Caledonian Road: A Novel by Andrew O'Hagan
  • Notable New Novels of Summer 2024 - All Fours: A Novel by Miranda July
  • Notable New Novels of Summer 2024 - The Hypocrite: A Novel by Jo Hamya

Notable New Novels of Summer 2024, recommended by Cal Flyn

Another year, another summer stretching out before us… another reading dilemma? Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn offers a succinct round-up of the novels that should be on your radar in the summer of 2024: highly anticipated works of fiction from well-known literary figures and ‘breakout’ books that have quickly amassed significant critical attention – to guide you on your way.  See all our best novels of 2024 recommendations