“What are the best Science Fiction And Fantasy books released in 2024?” We looked at 209 of the top Science Fiction And Fantasy books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 75 books, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Science Fiction And Fantasy” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 130+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
All of the books have Amazon affiliate links attached to them, but I will be building out Bookshop versions of these lists HERE in the next week for those who would rather support a local book store. Honestly, just use the bookshop link for books (Or even better go in person somewhere). If you are going to buy something else expensive from Amazon, feel free to click on the link before buying so I get an affiliate percentage, but these are the only articles I post on here each year, so I don’t expect to make any real money from this site anymore. I’ve just made these articels for enough years in a row that I can’t stop now. Plus I like using to see what books I missed or need to get myself.
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Previous Years: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
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76) A Better World – Sarah Langan List: (NPR)
77) A Darkness Returns – The Dragonwar Saga Book 1 – Raymond E. Feist List: (Waterstones)
78) A Mask of Flies – Matthew Lyons List: (Lit Hub)
79) A Monsoon Rising – Thea Guanzon List: (Barnes & Noble)
80) A Short Walk Through a Wide World – Douglas Westerbeke List: (NPR)
81) Alien Clay – Adrian Tchaikovsky List: (Esquire)
82) American Rapture – CJ Leede List: (Lit Hub)
83) An Education in Malice – S.T. Gibson List: (Polygon)
84) Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant and the Villain, 2) – Hannah Nicole Maehrer List: (Amazon)
85) Asunder – Kerstin Hall List: (Geek Girl Authority)
86) Barrowbeck – Andrew Michael Hurley List: (Waterstones)
87) Blackheart Man – Nalo Hopkinson List: (NPR)
88) Bloodguard – Cecy Robson List: (Barnes & Noble)
89) Blue Lard – Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton List: (NPR)
90) Bride – Ali Hazelwood List: (NPR)
91) Cahokia Jazz – Francis Spufford List: (NPR)
92) Cuckoo – Gretchen Felker-Martin List: (NPR)
93) Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art (Twelve Tomorrows) – List: (Esquire)
94) Dragonfruit – Makiia Lucier List: (NPR)
95) Dreadful – Caitlin Rozakis List: (Barnes & Noble)
96) Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman List: (Lit Hub)
97) Earthflown: A Potable Study of Love and Collusion – Indigo Exclusive Edition – Frances Wren List: (Indigo)
98) Evocation: Book I in The Summoner’s Circle – S.T. Gibson List: (Waterstones)
99) Extinction – Douglas Preston List: (Goodreads 2)
100) Fate Breaker – Victoria Aveyard List: (Waterstones)
101) Fledgling: The Keeper’s Records of Revolution – S. K. Ali List: (NPR)
102) Ghost Station – S.A. Barnes List: (Geek Girl Authority)
103) Gothikana – RuNyx List: (Barnes & Noble)
104) Green Frog – Gina Chung List: (NPR)
105) Haunt Sweet Home – Sarah Pinsker List: (NPR)
106) Heads Will Roll – Josh Winning List: (Waterstones)
107) Heartless Hunter – Kristen Ciccarelli List: (Elle)
108) Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch – Emily C. Hughes List: (NPR)
109) Horror Movie – Paul Tremblay List: (NPR)
110) House of Flame and Shadow – Sarah J. Maas List: (NPR)
111) How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying – Django Wexler List: (Polygon)
112) I Was A Teenage Slasher – Stephen Graham Jones List: (NPR)
113) I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom – Jason Pargin List: (Goodreads 2)
114) Immortal Dark – Tigest Girma List: (Elle)
115) In the Sight – Tobias Carroll List: (Lit Hub)
116) Itasca Books North Continent Ribbon – Ursula Whitcher List: (Esquire)
117) Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions – Nalo Hopkinson List: (Esquire)
118) Januaries – Olivie Blake List: (Waterstones)
119) Juice – Tim Winton List: (The Guardian)
120) King of Dead Things – Nevin Holness List: (Elle)
121) Kinning – Nisi Shawl List: (Elle)
122) Lady Macbeth – Ava Reid List: (Waterstones)
123) Lost Ark Dreaming – Suyi Davies Okungbowa List: (Geek Girl Authority)
124) Lunar Boy – Jes and Cin Wibowo List: (NPR)
125) Memorials – Richard Chizmar List: (Publishers Weekly)
126) Mirrored Heavens – Rebecca Roanhorse List: (Elle)
127) Model Home – Rivers Solomon List: (Bookshop Santa Cruz)
128) Mood Swings – Frankie Barnet List: (Elle)
129) New Adventures in Space Opera, edited by Jonathan Strahan – List: (Esquire)
130) Ninetails: Nine Tales – Sally Wen Mao List: (Elle)
131) Not a Speck of Light – Laird Barron List: (NPR)
132) Not Quite a Ghost – Anne Ursu List: (NPR)
133) On Vicious Worlds – Bethany Jacobs List: (Esquire)
134) Orbital – Samantha Harvey List: (Goodreads 2)
135) Ours – Phillip B. Williams List: (NPR)
136) Phantasma – Kaylie Smith List: (Barnes & Noble)
137) Private Rites – Julia Armfield List: (Polygon)
138) Queen B – Juno Dawson List: (Waterstones)
139) Queen of Dreams – Kit Rocha List: (BookRiot)
140) Real Americans – Rachel Khong List: (NPR)
141) Red Side Story – Jasper Fforde List: (Waterstones)
142) Remember You Will Die – Eden Robins List: (Esquire)
143) Return to the DallerGut Dream Department Store – Miye Lee List: (Waterstones)
144) Revenant-X – David Wellington List: (Indigo)
145) Rewitched – Lucy Jane Wood List: (Indigo)
146) Sheine Lende: A Prequel to Elatsoe – Darcie Little Badger, illustrated by Rovina Cai List: (NPR)
147) So Let Them Burn – Kamilah Cole List: (Elle)
148) Space Oddity – Catherynne M. Valente List: (Esquire)
149) Spark of the Everflame: A Novel – Penn Cole List: (Barnes & Noble)
150) Spin of Fate – A.A. Vora List: (Elle)
151) State of Paradise – Laura van den Berg List: (NPR)
152) Suggested in the Stars – Yōko Tawada List: (NYPL)
153) Swordcrossed – Freya Marske List: (BookRiot)
154) That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon – Kimberly Lemming List: (Amazon)
155) The Bad Ones – Melissa Albert List: (NPR)
156) The Blueprint – Rae Giana Rashad List: (Goodreads 2)
157) The Book of Elsewhere – Keanu Reeves List: (Waterstones)
158) The Book of Witching – C.J. Cooke List: (Waterstones)
159) The Book That Broke the World (The Library Trilogy) – Mark Lawrence List: (Amazon)
160) The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, Book 5) – Nghi Vo List: (NPR)
161) The Bullet Swallower – Elizabeth Gonzalez James List: (NPR)
162) The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands – Sarah Brooks List: (Waterstones)
163) The Cemetery of Untold Stories – Julia Alvarez List: (NPR)
164) The City and Its Uncertain Walls – Haruki Murakami List: (NPR)
165) The Coven – Harper L. Woods List: (Barnes & Noble)
166) The Daughters’ War – Christopher Buehlman List: (Polygon)
167) The Diablo’s Curse – Gabe Cole Novoa List: (BookRiot)
168) The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years – Shubnum Khan List: (NPR)
169) The Family Experiment – John Marrs List: (Goodreads 2)
170) The Full Moon Coffee Shop – Mai Mochizuki, trans. from the Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood List: (Publishers Weekly)
171) The Games Gods Play – Abigail Owen List: (Barnes & Noble)
172) The Great When: A Long London Novel – Alan Moore List: (Waterstones)
173) The Husbands – Holly Gramazio List: (NPR)
174) The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles – Malka Older List: (Esquire)
175) The Jinn Daughter – Rania Hanna List: (Elle)
176) The Last Gifts of the Universe – Riley August List: (Waterstones)
177) The Last Hour Between Worlds – Melissa Caruso List: (NPR)
178) The Lotus Empire – Tasha Suri List: (BookRiot)
179) The Mars House – Natasha Pulley List: (Lit Hub)
180) The Masquerades of Spring: The Brand New Rivers of London Novella – Ben Aaronovitch List: (Waterstones)
181) The Night Ends with Fire (The Night Ends with Fire, #1) – K.X. Song List: (Goodreads)
182) The Night Guest – Hildur Knútsdóttir Mary Robinette Kowal List: (Lit Hub)
183) The Nightmare Box and Other Stories – Cynthia Gómez List: (NPR)
184) The Prisoner’s Throne – Holly Black List: (Elle)
185) The Psychographist – Carson Winter List: (Lit Hub)
186) The Ragpicker – Joel Dane List: (Esquire)
187) The Songbird and the Heart of Stone – Carissa Broadbent List: (Barnes & Noble)
188) The Stars Are Dying – Chloe C. Peñaranda List: (Barnes & Noble)
189) The Storm Beneath the World – Michael R. Fletcher List: (Polygon)
190) The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn, Vol. 1 – Tri Vuong List: (Polygon)
191) The Veiled Kingdom (The Veiled Kingdom Series) – Holly Renee List: (Amazon)
192) The Wings Upon Her Back – Samantha Mills List: (Esquire)
193) These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart – Izzy Wasserstein List: (Esquire)
194) This Great Hemisphere – Mateo Askaripour List: (NPR)
195) Three Eight One – Aliya Whiteley List: (The Guardian)
196) Throne of Secrets – Kerri Maniscalco List: (Barnes & Noble)
197) Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction – Sonia Sulaiman List: (NPR)
198) Time’s Agent – Brenda Peynado List: (Esquire)
199) Tiny Threads – Lilliam Rivera List: (Lit Hub)
200) Under the Eye of the Big Bird – Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Asa Yoneda List: (Esquire)
201) Vilest Things: A Novel – Chloe Gong List: (Barnes & Noble)
202) Where I End – Sophie White List: (Lit Hub)
203) Where the Library Hides – Isabel Ibañez List: (Elle)
204) Womb City – Tlotlo Tsamaase List: (Elle)
205) Wrath of the Triple Goddess – Rick Riordan List: (Geek Girl Authority)
206) You Dreamed of Empires – Álvaro Enrigue List: (NPR)
207) You Like It Darker – Stephen King List: (Waterstones)
208) Your Utopia – Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur) List: (Esquire)
209) Yours for the Taking – Gabrielle Korn List: (Goodreads 2)
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Amazon | Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2024 |
Barnes & Noble | Barnes & Noble’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books of 2024 |
BookRiot | Best Books Of 2024 |
Bookshop Santa Cruz | Best Genre Fiction of the Year |
NPR | Books We Love 2024 |
New York Times | 100 Notable Books of 2024 |
The Guardian | Five of the best science fiction books of 2024 |
Indigo | Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy of 2024 |
Goodreads | Readers’ Favorite Fantasy |
Goodreads 2 | Readers’ Favorite Science Fiction |
NYPL | Best Books for Adults 2024 |
Publishers Weekly | Best Books 2024 SF/Fantasy/Horror |
Waterstones | The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Books of 2024 |
Lit Hub | 17 of the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024 |
Geek Girl Authority | GGA’s 10 Best Science Fiction Books of 2024 |
Geek Girl Authority | GGA’s 10 Best Fantasy Books of 2024 |
Polygon | The best sci-fi and fantasy books of 2024 |
Elle | The Best Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books of 2024 |
Esquire | The 30 Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 |
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