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In keeping with the season of year-end “best” lists, we’ve compiled ALL of the Reviews of the Day for 2024, from January 8 to December 13 and divided them into four categories: adult books, books for youth, graphic novels, and audiobooks. We hope you’ll enjoy this look back at a vibrant year in reading and stay tuned for more by following us @ala-booklist.bsky.social.

10 Questions for Sonora Reyes
By John Charles

Born and raised in Arizona, Sonora Reyes is the author of The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School and The Luis Ortega Survival Club. They write fiction full of queer and Latinx characters in a variety of genres, with current projects in both kidlit and adult categories.

10 Questions for Katie Holt
By John Charles

Katie Holt is a New York City resident but a Tennessee native. She studied English with a concentration in creative writing at NYU and fought with every professor to prove that romance novels were worthy of their time. She’s a Nora Ephron fanatic, Swiftie, and warm chocolate chip enthusiast. Not in My Book is her first novel. 

10 Questions for Lee Hawkins
By John Charles

Lee Hawkins was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist as a lead reporter on a series about the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 at the Wall Street Journal, where he worked for nineteen years.

Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Books, 2024

We the editors have chosen what we feel are the most extraordinary 2024 books for adults reviewed in Booklist this year with an eye to literary artistry, ardent research, abundant imagination, and resonant content, as well as diversity of voices, subjects, and genres.

Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth, 2024

Committed to providing a broad selection of outstanding books that mixes popular appeal with literary excellence, the Books for Youth editorial staff has chosen the titles below as its most-recommended nonfiction, fiction, and picture-book offerings of the year. Our Top of the List YA fiction, middle-grade fiction, picture-book, and nonfiction selections can be found below, as well as individual book recommendations from Booklist editors and select reviewers, highlighting their personal favorite titles.​

Booklist Editors’ Choice: Adult Books for Young Adults, 2024

Selected by the Books for Youth editors, the following titles constitute the year’s best personal reading for teenagers among adult books published in 2024. More on each book’s content and suggested audience can be found in the full-length Booklist review.

Booklist Editors’ Choice: Graphic Novels, 2024

Combining evocative artwork and stirring stories, our editors’ choice graphic novels for adults and youth showcase this year’s best of the format in a wide variety of genres, topics, and tones.