Best Selling Novels 2024. Our best books of the year include long island, good material, and home is where the bodies are. A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common.

After digging—in some cases, literally—through as many books as the elle office could squeeze in, we decided to split our annual “best of 2024” list into five. The new york times’ best books of 2024 (so far) by prh editors.