# BBC Culture's best books of 2024

Twenty of the 24 books, nearly all novels, that BBC Culture picked as the best of 2024, from Sally Rooney's Intermezzo to Édouard Louis's Change.

- 14 votes · 20 items
- Jan 23, 2025 · Mercedes Álvarez Diez
- https://even.best/en/l/1699/bbc-culture-s-best-books-of-2024

## Top 20

1. **Creation Lake — Rachel Kushner** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
2. **Intermezzo — Sally Rooney** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
3. **Our Evenings — Alan Hollinghurst** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
4. **Flint Kill Creek — Joyce Carol Oates** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
5. **Small Rain — Garth Greenwell** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
6. **Bright I Burn — Molly Aitken** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
7. **The Empusium — Olga Tokarczuk** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
8. **My Heavenly Favorite — Lucas Rijneveld** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
9. **Wild Houses — Colin Barrett** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
10. **Parasol Against the Axe — Helen Oyeyemi** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
11. **All Fours — Miranda July** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
12. **The Safekeep — Yael van der Wouden** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
13. **The Hypocrite — Jo Hamya** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
14. **Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
15. **The Proof of My Innocence — Jonathan Coe** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
16. **Caledonian Road — Andrew O'Hagan** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
17. **Green Dot — Madeleine Gray** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
18. **The Sleepwalkers — Scarlett Thomas** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
19. **Change — Édouard Louis** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.
20. **Choice — Neel Mukherjee** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Picked by BBC Culture.

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