BBC Culture's best books of 2024
The top 3 according to 14 votes from people: Creation Lake — Rachel Kushner · Intermezzo — Sally Rooney · Our Evenings — Alan Hollinghurst. (Updated Dec 27, 2025.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 20
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Creation Lake — Rachel Kushner
Picked by BBC Culture.
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Intermezzo — Sally Rooney
Picked by BBC Culture.
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Our Evenings — Alan Hollinghurst
Picked by BBC Culture.
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Flint Kill Creek — Joyce Carol Oates
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Small Rain — Garth Greenwell
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Bright I Burn — Molly Aitken
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7
The Empusium — Olga Tokarczuk
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8
My Heavenly Favorite — Lucas Rijneveld
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9
Wild Houses — Colin Barrett
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10
Parasol Against the Axe — Helen Oyeyemi
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11
All Fours — Miranda July
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12
The Safekeep — Yael van der Wouden
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13
The Hypocrite — Jo Hamya
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14
Martyr! — Kaveh Akbar
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15
The Proof of My Innocence — Jonathan Coe
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16
Caledonian Road — Andrew O'Hagan
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17
Green Dot — Madeleine Gray
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18
The Sleepwalkers — Scarlett Thomas
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19
Change — Édouard Louis
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Choice — Neel Mukherjee
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How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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