[2024] Best Books of the Month (2024)

1.
Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary
by: Andy Weir
4.50 avg rating — 869,438 ratings
2.
Lessons in Chemistry
Lessons in Chemistry 4.28 avg rating — 1,676,179 ratings
3.
Circe
Circe 4.22 avg rating — 1,276,345 ratings
4.
The Night Circus
The Night Circus really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,068,418 ratings
5.
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day 4.14 avg rating — 344,054 ratings
6.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) 4.50 avg rating — 3,691,034 ratings
7.
The Women
The Women 4.60 avg rating — 1,328,592 ratings
8.
Funny Story
Funny Story 4.20 avg rating — 1,119,310 ratings
9.
The Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway 4.22 avg rating — 299,361 ratings
10.
The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,238,770 ratings
11.
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 1,266,845 ratings
12.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Remarkably Bright Creatures 4.37 avg rating — 1,049,429 ratings
13.
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,393,052 ratings
14.
The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys 4.26 avg rating — 291,006 ratings
15.
The Poet X
The Poet X 4.37 avg rating — 138,757 ratings
16.
The Wishing Game
The Wishing Game 4.04 avg rating — 177,873 ratings
17.
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front 4.10 avg rating — 505,043 ratings
18.
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1)
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) 3.98 avg rating — 183,087 ratings
19.
James
James 4.47 avg rating — 372,823 ratings
20.
Piranesi
Piranesi 4.22 avg rating — 406,482 ratings
21.
The Covenant of Water
The Covenant of Water 4.42 avg rating — 280,477 ratings
22.
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 109,177 ratings
23.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler 4.02 avg rating — 108,213 ratings
24.
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) 4.45 avg rating — 2,673,951 ratings
25.
Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey 3.85 avg rating — 439,086 ratings
26.
Carrie Soto Is Back
Carrie Soto Is Back 4.20 avg rating — 665,529 ratings
27.
Salt to the Sea
Salt to the Sea 4.35 avg rating — 244,780 ratings
28.
The Kaiju Preservation Society
The Kaiju Preservation Society 3.98 avg rating — 67,210 ratings
29.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 3.95 avg rating — 137,677 ratings
30.
Homegoing
Homegoing
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.47 avg rating — 386,265 ratings
31.
Home Fire
Home Fire 4.02 avg rating — 70,379 ratings
32.
Kindred
Kindred 4.31 avg rating — 258,316 ratings
33.
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1)
Legends & Lattes (Legends & Lattes, #1) 4.06 avg rating — 297,812 ratings
34.
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 4.72 avg rating — 41,758 ratings
35.
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 2,323,116 ratings
36.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities 3.88 avg rating — 996,424 ratings
37.
Station Eleven
Station Eleven 4.07 avg rating — 590,270 ratings
38.
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1)
A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 415,402 ratings
39.
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
Neverwhere (London Below, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 555,450 ratings
40.
Anxious People
Anxious People 4.17 avg rating — 754,067 ratings
41.
The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose 4.14 avg rating — 387,264 ratings
42.
The Round House
The Round House 3.98 avg rating — 122,363 ratings
43.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store 3.93 avg rating — 294,297 ratings
43.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,688,894 ratings
45.
Happiness Falls
Happiness Falls
by: Angie Kim
3.73 avg rating — 82,681 ratings
46.
Hello Beautiful
Hello Beautiful 4.14 avg rating — 496,395 ratings
47.
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2)
Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde, #2) 4.27 avg rating — 85,515 ratings
48.
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) 4.47 avg rating — 113,932 ratings
49.
Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere 4.07 avg rating — 1,279,624 ratings
50.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 4.13 avg rating — 1,251,744 ratings
51.
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
What You Are Looking For Is in the Library 4.05 avg rating — 99,108 ratings
52.
The Death of Vivek Oji
The Death of Vivek Oji 4.12 avg rating — 66,341 ratings
53.
Ordinary Grace
Ordinary Grace 4.27 avg rating — 183,925 ratings
54.
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1)
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 528,612 ratings
55.
The House Across the Lake
The House Across the Lake 3.59 avg rating — 400,979 ratings
56.
The Gift of Rain
The Gift of Rain 4.28 avg rating — 17,823 ratings
57.
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) 4.35 avg rating — 4,011,745 ratings
58.
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) 4.36 avg rating — 242,332 ratings
59.
Dear Edward
Dear Edward 4.08 avg rating — 208,638 ratings
60.
Wellness
Wellness 3.98 avg rating — 72,313 ratings
61.
West With Giraffes
West With Giraffes 4.33 avg rating — 182,731 ratings
62.
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1)
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 146,214 ratings
63.
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1)
Iron Widow (Iron Widow, #1) 4.03 avg rating — 104,212 ratings
64.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,638 ratings
65.
Villette
Villette 3.78 avg rating — 78,433 ratings
66.
Apeirogon
Apeirogon 4.25 avg rating — 25,709 ratings
67.
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)
Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15) 3.96 avg rating — 69,159 ratings
67.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) 4.26 avg rating — 327,508 ratings
69.
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,591 ratings
70.
Our Missing Hearts
Our Missing Hearts 3.79 avg rating — 204,199 ratings
71.
The Starless Sea
The Starless Sea 3.84 avg rating — 227,425 ratings
72.
House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)
House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1) 4.45 avg rating — 1,014,623 ratings
73.
The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39)
The Clocks (Hercule Poirot, #39) 3.73 avg rating — 40,257 ratings
74.
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures 4.33 avg rating — 47,225 ratings
75.
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
by: Ed Yong
4.47 avg rating — 32,511 ratings
76.
When Women Were Dragons
When Women Were Dragons 3.82 avg rating — 65,881 ratings
77.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,631 ratings
78.
The Safekeep
The Safekeep 4.10 avg rating — 49,429 ratings
79.
The Great Alone
The Great Alone 4.45 avg rating — 1,075,652 ratings
80.
Beneath the Scarlet Frost
Beneath the Scarlet Frost 4.57 avg rating — 96 ratings
81.
Wandering Stars
Wandering Stars 3.83 avg rating — 32,884 ratings
82.
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper 3.93 avg rating — 56,047 ratings
83.
There There
There There 3.98 avg rating — 214,302 ratings
84.
The World That We Knew
The World That We Knew 4.18 avg rating — 35,587 ratings
85.
I Know This Much Is True
I Know This Much Is True 4.21 avg rating — 320,914 ratings
85.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,097 ratings
87.
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You 3.82 avg rating — 3,684 ratings
88.
The Glass Hotel
The Glass Hotel 3.69 avg rating — 190,416 ratings
89.
Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20)
Winter Lost (Mercy Thompson, #14; Mercy Thompson World, #20) 4.36 avg rating — 18,218 ratings
90.
The Book of Doors
The Book of Doors 4.04 avg rating — 78,717 ratings
91.
The Wife
The Wife 3.69 avg rating — 30,419 ratings
92.
Margo's Got Money Troubles
Margo's Got Money Troubles 3.85 avg rating — 129,627 ratings
93.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,444 ratings
94.
The Frozen River
The Frozen River 4.39 avg rating — 410,101 ratings
95.
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms (Whimbrel House, #1)
Keeper of Enchanted Rooms (Whimbrel House, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 54,764 ratings
96.
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1)
When Among Crows (Curse Bearer, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 21,605 ratings
97.
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) 4.20 avg rating — 238,932 ratings
98.
The Last Murder at the End of the World
The Last Murder at the End of the World 3.67 avg rating — 48,910 ratings
99.
Poverty, by America
Poverty, by America 4.27 avg rating — 56,647 ratings
99.
Some Desperate Glory
Some Desperate Glory 4.05 avg rating — 16,253 ratings
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