The New Yorker's Best Fiction and Poetry Books of 2024

These are the New Yorker's editors and critics essential fiction and poetry reads of 2024. Among the selected books are millennial literary phenom Sally Rooney's latest, a National Book Award-winning retelling of Huckleberry Finn, Hisham Matar's narrative about a Libyan exile, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk's sanitarium story inspired by a Thomas Mann classic.