The Ultimate Fall 2024 Reading List
78 Books the Critics Think You Should Read This Season
It’s Big Book Season again, and you know what that means: lists. (Yes, there are also lists during all the other seasons. Lists are (chaotic?) good.) It also means that it’s time again for Literary Hub’s Ultimate Fall Reading List, in which I valiantly endeavor to read all the seasonal literary recommendation/anticipation/best of lists I can find on the internet, and then report.
This season, I processed a total of 27 lists, which collectively recommended a total of 464 books (there were much fewer lists, and therefore books, than last year at this time, alas—support your media!). I then collated the results to find the 78 books that were recommended three times or more, which I present here for you in descending order of popularity, beginning with the winner, which will shock absolutely no one:
20 lists: