The Washington Post revealed its list of the 10 best books of 2024, with titles by Percival Everett, Danzy Senna, and Richard Flanagan all making the cut.
Everett made the list for James, his reimagining of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the point of view of the enslaved Jim. The novel, one of the most celebrated books of the year, won the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Senna, who is married to Everett, made the list for her novel Colored Television, as did fellow fiction authors Hisham Matar for My Friends, Richard Powers for Playground, and Claire Messud for This Strange Eventful History.
Five nonfiction authors were named to the list, including Flanagan for Question 7, his memoir-history hybrid that recently won the Baillie Gifford Prize. The other nonfiction honorees were The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian; I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition by Lucy Sante; When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz, and V13: Chronicle of a Trial, written by Emmanuel Carrère and translated by John Lambert.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
