Best Novels 2024 Fiction. Science fiction as a literary genre has roots that stretch back centuries, with works exploring futuristic ideas, advanced technologies, space travel, and speculative scientific. The best books of 2024, picked by the editors of publishers weekly.

Our deputy editor cal flyn compiles her autumnal literary fiction highlights: We are living in dire times and decaying homes, diseased bodies and disastrous policies, dark visions and disturbed mentalities.