Best Fiction 2024 Books. Perfect days, 2024 (film still) from murakami’s first novel in six years to a joint biography of writers/frenemies joan didion and eve babitz, here. Run, rose, run by james patterson and dolly parton.

After digging—in some cases, literally—through as many books as the elle office could squeeze in, we decided to split our annual “best of 2024” list into five categories: Also in this special food issue: