my 10 favorite fiction reads from 2024

I’m a little picky about fiction. I don’t enjoy the fantasy genre very much, and while I like realistic depictions of romance, love, and marriage in books, I don’t like books that seem to just be about romance in general. Other than that, I just like books that tell good stories and have people in them who act like people with actual brains and hearts. There can be supernatural stuff, that’s fine, but the actual people need to behave like people. That’s my baseline.

This list doesn’t include the fiction books from my top 10 reads of 2024, so you’ll find a few more options there as well.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Let’s start with something super dark, shall we? This book is considered a dystopian classic, and I don’t know why it took me so long to read it. There’s a reason it won the Pulitzer. The main character and his son are never given names, and yet you feel like you are part of them by the end of the book. This book will not make you happy, but it will make you think.