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2024 Books of the Year

Pitch Projects on behalf of the Australian Book Review

Some of this year's popular authors (L-R): Yves Rees, Percival Everett, Sally Rooney, Michelle de Krester, Rodney Hall
Some of this year's popular authors (L-R): Yves Rees, Percival Everett, Sally Rooney, Michelle de Krester, Rodney Hall

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This December, ABR asks thirty-seven of its contributors to nominate their favourite books of 2024. ABR’s Book of the Year feature is always popular and always gets people talking.

Which Russian novel does James Ley describe as ‘hands down the wildest release of the year’? Which author makes ‘managerialism the stuff of high comedy’, according to Yves Rees? Which work of Australian fiction has been squatting in Geordie Williamson’s ‘mental real estate’ for months? And why does Julie Janson nominate only books by Australian female authors this year?

Discover these books and other titles that ABR critics have most enjoyed reading in 2024.

Critics nominating Books of the Year include:
Frank Bongiorno ◆ Felicity Plunkett ◆ Peter Rose ◆ Shannon Burns ◆ Marilyn Lake  ◆ Jason Steger ◆ Yves Rees ◆ Geordie Williamson ◆ Diane Stubbings ◆ James Bradley  ◆ Lynette Russell ◆ Scott Stephens ◆ Julie Janson ◆ James Leyx ◆ Frances Wilson ◆ John Kinsella ◆ Michael Winkler ◆ Cassandra Atherton

What are some of the books nominated in the feature?

James by Percival Everett ◆ Nuked by Andrew Fowler ◆ Intermezzo by Sally Rooney ◆ Chinese Postman by Brian Castro ◆ Theory and Practice by Michelle de Krester ◆ Travelling to Tomorrow by Yves Rees ◆ 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Lee ◆ Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk by Dominic Gordon ◆ Vortex by Rodney Hall


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Some of this year's popular authors (L-R): Yves Rees, Percival Everett, Sally Rooney, Michelle de Krester, Rodney Hall
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