Top Books 2024 Best Seller List. We asked around the newsroom to find favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. These questions and more drive the best books of the year so far, a crop of novels, memoirs, and essay collections that tackle love, loss, friendship, and more.
This was a riveting read, which i devoured in two days. 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.