Emma Cline

On February 6, The PEN/Faulkner Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, honoring “the best published works of fiction by American permanent residents in a calendar year,” according to the foundation. Four Penguin Random House titles received spots on the list of ten books. Five finalists from the longlist will be

Throughout the year, editors and staffers of the famed American magazine The New Yorker discuss the best books published weekly. Now that the end of the year is wrapping up, the staff has compiled their list of best books from the year into a dozen essentials across fiction and nonfiction. See below for that list!