r/suggestmeabook · 2024
Top books in r/suggestmeabook during 2024
Ranked by mentions in r/suggestmeabook threads dated 2024. Useful for spotting what r/suggestmeabook was picking up or putting down that year.
#1 Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
A high-school teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of how he got there and one job left: save Earth.
#2 All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries)
Martha Wells
A security robot hacks its own governor module, gains free will, and spends its days streaming soap operas instead of killing anyone.
#3 Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Two aging Texas Rangers drive a stolen cattle herd a thousand miles north, hauling four decades of friendship and regret with them.
#4 East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Two families retrace Cain and Abel across three generations in California's Salinas Valley, and one brother begs God to make him good.
#5 The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
A suicidal bridge slave assigned to the war camp's deadliest crew starts hearing storms answer when he gives orders.
#6 Red Rising
Pierce Brown
A miner's son fakes his way into the ruling class's brutal war-games academy to bring down the system that executed his wife.
#7 Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
An Appalachian foster kid narrates his own life from birth through the opioid epidemic, and dares you to call it fiction.
#8 Mistborn: The Final Empire
Brandon Sanderson
A street thief gets recruited into a heist crew plotting to overthrow a god-emperor who has ruled unchallenged for a thousand years.
#9 The Martian
Andy Weir
A botanist gets left for dead on Mars and has to grow food on a planet that wants him gone, one duct-taped fix at a time.
#10 Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
A man alone in an endless house of statues and tides slowly realizes he isn't who the House says he is.
#11 11/22/63
Stephen King
A substitute teacher steps through a diner pantry into 1958 with one job: stop Lee Harvey Oswald before Dallas.
#12 The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
A framed sailor rots in an island prison for fourteen years, escapes with a fortune, and spends the rest of the book collecting on every debt of vengeance.
#13 Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
A man with a low IQ undergoes surgery that turns him into a genius, and has to watch the intelligence, and everyone's honesty, fade back out.
#14 Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
A widowed janitor and a giant Pacific octopus solve a decades-old disappearance neither of them meant to get involved in.
#15 Dune
Frank Herbert
A duke's son survives his family's betrayal on a desert planet and becomes the prophet who leads its people to war.
#16 A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Four friends build lives together in New York while one of them quietly refuses to let anyone near his own past.
#17 The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien
A gardener, a burglar's heir, and seven others walk a piece of jewelry to a volcano because destroying it is the only way to stop a war.
#18 Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
An orphaned governess falls for her brooding employer, then finds out exactly what he's been hiding in the attic.
#19 To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
A small-town Alabama lawyer defends a Black man falsely accused of rape while his children watch the town's conscience get tested.
#20 The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
A woman searches a dying continent for the daughter her husband stole, while the world ends again on schedule.
#21 The House in the Cerulean Sea
TJ Klune
A buttoned-up caseworker is sent to inspect an orphanage of six magical children, one of them the literal Antichrist, and has to decide whether the rulebook is wrong.
#22 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Earth gets demolished for a hyperspace bypass minutes after a man's house is demolished for a road, and his best friend turns out to be an alien with a towel.
#23 Circe
Madeline Miller
An exiled witch on a deserted island turns men into pigs and spends three thousand years deciding what she actually wants.
#24 The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
A suicidal woman finds a library between life and death where every book is a different version of the life she could have lived.
#25 A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
A prideful young mage summons a nameless shadow to prove his power, then spends years learning to face it instead of running.