2024 in books, for better and for worse

We’re still looking back, literary-style, at 2024.

• Book Riot shared its favorite horror and nonfiction books from the past year (insert a joke about the overlap of these genres).

• It also looked back at the trend of anti-book-ban laws this year and analyzed what this means for the future.

• The New York Times shared the books that staffers and readers loved.

• The UK's Booksellers Association predicts that this year's Booker Prize winner — Orbital by Samantha Harvey — will be the country's bestselling book for Christmas (The Guardian).

• Here's how Bloom Books, a relatively new and small publisher, landed twenty-five books on the bestseller lists this year (The New York Times).

• And if you think you paid close attention to the literary news this year, an annual year-end quiz is ready for you to prove it (The Guardian).