The ten best novels of 2024 – according to literary experts

By Manjeet Ridon, Associate Dean International, Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities, De Montfort University
Alice Kelly, Assistant Professor of Literature and History, University of Warwick
Ankhi Mukherjee, Professor of English and World Literatures, University of Oxford
Debra Benita Shaw, Debra Benita Shaw is Reader in Cultural Theory in the School of Architecture and Visual Arts, University of East London
Edward Sugden, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, King's College London
Emily Zobel Marshall, Reader in Postcolonial Literature, Leeds Beckett University
Jane McBride, PhD Candidate, Literature, University of Galway
Orlaith Darling, Postdoctoral Fellow, Contemporary English Literature and Critical Theory, University College Dublin
Sarah Annes Brown, Professor of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University
Scarlett Baron, Associate Professor in Department of English, UCL