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Magill’s Literary Annual 2024

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Complete Annotated List of Contents


Contributing Reviewers


Above Ground—Clint Smith


The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi—Shannon Chakraborty


After the Funeral and Other Stories—Tessa Hadley


Age of Vice—Deepti Kapoor


All the Sinners Bleed—S. A. Cosby


American Ramble—Neil King Jr.


An Amerikan Family—Santi Elijah Holley


The Art Thief—Michael Finkel


August Wilson—Patti Hartigan


The Bee Sting—Paul Murray


The Berry Pickers—Amanda Peters


Beyond the Door of No Return—David Diop


Big—Vashti Harrison


Big Tree—Brian Selznick


Biography of X—Catherine Lacey


Birnam Wood—Eleanor Catton


Blackouts—Justin Torres


Bright Young Women—Jessica Knoll


Chain Gang All Stars—Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah


Cobalt Red—Siddarth Kara


A Council of Dolls—Mona Susan Power


The Covenant of Water —Abraham Verghese


The Crane Husband—Kelly Barnhill


Crook Manifesto—Colson Whitehead


A Day of Fallen Night—Samantha Shannon


The Deadline—Jill Lepore


The Devil of the Provinces—Juan Cárdenas


The Diaspora Sonnets—Oliver de la Paz


Don’t Fear the Reaper—Stephen Graham Jones


Dust Child—Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai


The End of Drum-Time—Hanna Pylväinen


The Exceptions—Kate Zernike


Family Lore—Elizabeth Acevedo


Family Style—Thien Pham


The Ferryman —Justin Cronin


A Fever in the Heartland—Timothy Egan


Fire Weather—John Vaillant


A First Time for Everything—Dan Santat


Flee North—Scott Shane


The Fraud—Zadie Smith


From From—Monica Youn


From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]—Craig Santos Perez


The Future—Naomi Alderman


Ghost of the Orphanage—Christine Kenneally


The Great Displacement—Jake Bittle


Greek Lessons—Han Kang


The Half Known Life—Pico Iyer


Happiness Falls—Angie Kim


The Hard Parts—Oksana Masters with Cassidy Randall


The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store—James McBride


Hell Bent—Leigh Bardugo


Hello Beautiful—Ann Napolitano


The Hive and the Honey—Paul Yoon


Holler, Child—LaToya Watkins


The House of Doors—Tan Twan Eng


A House With Good Bones—T. Kingfisher (pseudonym of Ursula Vernon)


How to Sell a Haunted House—Grady Hendrix


Hula—Jasmin Iolani Hakes


I Have Some Questions for You—Rebecca Makkai


I Saw Death Coming—Kidada E. Williams


Imogen, Obviously—Becky Albertalli


Impossible Escape—Steve Sheinkin


In the Lives of Puppets—TJ Klune


Into the Light—Mark Oshiro


King—Jonathan Eig


Lady Tan’s Circle of Women—Lisa See


Land of Milk and Honey—C Pam Zhang


The Last Animal—Ramona Ausubel


The Last Tale of the Flower Bride—Roshani Chokshi


Let Us Descend—Jesmyn Ward


The Librarianist—Patrick deWitt


Liliana’s Invincible Summer—Cristina Rivera Garza


Lone Women—Victor LaValle


Loot—Tania James


The Lost Year—Katherine Marsh


Volume 2



A Man of Two Faces—Viet Thanh Nguyen


Master Slave Husband Wife—Ilyon Woo


Monica—Daniel Clowes


Monsters—Claire Dederer


Monstrous—Sarah Myer


More Than a Dream—Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long


The Most Secret Memory of Men—Mohamed Mbougar Sarr


Mott Street—Ava Chin


Nearer My Freedom—Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge


No One Prayed Over Their Graves—Khaled Khalifa


North Woods—Daniel Mason


Old God’s Time—Sebastian Barry


Ordinary Notes—Christina Sharpe


Our Migrant Souls—Héctor Tobar


Owner of a Lonely Heart—Beth Nguyen


Parachute Kids—Betty C. Tang


The Parrot and the Igloo—David Lipsky


Pineapple Street—Jenny Jackson


Pomegranate—Helen Elaine Lee


Poverty, by America—Matthew Desmond


Promise Boys—Nick Brooks


Promises of Gold—José Olivarez


Prophet Song—Paul Lynch


Quietly Hostile—Samantha Irby


The Rediscovery of America—Ned Blackhawk


Remember Us—Jacqueline Woodson


Roaming—Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki


Roman Stories—Jhumpa Lahiri


Rough Sleepers—Tracy Kidder


Saints of the Household—Ari Tison


Saying It Loud—Mark Whitaker


Silver Nitrate—Silvia Moreno-Garcia


Simon Sort of Says—Erin Bow


The Six—Loren Grush


The Slip—Prudence Peiffer


Small Mercies—Dennis Lehane


Soil—Camille T. Dungy


A Spell of Good Things—Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀


Starling House—Alix E. Harrow


A Stranger in Your Own City—Ghaith Abdul-Ahad


suddenly we—Evie Shockley


Symphony of Secrets—Brendan Slocumb


Temple Folk—Aaliyah Bilal


Tenacious Beasts—Christopher J. Preston


The Terraformers—Annalee Newitz


Thin Skin—Jenn Shapland


This Other Eden—Paul Harding


Thunderclap—Laura Cumming


Tom Lake—Ann Patchett


Tremor—Teju Cole


The 272—Rachel L. Swarns


Valiant Women—Lena S. Andrews


The Vaster Wilds—Lauren Groff


Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers—Jesse Q. Sutanto


Victory City—Salman Rushdie


The Wager—David Grann


Warrior Girl Unearthed—Angeline Boulley


We Are All So Good At Smiling—Amber McBride


Wednesday’s Child—Yiyun Li


Wellness—Nathan Hill


Western Lane—Chetna Maroo


Weyward—Emilia Hart


Whalefall—Daniel Kraus


What an Owl Knows—Jennifer Ackerman


When Crack Was King—Donovan X. Ramsey


White Cat, Black Dog—Kelly Link


The Wind Knows My Name—Isabel Allende


The Windeby Puzzle—Lois Lowry


Witness—Jamel Brinkley


Women We Buried, Women We Burned—Rachel Louise Snyder


The Words That Remain—Stênio Gardel


The World—Simon Sebag Montefiore


Yellowface—Rebecca F. Kuang


You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live—Paul Kix


You: The Story—Ruta Sepetys


Category Index


Title Index