2024 Round Up: Favourite Debut Fiction

Resolve to read new authors. In 2024, these authors debuted with their first novels.

Updated January 8, 2025
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The Ministry of Time
Bradley, Kaliane.
Paper Book
A 2024 literary highlight in the Sunday Times, BBC, Grazia, Dazed, Sunday Express, GQ, i-D, Stylist, Bookseller and Literary Friction'Outrageously brilliant' ELEANOR CATTON'Make room on your bookshelves for a new...
Great Expectations
Cunningham, Vinson.
Paper Book
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man's life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorker's rising stars.I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can...
The stranger at the wedding
Gauntlett, A. E.
Paper Book
'A MASTERPIECE' SUNDAY TIMES 'Original . . . unpredictable' DAILY MAIL 'A dark unpredictable read' BELLA 'Will have you compulsively reading' HEAT 'Gauntlett is a master of misdirection' NEW YORK TIMES...
The teller of small fortunes
Leong, Julie 
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER * A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this cozy fantasy debut, hailed as "perfection...a beautiful treasure of a book that will warm your heart and heal your soul."--Sarah Beth Durst, Author of The Spellshop "The warmest,...
Arthur and Teddy are coming out
Love, Ryan
Paper Book
The feel-good read of 2024. Perfect for fans of Mike Gayle, Beth O'Leary and Alice Oseman's Heartstopper. Selected as one of the Independent's 19 debut authors set to make their mark in 2023 'Gentle, honest and beautifully authentic' Julietta Henderson ...
Lenny Marks gets away with murder
Mayne, Kerryn
Paper Book
'With Lenny Marks Gets Away With Murder, Kerryn Mayne makes a very grand entrance into the Australian literary scene. With humour, heart and characters you come to love, this is a book you will devour now, and keep thinking about later!' Sally Hepworth, author of...
Death in the Air
Murali, Ram.
Paper Book
The White Lotus meets Knives Out meets Crazy Rich Asians in this devilishly entertaining debut novel.
The blueprint a novel
Rashad, Rae Giana 
Paper Book
"The Blueprint is an astounding work, an unflinching portrait of misogyny and racism in a speculative world terrifyingly close to our own. Rae Giana Rashad chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood, and how we understand ourselves through the stories of those we come from, in a way I...
The serpent and the wolf
Robinson, Rebecca.
Paper Book
A fake marriage meets enemies to lovers in Rebecca Robinson's steamy, thrilling romantasy debut, the start to a duology perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Jennifer L. Armentrout. All her life, Vaasa Kozár has been sharpened into a blade.
This cursed house
Sandeen, Del
Paper Book
In the fall of 1962, Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago--and the spirits she has always been able to see. When she receives an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family in New Orleans . . . But Jemma discovers that this family isn't what they seem. Their tenuous...
Hard by a Great Forest
Vardiashvili, Leo.
Paper Book
* AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST FOR 2024 * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE 2024 * 'A spellbinding achievement' FINANCIAL TIMES'Poignant and often painfully comic' OBSERVER 'I gasped,...
The safekeep : a novel
Wouden, Yael van der
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025 An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan's Atonement. ...

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