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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This great hemisphere a novel
Askaripour, Mateo 
Paper Book
Despite the odds, Candace, a young invisible woman, has done everything right her entire life - school, university, and now a highly sought-after apprenticeship with one of the Northwestern Hemisphere's premier inventors, a non-invisible man belonging to the dominant population who is as eccentric...
The Ministry of Time
Bradley, Kaliane 
Paper Book
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF SUMMER 2024 * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION * A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, VANITY FAIR, ESQUIRE, VOX, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING,...
Sky Full of Elephants
Campbell, Cebo
Paper Book
"Bold and imaginative." --Tananarive Due "This stunning allegory will spark much discussion." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A truly powerful and riveting story." --Booklist In a world without white people,...
Great expectations a novel
Cunningham, Vinson 
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man's life in this "coming of age story that captures the soul of America" (The Washington Post), the debut novel from The New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist Vinson...
Eleanore of Avignon a novel
DeLozier, Elizabeth 
Paper Book
A Library Reads Pick!  An Amazon Best Book of the Month! An Aardvark Book Club Pick!  Rich with unforgettable characters, gorgeously drawn, and full of captivating historical drama, Eleanore of Avignon is the story of a healer who risks her...
The stranger at the wedding a novel
Gauntlett, A. E. 
Paper Book
Before love at first sight, there were things no one saw. Annie never much believed in love. That is, until meeting Mark. After crossing paths on morning commutes, they connect at a group counseling session for trauma survivors. Each recognizes something in the other, though...
The teller of small fortunes
Leong, Julie 
Paper Book
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER A wandering fortune teller finds an unexpected family in this warm and wonderful debut fantasy, perfect for readers of Travis Baldree and Sangu Mandanna. Tao is an immigrant fortune teller, traveling between villages with...
Lenny Marks gets away with murder
Mayne, Kerryn 
Paper Book
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day, buys the same groceries for the same meals every week, and owns thirty-six copies of The Hobbit (currently arranged by height). The closest thing she has to a friendship is...
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, 1995- author. 
Paper Book
Perfect for fans of Raven Kennedy and Thea Guanzon, Rebecca Robinson's thrilling romantasy debut combines high-stakes political intrigue and a steamy, slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers romance. All her life, Vaasa Kozár has been sharpened into a blade. After losing her...
This cursed house
Sandeen, Del 
Paper Book
One of Esquire's Best Horror Books of 2024 One of Crime Reads' Best Gothic Novels of 2024 In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth:...
The Crescent Moon Tearoom a novel
Sivinski, Stacy 
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER An "impossibly endearing" (Sarah Penner, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel about three clairvoyant sisters who face an unexpected twist of Fate at the bottom of their own delicate porcelain cups. Ever since the untimely...

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