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USA TODAY’s Books Reporter read 50 books this year. Here are the stories that stuck with her the most in 2024, including "Intermezzo" and "James."
Here’s our pick of the very best fiction of 2024. James by Percival Everett Future classic: Percival Everett brings new life to ‘The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ (Pan Macmillan)
It was first published in April 2009 by Quirk Books and in October 2009 a Deluxe Edition was released, containing full-color images and additional zombie scenes. [2] The novel was adapted into a 2016 film starring Lily James and Sam Riley.
James is a novel by author Percival Everett published by Doubleday in 2024. The novel is a re-imagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain but told from the perspective of Huckleberry's friend on his travels, Jim, who is an escaped slave. The novel won the 2024 Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.
In this fan fiction's alternate universe to the Harry Potter series, Lily Potter magically made her sister Petunia Evans prettier, letting her marry Oxford professor Michael Verres. They adopt their orphaned nephew Harry James Potter as Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres and homeschool him in science and rationality.
The Order of Odd-Fish is a 2008 debut children's novel by James Kennedy. [1] The book was first published on August 12, 2008 through Delacorte Books for Young Readers , [ 2 ] and focused upon a young girl discovering her true identity. [ 3 ]
After is a 2014 young adult romance novel written by American author Anna Todd under her Wattpad name Imaginator1D and published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. After is the first installment of the After novel series. A film adaptation of the same name was released on April 12, 2019.
Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. Henry Award for her short story "Lily", which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. It was adapted into a film of the same title in 1997.