Since 2011, Longreads editors and contributors have compiled the most notable reads of the year in our annual Best of Longreads collections. We’re continuing this tradition for 2024, with a few new changes that we hope you’ll enjoy. Bookmark this page, where we’ll share all of our Best of 2024 lists through December.

Thank you, as always, to our members, Top 5 and daily email subscribers, and readers across the web for your support. We know you can choose and control what appears in your inbox each week, and we can’t thank you enough for reading. If you’re visiting us for the first time, welcome! We invite you to sit down with a cup of your favorite beverage and stay a while.

Thoughtful stories for thoughtless times.

Longreads has published hundreds of original stories—personal essays, reported features, reading lists, and more—and more than 13,000 editor’s picks. And they’re all funded by readers like you. Become a member today.

I want to support Longreads