The 57 Best Literary Fiction Books of 2024

In an ELLE.com interview with Coco Mellors, freelance writer Caelan McMichael described Mellors’s sophomore novel, Blue Sisters, as a work of “precise emotional telepathy,” probing “addiction, dysfunctional family dynamics, and grief through the perspective of the four Blue sisters: Bonnie, Avery, Lucky, and Nicky.” A year after the youngest, Nicky, dies of an overdose, the remaining sisters—a lawyer, a boxer, and a model—must return to their childhood home in New York to halt its impending sale. Writes McMichael, “Enhancing Mellors’s honest depictions of love, stress, and grief is the authenticity with which she writes, an authenticity born of attention to detail. ”