These books by Princeton professors have all been selected for at least one 2024 year-end “best of” list. Whether you’re scrambling for a last-minute gift idea or laying in your own stores for winter reading, these faculty titles have you covered.

The list, in alphabetical order by author, includes novels, memoir, history, poetry, biography, essays and nonfiction.

“Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs(Link is external)” (W.W. Norton), by David Bellos, co-authored with Alexandre Montagu, is included in The New Yorker Best Books of 2024(Link is external) and The Spectator Books of the Year(Link is external). The New Yorker writes, “While warning against the overreach of contemporary copyright law, this lively, opinionated and ultra-timely book also raises the alarm about the increasing dominance of artificial intelligence, a technology that threatens to bring the whole legal structure of copyright down.” Bellos is the Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French Literature, professor of French and Italian and comparative literature, and director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication.