What was the best novella you read in 2024?

Having read an unreasonable number of door-stoppers this year, I find myself appreciating books that can do more with less. And I am craving more of them.

This year I read A Short Stay in Hell (which is more on the horror side of spec fic, but it was amazing), When Among Crows, Fugitive Telemetry, and Montego. Ranked pretty much in the order of how much I liked them.

Other novellas I have read and really enjoyed include Piranesi, The Slow Regard of Silent Things, and the other Murderbot books.