Booked Up: the 15 Best Books of 2024
If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
Refaat Alareer
(OR Books)
The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776-1888
Robin Blackburn
(Verso)
Everyone Who is Gone is Here: the United States, Central America and the Making of a Crisis
Jonathan Blitzer
(Penguin)
A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through 40 Years of Wolf Recovery
Diane K. Boyd
(Greystone)
Believe Nothing Until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism
Patrick Cockburn
(Verso)
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and the Lost Empire of Cool
James Kaplan
(Penguin/Random House)
Creation Lake: a Novel
Rachel Kushner
(Simon and Schuster)
The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe
Gideon Levy
(Verso)
Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States
Matthew D. Morrison
(UC Press)
The Migrant’s Jail: an American History of Mass Incarceration
Brianna Nofil
(Princeton)
The Last of Its Kind: the Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
Gísli Pálsson
(Princeton)
Otherworldly Antarctica: Ice, Rock and Wind at the Polar Extreme
Edward Stump
(Chicago)
The Case for Open Borders
John Washington
(Haymarket)
The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought From Plato to Marx
David Lay Williams
(Princeton)
Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
Maya Wind
(Verso)
A few other books whose spines I’ve broken this year: Tariq Ali’s You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024, Henry Cockburn’s The Tale of Ahmed, Carla Blank’s A Jew in Ramallah, Joseph M. Thompson’s Cold War Country: How Nashville’s Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism, Kashmir Hill’s Your Face Belongs to Us, Genevieve Guenther’s The Language of Climate Change Politics, Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo, Percival Everett’s James and Nick Harkaway’s Karla’s Choice.
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