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The Year in 10 Books | 2024

In the era of polycrisis, these books will help you understand the past tumultuous year, and how to fight in the face of despair.

18 November 2024

The Year in 10 Books | 2024

While it can be tempting to disengage altogether, these books will allow you to deepen your understanding of our political moment, and galvanise readers to fight back.  

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Essential for those that are tired of the business-as-usual attitude towards an ever worsening climate crisis.

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As the re-election of Trump demonstrates, unless we understand the deeper forces propelling the far-right resurgence, we have little chance of stopping it.

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Levy's words should be read by anyone who wants to get the heart of this most brutal conflict and see for themselves that silence is no longer possible in the face of such atrocity.

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In the first of the Verso Palestine Pamphlets, Malm unearths the shared roots of colonial adventurism in Palestine and fossil fuelled warfare.

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Hannah Proctor draws on historical resources to find out how revolutionaries and activists of the past kept a grip on hope, and what we might learn from them.

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An urgent and practical guide to community resilience in the face of climate catastrophe.

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Craig Gent shows how AI isn’t replacing workers, but rather monitoring and controlling them, and advances an alternative politics of resistance in the face of this digital control.

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Immediacy explains the recent obsession with immersion and argues that collective will, inspiring ideas, and deliberate construction are the only way out.

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Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far and shortlisted for the International Booker Price 2024.

“An aching yet tender story of our origins of violence, of how we spend our lives trying to bloom love and care from them, and of the language and silence we need to fuel our tending.” — International Booker Prize 2024

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Homelessness is at a new high in the UK. Yet the government’s only solution is to promote homeownership. Bano argues that reforms must sweep away the landlordism at the heart of the housing crisis and British political life.

Overshoot
The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming – just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Heat at such levels would be intolerable. Even before one and a half, seasons of c...
Disaster Nationalism
The rise of the new far right has left the world grappling with a profound misunderstanding. While the spotlight often shines on the actions of charismatic leaders such as Donald Trump and Jair Bol...
The Killing of Gaza

The Killing of Gaza

Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for...
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Israel’s pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted ...
Burnout
In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? To answer that que...
Lifehouse
A Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighborhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities.In this book Adam Greenfield, author of Radical Te...
Cyberboss
Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by increasi...
Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but f...
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Crooked Plow

Crooked Plow

Shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2024'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Little did she know that ...
Against Landlords
Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason...

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