It's that time for recommending Books of the Year. I seemed to spend a heck of a lot of my time reviewing this year, so I have quite a few to choose from. In no particular order...
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I should have specified that I was talking about sciencey nonfiction. I loved Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead and Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, and Sarah Perry's Enlightenment is as damned fine so far as I'd expected.
On the same theme, I have reviewed Nicholas Carr's Superbloom for the LARB, though the review won't be published until the New Year. Carr's book is excellent and sobering. https://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=664
I seem to have blurbed a ton of books, and will surely forget some thaty merit mention. But @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social's forthcoming Humans: A Monstrous History is one to look out for. http://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history
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https://www.the-tls.co.uk/science-technology/technology/ai-humanity-machine-learning-book-review-philip-ball
https://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=664
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/10/living-on-earth-by-peter-godfrey-smith-review-animal-magic
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/sep/14/the-many-lives-of-james-lovelock-by-jonathan-watts-man-of-many-myths
http://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history