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Edited by Douglas W. Smith, Lauren E. Walker, and Katharine E. Duffy
Liu Yang and Chen Shuihua
Best of 2024 List Details
After 1177 B.C. | Eric H. Cline
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Science News Favorite Book of the Year
The Evolution of Biological Information | Christoph Adami
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Bankers鈥� New Clothes | Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig
A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Summer
As Gods Among Men | Guido Alfani
An Australian Most Anticipated Book
We Have Never Been Woke | Musa al-Gharbi
One of Mother Jones鈥� Best Books We Read This Year
A Wall Street Journal What to Read in 2024 Selection
Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs | Nathalie Bardet, Alexandra Houssaye, St茅phane Jouve, and Peggy Vincent
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The World the Plague Made | James Belich
An Australian Most Anticipated Book
Viral Justice | Ruha Benjamin
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
They Called It Peace | Laura Benton
A New Yorker Best Book We Read This Year
Natural Magic | Renee Bergland
A New Yorker Best Book We Read This Year
Strangers Within | Francisco Bethencourt
A Literary Times Supplement Best Book of the Year
On the Couch | Andrew Blauner
A Millions Most Anticipated Book
An Independent Best Book to Read This Month
A Guardian Book of the Day
A Conversation Best Book of the Year
Seaweeds of the World | John H. Bothwell
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Urban Power | Benjamin H. Bradlow
A New Urban Order Must-Read Book About Cities
Laws of the Land | Tristan G. Brown
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Academic Writing as if Readers Matter | Leonard Cassuto
A Forbes Best Higher Education Book of the Year
The Architecture of Urbanity | Vishaan Chakrabarti
A Fast Company Best Design Book of the Year
A History of the Muslim World | Michael Cook
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Counterrevolution | Melinda Cooper
A New Statesman Best of the Academic Presses
D眉rer鈥檚 Knots | Susan Dackerman
A Publishers Weekly Fall Art, Architecture & Photography Preview Top 10
Alexander von Humboldt | Andreas W. Daum
A New Yorker Best Book We Read This Year
The Great Escape | Angus Deaton
An Australian Most Anticipated Book
Wonderstruck | Helen De Cruz
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers | Jeffrey Ding
An ITIF Innovation Policy Book for Summer
The Age of Reconstruction | Don H. Doyle
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Hillbilly Highway | Max Fraser
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Manet | Diana Seave Greenwald
An Art Newspaper Best Art Book Hitting the Shelves this Autumn
AI Needs You | Verity Harding
An Economist What will be the bestsellers in the coming year?
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year
The Wealth of a Nation | Geoffrey M. Hodgson
A Financial Times Best Book on Economics
Father Time | Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
A New Statesman Best of the Academic Presses
A Daily Express Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Summer Science Book
A Telegraph Best Book to Read This Summer
Into the Great Wide Ocean | S枚nke Johnsen
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year
Iconophages: A History of Ingesting Images | J茅r茅mie Koering
One of the New York Times鈥� Best Art Books of the Year
The Only Woman in the Room | Pnina Lahav
A Financial Times Favorite Book of the Year So Far
Liberalism as a Way of Life | Alexandre Lefebvre
A New Yorker Best Book We Read This Year
An Australian Book Review Best Book of the Year
Shakespeare’s Tragic Art | Rhodri Lewis
A New Yorker Best Book We Read This Year
Slouch | Beth Linker
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year
Polis | John Ma
A History Today Book of the Year
Glad to the Brink of Fear | James Marcus
A Washington Post Most Anticipated Release
A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Capital | Marx
A Millions Most Anticipated Book of Summer
Selected by Edwin Frank as a New York Review Books Staff Favorite Read of the Year
Magdalene Odundo | Sequoia Miller
An Art Newspaper Best Art Book Hitting the Shelves this Autumn
The Network of Life | David P. Mindell
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Playing Possum | Susana Mons贸
A New Statesman Best of the Academic Presses for Autumn
A New Yorker Best Book We Read This Year
One of The Guardian’s Best Books to Give This Christmas
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year
Making Money in the Early Middle Ages | Rory Naismith
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
AI Snake Oil | Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
A Publishers Weekly Fall Science Preview Top 10
A Nature Best Book of the Year
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year
The Migrant’s Jail | Brianna Nofil
A New Yorker Best Book We Read This Year
The Hidden Victims | Cormac 脫 Gr谩da
A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year
An Irish Times Best Book of the Year
The Emperor and the Elephant | Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Pax Economica | Marc Palen
A New Yorker Best Book We Read This Year
A Financial Times Economics Best Book of the Year
Slow Burn | R. Jisung Park
A Library Journal Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of the Year
Empire of Purity | Eva Payne
A New Yorker Best Book We Read This Year
The Man of the Crowd | Scott Peeples
An Untapped Cities Best Book of All Time
The Last Human Job | Allison J. Pugh
A New Scientist Non-Fiction and Popular Science Books to Look Forward To
A New Scientist Best Science Non-Fiction Book of the Year So Far
The Beauty of Falling | Claudia de Rham
A New Scientist Non-Fiction and Popular Science Books to Look Forward To
The Tech Coup | Marietje Schaake
A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read Book
A Financial Times Economics Best Book of the Year
The Divine Economy | Paul Seabright
A Financial Times Economics Best Book of the Year
Yellowstone’s Birds | Douglas W. Smith, Lauren E. Walker and Katherine E. Duffy
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Sixth Element| Theodore P. Snow and Don Brownlee
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Charm | Julia Sonnevend
A New Yorker Best Book We Read This Year
The Lives of Octopuses and Their Relatives | Danna Staaf
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
ID Handbook of European Birds | Nils van Duivendijk
An American Birding Association Best Bird Book of the Year
Twinkind | William Viney
A New Yorker Best Book We Read This Year
A Field Guide to the Larger Mammals of South America | Richard Webb
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Greatest of All Plagues | David Lay Williams
A New Statesman Best of the Academic Presses for Autumn
Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets | Cornelia Woll
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Embedded Portrait | Christopher S. Wood
Shortlisted for Apollo Book of the Year
Gobsmacked | Ben Yagoda
An Economist Best Book of the Year
Birds of China | Liu Yang and Chen Shuihua
A American Birding Association Best Bird Book of the Year
I Was Working | Ariel Yelen
One of NYPL’s Best Books of the Year
Quantum Field Theory, as Simply as Possible | A. Zee
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year