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.
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.
All print books come with a free edition of the ebook (where available) — meaning that if you buy a book for a friend, you'll be able to download a digital version for yourself!
Essential for those that are tired of the business-as-usual attitude towards an ever worsening climate crisis.
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.
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.
In the first of the Verso Palestine Pamphlets, Malm unearths the shared roots of colonial adventurism in Palestine and fossil fuelled warfare.
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.
"The world's leading scholar of oil gives us a majestic account of how it became our daily bread. Read and run for your life." — Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline
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.
"Taking Back Control? combines a brilliant diagnosis of the political crisis of neoliberal globalization with a tough-minded case for “small-statism” as our best chance for a democratic-socialist resolution. Left internationalists may not like that conclusion but cannot ignore it. Streeck’s challenging new book raises the scale-of-democracy debate to a new level." — Nancy Fraser, author of Cannibal Capitalism
"All aboard this ride through the hidden abode of electricity production - it is not to be missed! With his signature knowledge of the financial and economic systems that dominate our lives, Brett Christophers here takes on a central paradox of the moment. How is it that investment in fossil fuels continues relentlessly, even though renewables have become cheaper? Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be all the wiser." — Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"It is through denial that the climate crisis deepens, but we have hardly begun to get our heads around how it works. In this sweeping survey, Tad DeLay turns and twists the concept and uses it to shine light on a range of aspects of the crisis. It is a leap forward in the study of denial." — Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline