Booklist

David’s Books of the Year 2024

Selected by David Lea


Russian short fiction, the lives of gay men before decriminalisation, falling for wild things, a Marx for the 21st century and my desert island book, The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Maroon me now!

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Edited by Cristanne Miller & Domhnall MitchellThe definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years.Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a…

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The first part of a major new anthology which uncovers the rich reality of life for queer men in LondonIn the 1940s, it was believed that homosexuality had been becoming more widespread in the aftermath of war. A moral panic ensued, centred…

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Translated by Jamey GambrellExperience the absurdities and tragedies of life in the Soviet Union in this extraordinary story collection by the lost Russian master behind cult classic Summer in Baden-Baden."Everything is always…

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'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, SpectatorThe second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life for queer men in London, from the end of the Second World War to decriminalization in…

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Translated by Paul ReitterEdited by Paul North and Paul ReitterMarx for the twenty-first centuryThe first new English translation in fifty years-and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx…

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and communityAs indigenous scientist and author of Braiding…

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The Powerful Reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the Booker Prize-Shortlisted Author of The Trees'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and JAMES is a canon-shatteringly great book' – Hernan…

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The magical true story of a woman and an injured hare who taught her how to live again - the perfect Christmas gift for 2024Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around…

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