My Favourite Books of 2024

Here are the books that have stayed with me from 2024.

A non-fiction book about trees, that is really about people. I highly recommend reading this in tandem with –

– which is a fantastic [fictional] story about people, that is also about trees.

Read this to understand how the modern world – Modernity – emerged.

And read this to understand why Modernity’s time is coming to an end …

A book about the basic materials of Modernity – sand, salt, iron, oil, copper, lithium – and how much we rely on them, where the pages turn like you’re reading a thriller.

Life is not just about the stories we tell – it matters how we tell them.

Dense, hard going at times – but, perhaps [unfortunately?] important reading for our times.

Beautifully series of stories about Time, and how we might think of it differently … [time as a nightingale?]

“Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.”