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Nonfiction Books to Look Out for in Early 2024
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair -
Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
by Jonny Steinberg -
Atticus
by Cornelius Nepos & Nicholas Horsfall -
Agricola
by Harold Mattingly, James Rives & Tacitus -
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers
Diogenes Laertius (ed. James Miller, trans. Pamela Mensch) -
King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig