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Nonfiction Books to Look Out for in Early 2024
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Speak, Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov -
Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon
by Sir Henry Channon -
Supermac
by DR Thorpe -
Basil Street Blues
by Michael Holroyd -
The Self-Aware Image: An Insight Into Early Modern Meta-Painting
by Victor Stoichita -
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
by Tarana Burke