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The Verge’s favorite books from 2024

The folks at the Verge describe their favorite reads.

From her previous stint as a US nuclear budget analyst to learning how to fly planes to five entire chapters about how she wanted to decorate her Paris apartment, it’s a memoir that will have you constantly asking yourself, “Is this lady for real?” (There is a lot of “quiet money” as an explanation for her various achievements.) I listened to the audiobook (she narrates), and hearing her lilting, peaceful voice talk about her rough childhood, relationship with her fan-favorite investment banker husband Jeffrey, and her (at the time) radical decision to not have children reminded me that we’re all human and all experience life’s trials. Dakar, Senegal, a historic site of the transatlantic slave trade; Columbia, South Carolina, where a school teacher fights an attempted banning of Coates’ own book; and finally, Palestine, where he spends a few days in May 2023 observing the stark contrasts between life in Gaza and Israel.

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