Please Note: The following list of books is not organized according to any personal hierarchy of the relative value of each individual book. Rather it is a list that seriously considers ALL of the books listed here to be of equal intellectual and cultural value and interest, albeit for different reasons. The bottomline on this list is that each one of these books is extraordinary and invaluable in their own right and represents some of the very best writing published in the United States in 2024.
--Kofi Natambu, Editor
The Black AntiFascist Tradition:
Fighting Black From Anti-Lynching To Abolition
by Jeanelle K. Hope & Bill V. Mullen
Haymarket Books, 2024
A Radical Vision
by Barbara Ransby
The University of North Carolina Press, 2024
(Second Edition)
Deluge: Gaza and Israel From Crisis To Cataclysm
Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner
OR Books, 2024
We Charge Genocide:
American Fascism and the Rule of Law
by Bill V. Mullen
Fordham University Press, 2024
Edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner
OR Books, 2024
American Fascism and the Rule of Law
by Bill V. Mullen
Fordham University Press, 2024
How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
by Noam Chomsky and Nathan J. Robinson
Penguin Press, 2024
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
One World, 2024
Living Space: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Free Jazz, From Analog To Digital
by Michael E. Veal
Wesleyan University Press, 2024
The Revolutionary Lives Of Frantz Fanon
by Adam Shatz
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2024
Dis// Integration:
2 Novellas, & 3 Stories & A Little Play
by William Melvin Kelley
Vintage Books, 2024
Defectors: The Rise Of the Latino Far Right
And What It Means For America
by Paola Ramos
Pantheon Books, 2024
Claudia Jones:
Visions Of A Socialist America
by Denise Lynn
Polity, 2024
Building the Black City:
The Transformation Of American Life
by Joe William Trotter, Jr.
University of California Press, 2024
Erasing History:
How Fascists Rewrite The Past To Control the Future
by Jason Stanley
Atria, 2024
by Percival Everett
Doubleday, 2024
The United States Governed
by Six Hundred Thousand Despots
by John Swanson Jacobs
(Edited by Jonathan D.S. Schroeder)
The University of Chicago Press, 2024
(Edited by Jonathan D.S. Schroeder)
The University of Chicago Press, 2024
by Nigel C. Gibson
Polity, 2024
You Can't Please All: Memoirs, 1980-2024
by Tariq Ali
Verso, 2024
by Tariq Ali
Verso, 2024
by Gideon Levy
Verso, 2024
The American Legacy of Land Theft And the Modern Movement For Black Land Ownership
by Brea Baker
One World, 2024
and Pessimism in 21st Century Black Thought
by Norman Ajari
Polity, 2024
by Norman Ajari
Polity, 2024
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
I Dare Say: A Gerald Horne Reader
by Gerald Horne
Edited by Tionne Alliyah Parris
OR Books, 2024
Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives --`And How We Break Free
by Tricia Rose
Basic Books, 2024
We Are The Leaders We Have Been Looking For:
The W.E.B Du Bois Lectures
by Eddie Glaude, Jr.
Harvard University Press, 2024
Illiberal America: A History
by Steven Hahn
W.W. Norton and Company, 2024
Yale and Slavery: A History
by David W. Blight
Yale University Press, 2024
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
by Kellie Carter Jackson
Seal Press, 2024
Towers Of Ivory and Steel:
How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
by Maya Wind
Verso, 2024
Medgar & Myrlie:
Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
by Joy-Ann Reid
Mariner Books, 2024
Madness: Race and Insanity in A Jim Crow Asylum
by Antonia Hylton
Legacy Lit, 2024
The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs. The American Empire
by Matt Kennard
(Second Edition)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
The White Bonus:
Five Families and the Cash Value Of Racism in America
by Tracie McMillan
Henry Holt and Company, 2024
The White Bonus:
Five Families and the Cash Value Of Racism in America
by Tracie McMillan
Henry Holt and Company, 2024
by Sarah Lewis
Harvard University Press, 2024
Remember, You Are A Wiley: A Memoir
by Maya Wiley
Grand Central Publishing, 2024
by Dionne Brand
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2024
by Larry Neal
David Zwirner Books, 2024
