The world is at breaking point.

Governments must stop new fossil fuel projects & make Shell pay up for the damage they’ve caused. Polluters must be held accountable.

📷🎥 See the full protest: media.greenpeace.org/Detail/27MZI...

#MakePollutersPay #ClimateJustice #ActNow

Plenty more on the list that I'd recommend depending on your taste, but these were the ten that I suspect I'll remember more than the others.

Finally, it might be because I visited the US this year but I completely fell in love with Ragtime by E L Doctorow whose every page brings to life the early 20th century in the US. Had never heard of him before, but very grateful to the friend who knows my taste well enough to gift it to me.

Whilst across the Atlantic Joshua Green takes a cold hard look at how some Democrat politicians have sought to extend the Overton window on the Left, with varying degrees of success. I didn't agree with all the analysis, but it's great research with lots to learn.

In politics, there were a couple that really stood out:

Citizen Clem by John Bew tells the story of how an extraordinary appreciation of the importance of political pluralism on the Left allowed Atlee to navigate the many conflicts on his own side whilst building the welfare state.

Two books that were far more unsettling also make the favourite list, both sparsely written character studies.

The Door by Magda Szabó and Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal.

Couldn't put either down as the faintly threatening worlds they created drew me in to explore the shadows.

Another book managing to walk the line between despair and humour was Emily Buchanan's 'Send Flowers' which I was lucky enough to get to read in advance and can be pre-ordered here: www.waterstones.com/book/send-fl...

Radical, hopeful stories are exactly what the world needs right now.

Next, two books I loved for their storytelling. Totally different stories, in totally different contexts, with barely anything to link them except that in describing the depths of what humans are capable of both managed to make me laugh, a lot.

James by Percival Everett and The Bell by Iris Murdoch

"Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter"

I'd been meaning to read Chinua Achebe's essays for years and they didn't disappoint: radical, persuasive and beautifully written. Depressing that so few of the problems described have gone away.

For totally different reasons, the other book that I've referred back to loads (not just because of the recipes in it) is Brandy Sour by Constantia Soteriou.

Weird, enthralling exploration of war in Cyprus told through lens of the different drinks each of its characters choose in the Palace Hotel.

The book I've definitely thought about the most in the months since reading was King by Jonathan Eig. Fascinating biography of MLK with tonnes of social movement strategy in there, including lessons on how he navigated tensions between insider and outsider.