# Best books of 2024

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> [@zimaane](#):
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> **The City & The City** China Mieville

I love this book. It’s such a clever idea - FWIW my take is the superimposition of the two cities is purely a social convention, and I read it as a commentary on the way we do, all the time, allow our lives to pass in parallel through others’.

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