What will be the bestsellers in the coming year?

By Rachel Lloyd

In 2023, bestseller lists continued to be populated by medical tomes in the wake of the pandemic and by scientists sounding the alarm about climate change. In 2024 there will be a distinct change of tack, as other topics take the lead.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of them. Several books will look at how it might reshape the world: “AI Needs You”, a “humanist manifesto for the age of AI” by Verity Harding, formerly of Google DeepMind; “The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots” by Daniela Rus, director of the AI laboratory at mit; and “Literary Theory for Robots”, an examination of how machine intelligence will influence the way we read, write and think, by Dennis Yi Tenen, a professor of English at Columbia University.