Here’s another “year-in-review” post (I’m done, I swear). Over the course of 2024, I read 30 books. My favorite books this year were Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and The Cuckoo’s Egg (I wrote about visiting the author at his Oakland house). My least favorite was easily Palo Alto (it was one of the few reviews I wrote this past year).
- Carl’s Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2) by Matt Dinniman
- Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
- 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
- Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2) by James S.A. Corey
- The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
- Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
- Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
- The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
- Assembling California (Annals of the Former World, 4) by John McPhee
- The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest by David Roberts
- Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens by Steve Olson
- Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1) by Matt Dinniman
- Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
- The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Clifford Stoll
- City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) by Don Winslow
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
- Troy (Stephen Fry’s Great Mythology, #3) by Stephen Fry
- The PDA Paradox by Harry Thompson
- The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
- California: An American History by John Mack Faragher
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
- Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter by Zoë Schiffer
- The Tetris Effect: The Game that Hypnotized the World by Dan Ackerman
- Death’s End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) by Cixin Liu
- The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) by Cixin Liu
- The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Cixin Liu
- Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison
- Reading The Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth by Marcia Bjornerud
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
EDIT: Fixed hyperlinks. GoodReads changed how their reading challenge page is displayed and I did not update my parsing tool to account for this.
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