Here’s another “year-in-review” post (I’m done, I swear). Over the course of 2024, I read 31 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 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 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 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 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 by Don Winslow
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
- Troy 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
- The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
- Dead Earth by William L. Shirer