other 2024 reviews here

I am tracking all my completed books on my reading page and everything on Storygraph. (why Storygraph?) I would like to use micro.blog’s bookshelves, but it’s too buggy and incomplete at this stage.

This was a slow year, so I only completed 42 books. Here’s the summary from Storygraph.

Highly Recommended Books:

Non-Fiction:

• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman. Still a relevant diagnosis for many of our current ills. (book) (post)
• The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World… by David Graeber (posthumously). What if things don’t have to be the way they are? (book) (post)
• The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. We are reaping the results from sowing distorted thinking. (book) (post)

Fiction:

• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (book) (post)
• The Curse of Chalion (World of Five Gods #1) by Lois McMaster Bujold (book) (post)
• The Future by Naomi Alderman (book) (post)

Recommended Books

(Reverse-chronological order)

• Polostan (Bomblight #1) by Neal Stephenson (book)
• Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy (book)
• Midnight Riot (Rivers of London #1) by Ben Aaronovitch (book) (post)
• Mort (Discworld #4) by Terry Pratchett (book)
• The Shape of Joy by Richard Beck (book) (post)
• Convergence Problems by Wole Talabi (book)
• Dopamine Nation by Anna Lemke (book) (post)
• Death of a Cad (Hamish Macbeth #2) by M. C. Beaton (book)
• The Nature of the Beast (Gamache #11) by Louise Penny (book)
• Slow Productivity by Cal Newport (book) (post)
• Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg (book) (post)
• The Rise and Reign of Mammals by Steve Brusatte (book)
• The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist (book) (post)
• Equal Rites (Discworld #3) by Terry Pratchett (book)
• Radical Respect by Kim Scott (book) (post)
• The Red House Mystery by A. A. Milne (book) (post)
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (book)
• Assassin’s Quest (Farseer Trilogy #3) by Robin Hobb (book)
• The PARA Method by Tiago Forte (book) (post)