Finished my last book of 2024 and with that, a list of my top books of the year.
First, re: goal to read 4 books/mo. toward lifetime goal. In 2024, I read 72, with 68 toward goal (+20 toward yearly goal, +13 over 2023). Read over 30K pages, with a rate at almost 90 pgs / day.
First, re: goal to read 4 books/mo. toward lifetime goal. In 2024, I read 72, with 68 toward goal (+20 toward yearly goal, +13 over 2023). Read over 30K pages, with a rate at almost 90 pgs / day.
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The Snow Queen by Joan Vinge
Mating by Norman Rush
The North Water by Ian McGuire
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson
The Age of Jackson by Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Going After Cacciato by Tim O’Brien
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr
The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner
Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
Growing Up by Russell Baker
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
Accelerando by Charles Stross
Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm
Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe
Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt
Last Call by Tim Powers
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (MachineGames)
Mafia: Definitive Edition (Hangar 13)
Redeemer–Enhanced Edition (Sobaka)
Blasphemous (The Game Kitchen)
Bramble:The Mountain King(Dimfrost)