I read a lot of books in 2024.
I began 2024 by starting a habit of listening to audiobooks. I realized that I could buy a Kindle book and get a discounted audiobook that follows along with the text, allowing me to switch between audio and text while keeping my place. I find it to be a nifty and useful feature, and it’s caused me to consume a lot more books than usual.
Amazon calls this feature Whispersync for Voice, and I find that it’s avialable for a lot of fantastic titles with audiobooks. If it’s not available for a book, though, I will revert to just reading the text, with no audio. After all, I still very much enjoy sitting down to read a book.
One big highlight of my reading this year has been a lot of science fiction. In fact, I finished reading a couple of book series: Isaac Asmiov’s Foundation series, and the Expanse series by James S.A. Corey. I started them both in 2023.
There’s also various Star Trek books, and a lot of memoirs. I love a good memoir, especially if the audiobook is narrated by the author themselves. I have a fondness for history books, as well.
Anyway, here’s the full list of all the books I finished in 2024, in the order in which I completed them.
- Foundation’s Edge by Isaac Asimov
- Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
- The House of Hidden Meanings by RuPaul
- Going All the Way: A Novel by Dan Wakefield
- Abaddon’s Gate by James S.A. Corey
- The Churn by James S.A. Corey
- Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey
- Spare by Prince Harry
- The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
- This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare by Gabourey Sidibe
- Drastic Measures by Dayton Ward
- Al Franken, Giant of the Senate by Al Franken
- Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking by Mehdi Hasan
- The Way to the Stars by Una McCormack
- Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World’s Deadliest Crooks by Geoff White
- Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey
- The Vital Abyss by James S.A. Corey
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
- My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song by Emily S. Bingham
- Babylon’s Ashes by James S.A. Corey
- Strange Dogs by James S.A. Corey
- The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
- Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey
- Auberon by James S.A. Corey
- The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
- Tiamat’s Wrath by James S.A. Corey
- Leviathan Falls by James S.A. Corey
- The Sins of Our Fathers by James S.A. Corey
- Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures by Adam Zmith
- The Jackal’s Trick by John Jackson Miller
- The Hall of Heroes by John Jackson Miller
- Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson
- Yes Please by Amy Poehler
- Crystallizing Public Opinion by Edward L. Bernays
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
- Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11 by Lynn Spencer
- Pliable Truths by Dayton Ward
- On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
- Information Security: Right Decisions by Rogério Reis
- Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher
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