Tag: reading goal

I challenged myself to read 52 books in 2024: One book a week. In 2023 this led to a lot of reading at the end of the year to keep up, but this year I did a much better job keeping an even pace, so reaching the goal was not as stressful. This year my goal is to read longer and more serious books while keeping up this pace.

I used StoryGraph to keep track of my reading. I like it ok. Its best feature is that its developers are independent. But I was also thinking of going back to LibraryThing in 20025 for a full Indie experience.

Here are all the books I read in 2024, extracted from StoryGraph and regex’d into something like a readable form:

Seaweed: A Global History by Kaori O’Connor
Find Out Anything From Anyone, Anytime: Secrets of Calculated Questioning From a Veteran Interrogator by James O. Pyle, Maryann Karinch
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
The Algerian War, the Algerian Revolution by Natalya Vince
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Seven Meanings in Life: The Threads that Connect by Thomas Hylland EriksenSeven Meanings in Life: The Threads that Connect
Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson
Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea by Mitchell Duneier
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi
The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution by Chris DeRose
Becoming Other: Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Self by David BerlinerBecoming Other: Heterogeneity and Plasticity of the Self
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook by Hampton Sides
Why There Is No Poststructuralism in France: The Making of an Intellectual Generation by Johannes Angermuller
Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America by Ruth Gay
Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles
Animals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination by Webb KeaneAnimals, Robots, Gods: Adventures in the Moral Imagination
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Revolution in the Revolution?: Armed Struggle and Political Struggle in Latin America by Régis Debray
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton
Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self by Jay L. Garfield
Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox
Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 by Agnès C. Poirier
Smart on Crime by Kamala Harris
Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine by Anna Della Subin
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation: Journeys in Bougainville by Gordon PeakeUnsung Land, Aspiring Nation: Journeys in Bougainville
The Other Paris by Lucy Sante
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky
Rocannon’s World by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux
Blood, Oil and the Axis: The Allied Resistance Against a Fascist State in Iraq and the Levant, 1941 by John Broich
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Enemies and Neighbors: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
How “natives” Think: About Captain Cook, for Example by Marshall Sahlins
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy by Damien Lewis
Avengers and Defenders: Glimpses of Chicago’s Jewish Past by Walter Roth
A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah by Matteo BortoliniA Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Freida Fromm-Reichmann by Gail A. Hornstein
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Galton Case: A Lew Archer Novel by Ross MacDonald
The Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras by Sharony GreenThe Chase and Ruins: Zora Neale Hurston in Honduras
Love, Loyalty and Deceit: Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men by Loulou Brown, Hugh Firth
1968: Radical Protest and Its Enemies by Richard Vinen
Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre