Books of 2024

Everything read this past year.

Hi there ,

2024 , in review -

Grand total for books that were read this year was a whopping 30 pieces of literature (either in print or audio versions).

*this is the stack of books and yellow legal pads that accumulated in the corner in the second bedroom. Some books were lent out , some were just on audio , some legal pads were lost or still in progress - these are the survivors.

This is the most that I have consumed and committed to in an entire calendar year.

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Last two books that were sneaked out last minute were:

29. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - 12.30.24

    

AND

30. The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy - 12.31.24

    

Bookended 2024 with two Cormac McCarthy novels. In the in-between, I attempted to spice up the types of work I normally would not be inclined to give a try (non-fiction and autobiographies to be specific).

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Here is the complete list:

Books of 2024

1. Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy - 1.5.24

2. Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley - 1.10.24

3. Mastery by Robert Greene - 1.12.24

4. The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles - 1.12.24

5. Is God Real? by Lee Strobel - 1.14.24

6. Tennyson’s Poems by Lord Alfred Tennyson - 1.18.24

7. Big Two-Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway - 1.20.24

8. Green lights by Matthew McConaughey - 1.25.24

9. The Trial by Franz Kafka - 2.2.24

10. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking - 2.8.24

11. Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2.29.24

12. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers - 3.8.24

13. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - 4.11.24

14. Red Rising by Pierce Brown - 5.30.24

15. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - 5.31.24

16. The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk - 6.14.24

17. Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins - 8.8.24

18. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - 8.27.24

19. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - 9.10.24

20. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka - 9.20.24

21. Still the Mind by Alan Watts - 10.6.24

22. The Stranger by Albert Camus - 10.8.24

23. Mastermind by Maria Konnikova - 10.10.24

24. The Fall by Albert Camus - 10.18.24

25. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - 10.21.24

26. Circe by Madeline Miller - 10.28.24

27. Flatland Edwin A. Abbott - 11.3.24

28. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin - 12.5.24

29. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - 12.30.24

30. The Orchard Keepter by Cormac McCarthy - 12.31.24

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Looking forward pushing it to at least 31 or more in 2025. If not , ah well.

If you read along with me this year , share some of your favorites - ones that inspired , entertained , challenged , etc. Would love to hear your experience.

And as always , thank you for reading (this)

I appreciate this site and those that choose to listen and consume what I share on here.

Here’s to 2025 , today , and what’s to come

kindly ,

- mike

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