Books of 2024

Last updated: Sun Nov 17 2024

War in Human Civilization, Azar Gat
So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance, Gabriel Zaid (trans. Natasha Wimmer)
Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell)
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City, Jorge Amalazán
A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay
Seraphim: 26661336 Wings, Mamoru Oshii & Satoshi Kon (trans. Zack Davisson)
The Weirdness of the World, Eric Schwitzgebel
Foundry, Eliot Peper
🔁 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum
🔁 The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin (trans. Ken Liu)
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
How I Became A Nun, César Aira (trans. Chris Andrews)
🔁 The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt
🔁 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition Vol. 3, Naoki Urasawa (trans. Akemi Wegmuller)
The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint, Philipp Deines
Tales from the Loop, Simon Stålenhag (trans. Martin Dunelind)
Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin (trans. Megan McDowell)
Transformers Vol. 1: Robots in Disguise, Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
A Paradise Built In Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Rebecca Solnit
Some Trick: Thirteen Stories, Helen deWitt
The Electric State, Simon Stålenhag (trans. Martin Dunelind)
The Labryinth, Simon Stålenhag (trans. Ebba Segerberg)
Moonbound, Robin Sloan
Death and the King’s Horseman, Wole Soyinka
Amphigorey: Fifteen Books, Edward Gorey
🔁 His Dark Materials: Book 1 - The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
The World Doesn’t End, Charles Simic
The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics, Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky
🔁 His Dark Materials: Book 2 - The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
Malgudi Days, R. K. Narayan
Be Prepared, Vera Brosgol
Plain Jane and the Mermaid, Vera Brosgol
A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories, Will Eisner
Crafting Interpreters, Robert Nystrom
The Swamp Dwellers, Wole Soyinka
His Dark Materials: Book 3 - The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences, Alex Mesoudi
The Strong Breed, Wole Soyinka
The Bacchae of Euripides, Wole Soyinka
The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin
The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers
A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
101 Things I Learned in Culinary School (Second Edition), Louis Eguaras & Matthew Frederick
the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Mark Haddon
🔁 The Tempest, William Shakespeare
101 Things I Learned in Law School, Vibeke Norgaard Martin & Matthew Frederick
Lightning Rods, Helen deWitt
Eurydice: A Play, Sarah Ruhl
🔁 Macbeth, William Shakespeare
The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver)
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Priya Parker
“The Masque of the Red Death”, Edgar Allen Poe
Rare Flavours, Ram V & Filipe Andrade
The Sign of the Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
Tea: A User’s Guide, Tony Gebely
The Daughters of Ys, M. T. Anderson & Jo Rioux
The Tea Enthusiast’s Handbook: A Guide to Enjoying the World’s Best Teas, Mary Lou Heiss & Robert J. Heiss
My Favorite Thing is Monsters: Book One, Emil Ferris
The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara

Skimmed

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World, Deb Chachra
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell)
A *New* Program for Graphic Design, David Reinfurt
High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People, Elad Gil
101 Things I Learned in Product Design School, Sung Jang, Martin Thaler, & Matthew Frederick

Papers

“The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information”, George A. Miller
“The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”, Ericsson et. al.
“Puritans and Prigs: An Anatomy of Zealotry”, Marilynne Robinson
“Do Artifacts Have Politics?”, Landon Winner
“Technology and History: ‘Kranzberg’s Laws’”, Melvin Kranzberg