Books of 2024

Last updated: Mon Dec 23 2024

1. War in Human Civilization, Azar Gat
2. So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance, Gabriel Zaid (trans. Natasha Wimmer)
3. Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez (trans. Megan McDowell)
4. Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City, Jorge Amalazán
5. A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay
6. Seraphim: 26661336 Wings, Mamoru Oshii & Satoshi Kon (trans. Zack Davisson)
7. The Weirdness of the World, Eric Schwitzgebel
8. Foundry, Eliot Peper
9. 🔁 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
10. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
11. The Marvelous Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum
12. 🔁 The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin (trans. Ken Liu)
13. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Douglas Adams
14. How I Became A Nun, César Aira (trans. Chris Andrews)
15. 🔁 The English Understand Wool, Helen DeWitt
16. 🔁 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
17. 20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition Vol. 3, Naoki Urasawa (trans. Akemi Wegmuller)
18. The Five Lives of Hilma af Klint, Philipp Deines
19. Tales from the Loop, Simon Stålenhag (trans. Martin Dunelind)
20. Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin (trans. Megan McDowell)
21. Transformers Vol. 1: Robots in Disguise, Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer
22. A Paradise Built In Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Rebecca Solnit
23. Some Trick: Thirteen Stories, Helen deWitt
24. The Electric State, Simon Stålenhag (trans. Martin Dunelind)
25. The Labryinth, Simon Stålenhag (trans. Ebba Segerberg)
26. Moonbound, Robin Sloan
27. Death and the King’s Horseman, Wole Soyinka
28. Amphigorey: Fifteen Books, Edward Gorey
29. 🔁 His Dark Materials: Book 1 - The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
30. The World Doesn’t End, Charles Simic
31. The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics, Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky
32. 🔁 His Dark Materials: Book 2 - The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
33. Malgudi Days, R. K. Narayan
34. Be Prepared, Vera Brosgol
35. Plain Jane and the Mermaid, Vera Brosgol
36. A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories, Will Eisner
37. Crafting Interpreters, Robert Nystrom
38. The Swamp Dwellers, Wole Soyinka
39. His Dark Materials: Book 3 - The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
40. Cultural Evolution: How Darwinian Theory Can Explain Human Culture and Synthesize the Social Sciences, Alex Mesoudi
41. The Strong Breed, Wole Soyinka
42. The Bacchae of Euripides, Wole Soyinka
43. The Farthest Shore, Ursula K. Le Guin
44. The King in Yellow, Robert W. Chambers
45. A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
46. 101 Things I Learned in Culinary School (Second Edition), Louis Eguaras & Matthew Frederick
47. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Mark Haddon
48. 🔁 The Tempest, William Shakespeare
49. 101 Things I Learned in Law School, Vibeke Norgaard Martin & Matthew Frederick
50. Lightning Rods, Helen deWitt
51. Eurydice: A Play, Sarah Ruhl
52. 🔁 Macbeth, William Shakespeare
53. The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver)
54. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Priya Parker
55. Rare Flavours, Ram V & Filipe Andrade
56. The Sign of the Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
57. Tea: A User’s Guide, Tony Gebely
58. The Daughters of Ys, M. T. Anderson & Jo Rioux
59. The Tea Enthusiast’s Handbook: A Guide to Enjoying the World’s Best Teas, Mary Lou Heiss & Robert J. Heiss
60. My Favorite Thing is Monsters: Book One, Emil Ferris
61. The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara
62. My Favorite Thing is Monsters: Book Two, Emil Ferris
63. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Ram V & Filipe Andrade
64. Mengzi with Selections from Traditional Commentaries (trans. Bryan W. Van Norden)
65. Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum, Leonard Susskind & Art Friedman

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

Short Stories

1. 🔁 “The Masque of the Red Death”, Edgar Allen Poe
2. “The Imitation of the Rose”, Clarice Lispector
3. “A Chicken”, Clarice Lispector
4. “The Egg and the Chicken”, Clarice Lispector

Papers

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