{"id":16445,"date":"2024-12-30T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T18:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=16445"},"modified":"2024-12-30T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T18:24:15","slug":"all-the-books-i-read-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=16445","title":{"rendered":"All the books I read in 2024."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is always a weird feeling to look back at all the books I read in any given year. Some books I loved, some books I remember strongly and evoke a specific emotion, and honestly there are some in here that I have to look up to remember the slightest thing about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fire Weather<\/strong> was both an important read and a total page turner, and it was one of the best books I read this year. Say Nothing<\/strong> was also outstanding, as was this year’s excellent Hulu limited series based on this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was some very fun diversions, like Our Band Could Be Your Life<\/strong> about the American punk scene, and Goth<\/strong> about, well, the Goth scene written by one of it’s pioneers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some others that really jump at my as I reflect on this list are Knife<\/strong>, 1Q84<\/strong>, How the World Ran Out of Everything<\/strong>, and the fantastically well-written Zeitoun<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are all the books I read in 2024 in the order I read them\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Why We Sleep<\/strong> \u2014 Matthew Walker <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The Sympathizer<\/strong> \u2014 Viet Thanh Nguyen <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. The Zone of Interest<\/strong> \u2014 Martin Amis <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Firewater <\/strong>\u2014 Harold R. Johnson<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. World Within a Song<\/strong> \u2014 Jeff Tweedy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Eve<\/strong> \u2014 Cat Bohannon <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry<\/strong> \u2014 Gabrielle Zevin <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. Our Band Could Be Your Life<\/strong> \u2014 Michael Azerrad <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Trust <\/strong>\u2014 Hernan Diaz <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. The Hundred Years\u2019 War on Palestine <\/strong>\u2014 Rashid Khalidi <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. Burn Book<\/strong> \u2014 Kara Swisher <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. How to Know a Person<\/strong> \u2014 David Brooks <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. Goth<\/strong> \u2014 Lol Tolhurst <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. All the Light We Cannot See<\/strong> \u2014 Anthony Doerr <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  15. Erasure<\/strong> \u2014 Perceval Everett <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  16. Great Expectations<\/strong> \u2014 Vinson Cunningham<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  17. Fire Weather <\/strong>\u2014 John Vaillant <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  18. Say Nothing <\/strong>\u2014 Patrick Radden Keefe <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  19. I Shall Not Hate<\/strong> \u2014 Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  20. Rogues <\/strong>\u2014 Patrick Radden Keefe<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  21. Kitchen Confidential <\/strong>\u2014 Anthony Bourdain <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  22. The Deluge <\/strong>\u2014 Stephen Markley<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  23. Knife<\/strong> \u2014 Salman Rushdie<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  24. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo<\/strong> \u2014 Taylor Jenkins Reid <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  25. In My Time of Dying<\/strong> \u2014 Sebastian Junger <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  26. Limitarianism<\/strong> \u2014 Ingrid Robeyns<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  27. A Children\u2019s Bible<\/strong> \u2014 Lydia Millet<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  28. The Talented Mr. Ripley <\/strong>\u2014 Patricia Highsmith <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  29. Justin Trudeau on the Ropes <\/strong>\u2014 Paul Wells<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  30. Becoming Earth<\/strong> \u2014 Ferris Jabr<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  31. Comedy Book <\/strong>\u2014 Jesse David Fox<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  32. Darth Plagueis<\/strong> \u2014 James Luceno <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  33. Aurora<\/strong> \u2014 Kim Stanley Robinson <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  34. Crooked Teeth <\/strong>\u2014 Danny Ramadan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  35. The Marrow Thieves<\/strong> \u2014 Cherie Dimaline<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  36. 1Q84<\/strong> \u2014 Haruki Murakami <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  37. The Will To Change <\/strong>\u2014 bell hooks<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  38. The Undoing Project<\/strong> \u2014 Michael Lewis <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  39. Rest is Resistance<\/strong> \u2014 Tricia Hersey<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  40. Misfit <\/strong>\u2014 Gary Gulman <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  41. Ripley Under Ground <\/strong>\u2014 Patricia Highsmith <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  42. Our Crumbling Foundation<\/strong> \u2014 Gregor Craigie <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  43. Age of Revolutions<\/strong> \u2014 Fareed Zakaria<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  44. The Message<\/strong> \u2014 Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  45. Nexus<\/strong> \u2014 Yuval Noah Harari <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  46. Revenge of the Tipping Point <\/strong>\u2014 Malcolm Gladwell<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  47. Reconciling History<\/strong> \u2014 Jody Wilson-Raybould <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  48. Hunting by Stars<\/strong> \u2014 Cherie Dimaline <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  49. Red Mars<\/strong> \u2014 Kim Stanley Robinson<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  50. How the World Ran Out of Everything<\/strong> \u2014 Peter S. Goodman<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  51. The Spamalot Diaries<\/strong> \u2014 Eric Idle <\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  52. Zeitoun<\/strong> \u2014 Dave Eggers<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  53. At a Loss for Words<\/strong> \u2014 Carol Off<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  54. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord<\/strong> \u2014 Daniel J. Levitin <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I also saw lots of great films<\/a> and many amazing shows<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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