Favorite Books of 2024

[@pheasantSI]

You've inspired me to (finally!) start reading the Broken Earth books, thank you!

[@AlAmin-d4e]

Great content! I love how you break things down so clearly. Keep it up!

[@akuchling]

My favorite books of 2024: Non-fiction: * An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, Ed Yong * Making It So, Patrick Stewart * The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig * Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World, Leah Broad * The Secret History of Bigfoot, John O'Connor Fiction: * The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, Shannon Chakraborty * Bea Wolf, Zach Weinersmith * The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean * Rose/House, Arkady Martine * Silver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia * Thornhedge, T. Kingfisher

[@BeyondSolitaire]

I thought Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi was great! Silver Nitrate is on my TBR. So I will def look at the others you suggest. :)

[@MeanderingMikesManCave]

Thank you for the insights!

[@deemich1815]

Ohh Creation Lake has been on my list and I just grabbed it from the library. Love me some good lefty fiction! Have you read her other book Flamethrower? Broken Earth is 🔥🔥

[@BeyondSolitaire]

I haven’t read Flamethrower, but should. :)

[@thomdenholm]

Favorite (video) gaming related book - Replay by Jordan Mechner. Favorite fiction - Minor Mage by T. Kingfisher Favorite NF - Above Us, The Stars by Jane Gulliford Lowes Looking forward to reading The Game Changer!

[@BeyondSolitaire]

T. Kingfisher is so good! I loved Minor Mage. :)

[@Haytidaho]

This year I read "The new fish" by østli and sæstre, on the salmon farming industry, and stopped eating salmon altogether 😅. That's the power of books !

[@BeyondSolitaire]

I'm scared to read this now... D:

[@Haytidaho]

Yes, it was worse than I imagined 😅😢. To be honest, since Covid, I've been trying to eat more responsibly and consciously. So, I've read a lot about livestock farming, etc. I'm not completely vegetarian yet, but I'm heading in that direction: I still buy meat, but only from producers I know etc.

[@billsimoni]

My 2024 faves: non-fiction - The Power Broker by Robert Caro, Gettysburg by Stephen Sears, and Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann fiction - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez, and The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang

[@BeyondSolitaire]

I LOVED A Gentleman in Moscow. One of my favorite reads of the past few years.

[@billsimoni]

@ I just checked my spreadsheet- I picked it up because of you saying it was great 🤣

[@paulrobbins760]

If that's a bad year for you, may I have many such bad years in future. I just bought "black Easter" on your recommendation. For my part: Why, one may ask, with so much excellent new fiction, am I rereading Patrick O'Brian's "Aubrey/Maturin" series this year? Because as I grow older, the books grow with me, changing into a different moment, in a different life. Perhaps the finest and most moving historical fiction ever written.

[@BeyondSolitaire]

I need to read those then, because I love historical fiction. Gore Vidal's "Julian" really does it for me and I like to reread it every couple of years.

[@ericaustinlee]

Thanks for this list! I have the Kushner book on my TBR list but am working through other stuff first. I hadn't heard of the Williams book! Do you mostly read ebooks? Physical? or a mixture?

[@BeyondSolitaire]

I read a mix! I tend to prefer to have physical copies of books I am using for research, while I will choose the ebook version of novels and especially light reads. I've also been making a point of using the library more regularly.