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2024
My Year in Books
40,853
pages read
Darwin8u
164
books read
Darwin8u
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In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Shortest Book
73
pages
Politics by Aristotle
Longest Book
720
pages
Average book length in 2024
249
pages
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Most Shelved
1,612,144
people also shelved
Defending Billy Ryan by George V. Higgins
Least Shelved
209
people also shelved
Darwin8u’s average rating for 2024
4.0
4.0
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.49 average
The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson

Darwin8u’s first review of the year

really liked it
“Teaching’s not about truth. It’s about comfort.”
- Brian Evenson, The Open Curtain

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As someone who grew up Mormon; living in Utah, Idaho, & Arizona at times, with family that goes back to James Hale (killed my remnants of Butch Cassidy's gang), who received frontier justice from Hale's son-in-law on Christmas day of 1888 in Springerville, AZ (there is a monument to him across the road from Springerville's only McDonalds) and John D. Lee (the leader ...more
DARWIN8U’S 2024 BOOKS
The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson
The Invaders by Pat Shipman
Always Crashing in the Same Car by Lance Olsen
it was amazing
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Devotion by Patti Smith
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector
Perfidia by James Ellroy
Fat City by Leonard Gardner
Drive by James Sallis
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
Refuse to Be Done by Matt Bell
The Peregrine by J.A. Baker
it was amazing
Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
Intimations by Zadie Smith
Un Lun Dun by China Miéville
Everything and More by David Foster Wallace
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
The Real Cool Killers by Chester Himes
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin by David Quammen
it was amazing
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories by Carson McCullers
Eager by Ben Goldfarb
A Plague on Both Your Houses by Robert Littell
American Zion by Betsy Gaines Quammen
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Chester Himes
The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith
it was amazing
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
Obsessive Genius by Barbara Goldsmith
The Score by Richard Stark
The Hunter by Richard Stark
South and West by Joan Didion
The Man with the Getaway Face by Richard Stark
Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
Babel by R.F. Kuang
The Outfit by Richard Stark
The Mourner by Richard Stark
The Jugger by Richard Stark
The Seventh by Richard Stark
The Handle by Richard Stark
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
it was amazing
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
The Rare Coin Score by Richard Stark
The Green Eagle Score by Richard Stark
The Sour Lemon Score by Richard Stark
The Black Ice Score by Richard Stark
Deadly Edge by Richard Stark
Slayground by Richard Stark
it was amazing
Plunder Squad by Richard Stark
The Crimean War by Orlando Figes
Sevastopol Sketches by Leo Tolstoy
All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
really liked it
The Fiend by Margaret Millar
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
A Cold Day In Paradise by Steve Hamilton
Winter of the Wolf Moon by Steve Hamilton
R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
The Hunting Wind by Steve Hamilton
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
A Spectre, Haunting by China Miéville
Einstein's Cosmos by Michio Kaku
North of Nowhere by Steve Hamilton
Miss Leavitt's Stars by George Johnson
The Quiet Coup by Mehrsa Baradaran
it was amazing
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
Blood is the Sky by Steve Hamilton
Elegy for April by Benjamin Black
Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima
A Force of Nature by Richard Reeves
Ice Run by Steve Hamilton
A Death in Summer by Benjamin Black
On Argentina by Jorge Luis Borges
The Doctors' Plague by Sherwin B. Nuland
The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves
The Devil Finds Work by James Baldwin
it was amazing
The Georgian Star by Michael D. Lemonick
Lavoisier in the Year One by Madison Smartt Bell
The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
it was amazing
A Stolen Season by Steve Hamilton
Weather by Jenny Offill
Death in the Fifth Position by Edgar Box
Misery Bay by Steve Hamilton
Death Before Bedtime by Edgar Box
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner
Propaganda by Jacques Ellul
Death Likes It Hot by Edgar Box
The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
it was amazing
Dead Calm by Charles Williams
Butcher's Moon by Richard Stark
Incompleteness by Rebecca Goldstein
Nothing by Frank Close
The Profession by Steven Pressfield
A Man at Arms by Steven Pressfield
Superconductivity by Stephen J. Blundell
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
Even the Dead by Benjamin Black

Darwin8u’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Some of the saddest, angriest, most beautiful prose I’ve read. It would be hard to completely tell you why the book, the series, and John Banville are all genius, but let me make one recommendation, read these books in order. This is more of a large, multiple book novels, in flavor of Master & Commander, Remembrance of Things Past, or Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. Start with Book One (Christine Falls) and work through book by bloody book. ...more
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