Wednesday, January 1, 2025

2024 Book List

 

1.  Let the Right One In — John Ajvide Lindqvist 

2.  Rationality — Steven Pinker 

3.  Godzilla — Shigeru Kayama

4. Black Rednecks and White Liberals — Thomas Sowell

5. High-rise — J.G. Ballard

6. The Passenger — Cormac McCarthy

7. Native Son — Richard Wright

8. Freedom Evolves — Daniel Dennett

9. Try — Dennis Cooper

10.  A Death in Belmont — Sebastian Junger

11. Lucifer’s Hammer — Larry Niven and Jerry 

Pournelle

12.  Exorcist Legacy — Nat Segaloff

13.  Found: An Anthology of Found Footage Horror Stories -- Andrew Cull (Editor)

14. Bonding — Maggie Siebert 

15.  Chimera — John Barth

16. The Least of My Scars — Stephen Graham Jones

17. Stella Maris — Cormac McCarthy

18. The Three Body Problem — Liu Cixin

19.  Adam and Yves — Ed Cone


My favorite book was Stella Maris.  

Chimera was my least favorite.  I loved John Barth’s first four books, but I found this one tedious and didn’t enjoy it at all.  What a disappointment.  

Native Son took the longest to read.  It was slow in some parts.  Sort of.  I liked the beginning.  The first parts took place over the course of 24 hrs.  What I call a journey — they way a day can be a whole universe unto itself . . . .   But the trial part was annoyingly long.  Still an enjoyable read.

The surprise contender was The Three Body Problem.  I enjoyed the Netflix series,  and liked the book even more.  Cool ideas and characters.  I can’t wait to finish the series.  

So not a bad year for reading.  


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