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What I Read in 2024

May 13, 2025

3 min read

I started this post back in January and just really haven't had the energy to finish it! There's something incredibly exhausting about writing meaningful thoughts on a dozen different books. Even when the thoughts are short!

I logged 34 reads in 2024. I finished most of those. I started renting audio books from the library. I started borrowing Kindle ebooks from the library too.

Instead of well thought out words - here's a bulleted list of my favorites!

  • The Hainish Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin - I really liked Rocannon's World, but The Dispossessed and The Left Hand of Darkness were also highlights.
  • The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin - loved The Fifth Season the most
  • The Soldier Son Trilogy by Robin Hobb - Forest Mage was my favorite of this series. I'm a big Robin Hobb fan.
  • Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - this is my favorite in this series so far
  • Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon - this was a really fascinating read about early hacking
  • City of Theives by David Benioff
  • The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
  • The Goblin Emperor by Sarah Monette
  • Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee - Arthurian knights in modern times, good popcorn
  • The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier - did this on audio book and found it useful to consider relationships with my managers from their perspective
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson - really funny to read this and go "wow pretty cliché" only to remember this is where the clichés started
  • The Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura