Rob R-S

I read some books in May!

• 🎧 Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
• 🎧 Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace
• 🎧 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• 🎧 Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
• 🎧 Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• 🎧📚 Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
• 🎧 Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

I read some books in April! Okay, so most of Wind and Truth was in March.

• 🎧📚 Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson
• 🎧 Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
• 🎧 The Dog Sitter Detective Plays Dead by Antony Johnston
• 🎧 Moonbound by Robin Sloan
• 🎧 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• 🎧 A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
• 💿 Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut
• 🎧 Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer
• 🎧 Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams

I read some books in March!

• 🎧 Neuromancer by William Gibson
• 🎧 Morning Star by Pierce Brown
• 🎧 Count Zero by William Gibson
• 🎧 Training for the Uphill Athlete by Steve House, Scott Johnston, Kilian Jornet
• 🎧 Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax
• 📚🎧 Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

I read some books in February!

• 🎧 The Big Year by Mark Obmascik
• 🎧 Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• 🎧 The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• 🎧 Red Rising by Pierce Brown
• 🎧 Golden Son by Pierce Brown

📚 I read some books in January!

• 🎧 The Dog Sitter Detective by Antony Johnston
• 🎧 The Dog Sitter Detective Takes the Lead by Antony Johnston
• 🎧 The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
• 🎧 GO AS A RIVER: A Novel by Shelley Read
• 🎧 The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
• 🎧 One Man's Wilderness : An Alaskan Odyssey by Richard Proenneke & Sam Keith
• 🎧 Dumb Money by Ben Mezrich

📚 I read 94 books in 2024. The total count has been trending downward for the past couple years. Like the previous year though, I did read a number of longer than usual books.

I started the year with a fun challenge of reading 26 books whose titles start with A-Z. This had the effect of slowing things down a bit. Since I wanted to finish them in alphabetical order, I only read one book at a time from start to finish. Normally I have a few going at once that I read or listen to in different contexts.

Here’s the complete 2024 list:

• 🎧 Andromeda Klein by Frank Portman
• 🎧 But What I Really Want to Do Is Direct by Ken Kwapis
• 🎧 Contact by Carl Sagan
• 🎧 Determined by Robert M. Sapolsky
• 📚 🎧 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
• 📚 🎧 Finding Ultra, Revised and Updated Edition by Rich Roll
• 📚 🎧 Galileo's Middle Finger by Alice Dreger
• 🎧 Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance
• 📚 🎧 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
• 🎧 John Adams by David McCullough
• 📚 Kingdom of Characters by Jing Tsu
• 🎧 Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
• 🎧 My Life in the Sunshine by Nabil Ayers
• 🎧 Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
• 🎧 Open by Andre Agassi
• 🎧 Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
• 🎧 Quiet by Susan Cain
• 📚 🎧 Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle
• 📚 🎧 Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
• 🎧 Travel Light by Light Watkins
• 🎧 Upstream by Dan Heath
• 🎧 Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
• 🎧 What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
• 🎧 Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
• 🎧 You Are Why You Eat by Dr. Ramani Durvasula
• 🎧 Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
• 🎧 Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
• 🎧 The Last Shadow by Orson Scott Card
• 🎧 Breathless by David Quammen
• 🎧 Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• 🎧 Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
• 🎧 Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
• 🎧 Marry Him by Lori Gottlieb
• 🎧 Chip War by Chris Miller
• 🎧 Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana K. White
• 🎧 Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
• 🎧 Click Here to Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier
• 🎧 A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
• 🎧 Glow Kids by Nicholas Kardaras, PhD
• 🎧 Good to Great by Jim Collins
• 🎧 The Impossible First by Colin O'Brady
• 🎧 Pegasus by Laurent Richard & Sandrine Rigaud
• 🎧 Free Time by Jenny Blake
• 🎧 Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
• 🎧 Dark Wire by Joseph Cox
• 🎧 Kleptopia by Tom Burgis
• 🎧 The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 🎧 The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 🎧 The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 🎧 The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
• 🎧 The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien
• 🎧 Dune by Frank Herbert
• 🎧 Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
• 📚 Magic Pill by Johann Hari
• 🎧 Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
• 🎧 Above the Clouds by Kilian Jornet
• 🎧 Everything That Remains by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
• 🎧 Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
• 🎧 God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
• 🎧 Love People, Use Things by Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus
• 🎧 Things That Matter by Joshua Becker
• 🎧 The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
• 🎧 Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
• 🎧 Slow Horses by Mick Herron
• 🎧 Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
• 📚 In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
• 🎧 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff
• 🎧 Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
• 🎧 Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday
• 🎧 Scarcity Brain by Michael Easter
• 🎧 Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
• 🎧 The Apple II Age by Laine Nooney
• 🎧 Build the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks & Oprah Winfrey
• 📚 How to Live in a Car, Van or RV by Bob Wells
• 🎧 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• 🎧 This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
• 🎧 Doctor Zhivago by Borìs Pasternàk, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
• 🎧 The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
• 📚 The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
• 🎧 Tribe by Sebastian Junger
• 🎧 The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
• 📚 Wisdom from the Road by Bob Wells
• 🎧 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
• 🎧 Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
• 🎧 A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
• 🎧 Wool (The Silo Saga) by Hugh Howey
• 🎧 Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• 🎧 Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky
• 🎧 Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
• 🎧 The Armageddon Protocol (Galactic Cold War) by Dan Moren
• 🎧 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• 🎧 Shift (The Silo Saga) by Hugh Howey
• 🎧 Dust (The Silo Saga) by Hugh Howey
• 🎧 The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell

📚 I read some books in December!

• 🎧 Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
• 🎧 Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace
• 🎧 The Armageddon Protocol by Dan Moren
• 🎧 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• 🎧 Shift (The Silo Saga) by Hugh Howey
• 🎧 Dust (The Silo Saga) by Hugh Howey
• 🎧 The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell