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