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2024
My Year in Books
19,485
pages read
briz
76
books read
briz
Chaiwala! by Priti Birla Maheshwari
Shortest Book
24
pages
Zemindar by Valerie Fitzgerald
Longest Book
799
pages
Average book length in 2024
256
pages
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Most Shelved
4,052,529
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Make by Lynn Beighley
Least Shelved
27
people also shelved
briz’s average rating for 2024
4.1
4.1
Breaking Through by Katalin Karikó
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.76 average
The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell

briz’s first review of the year

really liked it
Well, this was terrifying. As expected. Heat is an insidious killer. AAAGHH.

Another book that motivates the hell outta me to climate change-adapt my home and life.
µþ¸é±õ´Ü’S 2024 BOOKS
The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell
Exercised by Daniel E. Lieberman
it was amazing
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Renaissance Woman by Jennifer Case, Melissa Davi...
We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
No Fits, Nilson! by Zachariah OHora
Best Frints in the Whole Universe by Antoinette Portis
A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqi
Tidewater by Libbie Hawker
A World of Babies by Judy S. DeLoache
The Sour Grape by Jory John
Mine! by Shutta Crum
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
it was amazing
Messenger by Lois Lowry
Hudson and Tallulah Take Sides by Anna Kang
We Were Once a Family by Roxanna Asgarian
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying
it was amazing
Chaiwala! by Priti Birla Maheshwari
Five Minutes' Peace by Jill Murphy
Monstrous by Sarah Myer
Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda-Hall
Refugee by Alan Gratz
Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
it was amazing
The Mysteries by Bill Watterson
Breaking Through by Katalin Karikó
Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman
The Battle for Your Brain by Nita A. Farahany
23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
Nowhere Boy by Katherine Marsh
Stand Up, Yumi Chung! by Jessica Kim
Flowers of Fire by Hawon Jung
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
it was amazing
The Wrong Mother by Charlotte Duckworth
Conspirituality by Derek Beres
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2020 by Michio Kaku
Esther's Notebooks by Riad Sattouf
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Make by Lynn Beighley
In Real Life by Cory Doctorow
it was amazing
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Bird Brother by Rodney Stotts
They Called Us Exceptional by Prachi Gupta
Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes
The Talk by Darrin Bell
When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson
Squished by Megan Wagner Lloyd
Project Nought by Chelsey Furedi
The Collapse of Western Civilization by Naomi Oreskes
it was amazing
Allow Me to Retort by Elie Mystal
Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
Stargazing by Jen Wang
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion by Christopher K. Germer
I Dare! I Can! I Will! by Linda Olafsdottir
Hidden Systems by Dan Nott
Electrify by Saul Griffith
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
it was amazing
Staff Engineer by Will Larson
Working in Public by Nadia Eghbal
A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich
The Ancients by John Larison
Open Borders by Bryan Caplan
Edible Economics by Ha-Joon Chang
An Excess Male by Maggie Shen King
Zemindar by Valerie Fitzgerald
it was amazing
Counting for Nothing by Marilyn Waring
The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow
Stasiland by Anna Funder
Stasiland by Anna Funder

briz’s last review of the year

really liked it
Read this on a long drive from Essen to Berlin, and was really struck by how powerful and insidious the Stasi was. It basically blasted away any Ostalgie I could have been susceptible to - I just kept thinking of those lives destroyed in such covert ways. Ugh. 4 stars just cuz I found the author's presence often intrusive (this was written with a bit of gonzo first-person asides). ...more
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