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2024
My Year in Books
18,922
pages read
57
books read
Tim


Wool - Holston by Hugh Howey
Shortest Book
56
pages
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Longest Book
1,152
pages

Average book length in 2024
331
pages

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Most Shelved
4,574,205
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End Game by Dennis Behreandt
Least Shelved
13
people also shelved

Tim’s average rating for 2024
4.5
4.5

Progress Through Mental Prayer by Edward Leen
Highest Rated on ŷ
4.67 average

Parenting With Grace by Gregory K. Popcak

Tim’s first review of the year

really liked it
This book is honestly one of the best books I’ve read on parenting (not that I can really tell what’s good and bad since I don’t yet have kids), but it aggregates some of the best practices and presents them in a non too prescriptive way. The only issue I have with the book is, like many Catholic books of its time, the impression the authors seem to have that only the most recent Popes have ever said anything about the matter and so seem to total ...more

ձ’S 2024 BOOKS
World War Z by Max Brooks
it was amazing
Sensitive by Jenn Granneman
Parenting With Grace by Gregory K. Popcak
Mastery by Robert Greene
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Build the Life You Want by Arthur C. Brooks
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
An Arabian Journey by Levison Wood
Pathfinders by J.L. Collins
Three to Get Married by Fulton J. Sheen
Good Inside by Becky   Kennedy
it was amazing
6 Point Plan For Raising Happy Healthy Children by John Rosemonds
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
The Benedict Option by Rod Dreher
Wool - Holston by Hugh Howey
Shift by Hugh Howey
Progress Through Mental Prayer by Edward Leen
Million Dollar Weekend by Noah Kagan
Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
it was amazing
Smart Brevity by Jim Vandehei
Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
The Automatic Millionaire by David Bach
Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love by Marcia Naomi Berger
What Happened To You? by Bruce D. Perry
Traction by Gino Wickman
Effortless by Greg McKeown
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Lost Connections by Johann Hari
Rules for My Unborn Son by Walker Lamond
The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
it was amazing
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
End Game by Dennis Behreandt
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran
7 Steps to Becoming Financially Free by Phil Lenahan
it was amazing
Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
Don't Shoot the Dog!  by Karen Pryor
Purple Cow by Seth Godin
This is Marketing by Seth Godin
Choose Your Enemies Wisely by Patrick Bet-David
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Incognito by David Eagleman
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
How to Know a Person by David  Brooks
Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
it was amazing
End Times by Peter Turchin
Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charles T. Munger
Money Magic by Laurence J. Kotlikoff
A Family of Value by John Rosemond
it was amazing
Frames Of Mind by Howard Gardner
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Incognito by David Eagleman

Tim’s last review of the year

really liked it
I thought this book was a fascinating overview on the current understanding of how the brain works. I found it to be very balanced and objective for the most part, with the exception of a few quips about Galileo and Bruno of questionable veracity. Galileo almost certainly never saw the inside of a dungeon: he lived out his “sentence� of house arrest in a Tuscan villa, and his sentence was entirely for political, not scientific reasons. Bruno was ...more
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