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2024
My Year in Books
22,751
pages read
69
books read


Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Shortest Book
80
pages
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Longest Book
688
pages

Average book length in 2024
329
pages

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Most Shelved
6,533,816
people also shelved
Mushashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
Least Shelved
366
people also shelved

Brian’s average rating for 2024
3.1
3.1

Good Inside by Becky   Kennedy
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.53 average

The Liberal Redneck Manifesto by Trae Crowder

Brian’s first review of the year

really liked it
I’m giving this 4 stars when it’s probably like a 2.5 or 3 because I’m interested in the topic and ideals of the book rather than the execution.

I like this book because it writes about something that’s so important. The “South� is big and full of so many people and has good and even great parts despite its deplorable history and current struggles.

I grew up in the South, but 40 years post segregation and 30 years post Jim Crow. So still lots of
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µþ¸é±õ´¡±·â€™S 2024 BOOKS
Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson
really liked it
The Cobweb by Neal Stephenson
The Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff
How to Stay in Love by James J. Sexton
Outsmart Your Anxious Brain by David A.  Carbonell
Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown
The Big U by Neal Stephenson
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
really liked it
Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
The Liberal Redneck Manifesto by Trae Crowder
Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People by Lindsay C. Gibson
A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
The Constitution of Knowledge by Jonathan Rauch
Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson
No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Suttree by Cormac McCarthy
The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
it was amazing
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke
Read Write Own by Chris  Dixon
Building a Second Brain by Tiago Forte
Rilke's Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
Babel by R.F. Kuang
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Mushashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
really liked it
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Designing Your Life - How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life by Bill Burnett
really liked it
What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman
Forever Strong by Gabrielle Lyon
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
The Four by Scott Galloway
Discipline Is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
The Man Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman
Burn Book by Kara Swisher
Mate by Tucker Max
The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton
The Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li
Secure Love by Julie Menanno
really liked it
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
Courage Is Calling by Ryan Holiday
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Books Do Furnish a Life by Richard Dawkins
Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The God of the Woods by Liz    Moore
Post Corona by Scott Galloway
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
Persuasion by Jane Austen
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
Adrift by Scott Galloway
Good Inside by Becky   Kennedy
really liked it
My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday
The Ferryman by Justin Cronin
The Algebra of Happiness by Scott Galloway
really liked it
The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves
The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida
Bittersweet by Susan Cain
Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk
Polostan by Neal Stephenson

My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday

Brian’s last review of the year

it was ok
This isn’t a horrible book, it’s just not very relevant. A friend recommended it, so I read it.

Tl:dr; women have sexual fantasies

If you didn’t know that or need convincing then this book might help. But, if quite rationally, you already know this, then this book is very boring. I kept reading hoping it would present something like perhaps an analysis of types or frequency, but it doesn’t. It’s just lists of ladies writing in about what they fant
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