2024:
- The Wager
- Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
- Did America Have a Christian Founding (Mark David Hall)
- Competing Against Luck (Clayton Christensen)
- Housekeeping (Marilynn Robinson)
- Against the gods (Peter Bernstein)
- Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters
- The Abolition of Man (C.S. Lewis)
- Caesar (Colleen Mccullough) finishing today, doesn’t still count for 2024?!
2025
- Aubrey-Maturin series (aka Master and Commander)
2024 reread in school with my classes:
2024 in private:
2025:
I've wanted to read Life and Fate for a long time -- maybe Dostoevsky will kick me over the edge :)
Dostoyevsky is fucking great! Most people should read him and get their brains totally fucked!
let's effing go, what a list!
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Yes, he seems to have found the way in all the past and future years.
Reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, finally. For whatever reason I've bounced off twice before, hoping for a better outcome this time.
It's a great book that I think is often foisted on people way too young (my attempt to read it for a class in high school as an example).
"young" is when you think that by doing one thing - just one and only one little thing - your future will change. Just like Raskolnikov did.
Young means not having patience even if the whole Life is ahead. I do believe that Crime and Punishment is directly speaking to the hearts of young people.
Great choice. In my opinion reading that novel is a life changing experience. Enjoy
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I read the first seven books of Wheel of Time. In 2025, I hope to read the last seven.
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I long ago gave up trying to remember or record all my reading, but I'm thankful for threads like this to get more recommendations. Favorite book of '24 was probably Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.
i am halfway through this book and would put it in the top 10 fiction books i have read.
Really glad to hear that! It's one of those books I've pushed on so many people -- just so damned good.
@remindme in 4 hours
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it's awesome... I definitely overuse it, hoping I will get back to something I just quickly see on the phone
excellent reading list, it is an excellent proposal for 2025 for those who have not enjoyed a good book. i hope to see if in this time i can read a book that a friend recommended to me, which by the way only its first chapter reveals many incredible things about oneself. “The knight in rusty armor” I really recommend it. thanks for sharing. sats to all.
This is nice.
I will totally steal your idea and make a similar list as a separate post (+ descriptions and link to reviews).
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here we are, sir. Thank you for pushing me to make one of these lists
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Read Atlas Shrugged together with my wife, took us almost the whole year. That book is a fucking beast.
First on my list for 2025 is Abundance, Generosity, and the State: An Inquiry into Economic Principles by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
yeeeees.
That was an excellent one. Changed how I see a lot of non-monetary behavior between people (social/collective/community as still being economic)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-virtues-of-social-market-order-on-guido-hulsmanns-abundance-generosity-and-the-state/
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The most exited what I read in 2024 was Three Comrades - Erich Maria Remarque
This year I'm going to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Counted 22 books, and wrote my own thing about them:
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