What did you read in 2024? What’s on the list for 2025? \ stacker news ~BooksAndArticles

203 sats \ 5 replies \ @Shugard 1 Jan

2024 reread in school with my classes:

1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson

2024 in private:

Build Baby Build by Bryan Caplan
Of Parents and Children by Jorge and Demian Bucay
Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson
The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous
Better Money by Lawrence H. White
Broken Money by Lyn Alden (finished, started in 2023)
The Struggle for a Better World by Peter J Boettke
Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids by Bryan Caplan (not jet finished)

2025:

Life and Fate Vasily Grossman
We Who Wrestle with God by Jordan Peterson
Tiki: Modern Tropical Cocktails by Shannon Mustipher

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 1 Jan

let's effing go, what a list!

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 1 Jan

I've wanted to read Life and Fate for a long time -- maybe Dostoevsky will kick me over the edge :)

48 sats \ 0 replies \ @Shugard 1 Jan

Dostoyevsky is fucking great! Most people should read him and get their brains totally fucked!

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @brandonsbytes OP 1 Jan

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Shugard 1 Jan

Yes, he seems to have found the way in all the past and future years.

55 sats \ 4 replies \ @elvismercury 1 Jan

Reading Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, finally. For whatever reason I've bounced off twice before, hoping for a better outcome this time.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 1 Jan

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).

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Myshkin 1 Jan

"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.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Myshkin 1 Jan

Great choice. In my opinion reading that novel is a life changing experience. Enjoy

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes OP 1 Jan

read it when I was 15. liked it. but only remember the impression of it. I hope one day I’ll have a Dostoevsky year. 2023 was a year of Dickens and Austin and that was great.

47 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 1 Jan

I read the first seven books of Wheel of Time. In 2025, I hope to read the last seven.

38 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes OP 1 Jan

I haven’t done those yet. But, I hear good things. Maybe it’ll be on my 2026. I have the Pendragon Cycle series on my shelf too waiting for me.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Miranda 2 Jan

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.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 1 Jan

This is nice.

I will totally steal your idea and make a similar list as a separate post (+ descriptions and link to reviews).

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes OP 1 Jan

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @02a9a61fdc 1 Jan

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

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 1 Jan

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.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 1 Jan

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

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @denlillaapan 1 Jan

@remindme in 4 hours

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @brandonsbytes OP 1 Jan

Hadn’t seen remindme bot before. that’s fun!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 1 Jan

it's awesome... I definitely overuse it, hoping I will get back to something I just quickly see on the phone