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2024 in the Books

A bunch of things I read in 2024.

'Salem's Lot
'Salem's Lot
Stephen King
Affliction
Affliction
Russell Banks
The Alchemy of Us
The Alchemy of Us
How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
Ainissa Ramirez
American gods
American gods
Neil Gaiman
The Big Short
The Big Short
Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
Black mass
Black mass
the true story of an unholy alliance between the FBI, and the Irish mob
Dick Lehr
Calling Bullshit
Calling Bullshit
The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
Carl T. Bergstrom
Catching the Big Fish
Catching the Big Fish
Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
David Lynch
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
Stephen King
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
Stephen King
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
Stephen King
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
Stephen King
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
Stephen King
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
Stephen King
Distrust that particular flavor
Distrust that particular flavor
William Gibson
The Drop
The Drop
Dennis Lehane
The Everything War
The Everything War
Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power
Dana Mattioli
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
Scott J. Shapiro
Genius Makers
Genius Makers
The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
Cade Metz
Guest in the House
Guest in the House
Emily Carroll
Hank Show
Hank Show
How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives
McKenzie Funk
Homo deus
Homo deus
a brief history of tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
Killing sacred cows
Killing sacred cows
overcoming the financial myths that are destroying your prosperity
Garrett B. Gunderson
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli
The Epic Story of the Making of the Godfather
Mark Seal
Mother night
Mother night
Kurt Vonnegut
Nexus
Nexus
A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari
Nuclear War
Nuclear War
A Scenario
Annie Jacobsen
The prestige
The prestige
Christopher Priest
Quantum Supremacy
Quantum Supremacy
How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
Michio Kaku
Revenge of the nerd, or, ... The singular adventures of the man who would be Booger
Revenge of the nerd, or, ... The singular adventures of the man who would be Booger
a memoir
Curtis Armstrong
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
Jessica Pan
Super Squats
Super Squats
How to Gain 30 Pounds of Muscle in 6 Weeks
Randall J. Strossen (Ph.D.)
The Switch
The Switch
Elmore Leonard
What the dormouse said
What the dormouse said
how the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry
John Markoff
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
The Origins Of The Internet
Katie Hafner