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2024
My Year in Books
18,183
pages read
Ali
65
books read
Ali
The Last Jews of Penang by Zayn Gregory
Shortest Book
40
pages
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Longest Book
720
pages
Average book length in 2024
279
pages
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Most Shelved
5,055,285
people also shelved
The geology and mineral resources of the Pensiangan and upper... by Peter Collenette
Least Shelved
0
people also shelved
Ali’s average rating for 2024
3.5
3.5
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.75 average
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

Ali’s first review of the year

it was amazing
i want to give ruth ozeki a hug, even though the book-benny dynamic was a bit awkward at points
ALI’S 2024 BOOKS
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
it was amazing
Night Philosophy by Fanny Howe
Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna by Nāgārjuna
The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
The Last Jews of Penang by Zayn Gregory
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series by D.T. Suzuki
Grief by Michael Cholbi
The Child Who by Jeanne Benameur
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
it was amazing
Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
Tao Te Ching by John H. McDonald
Qur’an and Cricket by Farish A. Noor
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Hegemony Now by Alex Williams
Under Milk Wood, The Definitive Edition by Dylan Thomas
At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell
Ecology, Community and Lifestyle by Arne Næss
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
Contesting Earth's Future by Michael E. Zimmerman
really liked it
Debating Education by Harry Brighouse
On Living And Dying by J. Krishnamurti
Reflections of a Zen Buddhist Nun by Kim Iryop
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Concerning My Daughter by Hye-Jin Kim
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Women and Buddhist Philosophy by Jin Y. Park
Darkening Blackness by Norman Ajari
really liked it
Haféz by Haleh Pourafzal
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
God Is Dead, There Is No God by Allama Prabhu
It's a Continent by Astrid Madimba
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad
Babel by R.F. Kuang
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
You Have Not Yet Been Defeated by Alaa Abd El-Fattah
it was amazing
The Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
To the Wedding by John Berger
The Girl from Aleppo by Nujeen Mustafa
Curious Affinities by Sophie Chauhan
The Ladybird Book of the Hangover by Jason A. Hazeley
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
it was amazing
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Awful German Language / Die schreckliche deutsche Sprache by Mark Twain
The geology and mineral resources of the Pensiangan and upper... by Peter Collenette
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
A Short History of Malaysia by Virginia Matheson Hooker
Growing Up in British Malaya and Singapore by Maurice Baker
The Women of the Far Right by Eviane Leidig
What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
Explaining Technology by Roger Koppl
Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel de Unamuno
Why We Work by Barry Schwartz
The Nature of Technology by W. Brian Arthur
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland / Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
it was amazing
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine by Jeff Halper
Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Aaron Swartz
it was amazing
Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth

Ali’s last review of the year

need to check out whats going on on doughnuteconomics.org
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