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2024
My Year in Books
27,357
pages read
Jim
90
books read
Jim
My Dog Pulls. What Do I Do? by Turid Rugaas
Shortest Book
60
pages
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
Longest Book
716
pages
Average book length in 2024
303
pages
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Most Shelved
8,108,164
people also shelved
Understanding Chess Tactics by Martin Weteschnik
Least Shelved
399
people also shelved
Jim’s average rating for 2024
4.2
4.2
This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.56 average
The Great Leader by Jim Harrison

Jim’s first review of the year

First Harrison book I have read. Doing this as a combo of audio book and kindle from Libby.
JIM’S 2024 BOOKS
The Long Haul by Finn Murphy
The Great Leader by Jim Harrison
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Beyond Weird by Philip Ball
Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
it was amazing
Hungry by Jeff Gordinier
The Great Leader by Jim Harrison
The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg
Quantum Supremacy by Michio Kaku
The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink
It's Better to Be Feared by Seth Wickersham
The Long Haul by Finn Murphy
it was amazing
What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
Hidden Potential by Adam M. Grant
Labyrinths of Reason by William Poundstone
How We Learn by Benedict Carey
The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
F in Exams by Richard Benson
Sous Chef by Michael Gibney
The Fatherland Files by Volker Kutscher
Summerlong by Dean Bakopoulos
Finding Zero by Amir D. Aczel
Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage
How Big Things Get Done by Bent Flyvbjerg
it was amazing
Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
Elastic by Leonard Mlodinow
Slow Horses by Mick Herron
Understanding Chess Tactics by Martin Weteschnik
it was amazing
The Bible by Anonymous
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The 99% Invisible City by Roman Mars
Dead Lions by Mick Herron
We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole
Fire Season by Philip Connors
The Trackers by Charles Frazier
Loonshots by Safi Bahcall
Morning After the Revolution by Nellie Bowles
My Dog Pulls. What Do I Do? by Turid Rugaas
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
On Talking Terms with Dogs by Turid Rugaas
it was amazing
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Radio Free Vermont by Bill McKibben
How to Raise the Perfect Dog by Cesar Millan
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Rental Person Who Does Nothing by Shoji Morimoto
Barking, the Sound of a Language by Turid Rugaas
it was amazing
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
At the Edge of Uncertainty by Michael Brooks
How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley
More from Less by Andrew McAfee
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
The Wisdom of Psychopaths by Kevin Dutton
Independence Square by Martin Cruz Smith
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon by Joseph Mitchell
Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Old Mr. Flood by Joseph Mitchell
Farsighted by Steven Johnson
Man in Profile by Thomas Kunkel
it was amazing
The Bottom of the Harbor by Joseph Mitchell
Messy by Tim Harford
Joe Gould's Teeth by Jill Lepore
The New Urban Crisis by Richard Florida
This Is Water by David Foster Wallace
it was amazing
Factfulness by Hans Rosling
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
The Witch Hunter by Max Seeck
Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat by Paul Halpern
MAKING RENT BED STUY by Brandon Harris
Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
Fortunate Son by John Fogerty
New Yorkers by Craig Taylor
it was amazing
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
American Flannel by Steven Kurutz
Reality is Not What it Seems by Carlo Rovelli
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Damien Lewis
Murakami T by Haruki Murakami
When Einstein Walked with Gödel by Jim Holt
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

Jim’s last review of the year

Source: Libby E-book,Audiobook
Notes on Kindle to be Published
in Process
I understand this is considered to be the book in the Rat series number 4, I read the wild sheep chase (?) number 3 years ago. This is holding my interest as a Libby audiobook and wonder where it is going to lead.
2024 Reading Challenge Img rccompleted
2024 READING
CHALLENGE
Jim read 90 out of 30 books.
 
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