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2024
My Year in Books
21,311
pages read
115
books read


A Sign of the Times by Joe Hill
Shortest Book
11
pages
The Big Book of Cyberpunk by Jared Shurin
Longest Book
1,116
pages

Average book length in 2024
185
pages

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
Most Shelved
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Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 219, December 2024 by Neil Clarke
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Kam Yung’s average rating for 2024
3.4
3.4

The Unwanted Guest by Tamsyn Muir
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.63 average

The Big Book of Cyberpunk by Jared Shurin

Kam Yung’s first review of the year

really liked it
Note: This is a summary, as a review of each of the stories may be too long for Goodreads to hold. The full review can be read at my website [ https://sohkamyung.github.io/reviews/... ].

A fabulous anthology of stories centred around the genre of Cyberpunk, as seen by the editor. The stories here centre around technology and its possible effects on people and society and range in style from contemporary to the more ‘punkish’ which involve a lot of
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KAM YUNG’S 2024 BOOKS
The Big Book of Cyberpunk by Jared Shurin
Nobody's Fool by Daniel Simons
How Life Works by Philip Ball
it was amazing
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 208, January 2024 by Neil Clarke
The Warped Side of Our Universe by Kip S. Thorne
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 209, February 2024 by Neil Clarke
White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link
Nuts and Bolts by Roma Agrawal
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Winter 2024 by Sheree Renée Thomas
The Wild Robot by Peter  Brown
really liked it
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 210, March 2024 by Neil Clarke
The Wild Robot Escapes by Peter  Brown
The Wild Robot Protects by Peter  Brown
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
More Voices from the Radium Age by Joshua Glenn
What It Means To Be A Car by James Patrick Kelly
The City Born Great by N.K. Jemisin
Headhunting by Rich  Larson
The Three O’Clock Dragon by John Wiswell
The Job at the End of the World by Ray Nayler
The Tale of Clancy the Scrivener by Ramsey Shehadeh
really liked it
Form 8774-D by Alex Irvine
Not the Most Romantic Thing by Carrie Vaughn
Tales of the Celestial Kingdom by Sue Lynn Tan
The Canadian Miracle by Cory Doctorow
Sun River by Nisi Shawl
The Best of World SF by Lavie Tidhar
Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal by Lavie Tidhar
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 211, April 2024 by Neil Clarke
The Sound of Reindeer by Lyndsie Manusos
Morphotrophic by Greg Egan
The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
The River Judge by S.L. Huang
Crossings by Ben  Goldfarb
it was amazing
Nine Billion Turing Tests by Chris Willrich
Tales from the Loop by Simon Stålenhag
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 212, May 2024 by Neil Clarke
Blue Machine by Helen Czerski
it was amazing
Bubbles by Helen Czerski
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
On the Fox Roads by Nghi Vo
Also, the Cat by Rachel Swirsky
Liminal Spaces by Maureen F. McHugh
The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
A Well-Fed Companion by Congyun "Mu Ming" Gu
Blackjack by Veronica Schanoes
You Don't Belong Where You Don't Belong by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
The Book of Doors by Gareth  Brown
it was amazing
Instar by Karen Heuler
Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale by Kathleen Jennings
Between Home and a House on Fire by A.T. Greenblatt
Median by Kelly Robson
Evan by Jordan Kurella
Other Kelly by Genevieve Valentine
Ivy, Angelica, Bay by C.L. Polk
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 213, June 2024 by Neil Clarke
Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
really liked it
St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid by C.L. Polk
The Labyrinth by Simon Stålenhag
Quantum Computing for Everyone by Chris Bernhardt
Jumpnauts by Hao Jingfang
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
Reduce! Reuse! Recycle! by T.J. Klune
A View from the Stars by Cixin Liu
The Plasticity of Being by Renan Bernardo
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 214, July 2024 by Neil Clarke
True Names by Vernor Vinge
The Chinese Computer by Thomas S. Mullaney
it was amazing
The Mausoleum's Children by Aliette de Bodard
Danger and Other Unknown Risks by Ryan North
The Fall of Númenor by J.R.R. Tolkien
"You Are Not Expected to Understand This" by Torie Bosch
Breathing Constellations by Rich Larson
Semiosis by Sue Burke
Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
really liked it
Oliver's Great Big Universe by Jorge Cham
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 215, August 2024 by Neil Clarke
Goblins & Greatcoats by Travis Baldree
Pages to Fill by Travis Baldree
The Formidable Miss Cassidy by Meihan Boey
A Sign of the Times by Joe Hill
Immortal, Invisible by Tade Thompson
The Small Hands of Chokedamp by Josiah Bancroft
really liked it
White Horse, Red Fruit by Kat Howard
The Alice Run by Nancy Kress
Why Machines Learn by Anil Ananthaswamy
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
Birth of the Shinkansen by Tetsuo Shimomae
The Hexologists by Josiah Bancroft
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 216, September 2024 by Neil Clarke
The Unwanted Guest by Tamsyn Muir
Voyage of the Damned by Frances   White
Waves in an Impossible Sea by Matt Strassler
really liked it
The Gulmohar of Mehranpur by Amal Singh
The Angel's Share by Martin Cahill
Set in Stone by K.J. Parker
I'll Miss Myself by John Wiswell
Spill by Cory Doctorow
Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 217, October 2024 by Neil Clarke

The Backyard Bird Chronicles by Amy Tan

Kam Yung’s last review of the year

really liked it
A lovely book filled with observations of birds that the author sees in her backyard. Those with an interesting in bird watching, natural history or nature observation will find much to enjoy in the author's notes on the birds she sees and the observations she makes about their behaviour.

The notes cover a period of years, including during the COVID-19 lockdown and mainly covers what she does (like putting up feed for the birds), what the birds do
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