2024 Reading

A listing of the 100 books I read in 2024. Clicking on the image will take you to the Amazon (paid link) page for the book; clicking on the title will take you to my blog entry for the book.

100 Places to See After You Die — A Travel Guide to the Afterlife by Ken Jennings	U Up? by Catie Disabato	Road to Surrender — Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by Evan Thomas	Ha! — A Christian Philosophy of Humor by Peter Kreeft	Master of the Revels by Nicole Galland	Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving	Goldfinger by Ian Fleming	Insanity — The Idea and Its Consequences by Thomas Szasz	The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray	Milton Friedman — The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns	Time for the Stars by Robert A. Heinlein
Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais	Voters as Mad Scientists by Bryan Caplan	The Curse of Pietro Houdini by Derek B. Miller	Crack-Up Capitalism — Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian	“Whatever It Is, I’m Against It” — Resistance to Change in Higher Education by Brian Rosenberg	The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman	The World Itself — Consciousness and the Everything of Physics by Ulf Danielsson	The Cold Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty	The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn	Three-Inch Teeth by C. J. Box	American Anarchy — The Epic Struggle between Immigrant Radicals and the US Government at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century by Michael Willrich
The Individualists — Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism by Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi	Zero Days by Ruth Ware	A City on Mars — Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through? by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith	A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.	Orphans of the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein	All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby
The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights — The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance by David T. Beito	Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford	The Possibility of Life — Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green	The First Rule by Robert Crais	Material World — The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway	Secrets Typed in Blood by Stephen Spotswood
The Conservative Futurist — How to Create the Sci-Fi World We Were Promised by James Pethokoukis	Don't Turn Around by Harry Dolan	Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro	I Exaggerate — My Brushes with Fame by Kevin Nealon	Mythos — The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry	The Capitalist Manifesto — Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World by Johan Norberg
Determined — A Science of Life without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith	The Hunter by Tana French	Clete by James Lee Burke	City on Fire by Don Winslow	Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
Prom Mom by Laura Lippman	The Weirdness of the World by Eric Schwitzgebel	Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold	Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein	America's Revolutionary Mind — A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It by C. Bradley Thompson	The House of Love and Death by Andrew Klavan
Quanta and Fields — The Biggest Ideas in the Universe by Sean Carroll	The Wrong Stuff — How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned by John Strausbaugh	For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming	You Will Not Stampede Me — Essays on Non-Conformism by Bryan Caplan	My Planet — Finding Humor in the Oddest Places by Mary Roach	Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett
Why Buddhism is True — The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright	Playback by Raymond Chandler	The End of Race Politics — Arguments for a Colorblind America by Coleman Hughes	The Enigma of Room 622 by Joël Dicker	Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn	The Girl in Green by Derek B. Miller
Packing for Mars — The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach	Dueling Six Demons by Jim Geraghty	A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers	Democracy — A Guided Tour by Jason Brennan	Invisible — The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball	An Honorable Assassin by Steve Hamilton
The Sentry by Robert Crais	The Only One Left by Riley Sager	The Pursuit of Happiness — How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America by Jeffrey Rosen	Superabundance — The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet by Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley	Close to Death by Anthony Horowitz	When the Clock Broke — Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz
Time Enough For Love by Robert A. Heinlein	A Time to Build — From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream by Yuval Levin	Safe Enough — And Other Stories by Lee Child	The Singularity is Nearer — When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil	Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton	Why? — The Purpose of the Universe by Philip Goff
Fuzz — When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach	Happy — Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine by Derren Brown	The Lock-Up by John Banville	The Great Experiment — Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure by Yascha Mounk	The Waiting by Michael Connelly	Israel Alone by Bernard Henri Lévy
The Comfort of Monsters by Willa C. Richards	Taken by Robert Crais	Morning After the Revolution — Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History by Nellie Bowles	Murder Crossed Her Mind by Stephen Spotswood	Fossil Future — Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less by Alex Epstein	Polostan by Neal Stephenson
Thunderball by Ian Fleming	Table for Two by Amor Towles	How Life Works — A User’s Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball	Eurotrash — Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent by David Harsanyi