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2024
My Year in Books
18,276
pages read
58
books read


A Shining by Jon Fosse
Shortest Book
48
pages
Complete Stories 1874–1884 by Henry James
Longest Book
941
pages

Average book length in 2024
315
pages

MACBETH by William Shakespeare
Most Shelved
1,680,859
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Maurice to Temple by Maurice B. Reckett
Least Shelved
0
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Justin’s average rating for 2024
4.0
4.0

Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and the Mind of Modern China by Joseph Richmond Levenson
Highest Rated on 카지노싸이트
4.60 average

Partisans by Nicole Hemmer

Justin’s first review of the year

liked it
A breezy, journalistic look at some of the Great Men (also women, but women who reject the idea that you should include 'women' in your grammar or language, so, sic) of 90s right wing politics and media trolling, but with surprisingly little in the way of analysis or argument. Hemmer does a good job of highlighting just how much of Trump's politics is a re-hash of stuff from earlier eras of the Republican party--especially Buchanan, but really, m ...more

JUSTIN’S 2024 BOOKS
Partisans by Nicole Hemmer
The New Animals by Pip Adam
Complete Stories 1874–1884 by Henry James
it was amazing
The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, The Broken Heart and '... by John      Webster
From Luddism to the First Reform Bill by J.R. Dinwiddy
The Blazing World by Jonathan Healey
The Power Worshippers by Katherine Stewart
Trust the Plan by Will Sommer
MACBETH by William Shakespeare
Japan by Tetsuo Najita
Maurice to Temple by Maurice B. Reckett
The Origins of American Politics by Bernard Bailyn
Assembly by Natasha   Brown
Snow Country & Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
The Restless Republic by Anna Keay
it was amazing
Conservatism in Early American History by Leonard W. Labaree
On Democracy by Robert A. Dahl
The Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata
The Destructionists by Dana Milbank
The Lamp of Experience. Whig History and the Intellectual Ori... by Trevor Colbourn
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
it was amazing
The Beloved Vision by Stephen Walsh
An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy
The Invention of China by Bill Hayton
Dead Lions by Mick Herron
Mr Ma and Son by Lao She
it was amazing
American Visions by Edward L. Ayers
House of Wits by Paul Fisher
Freedom by Annelien de Dijn
Maigret's Failure by Georges Simenon
Sound Within Sound by Kate Molleson
Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli
Maigret in Vichy by Georges Simenon
Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and the Mind of Modern China by Joseph Richmond Levenson
A History of Chinese Political Thought by Youngmin Kim
Real Tigers by Mick Herron
it was amazing
The Oxford History of Modern China by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
The Jeffersonian Persuasion by Lance Banning
The Haves and the Have-Nots by Branko Milanović
A Shining by Jon Fosse
Spy Story by Len Deighton
The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
The Economic Government of the World by Martin Daunton
Slavery by Page duBois
The Liar by Martin A. Hansen
John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy by Luke Mayville
The Reactionary Spirit by Zack Beauchamp
Cop Killer by Maj Sjöwall
it was amazing
Epitaph for a Spy by Eric Ambler
The Looking Glass War by John Le Carré
Maigret and the Nahour Case by Georges Simenon
The Makioka Sisters by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
it was amazing
Spook Street by Mick Herron
The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Justin’s last review of the year

it was amazing
Not much to say- it is that good. The fact that Mann went on to write Magic Mountain and Dr Faustus, among others, is staggering. Here he created a range of characters, generally unsympathetic, and as boring as people usually are. But just as in real life, you come to care about them and wish them well. As the subtitle of the novel suggests, it doesn't really work out for anyone. The translation is wonderful- transparent but also just a tiny bit ...more
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