What I Read In 2024

I managed to read 18 books in 2024, which is a few more than in 2023, though I didn't make my goal of two books a month. I tried to read more but the chaotic news cycle kept stealing my attention and ongoing deterioration in my vision has slowed down my reading speed. 

These are the books I read in 2024:

• Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross. The second book in his New Management trilogy, which is a sequel to his Laundry Files series.
  
• Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 by Rich Horton
• Season of Skulls by Charles Stross. Third book in the New Management trilogy.
• Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 by Rich Horton. I do need to catch up on my short fiction reading. I am trying to read one anthology from each year. 
• The Fallow Orbits by Karl Schroeder. YA SF self published on his Unapocalyptic blog.
• The Road To Dune by Brian Herbert. Stories and essays about the genesis of Dune.
• Hopeland by Ian McDonald. My favourite book of the year. Mentioned on this post.
• It's Real Life by Paul Levinson. Reviewed on this post. 
• The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow. A thriller about forensic accounting. 
• Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow. Sequel to The Bezzle.
• Babel by R. F. Kuang. Book at the centre of a controversy about the 2023 Hugo awards. I didn't finish it. 
• Inhibitor Phase by Alastair Reynolds. Another book in his Revelation Space series. Reviewed on this post.
• Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen: The scariest book I've read in a long time.
• Starter Villain by John Scalzi. I liked this enough that a couple of friends got a copy for Christmas. Reviewed on this post.
• The Wages of Sin by Harry Turtledove. Reviewed on this post.
• Tropic of Kansas bu Christopher Brown. Grim but very readable.
• To Turn the Tide by S. M. Stirling. First book in a time travel trilogy. I liked it.
• Rule of Capture by Christopher Brown. A dystopian legal thriller by the author of The Secret Life of Empty Lots.

As usual, most of the books I read were science fiction. I get my non-fiction from magazines (via the library's Libby app), online subscriptions to newspapers (currently The New York Times, Washington Post, Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star), and email newsletters. All my reading is on devices. I've mostly abandoned my Kindle Paperwhite because it doesn't have enough contrast and I have trouble with the white background. Dark mode is my friend.