{"id":6507,"date":"2025-01-04T12:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T19:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=6507"},"modified":"2025-01-04T12:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T19:50:46","slug":"books-read-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/6507","title":{"rendered":"Books read in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s this year&#8217;s reading list for me, with my favorites in bold.<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Wonder Valley<\/em> by Ivy Pochoda<br \/>\n2. <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley<\/em> by Patricia Highsmith<br \/>\n3. <em>The Martians<\/em> by Kim Stanley Robinson<br \/>\n4. <em>Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community<\/em> by Wendell Berry<br \/>\n5. <em>Dawn to Dusk<\/em> by Will Troyer<br \/>\n6. <em>Lost in the Valley of Death<\/em> by Harley Rustad<br \/>\n7. <strong><em>Shantaram<\/em> by Gregory David Roberts<\/strong><br \/>\n8. <em>Into Brown Bear Country<\/em> by Will Troyer<br \/>\n9. <em>Cloistered<\/em> by Catherine Coldstream<br \/>\n10. <em>Siddhartha<\/em> by Hermann Hesse<br \/>\n11. <em>Out of the Woods<\/em> by Lynn Darling<br \/>\n12. <em>Almost Anywhere<\/em> by Krista Schlyer<br \/>\n13. <em>Walking the Americas<\/em> by Levison Wood<br \/>\n14. <strong><em>Termination Shock<\/em> by Neal Stephenson <\/strong><br \/>\n15. <em>The Years of Rice and Salt<\/em> by Kim Stanley Robinson<br \/>\n16. <strong><em>Mountains Beyond Mountains<\/em> by Tracy Kidder<\/strong><br \/>\n17. <em>Pescadero<\/em> by Hollis Brady<br \/>\n18. <em>Skeletons on the Zahara<\/em> by Dean King<br \/>\n19. <em>Kindred<\/em> by Octavia Butler<br \/>\n20. <em>Parable of the Sower<\/em> by Octavia Butler<br \/>\n21. <em>All You Can Ever Know<\/em> by Nicole Chung<br \/>\n22. <em>River Woman, River Demon<\/em> by Jennifer Givhan<br \/>\n23. <em>Fledgling<\/em> by Octavia Butler<br \/>\n24. <em>A Long Walk to Water<\/em> by Linda Sue Park<br \/>\n25. <em>The Vanished Birds<\/em> by Simon Jimenez<br \/>\n26. <em>Parable of the Talents<\/em> by Octavia Butler<br \/>\n27. <em>All Systems Red<\/em> by Martha Wells<br \/>\n28. <em>Artificial Condition<\/em> by Martha Wells<br \/>\n29. <em>The Singer&#8217;s Gun<\/em> by Emily St. John Mandel<br \/>\n30. <em>Rogue Protocol<\/em> by Martha Wells<br \/>\n31. <em>The Truth About Immigration<\/em> by Zeke Hernandez<br \/>\n32. <em>The Leavers<\/em> by Lisa Ko<br \/>\n33. <em>Prodigal Summer<\/em> by Barbara Kingsolver<br \/>\n34. <strong><em>The Comfort of Crows<\/em> by Margaret Renkl<\/strong><br \/>\n35. <em>Red Team Blues<\/em> by Cory Doctorow<br \/>\n36. <em>The Bezzle<\/em> by Cory Doctorow<br \/>\n37. <strong><em>Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout<\/em> by Philip Connors<\/strong><br \/>\n38. <em>On Earth We&#8217;re Briefly Gorgeous<\/em> by Ocean Vuong<br \/>\n39. <strong><em>Generosity: An Enhancement<\/em> by Richard Powers<\/strong><br \/>\n40. <em>Good Night, Irene<\/em> by Luis Alberto Urrea<br \/>\n41. <em>News of a Kidnapping<\/em> by Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez<br \/>\n42. <em>The Deluge<\/em> by Stephen Markley<br \/>\n43. <em>Long Distance<\/em> by Bill McKibben<br \/>\n44. <em>Reamde<\/em> by Neal Stephenson<br \/>\n45. <em>The Lincoln Highway<\/em> by Amor Towles<br \/>\n46. <em>A Gentleman in Moscow<\/em> by Amor Towles<br \/>\n47. <em>The Dark Hours<\/em> by Michael Connelly<br \/>\n48. <em>The Witch Elm<\/em> by Tana French<br \/>\n49. <em>Trespassing Across America<\/em> by Ken Ilgunas<br \/>\n50. <em>Outlandish<\/em> by Morgan Sjogren<br \/>\n51. <em>Rules of Civility<\/em> by Amor Towles<br \/>\n52. <em>Table for Two<\/em> by Amor Towles<br \/>\n53. <em>Playground<\/em> by Richard Powers<br \/>\n54. <em>Memoirs of a Military Wife<\/em> by Zola Stoltz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s this year&#8217;s reading list for me, with my favorites in bold. 1. 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