2024 Reading List

02025-01-05 | Book, List, Reading | 3 comments

  1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
  2. Doppelganger – Naomi Klein
  3. Breaking Bread with the Dead – Alan Jacob
  4. The Little Drummer Girl – John LeCarré
  5. The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse – Red Pine and Stonehouse
  6. Master Dogen’s Zazen Meditation Handbook – Eihei Dogen
  7. Zen – the First Thousand Years – Red Pine
  8. Stonehouse’s Poems for Zen Monks – Red Pine
  9. Trusting the Mind – Red Pine
  10. Breath – James Nestor
  11. Double or Nothing – Kim Sherwood
  12. A Spy Like Me – Kim Sherwood
  13. Movement Matters – Katy Bowman
  14. Red Team Blues – Cory Doctorov
  15. The Bezzle – Cory Doctorov
  16. Listen – Michael Faber
  17. Slow Horses (#1) – Mike Herron
  18. Dead Lions (#2) – Mike Herron
  19. The List (#2.5) – Mike Herron
  20. Real Tigers (#3) – Mike Herron
  21. Joe Country (#6) – Mike Herron
  22. London Rules (#5) – Mike Herron
  23. Spook Street (#4) – Mike Herron
  24. Slough House (#7) – Mike Herron
  25. Bad Actors (#8) – Mike Herron
  26. Standing by the Wall – Mike Herron
  27. A Tale for the Time Being – Ruth Ozeki
  28. The Singularity – Dino Buzzati
  29. Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
  30. Work – Robert A. Caro
  31. Playground – Richard Powers
  32. Karla’s Choice – Nick Harkaway
  33. Die Herzlichkeit der Vernunft – Ferdinand Von Schirach & Alexander Kluge
  34. To Catch a Thief – David Dodge
  35. The Dawn of Everything – David Graeber & David Wengrow
  36. And the Roots of Rhythm Remain – Joe Boyd

Books I especially enjoyed appear in bold type. Of those 36 books 2 were audiobooks, 3 were paper books, and the rest were ebooks. 18 of the books were borrowed from the public library.

3 Comments

  1. Steve

    For 2025, as one recommendation: Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity, by Byung-Chul Han.

    You might appreciate it more in German (since the author wrote it in German originally) by the title Vita contemplativa: oder von der Untätigkeit | Eine Kritik an unserer Leistungsgesellschaft

    (Since I cannot read German, I had to read the translation.)

    I think you would appreciate the author’s thesis in either case.

    Reply
    • ottmar

      Thanks Steve. I found the German version on Kindle. Judging by the first few pages it’ll be a nice companion to “The Dawn of Everything”.

      Reply
      • Steve

        I’m very interested in what you think after you are done.

        Hope you find it interesting and engaging.

        Reply

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