2024 Books

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This blog entry contains a list of the books I read or listened to in 2024. Links included for the summaries and notes if I added them to my site.

Books

Title Author(s) Summary
Hidden Potential Adam Grant Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn.


Audiobooks

Title Author(s) Summary
Going Postal Terry Pratchett Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet.
Caliban’s War James S. A. Corey In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance.
Extraterrestrial Avi Loeb Harvard’s top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star.
Abaddon’s Gate James S. A. Corey For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity’s great frontier.
All Systems Red Martha Wells In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids.
Death on the Nile Agatha Christie The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head
Artificial Condition Martha Wells It has a dark past–one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot.” But it has only vague memories of the massacre, it wants to know more.
Rogue Protocol Martha Wells SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering
Exit Strategy Martha Wells Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?
All Secure: One Delta Force Operator’s Fight From the Battlefield to the Homefront Tom Satterly, Steve Jackson As a senior non-commissioned officer of Delta Force, the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country’s most fearsome enemies.
Network Effect Martha Wells When Murderbot’s human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action.
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel James McBride In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well.