2024 Reading Challenge

[feliks]

1. Aristotle- Nicomachean Ethics
2. Jack London- In the Wild & 3. White Fang
4. Kobo Abe- Secret Rendezvous
5. Kyle Chayka- The Longing For Less
6. Catullus- Poems
7. Montaigne- Essays
8. Dashiell Hammett- The Glass Key
9. Joan Didion- The Year of Magical Thinking
10. Borges- Selected Non-Fiction
11. Jean-Patrick Manchette- Fatale

Currently reading Egil's Saga and Mishima's Confessions of a Mask

 

[Fueco]

6. 2034: A Novel Of The Next World War, by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stabridis

US versus China, with a side of Iran vs Russia. This is a reasonably well written story, mercifully short on technical details.

9. 2054, by Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis

Twenty years later, the US is on the verge of collapse.

 

[Fueco]

10. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt

 

[ppk]

10. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, by Jonathan Haidt

Listened to him on the Hard Fork podcast and he is impressive. This is on my list as well.

 

[Fueco]

Listened to him on the Hard Fork podcast and he is impressive. This is on my list as well.

His books are all very well written. This one hits pretty close to home, as our older kids are beginning to show signs of addiction to screens.

 

[ppk]

His books are all very well written. This one hits pretty close to home, as our older kids are beginning to show signs of addiction to screens.

Same. Our youngest was hit hard by anxiety and depression. She is just recovering after 4-5 years.

 

[Oswald Cornelius]

Listened to him on the Hard Fork podcast and he is impressive. This is on my list as well.

He's making the rounds on the pods.-was on Conversations with Tyler (Cowen) this week. Another book in a similar vein is Abigail Shrier's new one, Bad Therapy.