2,400 Books
Note: If you found this page via a stamp from a book you grabbed from a Little Free Library, say hello in a comment or via email! Especially if you found the book outside of Connecticut!
I love lists and when I turned 50 in 2022, I began more seriously reading book lists that interest me. (My wife Hoang and I started reading the 121 books on the Modern Library Top 100 English Language Novels of the 20th Century list in 2000 though.) Some of my lists are of my own creation, pulling from tons of “best of” lists and pulling out those that appeared the most/highest, and others are from respected outlets. There are around 2,400 books in all – a ridiculous number of course – but when I die I want to be able to say I read some of the best books of the genres I like.
I maintain a large and frankly beautiful Google Sheet with all of my book lists and tallies and data and short reviews and… I love it. It gives me joy and peace. Inter-library loans, Libby, thrift stores, used book stores, little free libraries… most of what I want to read can be found one way or another.
The latest month’s reading recap
Top 5 Books I Read in 2022
Top 5 Books I Read in 2023
Top 5 Books I Read in 2024
Connecticut book reviews are over here and here’s my Goodreads which has no actual reviews I’m afraid. But you can be my friend there I guess.
At the end of 2024, here’s where I was:
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