Best Books I Read in 2024
At the end of each year, I do a review reflecting on my personal favorite books I read in the past year. (See my full “My Year in Books: 2024” list on Goodreads.) I’ve picked my top 12 personal favorite reads from 2024. My goal was 45 books, but I managed to surpass my goal and read 50 books this year! Top 12 12. The Angel of Darkness by Caleb Carr. This is a sequel to The Alienist that continues the story of Dr. Laszlo Kreisler and his diverse set of detective cohorts in the early days of investigative forensics…
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Best Books I Read in 2023
At the end of each year, I do a write-up reflecting on my personal favorite books I read in the past year. (See my full “My Year in Books: 2023” list on Goodreads.) I’ve picked my top 12 personal favorite reads from 2023. My goal was 45 books, but I managed to surpass my goal and read 53 books! (One for each week of the year, plus one extra.) 12. A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang. A man returns to his homeland of China to search for his missing father. This book explores how the paths our…
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Best Books I Read in 2022
At the end of each year, I do a write-up reflecting on my personal favorite books I read in the past year. (See my full “My Year in Books: 2022” list on Goodreads.) As I have done the past few years, I’m picking my top 12 personal favorite reads from 2022. My goal was 40 books, but I managed to read 42 books total this year. (However, my total page count was about as much as my total of 45 last year because I read some longer books this year.) Though it is always difficult for me to rank favorite…
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Best Books I Read in 2021
At the end of each year, I do a write-up reflecting on my personal favorite books I read in the past year. (See my full “My Year in Books: 2021” list on Goodreads.) As I did last year, I’m picking my top 12 personal favorite reads from 2021. I read 45 books total this year, and though it is always hard for me to truly rank favorite books, these are 12 that stuck out the most in my memory from this past year. 12. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. This is a fun, escapist sci-fi novel with a wild…
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Best Books I Read in 2020
At the end of each year, I like to do a write-up reflecting on my personal favorite books I read in the past year. I’m happy to say that I surpassed my Goodreads goal of 45 and read 48 books this year. And though I read fewer books than last year (52), I read overall more pages than last year (close to 18,000 pages) See my full “My Year in Books” list here. Normally I pick my top 10 books, but this year I’m picking my top 12. It’s always hard for me to pick my top books of the…
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Best Books I Read in 2019
One of the things I like to do at the end of the year is to reflect on all the books I read. I challenged myself on Goodreads to read 40 books this past year. I ended up reading 52 (see my full list here)—one for each week of the year—so it was a really good year in reading for me. My top 10 personal favorite books that I read this year (if I had to choose): Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (I read this book in one afternoon it was so well-written, funny, and tragic all at the…
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William I. Overbeeke 