2024 End of Year Booklist

This was a surprisingly busy year, and I didn’t get to read as much as I wanted. I changed jobs at the end of 2023, picking up the Bioinformatics R&D team at IDT and then in mid-2024, I moved to the VP R&D position at IDT. I also moved from Indiana to Colorado to work from the IDT Boulder office. Finally, with that move I joined my partner, Nicole.

I read a few books on retirement, but I didn’t find any of them especially notworthy and omitted them from this list. I’m in the early stages of retirement planning, so I wanted to know if there would be surprises or if people had good advice. I got very little from these books.

Of the books on my list, I enjoyed them all. I wasn’t excited enough about The Three-Body Problem and Shards of the Earth to continue with them, though. I recommend the others.

I am hoping to read more in 2025 with a goal to explore moral philosophy.

Nonfiction

• The Road to Character by David Brooks
• The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
• Make it Clear: Speak and Write to Persuade and Inform by Patrick Winston
• The Lords of Easy Money by Christopher Leonard

Fiction

• Shards of the Earth: Volume 1 by Adrian Tchaikovsky
• Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
• The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
• The Three-Body Problem Book 1 by Cixin Liu