luisvilla's
2024
Reading Wrap-Up

Books by new authors

The Actual Star by Monica Byrne

The Actual Star

Monica Byrne

610 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction science fiction speculative fiction adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie

The Murder on the Links

Hercule Poirot #2

Agatha Christie

228 pages • first pub 1923 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery mysterious medium-paced
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Hercule Poirot #1

Agatha Christie

190 pages • first pub 1920 (editions)

fiction classics crime mystery mysterious medium-paced
The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times by Adrienne Mayor

The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times

Adrienne Mayor

361 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)

luisvilla's review
nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
The Rosewater Insurrection by Tade Thompson

The Rosewater Insurrection

The Wormwood Trilogy #2

Tade Thompson

416 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction fantasy science fiction adventurous challenging slow-paced
A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

448 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

luisvilla's review
nonfiction politics science funny informative medium-paced
For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink by Sarah Rose

For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World's Favourite Drink

Sarah Rose

261 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative medium-paced
My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel

My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind

Scott Stossel

416 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction memoir psychology hopeful informative reflective slow-paced
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind by Dan Davies

The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind

Dan Davies

304 pages • first pub 2025 (editions)

nonfiction economics politics
Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future by Pedro Iniguez
Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future
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Pedro Iniguez

Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future

Pedro Iniguez

missing page info • missing pub info (editions)

medium-paced