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From: Sam Whited <sam@samwhited.com>
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Subject: Re: What are the best books you've read in 2024?
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 08:15:47 -0500
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On 2024-12-14 02:51, Steve Hayes wrote:
> What are the best books you've read in 2024?

Oh fun! I'm tentatively dipping my toes back into usenet after many 
years away (last time it was just too unmoderated, but I haven't posted 
in this group before I don't think, so we'll see!), so I'll play! No 
ratings on mine, but here are my favorite 10 books from this year in no 
particular order:


- "A Psalm for the Wild-Built" / "A Prayer for the Crown-Shy" by Becky 
Chambers (these are novellas in a series of two, so we'll just call them 
one book since they're short and the second picks up right where the 
first left off)
- "The Player of Games" by Ian M. Banks
- "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- "Record of a Spaceborn Few" by Becky Chambers"
- "Heaven and Earth Grocery Store" by James McBride
- "Bicycling with Butterflies" by Sara Dykman
- "Blood in the Machine" by Brian Merchant
- "The Terraformers" by Annalee Newitz
- "The Light Pirate" by Lily Brooks-Dalton
- "The Lost Cause" by Cory Doctorow