Been a year of re-reads and some classics I never started b/c of thickness. Standouts for me were “A Tale of Two Cities” and “Norwegian Wood.”

“Kafka on The Shore”, “Norwegian Wood” - Haruki Murakami

“A Tale of Two Cities” - Dickens

“Count of Monte Cristo” - Alexandre Dumas

LotR, “Hobbit” - Tolkien

“World Atlas of Coffee” - James Hoffmann

“Anathem”, “Diamond Age”, “Termination Shock” - Neal Stephenson

“A Timeless Way of Building” - Christopher Alexander

“Where The Wizards Stay Up Late” - Lyon

“Fahrenheit 451” - Ray Bradbury

“Slaughterhouse V” - Kurt Vonnegut

“Neuromancer”/Sprawl trilogy - William Gibson

Plus an assortment of business, systems thinking, and tech related books that were “fine”, but none that really left me with much to chew on afterwards.

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kylecazar 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

A Tale of Two Cities was a reread for me, last year though! I hadn't read it since high school.

I don't know if it's because I read it on my own volition or I had more life experience, but I definitely appreciated it more the second time around. Madame Defarge is one hell of a character.

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s0rr0wskill 8 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How much do you read weekly? This is an impressive amount of stuff

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czhu12 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I envy your reading abilities

	▲	mrexroad an hour ago \| parent [-]
		FWIW, I’m mildly dyslexic and likely read slower than most. This year I’ve made it a goal to un-do many of the coping strategies I’d developed over the years to keep pace, and instead really focus on stopping and looking up phonetics for words I couldn’t easily sight (kindle is clutch here). On the plus, it also means I’ve had to become rather deliberate about what I read and when I read it — HN, newspapers, and Reddit all took back seat this year (and I couldn't be happier).