My favorite books of 2024

Let's talk books (again!)

Let’s Talk Books will be returning in 2025 on an occasional basis. In the meantime, here are the books I read in 2024, ranked.

Philosophy

1. On Liberty and The Subjection of Women (Post)

2. Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization (Post)

3. The Annotated Kant: Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (Post)

4. The View from Nowhere (Post)

5. De Anima (Post)

6. Interpreting Avicenna (Post)

History

1. The Italian Renaissance (Post)

2. Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt (Post)

3. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (Post)

4. The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change (Post)

5. Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Post)

6. The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game (Post)

7. The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics (Post)

Literature

1. The Poetry of Petrarch (Post)

2. Mumbo Jumbo (Post)

3. How to Read a Japanese Poem (Post)

4. Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus: Excerpts from His Talks, 1949-1962 (Post)

5. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays (Post)

6. Parable of the Sower (Post)

7. Zorro: A Novel (Post)

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