Last year, this post was a way for me to list out all the books I’ve read in one place. This year, I already have all the books I’ve read in one place - the bookshelf page.

Even though that listing part is not there, the looking back at the year in reading part is still there.

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I have read 37 books this year - which is more than double the 16 I had last year. That’s good. Somewhere mid-year I had not thought I would even reach the sixteen I had reached last year.

I used to do my reading while I travelled from and to work. I used to read in the metro. At home, it was difficult to read. Then, I bought a car sometime in May and the time I had to read while I travelled went away.

For the next two-three months, I did not read anything. Then I thought - let’s give audiobooks a chance. I downloaded Audible - got subscribed to premium and started listening to books.

This was weird for me. Reading books is reading books. You are doing something while you are reading. You are engaging with the text. Your brain is dreaming up scenarios, how things would look.

Listening is a bit passive. You are not really doing anything. You are just listening. I had this thought in my head that it was not the same. I would be doing less, somehow. And I don’t reread books. So it felt like I would miss out on reading the book for the first time, if I used a audiobook.

The first book I tried was in fact badly done and so I found more reason to not do it. Then, I tried again, this time with - Abundance: How We Build a Better Future. And I found myself coming around to audiobooks.

I realised reading some books as audiobooks is better than reading nothing. And wanting for the perfect time and method to come. That does not happen. We make do with what we have. Our condition does not change, we change.

And I changed.

This was the year I embraced audio books.

A majority of the books I’ve read this year have been audiobooks - 20/34.

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I love my bookshelf page. I keep coming back to it again and again. I love looking at the books I’m reading, books I’ve read and so on. The bookshelf page does not have a list of all the books I’ve read, just the books I’ve read since I started taking notes on books.

I may try to get some of the books from goodreads. Maybe I will. Maybe not. Everything requires work. There are just so many hours in a day.

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Some stats

Because who does not like some stats?

Format	Count
Audio	21
ebook	7
hardcover	6
paperback	3
Grand Total	37

Rating	Count
like	30
love	6
nope	1
Grand Total	37

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Here’s a list of the books I’ve read this year:

Fiction

1. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within
2. Men Without Women
3. The three-body problem
4. The dark forest
5. Death’s End
6. All Systems Red
7. Artificial Condition
8. Rogue Protocol
9. Exit Strategy
10. Network Effect
11. Children of Time
12. The mysterious affair at Styles
13. The life of Chuck
14. The secret of secrets
15. Children of ruin
16. Before the coffee gets cold
17. When the moon hits your eye
18. Children of memory
19. This is how you lose the time war
20. Two nights in Lisbon

Non-fiction

1. What Technology Wants
2. Abundance How We Build a Better Future
3. Range
4. Nexus
5. Time management for system administrators
6. Same as Ever
7. Slow Productivity
8. Enshittification
9. Every day I read
10. On tennis
11. Empire of AI
12. Steal like an artist
13. Show your work
14. Keep Going
15. Helsinki by sauna
16. The art of spending money
17. Ernest Hemingway on writing