December 24, 2024
Here they are — the books I read in 2024
I’ve been tracking the books I read with an iPad app called Book Tracker since the beginning of the year.
The app has an export function, so I was able to get all that data and put it on the web for everyone to see.
The books are in order of how I rated them, from best to worst. If I finished a book with the feeling of “mind blown”, I gave it a 10. Piranesi and The Wager both did this. When Breath Becomes Air almost did it, but was spoiled by the epilogue.
At the bottom are books that I slogged through with the hope that they would get better. They never did. I was especially disappointed with The Night Circus because I had heard it was similar to Piranesi. Maybe in a superficial way, but not really.
I won’t get into the details, but if you want to create something similar, it involves exporting the data as a CSV file, converting it to JSON, and using the JavaScript fetch() function to grab it.
Some of the data was either missing or formatted poorly so I spent some time fixing it up.