“The Best Books I Read in 2024”
December 13, 2024
Dear Readers,
It seems fitting to introduce this 20th edition—yes, this has been a tradition for two decades now—of the “Best Books I Read…” with a quote from a book about books and reading:
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading—once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive—is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good
