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Choose Book Review Finalists 2024

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Choose Book Review Finalists 2024

It’s time to narrow the 150 entries in the Book Review Contest to about a dozen finalists. I can’t read 150 reviews alone, so I need your help. You’ll find the entries in six Google Docs (thanks to a reader for collating them): - A - D - E - I - L - P - R - S - Th - The N - The O - Y Please pick as many as you have time for, read them, and rate them using this form .

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It’s time to narrow the 150 entries in the Book Review Contest to about a dozen finalists. I can’t read 150 reviews alone, so I need your help. You’ll find the entries in six Google Docs (thanks to a reader for collating them): - A - D - E - I - L - P - R - S - Th - The N - The O - Y Please pick as many as you have time for, read them, and rate them using this form . Don’t read them in order! If you read them in order, I’ll have 1,000 votes on the first review, 500 on the second, and so on to none in the second half. Either pick a random review (thanks to AlexanderTheGrand and Taymon for making a random-review-chooser script here ) or pick whichever seems most interesting to you. List of all books reviewed below. Thanks! You have until June 1, when I’ll count the votes and announce the finalists. If you wrote a review, please check to make sure your review is in the document. Currently known gaps: The Tango Of Ethics (we are going to solve this, no action needed from you), and Julie, Or The New Heloise (if this is you, check your email; if you didn’t get an email, email me). If there’s another gap I don’t know about, email me or comment here. A Canticle For Leibowitz A Farewell to Alms A Practical Guide to Evil A Thousand Ways to Please A Husband A Visit from the Goon Squad Against Democracy Age of Anger All Systems Red Alphabetical Diaries American Nations Armies of Sand Asquith Atlas Shrugged Babel Bad Therapy Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Biophilia Carpentaria Cat’s Cradle Catkin Choosing Elites Collected Poems by C.P. Cavafy Consequences of Language Defining Death Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will Discrimination and Disparities Djinn Dominion Don Juan Don’t Make No Waves, Don’t Back No Losers Egypt’s Golden Couple Elon Musk End Times Eothen Eve Food of the Gods For Whom the Bell Tolls Frankenstein Free Range Kids Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism Gnomon Godel, Escher, Bach Golem XIV How Language Began How the War Was Won HP Lovecraft Impossible Histories In Search of Lost Time In the Time of the Russias Invisible Cities It’s Not the Money, It’s the Land Letter to a Christian Nation Libra License to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us Little, Big Making the Corps Metamorphosis Mine! Misbelief Money Capital Never Twice in the Same River Nexus Nine Lives Normal Accidents On the Bondage of the Will One-Dimensional Man Paradoxes of Rationality and Cooperation Passionate Marriage Patient, Heal Thyself Piranesi Politics on the Edge Practical Ethics r!Animorphs Ready Player One Real Raw News Red Rising Righteous Victims What Came Next My Thoughts Road of the King Sadly, Porn Safe Enough? Savage Money Secret Agenda: Watergate Sense of Style Silver Age Marvel Comics Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Spring Snow Stillwell and the American Experience in China Sudden Glory Surviving Death The Art of Happiness The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa The Ballad of the White Horse The Beauties The Beginning of Infinity The Body Keeps the Score The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective The Case Against Reality The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book The Divine Comedy The Emperor of All Maladies The Eternaut The Ethics of Ambiguity The Family That Couldn’t Sleep The Four Hour Workweek The Genesis Machine The Globe: How The Earth Became Round The Hebrew Bible The History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe The Hunt for Red October The Iliad The Lady of Shalott The Land of Milk and Honey / The Lathe of Heaven The Language Puzzle The Leopard The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett The Master and Margarita The Meme Machine The Metamorphosis The Metaphysical Club The Mezzanine and the Size of Thoughts The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion / Win Bigly The Old Testament The Oldest Documents of the Human Race The Pale King The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention The Picture of Dorien Gray The Remains of the Day The Revelations The Signal and the Noise The Sixth Day and Other Tales The Story of Ferdinand The Structure of Scientific Revolutions The Sunset Limited The Tango of Ethics The Treuhand The Trial The Unconsoled The Untethered Soul The Vegetarian The Wages of Destruction The Wheel of Time The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy Three Days in Dwarfland Time Loops Two Arms and a Head War and Peace Warrior’s Woman What Even Is Gender? When We Cease To Understand The World Who We Are And How We Got Here Why Fish Don’t Exist Winnie-the-Pooh / The House At Pooh Corner Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History World Empire Lost Young Adults