Here is what I read in 2024. Did much more sampling and dropping books halfway (I still love you, Moby Dick) so it’s a shorter list than last year. Hope you find a gem or two in there for your reading lists.

Happy new year! 🤓

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Non-Fiction (English)

1. 🏆 Outlive – Peter Attia
   • As far as I’m concerned Attia is the world’s best physician so this was excellent and highly practical. My notes here
2. Pegasus – Laurent Richard & Sandrine Rigaud
   • A good investigation into the NSO group’s Pegasus spyware which had many high profile targets like Jamal Khashoggi, Macron, opposition leaders in Venezuela, India, etc
3. Read Write Own – Chris Dixon
   • A useful, cogent high-level overview of why web3 should exist
4. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
   • Some cautionary tales on the importance of trust, open dialogue, accountability
5. How Cybersecurity Really Works – Sam Grubb
   • A high level overview of a fascinating field. My notes here
6. 🏆 How Big Things Get Built – Bent Flyvbjerg & Dan Gardner
   • Why megaprojects are almost always over time and over budget, and what we can do about it, including for smaller projects. My notes here
7. Scaling People – Claire Hughes Johnson
   • A textbook for how to scale companies from a Stripe exec. Often too much process for my taste but every place is different
8. Hillbilly Elegy – J.D. Vance
   • There’s no question he has an incredible story and is an impressive person. It’s well written even if I struggle with the “tell-all” memoir genre (I kept thinking about how awful this book must have been for his mum for instance)

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Fiction (French)

1. L’Homme qui plantait des arbres – Jean Giono
   • Un récit très poétique qui fait réfléchir sur son engagement environmental
2. 🏆 Veiller sur elle – Jean-Baptiste Andrea
   • J’ai été vraiment transfixé par l’atmosphère et les personnages de ce roman si poignant. Ca faisait longtemps que je n’avais pas ressenti ça!

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Non-Fiction (French)

1. 🏆Une sacrée envie de foutre le bordel – Xavier Niel
   • Le franc-parler de Niel est rafraîchissant et son histoire assez folle…
2. Sur le fleuve Amazone – Jean-Christophe Rufin
   • Un beau carnet de voyage illustré 🎨

Il y avait pire que de perdre sa liberté, c’était d’en perdre le goût.

• Veiller sur elle