What did you read in 2024?

[Stevil2001]

I always enjoy these threads. I'll just post my Star Trek reads, since I read too much other stuff, but I can say I read a total of 125 books in 2024. Of those 125, eleven were Star Trek:

1. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Long Mirage by David R. George III
2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: I, the Constable by Paula M. Block & Terry J. Erdmann
3. Star Trek: Prey, Book 1: Hell’s Heart by John Jackson Miller
4. Star Trek: Prey, Book 2: The Jackal’s Trick by John Jackson Miller
5. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Gamma: Original Sin by David R. George III
6. Star Trek: Prey, Book 3: The Hall of Heroes by John Jackson Miller
7. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Headlong Flight by Dayton Ward
8. Star Trek: Titan: Fortune of War by David Mack
9. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum by Una McCormack
10. Star Trek: Section 31: Control by David Mack
11. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hearts and Minds by Dayton Ward

As you can see, I mostly just worked my way through my Destiny-era novels, except for one SNW book.

 

[Smiley]

Here are my favorite books I read or reread last year:

1. Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel
2. Yellowface
3. The Importance of Being Earnest
4. Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics
5. William Shakespeare's Horror Collection (Ian Doescher)
6. Star Wars: Brotherhood
7. Star Trek: The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway
8. A Death in Tokyo
9. The Bible Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
10. Marvel Year by Year: A Visual History
11. Why We Love Middle-Earth
12. Star Trek: Articles of the Federation
13. Star Trek 365: The Next Generation
14. Star Trek: Full Circle
15. Murder by Invitation Only
16. Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
17. Star Trek: The Eternal Tide
18. The Legend of Zelda Encyclopedia
19. Star Trek: Watching the Clock
20. The End of Eternity
21. A Trace of Poison
22. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments
23. Murder Takes the Stage
24. Garth Brooks: The Anthology Part IV: Going Home

How about that? There are 24 books on my list for 2024.

There were some other 4-star Trek rereads in 2024, but I think the above paints a pretty accurate picture of what I enjoy.

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I re-read an awful lot. More re-reads than new reads. Didn't keep any records.

Probably the most harrowing re-read was Jeff Sharlet's The Family. Compared to that, reading Dracula (for the first time) was almost like watching Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Because at least with Dracula, it's just a make-believe horror.

 

[Lady Mondegreen]

I started getting into Trek novels at the very end of last year (not counting the hilariously bad early TOS novels I've happened to pick up in the past) -- I read Constellations and The Captain's Oath in December, and I have a few more litverse books from both TOS and DS9 on the way.

 

[ryan123450]

I always enjoy these threads. I'll just post my Star Trek reads, since I read too much other stuff, but I can say I read a total of 125 books in 2024. Of those 125, eleven were Star Trek:

1. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Long Mirage by David R. George III
2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: I, the Constable by Paula M. Block & Terry J. Erdmann
3. Star Trek: Prey, Book 1: Hell’s Heart by John Jackson Miller
4. Star Trek: Prey, Book 2: The Jackal’s Trick by John Jackson Miller
5. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Gamma: Original Sin by David R. George III
6. Star Trek: Prey, Book 3: The Hall of Heroes by John Jackson Miller
7. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Headlong Flight by Dayton Ward
8. Star Trek: Titan: Fortune of War by David Mack
9. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum by Una McCormack
10. Star Trek: Section 31: Control by David Mack
11. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hearts and Minds by Dayton Ward

As you can see, I mostly just worked my way through my Destiny-era novels, except for one SNW book.

I see a telltale clue there that someone is using my Simple Post Nemesis reading order list, if I’m not mistaken.

I started getting into Trek novels at the very end of last year (not counting the hilariously bad early TOS novels I've happened to pick up in the past) -- I read Constellations and The Captain's Oath in December, and I have a few more litverse books from both TOS and DS9 on the way.

If you’re newish to Trek novels, check out my website. Hopefully it will be useful. www.startreklitverse.com

 

[Lady Mondegreen]

If you’re newish to Trek novels, check out my website. Hopefully it will be useful. www.startreklitverse.com

Already had it bookmarked
Appreciate you putting this together!

 

[Stevil2001]

I see a telltale clue there that someone is using my Simple Post Nemesis reading order list, if I’m not mistaken.

Yes, my sequence in my Destiny-era thread has been derived from your work and @Jinn's. (What's the telltale?)

Oh, and listing favorites is fun. Here are mine from last year (just in the order I read them):

• The Wife in Space series by Neil and Sue Perryman
• The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
• To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
• Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
• Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed
• Rose/House by Arkady Martine
• Merry Go Round in Oz by Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren Lynn McGraw
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• Miracleman series by Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, et al.
• Drunk on All Your Strange New Words and Tomorrow Never Knows by Eddie Robson
• The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
• Sheine Lende by Darcie Little Badger
• Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
• When You Reach Men by Rebecca Stead

 

[ryan123450]

Yes, my sequence in my Destiny-era thread has been derived from your work and @Jinn's. (What's the telltale?)

Cool. @Jinn is a master at timelining as well. And the inventor of the word “chrono-clue” in our community!

I just wondered about inserting Original Sin between the final two Prey books and realized that’s how I had things as well, intercutting the DS9 andTNG storylines.

 

[Airin]

I started reading the TOS Pocket Books around January (starting with "The Entropy Effect") and then in publishing order until "Double, Double" in December. Those are 46 books (I skipped the film novelizations), which is a total outlier, since an average year I just read... one or two books.

 

[Stevil2001]

Cool. @Jinn is a master at timelining as well. And the inventor of the word “chrono-clue” in our community!

I just wondered about inserting Original Sin between the final two Prey books and realized that’s how I had things as well, intercutting the DS9 andTNG storylines.

Oh, yes, that was exactly where I got that from.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Star Trek specific:

The Higher Frontier, Christopher L Bennett
Lost to Eternity, Greg Cox
Pliable Truths, Dayton Ward
Burning Dreams, Margaret Bonanno
Savage Trade, Tony Daniel
Fan Fiction, Brent Spiner. Well, Star Trek adjacent.


I also started Firewall but grad school projects happened. That will be probably be my first ST read for 2025.

 

[carcinoGeneticist]

A fuckton of Stephen King. Misery, Dolores Claiborne, Gerald's Game (yikes), The Stand, Cujo, The Shining, The Outsider, Under The Dome... a lot of Stephen King.
And also Homestuck. It's a webcomic so idk if it counts, but it's 8 000 pages long. lol

 

[Oz Trekkie]

The Star Trek Books I read in 2024


Lost to Eternity
Pliable Truths
A Time To Be Born
Probe
Music of the Spheres
Firewall
The Escape
The Death of Princes
The Last Stand
Into The Nebula

• The Next Generation: Death in Winter
• Titan: Taking Wing
• Titan: The Red King
• Articles of the Federation
• Titan: Orion's Hounds
• The Next Generation: Resistance
• The Next Generation: Q&A
• The Next Generation: Before Dishonor
• The Next Generation: Q Are Cordially Uninvited...
• Titan: Sword of Damocles
• The Next Generation: Greater Than the Sum

• Destiny: Gods of Night
• Destiny: Mere Mortals
• Destiny: Lost Souls
• The Next Generation: Losing the Peace
• A Singular Destiny
• Voyager: Full Circle
• Voyager: Unworthy
• Voyager: Children of the Storm
• Titan: Over a Torrent Sea
• Titan: Synthesis
• Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock

• Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
• Typhon Pact: Zero Sum Game
• Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire
• Typhon Pact: Paths of Disharmony
• Voyager: The Eternal Tide
• Voyager: Protectors
• Voyager: Acts of Contrition
• Voyager: Atonement
• Titan: Fallen Gods
• Typhon Pact: The Struggle Within
• The Next Generation: Indistinguishable From Magic
• Department of Temporal Investigations: Forgotten History

• Voyager: A Pocket Full of Lies
• Voyager: Architects of Infinity
• Voyager: To Lose the Earth
• Typhon Pact: Plagues of Night
• Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn
• Typhon Pact: Brinkmanship
• The Next Generation: Cold Equations- The Persistence of Memory
• The Next Generation: Cold Equations- Silent Weapons
• Department of Temporal Investigations: The Collectors
• Department of Temporal Investigations: Time Lock
• The Next Generation: Cold Equations- The Body Electric
• The Next Generation: The Stuff of Dreams
• Department of Temporal Investigations: Shields of the Gods

• The Fall: Revelation and Dust
• The Fall: The Crimson Shadow
• The Fall: A Ceremony of Losses
• The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice
• The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms
• Deep Space Nine: Lust's Latinum Lost (And Found)
• Prometheus: Fire With Fire
• Titan: Absent Enemies
• The Next Generation: The Light Fantastic
• Prometheus: The Root of All Rage
• Deep Space Nine: The Missing
• The Next Generation: Takedown
• Prometheus: In the Heart of Chaos

 

[JD]

I read 18 books and comics last year, mostly comics.

• Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien (novel)
• Fairy Tail Vol 1 by Hiro Mishima (manga)
• ST:SNW: The High Country by John Jack Miller (novel)
• Star Wars Vol. 10: The Escape written by Kieron Gillen, art by Angel Unzueta and Andrea Broccado (comic)
• Farscape: The Beginning of the End of the Beginning and Strange Atractors in Farscape Omnbus Vol. 1 (written by @KRAD with art by Will Sliney, (SA) and Tommy Patterson (TBoTEoTB) (comic)
• The Legend of Wonder Woman by Renae De Liz (comic)
• World War Hulk written by Greg Pak with art by John Romita Sr. (comic)
• Star Wars: The High Republic Vol. 3: Jedi's End written by Cavan Scott with art by Georges Jeanty, Ario Anindito, Guillermo Sanna (comic)
• The Art of The Guardians of the Galaxy by Marie Javins (book)
• ST: DS9: The Dog of War written by Mike Chen with art by Angel Hernandez (comic)
• The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien
• ST: SNW: The Scorpius Run written by Mike Johnson and Ryan Parrot with art by Angel Hernandez (comic)
• Batman '66 Vol. 1 written by Jeff Parker with art by Johnathan Case, Ty Templeton, Joe Quinones, Sandy Jarrell, Ruben Procopio, and Colleen Coover (comic)
• Star Wars Vol. 11: The Scourging of Shu-Torun written by Kieron GIllen with art by Angel Unzueta and Andrea Broccardo (comic)
• The Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time written by Dan Slott with art by Humberto Ramos (comic)
• ST:TNG: The Sky's the Limit edited by Marco Palmieri (short story anthology)
• Star Wars: The High Republic: Trail of Shadows written by Daniel Jose Older with art by Dave Watcher (comic)
• Star Trek: Lower Decks (ongoing series) #1 written by Ryan North with art by Derek Charm (comic)

 

[KRAD]

Minor correction, @JD: Tommy Patterson did the art on The Beginning of the End of the Beginning, while Will Sliney did the art on Strange Detractors, not the other way 'round......

 

[JD]

Oops, sorry, I'll go fix that.