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2024
My Year in Books
24,498
pages read
Bill Hsu
111
books read
Bill Hsu
They Will Dream in the Garden by Gabriela Damián Miravete
Shortest Book
10
pages
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
Longest Book
628
pages
Average book length in 2024
220
pages
James by Percival Everett
Most Shelved
1,074,819
people also shelved
Silence Speaks by Francisco Capelo
Least Shelved
0
people also shelved
Bill’s average rating for 2024
2.8
2.8
Imagine uma Floresta | Imagine a Forest by Brian Evenson
Highest Rated on Goodreads
4.60 average
Bruce Conner by V. Vale

Bill’s first review of the year

liked it
I know Bruce Conner mostly through his work, especially after the amazing SFMOMA retrospective a few years ago. I didn't know he was such a character. Now I do. ...more
BILL’S 2024 BOOKS
About Ed by Robert Glück
Bruce Conner by V. Vale
My Death by Lisa Tuttle
really liked it
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami
The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford
拋掉書本上街去 by Shūji Terayama
Antwerp by Nicholas Royle
Monica by Daniel Clowes
Tone by Sofia Samatar
Night Side of the River by Jeanette Winterson
Rouge by Mona Awad
Coyote by Max Restaino
A Guest in the House by E.M. Carroll
really liked it
The Word Book by Mieko Kanai
Cinema of Actuality by Yuriko Furuhata
Sleepingfish XX by Cal A Mari
Mirror Mirror 2 by Julia Gfrörer
AFFECTIVE INTENSITIES by M Kitchell
really liked it
The Downtown Book by Marvin J. Taylor
The Book of Love by Kelly Link
Totem by Laura Pérez
To Write as if Already Dead by Kate Zambreno
The Activist by Renee Gladman
Hangman by Maya Binyam
Other Minds and Other Stories by Bennett Sims
You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi
Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan by Peter Eckersall
Blackouts by Justin Torres
liked it
Tricks by Renaud Camus
Charlotte and the Chickenman by Aina Hunter
Social Fiction by Chantal Montellier
Dead Letters by Jacob Steven Mohr
Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn Kiste
The Secret Life of Hidden Places by Stefan Bachmann
Cured by Lol Tolhurst
Silence Speaks by Francisco Capelo
我這個謎：寺山修司自傳抄 by Shūji Terayama
Sleep Alone by J.A.W. McCarthy
Ghost Pains by Jessi Jezewska Stevens
really liked it
Sounds of a drunken summer by Ursule Molinaro
Against Memoir by Michelle Tea
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.
Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? and Other Rumors by Jonathan Louis Duckworth
Asylum by Nina Shope
One or Several Deserts by Carter St Hogan
really liked it
The Book of the Most Precious Substance by Sara Gran
Theorizing the Angura Space by Peter Eckersall
Art of Czech Animation, The by Adam Whybray
Comic Book Punks by Karl Stock
None of You Shall Be Spared by Brian Evenson
User by Bruce Benderson
Imagine uma Floresta | Imagine a Forest by Brian Evenson
really liked it
Through the Night Like a Snake by Sarah Coolidge
Coexistence by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Art of Brett Ewins by Brett Ewins
Upgrade Soul by Ezra Claytan Daniels
The Sound of His Horn and Other Works by Sarban [Annotated] by Sarban
Blood Bank by Neil Gaiman
A Voice Calling by Christopher Barzak
Pixel Juice by Jeff Noon
Rest in Pieces 器官拼圖 by 藥島
liked it
Looming Low by Justin Steele
天橋上的魔術師圖像版 套書（阮光民 卷+小莊 卷+別冊） by Guang-min Ruan
Phenomenon by Wong Yip
Fog & Car by Eugene Lim
Fear of the Dark by On Wai
The Rachel Condition by Nicholas Rombes
Flunker by Dennis Cooper
The Traumatic Surreal by Patricia Allmer
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum
really liked it
My Soul Mate by Wah Kee
Little Joe by Sam Ashby
Katrin by Unica Zürn
Two Headed Zine Volume 2 by Dianna Elizardo
Creeping Jenny by Jeff Noon
Variations on the Sun by M Kitchell
Cutting Season by Bhanu Pratap
Jackal, Jackal by Tobi Ogundiran
A Full Moon of Women by Ursule Molinaro
Through the Woods by E.M. Carroll
really liked it
Cheap Therapist Says You're Insane by Parker Young
Alternative Japanese Drama by Robert T. Rolf
Dissection by John Harley Warner
Positions with White Roses by Ursule Molinaro
Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
Who Cares Anyway by Will York
Concerning the Future of Souls by Joy Williams
James by Percival Everett
really liked it
The Reality Binge Trick by Merl Fluin
Good Night, Sleep Tight by Brian Evenson
Changes in the Land by Matthew Cheney
The Endless Summer by Madame Nielsen
Oba Electroplating Factory by Yoshiharu Tsuge
They Will Dream in the Garden by Gabriela Damián Miravete
Final Cut by Charles Burns
The Bog Wife by Kay Chronister

Bill’s last review of the year

it was ok
I thought there were two spectacular stories in Chronister's Thin Places. The writing here is very different though. ...more
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