In 2023, I read 87 papers and 26 non-technical books. 87 papers is slightly more than my previous record (82 papers in 2022), and I’ve never even been remotely close to reading 26 books in a year. Deciding to read more books is definitely one of the best things I did in 2023, it’s a great way to relax and learn some new things about the world.
In 2024, I want to read at least 100 papers and 12 non-technical books.
Some more detailed statistics of my read papers (number of papers read each year, papers by publication year, papers by venue, papers by category):
The 26 non-technical books I read in 2023:
- 23-10-25 | The Plague | Albert Camus | Rating: 4
- 23-10-23 | Animal Farm | George Orwell | Rating: 4
- 23-10-11 | The Stranger | Albert Camus | Rating: 3.5
- 23-10-02 | Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir | Rating: 4
- 23-09-17 | The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas | Robert Zaretsky | Rating: 3
- 23-09-11 | När ingen lyssnar | Diamant Salihu | Rating: 4
- 23-08-31 | Tills alla dör | Diamant Salihu | Rating: 4.5
- 23-08-27 | Man’s Search for Meaning | Viktor E. Frankl | Rating: 3.5
- 23-08-23 | Bland bröder och fiender. Om gäng, manligheter och avhopp | Torbjörn Forkby, Jari Kuosmanen, Henrik Örnlind | Rating: 3.5
- 23-08-16 | Mary Wollstonecraft, feminismen och frihetens förutsättningar | Lena Halldenius | Rating: 3
- 23-08-12 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | Rating: 4
- 23-08-10 | The Myth of Sisyphus | Albert Camus | Rating: 3
- 23-08-07 | Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil | Hannah Arendt | Rating: 3
- 23-08-02 | How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need | Bill Gates | Rating: 4
- 23-08-01 | What Is Life? Five Great Ideas in Biology | Paul Nurse | Rating: 3.5
- 23-07-26 | Tysk höst | Stig Dagerman | Rating: 3.5
- 23-07-23 | Det fallna imperiet: Ryssland och väst under Vladimir Putin | Martin Kragh | Rating: 3.5
- 23-07-17 | Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World | Iddo Landau | Rating: 3
- 23-07-07 | What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | Haruki Murakami | Rating: 3
- 23-07-03 | Frontlöparen: Gunder Hägg, hans uppgång och fall | Björn Lundberg | Rating: 3.5
- 23-06-03 | Meaning in Life and Why It Matters | Susan Wolf | Rating: 2.5
- 23-03-14 | Practical Ethics | Peter Singer | Rating: 3.5
- 23-02-12 | An Introduction to Political Philosophy | Jonathan Wolff | Rating: 3.5
- 23-01-11 | Liberalism | Lena Halldenius | Rating: 4.5
- 23-01-04 | Grundbok i metaetik (Introduction to Metaethics) | Nils Franzén, Victor Moberger, Olle Risberg | Rating: 3.5
- 23-01-03 | The Moral Philosophers: An Introduction to Ethics | Richard Norman | Rating: 3
Among the 26 books, these are my top 5 favorites (in alphabetical order):
- Animal Farm | George Orwell | Rating: 4
- Liberalism | Lena Halldenius | Rating: 4.5
- Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter | Simone de Beauvoir | Rating: 4
- The Trial | Franz Kafka | Rating: 4
- Tills alla dör | Diamant Salihu | Rating: 4.5