--- title: Favorite books of 2024 | daily.dev description: In 2024, the author read 47 books totaling 21,000 pages, surpassing their target by 17 books, largely due to listening to 40 audiobooks. Notable non-fiction... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/favorite-books-of-2024-y6askebdk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Favorite books of 2024 | daily.dev og:description: In 2024, the author read 47 books totaling 21,000 pages, surpassing their target by 17 books, largely due to listening to 40 audiobooks. 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Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@rishabkumar7** · 0 upvotes > thank you for sharing! **@ghost** · 0 upvotes > Those are incredible numbers! This year I noticed that most of my time reading last year was dedicated to the manga Berserk, so now I'm doing my best to balance between mangas, tech, and non-technical books. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Governing Security in the Age of Infinite Signal](https://daily.dev/posts/governing-security-in-the-age-of-infinite-signal-qhihbir44) · Snyk · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [No one has a good plan for how AI companies should work with the government](https://daily.dev/posts/no-one-has-a-good-plan-for-how-ai-companies-should-work-with-the-government-nkajqoze1) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 1 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/favorite-books-of-2024-y6askebdk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Favorite books of 2024","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/favorite-books-of-2024-y6askebdk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/favorite-books-of-2024-y6askebdk"},"datePublished":"2025-01-10T05:24:21.991Z","dateModified":"2025-01-10T05:24:38.090Z","description":"In 2024, the author read 47 books totaling 21,000 pages, surpassing their target by 17 books, largely due to listening to 40 audiobooks. 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This year I noticed that most of my time reading last year was dedicated to the manga Berserk, so now I’m doing my best to balance between mangas, tech, and non-technical books.","datePublished":"2025-03-17T12:57:18.999Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/Y6AskEbDK#c-YdbzWsxfs","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Deleted user","url":"https://daily.dev/ghost","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--hNIUzLiO--/f_auto/v1705327420/public/ghost_vlftth"}}]} ```