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Matthew’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Matthew’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Matthew Budman’s Followers (83)
1,340 books
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1,830 books
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597 books
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387 books
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Matthew Budman
Goodreads Author
Born
in Goleta, Calif., The United States
Website
Twitter
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Member Since
October 2012
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/matthewbudman
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Instant Expert: Collecting Books
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2004
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Book Collecting Now: The Value of Print in a Digital Age
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2019
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Heroes
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1999
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Matthew’s Recent Updates
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| I had no prior knowledge of or interest in Captain James Cook or any of his three voyages. But I loved Hampton Sides' Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West, and I saw a social-media recommendation of this one, so sure. And damn, it's great— ...more | |
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Matthew Budman
voted for
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
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Readers' Favorite History & Biography
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Final Round
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2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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| I read Kavalier & Clay shortly after it was published—I was a big Chabon fan early on—and the novel remained so vivid that I never picked it up to reread . . . until my wife saw the (evidently underwhelming) opera adaptation, at which point I opened ...more | |
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| Hiaasen's first eight solo novels, published 1986–2000, are fantastic reads; I can recall not only plot twists but a myriad of colorful details from each. But the author's wry sensibility and gift for turning Florida Man news stories into plot points ...more | |
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| All About Books: * Non-Fiction - What are you reading? | 5493 | 1302 | Nov 22, 2025 03:54AM |
“There are some chaps who are no good for anything but books; I plead guilty to being such a chap. —Cecil Vyse”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”
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