Let's have more fun with this this year, fam. Throw in mini-blurbs. Hype this ish. Listen to me and finally read Carlos Ruiz Zafon's Shadow of the Wind already and scream with me about it! ~*~*~*~*~*~ Popular Book Threads: The Book Thread The Fantasy Book Thread Comic Book Thread Lord of the Rings Stephen King Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere Harry Potter The Wheel of Time A Song of Ice and Fire ~*~*~*~*~*~ Threads from 2016 , 2017, and 2018.
GoodReads 2016 Goal: 50 | Actual: 50 2017 Goal: 75 | Actual: 80 2018 Goal: 50 | Actual: 100 2019 Goal: 50 | Actual: TBD Fiction: 1. Pierce Brown - Red Rising (Red Rising #1) 2. Pierce Brown - Golden Son (Red Rising #2) 3. Pierce Brown - Morning Star (Red Rising #3) 4. Pierce Brown - Iron Gold (Red Rising #4) 5. Angie Thomas - On The Come Up 6. Andrew Sean Greer - Less 7. Steven Erikson - Willful Child: Wrath of Better (Willful Child #2) 8. Steven Erikson - Willful Child: The Serch for Spark (Willful Child #3) 9. Sarah J. Maas - Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7) 10. Karen McManus - Two Can Keep A Secret 11. Naomi Alderman - The Power 12. Mary Robinette Kowal - The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut #1) 13. Deanna Raybourn - A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronice Speedwell #4) 14. Mary Robinette Kowal - The Fated Sky (Lady Astronaut #2) 15. Jess Lyons - The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons #1) 16. Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Angel's Game 17. Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind 18. Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Prisoner of Heaven 19. Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Labyrinth of the Spirits 20. Lily Brooks-Dalton - Good Morning, Midnight 21. Jeremy Robinson - The Others 22. Mark Lawrence - One Word Kill 23. Neil Shusterman - Full Tilt 24. Jeremy Robinson - Infinite 25. George R.R. Martin - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 26. Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Marina 27. Dan Wells - Zero G 28. Paul Tremblay - A Head Full of Ghosts 29. Melissa Erin Jackson - Pawsitively Poisonous 30. Matthew Quick - The Silver Linings Playbook 31. Scott Westerfeld - Leviathan 32. Richard Matheson - I Am Legend 33. Laurie Halse Anderson - The Impossible Knife of Memory 34. Daniel Keys - Flowers for Algernon 35. Ray Bradbury - Dandelion Wine 36. Andrew Smith - Winger 37. Michael J. Sullivan - Theft of Swords 38. Michael J. Sullivan - Rise of Empire Nonfiction: 1. Ansel Adams - In Color 2. Rachel Held Evans - Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again 3. Bill Burnett & David J. Evans - Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life 4. Max Lucado - Anxious for Nothing 5. Kelly Minter - No Other Gods 6. Jon Acuff - Do Over 7. Tsh Oxenreider - At Home in the World 8. Mikal Gilmore - The Queen 9. BJ Novak - One More Thing: Stories and More Stories 10. Brene Brown - The Power of Vulnerability 11. Brene Brown - Dare to Lead 12. Helen Russell - The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country 13. Joseph Loconte - A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War: How J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Rediscovered Faith, Friendship, and Heroism in the Cataclysm of 1914-18 Children's Books: 1. Mo Williems - City Dog, Country Frog 2. Hildegard Muller - The Cowboy 3. Bob Staake - My Pet Book 4. Valeri Gorbachev - Cats are Cats 5. Judy Schachner - Dewey Bob 6. Stephanie Watson - The Wee Hours 7. Bob Shea - Buddy and the Bunnies 8. Oliver Jeffers - The Hueys In... It Wasn't Me 9. Vincent X. Kirsh - Freddie & Gingersnap 10. Robert Neubecker - Winter is for Snow 11. Bill Harley - Dirty Joe, the Pirate 12. Mini Grey - Toys in Space 13. Samantha Berger - Snoozefest 14. B.J. Novak - The Book with No Pictures 15. Oliver Jeffers - The Hueys In... The New Sweater 16. Greg Pizzoli - Templeton Gets His Wish 17. Shirley Parenteau - Bears in the Snow Audible Originals (that aren't quite books but GoodReads counts): 1. Florence Williams - The 3-Day Effect: How Nature Calms Your Brain 2. Paula McLain - A Mind of Her Own 3. Dennis Kelly - Girls & Boys 4. Strong Ending: From Combat to Comedy 5. Curtis Sittenfeld - Atomic Marriage 6. Michael Lewis - The Coming Storm 7. Kirsten Kearse - More Bedtime Stories for Cynics 8. Joe Harris - The X-Files 9. Twain's Fest with Nick Offerman 10. Tim Lebbon - Alien: Out of the Shadows 11. Jan Smith - Killer by Nature 12. Jeff Hirsch - Sovereign 13. William Gibson - Allien III
Novels 1). The White Luck Warrior (The Aspect-Emperor #2) - R Scott Bakker 2.) The Great Ordeal (The Aspect-Emperor #3) - R Scott Bakker 3.) The Unholy Consult (The Aspect-Emperor #4) - R Scott Bakker 4.) Spores - Ike Hamill 5.) The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1) - Carlos Ruiz Zafón 6.) Before They Are Hanged (The First Law #2) - Joe Abercrombie 7.) Unbury Carol - Josh Malerman 8.) The Dunwich Horror - H P Lovecraft 9.) Providence - Caroline Kepnes 10.) Last Argument of Kings (The First Law #3) - Joe Abercrombie 11.) Hex - Thomas Olde Heuvelt 12.) Best Served Cold (The First Law World) - Joe Abercrombie 13.) Dustfall: What Lies Beneath (#5) - J Thorn & Glynn James 14.) The Heroes (The First Law World) - Joe Abercrombie 15.) Experimental Film - Gemma Files 16.) Red Country (The First Law World) - Joe Abercombie 17.) Sharp Ends (The First Law World) - Joe Abercrombie 18.) The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons #1) - Jenn Lyons 19.) The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past #1) - Cixin Liu 20.) A Shadow in Summer (The Long Price Quartet #1) - Daniel Abraham 21.) Encounter (War for Earth #3) - Zach Bohannon & J Thorn 22.) Kellanved's Reach (Path to Ascendancy #3) - Ian C. Esslemont 23.) A Betrayal in Winter (The Long Price Quartet #2) - Daniel Abraham 24.) The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth's Past #2) - Cixin Liu 25.) Sefira and Other Betrayals - John Langan 26.) Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3) - Cixin Liu 27.) An Autumn War (The Long Price Quartet #3) - Daniel Abraham 28.) Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse #1) - James S. A. Corey 29.) The Price of Spring (The Long Price Quartet #4) - Daniel Abraham 30.) Caliban's War (The Expanse #2) - James S. A. Corey 31.) The Last Tower - J. Thorn 32.) Cari Mora - Thomas Harris 33.) Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse #3) - James S. A. Corey 34.) The Hunger -Alma Katsu 35.) Neuropath - R. Scott Bakker 36.) Blood Standard (Isaiah Coleridge #1) - Laird Barron 37.) Dark Ride - Iain Rob Wright 38.) The Acolyte - Nick Cutter 39.) If You See Her - Ania Ahlborn 40.) The Iliad - Homer, (translated by) Robert F. 41.) Shadows Linger (The Chronicle of the Black Company: Books of the North #2) - Glen Cook 42.) The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri, (translated by) John Ciardi 43.) Growing Things and Other Stories - Paul Tremblay 44.) The White Rose (The Chronicle of the Black Company: Books of the North #3) - Glen Cook 45.) The Odyssey - Homer, (translated by) Robert F. 46.) Shadow Games (The Chronicle of the Black Company: Books of the South #4) - Glen Cook 47.) Ilium - Dan Simmons 48.) Inspection - Josh Malerman 49.) Dreams of Steel (The Chronicle of the Black Company: Books of the South #5) Glen Cook 50.) The Aeneid - Virgil, (translated by) Robert F. 51.) Endless Night - Richard Laymon 52.) Olympos - Dan Simmons 53.) A Congregation of Jackals - S. Craig Zahler 54.) Triage - Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon & Edward Lee 55.) Wanderers - Chuck Wendig 56.) Bleak Seasons (The Chronicle of the Black Company: Books of the Glittering Stone #6) Glen Cook 57.) The Institute - Stephen King 58.) A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness #1) - Joe Abercrombie 59.) She is the Darkness (The Chronicle of the Black Company: Books of the Glittering Stone #7) - Glen Cook 60.) Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn 61.) Imaginary Friend - Stephen Chbosky 62.) Water Sleeps (The Chronicle of the Black Company: Books of the Glittering Stone #8) - Glen Cook 63.) Full Throttle - Joe Hill Comics 1.) Intersect: Metamorph (#1) - Ray Fawkes 2.) Masquerade (Project Superpowers) - Phil Hester, Carlos Paul, & Alex Ross 3.) Sir Edward Grey, Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels (#1) - Mike Mignola & Ben Stenbeck 4.) Abe Sapien: The Drowning (#1) - Mike Mignola & Jason Shawn Alexander 5.) Hellboy: The Wild Hunt (Omnibus #3) - Mike Mignola & Duncan Fegredo 6.) 303 - Garth Ennis & Jacen Burrows 7.) Northlanders (complete series) - Brian Wood 8.) After the Cape (#1) - Howard Wong & Jim Valentino 9.) Batman: Night Cries - Archie Goodwin & Scott Hampton 10.) Batman: No Man's Land (#1) - Greg Rucka, Alex Maleev... 11.) Angel and Faith (Season 10) - Victor Gischler & Will Conrad 12.) The Fade Out - Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips 13.) Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Season 10) - Christos Gage & Rebekah Isaacs 14.) Angel (Season 11) - Corinna Bechko & Geraldo Borges 15.) Ravine (#1) - Stjepan Šejić & Ron Marz 16.) Batman: No Man's Land (#2) - Greg Rucka, Dan Jurgens... 17.) Huntress: Year One - Ivory Madison & Cliff Richards 18.) Batman/ Huntress: Cry For Blood - Greg Rucka, Rick Burchett, & Terry Beatty 19.) Batman: Cacophany - Kevin Smith & Walter Flanagan 20.) Punisher: In the Blood - Rick Remender, Roland Boschi, & Mick Bertilorenzi 21.) The Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Suite (#1) - Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá, & Dave Stewart 22.) Batman: No Man's Land (#3) - Chuck Dixon, Dennis O'Neil, Janet Harvey... 23.) The Umbrella Academy: Dallas (#2) - Gerard Way, Gabriel Bá, & Dave Stewart 24.) Ravine (#2) - Stjepan Šejić & Ron Marz 25.) Batman: No Man's Land (#4) - Greg Rucka, Dale Eaglesham... 26.) Uber - Kieron Gillen, Canaan White & Gabriel Andrade 27.) Crisis on Infinite Earths - Marv Wolfman & George Perez 28.) Sunstone: Mercy (#6)- Stjepan Šejić 29.) Batman/Scarecrow Year One - Bruce Jones, Sean Murphy, & Lee Loughridge 30.) Mera: Tidebreaker - Danielle Paige & Stephen Bryne 31.) Blood Stain (#1) - Linda Šejić 32.) Lady Killer (#1) - Joëlle Jones, Jamie S. Rich & Laura Allred 33.) Lady Killer (#2) - Joëlle Jones & Michelle Madsen 34.) Replacer - Zac Thompson, Arjuna Susini & Dee Cunniffe 35.) Batman (Brubaker collection #2) - Ed Brubaker, Scott McDaniel & Andy Owens 36.) God Is Dead (Complete series) - Jonathan Hickman, Mike Costa... 37.) Shutter (Complete series) - Joe Keatinge & Leila Del Duca 38.) Plutona - Jeff Lemire, Emi Lenox & Jordie Bellaire 39.) Mockingbird: I Can Explain (#1) - Chelsea Cain & Kate Niemczyk 40.) Mockingbird: My Feminist Agenda (#2) - Chelsea Cain & Kate Niemczyk 41.) Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again - Cullen Bunn & Dalibor Talajić 42.) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 11 - Christos N Gage & Rebekah Isaacs 43.) Blood Stain (#2) - Linda Šejić 44.) Fight Club 2 - Chuck Palahniuk & Cameron Stewart 45.) Transmetropolitan (complete series) - Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson & Rodney Ramos 46.) Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Reckoning (season 12) - Joss Whedon, Christos Gage, Karl Story & Stephanie Hans 47.) The Movement: Class Warfare (#1) - Gail Simone & Freddie E. Williams II 48.) Batman: Earth One (#2) - Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Jon Sibal & Brad Anderson 49.) The Movement: Fighting for the Future (#2) - Gail Simone & Freddie E. Williams II 50.) Criminal: Coward - Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips 51.) Prophet - Brandon Graham & Simon Roy 52.) Prophet: Earth War - Brandon Graham, Simon Roy & Giannis Milonogiannis 53.) Morning Glories (compendium vol 1-7) - Nick Spencer, Joe Eisma & Rodin Esquejo 54.) First Born - Ron Marz & Stjepan Šejić 55.) Morning Glories: Rivals (#8) - Nick Spencer, Joe Eisma & Rodin Esquejo 56.) Angelus: Illumination - Ron Marz & Stjepan Šejić 57.) Morning Glories: Assembly (#9) - Nick Spencer, Joe Eisma & Rodin Esquejo 58.) The 7 Deadly Sins - Tze Chun, Artyom Trakhanov & Giulia Brusco 59.) Goodnight Paradise - Joshua Dysart, Alberto Ponticelli & Giulia Brusco 60.) Broken Trinity - Ron Marz, Stjepan Šejić, Phil Hester, & Jorge Lucas 61.) Hitman (complete series) - Garth Ennis & John McCrae 62.) House of M - Brian Michael Bendis & Olivier Coipel 63.) The Ultimates - Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch 64.) Superman: Earth One (#3) - J. Michael Straczynski & Ardian Syaf 65.) Morning Glories: Expulsion (#10) - Nick Spencer, Joe Eisma & Rodin Esquejo 66.) Hellboy in Hell (Omnibus #4) - Mike Mignola 67.) Tom Judge: The Rapture - Paul Jenkins & Clayton Crain 68.) Artifacts (complete series) - Ron Marz, Stjepan Šejić... 69.) The Darkness (complete series) - Garth Ennis, Phil Hester... 70.) Witchblade (complete series) - Ron Marz, Stjepan Šejić, Tim Seeley, Laura Braga... 71.) Wraith - Joe Hill & Charles Paul Wilson III 72.) Pretty Deadly: The Bear (#2) - Kelly Sue DeConnick, Emma Rios & Jordie Bellaire 73.) Legion Lost - Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Oliver Coipel & Pascal Alike 74.) Aphrodite IX: Rebirth - Matt Hawkins & Stjepan Šejić 75.) Bitch Planet - Kelly Sue DeConnick & Valentine De Landro 76.) The Cape - Joe Hill, Jason Ciaramella, Zach Howard & Nelson Daniel 77.) White Sand (#3) - Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin & Fritz Casas 78.) Marvels - Kurt Busiek & Alex Ross
Goodreads 2018 Goal: 25 | Actual: 58 2019 Goal: 57 | Actual: TBD Didn't think I'd rear as many books this year due to funerals, weddings etc but I managed to fit in so much .I've out my Goal up as a result of this.
1. The Book of Dust, Volume 1: La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman 2. Popular Music - Kelly Schirmann 3. The Passage - Justin Cronin 4. All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of the Wire - Jonathan Abrams 5. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James 6. Fun Home - Alison Bechdel 7. Rage - Stephen King 8. Self-Portrait In a Convex Mirror - John Ashbery 9. The Long Walk - Stephen King 10. Seven One-Act Plays - Wendy Wasserstein 11. Roadwork - Stephen King 12. One Day When We Are Young: Mineral At 25 - Mischa Pearlman 13. The Running Man - Stephen King 14. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel 15. Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer 16. Bad Moon Rising - Ed Morrison with Mindy Morrison 17. The Vinyl Detective: Written In Dead Wax - Andrew Cartmel 18. The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin 19. Dubliners - James Joyce 20. Tree of Codes - Jonathan Safran Foer 21. Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris 22. A Fortune For Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib
Going to read a lot less than years past because I don’t want to burn out again. My only “goal” is to read the Malazan Book of the Fallen series in 2019. Anything more than that would be great but not a requirement.
Read 50 books (21,844 pages) in 2018. Only putting 35 for my 2019 goal. My Favorite books of 2018: Beneath a Scarlet Sky - Mark Sullivan Remembrance of Earth's Past #1-3 - Liu Cixin Hyperion - Dan Simmons The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace - Jeff Hobbs The Cartel - Don Winslow The Dead Zone/Salems Lot/The Running Man - Stephen King 2019 List: 1. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami (currently reading) 2. Skyward - Brandon Sanderson (currently listening)
2016: 67 (average length: 253 pages) 2017: 112 (average length: 302 pages) 2018: 90 (average length: 346 pages) My basic aim is to read a book a week but as I've achieved that for the last few years I'll set my target at a modest 65. I'm also trying to keep increasing my average page count and keep reading from a diverse range of authors. We shall see! January Martin Payne - Narrative Therapy: An Introduction For Counsellors Bernard Cornwell - War of the Wolf Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child Rachel Held Evans - Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water and Loving the Bible Again Paul Matthew Harrison - All the Clever Words on Pages: A Portrait of my Friendship with Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou (Pt.2) Michelle Obama - Becoming Irvin D. Yalom - Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death Zoe Sallis - Voices of Powerful Women: Words of wisdom from 40 of the world's most inspiring women Total: 8 February Tomi Adeyemi - Children of Blood & Bone Paula Gooder - Phoebe: A Story Nicola Morgan - Positively Teenage: A positively brilliant guide to teenage well-being Rupi Kaur - Milk and Honey Alice Miller - The Drama of Being A Child: The Search for the True Self Inger Wolf - Frost and Ashes Mary Henrietta Kingsley - Travels in West Africa Total: 7 March John Crowder - Miracle Workers, Reformers and the New Mystics George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four Emily M. Danforth - The Miseducation of Cameron Post Peter Rollins - The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief Patti Callahan - Becoming Mrs. Lewis Mary Oliver - Wild Geese Total: 6 April George MacDonald - Phantastes; A Faerie Romance for Men and Women Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change Alice Hoffman - Faithful M.G. Wheaton - Emily Eternal Richard Rohr - Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent Gregory A. Boyd - Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus makes sense of Old Testament Violence Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure Total: 7 May Baroness Emmuska Orczy - The Case of Miss Elliot: The Teahouse Detective Michael Oliver - The Politics of Disablement: A Sociological Approach Rosamund Lupton - Three Hours Emma Burstall - Tremarnock Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca Maria Semple - Where'd You Go, Bernadette Janie Bolitho - Snapped in Cornwall Donald Miller - Searching For God Knows What Mark Greener - Living With Multiple Sclerosis Total: 9 June Wilkie Collins - The Woman In White Claudia Funke (& Guillermo del Toro) - Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones Daniel Goleman - Destructive Emotions and How To Overcome Them: A Dialogue with the Dalai Lama Dr Stephen Briars - Brilliant Cognitive Behavioural Therapy John Carreyrou - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup Nicci French - Blue Monday Total: 7 July Jonathan Merritt - Learning To Speak God From Scratch: Why sacred words are vanishing - and how we can revive them Roald Dahl - Matilda Hilda Vaughan - Iron and Gold Anthony Horowitz - Magpie Murders Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Land That Time Forgot Naomi Wolf - The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women CS Lewis - The Magician's Nephew CS Lewis - The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe CS Lewis - The Horse and His Boy Total: 9 August CS Lewis - Prince Caspian CS Lewis - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader CS Lewis - The Silver Chair CS Lewis - The Last Battle Alan Garner - The Owl Service Kiran Millwood Hargrave - The Deathless Girls Erin Stewart - Scars Like Wings Diarmaid MacCulloch - A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years Tommy Orange - There There Total: 9 September Andrew B. Newberg - Words Can Change Your Brain: 12 Conversation Strategies to Build Trust, Resolve Conflict, and Increase Intimacy JRR Tolkien - The Fall of Gondolin Vicky Beeching - Undivided: Coming Out, Becoming Whole, And Living Free From Shame Richard Rohr - The Universal Christ: How A Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, And Believe Total: 4 October CJ Sansom - Dissolution Ant McPartlin & Dec Donnelly - Ooh! What a Lovely Pair: Our Story Henri J.M. Nouwen - The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming Overall Total: 69
After reading 52 in 2017 I dropped right off in 2018, maybe only read 10-12. Getting back into reading is one of my resolutions this year so I'm here for this. Aiming for 40, will be happy with 30 - likewise want to finish what I've got on my shelf, but also want to take more risks on authors I don't know.
Trying to write a few paragraphs with a takeaway for every book I read this year. 1. "All The Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire" by Jonathan Abrams
This is really what I should do but I keep finding myself checking things out or buying more cheap books at the library.
Around the middle of last year, I picked up a local authors book of short comedy stories based in my local area (Glasgow, Scotland). Loved it. It ended up kicking me off into a whirlwind of reading books fueled also by my gf then getting me a kindle. I ended up reading 30 books in half a year-ish. I am going to set this year's goal at 40 to accommodate larger books than I would usually read. Is there a way on Goodreads to change the goal from books read to pages read? Currently on my to read list: Catch up on the John Niven back catalog. Open by Andre Agassi Gordon Ferris' 'Douglas Brodie' series 'Becoming' by Michelle Obama
You can’t change your 2019 reading goal from number of books. However, if you log into the desktop version and click the stats bit on your profile you’ll see some (in my opinion) cool stats including a comparison of pages read which you can compare per year as you build up. I spend way too much time with those stats, haha! Glad to have you in this thread. Not been to Glasgow but I want to. I’m in Sheffield but have family north of the border in Moffat and St Andrews.
I've never set a reading goal before, but I want to read more this year. I'm also starting Architecture school, so I'll be doing a lot of reading, but I also want to read for pleasure. My idea is to replace the majority of my TV time with reading. Anyway, we'll see how it goes. My goal for the year is a modest 15. 1. 'Where'd You Go, Burnadette' by Maria Semple I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to the upcoming movie. It was uniquely written and pretty funny at times. I read it over the course of about two days.
My goal for this year is 100 books read, split evenly between novels and everything else (comics, manga, etc.). I'd also like to catch up on 1) pending series, 2) books I own & have owned for a while, and 3) new releases from 2018/2019 that have me interested. January Novels 1. The Pagan Night - Tim Akers, 2016 2. Ghost King - David Gemmell, 1995 3. They Mostly Come Out At Night - Benedict Patrick, 2016 4. King Dork Approximately - Frank Portman, 2014 5. Skyward - Brandon Sanderson, 2018 Other 1. The Mighty Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: Alien Nation - Margaret Stohl, 2017 2. Radioactive Spider-Gwen, Vol. 1: Greater Power* - Jason Latour, 2016 3. Spy Seal, Vol. 1: The Corten-Steel Phoenix - Rich Tommaso, 2018 4. Batman, Vol 8: Superheavy - Scott Snyder, 2016 February Novels 6. Shatterworld: Part 1 - AC Lillywhite, 2018 7. The Hobbit* - JRR Tolkien, 1937 8. Autumn Princess, Dragon Child - Lian Hearn, 2016 Other 5. The Mighty Captain Marvel, Vol. 2: Band of Sisters - Margaret Stohl, 2017 6. The Mighty Captain Marvel, Vol. 3: Dark Origins - Margaret Stohl, 2018 7. Spider-Gwen, Vol. 2: Weapon of Choice - Jason Latour, 2017 8. The Amazing Spider-man: Worldwide, Vol. 6 - Dan Slott, 2017 9. The Amazing Spider-man: Renew Your Vows, Vol. 3: Eight Years Later - Jody Houser, 2018 March Novels 9. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch, 2016 10. Truth Seer - Kay L. Moody, 2018 Other 10. The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Vol. 6 - Yoshiki Tanaka, 2017 11. Fatale, Vol. 4: Pray For Rain - Ed Brubaker, 2014 12. Batman: The Dark Knight, Vol. 3: Mad - Gregg Hurwitz, 2014 April Novels 11. Healer - Kay L. Moody, 2019 12. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman, 2008 13. The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro, 2016 Other 13. Batman: Detective Comics, Vol. 3: Emperor Penguin - John Layman, 2013 14. Kimi Ni Todoke: From Me to You, Vol. 5 - Karuho Shiina, 2007 15. Wolverines, Vol. 3: The Living and the Dead - Charles Soule, 2015 May Novels 14. Silent Hall - NS Dolkart, 2016 15. The Queen of Blood - Sarah Beth Durst, 2017 16. One Word Kill - Mark Lawrence, 2019 17. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett, 1957 18. The Help - Kathryn Stockett, 2009 19. The Little Breton Bistro - Nina George, 2017 Other 16. Amazing Spider-Man: Amazing Grace - José Molina, 2016 17. Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows, Vol. 4: Are You Okay, Annie? - Jody Houser, 2018 18. Shutter, Vol. 3: Quo Vadis - Joe Keatinge, 2016 June Novels 20. Wards of Faerie - Terry Brooks, 2012 21. Lie Maker - Kay L. Moody, 2019 Other 19. Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening - Marjorie Liu, 2016 20. Wolverine & the X-Men, Vol. 2: Death of Wolverine - Jason Latour, 2015 July Novels 22. Bloodfire Quest - Terry Brooks, 2012 23. Limited Wish - Mark Lawrence, 2019 Other 21. The Essential Calvin & Hobbes* - Bill Watterson, 1988 22. Rose, Vol. 1: The Last Light - Meredith Finch, 2017 23. Spidey, Vol. 1: First Day - Robbie Thompson, 2016 24. The Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide, Vol. 7 - Dan Slott, 2018 25. The Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. - Dan Slott, 2018 26. The Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide, Vol. 8 - Dan Slott, 2018 August Novels 24. The Invisible Library - Genevieve Cogman, 2015 25. Shatterworld, Part II - AC Lillywhite, 2018 26. Seven Forges - James A. Moore, 2013 27. Witch Wraith - Terry Brooks, 2013 Other 27. The Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide, Vol. 9 - Dan Slott, 2018 28. The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Back to Basics - Nick Spencer, 2018 29. Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Into the Twilight - Chip Zdarsky, 2017 September Novels 28. The Nonexistent Knight - Italo Calvino, 1959 29. Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer, 2014 30. Solaris - Stanisław Lem, 1961 Other 30. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 10: Time and Again - G. Willow Wilson, 2019 31. The Life of Captain Marvel - Margaret Stohl, 2019 32. Symbiote Spider-Man - Peter David, 2019 33. Voices of a Distant Star (ほしのこえ) - Mizu Sahara, 2002
Books: 1. The Sopranos Sessions - Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall 2. Marvelocity: The Marvel Comics Art of Alex Ross - Alex Ross 3. Christine - Stephen King 4. Basketball: A Love Story - Dan Klores 5. Atomic Habits - James Clear 6. Pet Sematary - Stephen King 7. Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy - Amy Ratcliffe 8. The Talisman - Stephen King 9. Collision: Stories - J.S. Breukelaar 10. Crush It! - Gary Vaynerchuk 11. Thinner - Richard Bachman (Stephen King) 12. Walk This Way - Geoff Edgers 13. Elevated: The Global Rise of the NBA - Harvey Araton 14. Skeleton Crew - Stephen King 15. The Bachman Books - Stephen King 16. IT - Stephen King 17. Keep Going - Austin Kleon 18. The Eyes of the Dragon - Stephen King 19. The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King 20. Misery - Stephen King 21. Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down - Gina McIntyre 22. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling (re-read) 23. Star Wars: Master and Apprentice - Claudia Gray 24. The Tommyknockers - Stephen King 25. Got to Give the People What They Want - Jalen Rose 26. Boy's Life - Robert R. McCammon 27. The Dark Half - Stephen King 28. LeBron Inc. - Brian Windhorst Comics: 1. Gotham City Sirens Book Two - Peter Calloway 2. The Umbrella Academy Vol. 1 - Gerard Way 3. The Umbrella Academy Vol. 2 - Gerard Way 4. Watchmen - Alan Moore (re-read)
want to do this this year!!! My Goodreads (getting better at keeping this updated! 1. Cockroaches - Scholastique Mukasonga 2. Lose Well - Chris Gethard 3. Within the Walls - Giorgio Bassani 4. The Broom of the System - David Foster Wallace 5. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib 6. White Noise - Don DeLillo 7. The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai 8. Asymmetry - Lisa Halliday 9. Exit West - Mohsin Hamid 10. The Mothers - Brit Bennett 11. Once More We Saw Stars - Jayson Greene 12. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion 13. The White Album - Joan Didion 14. The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion 15. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong 16. The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead 17. Let's Go (So We Can Get Back) - Jeff Tweedy 18. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead 19. Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison 20. Beloved - Toni Morrison 21. The Testaments - Margaret Atwood 22. A Fortune for Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib
I started it and stopped so many times the last two years, but over break I restarted it from the beginning. I have 300 pages left to go. Yes, absolutely draining emotionally
2019 Goal: 50 Books Goodreads: Joel Gustafson January C.S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia Paul Tremblay - The Cabin at the End of the World Stephen King - Pet Semetary Matt Laidlaw - How We Read the Bible: 8 Ways to Engage the Bible with Our Students Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing Joseph Fink - Alice Isn't Dead February Leif Enger - Peace Like A River Alan Noble - Disruptive Witness Bob Woodward - Fear: Trump in the White House Grady Hendrix - We Sold Our Souls Ania Ahlborn - Within These Walls Nick Cutter - The Troop Kody Keplinger - That’s Not What Happened March Nick Cutter - Little Heaven Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House Malala Yousafzai - I Am Malala Tara Westover - Educated Ania Ahlborn - Brother Toni Morrison - Beloved Jeanette Walls - The Glass Castle Mary Shelley - Frankenstein April Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney Reverend Peter Laws - The Frighteners: A Journey Through Our Cultural Obsession with the Macabre Thomas Olde Heuvelt - Hex C.J. Tudor - The Hiding Place Peter Enns - How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers—and Why That’s Great News May Stephen King - The Stand John Darnielle - Universal Harvester Nick Cutter - The Deep Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None June Stephen King - Lisey's Story Alma Katsu - The Hunger Blake Crouch - Recursion July Josh Malerman - Unbury Carol Jennifer L. Eberhardt - Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do Lauren Beukes - The Shining Girls Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys N.T. Wright - Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church August Shirley Jackson - The Sundial September Jac Jemc - The Grip of It Comics The Amazing Spider-Man Batman (Snyder/Capullo) Black Panther Captain America Captain Marvel Champions Daredevil Detective Comics Die Fantastic Four Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Guardians of the Galaxy House of X The Immortal Hulk Middlewest Miles Morales: Spider-Man Paper Girls Powers of X Saga Thor The Vision War of the Realms West Coast Avengers (RIP) X-23 (RIP)