Book Lists 2019 Book

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!

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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

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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: 150

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
39. Larry Correia – The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent
40. Michael J. Sullivan – Heir of Novron
41. Kurt Vonnegut – The Sirens of Titan
42. Pierce Brown – Dark Age
43. Peter Clines – 14
44. Peter Clines – The Fold
45. Dennis Taylor – The Singularity Trap
46. Colson Whitehead – The Underground Railroad
47. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
48. Khaled Hosseini – A Thousand Splendid Suns
49. Rebekah Crane – The Upside of Falling Down
50. Jeremy Robinson – Space Force
51. Joshua Gayou – Commune: Book Two
52. Michael J. Sullivan – The Crown Tower
53. Michael J. Sullivan – The Viscount and the Witch
54. Michael J. Sullivan – The Rose and the Thorn
55. Michael J. Sullvian – The Jester
56. George Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo
57. Kimi Eisele – The Lightest Object in the Universe
58. Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland – The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
59. Ben H. Winters – Underground Airlines
60. William R. Forstchen – One Second After
61. William R. Fortschen – One Year After
62. P.W. Singer & August Cole – Ghost Fleet
63. Stephen King – Dreamcatcher
64. Melissa Erin Jackson – Pawsitively Secretive
65. Elizabeth Kostova – The Historian
66. Brandon Sanderson – Starsight
67. Hank Green – An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
68. Octavia E. Butler – Dawn
69. Stephen King – Carrie
70. Khaled Hosseini – And The Mountains Echoed

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
14. Rick Warren – The Purpose Driven Life
15. Dave Barry – Best. State. Ever.
16. Suzanne Stabile – The Road Back to You
17. Suzanne Stabile – The Road Back to You: Workbook
18. Erin Weiner – The Geography of Genius
19. Mark Buchanan – The Four Best Places to Live
20. Heinrich Harrer – Seven Years in Tibet
21. Jared Yates Sexton – The Man They Wanted Me To Be
22. Rick Steves – Travel As A Political Act
23. Edward Snowden – Permanent Record
24. Lysa Terkeurst – It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way
25. Paul David Tripp – Awe: Why It Matters for Everything We Think, Say, and Do
26. Lewis Howes – The Mask of Masculinity
27. Lysa Terkeurst – Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely
28. Tembi Locke – From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
29. Glenn Greenwald – No Place To Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
30. Chris Guillebeau – The Art of Non-Comformity
31. Erik Raymond – Chasing Contenment

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
18. Sue Hendra – Keith: The Cat with the Magic Hat
19. Jacqueline Davies – Panda Pants
20. Ree Drummond – Charlie the Ranch Dog
21. Ree Drummond – Charlie and the Christmas Kitty
22. Emily Jenkins – A Greyhound, A Groundhog
23. Nathan W. Pyle – Strange Planet
24. Joshua George & Sarah Lawrence - Roar! Went The Lion

Graphic Novels

1. Robert Kirkman - The Walking Dead: Volume 1 – Days Gone By
2. Garth Ennis – The Boys, Vol. 1

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 - Alien III
14. Todd Zwillich – The Man Who Knew the Way To the Moon
15. Blake Crouch – Summer Frost
16. Veronica Roth – Ark
17. Amor Towles – You Have Arrived At Your Destination
18. Paul Tremblay – The Last Conversation
19. Andy Weir – Randomize
20. N.K. Jemisin – Emergency Skin
21. Anne Peterson – The Burnout Generation
22. Stephanie K. Smith - Carnival Row: Tangle in the Dark
23. Vi Keeland & Penelope Ward – The Christmas Pact
24. Max Byrd – Pont Neuf

 

I've kinda decided to attempt to get through my bookshelf this year, we'll see how well that goes

 

Same, actually. I started it last year. I'm down to... *walks around room counting* ...25!

 

I counted 25 on the first 2 shelves... And that's just the hardbacks!

 

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
64.) Soldiers Live (The Chronicle of the Black Company: Books of the Glittering Stone #9) - Glen Cook
65.) The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn #1) - Tad Williams
66.) Wraiths of the Broken Land - S. Craig Zahler
67.) Stone of Farewell (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn #2) - Tad Williams
68.) The Reddening - Adam L G Nevill
69.) To Green Angel Tower (Memory, Sorrow and Thorn #3) - Tad Williams
70.) A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
71.) A Shadow of All Night Falling (Dread Empire: A Cruel Wind #1) - Glen Cook
72.) Corpus Chrome, Inc. - S. Craig Zahler
73.) October's Baby (Dread Empire: A Cruel Wind #2) - Glen Cook
74.) Wild Cards (Wild Cards: Original Triad #1) - George R R Martin...
75.) Starsight (Skyward #2) - Brandon Sanderson
76.) All Darkness Met (Dread Empire: A Cruel Wind #3) - Glen Cook
77.) Aces High (Wild Cards: Original Triad #2) - George R R Martin...
78.) The Whisper Man - Alex North
79.) Jokers Wild (Wild Cards: Original Triad #3) - George R R Martin...
80.) Warrior of the Altaii - Robert Jordan
81.) Aces Abroad (Wild Cards:The Puppetman Quartet #4) - George R R Martin...
82.) The Heart of What Was Lost (Osten Ard) - Tad Williams

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
79.) Brilliant - Brian Michael Bendis & Mark Bagley
80.) Thumbprint - Joe Hill, Jason Ciaramella & Vic Malhotra
81.) Horde - Marguerite Bennett, Leila Leiz, Guy Major & Marshall Dillon
82.) The New Gods - Jack Kirby
83.) V for Vendetta - Alan Moore & David Lloyd
84.) Lex Luthor: Man of Steel - Brian Azzarello & Lee Bermejo
85.) Hero Killer - Tony McDougall & Martinho Abreu
86.) Fatale: Death Chases Me (#1) - Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
87.) Chrononauts: Futureshock - Mark Millar & Eric Canete
88.) Faker - Mike Carey & Jock
89.) A Red Mass For Mars - Jonathan Hickman & Ryan Bodenheim
90.) Fatale: The Devil’s Business (#2) - Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips
91.) Gotham Central (complete series) - Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka & Michael Lark
92.) Planetary (complete series) - Warren Ellis & John Cassady
93.) Justice - Jim Krueger, Alex Ross & Doug Braithwaite

 

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
23. How To - Randall Munroe
24. Christine - Stephen King
25. The Little Blue Kite - Mark Z. Danielewski
26. Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
27. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
28. The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
29. Ariel - Sylvia Plath
30. The Hot Zone - Richard Preston

 

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

October
Novels
31. A Gathering of Shadows - VE Schwab, 2016
32. I Don't Want To Kill You - Dan Wells, 2011
33. The Second Story - Neil Patrick Harris, 2018
34. The Croning - Laird Barron, 2012
35. The Colour out of Space - HP Lovecraft, 1927

Other
34. Wolverines, Vol. 4: Destiny - Charles Soule, 2015
35. Batman, Vol. 9: Bloom - Scott Snyder, 2016
36. Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Vol. 2: Most Wanted - Chip Zdarsky, 2018
37. Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn - Jeff Lemire, 2018
38. Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts - Anthony Bourdain, 2018

November
Novels
36. At the Mountains of Madness - HP Lovecraft, 1936
37. The Fisherman - John Langan, 2016
38. Sourdough - Robin Sloan, 2017
39. Murder in the Crooked House - Soji Shimada, 1982
40. Theft of Swords - Michael J. Sullivan, 2011

Other
39. War of the Realms Prelude - Jason Aaron, 2019
40. The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Vol. 7 - Yoshiki Tanaka, 2017
41. Avengers, Vol. 1: The Final Host - Jason Aaron, 2018

December
Novels
41. The Rookie - Scott Sigler, 2007

Other
42. Avengers, Vol. 2: World Tour - Jason Aaron, 2019
43. Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Vol. 3: Amazing Fantasy - Chip Zdarsky, 2018
44. Fatale, Vol. 5: Curse the Demon - Ed Brubaker, 2014
45. Avengers, Vol. 3: War of the Vampires - Jason Aaron, 2019

 

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
29. Off Season - Jack Ketchum
30. The Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
31. Four Past Midnight - Stephen King
32. The Institute - Stephen King
33. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz
34. Welcome to Nightvale - Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
35. SprawlBall by Kirk Goldsberry
36. The Waste Lands - Stephen King
37. Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (33 1/3 series) - Christopher R. Weingarten
38. Needful Things - Stephen King
39. Gerald’s Game - Stephen King
40. Halloween Fiend - C.V. Hunt
41. A House at the Bottom of a Lake - Josh Malerman
42. Dolores Claiborne - Stephen King
43. Movies (And Other Things) - Shea Serrano
44. Hide and Seek - Jack Ketchum
45. The Saturday Night Ghost Club - Craig Davidson
46. The Revised Vault of Walt - Jim Korkis
47. Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King
48. Black Spire - Delilah S. Dawson
49. Insomnia - Stephen King

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)
5. Stranger Things: The Other Side - Jody Houser
6. Mister Miracle - Tom King
7. Pumpkinheads - Rainbow Rowell
8. Books of Magic Vol. 1 - Kat Howard

 

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
23. Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
24. A Bright Room Called Day - Tony Kushner
25. Nothing to See Here - Kevin Wilson
26. The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
27. Pinkies - Shane Hinton
28. Person - Sam Pink
29. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
30. Electric Arches - Eve L. Ewing

 

Comics:
1) Happy!

 

Fiction
1) A Little Life- Hanya Yanagihara

Nonfiction
1) Abandon Me- Melissa Febos

 

read A Little Life early last year, that was a tough read emotionally

 

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

October
Stephen Chbosky - Imaginary Friend
Stephen King - Doctor Sleep

November
Sarah Bessey - Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God
Neal Shusterman - Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, Book #1)
Neal Shusterman - Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, Book #2)

December
Neal Shusterman - The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, Book #3)
Rachel Held Evans - Inspired

Comics
Absolute Carnage
The Amazing Spider-Man
Avengers
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
Marauders
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)
X-Force
X-Men