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GoodReads 2016 Goal: 50 | Actual: 50 2017 Goal: 75 | Actual: 80 2018 Goal: 50 | Actual: 100 2019 Goal: 50 | Actual: 150 2020 Goal: 75 | Actual: 141 January: 13 February: 23 March: 20 April: 6 May: 10 June: 11 July: 10 August: 14 September: 16 October: 5 November: 9 December
No big goals for me this year outside of reading Dune and Foundation before their respective movie/TV adaptations come out. 1. Lethal White - Robert Galbraith 2. The Outsider - Stephen King 3. The Shining Girls - Lauren Beukes 4. Universal Harvester - John Darnielle 5. Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 - Annie Proulx 6. Dune - Frank Herbert 7. High School - Sara Quin and Tegan Quin 8. The Dark Forest - Liu Cixin 9. To Fly Among the Stars - Rebecca Siegel 10. Death’s End - Liu Cixin 11. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri 12. The Terminal Man - Michael Crichton 13. The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke 14. The Iliad - Homer 15. Room - Emma Donoghue 16. Deadeye Dick - Kurt Vonnegut 17. Big Beautiful Book of Bass - Geddy Lee 18. The Testaments - Margaret Atwood 19. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison 20. The Happiness Trap - Russ Harris 21. We Were the Mulvaneys - Joyce Carol Oates 22. Divergent - Veronica Roth 23. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt 24. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson 25. Insurgent - Veronica Roth 26. Cujo - Stephen King 27. Allegiant - Veronica Roth 28. The Odyssey - Homer 29. Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor 30. Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky 31. Solutions and Other Problems - Allie Brosh 32. The Answer Is... - Alex Trebek 33. The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd 34. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams 35. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens 36. Foundation - Isaac Asimov 37. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf 38. The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead 39. Night - Elie Wiesel 40. A Time To Kill - John Grisham 41. Interior Chinatown - Charles Yu
I've been reading heavily for the past few years so I think I'm taking a step back and do other things for entertainment but still want to read sure books that I've had for years so I'll try for 12 actual books this year.
Novels 1.) Down and Dirty (Wild Cards: The Puppetman Quartet #5) - George R R Martin... 2.) The Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Luo Guanzhong (translated by Martin Palmer) 3.) Ace in the Hole (Wild Cards: The Puppetman Quartet #6) - George R R Martin... 4.) Husk - Rachel Autumn Deering 5.) Big Bad - Christian Galacar 6.) Dead Man’s Hand (Wild Cards: The Puppetman Quartet #7) - George R R Martin & John Jos. Miller 7.) The Witchwood Crown (The Last King of Osten Ard #1) - Tad Williams 8.) One-Eyed Jacks (Wild Cards: The Rox Triad #8) - George R R Martin... 9.) Empire of Grass (The Last King of Osten Ard #2) - Tad Williams 10.) Jokertown Shuffle (Wild Cards: The Rox Triad #9) - George R R Martin... 11.) The Rage of Dragons (The Burning #1) - Evan Winters 12.) The Pagan Night (The Hallowed War #1) - Tim Akers 13.) Horrorstör - Grady Hendrix 14.) The Chain - Adrian McKinty 15.) The Iron Hound (The Hallowed War #2) - Tim Akers 16.) The Grip of It - Jac Jemc 17.) Blood Games - Richard Laymon 18.) The Winter Vow (The Hallowed War #3) - Tim Akers 19.) We Sold Our Souls - Grady Hendrix 20.) Kill Creek - Scott Thomas 21.) Dune - Frank Herbert 22.) Malice (The Faithful and the Fallen #1) - John Gwynne 23.) The Fire in His Hands (Dread Empire: A Fortress In Shadow #4) - Glen Cook 24.) Mean Business on North Ganson Street - S. Craig Zahler 25.) With Mercy Toward None (Dread Empire: A Fortress In Shadow #5) -Glen Cook 26.) The Woods Are Dark - Richard Laymon 27.) Valor (The Faithful and the Fallen #2) - John Gwynne 28.) The Chill - Scott Carson 29.) Ruin (The Faithful and the Fallen #3) - John Gwynne 30.) The Deep - Alma Katsu 31.) True Crime - Samantha Kolesnik 32.) Wrath (The Faithful and the Fallen #4) - John Gwynne 33.) The Armageddon Rag - George R R Martin 34.) The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller 35.) The Vorrh (#1) - B. Catling 36.) Dreamsongs (vol 1) - George R R Martin 37.) The Erstwhile (The Vorrh #2) - B. Catling 38.) The Tunnel - William H. Gass 39.) Hellraiser: The Toll - Clive Barker & Mark Alan Miller 40.) Camp Slasher - Dan Padavona 41.) The Cloven (The Vorrh #3) - B. Catling 42.) Renegades - Shaun Hutson 43.) Black Mountain (Isaiah Coledrige #2) - Laird Barron 44.) The Worst Is Yet to Come - S.P. Miskowksi 45.) If It Bleeds - Stephen King 46.) Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions #1) - Michael R. Fletcher 47.) Authority (Southern Reach #2) - Jeff VanderMeer 48.) The Mirror's Truth (Manifest Delusions #2) - Michael R. Fletcher 49.) Hardcase (Joe Kurtz #1) - Dan Simmons 50.) Swarm and Steel (Manifest Delusions #3) - Michael R. Fletcher 51.) The Crook Factory - Dan Simmons 52.) The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon 53.) Black Hills - Dan Simmons 54.) Prince of Thorns (The Broken Empire #1) - Mark Lawrence 55.) Dead South (#1) - Zach Bohannon 56.) The Court of Broken Knives (Empires of Dust #1) - Anna Smith Spark 57.) Hard Freeze (Joe Kurtz #2) - Dan Simmons 58.) The Tower of Living and Dying (Empires of Dust #2) - Anna Smith Spark 59.) Hard as Nails (Joe Kurtz #3) - Dan Simmons 60.) The House of Sacrifice (Empires of Dust #3) - Anna Smith Spark 61.) Flashback - Dan Simmons 62.) The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade #1) - Seth Dickinson 63.) Savaging the Dark - Christopher Conlon 64.) The Monster Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade #2) - Seth Dickinson 65.) Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre - Max Brooks 66.) Smoke and Stone (City of Sacrifice #1) - Michael R. Fletcher 67.) The Ceremonies - T. E. D. Klein 68.) An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat: A Chronicle of the Dread Empire - Glen Cook 69.) I Am Behind You - John Ajvide Lindqvist 70.) Reap the East Wind (Dread Empire: Wrath of Kings #6) - Glen Cook 71.) Touch the Night - Max Booth III 72.) Angel of Death (A Glimpse of Hell #2) - Wade H. Garrett 73.) Parasite Eve - Hideaki Sena 74.) An Ill Fate Marshalling (Dread Empire: Wrath of Kings #7) - Glen Cook 75.) A Path To Coldness of Heart (Dread Empire: Wrath of Kings #8) - Glen Cook 76.) Survivor Song - Paul Tremblay 77.) Steel Remains (A Land Fit For Heroes #1) - Richard K. Morgan 78.) The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones 79.) Heroes Die (Acts of Caine #1) - Matthew Woodring Stover 80.) Between Two Fires - Christopher Buehlman 81.) Black Sun Rising (The Coldfire Trilogy #1) - C.S. Friedman 82.) Malorie (Bird Box #2) - Josh Malerman 83.) The Curse of the Mistwraith (The Wars of Light and Shadow #1) - Janny Wurts 84.) Those Across the River - Christopher Beuhlman 85.) Ships of Merior (The Wars of Light and Shadow #2) - Janny Wurts 86.) Wonderland -Zoje Stage 87.) The Living Dead - George A. Romero & Daniel Kraus 88.) Warhost of Vastmark (The Wars of Light and Shadow #3) - Janny Wurts 89.) The Hollow Ones (The Blackwood Tapes #1) - Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan 90.) The Tyrant Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade #3) - Seth Dickinson 91.) Communion - Whitley Striber 92.) The Bright Lands - John Fram 93.) Fugitive Prince (The Wars of Light and Shadow: The Alliance of Light #4) - Janny Wurts 94.) Last Days - Brian Evenson 95.) Mr. Shivers - Robert Jackson Bennet 96.) The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons #2) - Jenn Lyons 97.) Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies - John Langan 98.) Grand Conspiracy (The Wars of Light and Shadow: The Alliance of Light #5) - Janny Wurts 99.) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 100.) Blade of Tyshalle (Acts of Caine #2) - Matthew Woodring Stover 101.) The Open Curtain - Brian Evenson 102.) The Memory of Souls (A Chorus of Dragons #3) - Jenn Lyons 103.) Darkness, Tell Us - Richard Laymon 104.) Camp Ghoul Mountain VI: The Official Novelization - Jonathan Raab 105.) The Trouble With Peace (The First Law: Age of Madness #2) - Joe Abercrombie 106.) To Sleep in a Sea of Stars - Christopher Paolini 107.) The Summer I Died (The Roger Huntington Saga #1) - Ryan C. Thomas 108.) Prince of Thieves - Chuck Hogan 109.) Peril's Gate (The Wars of Light and Shadow: The Alliance of Light #6) - Janny Wurts 110.) Caine Black Knife (Acts of Caine #3) - Matthew Woodring Stover 111.) Born To Bleed (The Roger Huntington Saga #2) - Ryan C. Thomas 112.) A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1) - Arkady Martine 113.) Traitor's Knot (The Wars of Light and Shadow: The Alliance of Light #7) - Janny Wurts 114.) Caine's Law (Acts of Caine #4) - Matthew Woodring Stover 115.) All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By - John Farris 116.) Empire of Silence (Sun Eater #1) - Christopher Ruocchio 117.) The Well - Jack Cady 118.) Stormed Fortress (The Wars of Light and Shadow: The Alliance of Light #8) - Janny Wurts 119.) Intercepts - T. J. Payne 120.) The Turn of the Screw - Henry James 121.) The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency #1) - John Scalzi 122.) Initiate's Trial (The Wars of Light and Shadow: Sword of the Canon #9) - Janny Wurts 123.) The Long Last Call - John Skipp 124.) Conscience - John Skipp 125.) Destiny's Trial - (The Wars of Light and Shadow: Sword of the Canon #10) - Janny Wurts 126.) Clown in a Cornfield - Adam Cesare 127.) Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) - Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff 128.) The Flood (Blackwater #1) - Michael McDowell 129.) The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien 130.) The Levee (Blackwater #2) - Michael McDowell 131.) The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lords of the Rings #1) - J. R. R. Tolkien 132.) Wyrd and Other Derelictions - Adam L. G. Nevill 133.) The House (Blackwater #3) - Michael McDowell 134.) Seveneves - Neal Stephenson 135.) The Silmarillion - J. R. R. Tolkien 136.) Dawnshard (Stormlight Archive) - Brandon Sanderson 137.) The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2) - J. R. R. Tolkien 138.) The War (Blackwater #4) - Michael McDowell 139.) Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive #4) - Brandon Sanderson 140.) Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien 141.) Spiral (Ring #2) - Kōji Suzuki, translated by Glynne Walley 142.) The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings #3) - J. R. R. Tolkien 143.) The Fortune (Blackwater #5) - Michael McDowell 144.) Ready Player Two - Ernest Cline 145.) The Rain (Blackwater #6) - Michael McDowell 146.) The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning #2) - Evan Winter 147.) American Elsewhere - Robert Jackson Bennett 148.) A Time of Dread (Of Blood and Bone #1) - John Gwynne 149.) Ring Shout - P. Djèlí Clark 150.) A Time of Blood (Of Blood and Bone #2) - John Gwynne 151.) Audition - Ryū Murakami 152.) Ghostland (#1) - Duncan Ralston 153.) Bloodline - Jess Lourey 154.) A Time of Courage (Of Blood and Bone #3) - John Gwynne Comics 1.) Fatale: West of Hell (#3) - Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips 2.) Fables (complete series) - Bill Willingham & Mark Buckingham 3.) Justice League 3000 - Keith Giffen, J M DeMatteis, & Howard Porter 4.) The October Faction (complete series) - Steve Niles & Damien Worm 5.) IXth Generation - Matt Hawkins & Stjepan Šejić 6.) From Hell - Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell 7.) Coffin Hill - Caitlin Kittredge & Inaki Miranda 8.) Silent Hill: Past Life - Tom Waltz & Menton J. Matthews III 9.) Batman: City of Light - Arnold Pander, Jacob Pander & Mark Pannicia 10.) Batman: Detective #27 - Michael Usland & Peter Snejbjerg 11.) Batman: Joker's Apprentice - C.J. Henderson, Trevor von Eeden & Joe Rubinstein 12.) Batman: Europa - Matteo Casali, Brian Azzarello, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Jim Lee, Diego Latorre & Gerald Parel 13.) Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again - Frank Miller & Lynn Varley 14.) Desolation Jones: Made in England - Warren Ellis & J. H. Williams III 15.) Leaving Megalopolis (#1) - Gail Simone & Jim Calafiore 16.) Dark Knight Returns: The Last Crusade - Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, John Romita Jr. & Peter Steigerwald 17.) The Manhattan Projects (complete series) - Jonathan Hickman, Nick Pitarra & Jordie Bellaire 18.) Sentient - Jeff Lemire & Gabriel Walta 19.) Eve of Extinction - Sal Simeone, Steve Simeone, Nik Virella & Ruth Redmond 20.) All Star Batman & Robin: The Boy Wonder - Frank Miller, Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair 21.) Saga of the Swamp Thing: Love and Death (#2) - Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette & John Totleben 22.) Batman: The Dark Knight: Master Race - Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert & Klaus Johnson 23.) Incorruptible (complete series) - Mark Waid, Horacio Domingues, Marcio Takara & Damian Couceiro 24.) Doom Patrol (Book 1) - Grant Morrison, Dough Braithwaite, Richard Case, Scott Hanna, John Nyberg & Carlos Garzon 25.) Irredeemable (complete series) - Mark Waid, Peter Krause & Diego Barreto 26.) Batman: Elseworlds (#1) - Doug Moench, Byron Preiss, P. Craig Russell, Norm Breyfogle, Alan Brennert... 26.) Doom Patrol (Book 2) - Grant Morrison, Kelley Jones, Richard Case, Mike Dringenberg, Mark Mckenna & Steve Yeowell 27.) The Sandman (complete series) - Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg... 28.) The Joker: 80th Anniversary Special - Scott Snyder, Tom Taylor, Jock, James Tynion IV... 29.) Birds of Prey (black label) - Brian Azzarello, Emanuela Lupacchino, Ray McCarthy, Trish Mulvihill & John Kalisz 30.) Doom Patrol (Book 3) - Grant Morrison, Sean Phillips, Richard Case, Stan Woch, Ken Steacy & Philip Bond 31.) Fire Power: Prelude (#1) - Robert Kirkman, Chris Samnee, Matt Wilson & Rus Wooton 32.) Streets of Glory - Garth Ennis & Mike Wolfer 33.) Superman: Up, Up, and Away! - Kurt Busiek, Geoff Johns, Pete Woods & Renato Geudes 34.) American Vampire: Ghost War (#3) - Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque & Sean Murphy 35.) Frostbite - Joshua Williamson, Jason Shawn Alexander & Luis Nct 36.) Superman: Brainiac - Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Jon Sibal & Brad Anderson 37.) Superman: New Krypton - Geoff Johns, James Robinson, Greg Rucka... 38.) Batman: Gotham After Midnight - Steve Niles & Kelley Jones 39.) Powers: The Best Ever - Brian Michael Bendis & Michael Avon Oeming
My goal was 15 last year and I basically read 3. But it was also my first year of grad school so I didn’t end up reading for pleasure all that much. I’m going to have the same goal of 15 this year and over winter break I’ve been reading The Magicians trilogy. Currently on the second, The Magician King. I’m enjoying them just as much as the tv show.
My goals have went up 25 each year I've really kicked in. It's now at 100 for this year, I managed 75 last year but really didn't commit over the summer so hoping to bring the number up.
I don't think I'll set a book goal for myself as a number per se, but I do know I'd like to be better about keeping up with my reading and try to finish the huge backlog of books I buy and inevitably don't finish reading. I probably have close to 20 books that I've started or bought and never touched and I need to be better about that.
I did 30 last year so I think I'm gonna shoot for 40, might reevaluate later tho since I might be reaching for some longer books this year. goodreads 1. Téa Obreht — Inland 2. Toni Morrison — Sula 3. Ursula K. Le Guin — The Left Hand of Darkness 4. Don DeLillo — Point Omega 5. Lucy Ellmann — Ducks, Newburyport 6. Jenny Slate — Little Weirds 7. Shea Serrano — Where Do You Think We Are? Ten Illustrated Essays About Scrubs 8. Joan Didion — Play It as It Lays 9. Matt Colquhoun — Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher 10. Luke O'Neil — Welcome to Hell World 11. Carmen Maria Machado — In The Dream House 12. Virginia Woolf — To The Lighthouse 13. James Baldwin — One Day When I Was Lost 14. Angie Cruz — Dominicana 15. Brit Bennett — The Vanishing Half 16. Angela Davis — Are Prisons Obsolete? 17. Alex S. Vitale — The End of Policing 18. William Shakespeare — Richard II 19. Gayl Jones — Mosquito 20. James Baldwin — The Fire Next Time 21. Don DeLillo — Mao II 22. Jason Diamond — The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs 23. Basquiat's Defacement: The Untold Story 24. Michael DeForge — Big Kids 25. Franz Kafka — The Metamorphosis and Other Stories 26. Iain Reid — I'm Thinking of Ending Things 27. Charlie Kaufman — Antkind 28. Megha Majumdar — A Burning 29. Sasha Geffen — Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary 30. Yoko Ogawa — The Memory Police 31. Mark Fisher — Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? 32. Mark Fisher — The Weird and the Eerie 33. David Lynch and Kristine McKenna — Room to Dream 34. Leor Galil — Chicago Pop Stars, Hardcore Heroes, and House Legends 35. Matt Walker — Gainesville Punk: A History of Bands & Music 36. Frank Herbert — Dune 37. William Shakespeare — Hamlet 38. Jean-Paul Sartre — No Exit 39. Gabriel Bump — Everywhere You Don't Belong 40. Raymond Carver — What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
2020 Goal: 55 Books Goodreads: Joel Gustafson January Lois Lowry - The Giver Lois Lowry - Gathering Blue Lois Lowry - Messenger Lois Lowry - Son Stephen King - The Institute February Tomi Adeyemi - Children of Blood and Bone Scott Carson - The Chill Ibram X. Kendi - How to Be an Antiracist March Louis Sachar - Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom Lucy Foley - The Hunting Party Cherie Priest - The Toll Danielle Trussoni - The Ancestor C.J. Tudor - The Other People April Alma Katsu - The Deep Stephen King - Carrie Richard Rohr - Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer Grady Hendrix - The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Emily St. John Mandel - Station Eleven Victor LaValle - The Changeling Josh Malerman - Inspection May Andy Davidson - The Boatman's Daughter Matt Ruff - Lovecraft Country Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Water Dancer Stephen King - The Dead Zone Laura Purcell - The Silent Companions Dominique DuBois Gilliard - Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores John Steinbeck - East of Eden June Beverly Daniel Tatum - Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Ijeoma Oluo - So You Want to Talk About Race Clad McLeod Chapman - The Remaking Austin Channing Brown - I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness Josh Malerman - Bird Box Jemar Tisby - The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism July N.K. Jemisin - The City We Became Stephen King - The Green Mile Stephen Graham Jones - The Only Good Indians Benjamin Percy - The Dead Lands August Kevin Wilson - Nothing to See Here John Fram - The Bright Lands Paul Tremblay - Disappearance at Devil's Rock Cyrus Bozorgmehr - Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan's Million Dollar Secret Album, the Devolution of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1 Max Brooks - Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre Rachel Harrison - The Return Scott Sauls - A Gentle Answer: Our 'Secret Weapon' in an Age of Us Against Them September Kristin Kobes Du Mez - Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Mexican Gothic Ibi Zoboi & Yusef Salaam - Punching the Air Paul Tremblay - Survivor Song October Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express Rumaan Alam - Leave the World Behind Yaa Gyasi - Transcendent Kingdom Stephen Graham Jones - Mongrels William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist Adam Nevill - The Ritual November Adam Cesare - Clown in a Cornfield Cadwell Turnbull - The Lesson T. Kingfisher - The Twisted Ones December Stephen King - Salem's Lot Isabel Wilkerson - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Victor LaValle - Big Machine Henri Nouwen - Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World Craig DiLouie - Children of the Red Peak (expected)
2020 Goal: 30 books Got a lot of longer books to read so going for a modest goal 1. Recursion- Blake Crouch 2. Ghosts of the Tsunami - Richard Lloyd Parry 3. Fall of Giants - Ken Follett *Started in 2019* 4. Cibola Burn - James S.A. Corey 5. Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA - Amaryllis Fox
2020 Goal: 52 books I accidentally go on Kindle downloading sprees and then never read the books that I save in my Kindlemania. Gonna try to get through them. Edit: I developed an obsession with organised crime romance books but I'm still too embarrassed to include them (10 plus! I can't stop) 1. What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell 2. Normal People, Sally Rooney 3. Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney 4. Man Repeller, Leandra Medine 5. My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh 6. I'll Meet You There, Heather Demetrios 7. My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell 8. It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover 9. They Both Die At The End, Adam Silvera 10. This Is Not A Test, Courtney Summers 11. Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan 12. The Best Minds of My Generation, Allen Ginsberg 13. Tithe, Holly Black 14. Voyage In The Dark, Jean Rhys 15. The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice, Allen Ginsberg 16. The Adversary, Ronnie Scott 17. See What You Made Me Do, Jess Hill
My goal for 2020 is 100 books: 50 novels/novellas/whatever, 50 comics/manga/whatever. I'm also focusing on working through my backlog, to the extent that I'm using a d20 corresponding to the books on my shelves to pick what I read next and limiting new series/authors/purchases until I've knocked out a few. Should be a fun year—lots of good stuff coming up! January Novels 1. The Greyskull LP - John Sheaffer, 2012 2. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov, 1962 3. The High Druid's Blade - Terry Brooks, 2014 Other 1. Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins - Jeff Lemire, 2019 2. Batman, Vol. 10: Epilogue - Scott Snyder, 2016 3. Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Vol. 4: Coming Home - Chip Zdarsky, 2018 February Novels 4. The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson, 1954 5. Godsgrave - Jay Kristoff, 2017 6. Now You're One of Us - Asa Nonami, 1993 7. The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien, 1954 8. Hyperion - Dan Simmons, 1989 9. A Simple Favor - Darcey Bell, 2017 10. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame, 1908 Other 4. The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Vol. 8 - Yoshiki Tanaka, 2017 5. Monstress, Vol. 2: The Blood - Marjorie Liu, 2017 March Novels 11. Starsight - Brandon Sanderson, 2019 12. Strange Ink - Gary Kemble, 2015 13. Barefoot Pilgrimage - Andrea Corr, 2019 14. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons, 1990 Other 6. The Hunt For Wolverine: Weapon Lost - Charles Soule, 2018 7. The Hunt For Wolverine: Adamantium Agenda - Tom Taylor, 2018 8. The Hunt For Wolverine: Claws of a Killer - Mariko Tamaki, 2018 9. The Hunt For Wolverine: Mystery in Madripoor - Jim Zub, 2018 10. Heroes in Crisis - Tom King, 2019 11. Aero, Vol. 1: Before the Storm - Zhou Liefen, 2020 April Novels 15. I'll Mature When I'm Dead - Dave Barry, 2010 16. The Darkling Child - Terry Brooks, 2015 17. A Princess of Mars* - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912 18. The Blue Zones of Happiness: Lessons From the World's Happiest People - Dan Buettner, 2017 19. The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners - Jack Hawley, 1970 Other 12. Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 4: The Wrath - John Layman, 2014 13. Amazing Spider-Man: Full Circle - Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer, 2020 14. Captain Marvel, Vol. 1: Re-Entry - Kelly Thompson, 2019 15. Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 5: Gothtopia - John Layman, 2014 May Novels 20. The Gods of Mars* - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1913 21. The Sorcerer's Daughter - Terry Brooks, 2016 22. The Two Towers* - JRR Tolkien, 1954 23. The Warlord of Mars* - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1914 24. The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman - Takuan Sōhō, 2012 25. Thuvia, Maid of Mars* - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1916 Other 16. Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 6: Icarus - Francis Manapul, 2015 17. Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 7: Anarky - Francis Manapul, 2016 18. The Bojeffries Saga - Alan Moore, Steve Parkhouse, 1994 19. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 2: Friends and Foes - Nick Spencer, 2019 June Novels 26. The Art of Living - Epictetus, 125 (republished 2013) 27. Rise of Empire - Michael J. Sullivan, 2010 28. The Road - Cormac McCarthy, 2006 29. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks, 2006 30. Masters of Atlantis* - Charles Portis, 1985 31. 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King, 1975 Other 20. Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 8: Blood of Heroes - Peter J. Tomasi, 2016 21. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 3: Lifetime Achievement - Nick Spencer, 2019 22. Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven - Marjorie Liu, 2018 23. Gideon Falls, Vol. 3: Stations of the Cross - Jeff Lemire, 2019 24. Rose, Vol. 2 - Ghosts - Meredith Finch, 2018 25. Grimm Fairy Tales, Vol. 5 - Ralph Tedesco, 2009 26. Captain Marvel, Vol. 2: Falling Star - Kelly Thompson, 2020 July Novels 32. Over Sea, Under Stone - Susan Cooper, 1965 33. The Return of the King* - J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955 Other 27. The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 3 - Kore Yamazaki, 2015 28. Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 9: Gordon at War - Peter J. Tomasi, 2016 August Novels 34. The Neverending Story - Michael Ende, 1979 35. The Reluctant Queen - Sarah Beth Durst, 2017 36. Return of the Jedi - James Kahn, 1983 37. The Blue Fairy Book - Andrew Lang, 1889 Other 29. Shutter, Vol. 4: All Roads - Joe Keatinge, 2016 30. Batman, Vol. 1: I Am Gotham - Tom King, 2017 September Novels 38. The Black Elfstone - Terry Brooks, 2017 39. The Skaar Invasion - Terry Brooks, 2018 Other 31. Spider-Geddon - Christos Gage, 2019 32. Spider-Geddon: Covert Ops - Christopher J. Priest, 2019 33. Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man, Vol. 5: Spider-Geddon - Sean Ryan, 2019 34. Spider-Geddon: Edge of Spider-Geddon - Jed Mackay, 2019 35. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 4: Hunted - Nick Spencer, 2019 October Novels 40. A Night in the Lonesome October - Roger Zelazny, 1993 41. The Dark is Rising - Susan Cooper, 1973 42. The Shadow out of Time - HP Lovecraft, 1936 43. A Conjuring of Light - VE Schwab, 2017 44. The Shrinking Man - Richard Matheson, 1956 Other 36. Batman: The Long Halloween - Jeph Loeb, 1999 37. Batman, Vol. 2: I Am Suicide - Tom King, 2017 November Novels 45. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making* - Catherynne M. Valente, 2011 46. Ghost Story - Peter Straub, 1979 47. Captives of the Flame - Samuel R. Delany, 1963 Other 38. The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 4 - Kore Yamazaki, 2016 39. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 5: Behind the Scenes - Nick Spencer, 2019 December Novels 48. The Stiehl Assassin - Terry Brooks, 2019 49. The Chessmen of Mars* - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1922 50. Among the Fallen - NS Dolkart, 2017 51. Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker, 2017 Other 40. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 6: Absolute Carnage - Nick Spencer, 2020 41. Shutter, Vol. 5: So Far Beyond - Joe Keatinge, 2017 42. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 7: 2099 - Nick Spencer, 2020 43. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 8: Threats & Menaces - Nick Spencer, 2020 44. Rose, Vol. 3: The Last Light - Meredith Finch, 2019
Does anyone count comics and make a higher goal? I feel like if I did I'd be in the hundreds and I know some people do!
That was what I was thinking, single issues would just be cheating..... I've always counted volumes at least, since I don't buy compendiums
i didn’t realize volumes and compendiums are different, haha. more than one together usually gets counted
Yeah, volumes are usually 5/6 single issues and compendiums are much larger! I agree that more than 1 should get counted.
I typically keep track of the series I read that I’ve been enjoying, but I don’t count them towards my goal.
I make a combined goal split pretty evenly between novels (/novellas, short stories) and comics (/manga/other). For example, like last year, my goal for 2020 is 100 books read, of which 50 will be proper novels and 50 will be volumes of comics (which is nice since I primarily read TPBs anyway, but if I read single issues I just count the volume as one entry) or manga or whatever. I figure that since I'm keeping track anyway I might as well incorporate it into my total goal; also, I want to make sure I'm not just reading comics all day at the expense of novels.
January 1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Chbosky, 1999) February 2. Rant (Palahniuk, 2007) October 3. If It Bleeds (King, 2020) November 4. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Reid, 2016)
January 1. Dog Songs (Mary Oliver, 2013) 2. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers, 1940) February 3. Another Country (James Baldwin, 1962) 4. Everything is Horrible and Wonderful: A Tragicomic Memoir of Genius, Heroin, Love and Loss (Stephanie Wittels Wachs, 2018) March 5. Collected Short Stories [The Other Foot; The April Witch; The Veldt] ( Ray Bradbury, 2001) July 6. Normal People [Sally Rooney, 2018)