List and discuss the books you read this year. The Book Thread Threads from 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
Not setting a number goal this year, but I have a couple bigger books I want to get to (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Recognitions), and I generally want to read more non-fiction than I have in the past. 1. A Promised Land - Barack Obama 2. Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam 3. The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 4. Tranny - Laura Jane Grace 5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce 6. Mountains Beyond Mountains - Tracy Kidder 7. Lost In the Funhouse - John Barth 8. The Secret History - Donna Tartt 9. The Yankee Years - Joe Torre and Tom Verducci 10. Imaginary Friend - Stephen Chbosky 11. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson 12. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 13. Lisey's Story - Stephen King 14. Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann 15. The Rest Is Noise: Listening To the Twentieth Century - Alex Ross 16. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Kurt Vonnegut 17. Crying In H Mart - Michelle Zauner 18. The Midnight Library - Matt Haig 19. Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn 20. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin 21. On a Sunbeam - Tillie Walden 22. Billy Summers - Stephen King 23. The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount - Italo Calvino 24. Punks In Peoria: Making a Scene In the American Heartland - Jonathan Wright and Dawson Barrett 25. Contact - Carl Sagan
Not sure I want to commit to a target again, but I might aim for around 20 like I did last year, seems like a reasonable number for me. I'm currently about 80 pages into Ducks, Newburyport and at the rate I'm going I'll be on it for a few months yet, so I probably don't want to get too ambitious.
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 2021 Goal: 75 | Actual: 140 January: 1. Latasha Morrison - Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation 2. Bob Goff - Dream Big: Know What You Want, Why You Want It, and What You're Going to Do About It 3. Joe Harris - The X-Files: Stolen Lives 4. William R. Forstchen - The Final Day (After #3) 5. Jeff Vandermeer - Dead Astronauts (Borne #2) 6. Joshua Gayou - Commune: Book 3 7. Joshua Gayou - Commune: Book 4 8. Michael J. Sullivan - The Death of Dulgath (Riyria Chronicles #3) 9. Michael J. Sullivan - The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter (Riyria Chronicles #4) 10. Paul David Tripp - Redeeming Money 11. Russell Moore - The Gospel and Racial Reconciliation 12. Angie Thomas - Concrete Rose (Garden Heights #0) February: 13. Leigh Bardugo - Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #1) 14. Leigh Bardugo - Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #2) 15. Leigh Bardugo - Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #3) 16. Leigh Bardugo - The Language of Thorns (Fairy Tales from the Grishaverse) 17. Leigh Bardugo - King of Scars (King of Scars Duology #1) 18. C.S. Lewis - A Grief Observed 19. N.K. Jemisin - The City We Became 20. Nic Stone - Dear Martin (Dear Martin #1) 21. Nic Stone - Dear Justyce (Dear Martin #2) 22. Jonathan Maberry - Countdown (Joe Ledger #0.5) March: 23. Jonathan Maberry - Patient Zero (Joe Ledger #1) 24. Jonathan Maberry - Zero Tolerance (Joe Ledger #1.1) 25. Jonathan Maberry - Material Witness (Joe Ledger #1.2) 26. Jonathan Maberry - Deep, Dark (Joe Ledger #1.3) 27. Neal Stephenson - Reamde 28. Jonathan Maberry - Dragon Factory (Joe Ledger #2) 29. Jonathan Maberry - Dog Days (Joe Ledger #2.5) 30. Jonathan Maberry - The King of Plagues (Joe Ledger #3) 31. Stephen King - Duma Key 32. Jeremy Robert Johnson - The Loop 33. C.S. Lewis - The Search For god 34. Joe Manganiello - Evolution: The Cutting Edge Guide to Breaking Down Mental Walls and Building the Body You've Always Wanted 35. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - In the FIrst Circle 36. William Ledbetter - Level Five (Killday #1) April: 37. William Ledbetter - Level Six (Killday #2) 38. Melissa Erin Jackson - Shuttered Secrets (Riley Thomas #2) 39. Jeremy Robinson - Alter 40. Leigh Bardugo - Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2) 41. Frida Clements - Have A Little Pun 42. Francine Rivers - Redeeming Love 43. C.S. Lewis - The Weight of Glory 44. C.S. Lewis - Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy #1) 45. C.S. Lewis - That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy #3) May: 46. Maria Semple - Where'd You Go, Bernadette 47. Kim Stanley Robinson - New York 2140 48. Donna Tartt - The Secret History 49. Mark Lawrence - One Word Kill (Impossible Times #1) 50. Mark Lawrence - Limited Wish (Impossible Times #2) 51. Mark Lawrence - Dispel Illusion (Impossible Times #3) 52. Erika L. Sanchez - I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 53. Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary 54. Emily Henry - People We Meet On Vacation 55. Ruta Sepetys - Salt to the Sea 56. Ling Ma - Severance 57. Jenn Lyons - The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons #1) June: 58. Jenn Lyons - The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons #2) 59. Jenn Lyons - The Memory of Souls (A Chorus of Dragons #3) 60. Jenn Lyons - The House of Always (A Chorus of Dragons #4) 61. Chuck Palahniuk - Consider This 62. Lucy Sykes - The Knockoff 63. William r. Forstchen - 48 Hours 64. Jennifer E. Smith - Field Notes on Love 65. Peter Clines - Paradox Bound July: 66. Nicholas Eames - Kings of the Wyld (The Band #1) 67. Nicholas Eames - Bloody Rose (The Band #2) 68. Dave Ramsey - The Total Money Makeover 69. Luke Arnold - The Last Smile in Sunder City 70. Dan Wells - Zero G (The Zero Chronicles #1) 71. Dan Wells - Dragon Planet (The Zero Chronicles #2) 72. Dan Wells - Stargazer (The Zero Chronicles #3) 73. Tochi Onyebuchi - Riot Baby 74. Janae Marks - From the Desk of Zoe Washington 75. Brittney Morris - Slay 76. Rebecca Roanhorse - Trail of Lightning 77. Anna Kendrick - Scrappy Little Nobody 78. Stephen King - The Running Man 79. Yudhanjaya Wijeratne - The Salvage Crew 80. J.D. Vance - Hillbilly Elegy 81. Lyssa Kay Adams - Isn't It Bromantic? (Bromance Book Club #4) 82. Jonathan Maberry - Mars One 83. Brandon Sanderson - Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz #1) 84. Brandon Sanderson - Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones (Alcatraz #2) 85. Brandon Sanderson - Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia (Alcatraz #3) 86. Brandon Sanderson - Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens (Alcatraz #4) 87. Brandon Sanderson - The Dark Talent (Alcatraz #5) 88. Jeremy Robinson - Tether August: 89. Rick Riordan - The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase #1) 90. Rick Riordan - The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase #2) 91. Rick Riordan - The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase #3) 92. Robert Jordan - Warrior of the Altaii 93. Sylvain Neuvel - A History of What Comes Next 94. Brandon Sanderson - Lux (Reckoners #4) 95. Heather Morris - The Tattooist of Auschwitz 96. Heather Morris - Cilka's Journey 97. Ben H. Winters - The Last Policeman 98. Ben H. Winters - Countdown City 99. Ben H. Winters - World of Trouble 100. Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man 101. Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness 102. Dan Wells - I Am Not A Serial Killer 103. Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing 104. Richard Rothstein - The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America September: 105. Joel Cohen - How To Lose A Marathon 106. Beth Macy - Dopesick 107. Adrian J. Walker - The End of the World Running Club 108. Blake Crouch - Dark Matter 109. Blake Crouch - Recursion 110. J.R.R. Tolkien - Mr. Bliss 111. Mark Adams - Turn Right at Machu Picchu 112. J.R.R Tolkien - The Silmarillion 113. J.R.R. Tolkien - Beren and Luthien 114. J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fall of Gondolin 115. Anu Partanen - The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life 116. Matt Fitzgerald - Life Is A Marathon: A Memoir of Love and Endurance October: 117. Dennis E. Taylor - Outland 118. Kevin D. Mitnick - The Art of Deception 119. Sam Quinones - Dreamland 120. Melissa Erin Jackson - Diabolical Sword 121. Fonda Lee - Jade City 122. Fonda Lee - Jade War 123. Alix E. Harrow - The Ten Thousand Doors of January 124. Ted Chiang - Exhalation 125. Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others November: 126. C.A. Fletcher - A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World 127. Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself 128. Joe Abercrombie - Before They Are Hanged 129. Joe Abercrombie - The Last Argument of Kings December: 130. Fonda Lee - Jade Legacy 131. Martha Wells - All Systems red 132. Tyler Knott Gregson - Wildly Into The Dark 133. Martha Wells - Artificial Condition 134. Ray Bradbury - Zen in the Art of Writing 135. Amanda Gorman - Call us What We Carry 136. Mark Lawrence - Red Sister 137. Mark Lawrence - Grey Sister 138. Mark Lawrence - Holy Sister 139. Ed Tandy McGlasson - The Father You've Always Wanted 140. Michael Matthews - The Little Black Book of Workout Motivation
I’m dropping my goal from 60 down to 50. I have a couple of Stephen King reads coming up that are over 1000 pages so I don’t want to push it too much.
My big goal for the year: read The Lord of the Rings and The Dark Tower January The Children of Red Peak - Craig DiLouie The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - Stephen King The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien Where Goodness Still Grows: Reclaiming Virtue in an Age of Hypocrisy - Amy Peterson February The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien How to Fight Racism: Courageous Christianity and the Journey Toward Racial Justice - Jemar Tisby The Loop - Jeremy Robert Johnson Lakewood - Megan Giddings The Auctioneer - Joan Samson The Night Will Find Us - Matthew Lyons March Game Changer - Neal Shusterman The Dark Tower: The Waste Lands - Stephen King The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien Ring Shout - P. Djeli Clark The Project - Courtney Summers Elevation - Stephen King Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Hollow Ones - Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now - Brenda Salter McNeil The Burning Girls - C.J. Tudor April Good Neighbors - Sarah Langan The Hollow Places - T. Kingfisher The Lost Village - Camilla Sten Whisper Down the Lane - Clay McLeod Chapman May Broken Horses - Brandi Carlile The Saturday Night Ghost Club - Craig Davidson Home Before Dark - Riley Sager Goblin: A Novel in Six Novellas - Josh Malerman June Vigilance - Robert Jackson Bennett The Library Book - Susan Orlean In the Valley of the Sun - Andy Davidson July Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In - Phuc Tran The Plot - Jean Hanff Korelitz Why We're Polarized - Ezra Klein The Final Girl Support Group - Grady Hendrix God Spare the Girls - Kelsey McKinney August The Book of Accidents - Chuck Wendig Reparations: A Christian Call for Repentance and Repair - Duke Kwon and Gregory Thompson Terraform: Building a Better World - Propaganda September My Heart Is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones October When Thoughts and Prayers Aren't Enough: A Shooting Survivor's Journey Into the Realities of Gun Violence - Taylor S. Schumann Last Days - Adam Nevill The Myth of the American Dream: Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety, and Power - D.L. Mayfield When the Reckoning Comes - LaTanya McQueen November The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward Pearl - Josh Malerman Where They Wait - Scott Carson Wholehearted Faith - Rachel Held Evans & Jeff Chu December Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw This Thing Between Us - Gus Moreno Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - Peter Scazzero Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994-2007) - Dan Ozzi Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow - Christina Henry
*end of series Novels 1.) You Are Invited - Sarah A. Denzil 2.) The Wishsong of Shannara (Shannara #3) - Terry Brooks 3.) There's Someone Inside Your House - Stephanie Perkins 4.) Indomitable (Shannara #3.5) - Terry Brooks 5.) The Poppy War (The Poppy War #1) - R. F. Kuang 6.) Gone To See the River Man - Kristopher Triana 7.) The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2) - R. F. Kuang 8.) Wounds: Six Stories From the Border of Hell - Nathan Ballingrud 9.) Gemina (The Illuminae Files #2) - Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff *10.) The Burning God (The Poppy War #3) - R. F. Kuang 11.) Dead Lies (Dead South #2) - Zach Bohannon 12.) Loop (Ring #3) - Kōji Suzuki, translated by Glynne Walley 13.) Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #1) - Stephen R. Donaldson 14.) The Real Story: The Gap Into Conflict (The Gap Cycle #1) - Stephen R. Donaldson 15.) Legend (Drenai Saga #1) - David Gemmell 16.) The Children of Red Peak - Craig DiLouie 17.) Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap Into Vision (The Gap Cycle #2) - Stephen R. Donaldson 18.) The King Beyond the Gate (Drenai Saga #2) - David Gemmell 19.) The Teratologist - Edward Lee & Wrath James White 20.) A Dark and Hungry God Arises: The Gap Into Power (The Gap Cycle #3) - Stephen R. Donaldson 21.) Waylander (Drenai Saga #3) - David Gemmell 22.) Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam 23.) Chaos and Order: The Gap Into Madness (The Gap Cycle #4) - Stephen R. Donaldson 24.) Knights of Dark Renown (Drenai Saga #0.1) - David Gemmell 25.) Gwendy's Magic Feather (The Button Box #2) - Richard Chizmar 26.) Quest for Lost Heroes (Drenai Saga #4) - David Gemmell 27.) Black Chalk - Christopher J. Yates *28.) This Day All Gods Die: The Gap Into Ruin (The Gap Cycle #5) - Stephen R. Donaldson 29.) In the Realm of the Wolf (Drenai Saga #5) - David Gemmell 30.) The Least of My Scars - Stephen Graham Jones 31.) Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein 32.) The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend (Drenai Saga #6) - David Gemmell 33.) Later - Stephen King 34.) The Consuming Fire (The Interdependency #2) - John Scalzi 35.) The Legend of Deathwalker (Drenai Saga #7) - David Gemmell 36.) The Last Final Girl - Stephen Graham Jones 37.) Morningstar (Drenai Saga #0.2) - David Gemmell 38.) Anathem - Neal Stephenson 39.) The Fiends of Nightmaria (A Malazan Tale of Bauchelain and Korbal Broach #6) - Steven Erikson 40.) Winter Warriors (Drenai Saga #8) - David Gemmell 41.) Night of the Mannequins - Stephen Graham Jones 42.) A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan #2) - Arkady Martine 43.) Three Miles Past - Stephen Graham Jones 44.) Hero in the Shadows (Drenai Saga #9) - David Gemmell 45.) The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova 46.) White Wolf (Drenai Saga: The Damned #10) - David Gemmell *47.) The Swords of Night and Day (Drenai Saga: The Damned #11) - David Gemmell 48.) The Rib From Which I Remake the World - Ed Kurtz 49.) The Heresy Within (First Earth Saga: The Ties that Bind #1) - Rob J. Hayes 50.) The Queen of Bedlam (Matthew Corbett #2) - Robert McCammon 51.) The Illearth War (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #2) - Stephen R. Donaldson 52.) Only the Devil is Here - Stephen Michell 53.) Dead Hope (Dead South #3) - Zach Bohannon 54.) You Love Me (You #3) - Caroline Kepnes 55.) The Power that Preserves (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #3) - Stephen R. Donaldson 56.) Circe - Madeline Miller 57.) Sword in the Storm (The Rigante #1) - David Gemmell 58.) The Werewolf Principle - Clifford D. Simak 59.) The Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson 60.) Midnight Falcon (The Rigante #2) - David Gemmell 61.) The House that Fell from the Sky - Patrick Delaney 62.) Red Rising (Red Rising Saga #1) Pierce Brown 63.) Dark Moon - David Gemmell 64.) Graveyard - Ed Warren, Lorraine Warren, & Robert David Chase 65.) Echoes of the Great Song - David Gemmell *66.) Obsidio (The Illuminae Files #3) - Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff 67.) Vigilance - Robert Jackson Bennett 68.) Lion of Macedon (Greek #1) - David Gemmell 69.) Hellbent (Bad Games #3) - Jeff Menapace 70.) Ravenheart (The Rigante #3) - David Gemmell 71.) The House of Always (Chorus of Dragons #4) - Jenn Lyons 72.) Mystic River - Dennis Lehane 73.) Shōgun (Asian Saga #1) - James Clavell 74.) Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane 75.) The Wounded Land (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #4) - Stephen R Donaldson 76.) From the Corner of His Eye - Dean Koontz *77.) Stormrider (The Rigante #4) - David Gemmell 78.) A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro #1) - Dennis Lehane 79.) The One Tree (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #5) - Stephen R Donaldson 80.) The Descent (#1) - Jeff Long 81.) White Gold Wielder (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever #6) - Stephen R Donaldson 82.) Phantom - Thomas Tessier 83.) Dark Prince (Greek #2) - David Gemmell 84.) Deeper (The Descent #2) - Jeff Long 85.) Ironhand's Daughter (The Hawk Queen #1) - David Gemmell 86.) We Need To Do Something - Max Booth III 87.) Gunsights - Elmore Leonard 88.) The Runes of the Earth (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant #7) - Stephen R Donaldson 89.) Goblin - Josh Malerman 90.) Homeland (Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt: Dark Elf #1) - R. A. Salvatore 91.) The Policy - Bentley Little 92.) Exile (Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt: Dark Elf #2) - R. A. Salvatore 93.) One Last Gasp - Andrew C. Piazza 94.) Sojourn (Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt: Dark Elf #3) - R. A. Salvatore 95.) Fatal Revenant (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant #8) - Stephen R Donaldson 96.) Tai-Pan (Asian Saga #2) - James Clavell 97.) The Hawk Eternal (The Hawk Queen #2) - David Gemmell 98.) Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay 99.) Under Heaven (#1) - Guy Gavriel Kay 100.) Against All Things Ending (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant #9) - Stephen R Donaldson 101.) Ghost King (Stones of Power #1) - David Gemmell 102.) Billy Summers - Stephen King *103.) The Last Dark (The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant #10) - Stephen R Donaldson 104.) Last Sword of Power (Stones of Power #2) - David Gemmell 105.) The God is Not Willing (Malazan Tale of Witness #1) - Steven Erikson 106.) The Mirror of Her Dreams (Mordant's Need #1) - Stephen R Donaldson 107.) Rovers - Richard Lange 108.) We Are the Dead (The Last War #1) - Mike Shackle 109.) Children of Time (#1) - Adrian Tchaikovsky 110.) Magician: Apprentice (Riftwar Cycle: The Riftwar Saga #1) - Raymond E Feist 111.) The Crystal Shard (Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt: Icewind Dale #4) - R A Salvatore 112.) The Book of Accidents - Chuck Wendig 113.) Streams of Silver (Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt: Icewind Dale #5) - R A Salvatore 114.) Hawkwood's Voyage (The Monarchies of God #1) - Paul Kearney *115.) The Wisdom of Crowds (First Law: Age of Madness #10) - Joe Abercrombie 116.) Dead Love (Dead South #4) - Zach Bohannon 117.) The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin #1) - Daniel Abraham 118.) A Man Rides Through (Mordant's Need #2) - Stephen R Donaldson 119.) The Heretic Kings (The Monarchies of God #2) - Paul Kearney 120.) Cunning Folk - Adam Nevill 121.) The Iron Wars (The Monarchies of God #3) - Paul Kearney 122.) The Halfling's Gem (Forgotten Realms: The Legend of Drizzt: Icewind Dale #6) - R A Salvatore 123.) The Second Empire (The Monarchies of God #4) - Paul Kearney 124.) Seventh Decimate (The Great God's War #1) - Stephen R Donaldson *125.) Ships From the West (The Monarchies of God #5) - Paul Kearney 126.) The Slanted Gutter - S Craig Zahler 127.) Mister Slaughter (Matthew Corbett #3) - Robert McCammon 128.) The Folding Knife - K J Parker 129.) The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry #1) - Guy Gavriel Kay 130.) My Heart is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones 131.) Stormwarden (The Cycle of Fire #1) - Janny Wurts 132.) Wolf in Shadow (Stones of Power: Jon Shannow #3) - David Gemmell 133.) Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt #1) - Adrian Tchaikovsky 134.) Mindhunter - John Douglas & Mark Olshaker 135.) Keeper of the Keys (The Cycle of Fire #2) - Janny Wurts 136.) Double Solitaire (Wild Cards #10) - Melinda M Snodgrass *137.) Shadowfane (The Cycle of Fire #3) - Janny Wurts 138.) Jade City (The Green Bone Saga #1) - Fonda Lee 139.) Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones 140.) Dragonfly Falling (Shadows of the Apt #2) - Adrian Tchaikovsky 141.) Walkers - Graham Masterson 142.) Jade War (The Green Bone Saga #2) - Fonda Lee 143.) The Doors of Eden - Adrian Tchiakovsky 144.) Blood of the Mantis (Shadows of the Apt #3) - Adrian Tchiakovsky 145.) Black Angel - Graham Masterson 146.) The Wandering Fire (The Fionavar Tapestry #2) - Guy Gavriel Kay 147.) Cytonic (Skyward #3) - Brandon Sanderson 148.) The Fifth Season (Broken Earth #1) - N K Jemisin 149.) This River Awakens - Steven Erickson 150.) The Bone Season (The Bone Season #1) - Samantha Shannon 151.) The Veiled Throne (The Dandelion Dynasty #3) - Ken Liu 152.) The Invention of Sound - Chuck Palahniuk 153.) Wit'ch Fire (The Banned and the Banished #1) - James Clemens 154.) Salute the Dark (Shadows of the Apt #4) - Adrian Tchiakovsky Comics 1.) Death of the New Gods - Jim Starlin, Matt Banning & Art Thibert 2.) Last Shots (The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger #11) - Stephen King, Robin Furth, Peter David & Richard Isanove 3.) The Prisoner (The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three #12) - Stephen King, Robin Furth, Piotr Kowalski & Nick Filardi 4.) Countdown to Final Crisis - Paul Dini, Keith Giffen... 5.) Batman: Gotham Underground - Frank Tieri, Jim Calafiore & Jack Purcell 6.) Blackgas (#1) - Warren Ellis, Max Fiumara & Andrew Dalhouse 7.) The New Avengers: Breakout (#1) - Brian Michael Bendis & David Finch 8.) Avengers: Disassembled - Brian Michael Bendis & David Finch 9.) The New Avengers: The Sentry (#2) - Brian Michael Bendis & Steve McNiven 10.) The New Avengers: Secrets and Lies (#3) - Brian Michael Bendis, Frank Cho & David Finch 11.) House of Cards (The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three #13) - Stephen King, Robin Furth, Piotr Kowalski & Nick Filardi 12.) The New Avengers: The Collective (#4) - Brian Michael Bendis, Mike Deodato & Steve McNiven 13.) The New Avengers: Civil War (#5) - Brian Michael Bendis, Howard Chaykin, Pasqual Ferry, Olivier Coipel, Leinil Francis Yu, & Jim Cheung 14.) The Lady of Shadows (The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three #14) - Stephen King, Robin Furth, Peter David, Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge 15.) Secret Invasion - Brian Michael Bendis & Leinil Francis Yu 16.) Bitter Medicine (The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three #15) - Stephen King, Robin Furth, Peter David, Jonathan Marks & Lee Loughridge 17.) The Quantum Age (The World of Black Hammer) - Jeff Lemire, Wilfredo Torres & Dave Stewart 18.) Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy (The World of Black Hammer) - Jeff Lemire & Tonci Zonjic 19.) Swamp Thing: The Curse (#3) - Alan Moore, Stephen R. Bissette & John Totleben 20.) Batman: Earth One (#3) - Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, Jon Sibal & Brad Anderson 21.) Crime Bible: The Five Lessons of Blood - Greck Rucka, Steve Leiber & Matthew Clark 22.) Sex Criminals (complete series) - Matt Fraction & Chip Zdarsky 23.) Dreaming Eagles - Garth Ennis, Simon Coleby, John Kalisz & Robert Steen 24.) Batman: Unseen - Doug Moench & Kelley Jones 25.) The Strange Talent of Luther Strode (#1) - Justin Jordan, Tradd Moore & Felipe Sobreiro 26.) The Legend of Luther Strode (#2) - Justin Jordan, Tradd Moore & Felipe Sobreiro 27.) The Legacy of Luther Strode (#3) - Justin Jordan, Tradd Moore & Felipe Sobreiro 28.) X-Men: Messiah Complex - Ed Brubaker, Mike Carey, Christopher Yost, Billy Tan, Chris Bachalo... 29.) Snow Angels (Season One) - Jeff Lemire & Jock 30.) Swamp Thing: A Murder of Crows (#4) - Alan Moore, Stephen R Bissette, John Toleben...
Currently finishing Darker Shade of Magic audiobook, and about 25% through Way of Kings. Going heavy into fantasy this year.
just bought The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel with my Christmas vouchers. heard her first book was amazing so I'm pretty intrigued also want to punish myself and re-read The Stand, maybe The Dark Tower
January Novels 1. Among the Fallen - N. S. Dolkart, 2017 2. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker 3. I Want My Hat Back - Jon Klassen, 2011 Comics/Manga/Other 1. Grimm Fairy Tales, Vol. 6 - Ralph Tedesco, 2009 2. Batman, Vol. 3: I Am Bane - Tom King, 2017 3. Batman, Vol. 4: The War of Jokes and Riddles - Tom King, 2017 4. The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 5 - Kore Yamazaki, 2016 5. The Fade Out, Act 1 - Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, 2015 6. The Fade Out, Act 2 - Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, 2015 7. The Fade Out, Act 3 - Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, 2016 February Novels 4. Beginner's Welsh - Heini Gruffudd, 2017 5. The Last Druid - Terry Brooks, 2020 Comics/Manga/Other 8. Batman, Vol. 5: Rules of Engagement - Tom King, 2018 9. Batman, Vol. 6: Bride or Burglar - Tom King, 2018 10. Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Secrets and Rumors - Tom Taylor, 2019 11. Spider-Woman, Vol. 1: Bad Blood - Karla Pacheco, 2020 March Novels 6. The Emperor's Soul* - Brandon Sanderson, 2012 7. 5/3/1: The Simplest and Most Effective Training System for Raw Strength - Jim Wendler, 2012 8. Endymion - Dan Simmons, 1996 9. Artemis Fowl* - Eoin Colfer, 2003 10. The Bands of Mourning - Brandon Sanderson, 2016 Comics/Manga/Other 12. Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Vol. 2: Hostile Takeovers - Tom Taylor, 2020 13. Kill or Be Killed, Vol. 1 - Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, 2017 14. Gideon Falls, Vol. 4: The Pentoculus - Jeff Lemire, 2020 15. Batman, Vol. 7: The Wedding - Tom King, 2018 April Novels 11. The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan, 2010 12. Arcanum Unbounded - Brandon Sanderson, 2016 13. The Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan, 2011 14. Greenwitch - Susan Cooper, 1974 15. The Mark of Athena - Rick Riordan, 2012 16. Maniac Magee* - Jerry Spinelli, 2002 17. The Original - Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal - 2020 Comics/Manga/Other 16. Gideon Falls, Vol. 5: Wicked Worlds - Jeff Lemire, 2020 17. Superior Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Full Otto - Christos Gage, 2019 18. Superior Spider-Man, Vol. 2: Otto-Matic - Christos Gage, 2019 May Novels 18. The House of Hades - Rick Riordan, 2013 19. The Blood of Olympus - Rick Riordan, 2014 20. The Master Mind of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1928 Comics/Manga/Other 19. Batman: The Dark Knight, Vol. 4: Clay - Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, 2014 20. White Sand, Vol. 1 - Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, 2016 21. White Sand, Vol. 2 - Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, 2018 22. White Sand, Vol. 3 - Brandon Sanderson, Rik Hoskin, 2019 23. Gideon Falls, Vol. 6: The End - Jeff Lemire, 2021 June Novels 21. At the Earth's Core - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1922 22. The Demigod Files - Rick Riordan, 2009 23. The Way of Kings* - Brandon Sanderson, 2010 Comics/Manga/Other 24. Dark One - Brandon Sanderson, Jackson Lanzing, 2021 25. The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Vol. 9 - Yoshiki Tanaka, 2018 July Novels 24. Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes - Rick Riordan, 2015 25. From Percy Jackson: Camp Half-Blood Confidential - Rick Riordan, 2017 26. Pellucidar - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1915 27. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius, 180 28. The Sword of Summer - Rick Riordan, 2015 29. Yoruga la Tortuga y otros cuentos - Dr. Seuss, 2008 30. The Demigod Diaries - Rick Riordan, 2012 31. Tears of the Anaren - C.W. Longbottom, 2021 Comics/Manga/Other 26. Kill or Be Killed, Vol. 2 - Ed Brubaker, 2017 27. Kimi ni Todoke, Vol. 6 - Karuho Shiina, 2010 28. Age of Ultron vs. Marvel Zombies - James Robinson, 2015 29. Amazing Spider-Man 2099 Companion - Nick Spencer, 2020 August Novels 32. The Hammer of Thor - Rick Riordan, 2016 33. The Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons, 1997 34. Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever - John McWhorter, 2021 35. The Princess Bride* - William Goldman, 1973 Comics/Manga/Other 30. Kill or Be Killed, Vol. 3 - Ed Brubaker, 2018 31. Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 1 - G. Willow Wilson, 2019 32. Kill or Be Killed, Vol. 4 - Ed Brubaker, 2018 33. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 9: Sins Rising - Nick Spencer, 2020 September Novels 36. A Fighting Man of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1930 37. The Ship of the Dead - Rick Riordan, 2017 38. Agent to the Stars - John Scalzi, 2004 39. The Land That Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1918 40. The People That Time Forgot - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1918 41. Out of Time's Abyss - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1918 42. Words of Radiance* - Brandon Sanderson, 2014 Comics/Manga/Other 34. Wellington - Aaron Mahnke, Delilah S. Dawson, 2020 35. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 10: Green Goblin Returns - Nick Spencer, 2020 36. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 11: Last Remains - Nick Spencer, 2021 37. Amazing Spider-Man: Last Remains Companion - Nick Spencer, 2021 October Novels 43. This Is Not My Hat - 44. The Complete Keys to Progress - 45. The Westing Game* 46. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains 47. Exiling a Fae Queen 48. Bargaining with a Fae Queen - 49. Dune - 50. Sunreach - 51. The Honjin Murders - 52. Dracula - 53. Imitating a Fae Queen - 54. Murder by Other Means - 55. Utere nihil non extra quiritationem suis - 56. Hiding a Fae Queen - 57. ReDawn - 58. Redshirts - 59. Child of Light - 60. Firstborn/Defending Elysium - 61. Zero G - 62. Dragon Planet - 63. Stargazer - 64. The Art of Lifting - 65. The Science of Lifting - 66. Cytonic - 67. Evading a Fae Queen - 68. Genesis - Comics/Manga/Other 38. Schlock Mercenary, Vol. 1: The Tub of Happiness 39. The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 12 40. Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 2 41. Invisible Kingdom, Vol. 3 42. The Magnificent Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1 43. The Magnificent Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2 44. Monstress, Vol. 4 45. The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 6
last year I did 40, I think this year I'm just going to try my best to maintain! felt like I was going at a comfortable pace last year. 1. Hermione Hoby — Neon in Daylight 2. Is it Just Me or Are We Nailing This? Essays on BoJack Horseman 3. Steven Hyden — This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's Kid A and the Beginning of the 21st Century 4. James Baldwin — Go Tell it on the Mountain 5. Joan Didion — Let Me Tell You What I Mean 6. George Saunders — A Swim in a Pond in the Rain 7. Lawrence Ferlinghetti — A Coney Island of the Mind 8. F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Great Gatsby 9. Toni Morrison — Jazz 10. Viet Thanh Nguyen — The Committed 11. Kazuo Ishiguro — A Pale View of Hills 12. Toni Cade Bambara — Gorilla, My Love 13. Hanif Abdurraqib — A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance 14. Tom Stoppard — Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 15. Toni Morrison — Tar Baby 16. Kazuo Ishiguro — Never Let Me Go 17. Ottessa Moshfegh — My Year of Rest and Relaxation 18. Ideal Company: An Essay Series ed. Miranda Reinert 19. Paul Murray — An Evening of Long Goodbyes 20. Fran Lebowitz — Metropolitan Life 21. Michelle Zauner — Crying in H Mart 22. Tracy Letts — August: Osage County 23. Adam Levin — Bubblegum 24. Matt Scottoline — Fake Ideas Volume 1 25. Ling Ma — Severance 26. Jessica Hopper — The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic: Revised and Expanded 27. Hermione Hoby — Virtue 28. Ernest Hemingway — For Whom the Bell Tolls 29. Christine Smallwood — The Life of the Mind 30. Colson Whitehead — Zone One 31. Viet Thanh Nguyen — The Sympathizer 32. Mohsin Hamid — Exit West 33. Jesmyn Ward — Sing, Unburied, Sing 34. Valeria Luiselli — Lost Children Archive 35. Ben Lerner — The Topeka School 36. Lauren Oyler — Fake Accounts 37. Patricia Lockwood — No One is Talking About This 38. George Saunders — Tenth of December 39. Upton Sinclair — The Jungle 40. Gary Shteyngart — Super Sad True Love Story 41. Anton Chekhov — The Seagull 42. Dan Ozzi — Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007) 43. Renata Adler — Speedboat 44. Franz Kafka — The Trial 45. Ottessa Moshfegh — McGlue 46. William Shakespeare — Macbeth 47. Ernest Hemingway — A Farewell to Arms 48. Anton Chekhov — Three Sisters
Yeah I did 40 last year and I'm going to stick with that. Favorite reads from 2020: There There - Tommy Orange Sharks in the Time of Saviors - Kawai Strong Washburn The Good Lord Bird - James McBride Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA - Amaryllis Fox 2021 List 1. Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson 2. Different Seasons - Stephen King (currently listening) 3. Beartown - Fredrik Backman (currently reading)
Novels 1. Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline 2. Fires of Vengeance by Evan Winter 3. Foundation by Isaac Asimov 4. All Systems Red by Martha Wells 5. Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule Graphic Novels 1. Gideon Falls: Volume 1 by Jeff Lemire 2. Gideon Falls: Volume 2 by Jeff Lemire 3. Gideon Falls: Volume 3 by Jeff Lemire 4. Gideon Falls: Volume 4 by Jeff Lemire 5. Gideon Falls: Volume 5 by Jeff Lemire 6 to 17. The Drifting Classroom: Volumes 1 to 11 by Kazuo Umezu 18. Fire Power: Volume 2 by Robert Kirkman
it's a zine! Molly E. Simas - Is It Just Me or Are We Nailing This?: Essays on BoJack Horseman | Antiquated Future my friend got it for me as a gift. it was great!
let me know what you think! I had some thoughts about some of the later essays but I thought it was really well done and the art is really cool
I actually still have a couple of seasons to catch up on with the show, so I'd better get round to them before it arrives!
Updated. After I finish White Vault season three and get current with season four, I’m diving into Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse to get ready for the Netflix show. You can kinda see the theme of the month was “finish things you’ve already started.” Nothing truly outstanding, but overall quite enjoyable. Also started Mark Lawrence’s assassin fantasy nuns trilogy last night. Hoping to get through that at a decent clip. I’m such a bad actual book reader now; I quit moving and pass out. (Case: I fell asleep at 8pm reading last night.)
It was very Bob Goff. Right in the same vein as Love Does or Everybody Always. I find him inspiring and infuriating, because I don't know how he does it and I'm convinced he's hiding something, but he's also so incredibly genuine that maybe I'm just over-thinking it? Like, I don't know how he does what he does without a huge secret stash of money.
I can definitely understand that feeling, it definitely nags at me a bit too haha. He is a lawyer though and travels around for speaking engagements and whatnot so it's not too shocking to me.
I had the opportunity to see Bob Goff speak live a couple of years ago and it was great. Absolutely fantastic story teller