List and discuss the books you read this year. The Book Thread Threads from 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
No specific goals for this year, but I'm starting off with Demons by Dostoyevsky and going from there. 1. Demons - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 2. Cosmopolis - Don DeLillo 3. Devil House - John Darnielle 4. Sellout - Dan Ozzi 5. Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov 6. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell 7. Hollywood Park - Mikel Jollett 8. The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa 9. The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin 10. Harlem Shuffle - Colson Whitehead 11. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris 12. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon 13. The Sandman, Volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman 14. The Sandman, Volume 2: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman 15. The Sandman, Volume 3: Dream Country - Neil Gaiman 16. The Sandman, Volume 4: Season of Mists - Neil Gaiman 17. The Sandman, Volume 5: A Game of You - Neil Gaiman 18. The Sandman, Volume 6: Fables and Reflections - Neil Gaiman 19. The Sandman, Volume 7: Brief Lives - Neil Gaiman 20. The Sandman, Volume 8: World's End - Neil Gaiman 21. The Sandman, Volume 9: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman 22. The Sandman, Volume 10: The Wake - Neil Gaiman 23. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir 24. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 25. Three Pianos - Andrew McMahon 26. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey 27. The Dark Half - Stephen King 28. Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane 29. Life of Pi - Yann Martel 30. What If? 2 - Randall Munroe 31. Second Foundation - Isaac Asimov 32. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer 33. Dark Places - Gillian Flynn 34. All Quiet On the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque 35. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
I'll probably set a goal of 50 books on Goodreads, but I'm not holding myself to it. January The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle The Between - Tananarive Due Chasing the Boogeyman - Richard Chizmar Freeing Jesus: Rediscovering Jesus as Friend, Teacher, Savior, Lord, Way, and Presence - Diana Butler Bass Kill Creek - Scott Thomas Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship - Gregory Boyle Three Pianos - Andrew McMahon Normal People - Sally Rooney A History of Wild Places - Shea Ernshaw February Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith - Sarah Bessey Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth - Richard J. Foster Tinfoil Butterfly - Rachel Eve Moulton The Devil in Silver - Victor LaValle Road of Bones - Christopher Golden March The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness - Gregory Boyle In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt Dead Silence - S.A. Barnes Sundial - Catriona Ward April Struggling with Evangelicalism: Why I Want to Leave and What It Takes to Stay - Dan Stringer Heavy Burdens: Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church - Bridget Eileen Rivera A Black and Endless Sky - Matthew Lyons May The End of Policing - Alex S. Vitale Near the Bone - Christina Henry Attached to God: A Practical Guide to Deeper Spiritual Experience - Krispin Mayfield Faithful Antiracism: Moving Past Talk to Systemic Change - Christina Barland Edmondson & Chad Brennan Such a Pretty Smile - Kristi DeMeester June Come Closer - Sara Gran Don't Move - James S. Murray & Darren Wearmouth Just Like Mother - Anne Heitzel Hidden Pictures - Jason Rekulak July The Case of the Missing Men - Kris Bertin Black Mouth - Ronald Malfi August Evangelical Anxiety - Charles Marsh Come With Me - Ronald Malfi Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds September Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives - Adam Cesare Old Country - Matt Query & Harrison Query Bone White - Ronald Malfi The Children on the Hill - Jennifer McMahon October Fairy Tale - Stephen King The Getaway - Lamar Giles Just Like Home - Sarah Gailey November The Hollow Kind - Andy Davidson Jackal - Erin E. Adams The Devil Takes You Home - Gabino Iglesias White Horse - Erika T. Wruth I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy The Devil Crept In - Ania Ahlborn Transforming: The Bible & the Lives of Transgender Christians - Austen Hartke Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church - Katelyn Beaty Ghost Eaters - Clay McLeod Chapman Now Is Not the Time to Panic - Kevin Wilson Lurking Under the Surface: Horror, Religion, and the Questions That Haunt Us - Brandon R. Grafius
* end of series Novels 1.) Paradise Lost - John Milton, David Scott Kastan 2.) The Sum of All Men (The Runelords #1) - David Farland 3.) The Scarab Path (Shadows of the Apt #5) - Adrian Tchiakovsky 4.) Wit'ch Storm (The Banned and the Banished #2) - James Clemens 5.) Build Your House Around My Body - Violet Kupersmith 6.) Revelation (Mass Effect #1) - Drew Karpyshyn 7.) The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue #1) - Christopher Beuhlman 8.) The Last Watch (The Divide #1) - J S Dewes 9.) The Mime Order (The Bone Season #2) - Samantha Shannon 10.) The Sea Watch (Shadows of the Apt #6) - Adrian Tchaikovsky 11.) Cibola Burn (The Expanse #4) - James S A Corey 12.) Wit'ch War (The Banned and the Banished #3) - James Clemens 13.) Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro #2) - Dennis Lehane 14.) The Song Rising (The Bone Season #3) - Samantha Shannon 15.) The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix 16.) Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1) - Sarah J Maas 17.) Heirs of the Blade (Shadows of the Apt #7) - Adrian Tchiakovsky *18.) Gwendy's Final Task (The Button Box #3) - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar 19.) Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) - Sarah J Maas 20.) Lullaby - Chuck Palahniuk 21.) The Mask Falling (The Bone Season #4) - Samantha Shannon 22.) Gai-Jin (Asian Saga #3) - James Clavell 23.) Magician: Master (The Riftwar Cycle #2) - Raymond E Feist 24.) The Air War (Shadows of the Apt #8) - Adrian Tchiakovsky 25.) Nemesis Games (The Expanse #5) - James S A Corey 26.) The War Within (The Great God's War #2) - Stephen R Donaldson 27.) City of Stairs (The Divine Cities #1) - Robert Jackson Bennett 28.) Silverthorn (The Riftwar Cycle #3) - Raymond E Feist 29.) The Tomb (The Adversary Cycle #2) - F Paul Wilson 30.) A Darkness At Sethanon (The Riftwar Cycle #4) - Raymond E Feist 31.) War Master's Gate (Shadows of the Apt #9) - Adrian Tchiakovsky 32.) Second Child - John Saul 33.) Wit'ch Gate (The Banned and the Banished #4) - James Clemens 34.) Beneath the Rising (#1) - Premee Mohamed 35.) Self Portrait: 100 Poems from the Pandemic and Life Lived Anyway - Garrett Lemons 36.) God's Demon (#1) - Wayne Barlowe 37.) The King's Justice - Stephen R Donaldson 38.) Howling Dark (Sun Eater #2) - Christopher Ruocchio 39.) Daughter of the Empire (The Riftwar Cycle: Empire Trilogy #5) - Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts 40.) City of Golden Shadow (Otherland #1) - Tad Williams 41.) When True Night Falls (Coldfire #2) - C S Friedman 42.) Old Man's War (#1) - John Scalzi *43.) Crown of Shadows (Coldfire #3) - C S Friedman 44.) The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War #2) - John Scalzi 45.) Servant of the Empire (The Riftwar Cycle: Empire Trilogy #6) - Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts *46.) The Discord of Gods (A Chorus of Dragons #5) - Jenn Lyons 47.) The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth #2) - N K Jemisin 48.) Star Wars: The Old Republic: Revan - Drew Karpyshyn 49.) Mistress of the Empire (The Riftwar Cycle: Empire Trilogy #7) Raymond E Feist & Janny Wurts 50.) River of Blue Fire (Otherland #2) - Tad Williams 51.) The King's Blood (The Dagger and the Coin #2) - Daniel Abraham 52.) The Sleepwalker (The Nosferatu Conspiracy #1) - Brian James Gage 53.) Prince of the Blood (The Riftwar Cycle: Krondor's Sons, A Prelude to the Serpentwar #8) Rayond E Feist 54.) Father of Lies - Brian Evenson 55.) The Tyrant's Law (The Dagger and the Coin #3) - Daniel Abraham 56.) Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw 57.) The Widow's House (The Dagger and the Coin #4) - Daniel Abraham 58.) The Loop - Jeremy Robert Johnson *59.) The Spider's War (The Dagger and the Coin #5) - Daniel Abraham 60.) Liberty's Crusade (Starcraft #1) - Jeff Grubb 61.) Sons of Darkness (The Raag of Rta #1) - Gourav Mohanty 62.) The Croning - Laird Barron 63.) The King's Buccaneer (The Riftwar Cycle: Krondor's Sons, A Prelude to the Serpentwar #9) - Raymond E Feist 64.) Geek Love - Katherine Dunn *65.) Speaking Bones (The Dandelion Dynasty #4) - Ken Liu 66.) The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Yet Saved - Joey Comeau 67.) The Tiger and the Wolf (Echoes of the Fallen #1) - Adrian Tchaikovsky 68.) One Bloody Thing After Another - Joey Comeau *69.) Wit'ch Star (The Banned and the Banished #5) - James Clemens 70.) No Sanctuary - Richard Laymon 71.) The Tower of Fools (Hussite Trilogy #1) - Andrzej Sapkowski 72.) Among the Missing - Richard Laymon 73.) Ship of Fools - Richard Paul Russo 74.) Shadow of the Xel'Naga (Starcraft #2) - Gabriel Mesta 75.) A Crown for Cold Silver (The Crimson Empire #1) - Alex Marshall 76.) Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies - John Langan 77.) [poem] Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came - Robert Browning *78.) The Last Emperox (The Interdependency #3) - John Scalzi 79.) Out Are the Lights - Richard Laymon 80.) Speed of Darkness (Starcraft #3) - Tracy Hickman 81.) Shadow of a Dark Queen (The Riftwar Cycle: The Serpentwar Saga #10) - Raymond E Feist *82.) Seal of the Worm (Shadows of the Apt #10) - Adrian Tchaikovsky 83.) Uprising (Starcraft #0.5) - Micky Neilson 84.) Fairy Tale - Stephen King 85.) Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death - Kurt Vonnegut 86.) Rise of a Merchant Prince (The Riftwar Cycle: The Serpentwar Saga #11) - Raymond E Feist 87.) The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut 88.) Ghoul - Brian Keene 89.) Player Piano - Kurt Vonnegut 90.) Cage of Souls - Adrian Tchaikovsky 91.) Rage of a Demon King (The Riftwar Cycle: The Serpentwar Saga #12) - Raymond E Feist 92.) The Wehr Wolf - Alma Katsu 93.) The Midnight Club - Christopher Pike 94.) Horus Rising (Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy #1) - Dan Abnett 95.) Shards of a Broken Crown (The Riftwar Cycle: The Serpentwar Saga #13) - Raymond E Feist 96.) Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt 97.) False Gods (Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy #2) - Graham Mcneill 98.) Krondor: The Betrayal (The Riftwar Cycle: The Riftwar Legacy #14) - Raymond E Feist 99.) Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut 100.) Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture #1) - Adrian Tchaikovsky 101.) Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury 102.) Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History #1) - George R R Martin 103.) Galaxy in Flames (Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy #3) - Ben Counter 104.) Krondor: The Assassins (The Riftwar Cycle: The Riftwar Legacy #15) - Raymond E Feist 105.) Ball Lightning - Cixin Liu (translated by Joel Martinsen) 106.) Krondor: Tear of the Gods (The Riftwar Cycle: The Riftwar Legacy #16) - Raymond E Feist 107.) The Flight of the Eisenstein (Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy #4) - James Swallow 108.) Honored Enemy (The Riftwar Cycle: Legends of the Riftwar #18) - Raymond E Feist & William R Forstchen 109.) Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2) - Adrian Tchaikovsky 110.) The Lost Metal (Misborn Era 2: Wax and Wayne #7) - Brandon Sanderson 111.) Guns of the Dawn - Adrian Tchaikovsky 112.) Murder in LaMut (The Riftwar Cycle: Legends of the Riftwar #19) Raymond E Feist & Joel Rosenberg 113.) Fulgrim: Visions of Treachery (Warhammer 40k: The Horus Heresy #5) - Graham McNeill Comics 1.) Fine Print (or how a divine contract may not be the best cure for a broken heart #1) - Stjepan Šejić 2.) Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler - Tom King & Mitch Gerads 3.) Hellraiser: Hell Hath No Fury (#3) - Clive Barker, Mark Miller, & Janusz Ordon
My goal for this year is 104 books: 52 novels, 52 comics/manga/other. Should be doable, I hit 113 last year. I'm going to be tackling some bigger series this year, hopefully working my way through my TBR a bit, and leaning heavier on audiobooks during runs/walks. I'm also going to try to purchase and read at least one new 2022 release each month, which will hopefully help me get more connected with the genres I like, as I'm typically like three years behind at this point haha. January Novels 1. The Grey King - Susan Cooper, 1975 2. Evershore - Brandon Sanderson, Janci Patterson, 2021 3. Beyond Redemption - Michael R. Fletcher, 2015 4. Unsouled - Will Wight, 2016 5. Swords of Mars - Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1935 6. The Saga of the Volsungs with the Saga of Ragnar Loðbrók - translated by Jackson Crawford, 2017, initial publication probably 1200 Comics/Manga 1. Magnificent Ms. Marvel, Vol. 3: Outlawed - Saladin Ahmed, 2021 2. The Old Guard, Vol. 1: Opening Fire - Greg Rucka, 2017 February Novels 7. Stormbreaker* - Anthony Horowitz, 2000 8. Sakura: Intellectual Property - Zachary Hill, 2019 9. Point Blank* - Anthony Horowitz, 2001 10. Skeleton Key* - Anthony Horowitz, 2002 Comics/Manga 3. The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Vol. 10 - Yoshiki Tanaka, 2018 4. Spider-Gwen, Vol. 3: Long Distance - Jason Latour, 207 5. The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 1: The Faust Act - Kieron Gillen, 2014 6. Kimi ni Todoke, Vol. 7 - Karuho Shiina, 2008 March Novels 11. Eagle Strike* - Anthony Horowitz, 2003 12. Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats - Gabe Henry, 2022 13. The Starless Crown - James Rollins, 2022 14. Edgedancer - Brandon Sanderson, 2017 15. Scorpia* - Anthony Horowitz, 2004 Comics/Manga 7. A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 1 - Kazuma Kamachi, 2007 April Novels 16. Purgatory Mount - Adam Roberts, 2021 17. Stoic Paradoxes - Cicero, translated by Quintus Curtius, 2015, initial publication 46 BC 18. Beowulf - Unknown, translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland, 2008, initial publication around 900 19. The Hound of Rowan - Henry H. Neff, 2007 Comics/Manga 8. Postal, Vol. 1 - Matt Hawkins, 2015 9. Monstress, Vol. 5: Warchild - Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, 2020 10. Deadpool, Vol. 1: Dead Presidents - Brian Posehn, 2013 11. Scene of the Crime: A Little Piece of Goodnight - Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, 2000 12. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 13: King's Ransom - Nick Spencer, 2021 13. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 14: Chameleon Conspiracy - Nick Spencer, 2021 14. Deltora Quest, Vol. 1 - Emily Rodda, Makoto Niwano - 2000 15. Amazing Spider-Man: Sinister War - Nick Spencer, 2021 16. Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 15: What Cost Victory? - Nick Spencer, 2021 17. Spider-Gwen, Vol. 4: Predators - Jason Latour, 2017 May Novels 20. 17776 - Jon Bois, Graham MacAree, 2017 21. Self-Portrait: 100 Poems from the Pandemic and the Life Lived Anyway - Garrett Lemons, 2022 22. Oathbringer - Brandon Sanderson, 2017 Comics/Manga 18. Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints - Cullen Bunn, 2015 19. Aero Vol. 2: The Mystery Of Madame Huang - Zhou Liefen, 2021 20. Spider-Gwen, Vol. 5: Gwenom - Jason Latour, 2018 21. Spider-Gwen, Vol. 6: The Life of Gwen Stacy - Jason Latour, 2018 June Novels 23. Extreme Makeover: Apocalypse Edition - Dan Wells, 2016 24. On Lavender Tides - Travis M. Riddle, 2022 Comics/Manga July Novels 25. Unknown Number - Azure, 2021 26. Shadow of the Gods - John Gwynne, 2021 27. The Yellow Wall-Paper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892 Comics/Manga 22. Captain Marvel, Vol. 3: The Last Avenger - Kelly Thompson, 2020 23. Batman, Volume 8: Cold Days - Tom King, 2018 24. Batman, Volume 9: The Tyrant Wing - Tom King, 2019 25. Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider, Vol. 1: Spider-Geddon - Seanan McGuire, 2019
January 1. Deadhouse Gates, Steven Erikson 2. The Dragon's Blade: The Reborn King, Michael R. Miller 3. Sunreach, Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson 4. The Dragon's Blade: Veiled Intentions, Michael R. Miller 5. Redawn, Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson 6. The Ruin of Kings, Jenn Lyons
January: 1. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas 2. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
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 2022 Goal: 75 | Actual: tbd January: 1. Paul David Tripp - Suffering: Gospel Hope for When Life Doesn't Make Sense 2. Neal Stephenson - Termination Shock 3. Dan Allender - To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future 4. Michael J. Sullivan - Pile of Bones (The Legends of the First Empire 0.5) 5. Michael J. Sullivan - Age of Myth (The Legends of the First Empire 1) 6. Michael J. Sullivan - Age of Swords (The Legends of the First Empire 2) 7. Michael J. Sullivan - Age of War (The Legends of the First Empire 3) 8. Becca Syme - Dear Writer, Are You In Burn Out? 9. Michael J. Sullivan - Age of Legend (The Legends of the First Empire 4) 10. Halley Larkin - Midnight Masquerade February: 11. Michael J. Sullivan - Age of Death (The Legends of the First Empire 5) 12. Michael J. Sullivan - Age of Empyre (The Legends of the First Empire 6) 13. Emily Henry - When The Sky Fell on Splendor 14. Mike Chen - We Could Be Heroes 15. Rachel Beanland - Florence Adler Swims Forever 16. Cloud & Townsend - Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life 17. Katherine Arden - The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy 1) 18. Katherine Arden - The Girl in the Tower (The Winternight Trilogy 2) 19. Katherine Arden - The Winter of the Witch (The Winternight Trilogy 3) 20. Rich Karlgaard - Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed with Early Achievement 21. Stephen King - The Institute 22. A.G. Riddle - Winter World (The Long Winter 1) 23. A.G. Riddle -The Solar War (The Long Winter 2) 24. A.G. Riddle - The Lost Colony (The Long Winter 3) March: 25. Tim Ferriss - Tools of Titans 26. James Islington - The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanious Trilogy #1) 27. James Islington - An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanious Trilogy #2) 28. James Islington - The Light of All That Falls )The Licanious Trilogy #3) 29. Johann Hari - Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression and the Unexpected Solutions April: 30. Mark Sullivan - The Last Green Valley 31. Michael Matthews - Muscle for Life: Get Lean, Strong, and Healthy at Any Age 32. Brian McClellan - Promise of Blood (Powder Mage #1) 33. Brian McClellan - The Crimson Campaign (Powder Mage #2) 34. Brian McClellan - The Autumn Republic (Powder Mage #3) 35. Brian McClellan - Sins of Empire (Gods of Blood and Powder #1) May: 36. Melissa Erin Jackson - Veiled Threats (The Charm Collector 0.5) 37. Brian McClellan - Wrath of Empire (Gods of Blood and Powder #2) 38. Brian McClellan - Blood of Empire (Gods of Blood and Powder #3) 39. Emily Henry - Book Lovers 40. Chris Fox - Write to Market: Deliver a Book That Sells 41. Chris Fox - 5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter 42. Jenn Lyons - The Discord of Gods (A Chorus of Dragons #5) 43. Beth Moore - Entrusted: A Study of 2 Timothy June: 44. Alfred Lansend - Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage 45. Sarh Tolmie - All The Horses of Iceland 46. Dan Simmons - Hyperion (The Hyperion Cantos #1) 47. Dan Simmons - The Fall of Hyperion (The Hyperion Cantos #2) 48. Dan Simmons - Endymion (The Hyperion Cantos #3) 49. Dan Simmons - The Rise of Endymion (The Hyperion Cantos #4) 50. Jonathan Maberry - Assassin's Code (Joe Ledger #4) 51. Rob Hart - The Warehouse July: 52. Peter Clines - Ex-Heroes (Ex-Heroes #1) 53. Peter Clines - Ex-Patriots (Ex-Heroes #2) 54. Peter Clines - Ex-Communication (Ex-Heroes #3) 55. Melissa Erin Jackson - Wicked Treasure (The Charm Collector #2) 56. Peter Clines - Ex-Purgatory (Ex-Heroes #4) August: 57. Peter Clines - Ex-Isle (Ex-Heroes #5) 58. Evan Winter - The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning #2) 59. David Wong - John Dies At the End 60. Adam Rubin - Gladys the Magic Chicken 61. David Wong - This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies... #2) 62. David Wong - What The Hell Did I Just Read (John Dies... #3) 63. Bob Goff - Undistracted: Capture Your Purpose. Rediscover Your Joy. 64. Krispin Mayfield - Attached to God: A Practical Guide to Deeper Spiritual Experience 65. Zack Jordan - The Last Human September: 66. Samantha Shannon - The Priory of the Orange Tree 67. Brandon Sanderson - DarkOne 68. R.F. Kuang - Babel 69. Tarana Burke - You Are Your Best Thing 70. Deanna Raybourn - An Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell #6) 71. Deanna Raybourn - An Impossible Imposter (Veronica Speedwell #7) October: 72. J.R.R. Tolkien - Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth 73. Brandon Sanderson - Sunreach (Skyward 2.1) 74. Brandon Sanderson - ReDawn (Skyward 2.2) 75. Brandon Sanderson - Cytonic (Skyward 3) 76. Brandon Sanderson - Evershore (Skyward 3.1) 77. Daniel B. Greene - Breach of Peace 78. David Goggins - Can't Hurt Me 79. Sequoia Nagamatsu - How High We Go in the Dark November: 80. Brandon Sanderson - Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz #6) 81. Lyssa Kay Adams - A Very Merry Bromance (Bromance Book Club #5) 82. N.K. Jemisin - The World We Make (Great Cities #2) 83. Brandon Sanderson - The Lost Metal (Mistborn #7) December: 84. Charles Wheelan - We Came, We Saw, We Left 85. Neal Stephenson - Fall; or Dodge in Hell (Reamde #2) 86. Mark Greaney - Red Metal And #87 was my own Self-Portrait, which I never marked as read, haha.
Audiobooks. I spent most of 2020 and 2021 training for a marathon, and it's much easier to run to books than music for me. I also have about 90 minutes of commute every day.
Howdy! Let's go! 1. Gayl Jones — Palmares 2. William Shakespeare — The Tempest 3. James Fenimore Cooper — The Last of the Mohicans 4. Aimé Césaire — A Tempest 5. Margaret Price — Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life 6. E.D.E.N. Southworth — The Hidden Hand or, Capitola the Madcap 7. Ersula Ore — Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity 8. Aja Y. Martinez — Counterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory 9. Dionne Brand — In Another Place, Not Here 10. John Darnielle — Devil House 11. Jessica Restaino — Surrender: Feminist Rhetoric and Ethics in Love and Illness 12. Jenny Rice — Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence 13. Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Herland 14. Tayari Jones — An American Marriage 15. Hanya Yanagihara — To Paradise 16. Joy Williams — Harrow 17. Lillian Ross — Picture 18. Elif Batuman — The Idiot 19. Gustave Flaubert — Madame Bovary 20. Elif Batuman — Either/Or 21. Marcel Proust — Swann's Way 22. Jennifer Egan — A Visit From the Goon Squad 23. Jonathan Franzen — The Corrections 24. Ida Vitale — Byobu 25. Edith Wharton — The Age of Innocence 26. Haruki Murakami — Kafka on the Shore 27. Virginia Woolf — Mrs. Dalloway 28. John W. Mohr et al. — Measuring Culture 29. Virginia Woolf — To the Lighthouse 30. Liz Moore — Long Bright River 31. Virginia Woolf — Freshwater 32. Toni Morrison — Recitatif 33. Toni Morrison — Beloved 34. William Gardner Smith — The Stone Face 35. Zadie Smith — NW 36. Toni Morrison — Sula 37. Fran Ross — Oreo 38. Winston Graham — Marnie 39. Zadie Smith — Grand Union 40. Don DeLillo — White Noise 41. Shehan Karunatilaka — The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida 42. Adam Levin — Mount Chicago
Starting this year off with a YA theme apparently Books: 1) The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2) Memento (The Illuminae Files #0.5) by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Plan to start Illuminae tomorrow @Garrett @Vivatoto I know y'all talked highly of them.
January 1. Ohio, Stephen Markley 2. All the Missing Girls, Megan Miranda 3. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon
1. Sara Gay Forden- House of Gucci 2. Anne Helen Peterson and Charlie Warzel- Out Of Office 3. Elena Ferrante- The Lost Daughter 4. Bob Odenkirk- Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama 5. Molly Shannon - Hello Molly 6. Taylor Jenkins-Reid- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 7. Janelle Monae- The Memory Librarian 8. Nathan Rabin- The Joy of Trash 9. Gabe Montesanti -Brace For Impact 10. Matt Cain- The Secret Life Of Albert Entwistle 11. Rachel Bloom- I Want To Be Where The Normal People Are 12. Sarah Polley - Run Towards The Danger 13. Jeanette McCurdy- I'm Glad My Mom Died 14. Taylor Jenkins Reid- Carrie Soto Is Back
I was coming from the same place, Priory is a favorite of mine. I kept keeping an eye on her for new books and finally said screw it and decided to give Bone Season a try, my reluctance was because it takes place in an alternate London and I don't 'love' modern Earth era fantasy. It's no Priory, so don't expect that, but I'm having a really good time with it. I think she's setting the state for a good endgame, but the setting of the pieces hasn't been as exciting.
January update. Demons had a lot of interesting elements, two really compelling characters in Pyotr and Nikolay, and its critique of political movements felt surprisingly relevant to today, but there were huge chunks that I found to be a total slog (basically anything with Stepan). I didn't exactly like the experience of reading Cosmopolis, but I like what it's trying to do and I've been thinking about it a lot since I finished it. This was my first DeLillo and from what I can tell it's not one of his more beloved ones, so I'm still excited to check out White Noise and Underworld at some point.
Updated. I was hoping to finish the Sullivan series (I'm partially through book 5 of 6), but having to take a week off work to quarantine (ended up being negative, just took forever to get a test) really lessened my audiobook time. However, I was able to complete a beta read of my friend's new historical romance novel (definitely not my cup of tea, but if a friend writes a book, you read it). I also watched all of Money Heist/La Casa de Papel in five days which took away a lot of reading time. The Stephenson novel was a fascinating almost non-plot like only he can do, that suddenly coalesces into a crazy plot that just ends. Very... interesting angle on climate change. The Sullivan series starts off slower than his previous works, but books 3 and 4 were marked improvements of the first two. Will hopefully finish books 5 and 6 this week. Not sure where I'm going from here next.
Update after January. I ended up reading nine books last month, which is the most for the start of the year in a while. Kill Creek has been on my TBR list for a while; I finally read it and was pleasantly surprised. Very haunting and full of good twists. Same with The Between. I made a deal with my fiancee that we'd each choose a book for the other to read that they normally wouldn't choose. I chose Misery for her, and she chose Normal People for me. I thought it was a good read; it felt like a very normal (heh heh) story about the complexity of relationships. A History of Wild Places is my first five-star book of the year. It checked off a lot of boxes for me: story about a cult, well-written perspectives, a flair of religious trauma, clever twists, and an ending that actually makes sense for the story. On the non-fiction side, Three Pianos was interesting to read as a longtime Andrew McMahon fan. I also loved Gregory Boyle's second book; I would truly read anything that he writes.