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I don't know you guys manage to read as much as you do, I am quite jealous. My target for the year was 30 books but right now Im sitting at 14 and thats including books ive ended up reading for school as well. Im hoping to add at least one more before the end of the year, but we will see.

My list right now of books ive read for fun is as follows:

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin 5/5

The Guns of August 5/5

If the Allies Had Fallen: Sixty Alternate Scenarios of World War II 2/5

Cloud Atlas 4/5

Red Mars 4/5

John Adams 4/5

The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two 4/5

The Unholy Consult 5/5

Yikes, eight books is far less than I was hoping to have read this read, but life and school have got in the way more than I would have hoped.

I'm currently reading Citizens by Simon Schama, but that effort has gotten bogged down as of late so i've turned to Shadow of the Swords for now.

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My 2017 40 Book Challenge (October Update)

  1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  2. The Acts of the Apostles by Ellen G. White
  3. Centuries of Changes by Ian Mortimer
  4. Dangerous Women 1 edited George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois
  5. The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White
  6. In Search of the Golden Rainbow by Charles Armistead
  7. Lighter of Gospel Fires by Ella M. Robinson
  8. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2 by Edward Gibbon
  9. A Bold One for God by Charles G. Edwards
  10. Scars of Independence by Holger Hoock
  11. Blood Stain (Volume Two) by Linda Sejic
  12. Herald of the Midnight Cry by Paul A. Gordon
  13. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  14. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
  15. Home to Our Valleys! by Walter Utt
  16. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill (reread)
  17. Prairie Boy by Harry Baerg
  18. Blood Brothers by Philip Samaan
  19. The Millennium Bug by Jon Paulien (reread)
  20. The Collected Works of Emily Dickinson
  21. National Sunday Law by A. Jan Marcussen
  22. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3 by Edward Gibbon
  23. The New World Order by Russell Burrill
  24. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  25. Sabbath Roots by Charles E. Bradford (reread)
  26. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
  27. The Antichrist and the New World Order by Marvin Moore
  28. Rogues edited by George R.R. Martin
  29. Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
  30. The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
  31. Tell It to the World by Mervyn Maxwell
  32. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
  33. Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill (reread)
  34. Heretics and Heroes by Thomas Cahill
  35. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
  36. Spy Schools by Daniel Golden
  37. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
  38. The 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin (reread)
  39. Daniel and the Revelation by Uriah Smith
  40. Christianity by Roland H. Bainton
  41. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
  42. A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
  43. Op-Center by Jeff Rovin (reread)
  44. Republic by Plato translated by Robin Waterfield
  45. Gilgamesh translated by Stephen Mitchell
  46. 500 Years of Protest and Liberty by Nicholas Patrick Miller
  47. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
  48. Renegade: Martin Luther, The Graphic Biography by Andrea Grosso Ciponte & Dacia Palmerino
  49. William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken by Ian Doescher
  50. The Stairway to Heaven by Zecharia Sitchin (reread)
  51. Blood Stain Volume Three by Linda Sejic
  52. The Division of Christendom by Hans J. Hillerbrand
  53. Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 by Carlos M.N. Eire

This past month dominated by one book that brought my total for the year overall at 53/40 overall and 46/30 first time reads.  I'm currently reading another long book, which I'm almost two-thirds of the way through.  Unless there is some miracle (there won't be) I'll not set a record for books read like I have the last few years, but I'm still pretty happy with this year's reading.

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November update:

 

- The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy by Tim Burton.
- Tales from the Perilous Realm by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien
Short Cuts: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
Poésies I et II by Lautréamont
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun by J.R.R. Tolkien
- A bunch of short stories by Ernest Hemingway (qualifies as one book)
Heart of Darkness and Youth by Joseph Conrad
- A bunch of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe (qualifies as one book)
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Des femmes qui tombent by Pierre Desproges
The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
La personne et le sacré by Simone Weil
L'Iliade ou le poème de la force by Simone Weil
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Book 13 of The Confessions by Saint Augustin
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Colline by Jean Giono
Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Beowulf translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
Beowulf translated by William Ellery Leonard
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (first time reading in English)
Le Hobbit translated by Daniel Lauzon
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
La Disparition by Georges Perec (not read to the end but I read articles about it so it counts)
The Fellowship of the Ring translated by Daniel Lauzon

33/40. Seven to go in one month. I'm in deep shit.

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15/20

I'm feeling slightly positive now I only have 5 more books to read and I'm almost finished one more. 

Finished reading Myth and Sexuality by Jamake Highwater. 

My sub goals are:

1- read from the books I currently own first, then any new ones I buy (unless Winds of Winter comes out)

- 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'So Long, And Thanks for all the Fish', 'The Ice Dragon', 'The Exorcist', 'First They Killed My Father', 'Rogues', 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams', 'George's Marvellous Medicine', 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw', 'Mostly Harmless', 'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', 'The Light Fantastic', 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 'Myth and Sexuality', 

2- I want to read 10 books written by women

3/10 - 'First They Killed My Father', Loung Ung, 'Reading Magic', Mem Fox,  'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', Marina Warner

3- I want to read 5 non fiction books (finish the ones I'm reading first)

4/5 - 'First They Killed My Father', Loung Ung, 'Reading Magic', Mem Fox,  'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', Marina Warner, 'Myth and Sexuality', Jamake Highwater, 

4- I want to read 5 anthologies and short story collections

2/5 - 'Rogues', by GRRM and Gardner Dozois, 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams', by Stephen King 

5- I want to read at least 5 Children's books (not Picture Story books)

3/5 - 'The Ice Dragon' by GRRM, 'George's Marvellous Medicine', by Roald Dahl, 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw', by Jeff Kinney

6- I want to read at least 10 novels from any genre

6/10 - 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'So Long, And Thanks for all the Fish', 'The Exorcist', 'Mostly Harmless', 'The Light Fantastic', 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 

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@Plessiez 

I used to be Lady of Whsiperers, but I've changed my username

Here is my updated list: 

1.    Schirach Schuld by Ferdinand von

2.     The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johanson

3.      Dawn Study by Maria V. Snyder 

4.     Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantell

5.     Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

6.     North Korea: State of  Paranoia by Davidd French

7.     Verheißung by Jussi Adler Olsen

8.     In order to live by Yeonmi Park

9.     Im Wald by Nele Neuhaus

10.   A game of thrones (audiobook) read by George R.R. Martin

11.   Best served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

12.    Schön aber tot by Eva Rossmann

13.    Swords and Scoundrels by Julia Knight

14.   A killing winter by Tom Callaghan (read in German)

15.  I call myself a feminist by various authors

16.  The Heroes by Joe Ambercrombie

17.   The fate of the Tearling by Erika Johanson

18.   The Handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood

19.   The hundred thousand kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (read in German)

20.   The Geek feminist revolution by Kameron Hurley

21.    The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (read in German

22.    Vietnam rising dragon by Bill Hayton

23.     Ash by Malinda Lo

24.     Too like the lightning by Ada Palmer

25.   Bridging the Gaps by Kate Warren

26.     Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

27.     Devil’s knot the true story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt

28.     The Grim Company by Mara Leveritt

29.      Waiting to be heard by Amanda Know (read in German) 

30.       The Kingdoms of Gods by N.K. Jemisin (read in German)

31.       A vindication of the rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

32.      Dying of the Light by George R.R. Martin

33.       Sumerland Prinzessin Serisada by Johannes Ulbricht 

34.       Sumerland Prinz Zazamael by Johannes Ulbricht 

35.       Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

36.       War and Peace by  Leo Tolstoy  (read in German)

37.        Who fears death by Nnedi Okorafo

38.         The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley

39.       Red Country by Joe Abercrombie

40.       What happened by Hilliary Rodham Clinton (Audiobook

 

That's 40 towards my goal of 50. I doubt I'll manage to read 12 books in one months, though I might try to do it by reading many novellas)

Subgoal: Reading at least 10 books in German: 11/10 

Subgoal: Reading at least three books written in French: 0/3 . Doubt I'll read any books in French this year. 

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16/20

4 more to go! I can do this! 

Finished reading the illustrated Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling. 

I've read the book before - but not illustrated and so I'm including it in the challenge. It is also on my to-read-list. 

My sub goals are:

1- read from the books I currently own first, then any new ones I buy (unless Winds of Winter comes out)

- 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'So Long, And Thanks for all the Fish', 'The Ice Dragon', 'The Exorcist', 'First They Killed My Father', 'Rogues', 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams', 'George's Marvellous Medicine', 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw', 'Mostly Harmless', 'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', 'The Light Fantastic', 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 'Myth and Sexuality', 

2- I want to read 10 books written by women

4/10 - 'First They Killed My Father', Loung Ung, 'Reading Magic', Mem Fox,  'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', Marina Warner, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', JK Rowling

3- I want to read 5 non fiction books (finish the ones I'm reading first)

4/5 - 'First They Killed My Father', Loung Ung, 'Reading Magic', Mem Fox,  'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', Marina Warner, 'Myth and Sexuality', Jamake Highwater, 

4- I want to read 5 anthologies and short story collections

2/5 - 'Rogues', by GRRM and Gardner Dozois, 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams', by Stephen King 

5- I want to read at least 5 Children's books (not Picture Story books)

4/5 - 'The Ice Dragon' by GRRM, 'George's Marvellous Medicine', by Roald Dahl, 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw', by Jeff Kinney, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', JK Rowling

6- I want to read at least 10 novels from any genre

6/10 - 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'So Long, And Thanks for all the Fish', 'The Exorcist', 'Mostly Harmless', 'The Light Fantastic', 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 

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17/20

3 more to go! I can do this! 

Finished reading the illustrated The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

...I didn't really enjoy this book so I won't read the rest of the series. 

My sub goals are:

1- read from the books I currently own first, then any new ones I buy (unless Winds of Winter comes out)

- 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'So Long, And Thanks for all the Fish', 'The Ice Dragon', 'The Exorcist', 'First They Killed My Father', 'Rogues', 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams', 'George's Marvellous Medicine', 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw', 'Mostly Harmless', 'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', 'The Light Fantastic', 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 'Myth and Sexuality', 'The Eye of the World',

2- I want to read 10 books written by women

4/10 - 'First They Killed My Father', Loung Ung, 'Reading Magic', Mem Fox,  'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', Marina Warner, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', JK Rowling

3- I want to read 5 non fiction books (finish the ones I'm reading first)

4/5 - 'First They Killed My Father', Loung Ung, 'Reading Magic', Mem Fox,  'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', Marina Warner, 'Myth and Sexuality', Jamake Highwater, 

4- I want to read 5 anthologies and short story collections

2/5 - 'Rogues', by GRRM and Gardner Dozois, 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams', by Stephen King 

5- I want to read at least 5 Children's books (not Picture Story books)

4/5 - 'The Ice Dragon' by GRRM, 'George's Marvellous Medicine', by Roald Dahl, 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw', by Jeff Kinney, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', JK Rowling

6- I want to read at least 10 novels from any genre

7/10 - 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'So Long, And Thanks for all the Fish', 'The Exorcist', 'Mostly Harmless', 'The Light Fantastic', 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 'The Eye of the World', 

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Earlier today I finished my seventy-second book of the year, so I've now reached my target for 2017..

Since my last update:

62) Cold Magic (Kate Elliott)

63) Trent's Last Case (E. C. Bentley)

64) White Teeth (Zadie Smith)

65) Autonomous (Annalee Newitz)

66) Six Wakes (Mur Lafferty)

67) Dichronauts (Greg Egan)

68) The Power (Naomi Alderman)

69) The Secret History (Donna Tart)

70) The Fall of the Stone City (Ismail Kadare | translated by John Hodgson)

71) Europe In Winter (Dave Hutchinson)

72) Cold Fire (Kate Elliott)

Despite worrying at the start of the year that I was reading too much by the same group of authors I'd already read, I think I'm fairly satisfied by both the number of different authors I ended up reading and the number of authors I tried for the first time this year (55 and 33 respectively).  I read five books by Max Gladstone and four by Adrian Tchaikovsky but no more than three by anybody else.

Things I liked most of what I read this year, in the order I read them: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (by David Mitchell), Too Like The Lightning (by Ada Palmer), Possession (by A. S. Byatt), The Stone Sky (by N. K. Jemisin), The Secret History (by Donna Tart) and The Power (by Naomi Alderman).

One thing I wanted to do this year that I didn't really manage was to read more short story collections.  In the end I only finished four and didn't really hugely care for any of them.

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Well, I definitely won't be meeting the challenge this year.

1) The Burning Land by Bernard Cornwell

2) Death of Kings by Bernard Cornwell

3) The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye

4) Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

5) The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte

6) Cold Earth by Ann Cleeves

7) Half the World by Joe Abercrombie

8) Half a War by Joe Ambercrombie

9) The Pagan Lord by Bernard Cornwell

10) The Empty Throne by Bernard Cornwell

11) Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay

12) The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

13) The Unholy Consult by R Scott Bakker

14) Strange Dogs by James SA Corey

15) Warriors of the Storm by Bernard Cornwell

Currently working through Persepolis Rising by James SA Corey and A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel. I will likely finish both this year.

 

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18/20

2 more to go, but I'm not sure if I will finish them.

Finished reading the illustrated Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling, the illustrated version. Loved it, cant wait til more are illustrated. 

My sub goals are:

1- read from the books I currently own first, then any new ones I buy (unless Winds of Winter comes out)

- 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'So Long, And Thanks for all the Fish', 'The Ice Dragon', 'The Exorcist', 'First They Killed My Father', 'Rogues', 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams', 'George's Marvellous Medicine', 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw', 'Mostly Harmless', 'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', 'The Light Fantastic', 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 'Myth and Sexuality', 'The Eye of the World',

2- I want to read 10 books written by women

5/10 - 'First They Killed My Father', Loung Ung, 'Reading Magic', Mem Fox,  'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', Marina Warner, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', JK Rowling, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', JK Rowling

3- I want to read 5 non fiction books (finish the ones I'm reading first)

4/5 - 'First They Killed My Father', Loung Ung, 'Reading Magic', Mem Fox,  'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', Marina Warner, 'Myth and Sexuality', Jamake Highwater, 

4- I want to read 5 anthologies and short story collections

2/5 - 'Rogues', by GRRM and Gardner Dozois, 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams', by Stephen King 

5- I want to read at least 5 Children's books (not Picture Story books) Finished! 

5/5 - 'The Ice Dragon' by GRRM, 'George's Marvellous Medicine', by Roald Dahl, 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw', by Jeff Kinney, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', JK Rowling, 'Harry Poter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', JK Rowling,

6- I want to read at least 10 novels from any genre

7/10 - 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'So Long, And Thanks for all the Fish', 'The Exorcist', 'Mostly Harmless', 'The Light Fantastic', 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 'The Eye of the World', 

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20/20

Finished! For the first time ever I completed my goal!

Finished reading Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb and Winner the Pooh: The Complete Collection of Stories and Poems by A A Milne 

It was good to finish my goal but I would of liked to have finished more of my sub goal. In the end I only finished one - which was the children's books one. 

Next year I'd like to at least finish the 10 books by women and 10 novels ones as well. 

My sub goals are:

1- read from the books I currently own first, then any new ones I buy (unless Winds of Winter comes out)

- 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'So Long, And Thanks for all the Fish', 'The Ice Dragon', 'The Exorcist', 'First They Killed My Father', 'Rogues', 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams', 'George's Marvellous Medicine', 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw', 'Mostly Harmless', 'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', 'The Light Fantastic', 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 'Myth and Sexuality', 'The Eye of the World', 'Assassin's Apprentice', 'Winnie the Pooh', 

2- I want to read 10 books written by women

6/10 - 'First They Killed My Father', Loung Ung, 'Reading Magic', Mem Fox,  'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', Marina Warner, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', JK Rowling, 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', JK Rowling, 'Assassin's Apprentice', Robbin Hobb, 

3- I want to read 5 non fiction books (finish the ones I'm reading first)

4/5 - 'First They Killed My Father', Loung Ung, 'Reading Magic', Mem Fox,  'Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism', Marina Warner, 'Myth and Sexuality', Jamake Highwater, 

4- I want to read 5 anthologies and short story collections

2/5 - 'Rogues', by GRRM and Gardner Dozois, 'The Bazaar of Bad Dreams', by Stephen King 

5- I want to read at least 5 Children's books (not Picture Story books) Finished! 

6/5 - 'The Ice Dragon' by GRRM, 'George's Marvellous Medicine', by Roald Dahl, 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw', by Jeff Kinney, 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets', JK Rowling, 'Harry Poter and the Prisoner of Azkaban', JK Rowling, 'Winnie the Pooh', A A Milne

6- I want to read at least 10 novels from any genre

8/10 - 'Life, the Universe and Everything', 'So Long, And Thanks for all the Fish', 'The Exorcist', 'Mostly Harmless', 'The Light Fantastic', 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde', 'The Eye of the World', 'Assassin's Apprentice', 

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My 2017 40 Book Challenge (October Update)

  1. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  2. The Acts of the Apostles by Ellen G. White
  3. Centuries of Changes by Ian Mortimer
  4. Dangerous Women 1 edited George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois
  5. The Great Controversy by Ellen G. White
  6. In Search of the Golden Rainbow by Charles Armistead
  7. Lighter of Gospel Fires by Ella M. Robinson
  8. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2 by Edward Gibbon
  9. A Bold One for God by Charles G. Edwards
  10. Scars of Independence by Holger Hoock
  11. Blood Stain (Volume Two) by Linda Sejic
  12. Herald of the Midnight Cry by Paul A. Gordon
  13. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
  14. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
  15. Home to Our Valleys! by Walter Utt
  16. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea by Thomas Cahill (reread)
  17. Prairie Boy by Harry Baerg
  18. Blood Brothers by Philip Samaan
  19. The Millennium Bug by Jon Paulien (reread)
  20. The Collected Works of Emily Dickinson
  21. National Sunday Law by A. Jan Marcussen
  22. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3 by Edward Gibbon
  23. The New World Order by Russell Burrill
  24. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  25. Sabbath Roots by Charles E. Bradford (reread)
  26. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
  27. The Antichrist and the New World Order by Marvin Moore
  28. Rogues edited by George R.R. Martin
  29. Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
  30. The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
  31. Tell It to the World by Mervyn Maxwell
  32. The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett
  33. Mysteries of the Middle Ages by Thomas Cahill (reread)
  34. Heretics and Heroes by Thomas Cahill
  35. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
  36. Spy Schools by Daniel Golden
  37. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
  38. The 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin (reread)
  39. Daniel and the Revelation by Uriah Smith
  40. Christianity by Roland H. Bainton
  41. The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela
  42. A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
  43. Op-Center by Jeff Rovin (reread)
  44. Republic by Plato translated by Robin Waterfield
  45. Gilgamesh translated by Stephen Mitchell
  46. 500 Years of Protest and Liberty by Nicholas Patrick Miller
  47. Going Postal by Terry Pratchett
  48. Renegade: Martin Luther, The Graphic Biography by Andrea Grosso Ciponte & Dacia Palmerino
  49. William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken by Ian Doescher
  50. The Stairway to Heaven by Zecharia Sitchin (reread)
  51. Blood Stain Volume Three by Linda Sejic
  52. The Division of Christendom by Hans J. Hillerbrand
  53. Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650 by Carlos M.N. Eire
  54. They Came for Freedom: The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims by C.J. Milbrandt
  55. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
  56. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey (reread)
  57. Romans: Salvation for "All" by George R. Knight
  58. Thud! by Terry Pratchett
  59. Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
  60. Atlantis: The Eighth Continent by Charles Berlitz
  61. Ancient Mysteries by Rupert Furneaux
  62. Western Civilization to 1500 by Walther Kirchner

This past month I finished 9 books, 8 of which were first-time reads that brought my total for the year to 62/40 overall and 54/30 first time reads.  My total of 24,894 pages is my 2nd personal best (behind 2016).

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Only managed to read 36 books on the planned 40.

I will therefore set my goal to 40 again for 2018. With sub-goals.

1/ I want to read at least 10 non-fiction books, among which:

  • At least 3 books of social sciences
  • At least 3 books of literary theory
  • At least 1 book of history

2/ I want to read at least two books in Spanish

3/ I want to read at least 5 translations of books already read

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1.    Schirach Schuld by Ferdinand von Schirach 

2.     The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johanson

3.      Dawn Study by Maria V. Snyder 

4.     Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantell

5.     Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

6.     North Korea: State of  Paranoia by Davidd French

7.     Verheißung by Jussi Adler Olsen

8.     In order to live by Yeonmi Park

9.     Im Wald by Nele Neuhaus

10.   A game of thrones (audiobook) read by George R.R. Martin

11.   Best served Cold by Joe Abercrombie

12.    Schön aber tot by Eva Rossmann

13.    Swords and Scoundrels by Julia Knight

14.   A killing winter by Tom Callaghan (read in German)

15.  I call myself a feminist by various authors

16.  The Heroes by Joe Ambercrombie

17.   The fate of the Tearling by Erika Johanson

18.   The Handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood

19.   The hundred thousand kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (read in German)

20.   The Geek feminist revolution by Kameron Hurley

21.    The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin (read in German

22.    Vietnam rising dragon by Bill Hayton

23.     Ash by Malinda Lo

24.     Too like the lightning by Ada Palmer

25.   Bridging the Gaps by Kate Warren

26.     Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay

27.     Devil’s knot the true story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt

28.     The Grim Company by Mara Leveritt

29.      Waiting to be heard by Amanda Know (read in German) 

30.       The Kingdoms of Gods by N.K. Jemisin (read in German)

31.       A vindication of the rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

32.      Dying of the Light by George R.R. Martin

33.       Sumerland Prinzessin Serisada by Johannes Ulbricht 

34.       Sumerland Prinz Zazamael by Johannes Ulbricht 

35.       Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

36.       War and Peace by  Leo Tolstoy  (read in German)

37.        Who fears death by Nnedi Okorafo

38.         The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley

39.       Red Country by Joe Abercrombie

40.       What happened by Hilliary Rodham Clinton (Audiobook)

41. Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie

42. Die Känguru Chroniken: Ansichten eines vorlauten Beuteltiers by Mark-Uwe Kling (Audiobook)

43. Shades in Shadow by N.K. Jemisin

44. The Awakened Kingdom by N.K. Jemisin

45. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

46. Binti Home by Nnedi Okorafor

47. We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families by Philip Gourevitch

48. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (read in German) 

49.Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer

50. The Taste of Honey by Kai Ashante Wilson 

51. The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer

52. We should all be feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (actually read it back in April, but forgot it in my previous updates)

So I met my goal of reading 52 books. 

Subgoal: Reading at least 10 books in German: 13/10

Subgoal: Reading at least three books written in French: 0/3 .

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On 1/2/2017 at 7:33 PM, Starkess said:

I (barely) hit my 60 goal last year (and thanks to some re-reads Goodreads didn't think I did!), but I didn't feel like I was having to particularly try too hard, so I'll shoot for 65 this year!

I did not make my goal! Which is kind of ridiculous since I was not working for a few months. But still, not a bad effort, especially considering I did the WOT re-read, which is a LOT of pages. I did a lot of re-reading this year. My favorite new book was, I think, Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft.

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(Belated) congratulations to those who met their targets this year, and commiserations to those that didn't.  I think that the OP should be up to date now.

If anybody wanted to start a new thread for 2018 but was worried about stepping on my toes, please go ahead.  I'm going to have limited time over the next few months for either reading fiction or checking this board, so I'm afraid I'm probably not the best person to do this.

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A hit the target (I've just lumped some graphic novels/short stories together. The order is generally order of enjoyment. Top 5 hard to pick a favourite from 24 on the books are trashy/problematic and the last 5 books I wouldn't reccommend others to read.

1.       Vision  vol 1-2 - Tom King

2.       Dead Man's steel - Luke Scull

3.       Homo Deus - a history of Tomorrow Yuval Noah hatari

4.       A brief history of seven killings -Marlon James

5.       To Kill a Mockingbird - HArper Lee

6.       The dark Tower

7.       Ship of Magic - Robin Hobb

8.       Clean room - Gail Simone

9.       East of West vol 1-6

10.   The making of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr

11.   The night and the music - lawrence block

12.   Strange dogs/Vital Abyss - James S Corey

13.   Deathless - Catheryn Valente.

14.   Jim Buthcer summer knight

15.   Babylons ashes - James S Corey

16.   Saga vol 7

17.   The big sleep - Raymond Chandler

18.   Southern bastards - vol 3

19.   The storm before the storm - Mike Duncan

20.   A little history of philosophy - Nigel Warburton.

21.   The ruby in the smoke - Phillip Pullman

22.   Odd and the frost giants - Neil Gaiman.

23.   English Grammar boot camp

24.   Clash of Eagles - alan smale

25.   The Fireman - Joe Hill

26.   Red sister - Mark Lawrence

27.   Manifest Destiny vol 3

28.   Seven to Eternity vol 1 - Rick Remender

29.   Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

30.   Gunplowder plot - antonia Fraser

31.   Uprooted - Naomi novik

32.   Mirror Empire - Kameron Hurley

33.   Amazing Spider-man worldwide vol 1

34.   Walking Dead vol 27-28

35.   Shadow of the sword - Tom Holland

36.   Side-kicked

 

I'm not really setting a challenge for 2018 as i was frustrated by putting off 800 pagers because it was cuttung into my target. That said, it did make me read some excellent short stories.

 

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