[Serenity]

I haven't particularly planned what I'm going to read, I just want to get my TRP down to 50. It's at 114 at the moment. I should be able to do it, if only I could stop buying more books!

[Mentalist]

Mentalist, on 01 January 2014 - 08:45 PM, said:

hmmm. all right let's do a 2014 list.

As much of Eternal Champion books as I can (and there's a ton) ( STARTED!!! Read 6 books so far, currently waiting on "Kane of Old Mars" to be released (it's published in a week), will resume then )
Finally get through the first 2 Dark tower books in French, so as to move on and read the rest of the series. ( nope. moving into 2015 )

-re-read "Best Served Cold". read "Red Country" (done)
Read the "thousand Years of Hroft" duology. Keep reading "Godsdoom-2" books as they come out. (Read "Thousand years of Hroft". completely forgot about Godsdoom 2. At this point it'll prolly be cheaper to buy in Canada tha to ask for it from home. Yay, lists!)
Angry Robot-order that "Obsidian and Blood" Omnibus. (Ordered. Now need to slot it in for reading)
Read "River of Stars" once it hits mmpb (I keep thinking that i've bought it)
Order Kraken by Mieville. (Nope, still to do)
Read Caliban's War-keep reading the Expanse books. (read, did not buy more expanse books. Not sure why)
-Hamilton-read "Judas Unchained and Pandora Star". read the other 2 Void books after. (Started Pandora's Star. Slow burn, but ok so far)
Give Codex Alera another shot. (Read up to Bk 6. Have Bk 6, will finish probably soon)
Read the "Initiate Brother" duology I've bought a few weeks back (Done. enjoyed)
order and read more of the Ketty jay books. (Have Bk 2, not read yet)
Read Republic of Thieves once it hits mmpb (bought, not read)
Stephenson-Read "Cryptonomicon". Also try the Mongoliad. If good, read the trilo. (read Crypto, Anathem, and 2/3 Mongoliad books. Will buy the 3rd)
Tregillis-read "bitter seeds" . if liked, read the trilo. (Read, thought it ok. Will continue with the series eventually)
Read the two "enclaves" spinoffs. probably keep reading "secret city". (NOPE, need to do)
Check out "Angels and demons" at some point. (NOPE, need to do)
Buy "The cold commands" at some point (NOPE, need to do)
re-read "Book of the New Sun". Buy "books of the Long Sun" (bought Coda instead. Need to plan for the re-read)
Keep reading "Wars of Light and Shadow" series. (Still only up to Bk 3)
Simmons-read "the Terror" (NOPE)
Robin Hobb--check out the Farseer books. (NOPE)
Check out that Mongolian trilo by Vasiliy Yan I've bought (NOPE)

Series to finish:
Paul Kearney, "Macht trilo" (NOPE)
Mark Lawrence "Thorns", once Emperor goes mmpb (done, enjoyed ok. "Red queen will be a mmpb purchase to see if good)
Alan Campbell, Deepgate trilo (NOPE)
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shadows of the Apt (Last bk on its way to me. Will prolly be read once it comes)

Series to follow as books go mmpb
Butcher- Dresden Files
Scholes- Psalms of Isaak
Bakker- Aspect Emperor
Stross- Laundry files
Sanderson- any more Mistborn or Stormlight Archive books. (will buy Words of Radiance in mmpb and make a judgement call if this series is worth getting in hardcover or not)

Books to buy ASAP:
more Malaz goodness

New series to check out;
Daniel Abraham- Dagger and Coin (Bought, not read yet0
Asher's new Sci-Fi series (Bought, Read Bk 1, IT WAS EPIC GOODNESS, need to read Bk 2 )
Patrick lee-the Breach Nope
that trilo by Kim Stanley Robinson that's not the mars trilo. (Read 2, have the third. Best reads of the year!!!!!)

Non-fiction books to read: (Read none of these)
"A wonderful Exchange"
Western Civilization on Trial
Thomas Carlyle's History of French Revolution
Re-read "End of History and the Last Man". read "Trust", maybe some other works by Fukuyama

Please update thread title to add 2015.

2015 resolutions:

French bks:
Finally get through the first 2 Dark tower books in French, so as to move on and read the rest of the series.

Russian books:
Perumov-read Godsdoom 2 as the books come out
read the Russian translation of Sapkowski's Hussite trilo
Read the two "enclaves" spinoffs. probably keep reading "secret city". Possibly get a tablet for the latter.
Read Vassiliy Yan's Mongol Trilo
Rad Mayne Reid's "Maroons"
Possibly, if I'm feeling ambitious, re-read "10 years later"

In order to try to understand Russians (in light of this whole "war with UA thing"
-re-read "War and Peace"
-Read Gogol's "the Dead Souls"
-"Read Saltykov-Schedrins "Tale of one city"

Non-fiction:
prior to reading Fukuyama's latest, re-read "End of History and the last man". Also Read "trust"
-Western Civilization on Trial
-Thomas Carlyle's History of French Revolution


English books:

Insta-buy "Fall of Light"
Continue ordering and reading the Michael Moorcock collection according to the plan
Angry Robot-read that "Obsidian and Blood" omnibus
buy River of Stars re-read "under heaven", then read"river of Stars"
Order "Kraken" by China Mieville
Hamilton - keep reading the Commonwealth books
Corey-keep reading the Expanse books

-Slot a month or 2 prior to "Fall of light to do a full Malaz re-read"
-Wolfe- do a BoNS re-read + read the Coda
-Simmons- read "The Terror"
-Wooding- keep reading the Ketty Jay books
-Lawrence- Check out "Red Queen" in mmpb
-Tregillis- get next book in series
-Asher--keep reading the Owners series
-Sanderson- Get Words of radiance in MMPB. Decide if the series is good enough for insta-purchase yet. keep buying associated Cosmere books in mmpb
-Lynch- read "Republic of thieves"
-Stephenson- Finish "the Mongoliad"
-McClellan- "read the 2nd Powder mage" book once it's out in paperback.
-Read "Amngels and Demons" at some point
-Read more of "Wars of Light and Shadow"
-If the opportunity comes up, buy and read the last 2 books in Turtledove's "Darkness" series.
-Continue reading Rajaniemi's series.


Series to finish:
-Finish "Shadows of the Apt" series once Book 10 arrives
-Butcher- Finish Codex Alera. maybe check out new series?
Paul Kearney, "Macht trilo"
Alan Campbell, Deepgate trilo

Series to follow as books go mmpb
Butcher- Dresden Files
Scholes- Psalms of Isaak (may have to buy a hardcover on sale, as it looks there won't be a mmpb release)
Bakker- Aspect Emperor
Stross- Laundry files
LJames Lovegrove- Godpunk books.

New series to check out;
Daniel Abraham- read the first Dagger and Coin book to decide if whether to proceed with the series
-Wexler -read" The thousand Names" which I've bought
Patrick lee-the Breach
Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars trilo
Jim Butcher-maybe check out new series?
-Tom Lloyd's new series
-Chris Evans' new series

Non-fiction
"A wonderful Exchange"
Jared Diamond: "Guns Germs and Steel"
Francis Fukuyama: "Origins of Political order", "Political order and Political Decay"

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 11 January 2015 - 03:59 AM

[Coco with marshmallows]

passed teh 52 book mark sometime in september/october.

Going to try for it again, and again with as few re-reads as possible.

So far:

"Firefight" Brandon Sanderson, completed.
"The Relic Guild" Edward Cox, 50% complete.

[JPK]

The Incredible Kitsu, on 31 December 2013 - 06:25 AM, said:

My new resolution is to not be so neurotic about my reading schedule this year. 2011 and 2012 I set myself a 2500 page a month reading goal and chose my monthly trp and broke down what I'd need to read per day to get through that pile and hit my goal at the beginning of each month. In 2013 I took that a step further. I cut the goal down to 2000 pages a month, however I typed up a list of what I'd read in order for the ENTIRE YEAR. With pages counts per day. IN JANUARY.

This year, I'm only going to record what I actually read each day at the end of the day as a kind of reading log. I'm curious to see if I'll beat last years numbers when I'm not so crazy about it.

This was a huge success for me. I ended up with an extra 8k pages at the end of the year. Following this policy again this year, but adding "read a little every day" as I ended up with 61 "didn't read" days.

[JPK]

Oh, it's not super serious anymore. It used to be when I was plotting it out way in advance. Now it's more of a curiosity thing. All I'm really doing is writing down what page number I finish on, and tracking my pages per day. The only thing I'm expanding on this year is making sure I read at least a little every day even if it's only ten pages or so. Honestly, I'm one of those people that needs a little alone time every day to be happy and reading is the way I've found I enjoy spending that time most.

[Maark Abbott]

I may as well list my 'to-read' pile (including books I don't yet own for whatever reason) in this.

Reads:

The Deed of Paksenarrion (Omnibus of 1,2,3 from Moon)
Warbreaker (Sanderson)
Magician's Guild (Canavan)
Assail (ICE)
Fall of Light (Some guy from Canada)
The Daylight War & The Skull Throne (Brett)
King of Thorns & Emperor of Thorns (Lawrence)

Re-reads:

The Night Angel Trilogy (Weeks)

[Andorion]

You're going to read Trudi Canavan?

[Andorion]

I'll post my full TRP later, but I intend to read Mark Lawrence, Baker, and something by Sanderson. Though what exactly I dont know

[Coco with marshmallows]

So far:

"Firefight" Brandon Sanderson, completed.
"The Relic Guild" Edward Cox, completed
"The Last Page" Anthony Huso, about 15% done

Picking up "The Providence of Fire" by Brian Staveley tomorrow, so will follow on The Last Page with a re-read of "The Emperor's Blades" before starting it.

[Mentalist]

*bump*

Please update thread name to 2016

2015 list:

Quote

French bks:
Finally get through the first 2 Dark tower books in French, so as to move on and read the rest of the series. STILL hasn't happened. Changed resolution, new approach

Russian books:
Perumov-read Godsdoom 2 as the books come out (totally forgot about this)
read the Russian translation of Sapkowski's Hussite trilo (1/3)
Read the two "enclaves" spinoffs. probably keep reading "secret city". Possibly get a tablet for the latter. (totally forgot about this)
Read Vassiliy Yan's Mongol Trilo (totally forgot about this)
Read Mayne Reid's "Maroons"
Possibly, if I'm feeling ambitious, re-read "10 years later" (didn't get to this)

In order to try to understand Russians (in light of this whole "war with UA thing" (didn't forget, no time)
-re-read "War and Peace"
-Read Gogol's "the Dead Souls"
-"Read Saltykov-Schedrins "Tale of one city"

Non-fiction:
prior to reading Fukuyama's latest, re-read "End of History and the last man". Also Read "trust" (moving into new year)
-Western Civilization on Trial (moving into the New Year)
-Thomas Carlyle's History of French Revolution (Moving into the New Year)


English books:

Insta-buy "Fall of Light" (will Pre-order tomorrow)
Continue ordering and reading the Michael Moorcock collection according to the plan (all bought)
Angry Robot-read that "Obsidian and Blood" omnibus
buy River of Stars re-read "under heaven", then read"river of Stars"
Order "Kraken" by China Mieville (read. tentaclicious cephalopod mindfuck)
Hamilton - keep reading the Commonwealth books (Neet to buy "Judas unchained)
Corey-keep reading the Expanse books (Read 2. Need to buy more)

-Slot a month or 2 prior to "Fall of light to do a full Malaz re-read" (On Assail now, then only FoD to read b4 FoL comes out
-Wolfe- do a BoNS re-read + read the Coda (scheduling)
-Simmons- read "The Terror" (moving into the New Year)
-Wooding- keep reading the Ketty Jay books (3/4)
-Lawrence- Check out "Red Queen" in mmpb (Waiting on Liar's Key to hit mmpb)
-Tregillis- get next book in series (moving into the New Year)
-Asher--keep reading the Owners series (Done, enjoyed. Will buy Dark Intelligence.
-Sanderson- Get Words of radiance in MMPB. Decide if the series is good enough for insta-purchase yet (not wowed yet). keep buying associated Cosmere books in mmpb
- Lynch- read "Republic of thieves"
-Stephenson- Finish "the Mongoliad" (2/3)
-McClellan- "read the 2nd Powder mage" book once it's out in paperback. (moving into the New Year)
-Read "Amngels and Demons" at some point (moving into the New Year)
-Read more of "Wars of Light and Shadow" (still only read 3 books)
-If the opportunity comes up, buy and read the last 2 books in Turtledove's "Darkness" series. (PM BK with a reminder)
-Continue reading Rajaniemi's series. (moving into the new Year. Must buy Fractal Prince)


Series to finish:
-Finish "Shadows of the Apt" series once Book 10 arrives
-Butcher- Finish Codex Alera. maybe check out new series? (bought. Must read)
Paul Kearney, "Macht trilo"
Alan Campbell, Deepgate trilo

Series to follow as books go mmpb
Butcher- Dresden Files
Scholes- Psalms of Isaak (may have to buy a hardcover on sale, as it looks there won't be a mmpb release)
Bakker- Aspect Emperor
Stross- Laundry files
LJames Lovegrove- Godpunk books.

New series to check out [/u]
Daniel Abraham- read the first Dagger and Coin book to decide if whether to proceed with the series (liked)
-Wexler -read" The thousand Names" which I've bought (liked, have book 2 bought)
Patrick lee-the Breach (nope, moving into the New Year)
Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars trilo (moving into the New Year)
Jim Butcher-maybe check out new series? (bought, not read)
-Tom Lloyd's new series (moving into the New Year
-Chris Evans' new series (bought, not read)

Non-fiction
"A wonderful Exchange"
Jared Diamond: "Guns Germs and Steel" (moving into the New Year)
Francis Fukuyama: "Origins of Political order", "Political order and Political Decay" (moving into the New Year)

2016 list:
French
Dark tower 1+2. Get through these, 1 chapter a weekend. (started out well, but lost steam in May, around 2/3s into Gunslinger. Will make another attempt this year)

Russian
-Buy and read more "Godsdoom 2" books Actually have all 6 book now. Need to slot in a re-read of 1 and 2, and then read the rest)

- Read Books 2 and 3 of Sapkowski's "Hussite Trilogy"
-Vasiliy Yan's "Mongol Trilogy" Nope
-the 2 "Enclaves" spinoff books (make commute read) Read one, liked well enough. Need to read the other)
-Re-read "War and Peace" Nope
-Read Gogol's "the Dead Souls" Nope
-"Read Saltykov-Schedrins "Tale of one city" Nope

Non-fiction: None of these
prior to reading Fukuyama's latest, re-read "End of History and the last man". Also Read "trust"
-Western Civilization on Trial
-Thomas Carlyle's History of French Revolution
Jared Diamond: "Guns Germs and Steel" (moving into the New Year)
Francis Fukuyama: "Origins of Political order", "Political order and Political Decay"

English
-pre-order "Fall of Light". Re-read Forge of Darkness" prior to that.
-Moorcock Collection- read and review the rest of the books (14 more) WIP, 2 books ledt in main sequence + assorted short fiction + 2 more Colonel Pyat novels
-Hamilton: Buy and read Nope "judas unchained". continue with the Void books
-Corey/Abraham: do a Expanse/Dagger and Coin alternating read of both series (After FoL. Start by re-reading Expanse 1) Did not happen
-Wolfe- Do a New Sun re-read + read Urth for fist time. Buy the Long Sun books.
-Simmons- read "The Terror" Nope
- Wooding- read the last "Ketty Jay" book
-Lawrence- check out "Liar's Key" in MMPB Bought, not read
-Tolkien: Re-read Hobbit, LotR, Silmarillion Bought, not read
- Wexler read "The Shadow Throne" see if the trilo is worth finishing Read, liked, bought Bk3
-Order Milkweed Triptych Bk2. - Bought, not read
- Check out Asher's new Polity trilo Read, enjhoyed. Waitign for bk 2 to go mmpb
-Read "Powder Mage". See if the series is worth finishing Read, liked, Bought Bk3
-Read "Angels and Demons" at some point Nope
-Read more of "Wars of Light and Shadow" Not sure where I'm on with this...
-If the opportunity comes up, buy and read the last 2 books in Turtledove's "Darkness" series. Remind BK again
- Buy and read "Fractal Prince" Read, liked, ordered Bk 3
- Read Chris Evans' Of Bone and Thunder"
-read the Lovecraft Book I bought last year Nope
-Check out the second "Crimson Empire" book. Waitign for mmpb
-Check out Stephenson's latest work once it's cheaper Bought, not read
- Buy the new trilo by VanDerMeer in the omnibus, when it's on sale
-check out "Circus of the Stars" when it's cheap. Nope
-Once done with Dark Tower 1 +2 in French, read the rest. Nope
- Tad Williams: read "Happy Hour in Hell", most likely, continue the series Finished the trilo
-Burtcher Read "Cinder Spires"- decide if series deserves insta-purchase status. read, liked ok. Not insta-buy material right now

Series to finish
- Charles Stross - "Merchant princes"
-Paul Kearney, "Macht trilo" (when cheap)
-Alan Campbell, Deepgate trilo (when cheap)
-Stephenson- The Mongoliad

Series to follow as books go MMPB:
Butcher- Dresden Files
Scholes- Psalms of Isaak (may have to buy a hardcover on sale, as it looks there won't be a mmpb release)
Bakker- Aspect Emperor (TP works too)
Stross- Laundry files
-James Lovegrove- Godpunk books.
-Abercrombie- any more First Law stuff

New Series to check out
-Patrick lee-the Breach Nope
-Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars trilo, 2352? Shaman? Nope
-Tom Lloyd's new series Nope
-David Hair: "Moontide Quartet" Nope
-Ken Liu Read, liked, waiting for bk2 to go mmpb
-Brent Weeks- either Night Angel or the new one . Bought "Black Prism" not read yet
-John Gwynne- "the Faithful and the Fallen" Nope

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 02 January 2017 - 03:50 AM

[Andorion]

My entire TBR would take too long to put down here

Start and finish Bakker
Finally read Mark Lawrence.
Read more of GGK
Finish Black Company

Also a bunch of other series and authors which I will copy over from Goodreads

[worry]

Skip Angels & Demons. Play Professor Layton games instead.

[Maark Abbott]

My own book's first draft

[Puck]

Raging Cajun Gator King, on 11 January 2016 - 12:45 AM, said:

Fuck this thread. I'm not even going to attempt to set a bar with my turtle pace these days. I thought the more you read in life the faster you got at it? Not so with me.

You can teach yourself to read faster, mostly by not sounding out in your mind what you're reading. The question is, is it worth buzzing through books just so you can say 'I've read it', or do you prefer to go slowly and enjoy them..

[RACHEL]

My reading goal for the year is a book a week. I started in December and so far I have finished on time. I have a huge to read pile and I thought that making a goal would push me to read more and so far it's working.

To read in 2016:

The Theft of Swords - Michael Sullivan

Heroes Die - Stover

Night Angel Trilogy - Brent Weeks

The Belgariad - Eddings

Empire in Black and Gold - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Black company books - Glen Cook I only read the first trilogy so I want to finish

The Shadow Campaigns books - Django Wexler I read the first one

If I enjoy these series I will get the other books so I can finish them. I also will read any new Brandon Sanderson, Mark Lawrence, and the new Gentleman Bastards book. This is just the tip of the iceberg so hopefully I can reach my goal.

[Mentalist]

*bump*

Update thread name to 2017

Quote

2016 list:
French
Dark tower 1+2. Get through these, 1 chapter a weekend. (started out well, but lost steam in May, around 2/3s into Gunslinger. Will make another attempt this year)

Russian
-Buy and read more "Godsdoom 2" books Actually have all 6 book now. Need to slot in a re-read of 1 and 2, and then read the rest)

- Read Books 2 and 3 of Sapkowski's "Hussite Trilogy"
-Vasiliy Yan's "Mongol Trilogy" Nope
-the 2 "Enclaves" spinoff books (make commute read) Read one, liked well enough. Need to read the other)
-Re-read "War and Peace" Nope
-Read Gogol's "the Dead Souls" Nope
-"Read Saltykov-Schedrins "Tale of one city" Nope

Non-fiction: None of these
prior to reading Fukuyama's latest, re-read "End of History and the last man". Also Read "trust"
-Western Civilization on Trial
-Thomas Carlyle's History of French Revolution
Jared Diamond: "Guns Germs and Steel" (moving into the New Year)
Francis Fukuyama: "Origins of Political order", "Political order and Political Decay"

English
-pre-order "Fall of Light". Re-read Forge of Darkness" prior to that.
-Moorcock Collection- read and review the rest of the books (14 more) WIP, 2 books ledt in main sequence + assorted short fiction + 2 more Colonel Pyat novels
-Hamilton: Buy and read Nope "judas unchained". continue with the Void books
-Corey/Abraham: do a Expanse/Dagger and Coin alternating read of both series (After FoL. Start by re-reading Expanse 1) Did not happen
-Wolfe- Do a New Sun re-read + read Urth for fist time. Buy the Long Sun books.
-Simmons- read "The Terror" Nope
- Wooding- read the last "Ketty Jay" book
-Lawrence- check out "Liar's Key" in MMPB Bought, not read
-Tolkien: Re-read Hobbit, LotR, Silmarillion Bought, not read
- Wexler read "The Shadow Throne" see if the trilo is worth finishing Read, liked, bought Bk3
-Order Milkweed Triptych Bk2. - Bought, not read
- Check out Asher's new Polity trilo Read, enjhoyed. Waitign for bk 2 to go mmpb
-Read "Powder Mage". See if the series is worth finishing Read, liked, Bought Bk3
-Read "Angels and Demons" at some point {b] Nope [/b]
-Read more of "Wars of Light and Shadow" Not sure where I'm on with this...
-If the opportunity comes up, buy and read the last 2 books in Turtledove's "Darkness" series. Remind BK again
- Buy and read "Fractal Prince" Read, liked, ordered Bk 3
- Read Chris Evans' Of Bone and Thunder"
-read the Lovecraft Book I bought last year Nope
-Check out the second "Crimson Empire" book. Waitign for mmpb
-Check out Stephenson's latest work once it's cheaper Bought, not read
- Buy the new trilo by VanDerMeer in the omnibus, when it's on sale
-check out "Circus of the Stars" when it's cheap. Nope
-Once done with Dark Tower 1 +2 in French, read the rest. Nope
- Tad Williams: read "Happy Hour in Hell", most likely, continue the series Finished the trilo
-Burtcher Read "Cinder Spires"- decide if series deserves insta-purchase status. read, liked ok. Not insta-buy material right now

Series to finish
- Charles Stross - "Merchant princes"
-Paul Kearney, "Macht trilo" (when cheap)
-Alan Campbell, Deepgate trilo (when cheap)
-Stephenson- The Mongoliad

Series to follow as books go MMPB:
Butcher- Dresden Files
Scholes- Psalms of Isaak (may have to buy a hardcover on sale, as it looks there won't be a mmpb release)
Bakker- Aspect Emperor (TP works too)
Stross- Laundry files
-James Lovegrove- Godpunk books.
-Abercrombie- any more First Law stuff

New Series to check out
-Patrick lee-the Breach Nope
-Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars trilo, 2352? Shaman? Nope
-Tom Lloyd's new series Nope
-David Hair: "Moontide Quartet" Nope
- Ken Liu Read, liked, waiting for bk2 to go mmpb
-Brent Weeks- either Night Angel or the new one . Bought "Black Prism" not read yet
-John Gwynne- "the Faithful and the Fallen" Nope

2017 list:

French Books
-Once agian, attempt to finish the first 2 dark tower books ( Start this again in Jan)


Russian Books
-Re-read Bks 1 & 2 of "Godsdoom -2", and read the other 4 Need to order/hunt down the last 2 books
-Read the second "Enclaves" spin-off, and look for more; -Once I purchase an e-reader, get back to the "Secret City" E-reader is the Holiday purchase plan, so will get on this
-Vasiliy Yan's "Mongol Trilogy"
Re-read "War and Peace"
-Read Gogol's "the Dead Souls"
-Read Saltykov-Schedrins "Tale of one city"

Non fiction
-Western Civilization on Trial
-Thomas Carlyle's History of French Revolution
Jared Diamond: "Guns Germs and Steel"
prior to reading Fukuyama's latest, re-read "End of History and the last man". Also Read "trust"
Francis Fukuyama: "Origins of Political order", "Political order and Political Decay

English
Continue reading Moorcock's works:
-Finish "Eternal Champion" cycle (A few books left)
-Finish "Colonel Pyat" Quartet
-Read the "London Novels" (Need to buy)
Hamilton- Read "Judas Unchained" and then the rest of the Commonwealth Books
Corey/ Abraham
-Get caught up with the Expanse
-Read the "Dagger and Coin" books
Gene Wolfe- Do a full Solar cycle read of all New and Long Sun
Tolkien do a full read of Hobbit LOTR and Silmarillion
Dan Simmons
-read "The Terror"
-Read "Drood"
Read "Angels and Demons" at some point
Read "Anubis Gates"
Read "Shantaram"
Read "World War Z"
Read More Ian Mackdonald (Read Brasyl; Bought "New Moon)"
Read "Vellum"
Read "Blood Meridian"
Read "Shogun"
Buy Kay's latest once its in MMPB
Read "Seveneves"
Read the "Lovecraft book I bought last year
Read "The worm ouroborous"
Read "Who Fears Death"
Read "The Gone-Away world"
Read "Liar's Key". Get Osheim when in mmpb, most likely (read both)
Read "Blindsight"
Read "Crooked little Vein"
-Buy and read the 2nd Recoletta novel by Carrie Patel
-Read more John Brunner
-Read Bakker's Second Apocalypse.
Read Asher's "Prador Moon"

Series where I need to check out first books
-Cameron Hurley "Mirror Empire ( Liked a lot, read Bk 2 as well
-Brian Staveley "Chronicls of the Unhewn throne (liked ok, will follow at some point)
-Jay Kristoff "Stormdancer" (liked okay, may follow)
-Sebastien De Castell "Greatcoats" (Liked a lot, book 2 purchased)
-Miles Cameron "Traitor Son"
--Patrick lee-the Breach
-Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars trilo, 2352? Shaman?
-Tom Lloyd's new series
-David Hair: "Moontide Quartet"
-Brent Weeks- "Black Prism
-John Gwynne- "the Faithful and the Fallen"
-N.K. Jemisin - Inheritance trilogy (Liked, will buy more)
-Kate Elliot "Crown of the Stars"
-Glen Cook- Instrumentalities of the Night
-Chung Kuo series (when I get an e-reader)
-Elzabeth Bear (When I get an e-reader, since it's impossible to find her stuff in print
-Stover's Caine books (when I get an e-reader)
-Brust's Vlad Taltos book s(When I get an e-reader)
-check out more of Reynolds' works. (Read the short stories, need more)
-Circus of the Stars

Series to Finish
-Powder Mage
-Jean Le Flambeur
-Milkweed tryptich
-Far-Called Sequence (Book 3 bought)
Morgan - "A land not fit for heroes"

Series to continue when books go mmpb
-Alex Marshall's "Crimson Empire" (liked Book 2)
-Ken Liu "Dandelion dynasty" (book 2 bought)
-Charles Stross Laundry ("Nightmare stacks" bought)
-Charles Stross new Merchant Princes
-Dresden Files
-Stormlight Archives
-Gentlemen Bastards
Asher's "Dark Intelligence" (Book 2 bought)

Series where I will be reading more books in, but no specific goals
Ilona Andrews- Kate Daniels books (almost caught up)
-Iron Druid books (maybe?) (Probably dropping after Book 3)
Robin Hobb- the Eldering series (planning to buy Book 3 soon)
Django Wexler - "Shadow Campaigns" (Looking for Book 4)
Belcher's "Golgotha" books
Any more Abercrombie's First law books
Dalglish and Durerre's "Dawn of Swords" books
Janny Wurts - "Wars of Light and shadow"
Ken scholes' "Psalms of Isaac"
Marc Turner's "Chronicles of the Exile
John Scalzi's "Old man's war" books
Lovegrove's Godpunk books

... ok, I think that's everything.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 24 December 2017 - 08:44 PM

[Melnibonean Wanderer]

I will make it through Gene Wolf's Shadow and Claw omnibus.

[Andorion]

Andorion, on 10 January 2016 - 04:23 AM, said:

My entire TBR would take too long to put down here

Start and finish Bakker
Finally read Mark Lawrence.
Read more of GGK
Finish Black Company

Also a bunch of other series and authors which I will copy over from Goodreads

Quite unexpectedly I totally blew these

1. I did not finish Bakker. Only two books of his first trilogy.
2. I read one trilogy by Lawrence, not the second one.
3. I bounced off Tigana twice (What is wrong with that book)
4. Haven't touched Glen Cook

So keeping this in mind, time for my more detailed 2017 breakdown

A. Read and complete my Classics Challenge:

• Gone With the Wind -Margaret Mitchell
• Bleak HouseCharles - Dickens
• The Idiot - Dostoevsky
• The Divine Comedy - Dante
• Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smity
• Emma - Jane Austen
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• The Godfather - Mario Puzo
• How Green was my Valley - Richard Llewellyn
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
• The Unbearable Lighness of Being - Milan Kundera
• Razor's Edge - Somerset Maugham
• Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
• Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
• Aenid - Virgil
• The Color Purple - Alice Walker
• The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
• Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

B. Target Specific Authors

• Finish Janny Wurts' Wars of Light and Shadow. (This is a big one)
• Finish Bakker
• Read at least another three books of Black Company
• Read at least two books of Ursula K Leguin
• Read at least two books of GG Kay
• Finish Mark Lawrence's second trilogy
• Finish Tad Williams' Memory Sorrow and Thorn
• Finish Alastair Reynolds' Poseidon's Children trilogy
• Read at least one book by China Mieville

C. Existing series:

Read and finish 23 books coming out in 2017 as continuations to existing reads


D. TBR

Finish at least 10% of TBR: Currently means 21 books.

[RACHEL]

GLEN COOK – BLEAK SEASON

SHE IS THE DARKNESS

WATER SLEEPS

SOLDIERS LIVE

BRIAN STAVELY – PROVIDENCE OF FIRE

LAST MORTAL BOND

BRENT WEEKS – THE BROKEN EYE

THE BLOOD MIRROR

MILES CAMERON – THE RED KNIGHT

ROBIN HOBB – ASSASSINS APPRENTICE

N. K. JEMISIN – THE INHERITANCE TRILOGY

KAMERON HURLEY – BEL DAME APOCRYPHA TRILOGY

JIM BUTCHER – DRESDEN FILES BOOKS 3-15

I set a goal of 52 books for 2016 and I reached it so I set my goal to 52 books for 2017 as well. I own all these books already and I still need to scour my shelves to finish my list.

[Macros]

A reread of the Iliad and Odyssey.

new reads - The Aeneid
Die unendlich Geschichte (never ending story, in original German)

Attempt to read various other classics.


I think it might have been booted about before. But what about a book club idea.

throw out a book idea, you have like 5/6 weeks to read, but can post opinions and dicussion points (spoilered) at any times