[Chance]

2020 was a spectacular year for reading, back to a job I know well so 80% of the time I could listen to an audiobook and do work at the same time. That left a new record of 131 actual real books done, quite a few re-reads but still!

2021 isn't going to be that good, different stuff to do at work so probably very little listen time for six months or so, anything above half of 2020's result would be fine. So I'll aim to do at least 73 to keep 2019 the worst reading year since I started keeping notes.

Want to say this is the year of a malazan re-read it was a few years since I did it last, well maybe in the fall.

Things that I should at least try this year.

Craft Sequence.

Finish up Guy Gavriel Kay with A Brightness Long Ago, Children of the Earth an Sky, both which probably require re-reading of earlier works. Well an excuse to return to Sarentine can't be bad.

Terra Ignota has been on the list for so long.

Finish up Master of Rome I only got two and a half left and they are very good just burned out for some reason.

I have a lot of Aliette de Bodard lying around and I've liked everything I've tried so far but there is always something simpler or more shiny around.

Return and do some Moorcock re-reads Corum and Elric at least. Been collecting them all in Audiobook form so should try them.

Well do at least one David Gemmell series I've not finished before as with Moorcock having them lying around seems a waste.

Rythm of War...well I got it so maybe I'll give it a chance, I need at least one book to rant about.

All in all reduce the number of books in the too read list would be a nice goal but probably unachievable even if there is only 13 so far on the must read list released next year which is unusually little, there is usually many many more that gets added.

This post has been edited by Chance: 03 January 2021 - 09:16 PM

[Macros]

Set my target at 60 again.
I'm capping my rereads to 10 (I know Legend will happen and I've a hankering for the empire trilo and Troy Trilo)

[Mentalist]

Dead Tree

James Corey-Abaddon's Gate
Michael Moorcock: "Mother London
Michael Moorcock: "King of the City"
Alastair Reynolds- "Blue Remembered Earth"
Brian lee Durfee- "The Blackest Heart"
C.J. Cherryh- "Faded Sun Trilogy"
Jaan Kroos- "The Ropewalker"
Mike Binder- "Keep calm"
Janny wurts- "Great Conspiracy" (ordered, pending arrival)
Barry Hughart- "the Chronicles of master Li and the Number-Ten Ox" (pre-ordered a while back, pending publication)
-ALSO, re-read the "New Sun" quadro, then read "Coda" and the "Long Sun" books- that's the last big "project" from all the books I already own.



(Non-Fiction)
-"A Crate of Vodka"
-Dan Jones- "War of the Roses"
-Thomas Carlyle "History of the French revolution (in Russian)
-Francis Fukuyama- "Trust" (In Russian)


eBooks:
Kate Elliot- "Cold Magic"
Bradley Beaulieu- "Lays of Anuskaya"
Brian McLellan- "Sins of the Empire"
Daniel O'Malley - "The Rook"
"Blade of Tyshalle"
David Wingrove- "Son of Heaven"
James Barclay "Shout for the Dead"
"Ninefox Gambit"
Nicholas Eames- "Kings of the Wyld"
Max Gladstone- "The Craft Sequence"

That's the shortlist; there's probably more stuff in my non-English cupboard I need to take another look thru.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 04 January 2021 - 12:28 AM

[RACHEL]

I set my goal to 70 this year. I had it set at 70 last year and only managed 57. Last January (pre corona) I started renovations on my house so between cleaning, painting, drywalling I didn't get a lot of reading in. The biggest setback was when my husband set up a tv in my bookroom so I could watch the mandolorian. I have been avoiding having a tv in that room for years, knowing that I would really slack on the reading, and I was right. I have been binging netflix and disney plus and barely reading. I hope to get back on track with 70 this year.

[JPK]

How'd you all do?

Any interesting goals for next year?

I met a goal to finish the series that has been on my trp the longest this year and knocked out The Shadows of the Apt. I'm also at 99 books for the year and I think I'm likely to come in at 101-2.

[Macros]

Holy hell, I'm on 40 something.
Target was 60 but given how busy we've been getting stuff built I was never gonna hit that.

[Aptorian]

Aptorian, on 03 January 2021 - 07:39 PM, said:

Maybe a mod could edit the title, so it better reflected the current use of the thread?

Checking my spreadsheet, I read 84 individual works of litterature in 2020, which is pretty good seeing as I had a period from spring to fall where I didn't read more than a handful of novels.

17 non-fiction books.

11 shortstories or books under 100 pages.

4 comics or graphic novels

38 of the books and short stories can be classified as sci-fi or fantasy

Shortest story on the list is a Tor original called Yellow and the perception of reality at 20 pages.

Longest book is House of Chains at 1022 pages.

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Now for some reading resolutions for 2021. This is basically just a list of books I have sitting on my shelves or in my Kindle that I've been meaning to read but just never get around to:

Mich Foley's two Wrestling books

Chris Jericho's second Wrestling book

Henrik Pontopidan's Lykke-Per (A fortunate man in English)

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail - Meant to read this one during the American election.

China Mieville's Embassy Town

Tor Nørretrander's Mærk Verden

Frederik Strand's Uropatruljen - Big fat non-fiction book about an old police squad in Copenhagen, the police used as muscle.

David H. Wilson's Robopocalypse

David Wong's This book is full of spiders

Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts books

Jeff Vandermeer's Borne

Brandon Sanderson's Way of King's + the rest of the Stormlight Archive if I don't hate the first book.

Josiah Bancroft's Senlin Ascends/Book of Babel books

Seth Dickinson's Baru Cormant books

Steven Erikson's Rejoice and Willful Child books.

James Islington's Licanus Trilogy

N.K. Jemesin's Broken Earth Trilogy

Mark Lawrence's Red Queen's War trilogy

Mark Lawrence's Ancestor Trilogy

Alex marshall's Crimson Empire Trilogy

Hannu Rajaniemi's Jean Le Flambeur trilogy (I read the first two ages ago and have forgotten everything, I just remember it's awesome Sci-fi)

T.H. White's Once and Future King

Evan Winter's The Burning Books.

Let's see if I read half of this stuff.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I should also try to read some more Discworld books and get back into Ilona Andrew's Kate Daniels series.

Let's see how I did compared to last year.

I crossed out the titles I got around to reading. Seems I read about half the stuff I meant to, a few I bounced off and proabably won't bother with, like Lykke-Per.

In 2021 I read 77 books. comics and short stories, 7 less than last year - Though I think I missing a few titles from my excel ark during a lazy period.

9 non-fiction books
6 graphic novels
62 fictional books of which 9 were novellas or short stories less than a hundred pages long.

As I figured, I spent a lot of time playing X-box this year, what with the new consoles coming out. I also had a lot of time, namely over the summer where my brain was in a haze and I was just too tired to focus on reading or anything else constructive.

Some books I've read in English or are translated to English. Sorry about the formatting.

Neil Gaiman Neverwhere 3/5
Astrid Lindgren Ronja The Robbers daughter 4/5
Tamsyn Muir Harrow the Ninth 4/5
Daniel S Wilson Robopocalypse 4/5
Mick Foley Have a nice day: A tale of blood and sweatsocks 5/5
Jeff Vandemeer Borne 4/5
Jeff Vandemeer Dead Astronauts 2/5
David Wong John Dies at the End 5/5
Jennifer Bell The Crooked Sixpence 5/5
David Wong This book is full of spiders 4/5
Michael Ende Never Ending Story 4/5
Mick Foley Foley is Good 3/5
China Mieville Embassy Town 5/5
QNTM There is no Anti-Memetics division 4/5
Adrian Tchaikovsky The Expert System's Brother 3/5
Adrian Tchaikovsky The Expert System's Champion 4/5
Steven Erikson Rejoice: A Knife to the Heart 5/5
Tor collection Nevertheless she persisted 3/5
Naomi Kritzer Little free library 5/5
Haruki Murakami The Strange Library 3/5
Dan Abnett The Founding 4/5
Lavie Tidhar Judge Dee and the limits of the law 5/5
Neal Asher The Bosch 5/5
David Wong What the Hell did I just read 5/5
T. J. Klune The House in the Cerulean Sea 5/5
William Gibson Neuromancer 4/5
Evan Winter The Rage of Dragons 5/5
Lavie Tidhar Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels 5/5
Sean McGuire Any Way the wind Blows 4/5
William Gibson Count Zero 4/5
Evan Winter The Fires of Vengeance 4/5
William Gibson Mona Lisa Overdrive 3/5
Mark Lawrence Prince of Fools 4/5
Steven Erikson Willful Child 5/5
Mark Lawrence The Liar's Key 4/5
Steven Erikson Wrath of Betty 3/5
Mark Lawrence The Wheel of Osheim 4/5
Steven Erikson Search for Spark 2/5
Dan Abnett The Saint 4/5
Edwin A. Abott Flatland 5/5
Neil Patrick Harris The Magic Misfits 5/5
E.M. Forster The Machine Stops 4/5
Matilda Gustavsson Klubben 5/5
Scott Hawkins The Library at Mount Char 5/5
Steven Erikson The god is not Willing 3/5
Dan Abnett Horus Rising 3/5
James Tynion Something is killing the Children Vol 1 4/5
Richard Osman Thursday Murder Club 4/5
P. Djeli Clark A Master of Djinn 4/5
Ben Aaronovitch The October Man 5/5
Graham McNeil False Gods 3/5
Hannu Rajaneimi The Quantum Thief 5/5
China Mieville This Census-taker 2/5
Hannu Rajaneimi The Fractal Prince 4/5
James Tynion Something is killing the Children Vol 2 4/5
Lavie Tidhar Judge Dee and the Poisoner of Montmartre 5/5
Hannu Rajaneimi The Causal Angel 4/5
Ben Aaronovitch What Abigail did that Summer 5/5
Mark Lawrence Red Sister 4/5



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In 2022 I want to read the following books but there's so many other temptations at work:



Brandon Sanderson's Elantris and Way of King's + the rest of the Stormlight Archive if I don't hate the first book.

Josiah Bancroft's Senlin Ascends/Book of Babel books

Seth Dickinson's Baru Cormant books

James Islington's Licanus Trilogy

N.K. Jemesin's Broken Earth Trilogy

Alex marshall's Crimson Empire Trilogy

T.H. White's Once and Future King

Bruce Sterling and William Gibson's The Difference Engine

Rob J. Hays The Mortal techniques books.

Urthula K. Le Guin Earthsea books

Fonda Lee's Green Bone Saga

Nicholas Eames The Band books

Frank Herbert's Dune Trilogy

George Orwell's 1984

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

I'll be lucky if I get half of these done by 2023.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 30 December 2021 - 06:43 PM

[Mentalist]

Mentalist, on 04 January 2021 - 12:25 AM, said:

Dead Tree

James Corey-Abaddon's Gate
Michael Moorcock: "Mother London
Michael Moorcock: "King of the City"
Alastair Reynolds- "Blue Remembered Earth"
Brian lee Durfee- "The Blackest Heart"
C.J. Cherryh- "Faded Sun Trilogy"
Jaan Kroos- "The Ropewalker"
Mike Binder- "Keep calm"
Janny wurts- "Great Conspiracy" (ordered, pending arrival)
Barry Hughart- "the Chronicles of master Li and the Number-Ten Ox" (pre-ordered a while back, pending publication)
-ALSO, re-read the "New Sun" quadro, then read "Coda" and the "Long Sun" books- that's the last big "project" from all the books I already own.



(Non-Fiction)
-"A Crate of Vodka"
-Dan Jones- "War of the Roses"
-Thomas Carlyle "History of the French revolution (in Russian)
-Francis Fukuyama- "Trust" (In Russian)


eBooks:
Kate Elliot- "Cold Magic"
Bradley Beaulieu- "Lays of Anuskaya"
Brian McLellan- "Sins of the Empire"
Daniel O'Malley - "The Rook"
"Blade of Tyshalle"
David Wingrove- "Son of Heaven"
James Barclay "Shout for the Dead"
"Ninefox Gambit"
Nicholas Eames- "Kings of the Wyld"
Max Gladstone- "The Craft Sequence"

That's the shortlist; there's probably more stuff in my non-English cupboard I need to take another look thru.

Wow, actually didn't do terribly compared to the modest goals I've set.
Considerign I also read "Holy sister", and 1.5 other non-fiction books I got as gifts.

I'll set some new goals once I'm done this current non-fiction book.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 03 January 2022 - 08:39 PM

[JPK]

A few days late here but I really wanted to put this into some sort of order that would come across rationally to minds other than my own.


2022 Must-reads

• Wars of Light and Shadow by Janny Wurts books 2-10. (reread in prep for the final book)
• Swan's War by Sean Russell books 1-3
• Shogun by James Clavell
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry books 1-4
• Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
• Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe books 2-4
• Book of the Short Sun by Gene Wolfe books 1-3
• Gaunt's Ghosts by Dan Abnett books 12-15
• Hogfather by Terry Pratchett (Must be in December)
• Danilov Quintet by Jasper Kent books 4-5
• The Free Bastards by Jonathan French
• The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman

2022 Want to read

• Prince of Nothing and The Aspect Emperor series by R. Scott Bakker (Yes, Maark... I know)
• Iconoclasts by Mike Chel
• The Warlord Chronicles Trilogy by Bernard Cornwell
• Spellslinger books 4-6 by Sebastien De Castell
• Reread of all First Law universe books by Joe Abercrombie
• Reread of Broken Empire and Red Queen's War trilogies by Mark Lawrence. Continue deeper into Lawrence's universe.
• Reread of Absolute Sandman volumes 3-5 and Absolute Death by Gaiman.
• Books of the Raksura trilogy by Martha Wells
• Reread The Riddle-master trilogy by Patricia McKillip (been so long since I read them that they might as well be a fresh read at this point)
• The Familiar volumes 1-5 by Mark Z. Danielewski (of anything on this list, I suspect this is the least likely to actually happen)
• Culture books 1-5 by Iain M. Banks
• Read more Murakami. Likely The Rat books 1-4 or Killing Commendatore
• Read more GGK. Likely Sarantine Mosaic or Tigana (sorry Abyss)
• Read full run of Fables
• Reread Deadly Class from the beginning and catch up on the last 2 tpb.
• Reread East of West.

I've set myself a goal of 104 books this year. If I lean into graphic novels, I think I'm likely to up my goal to 120. Nope, no ambition here. I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Macros]

No specifics I want to read, beyond my 'always buy' authors releasing anything.

Aiming for 50 books this year

[Tiste Simeon]

Macros, on 05 January 2022 - 08:14 AM, said:

No specifics I want to read, beyond my 'always buy' authors releasing anything.

Aiming for 50 books this year

Have you got the new Claire North yet?

[Macros]

It's en route

You bastards

[Cyphon]

Lol.

Who's on your always buy list?

[Mentalist]

2024 is upon us, time for some revisions.

Essentially I'll be spending summer away from my parent's place, so need to figure out what I'll be bringing there

-Finish "Rhythm of War"
-Read Ken Liu's "Speaking Bones"
-Read Mark Lawrence's "The Girl and the Stars"
-re-read Dresden to catch up to "Battle grounds"
-Read "Master of Revels"
-read GRRM's "Fire & Blood"
-Take the 5 Gene Wolfe books with me and read the New and Long Suns;
-Re-read Abercombie's First Law books, and buy & read the latest trilo;
-Apparently I have Brent Weeks' volume 2 sitting on my shelf, unread. Since the Night Angel series is back in stores, it's probably a good time for a catch-up.
-keep chipping away at Robin Hobb's stuff.
-try to catch up of GGKay's stuff
-read Wurts' "The Grand Conspiracy"

-Read the e-book "Blade of Tyshalle"

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 02 January 2024 - 09:47 PM