2020 Completed Books Thread!

[Falselogic]

January (22)
The Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
Christmas Story by Agatha Christie
Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie
Poirot's Early Cases by Agatha Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Big Four by Agatha Christie
Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
Black Coffee play novelization by Charles Osborne
Peril at End House by Agatha Christie
Mystery of the Baghdad Chest by Agatha Christie
Second Gong by Agatha Christie
Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone
Lord Edgeware Dies by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Oil! by Upton Sinclair
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey
Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie

February (21)
Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Yellow Iris by Agatha Christie
Murder in the News by Agatha Christie
Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
This is How you Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone & Amal El-Mohtar
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
The Impeachers by Brenda Wineapple
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
Missoula by Jon Krakauer
Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot's Christmas by Agatha Christie
Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
London Fields by Martin Amis
The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander
Dominion by Tom Holland
Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison
Showdown by Wil Haygood
Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander

March (17)
The High King by Lloyd Alexander
The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
Alienated America by Timothy P. Carney
One, Two, Buckle my Shoe by Agatha Christie
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows by James Lovegrove
Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Mysteries by James Lovegrove
A Little History of the World by E. H. Gombrich
Why the West Rules - for Now by Ian Morris
The Hollow by Agatha Christie
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Great Pretender by Susannah Cahalan
The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie
This Life by Martin Hagglund
Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie

April (15)
The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang
Mrs. McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart
Slaying Goliath by Diane Ravitch
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Dead Man's Folly by Agatha Christie
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie
Every Tool's a Hammer by Adam Savage
Mindhacker by Ron Hale-Evans
The Wisest One in the Room by Thomas Gilovich & Lee Ross
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

May (17)
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott
How Children Succeed by Paul Tough
Beyond Words by Carl Safina
The Clocks by Agatha Christie
Third Girl by Agatha Christie
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
The End of Average by Todd Rose
Story by Robert McKee
Hallowe'en Part by Agatha Christie
Elephants can Remember by Agatha Christie
Circe by Madeline Miller
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Curtain by Agatha Christie
The Book of Joy by Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu
Marco Polo by John Man
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Richistan by Robert Frank

June (9)
It 's Even Worse than it looks by Thomas E. Mann & Norman J. Ornstein
The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Scars of Independence by Holger Hoock
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
And a Bottle of Rum by Wayne Curtis
Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay

July (6)
Odysseus in America by Jonathan Shay
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Mythos by Stephen Fry
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
Lurking by Joanne McNeil
The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler

August (9)
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
Five Stars by Carmine Gallo
Transformers Classics Volume 1 by Bob Budiansky
Means of Ascent: the Years of Lyndon B. Johnson by Robert Caro
Becoming Wild by Carl Safina
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The End is Always Near by Dan Carlin
Winning the Loser's Game by Charles D. Ellis
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel

September (18)
The Decadent Society by Ross Douthat
Common Sense on Mutual Funds by John C. Bogle
Zucked by Roger McNamee
The Island at the Center of the World by Russell Shorto
Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies edited by Djanjo Paris & H. Lamy Alim
The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
Messing with the Enemy by Clint Watts
Valley of Genius by Adam Fisher
Anti-Social Media by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Brotopia by Emily Chang
The Richest Man of Babylon by George Samuel Clason
World without Mind by Franklin Foer
The Family by Jeff Sharlet
C Street by Jeff Sharlet
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian
They Don't Represent Us by Lawrence Lessig

October (9)
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
Battle Cry of Freedom Vol. 1 by James M. McPherson
Battle Cry of Freedom Vol. 2 by James M. McPherson
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Unholy by Sarah Posner
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

November (11)
The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson
Pure Invention by Matt Alt
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
To Start a War by Robert Draper
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Charged by Emily Bazelon
California's Tax Machine by David Doerr
Void Star by Zachary Mason
Divided we Fall by David French
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King
The Splendid and the Vile by Eric Larson

December (12)
A World Undone by G. J. Meyer
Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell
Out of my Skull: The Psychology of Boredom by James Danckert
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Citizenville by Gavin Newsom
Humankind by Rutger Bregman
Davisville '68 by Davis Historical and Landmarks Commission
The Last Million by David Nasaw
Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum
Range by David Epstein

2020 Total: 164

2019 Total: 90
2018 Total: 99
2017 Total: 56
2016 Total: 37
2015 Total: 47
2014 Total: 71
2013 Total: 55
2012 Total: 44
2011 Total: 54
2010 Total: 62

 

[Matchstick]

January (2):

• Middlegame - Seanan McGuire
• Come Tumbling Down - Seanan McGuire

February (2):

• Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
• Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett

March (3):

• The Fisherman - John Langan
• The Library at Mount Char - Scott Hawkins
• San Diego 2014: The Last Stand of the California Browncoats - Seanan McGuire

April (2):

• The Dark Corners of the Night - Meg Gardiner
• The Last Emperox - John Scalzi

May (2):

• The City We Became - N.K. Jemisin
• Dirt - Bill Buford

June (8):

• Network Effect - Martha Wells
• And Now His Lordship Is Laughing - Shiv Ramdas
• As the Last I May Know - S.L. Huang
• Blood Is Another Word for Hunger - Rivers Solomon
• A Catalog of Storms - Fran Wilde
• Do Not Look Back, My Lion - Alix E. Harrow
• Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island - Nibedita Sen
• To Be Taught, If Fortunate - by Becky Chambers

July (7):

• The Deep - Rivers Solomon
• Emergency Skin - N.K. Jemisin
• The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye - Sarah Pinsker
• The Archronology of Love - Caroline M. Yoachim
• Away With the Wolves - Sarah Gailey
• For He Can Creep - Siobhan Carroll
• The Relentless Moon - Mary Robinette Kowal

August (1):

• On a Red Station, Drifting - Aliette de Bodard

September (3):

• Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir
• From a Shadow Grave - Andi C. Buchanan
• The Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology, Volume II - Various

October (4):

• The Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology, Volume III - Various
• Would She Be Gone - Melanie Harding-Shaw
• Dark Winds Over Wellington - Tabatha Wood
• Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick - David Wong

November (2):

• Masquerade in Lodi - Lois McMaster Bujold
• Reaper Man - Terry Pratchett

December (1):

• The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett

2020 Total: 37
2019 Total: 40
2018 Total: 56
2017 Total: 51
2016 Total: 42
2015 Total: 44
2013 Total: 36
2012 Total: 37
2011 Total: 40
2010 Total: 35
2009 Total: 34
2008 Total: 10

 

[Lokii]

* - Short stories

January (0)

February (7)
Urth of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe
Dragon Ball Vol. 5 - Akira Toriyama
Dragon Ball Vol. 6 - Akira Toriyama
Dragon Ball Vol. 7 - Akira Toriyama
Dragon Ball Vol. 8 - Akira Toriyama
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music - 3rd Edition - Robert Greenberg
Dragon Ball Vol. 9 - Akira Toriyama

March (4)
A Rat's Tale - Tor Seidler
The Top Ten Games You Can Play in Your Head by Yourself - J. Theophrastus Batholomew
Great American Music: Broadway Musicals - Bill Messenger
Leaf By Niggle - J.R.R. Tolkien*
The Bee-man of Orn - Frank R. Stockton*

April (2)
The Reluctant Dragon - Kennth Grahame*
The Wild Ride of the Untamed Stars - A.J. Fitzwater*
How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende

May (2)
Palimpsest - Catherynne M. Valente
The Wolfe Archipelago - Gene Wolfe

June (1)
The Midnight Folk - John Masefield

July (1)
The Sword in the Stone - T. H. White

August (3)
Ten Rounds with Grandfather Clock - Maurice Richardson*
The Circular Valley - Paul Bowles*
Sings and Symbols - Vladimir Nabokov*
The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles - Margaret St. Clair*
Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
The Snow - John Muir*
Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft - Brooks Landon
The End - Catherynne M. Valente

September (2)
The Knight - Gene Wofle
Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars - Daniel Pinkwater

October (2)
The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

November (2)
Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees
Bambi - Felix Salten

December (2)
Style, An Anti-textbook – Richard A. Lanham
Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Total: 26

2009: 17
2011: 30
2012: 28
2013: 27
2014: 40
2015: 27
2016: 32
2017: 33
2018: 31
2019: 34

 

[DANoWAR]

I'll try again, but no promises...

Post title explained
"Book" is overused with my entries in this thread. A book often contains one story, sometimes multiple ones. Anthologies, for example. A comic isn't a book, yet I would count it here. Pulp fiction, which I read as well, are not really books, not even novellas.

Goals
- Read 6 books (Missed by 1 (!) book)
...
Yeah, that's it.

Explanation
Normal Book
Short Story
Pulp Fiction (64 pages, cheap)
Comic, Graphic Novel
Tried it, but didn't read it to the end

Now Reading
Dan Parkinson - Dragonlance - Heroes II Vol. 2 - The Gates of Thorbardin

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August (0) (0) (0) (0) (0)

September (0) (0) (0) (0) (0)

October (1) (0) (0) (0) (0)
Kevin Stein - Dragonlance - Preludes I Vol. 3 - Brothers Majere (26.10.2020)

November (3) (0) (0) (0) (0)
Paul B. Thompson & Tonya C. Cook - Dragonlance - Preludes II Vol. 1 - Riverwind the Plainsman (15.11.2020)
Mary Kirchhoff & Douglas Niles - Dragonlance - Preludes II Vol. 2 - Flint the King (26.11.2020)
Barbara & Scott Siegel - Dragonlance - Preludes II Vol. 3 - Tanis, the Shadow Years (04.12.2020)

December (1) (0) (0) (0) (0)
Richard A. Knaak - Dragonlance - Heroes II Vol. 1 - Kaz the Minotaur (27.12.2020)

2020 end total: 5 stories

5 "Normal" Books
0 Short Stories
0 Pulp Books
0 Comic Books
0 Didn't Like it / Didn't Finish

2019 Total: 1 stories
2018 Total: 19 stories
2017 Total: 29 stories
2016 Total: 2 regular + 7 pulp
2015 Total: 5 regular + 20 short stories
2014 Total: 4 regular
2013 Total: 4 regular + 39 pulp
2012 Total: 7 regular + 41 pulp
2011 Total: 8
2010 Total: 26
2009 Total: 9

 

[masterthes]

January (10)
Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff 1/1 - 1/4 *****
Darkdawn by Jay Kristoff 1/4 - 1/5 **** 1/2
Batman: The Dark Knight: The Master Race by Frank Miller 1/6 *** 1/2
Injustice: Year One by Tom Taylor 1/8 *****
The Road to Oz by Jay Scarfone 1/18 - 1/21 **** 1/2
Shatner by Michael Seth Starr 1/21 - 1/23 *****
Game On! by Dustin Hansen 1/23 - 1/24 ****
The Daily Show: An Oral History by Chris Smith 1/25 - 1/26 *** 1/2
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov 1/26 - 1/27 ***
Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis 1/27 - 1/29 ****

February (24)
Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski 1/29 - 2/2 ***
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule 2/2 - 2/6 ***
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff 2/6 *****
Destiny of the Republic by Candice Millard 2/8 - 2/11 ****
Whiskey When We're Dry by John Larison 2/14 - 2/17 **
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid 2/17 ****
Doomsday Clock, Part 1 by Geoff Johns 2/17 ****
Doomsday Clock, Part Two by Geoff Johns 2/17 ****
Injustice: Year Two by Tom Taylor 2/17 *****
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers 2/17 - 2/19 ****
Injustice: Year Three by Tom Taylor 2/19 *****
Injustice: Year Four by Brian Buccellato 2/20 *****
Injustice: Year Five by Brian Buccellato 2/20 - 2/21 *****
Injustice: Ground Zero Vol. 1 by Christopher Sebela 2/21 *****
Injustice: Ground Zero Vol. 2 by Christopher Sebela 2/21 *****
Injustice 2, Vol. 1 by Tom Taylor 2/21 ****
Injustice 2, Vol. 2 by Tom Taylor 2/21 *****
Injustice 2, Vol. 3 by Tom Taylor 2/22 ****
Injustice 2, Vol. 4 by Tom Taylor 2/22 *****
Injustice 2, Vol. 5 by Tom Taylor 2/22 *****
Injustice 2, Vol. 6 by Tom Taylor 2/22 *****
The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Vol. 1 by Don Rosa 2/22 *****
Cole Porter by William McBrien 2/22 - 2/27 ***
Ethel Merman by Brian Kellow 2/27 - 2/29 ****

March (13)
The Man of Property by John Galsworthy 3/9 - 3/12 ***
Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski 3/13 - 3/15 ***
In Chancery by John Galsworthy 3/16 - 3/17 ****
The Boys: Omnibus Volume One by Garth Ennis 3/18 - 3/19 ****
Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf 3/19 - 3/20 ***
Boy Wonder by James Robert Baker 3/20 - 3/23 ****
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 3/23 - 3/24 ****
The Boys: Omnibus Volume Two by Garth Ennis 3/24 - 3/25 ****
The Boys: Omnibus Volume Three by Garth Ennis 3/25 *****
To Let by John Galsworthy 3/25 - 3/26 ****
Unidentified Funny Objects edited by Alex Shvartsman 3/26 - 3/27 ***
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe 3/27 - 3/28 ****
Full Throttle by Joe Hill 3/28 - 3/29 ****

April (15)
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham 3/30 - 4/1 ***
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace 4/1 - 4/2 ****
Olivier by Terry Coleman 4/2 - 4/5 ****
Deacon King Kong by James McBride 4/4 - 4/6 ****
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher 4/6 - 4/7 ****
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher 4/7 - 4/9 ****
Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins 4/9 ***
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher 4/9 - 4/10 ****
Death Masks by Jim Butcher 4/13 - 4/14 *****
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher 4/14 - 4/16 *****
Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book by Gerard Jones 4/16 - 4/18 ***
Dead Beat by Jim Butcher 4/19 - 4/20 ****
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 4/21 - 4/25 ****
Orlando Furioso: Part One by Ludovico Ariosto 4/11 - 4/26 ****
The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons 4/26 - 4/30 ****

May (15)
Replay: The History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan 4/27 - 5/2 ***
Superman: The Unauthorized Biography by Glen Weldon 5/2 - 5/4 *****
The Death of Superman by Dan Jurgens 5/4 - 5/5 ****
Funeral For a Friend by Dan Jurgens 5/5 ****
Reign of the Supermen by Dan Jurgens 5/5 - 5/6 *****
The Return of Superman by Dan Jurgens 5/6 *****
Doomsday by Dan Jurgens 5/6 - 5/7 ****
Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher 5/7 - 5/8 ****
White Night by Jim Butcher 5/11 - 5/12 ****
The Rise and Fall of the '80's Toon Empire by Jason Waguespack 5/13 - 5/15 ****
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry 5/15 - 5/18 ****
Spider-Man Chronicle by Alan Cowsill and Matthew K. Manning 5/18 - 5/20 ****
Avengers Epic Collection, Vol. 1: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes by Stan Lee 5/20 - 5/22 ***
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography by Donald Spoto 5/22 - 5/27 ***
Gone South by Robert R. McCammon 5/27 - 5/28 ****

June (11)
The God Game by Danny Tobey 6/2 - 6/4 ***
Comic Book History of Comics: Birth of a Medium by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey 6/4 ****
Star Wars on Trial by David Brin and Matthew Woodring Stover 6/4 - 6/6 ***
Leonard by William Shatner 6/6 - 6/7 ****
Lost Tribe of the Sith by John Jackson Miller 6/7 - 6/9 ****
Revan by Drew Karpyshyn 6/9 - 6/10 ****
Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of the 1970s by John Kenneth Muir 6/10 - 6/12 ****
I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie by Roger Ebert 6/12 - 6/15 ****
Pope Patrick by Peter de Rosa 6/15 - 6/16 ****
These Are The Voyages: TOS Season One by Marc Cushman 6/19 - 6/26 ****
The Time of Contempt by Andrzej Sapkowski 6/28 - 6/30 ***

July (17)
The Revised Vault of Walt by Jim Korkis 6/30 - 7/1 ****
My Anecdotal Life by Carl Reiner 7/2 - 7/3 ****
Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence by John Ferling 7/4 - 7/8 ****
The Sword of Bedwyr by R.A. Salvatore 7/8 - 7/10 ****
These Are The Voyages: TOS Season Two by Marc Cushman 7/10 - 7/14 ****
Small Favor by Jim Butcher 7/14 - 7/16 ****
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution 1783 - 1789 by Joseph J. Ellis 7/16 - 7/17 ****
Lock Every Door by Riley Sager 7/17 - 7/18 ****
The Boys Omnibus Vol. 4 by Garth Ennis 7/19 ****
The Boys Omnibus Vol. 5 by Garth Ennis 7/19 ****
The Boys Omnibus Vol. 6 by Garth Ennis 7/20 ****
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 7/20 - 7/27 ***
If It Bleeds by Stephen King 7/27 - 7/28 *****
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore 7/28 ****
Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein 7/28 - 7/29 *****
A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan 7/29 - 7/30 ****
Out from Boneville by Jeff Smith 7/30 ***

August (15)
The Umbrella Academy: The Apocalypse Suite by Gerard Way 8/1 **
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson 7/30 - 8/3 ***
An Impersonal History of the Hugos by Jo Walton 8/3 - 8/6 ****
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin 8/6 *****
Jade City by Fonda Lee 8/7 - 8/11 ****
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher 8/12 - 8/13 ****
Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life by Bryan Lee O’Malley 8/13 *****
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World by Bryan Lee O’Malley 8/13 *****
Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey 8/13 - 8/17 ****
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester 8/17 ***
Changes by Jim Butcher 8/20 - 8/21 ****
Side Jobs by Jim Butcher 8/22 ****
Ghost Story by Jim Butcher 8/22 - 8/25 ****
Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly 8/27 - 8/30 ***
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner 8/30 - 8/31 ***


September (14)
Cold Days by Jim Butcher 9/1 - 9/2 ****
Skin Game by Jim Butcher 9/3 - 9/4 *****
Brief Cases by Jim Butcher 9/4 - 9/5 ****
Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins Volume II by Matthew Mercer 9/7 ****
Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio 9/8 - 9/13 ****
The Lesser Devil by Christopher Ruocchio 9/13 - 9/14 ***
Federation by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens 9/17 - 9/18 ****
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 9/19 - 9/20 **
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell 9/20 - 9/22 ****
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt 9/23 - 9/24 ****
The Hierarchies by Ros Anderson 9/24 - 9/25 ***
Star Wars Memories: My Time in the (Death Star) Trenches by Craig Miller 9/25 - 9/27 ****
Peace Talks by Jim Butcher 9/28 - 9/29 ****
Battle Ground by Jim Butcher 9/29 - 9/30 *****

October (16)
Nightmare Movies by Kim Newman 10/1 - 10/3 ***
Ghost Story by Peter Straub 10/3 - 10/6 ****
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones 10/6 ****
Thinner by Stephen King 10/6 - 10/8 ****
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager 10/8 - 10/9 ****
The Flood by Michael McDowell 10/9 - 10/11 **
The Remaking by Clay Chapman 10/11 - 10/12 **
Psycho by Robert Bloch 10/12 ****
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire 10/12 - 10/14 *****
Once There Was a Way by Bryce Zabel 10/14 - 10/15 *****
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow 10/16 - 10/19 ***
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Moltar and Max Gladstone 10/19 ****
The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson 10/19 - 10/22 ****
The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson 10/22 - 10/26 ***
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton 10/27 - 10/29 ****
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury 10/29 - 10/30 ****

November (12)
The Unofficial Guide to Game of Thrones by Kim Renfro 11/2 ****
The World of Critical Role by Liz Marsham 11/2 - 11/3 ****
150 Glimpses of The Beatles by Craig Brown 11/3 - 11/6 ****
The Platinum Age of Television by David Bianculli 11/7 - 11/9 ***
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson 11/9 - 11/13 ***
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline 11/13 - 11/15 *****
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke 11/15 - 11/16 ****
Musical Misfires by Thomas C. Hischak and Mark A. Robinson 11/16 - 11/19 *****
Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered the World by David Sheff 11/19 - 11/21 ***
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 11/23 - 11/24 ****
The Sand Sea by Michael McClellan 11/24 - 11/29 ****
The Kryptonite Kid by Joseph Torchia 11/29 **

December (12)
The Master’s Apprentice by Oliver Potzsch 11/30 - 12/2 ****
Letters from Father Christmas by J.R.R. Tolkien 12/2 - 12/3 ****
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester 12/3 ***
From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back edited by Elizabeth Schaefer 12/4 - 12/5 ***
Deceived by Paul S. Kemp 12/5 - 12/7 ****
Fatal Alliance by Sean Williams 12/7 - 12/9 ***
The Star Wars Book by Cole Horton 12/9 - 12/10 ****
Mention My Name in Atlantis by John Jakes 12/10 - 12/11 ***
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor 12/12 - 12/14 ****
Claus: Legend of a Fat Man by Tony Bertauski 12/17 - 12/19 ***
A Lot Like Christmas by Connie Willis 12/19 - 12/21 ****
Howling Dark by Christopher Ruocchio 12/23 - 12/31 ***

2020: 174 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5435558-marcus-steffanci?read_at=2020
2019: 112 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5435558-marcus-steffanci?order=a&read_at=2019&sort=date_read
2018: 114 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5435558-marcus-steffanci?read_at=2018
2017: 104 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5435558-marcus-steffanci?read_at=2017
2016: 69 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5435558-marcus-steffanci?order=a&read_at=2016&sort=date_read
2015: 52 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5435558-marcus-steffanci?order=a&read_at=2015&sort=date_read
2014: 77 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5435558-marcus-steffanci?order=a&read_at=2014&sort=date_read
2013: 62 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5435558-marcus-steffanci?order=a&read_at=2013&sort=date_read
2012: 71 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5435558-marcus-steffanci?order=a&read_at=2012&sort=date_read
2011: 89 https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5435558-marcus-steffanci?order=a&read_at=2011&sort=date_read

 

[Neo Skimbleshanks]

January
1/15 - Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion - Garreth Stedman Jones
1/25 - Hallucinations - Oliver Sacks
February
2/2 - Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
2/28 - Follow Me, Akhi - Hussein Kesvani
July
7/18 - The Anarchy - William Dalrymple
7/25 - Moral Origins - Christopher Boem
August
8/8 - Maoism: A Global History - Julia Lovell
8/14 - My Sister, The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
8/28 - Blitzed - Norman Ohler
October
10/09 - God’s Chinese Son - Jonathan D. Spence
10/16 - Hunting Monsters - Darren Naish
10/18 - Leave the World Behind - Rumaan Alam
December
12/11 - Behave - Robert Sapolsky
12/19 - The Nobody People - Bob Proehl
12/28 - The Somebody People - Bob Proehl

 

[shivam]

i'm sad i didn't get to make this thread, but i'm glad it still exists. 11th year running!

January 2
Stiletto - Daniel O'Malley
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
February 1
For All the Tea in China - Sarah Rose
March

April 3
Heat - Bill Buford.
A Snake Lies Waiting - Louis Cha
Devil in the kitchen - Marco Pierre White

May 4
Garlic and Strawberries - Ruth Reichl
Kitchen Confidential - Bourdain
Medium Raw - Bourdain
Tender at the Bone - Reichl

June 1
My life in France - Julia Child

July 1
Dirt - Bill Buford

August 1
Early Indians- Tony Joseph

September 2
The Baron of Magister Valley - Steven Brust
Star Daughter - Shveta Thakrar

October 4
Sid Meier's Memoir - Sid Meier
Jhereg - Brust
Yendi - Brust
Teckla - Brust


November 5
Taltos - Brust
Phoenix - Brust
Athyra - Brust
Orca - Brust
Dragon - Brust

December 5
Issola - Brust
Dzur - Brust
Jhegaala - Brust
Iorich - Brust
Tiassa - Brust (with two hours of 2020 to spare!)

2020 Total: 29
2019 Total: 17
2018 Total: 12
2017 Total: 7
2016 Total: 5 (1 ebook)
2015 Total: 4 (3 ebooks)
2014 Total: 20 (7 ebooks)
2013 Total: 16 (5 ebooks)
2012 Total: 43 (17 ebooks)
2011 Total: 42
2010 Total: 37
2009 Total: 38

 

[Dr. Nerd]

I've been really bad about making time to read this year.

January - July (0)

August : (1)
-The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor Lavalle

September : (0)

October : (0)

November : (0)

December : (0)

 

[Rosewood]

My initial goal this year was 30, but I knocked it down to 20 about mid-year after six months of reading very little. And things were going so great these last few years (by my standards). FU, 2020!

January: (6. how?)
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett ****
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou ****
Arrows of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey ***
Emma by Jane Austen (audio) ****
A Train of Powder by Rebecca West ****
Obsidio by Amie Kaufmann and Jay Kristof ***

February: (0)

March: (2)
The Warden by Anthony Trollope (audio) ****
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton ***

April: (1)
People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry (audio) ****

May: (1)
A Curious Beginning by Deanna Raybourn ***

June: (1)
Uprooted by Naomi Novik ***

July: (2)
Persuasion by Jane Austen (audio) ***
Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir ****

August: (2)
Shrub by Molly Ivins and Lou DuBose ****
Poisoned Blade by Kate Elliott ****

September: (2)
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older ***
Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson ***

October: (0)
November: (0)
December: (0)

Grand Total: 17

Novellas/novelettes: 5
Manga/GNs: 75

2019: 36
2018: 34
2017: 26
2016: 20

 

[Gerad]

Aw man, gonna have to copy mine over...

September (3):
The Book of Dzur - Steven Brust
Circe - Madeleine Miller
The Alienist - Caleb Carr

October (2):
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Five Hundred Years After - Steven Brust

November (6):
Iorich - Steven Brust
The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller
The Paths of the Dead - Steven Brust
The Searcher - Tana French
Tiassa - Steven Brust
Gringos - Charles Portis

December (8):
The Lord of Castle Black - Steven Brust
Final Girls - Riley Sager
Dragon and Thief - Timothy Zahn
Where the Forest Meets the Stars - Glendy Vanderah
Hawk - Steven Brust
The Overdue Life of Amy Byler - Kelly Harms
Sethra Lavode - Steven Brust
Warlight - Michael Ondaatje

 

[shivam]

A week left! Update your lists!

 

[Behemoth]

January 2021 (3):
Middlemarch - Eliot
The Trouble with Peace - Abercrombie
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold - le Carré

 

[Falselogic]

@Behemoth the 2021 thread is here

 

[Behemoth]

@Behemoth the 2021 thread is here

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