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2026 completed books thread

shivam

shivam

commander damage
(he/him)
Back again for the 17th year running!
January (3)
Searching for Dragons - Patricia C Wrede
The making of a chef - Ruhlman
The soul of a chef - Ruhlman

February (4)
The Fires of December - Brandon Sanderson
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms -Gerard Russell
Dungeon Crawler Carl- Matt Dinniman
The Kamogawa Food Detectives - Hisashi Kashiwai

March (3)
My life in France- Julia Child
Omens of Chaos - Seanan McGuire
Proto - Laura Spinney
April (0)

May (1)
Dragons of Winter Night - Weis and Hickman
June (4)
Destroy All Humans, They Can't Be Regenerated v1
Destroy All Humans, They Can't Be Regenerated v2
A Line To Kill - Anthony Horowitz
The twist of a knife - Anthony Horowitz

July (2)
Close to Death - Horowitz
Points and Lines - Seicho Matsumoto
August (0)

September (0)

October (0)

November (0)

December (0)

2025 Total: 43
2024 Total: 20
2023 Total: 27
2022 Total: 24
2021 Total: 34
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
 
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January (15)
Howls from the Dark Age by Christopher Buehlman
Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich
On Writing by Stephen King
Separation of Church and Hate by John Fugelsang
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Stoner by John Williams
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
Shuna's Journey by Hayao Miyazaki
True Grit by Charles Portis (Reread)

February (20)
The CIA Book Club by Charlie English
The Penguin Book of Cults by Joseph P. Laycock
The Penguin Book of Witches by Katherine Howe
In the Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch
After Purity by Sara Moslener
Replaceable You by Mary Roach
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Black Spartacus by Sudhir Hazareesingh
The Right of the People by Osita Nwanevu
Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
There is No Antimemetics Division by QNTM
The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman
The Penguin Book of the Undead by Scott G. Bruce
Super Nintendo by Keza Macdonald
10% Happier by Dan Harris
Born in Blackness by Howard W. French
This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Naylor
The Butcher's Masquerade by Matt Dinniman

March (17)
Could Should Might Don't by Nick Foster
Air-Borne by Carl Zimmer
Weapons of Mass Delusion by Robert Draper
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley
The Nine Billion Names of God and Other Stories by Arthur C. Clarke
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman
The Second Emancipation by Howard W. French
More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
Mutual Aid by Pyotr Kropotkin
This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown
If We Burn by Vincent Bevins
Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
To be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

April (10)
Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman
Strange Buildings by Uketsu
Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel
Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
When we Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
Gringos by Charles Portis
The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky by Garrett M. Graff

May (6)
Feed the People by Jan Dutkiewicz & Gabriel Rosenberg
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
The Score by C. Thi Nguyen
When the Forest Breathes by Suzanne Simard
Malcolm X by Manning Marable
Chain of Ideas by Ibram X. Kendi

June (9)
Traversal by Maria Popova
How to Art by Kate Bryan
Ship of Magic by Robin Hobb
Monkey King by Wu Cheng'en
UFO by Garrett M. Graff
The Martians by David Baron
Pests by Bethany Brookshire
The Plantagenets by Dan Jones
The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill by Matthew Bowman

July (11)
A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman
The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb
Inside the Box by David Epstein
'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Opus by Gareth Gore
Play Anything by Ian Bogost
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
California Rewritten by John Freeman
The Dabbler's Guide to Witchcraft by Fire Lyte
The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason
Attensity by the Friends of Attention

August (2)
The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow
Not a Speck of Light by Laird Barron

September (0)

October (0)

November (0)

December (0)

2026 Total: 90


2025 Total: 165
2024 Total: 177
2023 Total: 173
2022 Total: 165
2021 Total: 153
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
 
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January (3)
The Dragon Waiting - John M. Ford
Tempests - Karen Blixen*
Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Lysistrata - Aristophanes

February (4)
Vathek - William Beckford
Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
The Snow of the Admiral - Alvaro Mutis

March (1)
Seven Surrenders - Ada Palmer

April (4)
The Spiral Labyrinth - Mathew Hughes
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Nature (1844) - Ralph Waldo Emerson*
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

May (6)
Return to the Whorl - Gene Wolfe
On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers
Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Annals of Klepsis - R. A. Lafferty
Peter and Wendy - J. M. Barrie
The Will to Battle - Ada Palmer

June (5)
The Conference of the Birds - Attar of Nishapur
Perhaps the Stars - Ada Palmer
Lyrical Ballads - Coleridge and Wordsworth
The Star King - Jack Vance
Lyrical Poetry - Percy Bysshe Shelley

July (4)
A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
Diverse short poetry - Various
The Killing Machine - Jack Vance
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Edward FitzGerald

August (1)
The Palace of Love - Jack Vance

September ()

October ()

November ()

December ()

2009: 17
2011: 30
2012: 28
2013: 27
2014: 40
2015: 27
2016: 32
2017: 33
2018: 31
2019: 34
2020: 26
2021: 38
2022: 38
2023: 54
2024: 103
2025: 55
 
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2026...Maybe I'll read a book or two?

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 5 books
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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
* Reread

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? Pulp Books
? Comic Books
? Didn't Like it / Didn't Finish
* ? Rereads

2025 Total: 5 stories/books
2024 Total: 67 stories/books
2023 Total: 9 stories
2022 Total: 2 stories
2021 Total: 4 stories
2020 Total: 5 stories
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
 
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January (10)

Animal Farm by George Orwell 1/2 *****
The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams 1/2 - 1/4 *****
Tarou: The Fall by Dana Fredski and David Fitzgerald 1/6 - 1/11 ***
A Fig for All the Devils by C.S Fritz 1/13 *****
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell 1/13 - 1/15 ****
Murder at Spindle Manor by Morgan Stang 1/17 - 1/19 *****
Shockaholic by Carrie Fisher 1/19 *****
Twelve Months by Jim Butcher 1/20 - 1/22 *****
Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher 1/22 - 1/23 *****
Mythos by Stephen Fry 1/23 - 1/25 *****

February (12)

The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams 1/25 - 2/2 *****
The Land of Sweet Forever by Harper Lee 2/2 - 2/3 ****
Heroes by Stephen Fry 2/3 - 2/6 *****
Future Boy by Michael J. Fox, Nelle Fortenberry 2/7 *****
On Beauty by Zadie Smith 2/6 - 2/10 *****
Vagabond by Tim Curry 2/9 - 2/12 *****
Game Shows FAQ by Adam Nedeff 2/12 - 2/16 *****
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman 2/12 - 2/17 ****
The Tomb by F. Paul Wilson 2/18 - 2/22 ****
Remina by Junji Ito 2/22 ****
One Piece, Vol. 1: Romance Dawn by Eiichiro Oda 2/22 *****
One Piece, Vol. 2: Buggy the Clown by Eiichiro Oda 2/23 *****

March (21)
One Piece, Vol. 3: Don’t Get Fooled Again by Eiichiro Oda 3/3 *****
Dark Age by Pierce Brown 2/17 - 3/4 *****
One Piece, Vol. 4: The Black Cat Pirates by Eiichiro Oda 3/4 *****
One Piece, Vol. 5: For Whom the Bell Tolls by Eiichiro Oda 3/4 *****
North Woods by David Mason 3/4 - 3/6 *****
Troy by Stephen Fry 3/5 - 3/8 *****
One Piece, Vol. 6: The Oath by Eiichiro Oda 3/8- 3/9 *****
Hellmouth by Giles Kristian 3/14 - 3/15 ****
Stone of Farewell by Tad Williams 3/7 - 3/19 ****
One Piece, Vol. 7: The Crap-Geezer by Eiichiro Oda 3/19 *****
One Piece, Vol. 8: I Won’t Die by Eiichiro Oda 3/19 *****
The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson 3/19 - 3/20 *****
Rogues by Gardner Douzois and George RR Martin 3/7 - 3/22 *****
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 3/21 - 3/24 ****
One Piece, Vol. 9: Tears by Eiichiro Oda 3/25 *****
One Piece, Vol. 10: OK, Let’s Stand Up! by Eiichiro Oda 3/26 *****
One Piece, Vol. 11: The Meanest Man in the East by Eiichiro Oda 3/26 *****
I Lived the 80’s by Bruce Smith 3/9 - 3/28 *****
The Making of Middle-Earth by Christopher A. Snyder 3/14 - 3/30 ****
Snuff by Terry Pratchett 3/30 - 3/31 *****

April (10)
Odyssey by Stephen Fry 4/2 *****
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang 4/1 - 4/5 *****
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane 4/5 - 4/7 *****
The Great Movies by Roger Ebert 4/1 - 4/11 *****
Conqueror’s Blood by Zamil Akhtar 4/7 - 4/17 *****
True Grit by Charles Portis 4/18 ****
Living with Shakespeare by Susannah Carson 4/8 - 4/20 *****
Ministers of Grace by Jordan Monsell 4/20 - 4/21 *****
Fox by Joyce Carol Oates 4/19 - 4/27 *****
All You Need is Love by Peter Brown, Steven Gaines 4/21 - 4/29 *****

May (10)
Out Law by Jim Butcher 5/5 *****
Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes by Rob Wilkins 5/1 - 5/8 *****
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett 5/9 - 5/10 *****
The Hive by Ronald Malfi 5/1 - 5/11 *****
The Light Fantastic by Terry Pratchett 5/11 - 5/16 *****
The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett 5/15 - 5/19 *****
Barnum: An American Life by Robert Wilson 5/20 - 5/23 *****
Gerald’s Game by Stephen King 5/24 - 5/25 *****
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews 5/26 - 5/31 *****
The Breathing Method by Stephen King 5/30 - 5/31 *****

June (11)
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon 5/20 - 6/6 ****
The Body by Stephen King 6/1 - 6/9 *****
Apt Pupil by Stephen King 6/9 - 6/11 *****
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King 6/11 - 6/12 *****
Rose Madder by Stephen King 6/2 - 6/13 ***
Star Wars: A New Hope by George Lucas 6/14 - 6/16 *****
The Wind Runner by pirateaba 1/4 - 6/20 *****
The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee 6/17 - 6/23 ****
Widow’s Point by Richard Chizmar 6/21 - 6/25 *****
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans 6/26 - 6/28 *****
Caliban’s Hour by Tad Williams 6/29 - 6/30 *****

July (17)
)The Untold Stories of Broadway, Vol. 1 by Jennifer Tepper 6/6 - 7/2 *****
One Piece, Vol. 12: The Legend Begins by Eiichiro Oda 7/3 *****
The Rise of the Dragon by Elmo M. Garcia Jr.and Linda Antonsson 6/27 - 7/3 *****
Into the Blue by Emma Brodie 8/30 - 7/6 *****
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher 7/6 *****
Holly by Stephen King 6/30 - 7/8 ****
The Sword of Kaigen by M.L. Wang 6/30 - 7/11 *****
Elevation by Stephen King 7/11 *****
Revival by Stephen King 7/9 - 7/13 *****
Musical Theater: A History by John Kenrick 7/2 - 7/16 *****
Show Boat by Edna Ferber 7/17 - 7/20 ****
Dune by Frank Herbert 7/13 - 7/23 ****
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert 7/23 - 7/25 *****
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab 7/23 - 7/26 *****
Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito 7/27 *****
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride by Matt Dinniman 7/25 - 7/29 *****
The September House by Carissa Orlando 7/29 - 7/31 *****

August (0)

September (0)

October (0)

November (0)

December (0)

Total: 90
 
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* = reread

January
Witches Abroad ~ Terry Pratchett
Before the Coffee Gets Cold ~ Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Shock Doctrine ~ Naomi Klein

February

March
Harveat Home ~ Thomas Tryon

April
The Namesake ~ Jhumpa Lahiri

May

June
The Night Circus ~ Erin Morgenstern
 
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Hey, I finished my first book today, on January 1st!

Total: 45

January (7)

Shadows Upon Time - Ruocchio
King of Ashes - Cosby
People We Meet on Vacation - Henry (audiobook)
Oathbringer - Sanderson
Broken Country - Hall
The Correspondent - Evans
The Daughter's War - Buehlman

February (5)

Wild Dark Shore - McConaghy
The Blacktongue Thief - Buehlman (reread)
Audition - Kitamura
Battle of the Bookstores - Brady (audiobook)
A Guardian and a Thief - Majumdar

March (6)

One Dark Window - Gillig
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng - Baker
Tom's Crossing - Danielewski
Two Twisted Crowns - Gillig
And Now, Back to You - Borison (audiobook)
Heart the Lover - King

April (4)

Dawnshard - Sanderson
The House of Government - Slezkine
Everything is Tuberculosis - Green
The Score - Nguyen

May (9)

The Strength of the Few - Islington
Vigil - Saunders
All Fours - July
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas (reread)
Dungeon Crawler Carl - Dinniman (audiobook)
We Do Not Part - Kang
The Works of Vermin - Ennes
Carl's Doomsday Scenario - Dinniman (audiobook)
The Caretaker - Kliewer

June (4)

Writers and Lovers - King
Yesteryear - Burke
Into the Blue - Brodie
The Faith of Beasts - Corey

July (8)

The Demons of Unrest - Larson
All the Pretty Horses - McCarthy
The Everlasting - Harrow
Nuclear War: A Scenario - Jacobsen
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook - Dinniman (audiobook)
The Duke & I - Quinn (audiobook)
Our Perfect Storm - Fortune (audiobook)
The Crossing - McCarthy

August (2)

The Sword of Kaigen - Wang
Angel Down - Kraus
 
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RED for Novel
BLUE for Comics

January (1)
GI Joe: The Larry Hama Collection Volume 1
Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 6

February (1)
Wearing the Lion

March (0)
April (0)
May (0)
June (0)
July (0)
August (0)
September (0)
October (0)
November (0)
December (0)

Total Novel (2)
Total Comic (1)
Total (3)
 
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