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General Discussion => Throw Down the Gauntlet => Topic started by: Adventine on December 26, 2023, 08:29:43 AM

Title: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Adventine on December 26, 2023, 08:29:43 AM
New year, new challenge!

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on December 26, 2023, 01:17:44 PM
I'll be here for my fourth 365 book challenge!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: WayDownSouth on December 27, 2023, 08:40:31 PM
Your 50 Books in 2023 thread sent me here... I know I won't log 50, but I'll still participate if that's okay.

@Zikoris, that's incredible. Are you doing a lot of short stories? A book a day is a lot... Then again many people watch a solid 4 or 5 hours of TV a day so I could see how it could be easily done if that's your habit.

I tend to end up with longer books and too many distractions to ever finish one in a single read. And although I've got 1,000 books under my belt (which I thought was a lot) probably less than 5 percent of them were read from start to finish in a single day.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on December 27, 2023, 09:50:47 PM
Your 50 Books in 2023 thread sent me here... I know I won't log 50, but I'll still participate if that's okay.

@Zikoris, that's incredible. Are you doing a lot of short stories? A book a day is a lot... Then again many people watch a solid 4 or 5 hours of TV a day so I could see how it could be easily done if that's your habit.

I tend to end up with longer books and too many distractions to ever finish one in a single read. And although I've got 1,000 books under my belt (which I thought was a lot) probably less than 5 percent of them were read from start to finish in a single day.

I read some short stories, but I count them as an anthology rather than individually. It's rare for me to read a book in a single session unless it's either very short or I'm on an airplane, but I do finish most books within a 24 hour period. The exceptions are long fantasy books tend to be two days and I usually spread my nonfiction reads out over a week (while reading other stuff the rest of the time) due to density. Your comment on television is spot on - I read around 4-6 hours a day, but I think the average person spends at least that on things like television and phone stuff (I have neither), not to mention all the smaller common things that I've axed or automated entirely (thinking about what to eat multiple times a day, thinking about what to wear, beauty routines of any kind, time stuck in a car on traffic, or anything else involving time loss due to poor planning or inefficiency).
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Adventine on December 28, 2023, 04:20:44 PM
Your 50 Books in 2023 thread sent me here... I know I won't log 50, but I'll still participate if that's okay.


Everyone's welcome here, whether they reach 50 books or not!


I don't own a TV and only subscribe to a streaming service if there's a show I really, really want to watch (then I cancel again after a month). Reading books is my main hobby and you'll be surprised how many you can finish without the usual distractions of TV, kids, demanding jobs, and the usual things that sap time and energy.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on December 31, 2023, 03:41:09 AM
I'm in. I'll be just short in 23 but still a lot of books! Plus this is my main source for new reads!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on January 01, 2024, 07:56:21 AM
Happy New Year! Here’s to another fantastic year of books. I have yet to make it to 50 - maybe this will be my year! Finished a book this morning, so I guess it counts for 2024?

1. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wolfpack Mustachian on January 01, 2024, 09:34:20 AM
My favorite thread of the forum!

1. The compound effect - Darren Hardy

ETA: technically basically read almost all of this yesterday afternoon, but I didn't get it in on Goodreads yesterday so I'm counting it for 2024
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Jakestersquat on January 01, 2024, 10:00:50 AM
This will be my first year joining a thread like this. I usually read a pretty good amount. Quite a mixture of fiction and non fiction. Looking forward to it.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: StarBright on January 01, 2024, 12:25:19 PM
I'm in, as always! This my favorite source for new reads.

1. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: gatortator on January 01, 2024, 01:24:06 PM
Joining!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Splashncash on January 01, 2024, 02:00:21 PM
I'm in again.  Not sure why but I stopped adding to last year's list at the end of May when I was at 51 books.  I vow to finish my list this year.

And, I agree, @grantmeaname - this is a great place to find new reads.   
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Morning Glory on January 01, 2024, 02:13:21 PM
I'm in, as always! This my favorite source for new reads.


Me too!
I didn't know Follett had a new one, will add to my library hold list.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Frankies Girl on January 01, 2024, 04:00:18 PM
I'm in too. I didn't make goal last year but definitely plan on it this year. :)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Razzle on January 01, 2024, 06:02:14 PM
I'm in, I've lurked on this challenge long enough!  Finished my first today:

1. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on January 01, 2024, 08:55:17 PM
1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Love this challenge
(finished a dog-focused one that I'd been reading this weekend and started & will likely finish the essays tonight). 
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on January 02, 2024, 08:04:55 AM
I'm in again for 2024. I finished by first book of 2024 this morning.

1) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on January 02, 2024, 10:29:42 AM
I'm in! Hopefully I'll make 50, haven't been reading as much with the new baby but we'll see if reading time improves as he gets older.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Emerald on January 05, 2024, 08:26:00 AM
Count me in please!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on January 07, 2024, 07:12:08 AM
2. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on January 07, 2024, 05:27:12 PM
Well, this is absolutely not how I expected things to go, but here we are on January 7th, and - first 20, favourites marked:

1. Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant
2. Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell by Brandon Sanderson
3. The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
4. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
5. The Journal of John Woolman by John Woolman
6. Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
7. The Past is Red by Catherynne Valente
8. Sixth of the Dusk by Brandon Sanderson
9. Driftwood by Marie Brennan
10. The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb

11. Apology by Plato
12. Crito by Plato
13. Phaedo by Plato

I confess that I always thought ancient Greek philosophy would be incredibly dry and boring, and this stuff is totally new to me as a result. WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME IT WAS THIS GOOD???


14. Fruits of Solitude by William Penn
15. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

16. The Serpent by Claire North
17. The Thief the Claire North
18. The Master by Claire North

The Gameshouse trilogy is a fantastic political fantasy/thriller series based on games applied to the real world (think chess but the pieces are real-world people), this went straight to my all-time favourites list.


19. Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel
20. Drowned Country by Emily Tesh
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Jakestersquat on January 08, 2024, 11:05:23 AM
Just finished “what the Robin knows” by Jon Young. An excellent book for anyone wanting to get into birding or even just to be able to better “see” the tons of wildlife that is around you whether in the city suburbs or country. We are going to be doing some major landscaping this year and DW and I are already planning some more bird baths feeders and houses.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on January 08, 2024, 12:50:29 PM
I'm in! I have a long commute (I KNOW) so I get a decent amount of listening in. I usually have an audio book and a print book going. I try to keep them fairly separate to make sure the stories don't blend if I am reading/listening in a short time frame.

2024 Finished:

1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (I like Backman books. This one was fine but did not work as well as others have for me)
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (meh. I had mostly figured out where things were headed early on and kept reading to see if I was correct.)
Currently reading:

Audio: Dune by Frank Herbert
Print: Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on January 09, 2024, 08:29:57 AM
Currently reading:

The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksander Hemon.
Not a fast book to read, as it is full of quotes in foreign languages (German, French, Bosnian, Jewish-Spanish, Turkish and some more).
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: WayDownSouth on January 09, 2024, 02:52:20 PM
Well, this is absolutely not how I expected things to go, but here we are on January 7th, and - first 20, favourites marked:

1. Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant
2. Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell by Brandon Sanderson
3. The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
4. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
5. The Journal of John Woolman by John Woolman
6. Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
7. The Past is Red by Catherynne Valente
8. Sixth of the Dusk by Brandon Sanderson
9. Driftwood by Marie Brennan
10. The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince by Robin Hobb

11. Apology by Plato
12. Crito by Plato
13. Phaedo by Plato

I confess that I always thought ancient Greek philosophy would be incredibly dry and boring, and this stuff is totally new to me as a result. WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME IT WAS THIS GOOD???


14. Fruits of Solitude by William Penn
15. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

16. The Serpent by Claire North
17. The Thief the Claire North
18. The Master by Claire North

The Gameshouse trilogy is a fantastic political fantasy/thriller series based on games applied to the real world (think chess but the pieces are real-world people), this went straight to my all-time favourites list.


19. Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel
20. Drowned Country by Emily Tesh

Based on a couple things you've said or posted I'd like to recommend The Lost Language of Plants by Stephen Harrod Buhner, I think you'll find it fascinating if you can bear some of the rather tedious areas of the read.

*I actually would recommend it to anyone here but since you're really ripping through books so quickly - it's a small investment in time with a very rewarding return.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Avolonte on January 09, 2024, 06:24:42 PM
I'm in--loved this challenge last year!

 1. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende, 2005. Couple lives without electricity for a year and finds that life is better in a lot of ways. I liked the premise, but it was just OK overall.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on January 10, 2024, 02:11:51 AM
Currently reading:

The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
Not a fast book to read, as it is full of quotes in foreign languages (German, French, Bosnian, Jewish-Spanish, Turkish and some more).

1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
I finished the second half of the book quite fast, as I now prioritized reading. It is an impressive story.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: travelbug on January 10, 2024, 10:12:38 PM
I'm in this year as well.
I love seeing what other people read and have found some awesome books from the lists.

1. Small things like these. Claire Keegan. Would recommend. Excellent short book set in Ireland.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: ahptex on January 11, 2024, 07:54:18 AM
I'm in again!

Always enjoy seeing what others are reading -- I have found some great books from this list!

(1) Right Place, Right Time by Ryan Frederick
(2) China Blonde by Nicole Webb
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on January 12, 2024, 07:25:22 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.

2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on January 12, 2024, 07:44:49 AM
3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Emerald on January 12, 2024, 09:28:54 AM
1.  North Woods by Daniel Mason 

One of the best books I've read in years, will probably make it on my Top 10 favorite books.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on January 13, 2024, 08:32:20 AM
1.  North Woods by Daniel Mason 

One of the best books I've read in years, will probably make it on my Top 10 favorite books.

It’s on my list!! Excited to get to it since everyone says it’s so good.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on January 15, 2024, 05:24:57 PM
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1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Recently finished/reading

3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee : an interesting meld of a memoir referencing pop-culture/fetishization of race/feminism/parenthood
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell : a bit out there but sometimes I like doses of woo to ameliorate bouts of anxiety
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on January 15, 2024, 08:11:07 PM
And we're at 40. Favourites marked:

21. The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle
22. Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day by Seanan McGuire
23. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
24. Legion by Brandon Sanderson
25. Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson
26. Skin Deep by Brandon Sanderson
27. Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
28. The Golden Sayings by EPictetus
29. Lies of he Beholder by Brandon Sanderson
30. The Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht
31. Trials of Conviction by T.A. White

32. River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
One of my picks from the Goodreads Choice Awards historical fiction longlist, this was a great story about a Caribbean woman searching for her lost children after escaping slavery. Not my usual thing at all, but very good.


33. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees by Douglas Tallamy
34. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

35. The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
This was an absolutely wild ride. Think Radium Girls with half the cast replaced with talking elephants. Trippy, weird, fun, disturbing, and all kinds of fucked up.


36. The Essays by Francis Bacon
37. Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
38. The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
39. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
40. New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

My projects are all going well. I've read quite a few Sanderson books for my Backlog Challenge, have been reading The Daily Stoic every day so far, and am right where I should be for my Harvard Classics challenge (on volume 3) and Nonfiction Challenge (on book 3). My unofficial goal of reading all the r/fantasy 2020 and 2023 top novellas lists is obviously going REALLY well, and I've been able to poke at the Goodreads Choice Awards longlists a bit. Also just a few weeks away from another special project, my Europe and Morocco Vacation Relevant Reads reading list.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on January 18, 2024, 06:54:29 AM
4. Congratulations, The Best Is Over! by R. Eric Thomas
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on January 18, 2024, 06:57:54 AM
1.  North Woods by Daniel Mason 

One of the best books I've read in years, will probably make it on my Top 10 favorite books.

I just added this to my library hold list. Thank you!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: StarBright on January 18, 2024, 07:19:48 AM
1.  North Woods by Daniel Mason 

One of the best books I've read in years, will probably make it on my Top 10 favorite books.

I just added this to my library hold list. Thank you!

me too :)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on January 18, 2024, 03:38:46 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.

3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: travelbug on January 20, 2024, 08:48:40 PM


1. Small things like these. Claire Keegan. Would recommend. Excellent short book set in Ireland.

2. The Tea Ladies. Amanda Hampson.
3. Stone Yard Devotional. Charlotte Wood.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on January 21, 2024, 08:17:35 AM
I’m in! My target is at least 52 books this year, or ~1 per week.

1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on January 21, 2024, 09:55:55 AM
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1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell

Recently finished/reading

5) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (fiction) : really enjoyed this gentle, futuristic sci-fi
6) Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali : half-way through. I'm not the correct audience for this book as it seems superficial but that most likely is because of previous reading/experiences.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on January 22, 2024, 08:12:49 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.

4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on January 22, 2024, 09:11:43 AM
2024 Finished:

1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (I like Backman books. This one was fine but did not work as well as others have for me)
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (meh. I had mostly figured out where things were headed early on and kept reading to see if I was correct.)


3. Dune by Frank Herbert (I really liked the first half, lost me a bit toward the end)
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay (I LOVED this. Historical fantasy set in the Tang dynasty [names, including country/dynasty changed in the book, but that is the one])

Currently reading:

Audio: Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Print: The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Jakestersquat on January 22, 2024, 02:01:44 PM
#2 The Doorstep Mile by Alastair Humphreys. Humphreys has written a number of adventure books this was boiled down to the simplest adventure just leaving your doorstep and doing something. Felt like it helped me realize lots of smaller simpler things can give me the taste of adventure to hold me over until we are FIRE.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: erp on January 22, 2024, 03:00:10 PM
Apparently I'm getting off to a quick start this year:

1. Daring Greatly - Brene Brown (audiobook)
2. The Doors of Eden - Adrian Tchaikovsky
3. How to be Perfect - Michael Schur (audiobook)
4. Artificial Condition -Martha Wells (audiobook)
5. I’m Your Man - Sylvie Simmons (Leonard Cohen biography)
6. All Systems Red - Martha Wells (audiobook)
7. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells (audiobook)
8. The Heat Will Kill You First - Jeff Goodell (in progress)

In fairness, the Martha Wells books are really more like novellas - ~ 100-200 pages each.

As I get busy for the next couple of months, I expect this rate to drop substantially.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on January 23, 2024, 08:18:38 PM
This month has been INSANE. No really stellar reads this chunk, but all decent. Next 20:

41. Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
42. Aeropagitica by John Milton
43. The Lifecycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang
44. Cowboy from the Future by Cassandra Gannon
45. Tractate of Education by John Milton
46. The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi
47. Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir
48. Religio Medici by Thomas Browne
49. The Survival of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
50. Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather
51. Mozart's Starling by Lyanda Haupt
52. The Legacy of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
53. In Midnight's Silence by T. Frohock
54. The Expert System's Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky
55. The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
56. Hunting Monsters by S.L. Huang
57. Fighting Demons by S.L. Huang
58. The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
59. Rose/House by Arkady Martine
60. Burning Roses by S.L. Huang

My projects are all going well, and there are a LOT of them:

1. I'm obviously way ahead of the game for hitting 365 books.

2. I'm right where I should be for the Harvard Classics, on Volume 4/Week 4, though it's about to get wonky on vacation because I'm going to read some stuff out of order to be more "relevant" for the trip (like skipping to the French literature volumes while in France, etc).

3. I'm right where I should be on my nonfiction challenge, on Book 4/Week 4. So far I've learned about octopuses, oak trees, and starlings, and my current one is about bacteriophages.

4. I have read The Daily Stoic every day.

5. I've read seven Backlog Books, and my goal is to read one or two a week for that (I have not counted exactly how many there are but I think it's around 60-70), so on track there too.

6. I've read 36 books from the r/fantasy top novella lists (2020 and 2023) and have just six more to go before that project is done.

7. I've read three books from the Goodreads Choice Awards longlists, and have the remaining six I'm interested in on hold at the library.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on January 24, 2024, 06:49:28 AM
I'm in, though off to a bit of a slow start.

1. The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells

2. The Best Short Stories 2023, ed. by Lauren Groff
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on January 26, 2024, 03:18:43 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.

5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wanttobehome on January 26, 2024, 05:33:55 AM
I am in again for 2024

Jan
1. The Donkey principle - Rachel Anne Ridge
2. Magic lessons - Alice Hoffman
3.A Sting in the Tale - My adventures with Bumble bees - Dave Goulson
4.The Arbornaut - Meg Lowman
5. Small bodies of water- Nina Powles
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: StarBright on January 26, 2024, 05:52:53 AM
I'm in, as always! This my favorite source for new reads.

1. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett

2. Edith Holler: A Novel by Edward Carey
3. Love is the Way by Bishop Michael Curry
4. Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
5. Emily Climbs by L.M Montgomery
6. Emily's Quest by L.M. Montgomery
7. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
8. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbie Wakeman
9. Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
10. Babel or the Necessity of Violence  by R. F. Kuang

This rarely happens, but January was like my perfect balance for reading genres.

Edith Holler was a weird and spooky theater story. The Montgomery books were both good and a comfort read. Bishop Curry's book was emotionally sustaining and a good way to fill up my internal empathy buckets in January. Vaster Wilds was excellent and difficult and even though I wouldn't say I "enjoyed" it, it was just really great (I felt the same way about Matrix, which I love more in retrospect but is sort of weird while you are reading it.) I wanted to give up on Babel by page 200, but by page 300 I was glad I stuck with it and by the end I understood the pacing of the beginning.


Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on January 26, 2024, 07:19:18 AM
Here we go with the first batch!

1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR List1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR List1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOther1/24/2024General Fiction

TBR: 2
Sequels: 2
Nonfiction: 1
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wolfpack Mustachian on January 26, 2024, 04:52:10 PM
Here we go with the first batch!

1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR List1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR List1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOther1/24/2024General Fiction

TBR: 2
Sequels: 2
Nonfiction: 1

How did you like Defiant compared to the rest of the series?
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on January 26, 2024, 06:05:20 PM
Here we go with the first batch!

1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR List1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR List1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOther1/24/2024General Fiction

TBR: 2
Sequels: 2
Nonfiction: 1

How did you like Defiant compared to the rest of the series?

I liked it better than Cytonic, not as much as Skyward. It's not my favorite series to begin with, but I felt it was a solid ending.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on January 26, 2024, 09:51:38 PM
@StarBright --the emily of new moon series were a favourite of mine when I was young. So nice to even just see the titles :)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on January 26, 2024, 09:57:23 PM
...
1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell
5) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (fiction)
6) Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali

Recently finished/reading
7) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki: quirky & compelling even if absurdly far-fetched
8) For the Love of a Dog by Patricia McConnell (audiobook)--enjoyable since I'm deep into learning about dog behaviour and our relationships with them
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on January 28, 2024, 04:55:58 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on January 30, 2024, 08:27:50 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Razzle on January 31, 2024, 02:41:31 AM
2. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
3. Flourish by Martin E.P. Seligman
4. Five Tuesdays in Winter by Lily King
5. Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Avolonte on January 31, 2024, 06:05:02 AM
January's books:
1 Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende (2005). Just OK.
2 West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (2021). Fun, easy read.
3 The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (2019). I thought the "twist" was obvious, but I liked it fine.
4 How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (2022). Sci-fi/fantasy short stories mostly written before the pandemic, about a pandemic and climate change. Characters intertwine throughout. Loved it, some of the stories made me tear up.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on January 31, 2024, 07:32:10 AM
5. The Institute by Stephen King

This one was a slog for me to get through. Just wasn’t a very engaging story.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: ahptex on January 31, 2024, 08:38:01 AM
I'm in again!

Always enjoy seeing what others are reading -- I have found some great books from this list!

(1) Right Place, Right Time by Ryan Frederick
(2) China Blonde by Nicole Webb

(3) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
(4) Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
(5) Where You Go is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on January 31, 2024, 11:54:22 AM
2. The Museum of Failures: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar
3. The Last Love Note by Emma Grey
4. The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on January 31, 2024, 12:16:13 PM
2024 Finished:

1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (I like Backman books. This one was fine but did not work as well as others have for me)
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (meh. I had mostly figured out where things were headed early on and kept reading to see if I was correct.)
3. Dune by Frank Herbert (I really liked the first half, lost me a bit toward the end)
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay (I LOVED this. Historical fantasy set in the Tang dynasty [names, including country/dynasty changed in the book, but that is the one])
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman (Turned out this is just a short story)
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (I am not loving Dune... if I like the third one even less, I might have to just read the synopsis for the rest!)
7. Spare by Prince Harry (if half of this was true, I do feel sorry for him, but man this entire book was an whiney, petty, woe is me tale.)

Currently reading:

Audio: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
Print: All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: salt cured on January 31, 2024, 10:44:02 PM
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Morning Glory on February 01, 2024, 11:48:32 AM
January Roundup:
1. Four Lost Cities: A secret history of the urban age by Annalee Newitz (audio book)
-this was not bad but I have read other things that went into more depth on this topic.

2. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
-fun and entertaining series, this is the second book

3. Taking Care: The story of nursing and its power to change the world by Sarah DiGregorio (audio book)
-a lot about the history of nursing that I didn't learn in school. Would recommend if you are a nurse or other healthcare person.

4. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
-thought-provoking satirical novel about racism in the publishing industry

5. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
-I liked the historical details about Ethiopia, accurate descriptions of surgery, and some of the characters but felt like the 'main character's older self as narrator' was too pompous and spoiled the plot a few times, and the romantic sub plot was awful.

6. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (audio book)
-some good ideas and suggestions but probably not enough for a whole book. The chapter introductions made it sound like a term paper.

7. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
-science fiction about a young girl trying to escape from a cult..in space. This started off a little too YA-ish but I rather liked the ending and thought the theme was very modern, if a little bit too spoon-fed.

8. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
-a romantic comedy that was mostly ok but I thought the narrator was too detached which made it read like a long vignette rather than a novel, and I did not like the ending very much

9. Artemis by Andy Weir
-fun heist novel that takes place on a libertarianism-run-amok moon colony

10. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
-new installment in the Kingsbridge series, with this one taking place in the early industrial revolution. The economics stuff seemed very timely.

11. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
-metafiction about horror movies and reality TV, featuring the worst set of parents I have probably ever seen in fiction. This one dragged a bit and is also guilty of spoon-feeding the main points, although some of the scenes were pretty good.

12. The Library Book by Susan Orlean (audio book)
-nonfiction about the Los Angeles library fire, and all of the historical details leading up to it. This one worked well with the audio format.

13. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
-not bad but a bit slow moving, lots of interesting historical details.

14. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
-great takedown of the economics of healthcare in the US. Highly recommend if you are interested in economics or social justice (or just read chapters 13 and 15 for the recommendations if you don't want all of the background details).  Do not be put off by the depressing title.

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on February 01, 2024, 12:46:45 PM
I've heard only good things about Four Lost Cities and it's on my list for someday in the future - do you have other books you'd recommend in its place?
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Morning Glory on February 01, 2024, 01:22:58 PM
I've heard only good things about Four Lost Cities and it's on my list for someday in the future - do you have other books you'd recommend in its place?

The dawn of everything: a new history of humanity by David Graeber and David Loewen covers a lot of the same material. 1491 by Charles Mann is also very good but focuses on the Americas. Four Lost Cities had a slightly different take on Cahokia than the other two which was interesting for me because I have been there. I wouldn't say one is necessarily better than the others, just that a lot of it felt like review because I'd read the others first.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on February 01, 2024, 02:42:43 PM
I did love 1491 (and 1493). Charles Mann is one of a kind.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on February 01, 2024, 02:59:16 PM
...
1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell
5) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (fiction)
6) Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali
7) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
8) For the Love of a Dog by Patricia McConnell (audiobook)

Recently finished/reading

9) Living on Almost Nothing by Amber Storck : a tiny, very mustachian-style book..didn't know the author but apparently she has a popular YouTube (Prepper Princess)--only read it b/c it was recommended for free on Kindle Unlimited. She only spends $65/month on food, etc.  Inspiring even if I don't aspire to such frugality.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: gatortator on February 02, 2024, 04:38:57 PM
50 books, 50 catagories library book nerd challenge

1. Ejaculate responsibly: a whole new way to think about abortion by Gabrielle Blair.
2. When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi
3. Where’d you go, Bernadette? By Maria Semple
4. The violin conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
5. Sense  and second-degree murder by Tirzah prince.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on February 03, 2024, 05:08:05 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on February 05, 2024, 02:23:26 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
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5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.

6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Jakestersquat on February 06, 2024, 08:53:06 AM
#3 Built to Move by Kelly and Juliet starlett
Good book for mobility and aging. I’m decently fit so out of the 10 things they recommend the only things I realized I need to work on is 1 breathing through my nose more. (Easily enough during the day but it is a struggle sleeping) and 2: my balance is fine one my left side but needs major work on my right.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on February 07, 2024, 07:37:39 AM
6. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on February 08, 2024, 12:05:18 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.

7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler. A good crime book.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on February 09, 2024, 03:43:50 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler. A good crime book.

8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on February 10, 2024, 02:53:13 PM
...
1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell
5) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (fiction)
6) Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali
7) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (fiction)
8) For the Love of a Dog by Patricia McConnell (audiobook)
9) Living on Almost Nothing by Amber Storck

Recently finished/reading
10) The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen (fiction)-- culture clashes, historical content, reindeer herding, arctic beauty, religious fervour. An intriguing and frustrating story.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on February 10, 2024, 06:26:10 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on February 13, 2024, 02:48:41 PM
Next 20, favourites marked

61. The Expert System's Champion by Adrian Tchaikovsky

62. Chimera's Star by Glynn Stewart
The latest Starship's Mage installment, this did not disappoint. I'm really liking the new character arc following the bad guys doing various nefarious things.


63. The Good Virus: The Amazing Story and Forgotten Promise of the Phage by Tom Ireland
64. The Complete Poems of John Milton
65. The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older

66. Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
This was a fun time. I like the color-based magic system, fast pacing, and funny characters.


67. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
68. The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables by Adam Alexander
69. Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
70. The Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson

At this point I left on vacation and switched to entirely relevant reads. I started with two general England books for the evening before flying out, the flight over, and the first evening in London:

71. English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson
72. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Then I went to Nottingham to have a Robin Hood day:

73. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Next up, the flight to Morocco:

74. The Stranger by Albert Camus
75. The Alchemist by Paul Coelho

And while in Morocco:

76. Stories from the Thousand and One Nights

77. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne (this was amazing)

78. Tales of Tangier: The Complete Short Stories of Mohamed Choukri (my local relevant book purchase of the trip)
79. Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne (my hot air balloon day book)
80. The Last Chapter by Leila Abouzeid

I just got to Paris and am loving The Hunchback of Notre Dame. After that I've got Candide, and maybe more Jules Verne books (I bought the complete collection on Kobo).
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on February 14, 2024, 01:19:28 PM
1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR List1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR List1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOther1/24/2024General Fiction

DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOtherN/AGeneral Fiction
5The Rage of DragonsEvan WinterLibraryTBR List2/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
6Under the Pendulum SunJeanette NgLibraryTBR List2/10/2024Fiction - Fantasy
7Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever NeedTracy McCubbinLibraryTBR List2/14/2024Nonfiction - Self-help

TBR: 6
Sequels: 2
Nonfiction: 2
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on February 14, 2024, 06:19:35 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: travelbug on February 15, 2024, 08:39:20 PM


1. Small things like these. Claire Keegan. Would recommend. Excellent short book set in Ireland.
2. The Tea Ladies. Amanda Hampson.
3. Stone Yard Devotional. Charlotte Wood.

4.The Thursday Murder Club. Richard Osman
5. The Greatest Salesman in the world. Og Mandino
6. Motivated money : sound financial advice for the post-GFC world. Peter Thornhill
7. Boundary Waters. William Kent Kreuger
8. The Skeleton Road. Val McDermid...DNF
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on February 18, 2024, 02:22:04 PM
...
1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell
5) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (fiction)
6) Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali
7) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (fiction)
8) For the Love of a Dog by Patricia McConnell (audiobook)
9) Living on Almost Nothing by Amber Storck
10)The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen (fiction)

Recently finished/reading
11) There There by Tommy Orange (fiction, Pulitzer finalist)--was swept up in this story even as I was cringing waiting for inevitable hard-things to happen.

12) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (winner of Canada Reads '23, graphic novel)--am already loving this memoir about a young woman from Cape Breton who travels west to pay off student loans. Simple, lovely, lonely, poignant.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: meadow lark on February 18, 2024, 06:38:53 PM
1-15 Knights of the Black Swan by Victoria Danann.  One of my fav paranormal series.
1-4 Cocktails in Hell by SE Babin.  Fun.
4 Crossroads Queen by Annabel Chase.  Pretty good.
The Future by Naomi Alderman.  I enjoyed this one a lot. 
Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchaupse
Fiction Total - 24
Non-fiction - 1
Need to work on some non-fiction!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on February 19, 2024, 07:37:37 AM
7. Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on February 22, 2024, 10:14:00 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: meadow lark on February 23, 2024, 07:50:32 AM
1-15 Knights of the Black Swan by Victoria Danann.  One of my fav paranormal series.
1-4 Cocktails in Hell by SE Babin.  Fun.
4 Crossroads Queen by Annabel Chase.  Pretty good.
The Future by Naomi Alderman.  I enjoyed this one a lot. 
North Woods by Daniel Mason - really cool in audiobook form!

Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchaupse

Fiction Total - 25
Non-fiction - 1

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on February 23, 2024, 04:05:08 PM
3. Not for Sale: The Return of the Global Slave Trade and How We Can Fight It by David Batstone. I picked this book up at a thrift store and it's about 15 years out of date but still a powerful read.

4. Slow Down by Kohei Saito. An interesting book on degrowth,  even though I disagreed with a lot of the conclusions.

5. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray. I can't recommend this book highly enough - definitely adding it to the list of all-time favorites.

6. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff. Not one of my favorites of Groff's books.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on February 24, 2024, 02:09:22 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).

9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: meadow lark on February 24, 2024, 10:11:02 PM
1-16 Knights of the Black Swan by Victoria Danann.  One of my fav paranormal series.
1-5 Cocktails in Hell by SE Babin.  Fun.
4 Crossroads Queen by Annabel Chase.  Pretty good.
The Future by Naomi Alderman.  I enjoyed this one a lot. 
North Woods by Daniel Mason - really cool in audiobook form!
The Art Merchant. JK Flynn
7 Psychic Cleaners Mystery

Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchaupse
Shoe Dog - didn’t finish.

Fiction Total - 29
Non-fiction - 1

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Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Razzle on February 26, 2024, 07:16:18 AM
5.  These are the Plunderers by Gretchen Morgenson (Audio)
6.  The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky (Audio)
7.  The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (Audio)
8.  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
9.  The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard
10. Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
11. Project Unlonely by Jeremy Nobel (Audio)
12. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on February 27, 2024, 06:28:33 AM
8. A Fever In the Heartland: The KKK’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: StarBright on February 27, 2024, 07:22:19 AM
8. A Fever In the Heartland: The KKK’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

I didn't know this book existed but I put it on my list - thanks! I grew up in Klan Country outside of Indianapolis.

One of my earliest memories is of an old man making a vile, racist joke at a church craft show and my mom losing her sh*t and screaming at him. Basically the first time I saw my mom lose her cool and it is imprinted on my hippocampus forever.

I've always been amazed at how the Klan had such a strong toe-hold in Indy and surrounding areas. Excited to read this!

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on February 27, 2024, 07:33:21 AM
5. If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales, Cale Dietrich
6. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
7. Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby
8. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
9. All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on February 28, 2024, 07:52:53 AM
8. A Fever In the Heartland: The KKK’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan

I didn't know this book existed but I put it on my list - thanks! I grew up in Klan Country outside of Indianapolis.

One of my earliest memories is of an old man making a vile, racist joke at a church craft show and my mom losing her sh*t and screaming at him. Basically the first time I saw my mom lose her cool and it is imprinted on my hippocampus forever.

I've always been amazed at how the Klan had such a strong toe-hold in Indy and surrounding areas. Excited to read this!

It is a fascinating read! I had absolutely no idea how ingrained the Klan was with daily and political life in some parts of the country. Definitely not something you learn about in public school history class.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: trc4897 on February 28, 2024, 02:05:34 PM
I most likely won't make it to 50, but I have already read more this year than last year, at only 2 months in! I credit my kindle paperwhite for the increase.

1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
3. Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben
4. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
5. The Woods - Harlan Coben
6. I Will Find You - Harlan Coben
7. Gone for Good - Harlan Coben
8. Caliban's War - James S.A. Corey
9. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky - IN PROGRESS
10. How Not to Die - Dr. Michael Gregor - IN PROGRESS
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on February 28, 2024, 03:19:19 PM
1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell
5) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (fiction)
6) Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali
7) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (fiction)
8) For the Love of a Dog by Patricia McConnell (audiobook)
9) Living on Almost Nothing by Amber Storck
10) The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen (fiction)
11) There There by Tommy Orange (fiction)
12) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (graphic novel)

Recently finished/reading
13) Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka : this book is cringey for me. How did we get so infatuated by the online world and caught up with all the social preening? It's interesting but isn't uplifting (yet).

14) Tao Te Ching by Lao-tzu (translation by Stephen Mitchell)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: salt cured on February 29, 2024, 01:13:01 PM
8. Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie (I kinda already knew that Poirot was an asshole but now I think Christie probably was one too.)
9. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamont (Not what I was looking for in a "how-to write" book but the author tells fun stories so I stuck it out.)
10. The Bridge by Iain Banks (My second book by this author and for a second time I was sad when my time with main character was up. Will read more of his.)
11. The Lola Quartet by Emily St John Mandel (I like all her work but think this is probably the least good of her novels.)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on February 29, 2024, 01:14:57 PM
Previous years: 2018 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2018!/msg2247038/#msg2247038) | 2019 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2019!/msg2526771/#msg2526771) | 2020 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2020!/msg2762830/#msg2762830) | 2021 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2021!/msg2954224/#msg2954224) | 2023 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2023!/msg3214444/#msg3214444)

January
1. Hell Is a World Without You by Jason Kirk ★★★★★
2. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★
3. Redshirts by John Scalzi ★★★★☆

February
4. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood ★★★☆☆
5. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener ★★★★☆
6. Convenience Store Woman by  ★★★☆☆
7. Diary of a Tokyo Teen by Christine Mari Inzer ★★★☆☆
8. The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History by Evan Amos ★★★★☆
9. My Detachment: A Memoir by Tracy Kidder ★★★☆☆
10. Monkey Business: Swinging Through Wall Street by John Rolfe and Peter Troob ★★★☆☆
11. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach ★★★★☆
11. Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes ★★★★☆
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on February 29, 2024, 02:35:59 PM

1. Hell Is a World Without You by Jason Kirk ★★★★★

oh-- this one looks interesting (for my particular upbringing/history)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on February 29, 2024, 03:04:16 PM
I read it in one sitting. Couldn't put it down if I tried. Highly recommended.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on March 01, 2024, 07:26:37 AM
9. Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way by Ursula K. Le Guin

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on March 01, 2024, 10:06:21 AM
2024 Finished:

January
1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (I like Backman books. This one was fine but did not work as well as others have for me)
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (meh. I had mostly figured out where things were headed early on and kept reading to see if I was correct.)
3. Dune by Frank Herbert (Sci Fi, I really liked the first half, lost me a bit toward the end)
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay (I LOVED this. Historical fantasy set in the Tang dynasty [names, including country/dynasty changed in the book, but that is the one])
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman (Turned out this is just a short story)
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (SciFi, I am not loving Dune... if I like the third one even less, I might have to just read the synopsis for the rest!)
7. Spare by Prince Harry (Memoir, if half of this was true, I do feel sorry for him, but man this entire book was an whiney, petty, woe is me tale.)
February
8. All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby (So good! Crime/Thriller about a Black Sheriff in a small southern town... murder, torture, racism, religion... this book touches on a lot of heavy subjects)
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (Enjoyable read. SciFi, quick, light, fun...)
10. Family Meal by Bryan Washington (Heavy read about love and grief, lust and loss, family and relationships ... I liked it, but it was a challenging read for me due to the format)
11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (also heavy, also about love, loss, grief, family, but also nothing like the above book. Good, short)
12: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (SciFi, I liked this one! I'm in it to the end of the six book arc now)
13. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (SciFi, also good!)
14. Three-inch Teeth by C.J. Box (Mystery, I've been reading Joe Pickett novels since they came out... each year they feel more repetitive and more in need of a good editor, but I still come back)


Currently reading:

Audio: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
Print: North Woods by Daniel Mason
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Morning Glory on March 01, 2024, 12:12:02 PM
January:
1. Four Lost Cities: A secret history of the urban age by Annalee Newitz (audio book)
2. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
3. Taking Care: The story of nursing and its power to change the world by Sarah DiGregorio (audio book)
4. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
5. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
6. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (audio book)
7. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
8. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
9. Artemis by Andy Weir
10. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
11. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
12. The Library Book by Susan Orlean (audio book)
13. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
14. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton

February:
15. Unsavory Truth: How food companies skew the science of what we eat by Marion Nestle (audio book)
-a rather academic dig into how nutrition science is funded

16. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
-like others have said, this was really well written but the topic might have been better suited to a novella. I fell asleep during the death scene and had to finish it the next day.

17. $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin and Luke Schaefer (audio book)
-this was pretty eye-opening. I would be curious to see an update on how these families are faring since the pandemic and recent inflation.

18. Number9dream by David Mitchell
-nice earlier work by this author about a young man searching for his father with a ton of digressions/adventures that might or might not be dreams

19. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
-Historical novel centering on the rights of disabled people and the relationships between various racial and ethnic communities and the individuals within them in the 1930s. Will read more from this author.

20. A fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Leguin
-short story collection I had not read before

21. Screaming on the Inside: the Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose (audio book)
-I wish any of the information in this was surprising. It validated my pandemic experience though.  The deniers in the demographics thread would probably benefit from reading this.

22.One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
-my mom likes this series and recommended it to me but I absolutely hated it. I know the first book is 30 years old now and I kept vacillating between "this hasn't aged well" and "wow, why did anyone think this was ever ok?" (main character's inner monologue was full of fat phobia and racist dog whistles, and she learns nothing, plus the writing was bad). Will politely tell my mom that it's just not my thing.

23. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
-nice cozy platonic romance about video game developers. I liked the use of video games as a way of doing magical realism without it being too jarring. 

24. What We Don't Talk about when We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon (audio book)
-I learned a lot from this one about how heavier people are discriminated against in our society from employment to medical treatment and even legal judgements. A lot of things I just hadn't really thought of before.

25. Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
- This is about a mother's search for her missing daughter amidst racial tension in 1970's Boston. I really like how the main character's worldview evolves as she deals with new information.

26. Matrix by Lauren Groff
-a sort of re-imagining of the life of medieval nuns.  I appreciate the good writing and nice metaphors but the conflicts seemed too easily resolved and there was no tension. 
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: gatortator on March 01, 2024, 03:27:06 PM
6.  Menopause Manifesto by Dr. Jen Gunter
7.  World War Z by Max Brooks
8.  Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9.  The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
10. ASAP by Axie Oh
11. The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wanttobehome on March 02, 2024, 04:49:29 AM
Hi All


Jan
1. The Donkey principle - Rachel Anne Ridge
2. Magic lessons - Alice Hoffman
3.A Sting in the Tale - My adventures with Bumble bees - Dave Goulson
4.The Arbornaut - Meg Lowman
5. Small bodies of water- Nina Powles


Feb
1. Doomsday Match - Jeff Wheeler
2. Jaguar Prophecies - Jeff Wheeler
3.The book of magic - Alice Hoffman
4.The wood - John Lewis-Stempel


Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on March 02, 2024, 07:51:05 PM
And that makes the first hundred! Favourites marked. This batch starts withe the remainder of my relevant reads for vacation, and then back to my normal schedule (i.e. new releases, reading challenges, and Goodreads Choice Awards books).

81. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
THIS WAS SO GOOD! It is REALLY different from the Disney movie, and it was really interesting seeing what they changed and what they kept.


82. Candide by Voltaire
83. The Flight to France by Jules Verne
84. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
85. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

86. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire
Antsy has been one of my favourite characters in the Wayward Children series to date, and I loved seeing a really satisfying conclusion to her story arc. This is such a fun series.


87. Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang
88. Exhalation by Ted Chiang
89. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
90. Poems and Songs by Robert Burns
91. The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers by Adam Nicolson
92. Before we Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
93. The Confessions by Saint Augistine
94. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Paulson
95. Happily Ever Witch by Cassandra Gannon
96. The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis
97. The Eternal Ones by Namina Forna
98. To the Bloody End by Rachel Aaron
99. 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger
100. Iron to Iron by Ryan Graudin
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: StarBright on March 03, 2024, 06:32:01 AM
1. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
2. Edith Holler: A Novel by Edward Carey
3. Love is the Way by Bishop Michael Curry
4. Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
5. Emily Climbs by L.M Montgomery
6. Emily's Quest by L.M. Montgomery
7. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
8. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbie Wakeman
9. Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
10. Babel or the Necessity of Violence  by R. F. Kuang


11. Toxic Charity by Robert D Lupton
12. The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales
13. The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell (ended up being a reread that I hadn't remembered)
14. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by  Laura Pearson
15. Jane in Love by Rachel GIvney
16. The Other Woman by Sandy Jones
17. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
18. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
19. Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
20. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
21. Mockingjoay by Suzanne Collins
22. God Land by Lyz Lentz
23. Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
24. The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell
25. Palazzo by Danielle Steel
26. Little Steps Big Faith by Dawn Rundman

Hungers Games Original 3 were rereads but my son wanted to read and talk about them so we had Mom/Son Book club. And I actually really enjoyed Songbirds and Snakes.

Otherwise Remarkably Bright Creatures really is as pleasant and basic as everyone says and it the one book from the month that I would recommend to anyone who wants a cozy read.  God Land was the book that hit me in the feels, but don't know if it would resonate if you aren't a super liberal christian woman living in the MidWest :)

I wanted to like the Jesmyn Ward book more than I did.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on March 03, 2024, 12:42:49 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.

10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Avolonte on March 03, 2024, 01:12:18 PM
January's books:
1 Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende (2005). Just OK.
2 West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge (2021). Fun, easy read.
3 The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides (2019). I thought the "twist" was obvious, but I liked it fine.
4 How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (2022). Sci-fi/fantasy short stories mostly written before the pandemic, about a pandemic and climate change. Characters intertwine throughout. Loved it, some of the stories made me tear up.

 5     Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo (2023). One of NYT's best books of 2023. Interesting story, but written in a way that made it pretty dull. For me, anyway.
 6     Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: trc4897 on March 05, 2024, 09:04:20 AM
I most likely won't make it to 50, but I have already read more this year than last year, at only 2 months in! I credit my kindle paperwhite for the increase.

1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
3. Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben
4. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
5. The Woods - Harlan Coben
6. I Will Find You - Harlan Coben
7. Gone for Good - Harlan Coben
8. Caliban's War - James S.A. Corey
9. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky - IN PROGRESS
10. How Not to Die - Dr. Michael Gregor - IN PROGRESS

1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - Loved it! Really like his writing style
2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Liked it! Interesting concept. Dragged a little at times, but other times had me hooked
3. Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben - Liked it! First venture outside of scifi in years. Turns out I like thrillers!
4. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey - Loved it! So good. Better than the TV show
5. The Woods - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
6. I Will Find You - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
7. Gone for Good - Harlan Coben - Liked it! Went through a Harlan Coben kick. Any recommendations on books/authors like him?
8. Caliban's War - James S.A. Corey - Loved it! May be my new favorite scifi series
9. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Liked it! But not as much as Children of Time
10. How Not to Die - Dr. Michael Gregor - Very interesting. Has made me drastically increase fruit/veggie intake and reduce meat
11. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein - Loved it! I'm a sucker for dog books
12. Innocent - Harlan Coben - IN PROGRESS
13. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - IN PROGRESS
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Avolonte on March 05, 2024, 06:48:21 PM
@trc4897 I just picked up The Art of Racing in the Rain at the thrift store, and am also currently reading Fahrenheit 451. What are the chances?! :D
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on March 09, 2024, 09:00:45 AM
1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR List1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR List1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOtherN/AGeneral Fiction
5The Rage of DragonsEvan WinterLibraryTBR List2/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
6Under the Pendulum SunJeanette NgLibraryTBR List2/10/2024Fiction - Fantasy
7Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever NeedTracy McCubbinLibraryTBR List2/14/2024Nonfiction - Self-help

8ScoopEvelyn WaughLibraryTBR List2/17/2024General Fiction
DNFTess of the D'UrbervillesThomas HardyLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
9Brighton RockGraham GreenLibraryTBR List3/3/2024General Fiction
10The Rules of MagicAlice HoffmanOwnOther3/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Code of the WoostersP.G. WodehouseLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction

TBR: 10
Sequels: 2
Nonfiction: 2
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on March 09, 2024, 02:15:33 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.

11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: ahptex on March 09, 2024, 06:34:32 PM
(1) Right Place, Right Time by Ryan Frederick
(2) China Blonde by Nicole Webb
(3) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
(4) Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
(5) Where You Go is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni

(6) Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
(7) The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
(8) A Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health by David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene Maheu
(9) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
(10) The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
(11) Exit Stage Left by Madeline G. Wheeler


Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on March 10, 2024, 06:01:19 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: meadow lark on March 11, 2024, 10:09:45 AM
1-16 Knights of the Black Swan by Victoria Danann.  One of my fav paranormal series.
1-5 Cocktails in Hell by SE Babin.  Fun.
4 Crossroads Queen by Annabel Chase.  Pretty good.
The Future by Naomi Alderman.  I enjoyed this one a lot. 
North Woods by Daniel Mason - really cool in audiobook form!
The Art Merchant. JK Flynn
7 Psychic Cleaners Mystery

Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchaupse
Shoe Dog - didn’t finish.

Fiction Total - 29
Non-fiction - 1

1-3 Magical Soapmaker Mystery SE Babin
1-2 The Deadicated Matchmaker SE Babin

Hell is a World Without You - DNF
Atrocity Archives -DNF
The Diamond Age- DNF

Fiction -34
Non-fiction 1

I am in no way succeeding on this year’s goal to read at least 1 NF book a month!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on March 12, 2024, 06:24:49 AM
10. Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: trc4897 on March 12, 2024, 06:39:16 AM
@trc4897 I just picked up The Art of Racing in the Rain at the thrift store, and am also currently reading Fahrenheit 451. What are the chances?! :D

Haha that's funny - Curious what you think of them!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on March 12, 2024, 06:57:04 AM
7. Woolly by Ben Mezrich

8. The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak by Shannon Bream

9. ADHD Nation by Alan Schwarz
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on March 14, 2024, 08:26:58 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on March 14, 2024, 04:03:24 PM

1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell
5) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (fiction)
6) Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali
7) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (fiction)
8) For the Love of a Dog by Patricia McConnell (audiobook)
9) Living on Almost Nothing by Amber Storck
10) The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen (fiction)
11) There There by Tommy Orange (fiction)
12) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (graphic novel)
13) Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
14) Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Lao-tzu /Stephen Mitchell

Recently finished/reading
15) The Do No Harm Dog Training and Behaviour Handbook by Linda Michaels

16) Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on March 14, 2024, 10:43:47 PM
10. Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

11. Above Ground by Clint Smith
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: meadow lark on March 15, 2024, 07:37:29 AM
1-16 Knights of the Black Swan by Victoria Danann.  One of my fav paranormal series.
1-5 Cocktails in Hell by SE Babin.  Fun.
4 Crossroads Queen by Annabel Chase.  Pretty good.
The Future by Naomi Alderman.  I enjoyed this one a lot. 
North Woods by Daniel Mason - really cool in audiobook form!
The Art Merchant. JK Flynn
7 Psychic Cleaners Mystery
1-3 Magical Soapmaker Mystery SE Babin
1-2 The Deadicated Matchmaker

Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchaupse

1-3 Magical Soapmaker Mystery SE Babin
1-2 The Deadicated Matchmaker SE Babin


Food Fights & Culture Wars by Tom Nealon.   
1-2 The lies of Vampires and Slayers KM Shea
Bubble Gum and Blackmail SE Babin
1-4 Magical Midlife Death.  Tia Didmon

Fiction 41
NF - 2

Currently reading Fantastic Fungi.
Soon to be caught up with my goal of 1 NF book a month.

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on March 15, 2024, 02:22:05 PM
Next heap, lots of Greek tragedies, favourites marked:

101. Agamemnon by Aeschylus
102. The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus
103. The Furies by Aeschylus
104. 1984 by George Orwell
105. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
106. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
107. From the Forest by L.E. Modesitt
108. 84K by Claire North
109. Antigone by Sophocles

110. The Walled City by Ryan Graudin
This was a fun thriller for anyone who's spent time in Hong Kong. Good time.


111. Mountains of Fire: The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes by Clive Oppenheimer
112. Hippolytus by Euripedes

113. The Frogs by Aristophanes
This was just amazing, I think the funniest thing I've read this year. Another author added to the list of "do not read this in public or people will think you're having a stroke".


114. The Bacchae by Euripedes
115. Oranges by John McPhee
116. Don Quixote, Part One by Miguel de Cervantes
117. Reader's Guide to the Harvard Classics by Charles Eliot (probably should have started my Harvard Classics Challenge with this one, but better late than never!)
118. Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu

119. Weyward by Emilia Hart
This one caught my eye last fall by winning two Goodreads Choice Awards, and it was great - a triple-timeline witchy historical fiction.


120. Night for Day by Roselle Lim
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on March 18, 2024, 02:01:02 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.

12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on March 19, 2024, 04:29:08 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: erp on March 19, 2024, 04:40:45 PM

All told, that's some 2500 or so pages of text, plus a bunch of audiobooks. It's shaping up to be a good year for reading (I was immensely helped by a long vacation with a ton of reading time). I might actually hit 50 books in 2024!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on March 22, 2024, 07:56:14 AM
11. The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on March 22, 2024, 09:08:18 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: ahptex on March 23, 2024, 09:11:32 AM
(1) Right Place, Right Time by Ryan Frederick
(2) China Blonde by Nicole Webb
(3) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
(4) Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
(5) Where You Go is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni
(6) Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
(7) The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
(8) A Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health by David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene Maheu
(9) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
(10) The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
(11) Exit Stage Left by Madeline G. Wheeler

(12) The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Greenhouse
(13) Dust by Hugh Howey (re-read)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on March 24, 2024, 08:17:12 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: cwilkinson1ski on March 24, 2024, 11:25:55 AM
Joining for the motivation to read more and doom scroll less.  And, for the book recommendations.

1. Storms by Carol Ann Harris - an interesting perspective about Fleetwood Mac from Lindsay Buckinghams live in girlfriend.  A little dishy from an ex.
2. Scarred by Sara Edmonson - damn I'm glad I'm not in some freaky cult!
3. Fatherland by Robert Harris - historical novel - got intrigued by the WWII era by watching the Man in the Hightower series.
4. At Any Cost by Rebecca Rosenberg and Selim Algar - true crime porn, lol.
5. What Only We Know - historical novel - WWII era see #3
6. A Spy Among Friends, Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre - super interesting and very well written about Philby MI6 agent and double agent (KGB) in the cold war
7. Never Never by James Patterson and Candace Fox - a quick thriller with some twists and turns.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Razzle on March 26, 2024, 07:01:27 AM
13. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engel
14. The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
15. Welcome Home, Stranger by Kate Christensen
16. Tom Lake by Ann Patchett (Audio/Eye)
17. The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on March 28, 2024, 11:10:31 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on March 28, 2024, 12:39:09 PM
10. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
11. The Sweet Spot by Amy Poeppel
12. A Column of Fire by Ken Follett

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on March 28, 2024, 02:39:29 PM
How was Demon Copperhead?
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on March 30, 2024, 09:06:46 AM
Previous years: 2018 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2018!/msg2247038/#msg2247038) | 2019 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2019!/msg2526771/#msg2526771) | 2020 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2020!/msg2762830/#msg2762830) | 2021 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2021!/msg2954224/#msg2954224) | 2023 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2023!/msg3214444/#msg3214444)

January
1. Hell Is a World Without You by Jason Kirk ★★★★★
2. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★
3. Redshirts by John Scalzi ★★★★☆

February
4. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood ★★★☆☆
5. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener ★★★★☆
6. Convenience Store Woman by  ★★★☆☆
7. Diary of a Tokyo Teen by Christine Mari Inzer ★★★☆☆
8. The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History by Evan Amos ★★★★☆
9. My Detachment: A Memoir by Tracy Kidder ★★★☆☆
10. Monkey Business: Swinging Through Wall Street by John Rolfe and Peter Troob ★★★☆☆
11. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach ★★★★☆
12. Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes ★★★★☆

March
13. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen ★★★★☆
14. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz ★★★★☆
15. American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home by Lester Walker ★★★☆☆
16. The Proving Ground: A Season on the Fringe in NFL Europe by Lars Anderson ★★★☆☆
17. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★
18. Pretty Good House; A Guide to Creating Better Homes by Daniel Kolbert et al ★★★★☆
19. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell ★★★★☆

Currently in the middle of three more books. Up to my eyes in books, but happily at least I can say I'm consistently reading again.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on March 30, 2024, 07:04:34 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on March 31, 2024, 08:14:57 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.

13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
I thought I knew a lot about this subject, but I learned quit a few new things. An interesting book.
I also borrowed her insect book from the library, describing all insect families in Norway. But that is more a book to own and look up once in a while. This forest book is a book to read.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on March 31, 2024, 11:25:52 PM
12. Book of Queens by Pardis Mahdavi

13. Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O'Connell
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: salt cured on April 01, 2024, 11:32:58 AM
Light month. All fine but nothing I really loved, though I may read the other two Emily books.

12. The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
13. Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
14. Emily of New Moon by LM Montgomery
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: gatortator on April 01, 2024, 12:00:36 PM

12.  XxxHolic vol. 1 by CLAMP
13.  The How of happiness: the scientific approach to getting the life you want by Sonja Lyubomirsky
14.  The kiss quotient by Helen Hoang
15.  A brief history of everyone who has ever lived by Adam Rutherford.
16.  A love song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
17.  Station eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
18. The  Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on April 01, 2024, 07:05:39 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on April 01, 2024, 07:48:21 PM
1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell
5) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (fiction)
6) Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali
7) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (fiction)
8) For the Love of a Dog by Patricia McConnell (audiobook)
9) Living on Almost Nothing by Amber Storck
10) The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen (fiction)
11) There There by Tommy Orange (fiction)
12) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (graphic novel)
13) Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
14) Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Lao-tzu /Stephen Mitchell
15) The Do No Harm Dog Training and Behaviour Handbook by Linda Michaels
16)Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth

Recently finished/reading
17 & 18) The Ex Hex and The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling (bookclub)-- eegads is all I can say. I'm not anti-romance (/light erotica) but these felt boring they were so predictable and made my feminist hackles stiffen.

19) Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Save Your Life by John Tarrant really enjoying this one..have been wanting to read for a while and was able to get it as an interlibrary loan
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on April 03, 2024, 11:01:30 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on April 03, 2024, 02:17:23 PM
2024 Finished:

January
1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (I like Backman books. This one was fine but did not work as well as others have for me)
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (meh. I had mostly figured out where things were headed early on and kept reading to see if I was correct.)
3. Dune by Frank Herbert (Sci Fi, I really liked the first half, lost me a bit toward the end)
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay (I LOVED this. Historical fantasy set in the Tang dynasty [names, including country/dynasty changed in the book, but that is the one])
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman (Turned out this is just a short story)
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (SciFi, I am not loving Dune... if I like the third one even less, I might have to just read the synopsis for the rest!)
7. Spare by Prince Harry (Memoir, if half of this was true, I do feel sorry for him, but man this entire book was an whiney, petty, woe is me tale.)
February
8. All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby (So good! Crime/Thriller about a Black Sheriff in a small southern town... murder, torture, racism, religion... this book touches on a lot of heavy subjects)
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (Enjoyable read. SciFi, quick, light, fun...)
10. Family Meal by Bryan Washington (Heavy read about love and grief, lust and loss, family and relationships ... I liked it, but it was a challenging read for me due to the format)
11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (also heavy, also about love, loss, grief, family, but also nothing like the above book. Good, short)
12: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (SciFi, I liked this one! I'm in it to the end of the six book arc now)
13. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (SciFi, also good!)
14. Three-inch Teeth by C.J. Box (Mystery, I've been reading Joe Pickett novels since they came out... each year they feel more repetitive and more in need of a good editor, but I still come back)
March
15. North Woods by Daniel Mason (Historical Fiction, Not sure I have anything to add to the multitude of accolades for this one, but it is a really enjoyable read.)
16. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert (SciFi, Fine. Aiming to finish the arc really)
17. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (Fiction? Satire?, I liked this, I found it engaging, but... I read where a critique said it occasionally lack nuance and I agree. Occasionally that took me out of the story.

Currently reading:

Audio: Razorblade Tears by S.A Crosby
Print: The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
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Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on April 04, 2024, 06:11:54 AM
1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR List1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR List1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOtherN/AGeneral Fiction
5The Rage of DragonsEvan WinterLibraryTBR List2/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
6Under the Pendulum SunJeanette NgLibraryTBR List2/10/2024Fiction - Fantasy
7Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever NeedTracy McCubbinLibraryTBR List2/14/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
8ScoopEvelyn WaughLibraryTBR List2/17/2024General Fiction
DNFTess of the D'UrbervillesThomas HardyLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
9Brighton RockGraham GreenLibraryTBR List3/3/2024General Fiction
10The Rules of MagicAlice HoffmanOwnOther3/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Code of the WoostersP.G. WodehouseLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction

11Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to 'Zuiki' Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow EdiblesEric ToensmeierLibraryTBR List3/15/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
12Self-Care for Introverts: 17 Soothing Rituals for Peace in a Hectic WorldBarrie DavenportLibraryTBR List3/19/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
DNFDavid CopperfieldCharles DickensLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
13Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals can Transform our Lives - and Save TheirsRichard LouvLibraryTBR List3/29/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
DNFRobinson CrusoeDaniel DefoeLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
DNFThe House of GodSamuel ShemLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction

TBR: 16
Sequels: 2
Nonfiction: 5
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on April 04, 2024, 08:45:39 AM
How was Demon Copperhead?

I enjoyed it. I found the main character and overall story arc very engaging. However, the pace started to drag during some parts of the story, and I was disappointed in the ending. I listed on audio, and the narrator's performance added to my overall enjoyment.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: erp on April 04, 2024, 11:23:40 AM
...

Otherwise Remarkably Bright Creatures really is as pleasant and basic as everyone says and it the one book from the month that I would recommend to anyone who wants a cozy read. 

...

I'm almost done this one, and have found it to be lovely. I thought that the character's perspectives were really well occupied - when a chapter was told from one person's point of view, the observed facts were really consistently through their lens, and that was really thought provoking.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: meadow lark on April 05, 2024, 06:48:55 AM

1-16 Knights of the Black Swan by Victoria Danann.  One of my fav paranormal series.
1-5 Cocktails in Hell by SE Babin.  Fun.
4 Crossroads Queen by Annabel Chase.  Pretty good.
The Future by Naomi Alderman.  I enjoyed this one a lot. 
North Woods by Daniel Mason - really cool in audiobook form!
The Art Merchant. JK Flynn
7 Psychic Cleaners Mystery
1-3 Magical Soapmaker Mystery SE Babin
1-2 The Deadicated Matchmaker

Glucose Revolution by Jessie Inchaupse

1-3 Magical Soapmaker Mystery SE Babin
1-2 The Deadicated Matchmaker SE Babin

Food Fights & Culture Wars by Tom Nealon.   
1-2 The lies of Vampires and Slayers KM Shea
Bubble Gum and Blackmail SE Babin
1-4 Magical Midlife Death.  Tia Didmon

6 in the Magiford Magical City Series.  KM Shea
The Best of Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a day.  J Hertzberg & Zoe Francois

Fiction 47
NF - 3
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on April 05, 2024, 10:55:53 PM
20 more, favourites markes.

121. Ghost Walk by Cassandra Gannon
122. Warrior from the Shadowland by Cassandra Gannon
123. On Old Age and On Friendship by Cicero
124. Letters by Cicero
125. Letters by Pliny the Younger
126. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
127. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle
128. The Invocations by Krystal Sutherland

129. What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins by Jonathan Balcombe
This is the best nonfiction book I've read this year. Engaging, excellent writing, and just super interesting.


130. Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
131. A Brief History of Timekeeping: The Science of Marking Time, from Stonehenge to Atomic Clocks by Chad Orzel

132. All This Twisted Glory by Tahereh Mafi
The latest installment in one of my all-time favourite desert/djinn fantasy series. I can't put these books down.


133. Guardian of the Earth House by Cassandra Gannon
134. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
135. The Briar Book of the Dead by A.G. Slatter
136. The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence by Anita Anand
137. What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher
138. Exile in the Water Kingdom by Cassandra Gannon
139. The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
140. Lives by Plutarch

At this point I am solely reading new releases by authors I already follow, and books for my various challenges. I surprisingly have zero slots left for anything else in a typical week now! My weekly list is 1-2 volumes of Harvard Classics, one nonfiction, one backlog, seven chapters of The Daily Stoic, and whatever new releases roll in at the library. The challenges are all going pretty well, anyways:

1. I have read The Daily Stoic daily.
2. Straight numbers: 140/365
3. Harvard Classics: 18/71 Volumes (which is 39 individual books, as the books/volumes ratio is all over the place - so far one volume contained nine books, and another single book was spread over two entire volumes, for example)
4. Nonfiction: 14/50
5. Backlog: 16/~60
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on April 06, 2024, 12:28:30 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.

14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on April 07, 2024, 06:23:17 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on April 08, 2024, 06:56:58 PM
12. Rocannon’s World / Planet of Exile / City of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: ahptex on April 09, 2024, 06:38:37 AM
(1) Right Place, Right Time by Ryan Frederick
(2) China Blonde by Nicole Webb
(3) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
(4) Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
(5) Where You Go is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni
(6) Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
(7) The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
(8) A Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health by David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene Maheu
(9) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
(10) The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
(11) Exit Stage Left by Madeline G. Wheeler
(12) The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Greenhouse
(13) Dust by Hugh Howey (re-read)

(14) Go As a River by Shelley Read
(15) Spare by Prince Harry
(16) The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
(17) The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: trc4897 on April 09, 2024, 07:05:02 AM

1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - Loved it! Really like his writing style
2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Liked it! Interesting concept. Dragged a little at times, but other times had me hooked
3. Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben - Liked it! First venture outside of scifi in years. Turns out I like thrillers!
4. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey - Loved it! So good. Better than the TV show
5. The Woods - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
6. I Will Find You - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
7. Gone for Good - Harlan Coben - Liked it! Went through a Harlan Coben kick. Any recommendations on books/authors like him?
8. Caliban's War - James S.A. Corey - Loved it! May be my new favorite scifi series
9. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Liked it! But not as much as Children of Time
10. How Not to Die - Dr. Michael Gregor - Very interesting. Has made me drastically increase fruit/veggie intake and reduce meat
11. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein - Loved it! I'm a sucker for dog books
12. Innocent - Harlan Coben - IN PROGRESS
13. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - IN PROGRESS

1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - Loved it! Really like his writing style
2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Liked it! Interesting concept. Dragged a little at times, but other times had me hooked
3. Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben - Liked it! First venture outside of scifi in years. Turns out I like thrillers!
4. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey - Loved it! So good. Better than the TV show
5. The Woods - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
6. I Will Find You - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
7. Gone for Good - Harlan Coben - Liked it! Went through a Harlan Coben kick. Any recommendations on books/authors like him?
8. Caliban's War - James S.A. Corey - Loved it! May be my new favorite scifi series
9. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Liked it! But not as much as Children of Time
10. How Not to Die - Dr. Michael Gregor - Very interesting. Has made me drastically increase fruit/veggie intake and reduce meat
11. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein - Loved it! I'm a sucker for dog books
12. Innocent - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
13. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - Liked it!
14. All Systems Red - Martha Wells - Liked it! Looking forward to reading more of the series (long wait at the library)
15. Killing Floor - Lee Child - Liked it!
16. Tell No One - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
17. Never Lie - Freida McFadden - Liked it!
18. Columbus Day - Craig Alanson - Liked it!

Maybe I will get to 50?? I've already crushed my record from last year of 8 books...lol
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Morning Glory on April 09, 2024, 11:56:50 AM
January:
1. Four Lost Cities: A secret history of the urban age by Annalee Newitz (audio book)
2. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
3. Taking Care: The story of nursing and its power to change the world by Sarah DiGregorio (audio book)
4. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
5. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
6. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (audio book)
7. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
8. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
9. Artemis by Andy Weir
10. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
11. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
12. The Library Book by Susan Orlean (audio book)
13. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
14. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
February:
15. Unsavory Truth: How food companies skew the science of what we eat by Marion Nestle (audio book)
16. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
17. $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin and Luke Schaefer (audio book)
18. Number9dream by David Mitchell
19. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
20. A fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Leguin
21. Screaming on the Inside: the Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose (audio book)
22.One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
23. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
24. What We Don't Talk about when We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon (audio book)
25. Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
26. Matrix by Lauren Groff

March:
27.Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk -really good mystery novel that explores the ethics of eating meat. The translator did an excellent job.

28. There There by Tommy Orange- I also liked this one a lot.

29. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb-also really good even though I correctly guessed who the culprit was right away

30. Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi-a bit too avant-garde for me although some of the stories-within-the story were good

31. The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin-Parody about "beach read" genre tropes. It was short and I laughed a few times.

32. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch- Stark reminder that we are all one bad election map away from total chaos. Very well done but I recommend it only if you are in the right headspace. whew.

33. A true account: 'Hannah Masury's sojourn amongst the pyrates, written by herself' by Katherine Howe -needed to read something light and entertaining after Prophet Song

34. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles Marohn (audio book)- follow up to Strong Towns with an emphasis on transportation. I listened to this while driving so saw his point in real time.

35. Fourteen Days by multiple authors (edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston)
-Short stories by 36 authors within a frame narrative.  I really liked the twist at the end.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wanttobehome on April 13, 2024, 03:39:59 AM
Hi All


Jan
1. The Donkey principle - Rachel Anne Ridge
2. Magic lessons - Alice Hoffman
3.A Sting in the Tale - My adventures with Bumble bees - Dave Goulson
4.The Arbornaut - Meg Lowman
5. Small bodies of water- Nina Powles


Feb
6. Doomsday Match - Jeff Wheeler
7. Jaguar Prophecies - Jeff Wheeler
8.The book of magic - Alice Hoffman
9.The wood - John Lewis-Stempel

March
10.Seven Brief lessons on physics - Carlo Rovelli
11. The natural navigator - Tristan Gooley
12.How to give up plastic - Will McCallum
13. Seven sins of memory  - Daniel Schacter

April
14. The stream of everything - John Connell
15.  The way home - tales from a life without technology
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Mrs. Healthywealth on April 13, 2024, 08:16:56 AM
This year has started off really well. These first few books have created change in my daily physical and spiritual practice.

Books #4 and #5 are 2 of the best books I've ever read possibly in life.

1. Think Like a Monk   Jay Shetty (I'm having a hard time believing he lives like a monk or even wrote this book)
2. Comfort Crisis  Michael Easter
3. Scarcity Brain  Michael Easter
4. 4000 Weeks: Time Management for Mortals   Oliver Burkeman (planning to read again)
5. Antidote: Happiness for Those Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking   Oliver Burkeman (planning to read the research quoted in this book)
6. Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are    J. Matthews
7. Ego is the Enemy  Ryan Holiday (it's thought provoking, and also kinda "meh".)


8. Meditations Marcus Aurelius (in progress)
9. Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari (in progress)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on April 13, 2024, 01:30:26 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on April 13, 2024, 01:54:33 PM
favourites***

1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell ***
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell
5) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (fiction) ***
6) Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali
7) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (fiction)
8) For the Love of a Dog by Patricia McConnell (audiobook)
9) Living on Almost Nothing by Amber Storck
10) The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen (fiction) **
11) There There by Tommy Orange (fiction) ***
12) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (graphic novel)***
13) Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
14) Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Lao-tzu /Stephen Mitchell***
15) The Do No Harm Dog Training and Behaviour Handbook by Linda Michaels
16) Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth
17 & 18) The Ex Hex and The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling (bookclub)
19) Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Save Your Life by John Tarrant ***

Recently finished/reading
Am reading #19 again since I enjoyed it so much

20) Hell is a World Without You by Jason Kirk :..so much empathy for these characters

21) How to Know a Person by David Brooks --was going to DNF this b/c I am finding it boring but will persevere because I have an hour before work

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on April 15, 2024, 07:58:32 AM
13. Fragmented: A Doctor’s Quest to Piece Together American Healthcare by Ilana Yurkiewicz
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on April 16, 2024, 07:36:22 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on April 17, 2024, 02:33:19 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.

15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on April 20, 2024, 11:26:46 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on April 21, 2024, 05:42:31 PM
Another 20 down - favourites marked:

141. Treasure of the Fire Kingdom by Cassandra Gannon
142. Queen of the Magnetland by Cassandra Gannon
Books 4 and 5 in this series were just hilarious, gut-busting fantasy/romance. Great time.


143. Murder Road by Simone St. James
144. Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau
145. Wrath of the Talon by Sophie Kim
146. The Aeneid by Virgil
147. The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History by William Klingaman
148. Magic of the Wood House by Cassandra Gannon
149. The Life of Dr. John Donne by Izaak Walton
150. The Life of Rev. George Herbert by Izaak Walton
151. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan

152. Fables by Aesop
I don't know if these were meant to be funny, but I just about died laughing at lots of them. Fantastic read.


153. Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm
154. Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson
155. All for Love by John Dryden
156. The School for Scandal by Richard Sheridan
157. The Study of Magic by Maria Snyder
158. She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
159. The Cenci by Percy Shelley
160. Once Upon a Caveman by Cassandra Gannon

The reading goals are all going well:

1. Straight numbers: 160/365
2. Daily Stoic: I've read it daily.
3. Backlog: 20/72 (and one author of the three is almost complete, I only have one Cassandra Gannon book remaining)
4. Nonfiction: 16/50
5. Harvard Classics: 21/71 volumes (50 individual books)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on April 22, 2024, 10:45:13 PM
14. The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez

15. Ours by Phillip B. Williams
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on April 23, 2024, 09:40:03 AM
I'm very happy to say this is my third-best month of reading ever (and best since February 2018 when I was on a one-month expat rotation to India with little ability to leave the hotel). I'm also surprised to look back and see that I'm at half nonfiction for the year so far - some of the nonfiction has been real page turners, but some of it has dragged, while I feel like all of the fiction has gone easily and effortlessly so I expected it would be a bigger share of the total.

Previous years: 2018 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2018!/msg2247038/#msg2247038) | 2019 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2019!/msg2526771/#msg2526771) | 2020 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2020!/msg2762830/#msg2762830) | 2021 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2021!/msg2954224/#msg2954224) | 2023 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2023!/msg3214444/#msg3214444)

January
1. Hell Is a World Without You by Jason Kirk ★★★★★
2. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★
3. Redshirts by John Scalzi ★★★★☆

February
4. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood ★★★☆☆
5. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener ★★★★☆
6. Convenience Store Woman by  ★★★☆☆
7. Diary of a Tokyo Teen by Christine Mari Inzer ★★★☆☆
8. The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History by Evan Amos ★★★★☆
9. My Detachment: A Memoir by Tracy Kidder ★★★☆☆
10. Monkey Business: Swinging Through Wall Street by John Rolfe and Peter Troob ★★★☆☆
11. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach ★★★★☆
12. Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes ★★★★☆

March
13. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen ★★★★☆
14. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz ★★★★☆
15. American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home by Lester Walker ★★★☆☆
16. The Proving Ground: A Season on the Fringe in NFL Europe by Lars Anderson ★★★☆☆
17. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★
18. Pretty Good House; A Guide to Creating Better Homes by Daniel Kolbert et al ★★★★☆
19. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell ★★★★☆

April
20. The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★☆
21. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman ★★★★☆
22. The All Americans by Lars Anderson ★★★★☆
23. Starter Villain by John Scalzi ★★★★☆
24. Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆
25. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts ★★★☆☆
26. The Water Outlaws by SL Huang ★★★★☆
27. Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry ★★★★☆
28. Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham ★★★★★
29. The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆
30. Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat by Marion Nestle ★★★★☆
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on April 28, 2024, 07:00:39 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.

16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
A very good book which I couldn't put away. I didn't know it was part two of a trilogy until the book started to refer to earlier happenings. Next book I will read is part one, called Vinterpakket (The Vinter Pack). I think part three might not have been written yet.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on April 28, 2024, 10:46:34 AM
1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell ***
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee ***
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell
5) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (fiction) ***
6) Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali
7) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (fiction)**
8) For the Love of a Dog by Patricia McConnell (audiobook)**
9) Living on Almost Nothing by Amber Storck
10) The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen (fiction) **
11) There There by Tommy Orange (fiction) ***
12) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (graphic novel)***
13) Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
14) Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Lao-tzu /Stephen Mitchell***
15) The Do No Harm Dog Training and Behaviour Handbook by Linda Michaels
16) Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth
17 & 18) The Ex Hex and The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling (bookclub)
19) Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Save Your Life by John Tarrant ***
20) Hell is a World Without You by Jason Kirk **
21) How to Know a Person by David Brooks

Recently finished/reading
22) The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation by Frederick Franck--was in the free library at the park, enjoying it's handwritten style

23) Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (fiction) --A suggestion from this thread, a light & upbeat read.

24) Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe* (graphic novel)--a library bookclub pick. As a cis person, found this an insightful way learn about someone's more challenging gender experience.

25) Playing for Time: Making art as if the world mattered by Lucy Neal**. --Halfway through. Lots of creative works and writings by different artists.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: gatortator on April 28, 2024, 02:16:45 PM
19. House of flame and shadow by Sarah J. Maas
20. True Biz by Sara Novic
21. The Martian by Andrew Weir.
22. The fated sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
23. A Manual for cleaning women: selected stories by Lucia Berlin.
24. A gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Razzle on April 28, 2024, 05:52:54 PM
19. My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee
20. Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid
21. Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World by John Vaillant
22. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on April 29, 2024, 07:12:15 AM
14. Wool by Hugh Howey
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on April 29, 2024, 08:13:01 AM
13. Set on You by Amy Lea
14. Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
15. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: erp on April 29, 2024, 10:04:11 AM
...
21) How to Know a Person by David Brooks

Recently finished/reading
22) The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation by Frederick Franck--was in the free library at the park, enjoying it's handwritten style

23) Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (fiction) --A suggestion from this thread, a light & upbeat read.

24) Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe* (graphic novel)--a library bookclub pick. As a cis person, found this an insightful way learn about someone's more challenging gender experience.

25) Playing for Time: Making art as if the world mattered by Lucy Neal**. --Halfway through. Lots of creative works and writings by different artists.

@Serendip I thought I was reading my own list here! I'd be curious to hear what you thought of David Brook's book - I think I read it last year but it was pretty impactful for me.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on April 30, 2024, 10:18:55 AM
@Serendip I thought I was reading my own list here! I'd be curious to hear what you thought of David Brook's book - I think I read it last year but it was pretty impactful for me.

Too funny @erp -- we must have similar interests, in that case I will take any recommendations (although I do have a pile of books to read) :)

To be honest, I didn't really love How to Know a Person and that was in part b/c of a book which I read beforehand (Bring Me the Rhinoceros), which was ridiculous and interesting to me (Zen koans) that David Brook's book seemed too safe somehow. But I know many people loved his book and glad you received some good insight from it!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on April 30, 2024, 02:20:04 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
A very good book which I couldn't put away. I didn't know it was part two of a trilogy until the book started to refer to earlier happenings. Next book I will read is part one, called Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack). I think part three might not have been written yet.

17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
Part one. Also a very good book which I read very fast. Still very interesting, although I knew how it would end, because of reading part 2 first.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: erp on April 30, 2024, 03:51:33 PM

I might actually hit 50 books at this rate! Lying for Money was really, really fun.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on April 30, 2024, 06:03:12 PM
2024 Finished:

January
1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman (I like Backman books. This one was fine but did not work as well as others have for me)
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham (meh. I had mostly figured out where things were headed early on and kept reading to see if I was correct.)
3. Dune by Frank Herbert (Sci Fi, I really liked the first half, lost me a bit toward the end)
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay (I LOVED this. Historical fantasy set in the Tang dynasty [names, including country/dynasty changed in the book, but that is the one])
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman (Turned out this is just a short story)
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert (SciFi, I am not loving Dune... if I like the third one even less, I might have to just read the synopsis for the rest!)
7. Spare by Prince Harry (Memoir, if half of this was true, I do feel sorry for him, but man this entire book was an whiney, petty, woe is me tale.)
February
8. All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby (So good! Crime/Thriller about a Black Sheriff in a small southern town... murder, torture, racism, religion... this book touches on a lot of heavy subjects)
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi (Enjoyable read. SciFi, quick, light, fun...)
10. Family Meal by Bryan Washington (Heavy read about love and grief, lust and loss, family and relationships ... I liked it, but it was a challenging read for me due to the format)
11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (also heavy, also about love, loss, grief, family, but also nothing like the above book. Good, short)
12: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert (SciFi, I liked this one! I'm in it to the end of the six book arc now)
13. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (SciFi, also good!)
14. Three-inch Teeth by C.J. Box (Mystery, I've been reading Joe Pickett novels since they came out... each year they feel more repetitive and more in need of a good editor, but I still come back)
March
15. North Woods by Daniel Mason (Historical Fiction, Not sure I have anything to add to the multitude of accolades for this one, but it is a really enjoyable read.)
16. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert (SciFi, Fine. Aiming to finish the arc really)
17. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang (Fiction? Satire?, I liked this, I found it engaging, but... I read where a critique said it occasionally lack nuance and I agree. Occasionally that took me out of the story.
April
18. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (Crime/Thriller, SO GOOD. Black father and white father min the rural south try to find the murders of their sons.)
19. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan (Historical Fiction, WWII story of the Japanese invasion of Malay. Engaging but heart breaking)
20. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby (Crime/Thriller, least satisfying of Cosby's books for me, but still a great read as the main character wrestles with who he wants to be... the family man/business owner or the man not he wrong side of the law)
21. The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano (Memoir, fun book full of baseball stories)

Currently reading:

Audio: A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Print: Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: trc4897 on May 01, 2024, 08:08:48 AM
14. Wool by Hugh Howey

How did you like this one? It is next up on my list
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on May 01, 2024, 08:23:53 AM
14. Wool by Hugh Howey

How did you like this one? It is next up on my list

I enjoyed it! Not fantastic writing by any means, but an interesting story. I had watched the first season of the show already, and as usual, I liked the book a lot more. The show writers actually changed a lot of key plot points.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: salt cured on May 01, 2024, 02:42:21 PM
15. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - A mostly excellent book. I found the writing could grate and the protagonist was really hard to empathize with after a while, but easily my favourite new read of the year.

16. An Unwanted Inheritance by Imogen Clark - Airport book junk.

17. The Innocence of Father Brown by GK Chesterton - A collection of short detective stories ala Poirot Investigates but different in that these are well-written.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: ahptex on May 01, 2024, 03:29:07 PM
(1) Right Place, Right Time by Ryan Frederick
(2) China Blonde by Nicole Webb
(3) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
(4) Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
(5) Where You Go is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni
(6) Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
(7) The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
(8) A Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health by David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene Maheu
(9) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
(10) The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
(11) Exit Stage Left by Madeline G. Wheeler
(12) The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Greenhouse
(13) Dust by Hugh Howey (re-read)
(14) Go As a River by Shelley Read
(15) Spare by Prince Harry
(16) The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
(17) The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr

(18) The Hunter by Tana French
(19) Rain Gardening in the South by Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford
(20) Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria
(21) Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: trc4897 on May 02, 2024, 07:14:57 AM

1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir - Loved it! Really like his writing style
2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Liked it! Interesting concept. Dragged a little at times, but other times had me hooked
3. Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben - Liked it! First venture outside of scifi in years. Turns out I like thrillers!
4. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey - Loved it! So good. Better than the TV show
5. The Woods - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
6. I Will Find You - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
7. Gone for Good - Harlan Coben - Liked it! Went through a Harlan Coben kick. Any recommendations on books/authors like him?
8. Caliban's War - James S.A. Corey - Loved it! May be my new favorite scifi series
9. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Liked it! But not as much as Children of Time
10. How Not to Die - Dr. Michael Gregor - Very interesting. Has made me drastically increase fruit/veggie intake and reduce meat
11. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein - Loved it! I'm a sucker for dog books
12. Innocent - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
13. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - Liked it!
14. All Systems Red - Martha Wells - Liked it! Looking forward to reading more of the series (long wait at the library)
15. Killing Floor - Lee Child - Liked it!
16. Tell No One - Harlan Coben - Liked it!
17. Never Lie - Freida McFadden - Liked it!
18. Columbus Day - Craig Alanson - Liked it!

Maybe I will get to 50?? I've already crushed my record from last year of 8 books...lol

1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir**
2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
3. Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben
4. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey**
5. The Woods - Harlan Coben
6. I Will Find You - Harlan Coben
7. Gone for Good - Harlan Coben
8. Caliban's War - James S.A. Corey**
9. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
10. How Not to Die - Dr. Michael Gregor
11. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
12. Innocent - Harlan Coben
13. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
14. All Systems Red - Martha Wells**
15. Killing Floor - Lee Child**
16. Tell No One - Harlan Coben
17. Never Lie - Freida McFadden
18. Columbus Day - Craig Alanson
19. Chaos Rising - Kyla Stone
20. Edge of Collapse - Kyla Stone
21. Recursion - Blake Crouch**
22. Drift - L.T. Ryan
23. The Other End of the Leash - Patricia McConnell - IN PROGRESS
24. The Giver - Lois Lowry
25. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells**
26. Abaddon's Gate - James S.A. Corey
27. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells
28. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch - IN PROGRESS
** = favorites

Ok I will definitely get to 50 this year!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on May 02, 2024, 07:41:15 AM
1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR List1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR List1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOtherN/AGeneral Fiction
5The Rage of DragonsEvan WinterLibraryTBR List2/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
6Under the Pendulum SunJeanette NgLibraryTBR List2/10/2024Fiction - Fantasy
7Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever NeedTracy McCubbinLibraryTBR List2/14/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
8ScoopEvelyn WaughLibraryTBR List2/17/2024General Fiction
DNFTess of the D'UrbervillesThomas HardyLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
9Brighton RockGraham GreenLibraryTBR List3/3/2024General Fiction
10The Rules of MagicAlice HoffmanOwnOther3/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Code of the WoostersP.G. WodehouseLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
11Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to 'Zuiki' Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow EdiblesEric ToensmeierLibraryTBR List3/15/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
12Self-Care for Introverts: 17 Soothing Rituals for Peace in a Hectic WorldBarrie DavenportLibraryTBR List3/19/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
DNFDavid CopperfieldCharles DickensLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
13Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals can Transform our Lives - and Save TheirsRichard LouvLibraryTBR List3/29/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
DNFRobinson CrusoeDaniel DefoeLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
DNFThe House of GodSamuel ShemLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction

14The Way of KingsBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFMrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
15Words of RadianceBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
16The Fires of VengeanceEvan WinterLibrarySequel4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy

TBR: 17
Sequels: 3
Nonfiction: 5
DNF: 8

It's looking like I probably won't make 50 completed, but probably will if including DNFs. Or I could fudge my TBR list and prioritize books that I'm more likely to finish, but that feels like cheating :P Also I'd rather keep on giving everything a try so the ones I wind up not liking don't just stay on the list.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: StarBright on May 02, 2024, 06:32:47 PM
15. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - A mostly excellent book. I found the writing could grate and the protagonist was really hard to empathize with after a while, but easily my favourite new read of the year.


How long did it take you to get into it? I've started it twice and haven't gotten through the first chapter.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: salt cured on May 03, 2024, 03:04:52 PM
15. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch - A mostly excellent book. I found the writing could grate and the protagonist was really hard to empathize with after a while, but easily my favourite new read of the year.


How long did it take you to get into it? I've started it twice and haven't gotten through the first chapter.

Too long. It was maybe 3 or 4 chapters before I started to get into the story. If you don't already like the writing, I'd probably put it down.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on May 05, 2024, 08:06:36 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on May 07, 2024, 06:32:28 AM
15. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on May 08, 2024, 09:11:58 PM
Another 20, nearly 200 now! This batch is pretty heavily skewed to plays due to being at that section of the Harvard Classics.

161. Love in the Time of Zombies by Cassandra Gannon
162. A Blot in the Scutcheon by Robert Browning
163. Awakening by Brandon Sanderson
164. Manfred by Lord Byron
165. Faust, first part by Goethe

166. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
I found this really funny, and surprisingly different from the Goethe version which I read directly beforehand. The dynamic between Faustus and Mephistopheles is totally different.


167. Of Tangible Ghosts by L.E. Modesitt
168. Egmont by Goethe
169. The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars by Simon Morden
170. Hermann and Dorothea by Goethe
171. Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
172. The Ghost of the Revelator by L.E. Modesitt
173. I Am the Walrus by Neal Shusterman
174. Inferno by Dante Alighieri

175. The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
A lot of people seem to not like this new release so much, but I loved it! A magical competition where you not only have to win, you have to avoid getting executed by the actual Spanish Inquisition, and also not get brutally murdered by your fellow competitors. Wild ride.


176. Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
177. Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
178. Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs by Juli Berwald

179. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
I FINALLY got book two of Stormlight in at the library, and it is just fantastic. Everything you want in epic fantasy. Can't wait to keep going whenever Edgedancer shows up.

180. An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson
This author really knows how to write great vampire stories. Funny thing here: I went in completely blind, not even knowing if it was or wasn't a vampire book. I only thought it might be since her debut novel was. So the first few chapter were very much "hmmm, that person is acting kind of weird, is it because THEY'RE A VAMPIRE? Kind of a funny way to read a book.


Goals are all going well.

1. 365 Book Challenge: 180/365
2. Daily Stoic Challenge: I've read it almost daily, so far missed only one day this year (but got caught up).
3. Nonfiction Challenge: 18/50
4. Backlog Challenge: 26/72, with one of the three authors (Cassandra Gannon) being officially finished.
5. Harvard Classics Challenge: 24/72 volumes (59 individual books)

So basically for the rest of this year every week I need to read:

1. The Daily Stoic X 7
2. 1 Nonfiction book
3. 1-2 Backlog books
4. 1-2 Harvard Classics volumes
5. 5-6 books overall, including all of the above.

Works for me!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on May 12, 2024, 01:11:43 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on May 21, 2024, 09:11:47 PM
...
19) Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Save Your Life by John Tarrant ***
20) Hell is a World Without You by Jason Kirk **
21) How to Know a Person by David Brooks
22) The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation by Frederick Franck
23) Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (fiction)
24) Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe* (graphic novel)

Recently finished/reading
25) Playing for Time: Making art as if the world mattered by Lucy Neal**. --still not done, slow read for me

26) The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (fiction)
27) The Hiking Book From Hell by Are Kalvo (memoir) (a Christmas gift that I'm finally getting around to)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Razzle on May 23, 2024, 05:13:45 AM
23. Starter Villain by John Scalzi
24. Nature's Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy
25. Of Time and Turtles by Sy Montgomery
26. Molly's Game by Molly Bloom
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on May 24, 2024, 05:10:41 PM
16. The Blueprint by Rae Giana Rashad.

17. Really Very Crunchy by Emily Morrow

18. North Woods by Daniel Mason

19. The Butterfly Effect: Insects and the Making of the Modern World by Edward D. Melillo

20. Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings

ETA: 21. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan. I read this one several weeks ago but forgot to include it in my list.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on May 25, 2024, 03:08:35 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
A very good book which I couldn't put away. I didn't know it was part two of a trilogy until the book started to refer to earlier happenings. Next book I will read is part one, called Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack). I think part three might not have been written yet.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.

18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord. Wow, a great science fiction book. I read it in one day. It is a bit in the style of Ursula Le Guin with good descriptions of how the aliens feel and live.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on May 25, 2024, 05:50:16 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on May 25, 2024, 08:35:46 AM
16. The Armor of Light by Ken Follet

This was not my favorite of his books - was a bit of a slog, but finally made it through.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on May 25, 2024, 04:05:21 PM
Whoa, we're at 200! Yee haw! Favourites marked.

181. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
182. How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
183. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road by Cat Jarman
184.    Does It Fart?: The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence by Dani Rabaiotti
185. Ghost of the White Nights by L.E. Modesitt
186. Redemption by Brandon Sanderson
187. Viewpoints Critical by L.E. Modesitt
188. The Scrivener's Bones by Brandon Sanderson
189. The Odyssey by Homer
190. Isolate by L.E. Modesitt
191. Defending Elysium by Brandon Sanderson

192. Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
I founds this just incredibly charming and cozy. The main character is an amorphous blob who falls in love with a human, and various hijinks ensue. Nice storytelling and just a great read.


193. Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson
194. Long Chills and Case Dough by Brandon Sanderson
195. Firstborn by Brandon Sanderson

196. Aftermarket Afterlife by Seanan McGuire
Book 13 in the long-running Incryptid series, this new story arc is an absolute doozy. Really intense ride.


197. The Dangerous Ones by Lauren Blackwood
198. How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever by Jack Horner
199. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea by Richard Dana
200. Children of the Nameless by Brandon Sanderson

My reading challenges are all going well.

1. 365 Book Challenge - 200/365, well ahead of schedule.
2. Nonfiction Challlenge - 22/50
3. Daily Stoic Challenge - Read it 145/146 days this year.
4. Backlog Challenge (i.e. read or DNF all unread works by Brandon Sanderson, Cassandra Gannon, and L.E. Modesitt) - 36/52, and making rapid progress. I've been hitting this one hard lately to get it wrapped up so I can focus more on the Harvard Classics.
5. Harvard Classics - 27/71 Volumes. Basically spot-on where I should be (38% read, and it's about 40% of the year), though it would be good to have one or two weeks where I read more than one volume and get a bit ahead of the game.

I ideally want to have most of my projects wrapped up by mid-November to I can focus on the Goodreads Choice Awards longlists, as well as wrap up any of my new releases for the year. But I recognize the Harvard Classics will go right to the end.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wanttobehome on May 27, 2024, 02:10:38 AM
Hi All


Jan
1. The Donkey principle - Rachel Anne Ridge
2. Magic lessons - Alice Hoffman
3.A Sting in the Tale - My adventures with Bumble bees - Dave Goulson
4.The Arbornaut - Meg Lowman
5. Small bodies of water- Nina Powles


Feb
6. Doomsday Match - Jeff Wheeler
7. Jaguar Prophecies - Jeff Wheeler
8.The book of magic - Alice Hoffman
9.The wood - John Lewis-Stempel

March
10.Seven Brief lessons on physics - Carlo Rovelli
11. The natural navigator - Tristan Gooley
12.How to give up plastic - Will McCallum
13. Seven sins of memory  - Daniel Schacter

April
14. The stream of everything - John Connell
15.  The way home - tales from a life without technology
16. Why does it still hurt? -Paul Biegler
17. The edge of the plain - James Crawford

May
18. The Full English - Stuart Maconie
19. Under the stars - Matt Gaw
20. Braintenece - Julia Ravey
21. Outlive  - Dr Peter Attia
22Nature is never silent - Dr Madlen Ziege
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on May 27, 2024, 05:27:52 PM
...
19) Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Save Your Life by John Tarrant ***
20) Hell is a World Without You by Jason Kirk **
21) How to Know a Person by David Brooks
22) The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation by Frederick Franck
23) Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (fiction)
24) Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe* (graphic novel)
25) Playing for Time: Making art as if the world mattered by Lucy Neal**
26) The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (fiction)
27) The Hiking Book From Hell by Are Kalvo (memoir)

Recently finished/reading
28) Normal People by Sally Rooney (fiction)--well-written and gut-churning

29) A Mind at Home with Itself by Byron Katie--my monthly dose of woo

30) Solito by Javier Zamora (bookclub)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on May 28, 2024, 07:07:15 AM
16. The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn & Janie Chang
17. Weyward by Emilia Hart
18. Funny Story by Emily Henry
19. Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
20. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on May 30, 2024, 02:15:21 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.

20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: salt cured on June 01, 2024, 11:26:52 AM
Falling behind. Need to pick up the pace this month.

18. The Business by Iain Banks - My third by Banks this year. Like the other two, it took a long time for "plot" to happen. Unlike the others, I found the lead-up pretty boring. Don't recommend.

19. Western Lane by Chetna Maroo - Nice writing, but I didn't connect with this one.

20. Momo by Michael Ende - Read this in Spanish over the course of a year or so. Really great children's book with an anti-consumerism/capitalism message.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on June 01, 2024, 03:16:23 PM
2024 Finished:

January
1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
7. Spare by Prince Harry
February
8. All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
10. Family Meal by Bryan Washington
11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
12: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
13. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
14. Three-inch Teeth by C.J. Box
March
15. North Woods by Daniel Mason
16. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
17. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
April
18. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
19. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
20. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
21. The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano
May
22. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Posnanski (Sports, What a delight, all baseball lovers should read this)
23. Horse by Geraldine Brooks (Historical Fiction, Horse racing, slavery, the civil war, present day science, love, racism... good read)
24. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Non-fiction, Really liked this, from learning new things to learning more in-depth about things I sorta learned in HS/College)
25. My Darkest Hour by S.A. Cosby (Crime/Thriller, Similar overarching themes from Cosby's other books, this one follows a man searching for answers in a murder)
June
26. Hyperion by Dan Simmons (SciFi, Following 7[?!] travelers on a pilgramage as they tell their stories. Excited to read the next in the series)

Currently reading:

Audio: Nothing! So many holds almost ready to be avaliable
Print: Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin (back to this!)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on June 02, 2024, 06:51:01 AM
17. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Coast Trail by Andrea Lankford
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on June 02, 2024, 05:41:21 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: trc4897 on June 04, 2024, 08:45:15 AM
1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir**
2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
3. Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben
4. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey**
5. The Woods - Harlan Coben
6. I Will Find You - Harlan Coben
7. Gone for Good - Harlan Coben
8. Caliban's War - James S.A. Corey**
9. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
10. How Not to Die - Dr. Michael Gregor
11. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
12. Innocent - Harlan Coben
13. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
14. All Systems Red - Martha Wells**
15. Killing Floor - Lee Child**
16. Tell No One - Harlan Coben
17. Never Lie - Freida McFadden
18. Columbus Day - Craig Alanson
19. Chaos Rising - Kyla Stone
20. Edge of Collapse - Kyla Stone
21. Recursion - Blake Crouch**
22. Drift - L.T. Ryan
23. The Other End of the Leash - Patricia McConnell - IN PROGRESS
24. The Giver - Lois Lowry
25. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells**
26. Abaddon's Gate - James S.A. Corey
27. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells
28. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
29. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
30. Deal Breaker - Harlan Coben**
31. Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky
32. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
33. Home - Martha Wells
34. The 5th Wave - Rick Yancey**
35. Dear Bob and Sue - Matt and Karen Smith
36. The Infinite Sea - Rick Yancey
37. The Last Star - Rick Yancey
38. Drop Shot - Harlan Coben - IN PROGRESS

** = favorites
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on June 06, 2024, 08:13:38 PM
And another 20 done. This is actually a really good time to hit it as I'm leaving for a trip tomorrow and won't have computer access for a bit. Favourites marked:

201. The Knights of Crystallia by Brandon Sanderson
202. Dark One by Brandon Sanderson

203. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff
This was so charming and cozy!


204. Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania by Brandon Sanderson
205. Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson
206. Shock the Monkey by Neal Shusterman
207. Cranberry Cove by Hailey Piper
208. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
209. Reflections on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke
210. Councilor by L.E. Modesitt
211. A Letter to a Noble Lord by Edmund Burke

212. Hey, Zoey by Sarah Crossan
Notable only for containing one of the nastiest jokes I've ever heard, that made me put the book down for an hour: What do you call a sex doll with white eyes? Full.


213. When Among Crows by Veronica Roth
214. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
215. Evocation by S.T. Gibson
216. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
217. Characteristics, "Inaugural Address," and "Sir Walter Scott" by Thomas Carlyle
218. The Shattered Lens by Brandon Sanderson
219. Life in a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

220. Polyeucte by Pierre Corneille
This is one beautifully-written, intense play. I'm not normally a huge fan of plays but I could not put this down, every line is just perfect.


I've got a pretty good spread for the trip, it's just a road trip so no relevant reads, but I'll be catching up on a bunch of new releases, as well as hopefully a lot of Harvard Classics.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on June 07, 2024, 11:46:05 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on June 11, 2024, 06:48:14 AM
18. The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on June 13, 2024, 08:17:53 PM
Previous years: 2018 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2018!/msg2247038/#msg2247038) | 2019 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2019!/msg2526771/#msg2526771) | 2020 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2020!/msg2762830/#msg2762830) | 2021 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2021!/msg2954224/#msg2954224) | 2023 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2023!/msg3214444/#msg3214444)

January
1. Hell Is a World Without You by Jason Kirk ★★★★★
2. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★
3. Redshirts by John Scalzi ★★★★☆

February
4. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood ★★★☆☆
5. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener ★★★★☆
6. Convenience Store Woman by  ★★★☆☆
7. Diary of a Tokyo Teen by Christine Mari Inzer ★★★☆☆
8. The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History by Evan Amos ★★★★☆
9. My Detachment: A Memoir by Tracy Kidder ★★★☆☆
10. Monkey Business: Swinging Through Wall Street by John Rolfe and Peter Troob ★★★☆☆
11. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach ★★★★☆
12. Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes ★★★★☆

March
13. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen ★★★★☆
14. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz ★★★★☆
15. American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home by Lester Walker ★★★☆☆
16. The Proving Ground: A Season on the Fringe in NFL Europe by Lars Anderson ★★★☆☆
17. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★
18. Pretty Good House; A Guide to Creating Better Homes by Daniel Kolbert et al ★★★★☆
19. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell ★★★★☆

April
20. The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★☆
21. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman ★★★★☆
22. The All Americans by Lars Anderson ★★★★☆
23. Starter Villain by John Scalzi ★★★★☆
24. Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆
25. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts ★★★☆☆
26. The Water Outlaws by SL Huang ★★★★☆
27. Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry ★★★★☆
28. Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham ★★★★★
29. The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆
30. Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat by Marion Nestle ★★★★☆
31. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill ★★★☆☆

May
32. The Adventures of Amina al-Sarafi by Shannon Chakraborty ★★★★☆
33. Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman ★★★★★
34. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach ★★★☆☆
35. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green ★★★★☆
36. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner ★★★★☆
37. Understanding Semiconductors by Richard Corey ★★☆☆☆
38. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande ★★★★★
39. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong ★★★☆☆

June
40. Skyward by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★★
41. Starsight by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★☆
42. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ★★★★☆
43. Skyward Flight by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson ★★★☆☆
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on June 16, 2024, 06:37:20 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on June 16, 2024, 06:40:06 PM
...
24) Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe* (graphic novel)
25) Playing for Time: Making art as if the world mattered by Lucy Neal**
26) The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (fiction)
27) The Hiking Book From Hell by Are Kalvo (memoir)
28) Normal People by Sally Rooney (fiction)*
29) A Mind at Home with Itself by Byron Katie
30) Solito by Javier Zamora (bookclub)**

Recently finished/reading
31) Dinosaurs: A novel by Lydia Millet**(fiction): sparsely written but still had so much depth
32) Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (fiction) --sexy, weird, gossipy:  only 1/3 of the way in but it's dark & different
33) Behavior Adjustment Training: BAT for Fear, Frustration, and Aggression in Dogs by Grisha Stewart
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on June 17, 2024, 03:43:12 PM
22. The Women by Kristin Hannah

23. Goodbye, Things by Fumio Sasaki

24. A Fire So Wild by Sarah Ruiz-Grossman

25. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on June 18, 2024, 05:04:00 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.

21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on June 23, 2024, 07:14:15 AM
19. Shift by Hugh Howey
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on June 23, 2024, 08:30:46 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Razzle on June 27, 2024, 04:41:52 AM
26. Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur

27. Beartown by Frederick Backman

28. The Women by Kristin Hannah

29. Stiff by Mary Roach
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on June 27, 2024, 06:59:08 AM
21. The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
22. How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
23. Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: StarBright on June 27, 2024, 10:32:06 AM

1. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
2. Edith Holler: A Novel by Edward Carey
3. Love is the Way by Bishop Michael Curry
4. Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
5. Emily Climbs by L.M Montgomery
6. Emily's Quest by L.M. Montgomery
7. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
8. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbie Wakeman
9. Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
10. Babel or the Necessity of Violence  by R. F. Kuang
11. Toxic Charity by Robert D Lupton
12. The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales
13. The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell (ended up being a reread that I hadn't remembered)
14. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by  Laura Pearson
15. Jane in Love by Rachel GIvney
16. The Other Woman by Sandy Jones
17. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
18. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
19. Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
20. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
21. Mockingjoay by Suzanne Collins
22. God Land by Lyz Lentz
23. Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
24. The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell
25. Palazzo by Danielle Steel
26. Little Steps Big Faith by Dawn Rundman


I could have sworn I had added to this list in the last month or so, but maybe not?

27. Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
28. The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery
29. Being Mortal by Atul Gowand
30. The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent
31. Gentlemen's Gambit by Evie Dunmore
32. Persuasion by Jane Austen
33. Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
34. North Woods by Daniel Mason (Book Club)
35. Chemistry of Love by Sarah Wilson
36. Payback in Death by JD Robb
37. Miss Austen by Gil Hornby
38. The Once and Future Fling by Leigh Heasley
39. Random in Death by JD Robb
40. The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kim Eisele
41. The Honor of Your Presence by Dave Eggers (barely a novella, more like a long story)
42. Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
43. A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (Mom and Son book club :)
44. E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
45. The Fabulous Reinvention of Sunday School by Aaron Reynolds
46. Secrets of Crestwell Hall by Alexandra Walsh
47. How to be a Grown Up by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughin
48. The New Couple in 5B by . . . .Unger (can't read my scribble)
49. Meant to Be by Emily Giffin
50. My Roomate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine
51. Yellow Face by RF Kuang
52. Elektra by Jennifer Saint
53. Real Self-Care by Pooja Lakshmin
54. Razor Girl by Carl Hiassen (Book Club)
55. The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
56. Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper
57. Bury the Lead by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzett

Apparently it has been three months? I honestly don't even remember reading some of these, though my kindle assures me they were 100% completed? so? 

The Good:
Persuasion - I had never read it. I had a lit professor who told me to wait until I was "grown up." She was right. I would have missed out on so much if I had read it at age 20! It is beautiful. Top 10 all-time book for me.
The Blue Castle LM Montgomery continues to serve this year! I'm afraid to keep going because I feel like I may have read all of the quality books? But Blue Castle was a sweet and lightly humorous delight. Lots of convenient plot, but it didn't even matter to me.
Being Mortal Excellent non-fiction. Recommended in the forum in a convo about aging.
Temple of Fortuna third in a series. Probably the weakest stand-alone, but excellent as a series wrap up.
A Night to Remember apparently the definitive retelling of the Titanic from first person witnesses? I believe it was written in the 50s and the author spent years interviewing survivors - GRIPPING! Not quite Into Thin Air level, but glad I read it.
North Woods Yep - excellent

The Absolutely Bonkers:
Real Self-Care actually a great book, but the intro threw me for a major loop - had to reread a couple of times to make sure I was reading it correctly.
Spoiler: show
Apparently the author got burned out in med school, left her husband, quit her residency and joined a female orgasm cult for a few years? This apparently is why is REALLY good at spotting fake self care
Anyway- bonkers aside, I actually found it helpful.

Everything else? Mostly forgetable to Meh.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on June 27, 2024, 12:18:37 PM
Next batch!

221. Phedre by Jean Racine
222. Tartuffe by Moliere
223. Contrarian by L.E. Modesitt
224. The Dark Talent by Brandon Sanderson
225. Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
226. Bastille vs, the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson
227. Flawless Girls by Ann-Marie McLemore
228. William Tell by Friedrich Schiller
229. Darling Girls by Sally Hepworth
230. Olivetti by Allie Millington

231. The Women by Kristin Hannah
This Vietnam-war historical fiction was an excellent read, I could not put it down. Definitely need to read more of this author's stuff.


232. A Short History of Spaghetti and Tomato Sauce by Massimo Montanari
233. The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus by Ryan Jacobs
234. Harvard Classics Volume 27: English Essays
235. Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
236. Song of the Tyrant Worm by Hailey Piper
237. Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson
238. The Housemaid is Watching by Freida McFadden
239. Hell for Hire by Rachel Aaron
240. Harvard Classics Volume 28: Essays: English And American

My goals are all going great.

1. 365 Book Challenge: 240/365, well ahead of the game.
2. Daily Stoic Challenge: I have read it daily, only missing one day this year back in May.
3. Nonfiction Challenge: 25/50, right dead on at 50%.
4. Backlog Challenge: 47/51, almost finished.
5. Harvard Classics Challenge: 32/71 Volumes (76 individual books). I'm slightly behind on this one, but I expect to start making pretty good progress now that my backlog challenge is winding down.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on June 28, 2024, 06:57:36 AM
20. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles by Kate Flannery
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on June 28, 2024, 02:46:03 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.

22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
All these books are recommented. I got them from the library's recommendation rack.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on June 28, 2024, 03:28:35 PM
...
30) Solito by Javier Zamora (bookclub, memoir)**
31) Dinosaurs: A novel by Lydia Millet**(fiction)
32) Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (fiction)

Recently finished/reading
33) Behavior Adjustment Training: BAT for Fear, Frustration, and Aggression in Dogs by Grisha Stewart--still working through this
34) Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (fiction)--nuanced and moody but I'd like to step back from dark fiction for a bit
35) The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young (re-read)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wanttobehome on June 30, 2024, 04:28:05 AM

Jan
1. The Donkey principle - Rachel Anne Ridge
2. Magic lessons - Alice Hoffman
3.A Sting in the Tale - My adventures with Bumble bees - Dave Goulson
4.The Arbornaut - Meg Lowman
5. Small bodies of water- Nina Powles


Feb
6. Doomsday Match - Jeff Wheeler
7. Jaguar Prophecies - Jeff Wheeler
8.The book of magic - Alice Hoffman
9.The wood - John Lewis-Stempel

March
10.Seven Brief lessons on physics - Carlo Rovelli
11. The natural navigator - Tristan Gooley
12.How to give up plastic - Will McCallum
13. Seven sins of memory  - Daniel Schacter

April
14. The stream of everything - John Connell
15.  The way home - tales from a life without technology
16. Why does it still hurt? -Paul Biegler
17. The edge of the plain - James Crawford

May
18. The Full English - Stuart Maconie
19. Under the stars - Matt Gaw
20. Braintenece - Julia Ravey
21. Outlive  - Dr Peter Attia
22Nature is never silent - Dr Madlen Ziege

June
23. Amazing thinkers and humanitarians - Collins
24. Unruly - David Mitchell
25. River Kings Cat Jarman
26. How to cope - Dr Clare Hayes
27. How to survive almost anything - Ollie Ollerton
28. Rootbound - Alice Vincent

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Avolonte on June 30, 2024, 09:29:18 AM
 1. Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende, 2005
 2. West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge, 2021
 3. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides, 2019
 4. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu, 2022
 5. Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo, 2023
 6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 1937
 7. Pathfinders by J. L. Collins, 2023
 8. George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes, 2023. Really liked it.
 9. You Only Call When You're in Trouble by Stephen McCauley, 2024. Really liked it.
 10. Enchantment by Katherine May, 2023. Liked some of her other books better.
 11. Once Upon a Tome: the Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire, 2022. Liked it.
 12. Breaking Bread with the Dead: a Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs, 2020
 13. Gaining Ground by Forrest Pritchard, 2013
 14. The Round House by Louise Erdrich, 2012. Really liked it.
 15. Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver, 2003. I like her writing, but liked her other books better.
 16. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie, 2002. Good; quick read.

I'm falling behind continuously on reading. I just fall into bed and go right to sleep without reading at least one chapter. Ugh! That's how I know I need to simplify and slow down!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on June 30, 2024, 10:01:05 AM
2024 Finished:

January
1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
7. Spare by Prince Harry
February
8. All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
10. Family Meal by Bryan Washington
11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
12: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
13. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
14. Three-inch Teeth by C.J. Box
March
15. North Woods by Daniel Mason
16. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
17. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
April
18. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
19. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
20. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
21. The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano
May
22. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Posnanski (Sports, What a delight, all baseball lovers should read this)
23. Horse by Geraldine Brooks (Historical Fiction, Horse racing, slavery, the civil war, present day science, love, racism... good read)
24. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Non-fiction, Really liked this, from learning new things to learning more in-depth about things I sorta learned in HS/College)
25. My Darkest Hour by S.A. Cosby (Crime/Thriller, Similar overarching themes from Cosby's other books, this one follows a man searching for answers in a murder)
June
26. Hyperion by Dan Simmons (SciFi, Following 7[?!] travelers on a pilgramage as they tell their stories. Excited to read the next in the series)
27. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Historical Fiction, lovely interweaving stories as characters deal with racism and antisemitism in the 1920/30s Pennsylvania)
28. Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin (Fantasy, "historical" novel covering the rise of the Targaryen's in Westeros)

Currently reading:

Audio: Nothing!
Print: Nothing!

I'm in kind of a funk with reading. I go through these stretches. Eventually some holds will come up and I'll get back in the swing of it all.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Morning Glory on June 30, 2024, 01:29:35 PM
January:
1. Four Lost Cities: A secret history of the urban age by Annalee Newitz (audio book)
2. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
3. Taking Care: The story of nursing and its power to change the world by Sarah DiGregorio (audio book)
4. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
5. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
6. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (audio book)
7. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
8. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
9. Artemis by Andy Weir
10. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
11. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
12. The Library Book by Susan Orlean (audio book)
13. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
14. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
February:
15. Unsavory Truth: How food companies skew the science of what we eat by Marion Nestle (audio book)
16. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
17. $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin and Luke Schaefer (audio book)
18. Number9dream by David Mitchell
19. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
20. A fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Leguin
21. Screaming on the Inside: the Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose (audio book)
22.One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
23. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
24. What We Don't Talk about when We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon (audio book)
25. Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
26. Matrix by Lauren Groff
March:
27.Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
28. There There by Tommy Orange
29. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
30. Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
31. The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
32. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
33. A true account: 'Hannah Masury's sojourn amongst the pyrates, written by herself' by Katherine Howe
34. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles Marohn (audio book)
35. Fourteen Days by multiple authors (edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston)

April/May/June
36. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
37. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar (audio book)
38. Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain (audio book)
39. Being Mortal: Medicine and what happens in the end by Atul Gawande (audio book)
40. Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
41. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
42. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
43. Saving Time by Jenny ODell (audio book)
44. All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
45. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
46. House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
47. Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
48. The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell (audio book)
49. The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
50. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
51. Filterworld: How algorithms flattened culture by Kyle Chayka
52. The Wonder of All Things by Jason Mott
53. Down Here We Come Up by Sara Johnson Allen
54. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
55. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
56. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
57. Debt: The first 5000 years by David Graeber (audio book)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: salt cured on June 30, 2024, 10:20:11 PM
21. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu - Very good read.
22. The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr - Weakest of the month for me.
23. We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama - Excellent read but did required some persistence.
24. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga - Excellent read. I think my favourite of the month.
25. Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan - Good read.
 
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on July 01, 2024, 11:46:48 AM
1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOtherN/AGeneral Fiction
5The Rage of DragonsEvan WinterLibraryTBR2/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
6Under the Pendulum SunJeanette NgLibraryTBR2/10/2024Fiction - Fantasy
7Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever NeedTracy McCubbinLibraryTBR2/14/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
8ScoopEvelyn WaughLibraryTBR2/17/2024General Fiction
DNFTess of the D'UrbervillesThomas HardyLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
9Brighton RockGraham GreenLibraryTBR3/3/2024General Fiction
10The Rules of MagicAlice HoffmanOwnOther3/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Code of the WoostersP.G. WodehouseLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
11Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to 'Zuiki' Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow EdiblesEric ToensmeierLibraryTBR3/15/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
12Self-Care for Introverts: 17 Soothing Rituals for Peace in a Hectic WorldBarrie DavenportLibraryTBR3/19/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
DNFDavid CopperfieldCharles DickensLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
13Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals can Transform our Lives - and Save TheirsRichard LouvLibraryTBR3/29/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
DNFRobinson CrusoeDaniel DefoeLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
DNFThe House of GodSamuel ShemLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
14The Way of KingsBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFMrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
15Words of RadianceBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
16The Fires of VengeanceEvan WinterLibrarySequel4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy

17The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva PathNorman FischerLibraryTBR List5/8/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
18OathbringerBrandon SandersonOwnReread5/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy
19Don Quixote, Part 1Miguel de CervantesLibraryTBR List5/31/2024General Fiction
20All About Pruning: The Complete Guide to the Pruning of Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and PerennialsOrtho BooksOwnEducational6/2/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
21Gardens of the MoonSteven EriksonLibraryTBR List6/19/2024Fiction - Fantasy
22DisgraceJ.M. CoetzeeLibraryTBR List6/23/2024General Fiction

TBR: 21
Sequels: 3
Nonfiction: 7
DNF: 8
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on July 01, 2024, 12:09:45 PM
How is Gardens of the Moon? I've been wanting to read that for years!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on July 01, 2024, 01:43:46 PM
How is Gardens of the Moon? I've been wanting to read that for years!

I liked it! I'm actually about to finish book 2. It is definitely one of the denser fantasy series I've read, big cast, big learning curve on the world, but I appreciate that.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on July 02, 2024, 12:40:28 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
42. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on July 03, 2024, 04:15:04 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.

25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: gatortator on July 03, 2024, 07:27:51 AM
19. House of flame and shadow by Sarah J. Maas
20. True Biz by Sara Novic
21. The Martian by Andrew Weir.
22. The fated sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
23. A Manual for cleaning women: selected stories by Lucia Berlin.
24. A gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue by Mackenzi Lee

25.  Beowulf, a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
26.  Louisa: the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas.
27.  Loathe at first sight by Suzanne Park.
28.  The house in the cerulean Sea by TJ klune
29.  Artificial condition by Martha Wells.
30.  Rogue protocol by Martha Wells.
31.  The four treasures of the sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
32.  The salt grows heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on July 05, 2024, 07:47:26 AM
21. Moral Disorder and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on July 09, 2024, 01:52:57 PM
Quote from: Linea_Norway
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.

26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on July 11, 2024, 09:23:48 AM
1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOtherN/AGeneral Fiction
5The Rage of DragonsEvan WinterLibraryTBR2/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
6Under the Pendulum SunJeanette NgLibraryTBR2/10/2024Fiction - Fantasy
7Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever NeedTracy McCubbinLibraryTBR2/14/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
8ScoopEvelyn WaughLibraryTBR2/17/2024General Fiction
DNFTess of the D'UrbervillesThomas HardyLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
9Brighton RockGraham GreenLibraryTBR3/3/2024General Fiction
10The Rules of MagicAlice HoffmanOwnOther3/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Code of the WoostersP.G. WodehouseLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
11Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to 'Zuiki' Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow EdiblesEric ToensmeierLibraryTBR3/15/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
12Self-Care for Introverts: 17 Soothing Rituals for Peace in a Hectic WorldBarrie DavenportLibraryTBR3/19/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
DNFDavid CopperfieldCharles DickensLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
13Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals can Transform our Lives - and Save TheirsRichard LouvLibraryTBR3/29/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
DNFRobinson CrusoeDaniel DefoeLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
DNFThe House of GodSamuel ShemLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
14The Way of KingsBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFMrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
15Words of RadianceBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
16The Fires of VengeanceEvan WinterLibrarySequel4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
17The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva PathNorman FischerLibraryTBR5/8/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
18OathbringerBrandon SandersonOwnReread5/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy
19Don Quixote, Part 1Miguel de CervantesLibraryTBR5/31/2024General Fiction
20All About Pruning: The Complete Guide to the Pruning of Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and PerennialsOrtho BooksOwnEducational6/2/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
21Gardens of the MoonSteven EriksonLibraryTBR6/19/2024Fiction - Fantasy
22DisgraceJ.M. CoetzeeLibraryTBR6/23/2024General Fiction

23Deadhouse GatesSteven EriksonLibrarySequel7/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
24Declassified: A Low-key Guide to the High-strung World of Classical MusicArianna Warsaw-Fan RauchBorrowedOther7/4/2024Nonfiction - History/Biography
25Heart of DarknessJoseph ConradLibraryTBR List7/5/2024General Fiction
DNFThe Portrait of a LadyHenry JamesLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction

TBR: 23
Sequels: 3
Nonfiction: 8
DNF: 9
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on July 12, 2024, 11:36:52 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
42. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
43. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
44. To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on July 13, 2024, 12:56:00 PM
A bunch of mostly-shorter reads on my Alaska cruise shot me through the next 20 slots:

241. Greenpeace Captain by Peter Willcox
This was an excellent read, very engaging writing style and just insane stories from the early Greenpeace days. Wild ride.


242. Ambassador for Mars by Glynn Stewart
243. This Skin was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca
244. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
245. The Tyrannosaur Chronicles by David Hone
246. Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson

* All aboard! The cruise starts here *

247. Germany by Tacitus
248. An Account of Egypt by Herodotus
249. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
250. Sir Francis Drake Revived by Philip Nichols
251. Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World by Francis Pretty
252. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
253. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Edward Hayes
254. Sir Francis Drake's Great Armada by Walter Biggs
255. The Discovery of Guiana by Walter Raleigh
256. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

257. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
A really atmospheric and gripping Alaskan historical fiction, just a great read. Love this author in general. Best book of the trip.


258. Vegan Baked Alaska by P.D. Workman (most relevant read, literally set on an Alaska cruise FROM VANCOUVER)
259. Cold Crime: How Police Detectives Solved Alaska's Most Sensational Cases by Tom Brennan
260. A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Stern

Now that I'm back home and finished relevant reading, my plan is to focus mostly on Harvard Classics and new releases. Goals progress:

1. 365 Book Challenge - 260/365
2. Daily Stoic Challenge - I'm reading it every day, only missed one day this year.
3. Nonfiction Challenge - 28/50
4. Backlog Challenge - 48/51 (almost done!)
5. Harvard Classics Challenge - 34/71 Volumes, 85 individual books. I'm a bit behind on this and need to put more effort into it, as I should be past halfway by now. But not impossibly behind anyways.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on July 16, 2024, 06:50:44 AM
22. Dust by Hugh Howey
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on July 18, 2024, 04:01:09 PM
...
30) Solito by Javier Zamora (bookclub, memoir)**
31) Dinosaurs: A novel by Lydia Millet**(fiction)
32) Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (fiction)
33) Behavior Adjustment Training: BAT for Fear, Frustration, and Aggression in Dogs by Grisha Stewart
34) Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (fiction)
35) The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young (re-read)

Recently finished/reading
36) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (fiction)--enjoyably odd
37) Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky. This book keeps putting me to sleep but is also thought-provoking. Not sure what to make of it yet (1/4 of the way through)

*my reading has slowed down tremendously in the last year since getting a dog. More time hiking, less time reading in the hammock..

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on July 21, 2024, 01:58:26 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
42. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
43. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
44. To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn
45. Blood Rites, Jim Butcher
46. Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on July 22, 2024, 08:22:21 AM
26. Things that Matter by Joshua Becker

27. A Children's Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet

28. The Year of Less by Cait Flanders

29. Persuasion by Jane Austin

30. Defending your Faith by RC Sproul

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on July 23, 2024, 02:30:50 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.

27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on July 24, 2024, 07:17:46 AM
23. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on July 24, 2024, 12:12:20 PM
A patch of a lot of shorter Harvard Classics has blown me past another 20:

261. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
262. How to Forage for Mushrooms Without Dying by Frank Hyman
263. Break to You be Neal Shusterman
264. What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork by Witold Szablowski
265. Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

266. Harvard Classics Volume 30: Scientific Papers
Surprisingly, I absolutely loved Michael Faraday's physics and chemistry lectures, and would have LOVED to have him as a teacher. I would also love a modern-day take on the supposed safety of some of his demonstrations.


267. The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier
A really interesting family epic covering hundreds of years of Murano history. I really need to read more by this author.


268. Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich
269. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

270. Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I was absolutely spellbound by this short work.


271. Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
272. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
273. The Idyl of Red Gulch by Bret Harte
274. The Luck of Roaring Camp and the Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
275. Eleonora by Edgar Allen Poe
276. The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allen Poe
277. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
278. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe
279. Night by Elie Wiesel
280. The Man Without a Country by Edward Hale

My challenges are going well:

1. 365 Book Challenge: 280/365. Less than a hundred to go!
2. Daily Stoic Challenge: I read it every day!
3. Nonfiction Challenge: 32/50. I've been bumping this one up a bit to get it finished sooner - the next couple of weeks should wipe out most of it.
4. Backlog Challenge: 48/51. I'm just waiting on White Sand Omnibus by Brandon Sanderson from the library, and it will be done.
5. Harvard Classics Challenge: 39/71 Volumes (99/? individual books). I'm a bit behind on this, but making good progress getting caught up. I expect to make really good progress once the other challenges are done.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on July 24, 2024, 02:14:32 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).

28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on July 25, 2024, 06:39:44 AM
24. Real Americans by Rachel Khong
25. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
26. This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
27. Drowning by T.J. Newman
28. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters
29. Winter of the World by Ken Follett
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wanttobehome on July 27, 2024, 02:02:40 AM

Jan
1. The Donkey principle - Rachel Anne Ridge
2. Magic lessons - Alice Hoffman
3.A Sting in the Tale - My adventures with Bumble bees - Dave Goulson
4.The Arbornaut - Meg Lowman
5. Small bodies of water- Nina Powles


Feb
6. Doomsday Match - Jeff Wheeler
7. Jaguar Prophecies - Jeff Wheeler
8.The book of magic - Alice Hoffman
9.The wood - John Lewis-Stempel

March
10.Seven Brief lessons on physics - Carlo Rovelli
11. The natural navigator - Tristan Gooley
12.How to give up plastic - Will McCallum
13. Seven sins of memory  - Daniel Schacter

April
14. The stream of everything - John Connell
15.  The way home - tales from a life without technology
16. Why does it still hurt? -Paul Biegler
17. The edge of the plain - James Crawford

May
18. The Full English - Stuart Maconie
19. Under the stars - Matt Gaw
20. Braintenece - Julia Ravey
21. Outlive  - Dr Peter Attia
22Nature is never silent - Dr Madlen Ziege

June
23. Amazing thinkers and humanitarians - Collins
24. Unruly - David Mitchell
25. River Kings Cat Jarman
26. How to cope - Dr Clare Hayes
27. How to survive almost anything - Ollie Ollerton
28. Rootbound - Alice Vincent

July
29 The Poyson Garden -Karen Harper
30 Improbable destinies - Fate, Chance and the future of evolution
31 Broke Millennial - Erin Lowry
32 Fry's Ties- Stephen Fry
33 A brief history of the earth- Andrew Knoll

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on July 28, 2024, 01:33:28 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.

30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
Recommended.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on July 29, 2024, 02:00:03 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
42. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
43. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
44. To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn
45. Blood Rites, Jim Butcher
46. Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
47. American Queen, Sierra Simone
48. My Lady Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on August 01, 2024, 07:06:35 AM
2024 Finished:

January
1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
7. Spare by Prince Harry
February
8. All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
10. Family Meal by Bryan Washington
11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
12: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
13. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
14. Three-inch Teeth by C.J. Box
March
15. North Woods by Daniel Mason
16. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
17. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
April
18. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
19. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
20. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
21. The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano
May
22. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Posnanski
23. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
24. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
25. My Darkest Hour by S.A. Cosby
June
26. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
27. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
28. Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
July
29. Walk Upon Time: An Appalachian Trail Thru-hike by Leslie Fletcher (memoir, Journal of her Thru Hike.)
30. My Appalachian Trial by Steve Adams (Memoir, this is actually two volumes, but I had read the first one previously and did a quick re-skim but not a true READ so only counting it once, I really like this one if you are interested in hearing/reading a persons experience on the trail)
31. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (Fiction, older woman struggles with aging, relationships, and losing a child while working nights in an aquarium and befriending an octopus)
32. Traitor's Blade by Sebastien de Castell (Fantasy, LOVED this story about the rise and fall of the Greatcoats, can't wait for my hold to be up for the next one!)

Currently reading:

Audio: Nothing!
Print: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

Back on an Appalachian Trial kick... one of the first things my spouse and I hope to do post-FIRE is a thru hike!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: gatortator on August 02, 2024, 03:55:39 PM
25.  Beowulf, a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
26.  Louisa: the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas.
27.  Loathe at first sight by Suzanne Park.
28.  The house in the cerulean Sea by TJ klune
29.  Artificial condition by Martha Wells.
30.  Rogue protocol by Martha Wells.
31.  The four treasures of the sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
32.  The salt grows heavy by Cassandra Khaw

33.  The sun is also a star by Nicola Yoon
34.  A grave matter by Anne Lee Huber
35.  The fruit of the drunken tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
36.  Gender queer by Maia Kobabe
37.  The Duke and I by Julia Quinn.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on August 04, 2024, 07:52:01 AM
24. Misery by Stephen King
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on August 05, 2024, 04:36:33 PM

30) Solito by Javier Zamora (bookclub, memoir)**
31) Dinosaurs: A novel by Lydia Millet**(fiction)
32) Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (fiction)
33) Behavior Adjustment Training: BAT for Fear, Frustration, and Aggression in Dogs by Grisha Stewart
34) Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (fiction)
35) The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young (re-read)
36) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (fiction)

Recently finished/reading
37) Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky*  Woah is all.

38) Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut by Will Bulsiewicz. First listened to a podcast with this gastroenterologist. The style of writing is pop-sciencey even though it's research based but lots of interesting info especially about food sensitivities vs. allergies.

39) Hunting Together: Harnessing Predatory Chasing in Family Dogs by Simone Mueller

40) The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley (recommended on this forum in a different thread)

*obviously need to add some light, summery fiction!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on August 07, 2024, 05:43:02 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
42. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
43. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
44. To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn
45. Blood Rites, Jim Butcher
46. Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
47. American Queen, Sierra Simone
48. My Lady Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
49. Proven Guilty, Jim Butcher
50. Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on August 09, 2024, 07:40:53 AM
31. James by Percival Everett

32. Birding to Change the World by Trish O'Kane

33. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on August 09, 2024, 07:15:25 PM
Another hundred down! Favourites marked. I've been hitting the nonfiction and Harvard Classics hard this time around.

281. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
282. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
283. Vanity Fair my William Makepeace Thackeray
284. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
285. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
286. Children of Anguish and Anarchy by Tomi Adeyemi
287. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Harari

288. Winter Lost by Patricia Briggs
The latest Mercy Thompson installment is SO GOOD. One of my long-time favourite series for sure.


289. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
I found this unexpectedly hilarious. Dude was a total psychopath. Probably the best goldsmith to ever walk the earth, and he knew it. There were so many instances of "Oh you're the king/pope/whatever, you think I give a shit? Fuck you, pay me."


290. The Darkness WIthin Us by Tricia Levenseller
291. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
292. The Pietry of the Celtic Races by Ernest Henan
293. Selected Essays by Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
294. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
295. The Education of the Human Race by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
296. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
297. Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
298. On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller
299. Byron and Goethe by Giuseppe Mazzini

300. Conclave by Robert Harris
I only read this because I saw a trailer for the upcoming movie adaptation, and it was really good! It's a thriller about the election process of a new pope, with all sorts of twists and secrets coming out. Really atmospheric and a great read.


My challenges are going well, everything's eiher spot-on where I should be or ahead of the game:

1. 365 book challenge: 300/365
2. Daily Stoic Challenge: I've been reading it daily!
3. Nonfiction Challenge: 39/50
4. Backlog Challenge: 48/51
5. Harvard Classics Challenge: 43/71 Volumes (108/? individual books)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on August 10, 2024, 09:07:46 AM
Quote from: Linea_Norway link=topic=133167.msg3281489#msg3281489
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.

31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on August 15, 2024, 07:19:23 AM
25. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History by Manjula Martin
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wanttobehome on August 19, 2024, 07:04:53 AM
Jan
1. The Donkey principle - Rachel Anne Ridge
2. Magic lessons - Alice Hoffman
3.A Sting in the Tale - My adventures with Bumble bees - Dave Goulson
4.The Arbornaut - Meg Lowman
5. Small bodies of water- Nina Powles


Feb
6. Doomsday Match - Jeff Wheeler
7. Jaguar Prophecies - Jeff Wheeler
8.The book of magic - Alice Hoffman
9.The wood - John Lewis-Stempel

March
10.Seven Brief lessons on physics - Carlo Rovelli
11. The natural navigator - Tristan Gooley
12.How to give up plastic - Will McCallum
13. Seven sins of memory  - Daniel Schacter

April
14. The stream of everything - John Connell
15.  The way home - tales from a life without technology
16. Why does it still hurt? -Paul Biegler
17. The edge of the plain - James Crawford

May
18. The Full English - Stuart Maconie
19. Under the stars - Matt Gaw
20. Braintenece - Julia Ravey
21. Outlive  - Dr Peter Attia
22Nature is never silent - Dr Madlen Ziege

June
23. Amazing thinkers and humanitarians - Collins
24. Unruly - David Mitchell
25. River Kings Cat Jarman
26. How to cope - Dr Clare Hayes
27. How to survive almost anything - Ollie Ollerton
28. Rootbound - Alice Vincent

July
29 The Poyson Garden -Karen Harper
30 Improbable destinies - Fate, Chance and the future of evolution
31 Broke Millennial - Erin Lowry
32 Fry's Ties- Stephen Fry
33 A brief history of the earth- Andrew Knoll

August
34 Un do it - D and A Ornish
35 Still Water - John Lewis Stempel
36 The Hobbit   JRR Tolkien
37 Dream Big Daily Joys -
38 Rewild your home - Victoria Harrison
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on August 19, 2024, 08:03:31 AM
30. Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett
31. North Woods by Daniel Mason
32. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
33. Anne of Avonlea by  L.M. Montgomery
34. The Wedding People by Allison Espach
35. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell
36. Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on August 24, 2024, 09:35:01 AM
1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOtherN/AGeneral Fiction
5The Rage of DragonsEvan WinterLibraryTBR2/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
6Under the Pendulum SunJeanette NgLibraryTBR2/10/2024Fiction - Fantasy
7Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever NeedTracy McCubbinLibraryTBR2/14/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
8ScoopEvelyn WaughLibraryTBR2/17/2024General Fiction
DNFTess of the D'UrbervillesThomas HardyLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
9Brighton RockGraham GreenLibraryTBR3/3/2024General Fiction
10The Rules of MagicAlice HoffmanOwnOther3/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Code of the WoostersP.G. WodehouseLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
11Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to 'Zuiki' Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow EdiblesEric ToensmeierLibraryTBR3/15/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
12Self-Care for Introverts: 17 Soothing Rituals for Peace in a Hectic WorldBarrie DavenportLibraryTBR3/19/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
DNFDavid CopperfieldCharles DickensLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
13Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals can Transform our Lives - and Save TheirsRichard LouvLibraryTBR3/29/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
DNFRobinson CrusoeDaniel DefoeLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
DNFThe House of GodSamuel ShemLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
14The Way of KingsBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFMrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
15Words of RadianceBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
16The Fires of VengeanceEvan WinterLibrarySequel4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
17The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva PathNorman FischerLibraryTBR5/8/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
18OathbringerBrandon SandersonOwnReread5/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy
19Don Quixote, Part 1Miguel de CervantesLibraryTBR5/31/2024General Fiction
20All About Pruning: The Complete Guide to the Pruning of Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and PerennialsOrtho BooksOwnEducational6/2/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
21Gardens of the MoonSteven EriksonLibraryTBR6/19/2024Fiction - Fantasy
22DisgraceJ.M. CoetzeeLibraryTBR6/23/2024General Fiction
23Deadhouse GatesSteven EriksonLibrarySequel7/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
24Declassified: A Low-key Guide to the High-strung World of Classical MusicArianna Warsaw-Fan RauchBorrowedOther7/4/2024Nonfiction - History/Biography
25Heart of DarknessJoseph ConradLibraryTBR List7/5/2024General Fiction
DNFThe Portrait of a LadyHenry JamesLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction

26Grand Central ArenaRyk E SpoorOpen LibraryTBR List7/13/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
27Spheres of InfluenceRyk E SpoorOpen LibrarySequel7/23/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
28The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and OurselvesMary ReynoldsLibraryTBR List7/23/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
29Swann's WayMarcel ProustLibraryTBR List8/14/2024General Fiction
30Memories of IceSteven Erikson LibrarySequel8/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy

TBR: 26
Sequels: 5
Nonfiction: 9
DNF: 9
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on August 25, 2024, 09:54:01 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.

32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on August 26, 2024, 03:37:55 PM
Another 20 down, mostly due to my recent Harvard Classics volumes being ones with multiple shorter books. Favourites marked:

301. Guy Mannering by Walter Scott
302. Letters on the English by Voltaire
303. A Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes

304. Sociopath by Patric Gagne
This was a really interesting memoir from the point of view of a woman growing up a sociopath. Really raw and personal.


305. Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
306. A Discourse on Inequality by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
307. Of Man by Thomas Hobbes
308. Saturation Point by Adrian Tchaikovsky
309. Born of Blood and Ash by Jennifer Armentrout
310. The Chronicles of Froissart by Jean Froissart
311. The Holy Grail by Thomas Malory
312. Description of Elizabethan England 1577 by William Harrison
313. The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper

314. The Prince by by Niccolò Machiavelli
Truly diabolical, a really spot-on practical guide to seizing and holding power.


315. Utopia by Thomas More
316. To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation by Martin Luther
317. The Ninety-Five Theses by Martin Luther
318. On Christian Liberty by Martin Luther (note: God damn is this guy savage! These three books are the most brutal takedown of a religion I've ever read. I remember learning a bit about him in high school, but not reading the actual works)
319. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
320. Harvard Classics Volume 40: English Poetry 1

My goals are all in order:

1. 365 Book Challenge: 320/365
2. Daily Stoic Challenge: Been reading it daily!
3. Nonfiction Challenge: 41/50
4. Backlog Challenge: 48/51 (and the last three just showed up at the library!)
5. Harvard Classics Challenge: 48/71 Volumes (124 individual books)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on August 28, 2024, 06:22:11 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
42. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
43. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
44. To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn
45. Blood Rites, Jim Butcher
46. Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
47. American Queen, Sierra Simone
48. My Lady Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
49. Proven Guilty, Jim Butcher
50. Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey
51. My Plain Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on August 28, 2024, 06:59:53 AM
26. The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on August 31, 2024, 03:23:52 PM
2024 Finished:

January
1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
7. Spare by Prince Harry
February
8. All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
10. Family Meal by Bryan Washington
11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
12: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
13. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
14. Three-inch Teeth by C.J. Box
March
15. North Woods by Daniel Mason
16. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
17. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
April
18. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
19. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
20. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
21. The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano
May
22. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Posnanski
23. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
24. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
25. My Darkest Hour by S.A. Cosby
June
26. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
27. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
28. Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
July
29. Walk Upon Time: An Appalachian Trail Thru-hike by Leslie Fletcher
30. My Appalachian Trial by Steve Adams
31. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
32. Traitor's Blade by Sebastien de Castell
August
33. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Historical fiction, following a family battling a peculiar affliction in southern India)
34. Becoming Odessa by Jennifer Pharr Davis (Member, Another Appalachian Trail thru-hike story)
35. Dead Mans Walk by Larry McMurtry (Historical fiction, precursor to the famous Lonesome Dove following Gus and Call as the first become Rangers)
36. Knight's Shadow by Sebastien de Castell (Fantasy, book two of The Greatcoats, knights and dukes are the bad guys... the good guys are a group of traveling judges trying to restore the monarchy)

Currently reading:

Audio: Saint's Blood by Sebastien de Castell
Print: First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: gatortator on September 01, 2024, 11:45:20 AM
33.  The sun is also a star by Nicola Yoon
34.  A grave matter by Anne Lee Huber
35.  The fruit of the drunken tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras.
36.  Gender queer by Maia Kobabe
37.  The Duke and I by Julia Quinn.

38. The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
39. The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
40. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
41. An Indigenous People's History of the United State for Young Readers, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, adapted by Jean Mendoza, Debbie Reese


Challenges-- 2/3 of the year is finished, so here is my check-in for the challenges I am completing

1- Library Book Challenge (list redacted for privacy), 50 books, 50 categories: 41/50
2. PopSugar  2024 Reading Challenge (https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/reading-challenge-2024-49318757) 38/50. definitely a fluffier reading challenge compared to #1
3. Backlist Reading Challenge (https://bookgirlsguide.com/backlist-reading-challenge/) 8/12.  have used this site a few times to find books that fit categories in challenges #1 and #2, so I though I would piggyback this challenge onto what I was already doing. 
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Morning Glory on September 01, 2024, 11:51:43 AM
January:
1. Four Lost Cities: A secret history of the urban age by Annalee Newitz (audio book)
2. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
3. Taking Care: The story of nursing and its power to change the world by Sarah DiGregorio (audio book)
4. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
5. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
6. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (audio book)
7. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
8. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
9. Artemis by Andy Weir
10. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
11. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
12. The Library Book by Susan Orlean (audio book)
13. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
14. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
February:
15. Unsavory Truth: How food companies skew the science of what we eat by Marion Nestle (audio book)
16. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
17. $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin and Luke Schaefer (audio book)
18. Number9dream by David Mitchell
19. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
20. A fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Leguin
21. Screaming on the Inside: the Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose (audio book)
22.One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
23. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
24. What We Don't Talk about when We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon (audio book)
25. Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
26. Matrix by Lauren Groff
March:
27.Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
28. There There by Tommy Orange
29. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
30. Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
31. The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
32. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
33. A true account: 'Hannah Masury's sojourn amongst the pyrates, written by herself' by Katherine Howe
34. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles Marohn (audio book)
35. Fourteen Days by multiple authors (edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston)

April/May/June
36. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
37. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar (audio book)
38. Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain (audio book)
39. Being Mortal: Medicine and what happens in the end by Atul Gawande (audio book)
40. Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
41. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
42. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
43. Saving Time by Jenny ODell (audio book)
44. All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
45. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
46. House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
47. Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
48. The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell (audio book)
49. The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
50. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
51. Filterworld: How algorithms flattened culture by Kyle Chayka
52. The Wonder of All Things by Jason Mott
53. Down Here We Come Up by Sara Johnson Allen
54. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
55. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
56. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
57. Debt: The first 5000 years by David Graeber (audio book)

July & August:
58. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
59. The Injustice of Place by Kathryn Edin and Luke Schaefer (audio book)-same authors as "$2 a day"
60. Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
61. This American Ex-Wife by Lyz Lenz
62. On our Best Behavior: the seven deadly sins and the price women pay to be good by Elise Loehnen (audio book)
63. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel - sequel to Wolf Hall
64. Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb -*this was really good
65. Funny you don't look autistic by Michael McCreary (audio book)
66. The Gene: An intimate history by Siddhartha Mukerjee (audio book)
67. The Martian by Andy Weir
68. Even as We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
69. The Utopia of Rules: on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy by David Graeber (audio book)
70. Crossings: How road ecology is shaping the future of our planet by Ben Goldfarb (audio book)
71. Lost in A Good Book by Jasper Fforde
72. Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
73. Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
74. Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
75. The Secret Life of Groceries: the Dark Miracle of the American supermarket by Benjamin Lorr (audio book)
76. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on September 03, 2024, 07:09:47 AM
37. Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
38. Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
39. Mayluna by Kelly McNeil
40. Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
41. Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
42. Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: ahptex on September 03, 2024, 03:57:00 PM
(1) Right Place, Right Time by Ryan Frederick
(2) China Blonde by Nicole Webb
(3) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
(4) Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
(5) Where You Go is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni
(6) Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
(7) The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
(8) A Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health by David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene Maheu
(9) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
(10) The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
(11) Exit Stage Left by Madeline G. Wheeler
(12) The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Greenhouse
(13) Dust by Hugh Howey (re-read)
(14) Go As a River by Shelley Read
(15) Spare by Prince Harry
(16) The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
(17) The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
(18) The Hunter by Tana French
(19) Rain Gardening in the South by Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford
(20) Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria
(21) Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

(22) The Wager by David Grann
(23) Shift by Hugh Howey (re-read)
(24) The Water-Saving Garden by Pam Pence (re-read)
(25) Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
(26) The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
(27) The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta
(28) The Maid by Nita Prose
(29) Touch by Olaf Olafsson
(30) Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
(31) The Queen of Poisons by Robert Thorogood
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on September 04, 2024, 12:05:01 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
42. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
43. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
44. To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn
45. Blood Rites, Jim Butcher
46. Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
47. American Queen, Sierra Simone
48. My Lady Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
49. Proven Guilty, Jim Butcher
50. Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey
51. My Plain Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
52. The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton
53. My Calamity Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
54. Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on September 04, 2024, 10:12:49 AM
27. The Fun Habit by Mike Rucker
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on September 05, 2024, 11:02:13 PM
34. Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

35. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange. I highly recommend this one.

36. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. This book was moving and powerful, but also I didn't quite like it? I'd be interested in hearing thoughts from anyone else who's read it.

37. Flood and Fury: Old Testament Violence and the Shalom of God by Matthew Lynch. I'd recommend this book for anyone who's struggled with this topic.

DNF: The Secret History of Sharks. I normally like this kind of book, and this one is well reviewed, but I couldn't get into it.

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: ahptex on September 06, 2024, 06:40:03 AM
(1) Right Place, Right Time by Ryan Frederick
(2) China Blonde by Nicole Webb
(3) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
(4) Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
(5) Where You Go is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni
(6) Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
(7) The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
(8) A Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health by David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene Maheu
(9) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
(10) The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
(11) Exit Stage Left by Madeline G. Wheeler
(12) The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Greenhouse
(13) Dust by Hugh Howey (re-read)
(14) Go As a River by Shelley Read
(15) Spare by Prince Harry
(16) The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
(17) The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
(18) The Hunter by Tana French
(19) Rain Gardening in the South by Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford
(20) Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria
(21) Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
(22) The Wager by David Grann
(23) Shift by Hugh Howey (re-read)
(24) The Water-Saving Garden by Pam Pence (re-read)
(25) Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
(26) The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
(27) The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta
(28) The Maid by Nita Prose
(29) Touch by Olaf Olafsson
(30) Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
(31) The Queen of Poisons by Robert Thorogood

(32) The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on September 10, 2024, 08:47:18 PM
...
36) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (fiction)
37) Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky* 
38) Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut by Will Bulsiewicz.
39) Hunting Together: Harnessing Predatory Chasing in Family Dogs by Simone Mueller
40) The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley

Recently finished/reading

41) Mating in Captivity by Ester Perel (bookclub)
41) And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life by Helen Humphreys
42) The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on September 13, 2024, 07:10:27 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver

33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on September 15, 2024, 04:03:02 PM
Next 20, favourites marked. Closing in on 365! I had great luck with my new releases this time around.

321. White Sand Volume 1 by Brandon Sanderson

322. A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
I really loved this darker Goose Girl retelling. It's an interesting look at how normal, non-magical people with limited resources could band together to figure out how to defeat a powerful mind-controlling sorceress.


323. White Sand Volume 2 by Brandon Sanderson
324. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
325. White Sand Volume 3 by Brandon Sanderson
326. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
327. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World by Will Cockrell

328. The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
I absolutely loved this, like anything by the author. Really interesting, fleshed-out characters, and a unique storytelling structure.


329. Love vs the Scarecrow by Cassandra Gannon
330. Some Thoughts Concerning Education by John Locke

331. Lady Macbeth by Ava Reid
Definitely my favourite work by this author, I loved this spooky Macbeth retelling. Incredibly atmospheric and gripping story.


332. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous by George Berkeley
333. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
334. Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
335. In Cold Blood bu Truman Capote
336. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
337. Harvard Classics Volume 38: Scientific Papers

338. Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Murderbot meets meets Gulliver's Travels? A dark, dystopian take on Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot series? A valet robot goes on a journey through the ruins of humanity to figure out what went wrong. Really unique piece of work.


339. Harvard Classics Volume 39: Prefaces And Prologues

340. She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor
Another new release by a long-time favourite author. I just love the creative, vibrant worlds she creates.


Goals progress is going well. I've finished one of them!

1. 365 Book Challenge: 340/365
2. Daily Stoic Challenge: Been reading it daily!
3. Backlog Challenge: 51/51, Complete!
4. Nonfiction Challenge: 47/50
5. Harvard Classics Challenge: 51/71 Volumes, 129 individual books. I've gotten caught up on these, having read 72% of the volumes. 71% of the year is complete as of today.

For now I'm focusing mostly on Harvard Classics and getting caught up on new releases by authors I follow.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: trc4897 on September 18, 2024, 01:32:59 PM
1. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir**
2. Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
3. Fool Me Once - Harlan Coben
4. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey**
5. The Woods - Harlan Coben
6. I Will Find You - Harlan Coben
7. Gone for Good - Harlan Coben
8. Caliban's War - James S.A. Corey**
9. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
10. How Not to Die - Dr. Michael Gregor
11. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
12. Innocent - Harlan Coben
13. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
14. All Systems Red - Martha Wells**
15. Killing Floor - Lee Child**
16. Tell No One - Harlan Coben
17. Never Lie - Freida McFadden
18. Columbus Day - Craig Alanson
19. Chaos Rising - Kyla Stone
20. Edge of Collapse - Kyla Stone
21. Recursion - Blake Crouch**
22. Drift - L.T. Ryan
23. The Other End of the Leash - Patricia McConnell - IN PROGRESS
24. The Giver - Lois Lowry
25. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells**
26. Abaddon's Gate - James S.A. Corey
27. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells
28. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
29. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
30. Deal Breaker - Harlan Coben**
31. Elder Race - Adrian Tchaikovsky
32. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
33. Home - Martha Wells
34. The 5th Wave - Rick Yancey**
35. Dear Bob and Sue - Matt and Karen Smith
36. The Infinite Sea - Rick Yancey
37. The Last Star - Rick Yancey
38. Drop Shot - Harlan Coben

** = favorites

39. The Churn - James S.A. Corey
40. Network Effect - Martha Wells
41. Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry
42. Messenger - Lois Lowry
43. Fugitive Telemetry - Martha Wells
44. System Collapse - Martha Wells
45. Never Finished - David Goggins**
46. Son - Lois Lowry
47. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
48. Fade Away - Harlan Coben**
49. Edge of Madness - Kyla Stone
50. Restaurant at the End of the World - Douglas Adams
51. Life, The Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
52. Wool - Hugh Howey**
53. Back Spin - Harlan Coben**
54. One False Move - Harlan Coben
55. Children of Memory - Adrian Tchaichovsky
56. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams
57. Shift - Hugh Howey
58. Dust - Hugh Howey**
59. The Final Detail - Harlan Coben
60. Darkest Fear - Harlan Coben
61. Promise Me - Harlan Coben
62. Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
63. Edge of Darkness - Kyla Stone

** = favorites

63 books before the end of September?? Way more books than I have ever read in a year before. Probably more books than I have read combined in my adult life!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on September 19, 2024, 03:32:12 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.

34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
At the time I wax reading this, I watch a nature program on TV that showed these Monarch butterflies at the winter stay. It is an impressive book.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on September 19, 2024, 06:06:27 AM
Previous years: 2018 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2018!/msg2247038/#msg2247038) | 2019 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2019!/msg2526771/#msg2526771) | 2020 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2020!/msg2762830/#msg2762830) | 2021 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2021!/msg2954224/#msg2954224) | 2023 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2023!/msg3214444/#msg3214444)

January
1. Hell Is a World Without You by Jason Kirk ★★★★★
2. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★
3. Redshirts by John Scalzi ★★★★☆

February
4. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood ★★★☆☆
5. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener ★★★★☆
6. Convenience Store Woman by  ★★★☆☆
7. Diary of a Tokyo Teen by Christine Mari Inzer ★★★☆☆
8. The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History by Evan Amos ★★★★☆
9. My Detachment: A Memoir by Tracy Kidder ★★★☆☆
10. Monkey Business: Swinging Through Wall Street by John Rolfe and Peter Troob ★★★☆☆
11. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach ★★★★☆
12. Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes ★★★★☆

March
13. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen ★★★★☆
14. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz ★★★★☆
15. American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home by Lester Walker ★★★☆☆
16. The Proving Ground: A Season on the Fringe in NFL Europe by Lars Anderson ★★★☆☆
17. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★
18. Pretty Good House; A Guide to Creating Better Homes by Daniel Kolbert et al ★★★★☆
19. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell ★★★★☆

April
20. The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★☆
21. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman ★★★★☆
22. The All Americans by Lars Anderson ★★★★☆
23. Starter Villain by John Scalzi ★★★★☆
24. Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆
25. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts ★★★☆☆
26. The Water Outlaws by SL Huang ★★★★☆
27. Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry ★★★★☆
28. Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham ★★★★★
29. The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆
30. Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat by Marion Nestle ★★★★☆
31. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill ★★★☆☆

May
32. The Adventures of Amina al-Sarafi by Shannon Chakraborty ★★★★☆
33. Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman ★★★★★
34. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach ★★★☆☆
35. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green ★★★★☆
36. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner ★★★★☆
37. Understanding Semiconductors by Richard Corey ★★☆☆☆
38. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande ★★★★★
39. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong ★★★☆☆

June
40. Skyward by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★★
41. Starsight by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★☆
42. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ★★★★☆
43. Skyward Flight by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson ★★★☆☆
44. The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆
45. Spark by John Twelve Hawks ★★★☆☆
46. Demon Daughter by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
47. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone ★★★★☆
48. Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse ★★★☆☆
49. Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn ★★★★☆

July
50. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell ★★★★☆
51. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver ★★★★☆

August
52. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus ★☆☆☆☆
53. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson ★★★★☆
54. Harold by Steven Wright ★★★☆☆
55. High Times in the Low Parliamant by Kelly Robson ★★★☆☆
56. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland ★★★★☆
57. The Eagles of Heart Mountain by Bradford Pearson ★★★★☆
58. The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid ★★★★☆

September
59. Terciel and Elinor by Garth Nix ★★★★☆
60. Escaping the Housing Trap by Chuck Marohn and Daniel Herriges ★★★★☆
61. Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★☆
62. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner ★★★☆☆
63. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert Sapolsky ★★★★☆
64. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline ★★★★☆
65. The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History by Don Oberdorfer and Robert Carlin ★★★★☆
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on September 20, 2024, 08:33:46 AM
28. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Falling behind this year!! But the weather is turning, so that may encourage more reading.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: ahptex on September 23, 2024, 06:56:36 PM
(1) Right Place, Right Time by Ryan Frederick
(2) China Blonde by Nicole Webb
(3) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
(4) Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
(5) Where You Go is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni
(6) Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
(7) The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
(8) A Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health by David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene Maheu
(9) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
(10) The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
(11) Exit Stage Left by Madeline G. Wheeler
(12) The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Greenhouse
(13) Dust by Hugh Howey (re-read)
(14) Go As a River by Shelley Read
(15) Spare by Prince Harry
(16) The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
(17) The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
(18) The Hunter by Tana French
(19) Rain Gardening in the South by Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford
(20) Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria
(21) Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
(22) The Wager by David Grann
(23) Shift by Hugh Howey (re-read)
(24) The Water-Saving Garden by Pam Pence (re-read)
(25) Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
(26) The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
(27) The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta
(28) The Maid by Nita Prose
(29) Touch by Olaf Olafsson
(30) Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
(31) The Queen of Poisons by Robert Thorogood
(32) The God of the Woods by Liz Moore

(33) The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on September 24, 2024, 12:57:33 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
42. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
43. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
44. To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn
45. Blood Rites, Jim Butcher
46. Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
47. American Queen, Sierra Simone
48. My Lady Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
49. Proven Guilty, Jim Butcher
50. Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey
51. My Plain Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
52. The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton
53. My Calamity Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
54. Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
55. White Night, Jim Butcher
56. Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on September 24, 2024, 03:07:00 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.

35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson. Science fiction from the 80-ies.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on September 24, 2024, 06:35:55 AM
29. Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: StarBright on September 24, 2024, 07:50:02 AM
29. Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

What a great title!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on September 26, 2024, 07:08:17 AM
29. Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

What a great title!

Yes it is! And a generally very funny read as well!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: learnanddo on September 26, 2024, 09:30:11 AM
My goal was 24 books in 2024, didn't figure the extent to which having our first kid would mix up my reading schedule... 2025 should be better!

1. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
2. Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
3. A Storm of Swords - GRR Martin
4. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
5. Dopamine Nation - Anna Lembke
6. The Guide - Peter Heller
7. The Splendid and the Vile - Erik Larson
8. Atomic Habits - James Clear
9. Outdoor Kids in an Inside World - Steven Rinella
10. Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
11. This is How you Lose the Time War - Ek-Mohtar

Still planned before end of year:
Midlife - Kieran Setiya
Midnight Library - Matt Haig
Why Fish Don't Exist - Lulu Miller
I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman

New Total Goal is 15.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on September 29, 2024, 08:56:57 AM
30. The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on September 29, 2024, 10:36:47 PM

1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
42. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
43. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
44. To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn
45. Blood Rites, Jim Butcher
46. Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
47. American Queen, Sierra Simone
48. My Lady Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
49. Proven Guilty, Jim Butcher
50. Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey
51. My Plain Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
52. The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton
53. My Calamity Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
54. Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
55. White Night, Jim Butcher
56. Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
57. The Good Wife of Bath, Karen Brooks
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on September 30, 2024, 10:57:27 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.

36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on October 01, 2024, 07:14:21 AM
43. A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil
44. The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: gatortator on October 01, 2024, 10:26:26 AM
38. The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
39. The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
40. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
41. An Indigenous People's History of the United State for Young Readers, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, adapted by Jean Mendoza, Debbie Reese

42. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
43. The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
44. Haben: The Deafblind Woman who conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
45. Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
46. Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on October 02, 2024, 01:02:50 PM
2024 Finished:

January
1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
7. Spare by Prince Harry
February
8. All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
10. Family Meal by Bryan Washington
11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
12: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
13. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
14. Three-inch Teeth by C.J. Box
March
15. North Woods by Daniel Mason
16. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
17. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
April
18. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
19. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
20. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
21. The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano
May
22. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Posnanski
23. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
24. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
25. My Darkest Hour by S.A. Cosby
June
26. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
27. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
28. Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
July
29. Walk Upon Time: An Appalachian Trail Thru-hike by Leslie Fletcher
30. My Appalachian Trial by Steve Adams
31. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
32. Traitor's Blade by Sebastien de Castell
August
33. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
34. Becoming Odessa by Jennifer Pharr Davis
35. Dead Mans Walk by Larry McMurtry
36. Knight's Shadow by Sebastien de Castell
September
37. Saint's Blood by Sebastien de Castell
38. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
39. Tyrant's Throne by Sebastien de Castell
40. Pitch Dark by Paul Dorion
41. Cascade Failure by I.M. Sagas
October
42. Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Currently reading:

Audio: Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
Print: Gravity Lost by I.M. Sagas
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on October 03, 2024, 11:25:29 PM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
42. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
43. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
44. To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn
45. Blood Rites, Jim Butcher
46. Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
47. American Queen, Sierra Simone
48. My Lady Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
49. Proven Guilty, Jim Butcher
50. Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey
51. My Plain Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
52. The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton
53. My Calamity Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
54. Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
55. White Night, Jim Butcher
56. Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
57. The Good Wife of Bath, Karen Brooks
58. An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: ahptex on October 05, 2024, 05:00:39 PM
(1) Right Place, Right Time by Ryan Frederick
(2) China Blonde by Nicole Webb
(3) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
(4) Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
(5) Where You Go is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni
(6) Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
(7) The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
(8) A Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health by David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene Maheu
(9) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
(10) The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
(11) Exit Stage Left by Madeline G. Wheeler
(12) The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Greenhouse
(13) Dust by Hugh Howey (re-read)
(14) Go As a River by Shelley Read
(15) Spare by Prince Harry
(16) The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
(17) The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
(18) The Hunter by Tana French
(19) Rain Gardening in the South by Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford
(20) Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria
(21) Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
(22) The Wager by David Grann
(23) Shift by Hugh Howey (re-read)
(24) The Water-Saving Garden by Pam Pence (re-read)
(25) Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
(26) The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
(27) The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta
(28) The Maid by Nita Prose
(29) Touch by Olaf Olafsson
(30) Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
(31) The Queen of Poisons by Robert Thorogood
(32) The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
(33) The Secret History by Donna Tartt

(34) Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
(35) The Change by Kirsten Miller
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on October 06, 2024, 12:43:07 AM
Next 20 - so close to 365!

341. Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
342. Harvard Classics, Volume 41: English Poetry 2
343. The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz
344. A Certain Kind of Starlight by Heather Webber

345. The God and the Gumiho by Sophie Kim
A really fun and fast-paced Korean urban fantasy romance. Good stuff.


346. Harvard Classics Volume 42: English Poetry 3
347. The Crimson Crown by Heather Walter
348. Harvard Classics Volume 43: American Historical Documents
349. Pepita Jimenez by Juan Valera
350. A Happy Boy by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
351. Skipper Worse by Alexander Kielland
352. In the Shadow of the Ship by Aliette de Bodard

353. We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
A really gripping new thriller/murder mystery series, can't wait for more books in the series to come out. I love this author.


354. The Sayings of Confucius
355. The Book of Job
356. Ecclesisates, or, The Preacher
357. The Book of Psalms
358. The Gospel According to Luke
359. Acts of the Apostles
360. Adam, One Afternoon and Other Stories by Italo Calvino

Goals progress is good:

1. 365 Book Challenge: 360/365. Home stretch!
2. Daily Stoic Challenge: Been reading it daily.
3. Backlog Challenge: 51/51. Complete!
4. Nonfiction Challenge: 48/50
5. Harvard Classics Challenge: 56/71 volumes, 141 individual books.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on October 06, 2024, 12:47:43 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.

37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on October 06, 2024, 07:11:18 PM
I'm really late to the party, but I've been reading. I guess I just list up what I read so far this year? Not necessarily in the order read.

1-16. Volumes 4 to 19 of Ascendance of a Bookworm (本好きの下剋上, Japanese-language light novel version) by Kazuki Miya.
17. The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo.
18. Hillbilly Elegy by JD Vance.
19. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs.
20. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa (English translation by Eric Ozawa)
21. The Sacred Tree (精霊の木) by Nahoko Uehashi (Japanese version)
22. Maximum Ride by James Patterson.
23. Beauty by Roger Scruton.
24. La Duchesse by Bronwen McShea.
25. Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker (reread)

I wish I'd joined sooner. I feel sure I must have read some other things all the way through, but I can't remember what they were. There were also some more serious books that I dipped into or used but didn't read all the way through. Mostly I have been enjoying the Ascendence of a Bookworm series this year. I'm slower at reading in Japanese, so those are taking more time. It's the story of a young woman who loves books but is transported to a world with few books and no print culture. She's determined to make a life surrounded by books again, even if she has to change the world to make it happen.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on October 07, 2024, 09:09:52 AM
38. All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

39. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

40. The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

41. Practicing the Way by John Mark Comer

42. We the Animals by Justin Torres

43. The Vacation House by Jane Shemilt
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on October 07, 2024, 05:31:48 PM

36) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (fiction)
37) Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky
38) Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut by Will Bulsiewicz.
39) Hunting Together: Harnessing Predatory Chasing in Family Dogs by Simone Mueller
40) The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley
41) Mating in Captivity by Ester Perel (bookclub)
41) And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life by Helen Humphreys

Recently finished/reading

42) Lying by Sam Harris

43) Not On My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon by Alexandra Morton (bookclub)

44) Wanting: The Power of Mimectic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis

45) The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer
by Rodney Habib, Karen Shaw Becker

46) The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on October 08, 2024, 09:11:05 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.

37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.

This last book was very tiresome to read. There are like 5 different storylines. Each chapter is about another person and location. The title of the chapter doesn't give a clue which storyline it is. The first sentences of each chapter don't give a clue either. Somewhere halfway the page, I start to understand which storeline it is about.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on October 12, 2024, 02:10:33 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.

38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on October 12, 2024, 07:24:03 PM
26. Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank B. Gilbert and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
27. Belles on their Toes, also by Frank B. Gilbert and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on October 15, 2024, 08:59:10 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen

39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on October 15, 2024, 09:19:09 AM
1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOtherN/AGeneral Fiction
5The Rage of DragonsEvan WinterLibraryTBR2/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
6Under the Pendulum SunJeanette NgLibraryTBR2/10/2024Fiction - Fantasy
7Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever NeedTracy McCubbinLibraryTBR2/14/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
8ScoopEvelyn WaughLibraryTBR2/17/2024General Fiction
DNFTess of the D'UrbervillesThomas HardyLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
9Brighton RockGraham GreenLibraryTBR3/3/2024General Fiction
10The Rules of MagicAlice HoffmanOwnOther3/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Code of the WoostersP.G. WodehouseLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
11Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to 'Zuiki' Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow EdiblesEric ToensmeierLibraryTBR3/15/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
12Self-Care for Introverts: 17 Soothing Rituals for Peace in a Hectic WorldBarrie DavenportLibraryTBR3/19/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
DNFDavid CopperfieldCharles DickensLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
13Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals can Transform our Lives - and Save TheirsRichard LouvLibraryTBR3/29/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
DNFRobinson CrusoeDaniel DefoeLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
DNFThe House of GodSamuel ShemLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
14The Way of KingsBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFMrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
15Words of RadianceBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
16The Fires of VengeanceEvan WinterLibrarySequel4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
17The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva PathNorman FischerLibraryTBR5/8/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
18OathbringerBrandon SandersonOwnReread5/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy
19Don Quixote, Part 1Miguel de CervantesLibraryTBR5/31/2024General Fiction
20All About Pruning: The Complete Guide to the Pruning of Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and PerennialsOrtho BooksOwnEducational6/2/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
21Gardens of the MoonSteven EriksonLibraryTBR6/19/2024Fiction - Fantasy
22DisgraceJ.M. CoetzeeLibraryTBR6/23/2024General Fiction
23Deadhouse GatesSteven EriksonLibrarySequel7/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
24Declassified: A Low-key Guide to the High-strung World of Classical MusicArianna Warsaw-Fan RauchBorrowedOther7/4/2024Nonfiction - History/Biography
25Heart of DarknessJoseph ConradLibraryTBR List7/5/2024General Fiction
DNFThe Portrait of a LadyHenry JamesLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
26Grand Central ArenaRyk E SpoorOpen LibraryTBR List7/13/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
27Spheres of InfluenceRyk E SpoorOpen LibrarySequel7/23/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
28The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and OurselvesMary ReynoldsLibraryTBR List7/23/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
29Swann's WayMarcel ProustLibraryTBR List8/14/2024General Fiction
30Memories of IceSteven Erikson LibrarySequel8/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy

31The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for FailureGreg Lukianoff, Jonathan HaidtLibraryTBR List8/27/2024Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
32House of ChainsSteven EriksonLibrarySequel9/15/2024Fiction - Fantasy
33Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New DomesticityEmily MatcharLibraryOther10/3/2024Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
34MiddlemarchGeorge EliotLibraryTBR List10/9/2024General Fiction
35Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M MillerLibraryTBR List10/14/2024Fiction - Science Fiction

TBR: 29
Sequels: 6
Nonfiction: 11
DNF: 9
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Razzle on October 16, 2024, 05:37:35 AM
30. Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
31. The Six by Loren Grush
32. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
33. Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on October 16, 2024, 10:34:43 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.

40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on October 18, 2024, 11:52:59 PM
Next 20, favourites marked. I'm knocking them out fast right now since this part of the Harvard Classics is skewing towards shorter books, but that will change in about a week.

361. The First and Second Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
362. Hymns of the Christian Church

363. Buddhist Writings
Shoutout to this one for making surprisingly coherent arguments for why you should dress in tree bark instead of clothing (12 point argument) and live under a tree instead of in a house (10 point argument). Not what I was expecting at all.


364. Chapters from the Koran

365. The Bhagavad Gita

And that makes 365!

366. Edward II by Christopher Marlowe

367. The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai
I've been seeing this on a lot of people's reading lists and decided to give it a shot. So cozy and fun, totally a Before the Coffee Gets Cold vibe.


368. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
369. Shadows of Truth by Astrid Scholte
370. King Lear by William Shakespeare
371. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

372. The Thirteenth Child by Erin Craig
I always love returning to this fairytale-retelling world. It's a great interconnected standalone series.


373. The Tempest by William Shakespeare
374. The Shoemaker's Holiday by Thomas Dekker
375. The Alchemist by Ben Johnson (I also read The Alchemist by Paul Coelho earlier this year, so I managed to to accidentally read two books with the same name in one year!)
376. Philaster by Francis Beaumont

377. The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
It's uncommon to read older plays with such an excellent female lead. She's smart, witty, brave, and interesting in general.


378. A New Way to Pay Old Debts by Phillip Massinger
379. Thoughts by Blaise Pascal
380. Letters by Blaise Pascal

Goals progress:

1. 365 Book Challenge: 380/365. Complete!
2. Daily Stoic Challenge: Been reading it daily.
3. Backlog Challenge: 51/51. Complete!
4. Nonfiction Challenge: 48/50. It's been sitting at this for a while now while I wait for the last two library books to show up, but they're in the pipeline eventually!
5. Harvard Classics Challenge: 59/71 Volumes, 158 individual books.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on October 19, 2024, 02:22:56 AM
1. A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Diana Gabaldon
2. Always, in December, Emily Stone
3. Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
4. Iron flame, Rebecca Yarros
5. Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes
6. The Stars of Mount Quixx, S. M. Beiko
7. The Heiress Hunt, Joanna Shupe
8. Under the Whispering Door, T.J. Klune
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
10. A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
11. A Court of Wings and Ruin, Sarah J. Maas
12. A Court of Frost and Starlight, Sarah J. Maas
13. A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas
14. Her Lessons in Persuasion, Megan Frampton
15. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride
16. The Lantern's Dance, Laurie R. King
17. A Holly Jolly Ever After, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
18. The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey
19. A Merry Little Meet Cute, Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone
20. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Laurie R. King
21. A Monstrous Regiment of Women, Laurie R. King
22. The Affair, Lee Child
23. The Lily of Ludgate Hill, Mimi Matthews
24. A Fragile Enchantment, Allison Saft
25. The Water Outlaws, S. L. Huang
26. The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston
27. The Duke and I, Julia Quinn
28. The Viscount Who Loved Me, Julia Quinn
29. An Offer from a Gentleman, Julia Quinn
30. The Idea of You, Robinne Lee
31. Romancing Mister Bridgerton, Julia Quinn
32. The Unlikely Heir, Jax Calder
33. Storm Front, Jim Butcher
34. Fool Moon, Jim Butcher
35. The Belle of Belgrave Square, Mimi Matthews
36. One Night in Hartswood, Emma Denny
37. Nettle & Bone, T. Kingfisher
38. O Jerusalem, Laurie R. King
39. Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
40. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher
41. The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
42. A Power Unbound, Freya Marske
43. Death Masks, Jim Butcher
44. To Sir Phillip with Love, Julia Quinn
45. Blood Rites, Jim Butcher
46. Dead Beat, Jim Butcher
47. American Queen, Sierra Simone
48. My Lady Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
49. Proven Guilty, Jim Butcher
50. Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey
51. My Plain Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
52. The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton
53. My Calamity Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
54. Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
55. White Night, Jim Butcher
56. Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
57. The Good Wife of Bath, Karen Brooks
58. An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon
59. The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
60. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
61. Book Lovers, Emily Henry
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on October 20, 2024, 07:34:53 AM
31. The Deadline by Jill Lepore
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on October 23, 2024, 02:53:15 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.

41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on October 24, 2024, 04:37:16 PM
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36) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (fiction)
37) Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky
38) Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut by Will Bulsiewicz.
39) Hunting Together: Harnessing Predatory Chasing in Family Dogs by Simone Mueller
40) The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley
41) Mating in Captivity by Ester Perel (bookclub)
41) And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life by Helen Humphreys
42) Lying by Sam Harris
43) Not On My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon by Alexandra Morton (bookclub)
44) Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis
45) The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer
by Rodney Habib, Karen Shaw Becker
46) The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradiseby Olivia Laing

Recently finished/reading
47) Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
48) The Forever Dog Life: 120+ Recipes, Longevity Tips,...etc (the followup) by Dr. Karen Shaw Becker & Rodney Habib
49) The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (bookclub)
50) Beneath the Surface of Things (essays) by Wade Davis
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on October 25, 2024, 01:50:01 PM
26. Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank B. Gilbert and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
27. Belles on their Toes, also by Frank B. Gilbert and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

28. The Far Pavillions by M. M. Kaye ... very good storytelling, but if I want to get to 50 books by the end of the year, I should probably pick shorter ones.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on October 27, 2024, 12:59:50 PM
29. Wrong about Japan, by Peter Carey
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on October 28, 2024, 08:37:44 AM
45) Beach Read by Emily Henry
46) The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer
47) Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
48) The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth
49) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on October 30, 2024, 06:52:03 AM
32. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on October 30, 2024, 09:41:38 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.

42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: ahptex on October 30, 2024, 12:50:01 PM
(1) Right Place, Right Time by Ryan Frederick
(2) China Blonde by Nicole Webb
(3) Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
(4) Talking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
(5) Where You Go is Not Who You Will Be by Frank Bruni
(6) Yerba Buena by Nina LaCour
(7) The English Understand Wool by Helen DeWitt
(8) A Practitioner’s Guide to Telemental Health by David D. Luxton, Eve-Lynn Nelson, and Marlene Maheu
(9) Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
(10) The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
(11) Exit Stage Left by Madeline G. Wheeler
(12) The U.S. Supreme Court: A Very Short Introduction by Linda Greenhouse
(13) Dust by Hugh Howey (re-read)
(14) Go As a River by Shelley Read
(15) Spare by Prince Harry
(16) The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone
(17) The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
(18) The Hunter by Tana French
(19) Rain Gardening in the South by Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford
(20) Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria
(21) Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
(22) The Wager by David Grann
(23) Shift by Hugh Howey (re-read)
(24) The Water-Saving Garden by Pam Pence (re-read)
(25) Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad
(26) The Crow Trap by Ann Cleeves
(27) The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory by Tim Alberta
(28) The Maid by Nita Prose
(29) Touch by Olaf Olafsson
(30) Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
(31) The Queen of Poisons by Robert Thorogood
(32) The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
(33) The Secret History by Donna Tartt
(34) Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
(35) The Change by Kirsten Miller

(36) Hidden Depths by Ann Cleeves
(37) Silent Voices by Ann Cleeves
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on October 31, 2024, 02:19:50 PM
2024 Finished:

January
1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
7. Spare by Prince Harry
February
8. All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
10. Family Meal by Bryan Washington
11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
12: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
13. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
14. Three-inch Teeth by C.J. Box
March
15. North Woods by Daniel Mason
16. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
17. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
April
18. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
19. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
20. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
21. The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano
May
22. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Posnanski
23. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
24. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
25. My Darkest Hour by S.A. Cosby
June
26. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
27. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
28. Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
July
29. Walk Upon Time: An Appalachian Trail Thru-hike by Leslie Fletcher
30. My Appalachian Trial by Steve Adams
31. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
32. Traitor's Blade by Sebastien de Castell
August
33. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
34. Becoming Odessa by Jennifer Pharr Davis
35. Dead Mans Walk by Larry McMurtry
36. Knight's Shadow by Sebastien de Castell
September
37. Saint's Blood by Sebastien de Castell
38. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
39. Tyrant's Throne by Sebastien de Castell
40. Pitch Dark by Paul Dorion
41. Cascade Failure by I.M. Sagas
October
42. Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
43. Gravity Lost by I.M. Sagas
44. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
45. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
46. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
47. The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton

Currently reading:

Audio: Sapiens: A Brief History of Human Kind by Yuval Noah Harari
Print: Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on November 02, 2024, 12:58:26 AM
50. Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey
51. My Plain Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
52. The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton
53. My Calamity Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
54. Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
55. White Night, Jim Butcher
56. Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
57. The Good Wife of Bath, Karen Brooks
58. An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon
59. The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
60. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
61. Book Lovers, Emily Henry
62. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, Hester Fox
63. The Library of Lost Love, Norie Clarke
64. The New Camelot, Robyn Schneider
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wanttobehome on November 03, 2024, 09:05:45 AM
Jan
1. The Donkey principle - Rachel Anne Ridge
2. Magic lessons - Alice Hoffman
3.A Sting in the Tale - My adventures with Bumble bees - Dave Goulson
4.The Arbornaut - Meg Lowman
5. Small bodies of water- Nina Powles


Feb
6. Doomsday Match - Jeff Wheeler
7. Jaguar Prophecies - Jeff Wheeler
8.The book of magic - Alice Hoffman
9.The wood - John Lewis-Stempel

March
10.Seven Brief lessons on physics - Carlo Rovelli
11. The natural navigator - Tristan Gooley
12.How to give up plastic - Will McCallum
13. Seven sins of memory  - Daniel Schacter

April
14. The stream of everything - John Connell
15.  The way home - tales from a life without technology
16. Why does it still hurt? -Paul Biegler
17. The edge of the plain - James Crawford

May
18. The Full English - Stuart Maconie
19. Under the stars - Matt Gaw
20. Braintenece - Julia Ravey
21. Outlive  - Dr Peter Attia
22Nature is never silent - Dr Madlen Ziege

June
23. Amazing thinkers and humanitarians - Collins
24. Unruly - David Mitchell
25. River Kings Cat Jarman
26. How to cope - Dr Clare Hayes
27. How to survive almost anything - Ollie Ollerton
28. Rootbound - Alice Vincent

July
29 The Poyson Garden -Karen Harper
30 Improbable destinies - Fate, Chance and the future of evolution
31 Broke Millennial - Erin Lowry
32 Fry's Ties- Stephen Fry
33 A brief history of the earth- Andrew Knoll

August
34 Un do it - D and A Ornish
35 Still Water - John Lewis Stempel
36 The Hobbit   JRR Tolkien
37 Dream Big Daily Joys -
38 Rewild your home - Victoria Harrison

September
39 DNA the story of the  genetic revolution  - James Watson
40 This view of life, Completing the Darwinian Revolution - David Sloan Wilson
41 Origins how earth shaped human history - Lewis Dartnell
42 Take Note  - Real life lessons  - Toni Tone
43 The wild year -Jen Benson

October
44 And life lights up - Alice Taylor
45Walking - Esling Kagge
46 Cultured How ancient foods can feed our microbiome - Katherine Courage
47 1000 little things - Marc and Angel Chenoff
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on November 06, 2024, 05:21:50 PM
Another milestone with two zeroes after it, definitely the last one for 2024! Favourites marked:

381. Minor Works by Blaise Pascal
382. Beowulf
383. The Song of Roland
384. The Destruction of Da Derga's Hostel
385. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs

** 386. The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
This author really is excellent at historical fiction. Interesting characters and a roller coaster of a read.

** 387. Spectacular by Stephanie Garber
A wonderful cozy Christmas novella in the Caraval world. Fun stuff.
Attachments and other options

388. Lectures on the Harvard Classics
389. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
390. Throne of Secrets by Kerri Maniscalco
391. Atomic Habits by James Clear
392. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
393. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
394. The Devil's Pool by George Sand
395. The Story of a White Blackbird by Alfred de Musset

**396. Graveyard of Demons by Larry Correia
THIS SERIES IS SO GOOD. Book 5 in an Indian epic fantasy series by a long time favourite author of min. One of the best things I've read in a while.

397. Two Friends by Guy de Maupassant
398. Walter Schnaff's Adventure by Guy de Maupassant
399. The Siege of Berlin and Other Stories by Alphonse Daudet
400. Old Goriot by Honore Balzac

My reading goals are all wrapping up nicely:

1. 365 Book Challenge: 400/365. Complete!
2. Backlog Challenge: 51/51. Complete!
3. Nonfiction Challenge: 50/50. Complete!
4. Daily Stoic Challenge: Been reading it daily!
5. Harvard Classics Challenge: 65/71 volumes, 172 individual books. Only ten books left to go!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on November 07, 2024, 07:41:42 PM
44. I is Another by Jon Fosse

45. The Shadow Land by Elizabeth Kostova

46. A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on November 08, 2024, 11:27:02 AM
Quote from: Linea_Norway link=topic=133167.msg3307031#msg3307031
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.

43. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on November 11, 2024, 07:22:35 AM
33. Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on November 13, 2024, 03:05:43 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.
43. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple.

44. Sett av den døde (Seen by the deceased), by Eirik Husby Seather.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Avolonte on November 18, 2024, 07:33:23 AM
 1     Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology by Eric Brende 2005
 2     West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge    2021
 3     The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides 2019
 4     How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu 2022
 5     Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo 2023
 6     Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 1937
 7     Pathfinders by J. L. Collins 2023
 8     George: A Magpie Memoir by Frieda Hughes 2023
 9     You Only Call When You're in Trouble by Stephen McCauley 2024
 10     Enchantment by Katherine May 2023
 11     Once Upon a Tome: the Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire 2022
 12     Breaking Bread with the Dead: a Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs 2020
 13     Gaining Ground by Forrest Pritchard 2013
 14     The Round House by Louise Erdrich 2012
 15     Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver 2003
 16     Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel by Dai Sijie 2002
 17     Little Bee by Chris Cleave 2008
 18     The Rain in Portugal by Billy Collins 2016
 19     Life in the Studio: Inspirations and Lessons on Creativity by Frances Palmer 2020
 20     The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje 1992
 21     The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis 1983
 22     Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport 2024
 23     The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley 2023
 24     Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino 2024
 25     Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie 1953
 26     Small Spaces by Katherine Arden 2018
 27     Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home by Danielle Postel-Vinay 2018

Shoot, I don't think I'll make it to 50 this year but I'm going to keep at it. Beautyland and The Queen's Gambit were so, so good. I've seen the Netflix series and I know what happens, but I couldn't put down The Queen's Gambit! It's fairly short, too, if anyone needs something quick.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on November 18, 2024, 09:24:29 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.
43. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple.
44. Sett av den døde (Seen by the deceased), by Eirik Husby Seather.

45. Ildbarnet, The Fire Child, by S.K.Tremayne.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on November 18, 2024, 09:26:30 PM
...
46) The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradiseby Olivia Laing
47) Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
48) The Forever Dog Life: 120+ Recipes, Longevity Tips,...etc (the followup) by Dr. Karen Shaw Becker & Rodney Habib
49) The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (bookclub)
50) Beneath the Surface of Things (essays) by Wade Davis

Recently finished/reading
51) Inside the Belly of an Elephant (memoir) by Todd Lawson
52) Yamas and Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice by Deborah Adele
53) On Freedom by Timothy Snyder
54) A Life of Meaning: Exploring our Deepest Questions and Motivations by James Hollis (audiobook)
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: erp on November 19, 2024, 08:00:48 AM
I'm a little surprised, but I actually hit the 50 books in 2024! Admittedly a lot of audiobooks, but still an enormous amount of reading.
Stars are the favourites, double star for best of the year (although I think there might be two of those)

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on November 23, 2024, 07:56:44 PM
Another 20 down, skewed heavily towards the Goodreads Choice Awards longlists and prior books. Vote if you haven't had a chance yet! Favourites marked:

401. Dracula by Bram Stoker
402. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
403. The Sorrows of Young Werther ny Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
404. The Banner of the Upright Seven by Gottfried Keller
405. The Rider of the White Horse by Theodor Storm
406. The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai
407. Trials and Tribulations by Theodor Fontaine
408. The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden

409. Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
An excellent fantasy book, instant all-time favourite. Can't wait for part 2 to come in at the library.


410. The Teacher by Freida McFadden
411. The Eyes are the Best Part by Monika Kim
412. Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate

413. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
414. The Lost Sisters by Holly Black
415. The Wicked King by Holly Black
How have I never read this series before? It's fantastic YA fantasy, full of adventure, romance, politics, and twists. Loving it.


416. Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton
417. The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
418. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo
419. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

420. Ivan the Fool be Leo Tolstoy
A really funny Russian fairy tale about a guy so simple he's basically impossible to corrupt, who ends up besting all sorts of formidable opponents inadvertently.


1. 365 Book Challenge: 420/365. Complete!
2. Backlog Challenge: 51/51. Complete!
3. Nonfiction Challenge: 50/50. Complete!
4. Daily Stoic Challenge: Been reading it daily!
5. Harvard Classics Challenge: 69/71 volumes, 179 individual books. Only three books left to go!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on November 24, 2024, 06:36:41 AM
34. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on November 24, 2024, 07:11:15 AM
Another 20 down, skewed heavily towards the Goodreads Choice Awards longlists and prior books. Vote if you haven't had a chance yet! Favourites marked:
...
1. 365 Book Challenge: 420/365. Complete!
2. Backlog Challenge: 51/51. Complete!
3. Nonfiction Challenge: 50/50. Complete!
4. Daily Stoic Challenge: Been reading it daily!
5. Harvard Classics Challenge: 69/71 volumes, 179 individual books. Only three books left to go!

Wow! So much reading. It's great!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on November 24, 2024, 07:27:00 AM
29. Wrong about Japan, by Peter Carey

30 & 31. Volumes 20 and 21 of 本好きの下剋上 (Ascendance of a Bookworm)

Trying to think back to other things I read early in the year before joining the challenge. I think the following were also this year, so let's add them in to have a chance of reaching 50...

32. Miss Felicity Beedle's The world of poo by Terry Pratchett
33. Monstrous regiment by Terry Pratchett

Also in progress are Les Misérables, How Women Rise, The Religious Sense, Keeping in Balance: Creating Order Within, Read to Lead, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, and a few Japanese and Korean language textbooks. I rarely read the nonfiction and textbooks all the way through, so I'm not sure when to count them. Les Misérables was making me miserable, but I should probably pick it up again since I was more than half of the way through.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on November 25, 2024, 05:18:19 AM
50. Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey
51. My Plain Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
52. The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton
53. My Calamity Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
54. Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
55. White Night, Jim Butcher
56. Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
57. The Good Wife of Bath, Karen Brooks
58. An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon
59. The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
60. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
61. Book Lovers, Emily Henry
62. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, Hester Fox
63. The Library of Lost Love, Norie Clarke
64. The New Camelot, Robyn Schneider
65. The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman
66. Blood Oath, Christopher Farnsworth
67. After Oz, Gordon McAlpine
68. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love, Lex Croucher
69. Happy Place, Emily Henry
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on November 25, 2024, 07:30:25 AM
50) A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
51) You, with a View by Jessica Joyce
52) Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on November 25, 2024, 05:36:02 PM
29. Wrong about Japan, by Peter Carey
30 & 31. Volumes 20 and 21 of 本好きの下剋上 (Ascendance of a Bookworm)
32. Miss Felicity Beedle's The world of poo by Terry Pratchett
33. Monstrous regiment by Terry Pratchett
...

34. Draw Down the Moon by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast
35. Ascendance of a Bookworm, English translation of the manga version, vol. 1, by Miya Kazuki
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on November 25, 2024, 09:28:34 PM
47. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

48. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on November 26, 2024, 08:09:29 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.
43. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple.
44. Sett av den døde (Seen by the deceased), by Eirik Husby Seather.
45. Ildbarnet, The Fire Child, by S.K.Tremayne.

46. Arv og miljø (Will and Testament), by Vidgis Hjorth.
Highly recommended!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on November 29, 2024, 07:27:39 AM
35. Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on November 29, 2024, 11:26:29 AM
1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOtherN/AGeneral Fiction
5The Rage of DragonsEvan WinterLibraryTBR2/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
6Under the Pendulum SunJeanette NgLibraryTBR2/10/2024Fiction - Fantasy
7Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever NeedTracy McCubbinLibraryTBR2/14/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
8ScoopEvelyn WaughLibraryTBR2/17/2024General Fiction
DNFTess of the D'UrbervillesThomas HardyLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
9Brighton RockGraham GreenLibraryTBR3/3/2024General Fiction
10The Rules of MagicAlice HoffmanOwnOther3/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Code of the WoostersP.G. WodehouseLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
11Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to 'Zuiki' Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow EdiblesEric ToensmeierLibraryTBR3/15/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
12Self-Care for Introverts: 17 Soothing Rituals for Peace in a Hectic WorldBarrie DavenportLibraryTBR3/19/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
DNFDavid CopperfieldCharles DickensLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
13Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals can Transform our Lives - and Save TheirsRichard LouvLibraryTBR3/29/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
DNFRobinson CrusoeDaniel DefoeLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
DNFThe House of GodSamuel ShemLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
14The Way of KingsBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFMrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
15Words of RadianceBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
16The Fires of VengeanceEvan WinterLibrarySequel4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
17The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva PathNorman FischerLibraryTBR5/8/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
18OathbringerBrandon SandersonOwnReread5/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy
19Don Quixote, Part 1Miguel de CervantesLibraryTBR5/31/2024General Fiction
20All About Pruning: The Complete Guide to the Pruning of Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and PerennialsOrtho BooksOwnEducational6/2/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
21Gardens of the MoonSteven EriksonLibraryTBR6/19/2024Fiction - Fantasy
22DisgraceJ.M. CoetzeeLibraryTBR6/23/2024General Fiction
23Deadhouse GatesSteven EriksonLibrarySequel7/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
24Declassified: A Low-key Guide to the High-strung World of Classical MusicArianna Warsaw-Fan RauchBorrowedOther7/4/2024Nonfiction - History/Biography
25Heart of DarknessJoseph ConradLibraryTBR List7/5/2024General Fiction
DNFThe Portrait of a LadyHenry JamesLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
26Grand Central ArenaRyk E SpoorOpen LibraryTBR List7/13/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
27Spheres of InfluenceRyk E SpoorOpen LibrarySequel7/23/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
28The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and OurselvesMary ReynoldsLibraryTBR List7/23/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
29Swann's WayMarcel ProustLibraryTBR List8/14/2024General Fiction
30Memories of IceSteven Erikson LibrarySequel8/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy
31The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for FailureGreg Lukianoff, Jonathan HaidtLibraryTBR List8/27/2024Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
32House of ChainsSteven EriksonLibrarySequel9/15/2024Fiction - Fantasy
33Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New DomesticityEmily MatcharLibraryOther10/3/2024Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
34MiddlemarchGeorge EliotLibraryTBR List10/9/2024General Fiction
35Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M MillerLibraryTBR List10/14/2024Fiction - Science Fiction

36Challenges of the DeepsRyk E SpoorLibrarySequel10/25/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
37The Unsettling of America: Culture and AgricultureWendell BerryLibraryTBR List10/29/2024Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
38Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet DictocratsSarah FallonLibraryTBR List11/10/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
39Midnight TidesSteven EriksonLibrarySequel11/17/2024Fiction - Fantasy
40Shadows of HyperionRyk E SpoorOwnSequel11/28/2024Fiction - Science Fiction

TBR: 31
Sequels: 9
Nonfiction: 13
DNF: 9
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on December 01, 2024, 12:53:31 PM
...
34. Draw Down the Moon by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast
35. Ascendance of a Bookworm, English translation of the manga version, vol. 1, by Miya Kazuki

36 & 37. Ascendance of a Bookworm, English manga, vols. 2 and 3, by Miya Kazuki
38. Dies the Fire, by S. M. Stirling
39. The God of Nishi-Yuigahama Station, by Takeshi Murase, English translation
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on December 02, 2024, 07:56:34 AM
2024 Finished:

January
1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
7. Spare by Prince Harry
February
8. All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
10. Family Meal by Bryan Washington
11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
12: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
13. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
14. Three-inch Teeth by C.J. Box
March
15. North Woods by Daniel Mason
16. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
17. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
April
18. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
19. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
20. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
21. The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano
May
22. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Posnanski
23. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
24. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
25. My Darkest Hour by S.A. Cosby
June
26. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
27. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
28. Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
July
29. Walk Upon Time: An Appalachian Trail Thru-hike by Leslie Fletcher
30. My Appalachian Trial by Steve Adams
31. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
32. Traitor's Blade by Sebastien de Castell
August
33. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
34. Becoming Odessa by Jennifer Pharr Davis
35. Dead Mans Walk by Larry McMurtry
36. Knight's Shadow by Sebastien de Castell
September
37. Saint's Blood by Sebastien de Castell
38. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
39. Tyrant's Throne by Sebastien de Castell
40. Pitch Dark by Paul Dorion
41. Cascade Failure by I.M. Sagas
October
42. Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
43. Gravity Lost by I.M. Sagas
44. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
45. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
46. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
47. The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
November
48. Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
49. Commanche Moon by Larry McMurtry

Currently reading: Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson

Trying to get RoW finished before the final book of this Stormlight Archives arc comes out this week. I'm clearly not going to hit my last year reading total (67 books) but I read a lot of longer books this year, I'd be interested to see how the "number of pages" compare on Good reads. Number of pages in parenthesis because I listened rather than read several of these.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on December 03, 2024, 04:13:17 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.
43. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple.
44. Sett av den døde (Seen by the deceased), by Eirik Husby Seather.
45. Ildbarnet, The Fire Child, by S.K.Tremayne.
46. Arv og miljø (Will and Testament), by Vidgis Hjorth.

47. Fri vilje (Free Will), by Helga Hjort.
Her sister's story as an answer for the last book.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on December 04, 2024, 10:00:27 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.
43. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple.
44. Sett av den døde (Seen by the deceased), by Eirik Husby Seather.
45. Ildbarnet, The Fire Child, by S.K.Tremayne.
46. Arv og miljø (Will and Testament), by Vidgis Hjorth.
47. Fri vilje (Free Will), by Helga Hjort.

48. Gå i fengsel (Go to Jail) Camilla Läckberg.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on December 04, 2024, 12:17:20 PM
. . .
36 & 37. Ascendance of a Bookworm, English manga, vols. 2 and 3, by Miya Kazuki
38. Dies the Fire, by S. M. Stirling
39. The God of Nishi-Yuigahama Station, by Takeshi Murase, English translation

40. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on December 07, 2024, 02:16:02 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.
43. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple.
44. Sett av den døde (Seen by the deceased), by Eirik Husby Seather.
45. Ildbarnet, The Fire Child, by S.K.Tremayne.
46. Arv og miljø (Will and Testament), by Vidgis Hjorth.
47. Fri vilje (Free Will), by Helga Hjort.
48. Gå i fengsel (Go to Jail) Camilla Läckberg.

49. Trelegemeproblemet (The Three Body Problem), by Cixin Liu.
A re-read, this time in Norwegian, which makes it a bit easier to understand with all the science bits.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on December 07, 2024, 02:44:28 AM
50. Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey
51. My Plain Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
52. The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton
53. My Calamity Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
54. Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
55. White Night, Jim Butcher
56. Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
57. The Good Wife of Bath, Karen Brooks
58. An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon
59. The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
60. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
61. Book Lovers, Emily Henry
62. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, Hester Fox
63. The Library of Lost Love, Norie Clarke
64. The New Camelot, Robyn Schneider
65. The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman
66. Blood Oath, Christopher Farnsworth
67. After Oz, Gordon McAlpine
68. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love, Lex Croucher
69. Happy Place, Emily Henry
70. American Royals, Katharine McGee
71. Majesty, Katharine McGee
72. Infamous, Lex Croucher
73. Trouble, Lex Croucher
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on December 10, 2024, 08:15:19 AM
. . .
40. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
41. The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on December 12, 2024, 01:54:11 AM
Quote from: Linea_Norway link=topic=133167.msg3318098#msg3318098
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.
43. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple.
44. Sett av den døde (Seen by the deceased), by Eirik Husby Seather.
45. Ildbarnet, The Fire Child, by S.K.Tremayne.
46. Arv og miljø (Will and Testament), by Vidgis Hjorth.
47. Fri vilje (Free Will), by Helga Hjort.
48. Gå i fengsel (Go to Jail) Camilla Läckberg.
49. Trelegemeproblemet (The Three Body Problem), by Cixin Liu.

50. Demens (Dementia) by Audun Myskja.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on December 12, 2024, 06:47:37 AM
36. MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wanttobehome on December 14, 2024, 07:31:50 AM
Jan
1. The Donkey principle - Rachel Anne Ridge
2. Magic lessons - Alice Hoffman
3.A Sting in the Tale - My adventures with Bumble bees - Dave Goulson
4.The Arbornaut - Meg Lowman
5. Small bodies of water- Nina Powles


Feb
6. Doomsday Match - Jeff Wheeler
7. Jaguar Prophecies - Jeff Wheeler
8.The book of magic - Alice Hoffman
9.The wood - John Lewis-Stempel

March
10.Seven Brief lessons on physics - Carlo Rovelli
11. The natural navigator - Tristan Gooley
12.How to give up plastic - Will McCallum
13. Seven sins of memory  - Daniel Schacter

April
14. The stream of everything - John Connell
15.  The way home - tales from a life without technology
16. Why does it still hurt? -Paul Biegler
17. The edge of the plain - James Crawford

May
18. The Full English - Stuart Maconie
19. Under the stars - Matt Gaw
20. Braintenece - Julia Ravey
21. Outlive  - Dr Peter Attia
22Nature is never silent - Dr Madlen Ziege

June
23. Amazing thinkers and humanitarians - Collins
24. Unruly - David Mitchell
25. River Kings Cat Jarman
26. How to cope - Dr Clare Hayes
27. How to survive almost anything - Ollie Ollerton
28. Rootbound - Alice Vincent

July
29 The Poyson Garden -Karen Harper
30 Improbable destinies - Fate, Chance and the future of evolution
31 Broke Millennial - Erin Lowry
32 Fry's Ties- Stephen Fry
33 A brief history of the earth- Andrew Knoll

August
34 Un do it - D and A Ornish
35 Still Water - John Lewis Stempel
36 The Hobbit   JRR Tolkien
37 Dream Big Daily Joys -
38 Rewild your home - Victoria Harrison

September
39 DNA the story of the  genetic revolution  - James Watson
40 This view of life, Completing the Darwinian Revolution - David Sloan Wilson
41 Origins how earth shaped human history - Lewis Dartnell
42 Take Note  - Real life lessons  - Toni Tone
43 The wild year -Jen Benson

October
44 And life lights up - Alice Taylor
45Walking - Esling Kagge
46 Cultured How ancient foods can feed our microbiome - Katherine Courage
47 1000 little things - Marc and Angel Chenoff

November
48 12 rules for life - Jordan Peterson
49 The Strange order of everything - Antinio Damasio
50 The Price of Money - Rob Dix
51 Playing to the gallery - Grayson Perry

December
52 A mudlarking year - Lara Maiklem
53 About time - David Rooney
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on December 15, 2024, 06:39:13 PM
...
46) The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradiseby Olivia Laing
47) Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
48) The Forever Dog Life: 120+ Recipes, Longevity Tips,...etc (the followup) by Dr. Karen Shaw Becker & Rodney Habib
49) The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (bookclub)
50) Beneath the Surface of Things (essays) by Wade Davis
51) Inside the Belly of an Elephant (memoir) by Todd Lawson
52) Yamas and Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice by Deborah Adele
53) On Freedom by Timothy Snyder
54) A Life of Meaning: Exploring our Deepest Questions and Motivations by James Hollis (audiobook)

Recently finished/reading
55) Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford
56) Martyr! a novel by Kaveh Akbar (bookclub, fiction)
57) Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
58) The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd


Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on December 15, 2024, 09:39:23 PM
Next 20, favourites marked. I've been skewing pretty heavily towards the Goodreads Choice Awards longlists, but also have officially finished the Harvard Classics:

421. A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
422. How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories by Holly Black
423. The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
424. The Housemaid's Wedding by Freida McFadden
425. The Stolen Heir by Holly Black
426. The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso

427. The Study of Fire by Maria Snyder
The latest instalment in one of my favourite YA fantasy series, it's great.


428. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

429. Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
This fantasy duology has been one of my top picks of the year. I'm a huge sucker for relationships built through written correspondence.


430. We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Ishida Syou
431. A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Turgenev
432. Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev
433. Overcaptain by L.E. Modesitt
434. The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
435. The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djeli Clark

436. For She is Wrath by Emily Varga
A great fantasy Count of Monte Cristo retelling. I couldn't put it down.


437. Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune
438. The Holy Terrors by Simon Green
439. Your Blood, My Bones by Kelly Andrew

440. Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
A fascinating sci-fi about a humanoid robot developing sentience, but focusing on interpersonal relationships versus where most authors would go with it (rights, robot revolution, action). It sounds weird but it works, very well.


My goals are mostly wrapped up now, with the only one remaining being my Daily Stoic Challenge, which will naturally go right to December 31st. I feel like this year I went a little overboard on challenges, leading to often not having any "reading slots" in a given week to just read whatever. Next year I'm going to just have my 365 challenge, plus a nonfiction challenge of 50 books within that number. Unofficial goals of working through the r/fantasy top stand-alone books and top novels lists, staying on top of new releases by my authors plus other generally popular new releases for my genres, and hopefully finally getting caught up on reading most of those books that everyone on planet earth seems to have read except me (Hunger Games, Da Vinci Code, etc).
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on December 20, 2024, 07:42:10 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.
43. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple.
44. Sett av den døde (Seen by the deceased), by Eirik Husby Seather.
45. Ildbarnet, The Fire Child, by S.K.Tremayne.
46. Arv og miljø (Will and Testament), by Vidgis Hjorth.
47. Fri vilje (Free Will), by Helga Hjort.
48. Gå i fengsel (Go to Jail) Camilla Läckberg.
49. Trelegemeproblemet (The Three Body Problem), by Cixin Liu.
50. Demens (Dementia) by Audun Myskja.

51. Dune, by Frank Herbert.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on December 20, 2024, 07:49:07 AM

My goals are mostly wrapped up now, with the only one remaining being my Daily Stoic Challenge, which will naturally go right to December 31st. I feel like this year I went a little overboard on challenges, leading to often not having any "reading slots" in a given week to just read whatever. Next year I'm going to just have my 365 challenge, plus a nonfiction challenge of 50 books within that number. Unofficial goals of working through the r/fantasy top stand-alone books and top novels lists, staying on top of new releases by my authors plus other generally popular new releases for my genres, and hopefully finally getting caught up on reading most of those books that everyone on planet earth seems to have read except me (Hunger Games, Da Vinci Code, etc).

@Zikoris

The Hunger games are an intriguing serie. I think you will enjoy it.
The Da vincy code is ok to read, a thriller. With the option to be intrigued by the concept of the story.

Do you read books in another way than sitting? Listening? My number of books read is limited to the amount of sitting I can do, without being distracted by other things.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on December 20, 2024, 08:59:53 AM
. . .
41. The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene

42. Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on December 20, 2024, 09:01:26 AM

My goals are mostly wrapped up now, with the only one remaining being my Daily Stoic Challenge, which will naturally go right to December 31st. I feel like this year I went a little overboard on challenges, leading to often not having any "reading slots" in a given week to just read whatever. Next year I'm going to just have my 365 challenge, plus a nonfiction challenge of 50 books within that number. Unofficial goals of working through the r/fantasy top stand-alone books and top novels lists, staying on top of new releases by my authors plus other generally popular new releases for my genres, and hopefully finally getting caught up on reading most of those books that everyone on planet earth seems to have read except me (Hunger Games, Da Vinci Code, etc).

@Zikoris

The Hunger games are an intriguing serie. I think you will enjoy it.
The Da vincy code is ok to read, a thriller. With the option to be intrigued by the concept of the story.

Do you read books in another way than sitting? Listening? My number of books read is limited to the amount of sitting I can do, without being distracted by other things.

Nope, just sitting and reading. Though I do mostly read on my Kobo, sometimes Kindle, so I sit in a lot of different places. Also stand sometimes if I'm in line or on crowded transit.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on December 20, 2024, 11:52:45 AM
53) The Best Man's Ghostwriter by Matthew Starr
54) All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker
55) Seatmate by Cara Bastone

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on December 20, 2024, 12:07:53 PM
1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOtherN/AGeneral Fiction
5The Rage of DragonsEvan WinterLibraryTBR2/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
6Under the Pendulum SunJeanette NgLibraryTBR2/10/2024Fiction - Fantasy
7Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever NeedTracy McCubbinLibraryTBR2/14/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
8ScoopEvelyn WaughLibraryTBR2/17/2024General Fiction
DNFTess of the D'UrbervillesThomas HardyLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
9Brighton RockGraham GreenLibraryTBR3/3/2024General Fiction
10The Rules of MagicAlice HoffmanOwnOther3/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Code of the WoostersP.G. WodehouseLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
11Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to 'Zuiki' Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow EdiblesEric ToensmeierLibraryTBR3/15/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
12Self-Care for Introverts: 17 Soothing Rituals for Peace in a Hectic WorldBarrie DavenportLibraryTBR3/19/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
DNFDavid CopperfieldCharles DickensLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
13Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals can Transform our Lives - and Save TheirsRichard LouvLibraryTBR3/29/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
DNFRobinson CrusoeDaniel DefoeLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
DNFThe House of GodSamuel ShemLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
14The Way of KingsBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFMrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
15Words of RadianceBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
16The Fires of VengeanceEvan WinterLibrarySequel4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
17The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva PathNorman FischerLibraryTBR5/8/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
18OathbringerBrandon SandersonOwnReread5/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy
19Don Quixote, Part 1Miguel de CervantesLibraryTBR5/31/2024General Fiction
20All About Pruning: The Complete Guide to the Pruning of Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and PerennialsOrtho BooksOwnEducational6/2/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
21Gardens of the MoonSteven EriksonLibraryTBR6/19/2024Fiction - Fantasy
22DisgraceJ.M. CoetzeeLibraryTBR6/23/2024General Fiction
23Deadhouse GatesSteven EriksonLibrarySequel7/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
24Declassified: A Low-key Guide to the High-strung World of Classical MusicArianna Warsaw-Fan RauchBorrowedOther7/4/2024Nonfiction - History/Biography
25Heart of DarknessJoseph ConradLibraryTBR List7/5/2024General Fiction
DNFThe Portrait of a LadyHenry JamesLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
26Grand Central ArenaRyk E SpoorOpen LibraryTBR List7/13/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
27Spheres of InfluenceRyk E SpoorOpen LibrarySequel7/23/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
28The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and OurselvesMary ReynoldsLibraryTBR List7/23/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
29Swann's WayMarcel ProustLibraryTBR List8/14/2024General Fiction
30Memories of IceSteven Erikson LibrarySequel8/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy
31The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for FailureGreg Lukianoff, Jonathan HaidtLibraryTBR List8/27/2024Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
32House of ChainsSteven EriksonLibrarySequel9/15/2024Fiction - Fantasy
33Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New DomesticityEmily MatcharLibraryOther10/3/2024Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
34MiddlemarchGeorge EliotLibraryTBR List10/9/2024General Fiction
35Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M MillerLibraryTBR List10/14/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
36Challenges of the DeepsRyk E SpoorLibrarySequel10/25/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
37The Unsettling of America: Culture and AgricultureWendell BerryLibraryTBR List10/29/2024Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
38Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet DictocratsSarah FallonLibraryTBR List11/10/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
39Midnight TidesSteven EriksonLibrarySequel11/17/2024Fiction - Fantasy
40Shadows of HyperionRyk E SpoorOwnSequel11/28/2024Fiction - Science Fiction

41The Past Through TomorrowRobert HeinleinLibraryTBR List12/2/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
42ScytheNeil ShustermanLibraryTBR List12/5/2024Fiction - Young Adult
43A City on MarsKelly and Zach WeinersmithOwnOther12/10/2024General Nonfiction
44ThunderheadNeil ShustermanLibrarySequel12/12/2024Fiction - Young Adult
45Age of AshDaniel AbrahamLibraryTBR List12/16/2024Fiction - Fantasy
46The TollNeil ShustermanLibrarySequel12/18/2024Fiction - Young Adult
47The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesSuzanne CollinsLibrarySequel12/20/2024Fiction - Young Adult

TBR: 34
Sequels: 12
Nonfiction: 14
DNF: 9

It'll be a close call whether I make it to 50 or not, but it's been a pretty good year all things considered.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on December 22, 2024, 02:53:14 PM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.
43. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple.
44. Sett av den døde (Seen by the deceased), by Eirik Husby Seather.
45. Ildbarnet, The Fire Child, by S.K.Tremayne.
46. Arv og miljø (Will and Testament), by Vidgis Hjorth.
47. Fri vilje (Free Will), by Helga Hjort.
48. Gå i fengsel (Go to Jail) Camilla Läckberg.
49. Trelegemeproblemet (The Three Body Problem), by Cixin Liu.
50. Demens (Dementia) by Audun Myskja.
51. Dune, by Frank Herbert.

52. Dune Messias, by Frank Herbert
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: cangelosibrown on December 24, 2024, 01:04:46 PM
Actually made it to 50 this year! Although I'm pretty sure I hit 50 by July and didn't manage much after that (yay, hyperfixations!). Redacting a few titles from my list for being a little too personal -- crappy self-help books are my comfort genre. I'll go through and Bold a few that I remember being especially good or interesting.



1.  Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Ericsson, K. Anders
2.  A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) by Chambers, Becky 
3.  Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Perkins, Bill
4.  The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time by Mounk, Yascha
5.  Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Schwarzenegger, Arnold
6.  Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro, Kazuo 
7.  The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus into Your Life by Sterner, Thomas M.
8.  Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Lembke, Anna
9.  Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control by Holiday, Ryan 
10.  Between Two Fires by Buehlman, Christopher 
11.  The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years by Oster, Emily
12.  The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Brusatte, Steve
13.  The Hobo Handbook: A Field Guide to Living by Your Own Rules by Mack, Josh
14.  Positive Discipline: The First Three Years: From Infant to Toddler--Laying the Foundation for Raising a Capable, Confident Child by Nelsen, Jane
15.  Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) by Wells, Martha 
16.  Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4) by Wells, Martha 
17.  A Trucker's Tale: Wit, Wisdom, and True Stories from 60 Years on the Road by Miller, Ed
18.  A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2) by Chambers, Becky 
19.  A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Weinersmith, Kelly 
20.  What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Murakami, Haruki
21.  Making It: What Today's Kids Need for Tomorrow's World by Krauss, Stephanie Malia 
22.  The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make by Lieber, Ron
23.  Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Lin, Grace 
24.  Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Bruder, Jessica 
25.  A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Knoll, Andrew H.
26.  The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Leland, Andrew
27.  The Ministry for the Future by Robinson, Kim Stanley
28.  Starter Villain by Scalzi, John 
29.  The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Ward, Jane
30.  REDACTED
31.  Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by Graeber, David
32.  Poverty, by America by Desmond, Matthew 
33.  We Are All Stardust: Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk about Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know by Klein, Stefan
34.  The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Haidt, Jonathan
35.  In Defense of a Liberal Education by Zakaria, Fareed
36.  Greenlights by McConaughey, Matthew 
37.  A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Hawkins, Jeff
38. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by McCarthy, Andrew
39.  Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5) by Wells, Martha 
40.  Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Bourdain, Anthony
41.  The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes by Robson, David 
42.  El poder de la gratitud: 7 ejercicios simples que cambiarán tu vida by Reklau, Marc 
43.  REDACTED 
44.  From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Brooks, Arthur C.
45.  Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by Nestor, James
46.  REDACTED
47.  System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) by Wells, Martha 
48. REDACTED
49.  Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Tyson, Neil deGrasse 
50.  Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brown, Brené 
51.  The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Manson, Mark 
52.  Learning How to Learn by Marshik, Tesia
53.  Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Grant, Adam M. 
54.  A History of Video Games by Parish, Jeremy
55.  REDACTED
56.  REDACTED
57.  REDACTED
58.  REDACTED
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on December 25, 2024, 08:17:36 AM
37. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

Not even close to 50 this year! Still had a blast.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on December 25, 2024, 10:39:36 AM
43. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
44. Shine, by Jessica Jung

I picked up a stack of books at the public library the other day. I might still make it to 50, but we'll see.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: YellowCat on December 28, 2024, 03:36:40 AM
50. Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey
51. My Plain Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
52. The Clockmaker's Daughter, Kate Morton
53. My Calamity Jane, Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows
54. Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell
55. White Night, Jim Butcher
56. Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Carol Rifka Brunt
57. The Good Wife of Bath, Karen Brooks
58. An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon
59. The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
60. The Testaments, Margaret Atwood
61. Book Lovers, Emily Henry
62. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library, Hester Fox
63. The Library of Lost Love, Norie Clarke
64. The New Camelot, Robyn Schneider
65. The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman
66. Blood Oath, Christopher Farnsworth
67. After Oz, Gordon McAlpine
68. Gwen & Art Are Not in Love, Lex Croucher
69. Happy Place, Emily Henry
70. American Royals, Katharine McGee
71. Majesty, Katharine McGee
72. Infamous, Lex Croucher
73. Trouble, Lex Croucher
74. Reputation, Lex Croucher
75. Into the Wilderness, Sara Donati
76. Not for the Faint of Heart, Lex Croucher
77. The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting, KJ Charles
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on December 28, 2024, 01:40:05 PM
1The Moonstone, Part 2Wilkie CollinsLibrarySequel1/3/2024General Fiction
2The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit DisorderRichard LouvLibraryTBR1/11/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
3DefiantBrandon SandersonLibrarySequel1/16/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
4A Passage to IndiaE.M. ForsterLibraryTBR1/23/2024General Fiction
DNFSomething Wicked This Way ComesRay BradburyOwnOtherN/AGeneral Fiction
5The Rage of DragonsEvan WinterLibraryTBR2/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanLaurence SterneLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
6Under the Pendulum SunJeanette NgLibraryTBR2/10/2024Fiction - Fantasy
7Making Space, Clutter Free: The Last Book on Decluttering You'll Ever NeedTracy McCubbinLibraryTBR2/14/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
8ScoopEvelyn WaughLibraryTBR2/17/2024General Fiction
DNFTess of the D'UrbervillesThomas HardyLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
9Brighton RockGraham GreenLibraryTBR3/3/2024General Fiction
10The Rules of MagicAlice HoffmanOwnOther3/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFThe Code of the WoostersP.G. WodehouseLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
11Perennial Vegetables: From Artichoke to 'Zuiki' Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easy-to-Grow EdiblesEric ToensmeierLibraryTBR3/15/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
12Self-Care for Introverts: 17 Soothing Rituals for Peace in a Hectic WorldBarrie DavenportLibraryTBR3/19/2024Nonfiction - Self-help
DNFDavid CopperfieldCharles DickensLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
13Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals can Transform our Lives - and Save TheirsRichard LouvLibraryTBR3/29/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
DNFRobinson CrusoeDaniel DefoeLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
DNFThe House of GodSamuel ShemLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
14The Way of KingsBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/6/2024Fiction - Fantasy
DNFMrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfLibraryTBRN/AGeneral Fiction
15Words of RadianceBrandon SandersonOwnReread4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
16The Fires of VengeanceEvan WinterLibrarySequel4/25/2024Fiction - Fantasy
17The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva PathNorman FischerLibraryTBR5/8/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
18OathbringerBrandon SandersonOwnReread5/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy
19Don Quixote, Part 1Miguel de CervantesLibraryTBR5/31/2024General Fiction
20All About Pruning: The Complete Guide to the Pruning of Trees, Shrubs, Vines, and PerennialsOrtho BooksOwnEducational6/2/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
21Gardens of the MoonSteven EriksonLibraryTBR6/19/2024Fiction - Fantasy
22DisgraceJ.M. CoetzeeLibraryTBR6/23/2024General Fiction
23Deadhouse GatesSteven EriksonLibrarySequel7/1/2024Fiction - Fantasy
24Declassified: A Low-key Guide to the High-strung World of Classical MusicArianna Warsaw-Fan RauchBorrowedOther7/4/2024Nonfiction - History/Biography
25Heart of DarknessJoseph ConradLibraryTBR List7/5/2024General Fiction
DNFThe Portrait of a LadyHenry JamesLibraryTBR ListN/AGeneral Fiction
26Grand Central ArenaRyk E SpoorOpen LibraryTBR List7/13/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
27Spheres of InfluenceRyk E SpoorOpen LibrarySequel7/23/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
28The Garden Awakening: Designs to Nurture Our Land and OurselvesMary ReynoldsLibraryTBR List7/23/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
29Swann's WayMarcel ProustLibraryTBR List8/14/2024General Fiction
30Memories of IceSteven Erikson LibrarySequel8/22/2024Fiction - Fantasy
31The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for FailureGreg Lukianoff, Jonathan HaidtLibraryTBR List8/27/2024Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
32House of ChainsSteven EriksonLibrarySequel9/15/2024Fiction - Fantasy
33Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New DomesticityEmily MatcharLibraryOther10/3/2024Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
34MiddlemarchGeorge EliotLibraryTBR List10/9/2024General Fiction
35Canticle for LeibowitzWalter M MillerLibraryTBR List10/14/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
36Challenges of the DeepsRyk E SpoorLibrarySequel10/25/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
37The Unsettling of America: Culture and AgricultureWendell BerryLibraryTBR List10/29/2024Nonfiction - Political Philosophy
38Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet DictocratsSarah FallonLibraryTBR List11/10/2024Nonfiction - Home and Garden
39Midnight TidesSteven EriksonLibrarySequel11/17/2024Fiction - Fantasy
40Shadows of HyperionRyk E SpoorOwnSequel11/28/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
41The Past Through TomorrowRobert HeinleinLibraryTBR List12/2/2024Fiction - Science Fiction
42ScytheNeil ShustermanLibraryTBR List12/5/2024Fiction - Young Adult
43A City on MarsKelly and Zach WeinersmithOwnOther12/10/2024General Nonfiction
44ThunderheadNeil ShustermanLibrarySequel12/12/2024Fiction - Young Adult
45Age of AshDaniel AbrahamLibraryTBR List12/16/2024Fiction - Fantasy
46The TollNeil ShustermanLibrarySequel12/18/2024Fiction - Young Adult
47The Ballad of Songbirds and SnakesSuzanne CollinsLibrarySequel12/20/2024Fiction - Young Adult

48Bunny SlopesTim FallonBorrowedOther12/24/2024General Fiction
49The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less Is More - More or LessEmrys WestacottLibraryTBR List12/26/2024Nonfiction - Philosophy
50Just Stab Me NowJill BearupOwnOther12/27/2024Fiction - Fantasy

TBR: 35
Sequels: 12
Nonfiction: 15
DNF: 9

Slipped in a few short ones to wrap up the year. I don't expect to finish my current read in the next few days, so going to call it here.

Next year goals will include more sequels, and reading the complete works of certain authors on my list. Hopefully will continue progress on TBR as well. With luck, I'll get more reading done next year!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: StarBright on December 29, 2024, 02:25:09 PM

1. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
2. Edith Holler: A Novel by Edward Carey
3. Love is the Way by Bishop Michael Curry
4. Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery
5. Emily Climbs by L.M Montgomery
6. Emily's Quest by L.M. Montgomery
7. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
8. The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbie Wakeman
9. Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
10. Babel or the Necessity of Violence  by R. F. Kuang
11. Toxic Charity by Robert D Lupton
12. The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales
13. The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell (ended up being a reread that I hadn't remembered)
14. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont by  Laura Pearson
15. Jane in Love by Rachel GIvney
16. The Other Woman by Sandy Jones
17. Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
18. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
19. Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
20. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
21. Mockingjoay by Suzanne Collins
22. God Land by Lyz Lentz
23. Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
24. The Duke Undone by Joanna Lowell
25. Palazzo by Danielle Steel
26. Little Steps Big Faith by Dawn Rundman
27. Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
28. The Blue Castle by LM Montgomery
29. Being Mortal by Atul Gowand
30. The Stillwater Girls by Minka Kent
31. Gentlemen's Gambit by Evie Dunmore
32. Persuasion by Jane Austen
33. Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
34. North Woods by Daniel Mason (Book Club)
35. Chemistry of Love by Sarah Wilson
36. Payback in Death by JD Robb
37. Miss Austen by Gil Hornby
38. The Once and Future Fling by Leigh Heasley
39. Random in Death by JD Robb
40. The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kim Eisele
41. The Honor of Your Presence by Dave Eggers (barely a novella, more like a long story)
42. Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
43. A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (Mom and Son book club :)
44. E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
45. The Fabulous Reinvention of Sunday School by Aaron Reynolds
46. Secrets of Crestwell Hall by Alexandra Walsh
47. How to be a Grown Up by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughin
48. The New Couple in 5B by . . . .Unger (can't read my scribble)
49. Meant to Be by Emily Giffin
50. My Roomate is a Vampire by Jenna Levine
51. Yellow Face by RF Kuang
52. Elektra by Jennifer Saint
53. Real Self-Care by Pooja Lakshmin
54. Razor Girl by Carl Hiassen (Book Club)
55. The Husbands by Holly Gramazio
56. Temple of Fortuna by Elodie Harper
57. Bury the Lead by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzett


58. This American Ex-Wife by Lyz Lentz
59. The Girls by Emma Kline
60. Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
61. Bad Men by Julie Cohen
62. The Small and The Mighty by Sharon McMahon
63. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

I suspect I read more than this, but started a new job in September so my reading took a huge nose dive as I learned a new job.

In retrospect, while I didn't love "The Husbands" as I read it, it is the book that has stuck with me this year and I keep thinking about it.

Thanks everyone for sharing your books this year, they are always inspiring!

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Linea_Norway on December 30, 2024, 02:25:27 AM
1. The World and All that it Holds, by Aleksandar Hemon.
2. The Last Devil to Die, by Richard Osman.
3. Mot elven (Against the river), by Tom Nevle.
4. En nær himmelen opplevelse (A near heaven experience), by Tom Nevle.
5. Bølgen som brøt (The Wave that Collapsed), by Tom Nevle.
6. The Last Train to London, by Meg Waite Clayton.
7. Sarek, by Ulf Kvensler.
8. Foundation and Empire, by Isaac Asimov (Reread, now in Norwegian).
9. Det litterære apotek (The literary pharmacy), by Nina George.
10. Det usynlige universet (The Invisible Universe) by Jostein Riiser Kristiansen.
11. Overløperen (The Traitor), by Maarten de Mol.
12. Dyrking i pallekarm (Growing food in a pallet collar), by Eva Robild.
13. Skogen (The forest), by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson.
14. Brannmannen (The Fireman), by Ulf Kvensler.
15. Selvforsyning i praksis (Self Reliance in practice), by Maria Österåker.
16. Silkeveien (The Silk Road), by Jacob Lindfors.
17. Vinterpakket (The Winter Pack), by Jacob Lindfors.
18. Den store kakeboka (The big baking book), by Sverre Sætre
19. Cinnabar One, by J. E. Bergfjord.
20. Hang the Moon, by Jeanette Walls.
21. Brød og brødbaking (Bread and bread baking), by Åpent bakeri and Erik Røed.
22. Ufrivillige drømmeres forening (Unvoluntary Dreamers club), by José Eduardo Agualusa.
23. Oransjeriet (The orangery), by Gro Dahle (science fiction)
24. Nålehuset (The Needlehouse), by Kristin Tveiten.
25. Demon Copperhead, by Barbara Kingsolver.
26. Rocks in the Belly, by Jon Bauer.
27. Skillnadens Trädgård, by Sara Bäckmo (about growing a kitchen garden).
28. Hållbar odling (Durable way of growing food), by Sara Bäckmo.
30. Hart van vuur en ijs (Heart of fire and ice), by Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir.
31. Skillnadens favoritter (about growing food), Sarah Bäckmo.
32. The Lacuna, by Barbara Kingsolver
33. 766 Frågor & svar om grönsaksodling (766 questions and answers about growing vegetables), by Sara Bäckmo.
34. Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver.
35. Neuromancer, by William Gibson.
36. Count Zero, by William Gibson.
37. Mona Lisa Overdrive, by William Gibson.
38. Amygdala, by Bjørn Johnsen
39. Drømmen om et tre (The Dream about a Tree), by Maja Lunde.
40. Voksne mennesker (adult people), by Marie Aubert.
41. The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich.
42. Miseria, by Dolores Reyes.
43. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple.
44. Sett av den døde (Seen by the deceased), by Eirik Husby Seather.
45. Ildbarnet, The Fire Child, by S.K.Tremayne.
46. Arv og miljø (Will and Testament), by Vidgis Hjorth.
47. Fri vilje (Free Will), by Helga Hjort.
48. Gå i fengsel (Go to Jail) Camilla Läckberg.
49. Trelegemeproblemet (The Three Body Problem), by Cixin Liu.
50. Demens (Dementia) by Audun Myskja.
51. Dune, by Frank Herbert.
52. Dune Messias, by Frank Herbert

53. Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: PlanetDee on December 30, 2024, 06:43:48 AM
38. Pastoralia by George Saunders
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Morning Glory on December 30, 2024, 09:47:13 AM
January:
1. Four Lost Cities: A secret history of the urban age by Annalee Newitz (audio book)
2. China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
3. Taking Care: The story of nursing and its power to change the world by Sarah DiGregorio (audio book)
4. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
5. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
6. Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (audio book)
7. Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
8. The Uncoupling by Meg Wolitzer
9. Artemis by Andy Weir
10. The Armor of Light by Ken Follett
11. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
12. The Library Book by Susan Orlean (audio book)
13. The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
14. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
February:
15. Unsavory Truth: How food companies skew the science of what we eat by Marion Nestle (audio book)
16. The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
17. $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn Edin and Luke Schaefer (audio book)
18. Number9dream by David Mitchell
19. The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
20. A fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. Leguin
21. Screaming on the Inside: the Unsustainability of American Motherhood by Jessica Grose (audio book)
22.One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
23. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
24. What We Don't Talk about when We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon (audio book)
25. Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane
26. Matrix by Lauren Groff
March:
27.Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
28. There There by Tommy Orange
29. The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb
30. Parasol Against the Axe by Helen Oyeyemi
31. The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
32. Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
33. A true account: 'Hannah Masury's sojourn amongst the pyrates, written by herself' by Katherine Howe
34. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town by Charles Marohn (audio book)
35. Fourteen Days by multiple authors (edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston)

April/May/June
36. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
37. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar (audio book)
38. Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain (audio book)
39. Being Mortal: Medicine and what happens in the end by Atul Gawande (audio book)
40. Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
41. Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
42. Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
43. Saving Time by Jenny ODell (audio book)
44. All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
45. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
46. House of Cotton by Monica Brashears
47. Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
48. The Heat Will Kill You First by Jeff Goodell (audio book)
49. The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
50. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
51. Filterworld: How algorithms flattened culture by Kyle Chayka
52. The Wonder of All Things by Jason Mott
53. Down Here We Come Up by Sara Johnson Allen
54. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
55. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
56. The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
57. Debt: The first 5000 years by David Graeber (audio book)

July & August:
58. Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
59. The Injustice of Place by Kathryn Edin and Luke Schaefer (audio book)-same authors as "$2 a day"
60. Lady Tan's Circle of Women by Lisa See
61. This American Ex-Wife by Lyz Lenz
62. On our Best Behavior: the seven deadly sins and the price women pay to be good by Elise Loehnen (audio book)
63. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel - sequel to Wolf Hall
64. Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb -*this was really good
65. Funny you don't look autistic by Michael McCreary (audio book)
66. The Gene: An intimate history by Siddhartha Mukerjee (audio book)
67. The Martian by Andy Weir
68. Even as We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
69. The Utopia of Rules: on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy by David Graeber (audio book)
70. Crossings: How road ecology is shaping the future of our planet by Ben Goldfarb (audio book)
71. Lost in A Good Book by Jasper Fforde
72. Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
73. Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
74. Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin
75. The Secret Life of Groceries: the Dark Miracle of the American supermarket by Benjamin Lorr (audio book)
76. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

September-December
77. The end of bias by Jessica Nordell (audio book)
78. All boy aren't blue by George M Johnson (audio book)
79. Death on the Tiber by Lindsey Davis
80. The last murder at the end of the world by Stuart Turton
81. Class by Stephanie Land (audio book)
82. The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
83. Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe (audio book)
84. Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
85. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou (audio book)
86. An Indigenous people's history of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz (audio book)
87. The Children's Book by AS Byatt
88. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
89. All the light we cannot see by Anthony Doerr
90. The ministry of time by Kaliane Bradley
91. The 1619 Project by multiple authors (audio book)- the production on this was excellent with different narrators for each section,  and bits of poetry or music between the longer segments
92. Once upon a river by Diane Setterfield
93. World gone by by Dennis Lehane
94. Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee
95. It's OK to be angry about capitalism by Bernie Sanders and John Nichols (audio book)
96. The world we make by NK Jemisin
97. The man who quit money by Matk Sundeen (audio book)
98. The Scandalous confessions of Lydia Bennett,  witch by Melinda Taub
99. The extinction of Irena Rey by Jennifer Croft
100. Ready Player one by Ernest Cline
101. The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde
102. The Wager by David Grann (audio book)
103. How high we go in the dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

I won't make my stretch goal of 120 but I have seven in progress that I plan to finish when my turn to borrow them comes back around and I did not keep track of DNFs.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: gatortator on December 30, 2024, 11:09:56 AM
42. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
43. The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
44. Haben: The Deafblind Woman who conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
45. Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune
46. Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

47. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
48. The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
49. We Could be So Good by Cat Sebastian
50.  You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian
51. The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
52. A Study in Death by Anna Lee Huber
53. China Rich Girl by Kevin Kwan
54. Rick People Problems by Kevin Kwan
55. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
56. Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile
57. The Traveling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel
58. Taking the Quantum Leap: The new physics for non-scientists by Fred Alan Wolf
59. Bride by Ali Hazelwood

and done for 2024.  all three challenges complete.

Favorite books of the year
1. Where'd you go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
    --quirky characters, mild social commentary, and believable, wonderful plot twists.  it was lovely.
2. Beowulf, a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley, audiobook narrated by Maria Davana Headley and JD Jackson
    --the is one of the books I was most dreading to read this year. However, the author's note, translation style and narrator's voice were fantastic.  I loved it.
3. Taking the Quantum Leap: the new physics for non-scientists by Fred Alan Wolf
    -- continuing my philosophical education from last year's read of Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, this book can be best summed up as: physics is philosophy.  it will be food for thought for a long time.

Favorite category:
1. Read a banned book.

Popsugar has already posted its reading challenge for 2025 and my library's full list gets uploaded on Jan 2 (though we've already been given a sneak peek.) So I'll be back in 2025 with these two challenges. 
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: K_in_the_kitchen on December 30, 2024, 08:12:18 PM
I’m up over 80 for books read with my eyes, I know I listened to a few but I don’t have them on my reading chart, and I never participated here but I do plan to for 2025.  The sad thing is that I read so much because I got sick and pretty much couldn’t do much else for most of the year.  I want to look back and see what books some of you read and loved!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on December 31, 2024, 09:39:46 AM
Calling it for the year at 450. Second highest year ever for me! Last ten books:

441. Wind and Truth by Brandon anderson
442. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
443. The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black
444. A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur
445. The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak

446. Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Zhao
The sequel to Iron Widow, this is my #1 book of the year. Excellent Chinese-inspired sci-fi/fantasy mashup. I love all the characters, and just the world overall.


447. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
448. The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
449. The Acharnians by Aristophanes
450. The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holliday

I don't see a thread yet for 2025, but if one pops up I'll be there!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Sandi_k on December 31, 2024, 10:40:53 AM
I am 60% through my last book, Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast.

I have logged 139 books this year. The last five:

- The Familiar, Leigh Bardugo
- The Return of Ellie Black, Emiko Jean
- Bad Mother, Mia Sheridan
- Middle of the Night, Riley Sager
- House of Glass, Sarah Pekkanen
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wolfpack Mustachian on December 31, 2024, 11:57:58 AM
Calling it for the year at 450. Second highest year ever for me! Last ten books:

441. Wind and Truth by Brandon anderson
442. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
443. The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black
444. A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur
445. The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak

446. Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Zhao
The sequel to Iron Widow, this is my #1 book of the year. Excellent Chinese-inspired sci-fi/fantasy mashup. I love all the characters, and just the world overall.


447. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
448. The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
449. The Acharnians by Aristophanes
450. The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holliday

I don't see a thread yet for 2025, but if one pops up I'll be there!

It'll be about a year or so before I read wind and truth (have read the first four). I'm avoiding general reviews because of spoilers. How did you like it compared to the rest of the series?
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Razzle on December 31, 2024, 12:06:44 PM
34. Hidden Potential by Adam Grant
35. The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
36. Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
37. State of Wonder by Ann Pachett
38. Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
39. What a Fool Believes by Michael McDonald

I've been working more hours in the last of the year and it definitely impacted my reading, hoping to reach 50 in 2025!  Happy new year everyone!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Raenia on December 31, 2024, 12:40:47 PM
Calling it for the year at 450. Second highest year ever for me! Last ten books:

441. Wind and Truth by Brandon anderson
442. Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon
443. The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black
444. A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur
445. The Last One at the Wedding by Jason Rekulak

446. Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Zhao
The sequel to Iron Widow, this is my #1 book of the year. Excellent Chinese-inspired sci-fi/fantasy mashup. I love all the characters, and just the world overall.


447. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
448. The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
449. The Acharnians by Aristophanes
450. The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holliday

I don't see a thread yet for 2025, but if one pops up I'll be there!

It'll be about a year or so before I read wind and truth (have read the first four). I'm avoiding general reviews because of spoilers. How did you like it compared to the rest of the series?

Also interested in a spoiler free impression - I'm in the middle of a reread of Rhythm of War, in preparation for Wind and Truth.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: grantmeaname on December 31, 2024, 12:50:53 PM
This was my third best year ever after 2020 and 2018, just a couple hundred short of 30,000 pages read. Super pleased. I also read a lot more out of my comfort zone both from a book club with friends and from a book 'bingo' from my university's alumni club. I also finished or nearly finished the entire works of a couple favorite authors (Joe Abercrombie, Guy Gavriel Kay)

Previous years: 2018 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2018!/msg2247038/#msg2247038) | 2019 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2019!/msg2526771/#msg2526771) | 2020 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2020!/msg2762830/#msg2762830) | 2021 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2021!/msg2954224/#msg2954224) | 2023 (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/50-books-in-2023!/msg3214444/#msg3214444)

January
1. Hell Is a World Without You by Jason Kirk ★★★★★
2. A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★
3. Redshirts by John Scalzi ★★★★☆

February
4. No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood ★★★☆☆
5. Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener ★★★★☆
6. Convenience Store Woman by  ★★★☆☆
7. Diary of a Tokyo Teen by Christine Mari Inzer ★★★☆☆
8. The Game Console 2.0: A Photographic History by Evan Amos ★★★★☆
9. My Detachment: A Memoir by Tracy Kidder ★★★☆☆
10. Monkey Business: Swinging Through Wall Street by John Rolfe and Peter Troob ★★★☆☆
11. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach ★★★★☆
12. Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes ★★★★☆

March
13. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen ★★★★☆
14. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz ★★★★☆
15. American Shelter: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Home by Lester Walker ★★★☆☆
16. The Proving Ground: A Season on the Fringe in NFL Europe by Lars Anderson ★★★☆☆
17. The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★★
18. Pretty Good House; A Guide to Creating Better Homes by Daniel Kolbert et al ★★★★☆
19. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell ★★★★☆

April
20. The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★☆
21. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman ★★★★☆
22. The All Americans by Lars Anderson ★★★★☆
23. Starter Villain by John Scalzi ★★★★☆
24. Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆
25. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety by Alan Watts ★★★☆☆
26. The Water Outlaws by SL Huang ★★★★☆
27. Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined by Stephen Fry ★★★★☆
28. Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham ★★★★★
29. The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆
30. Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat by Marion Nestle ★★★★☆
31. The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break by Steven Sherrill ★★★☆☆

May
32. The Adventures of Amina al-Sarafi by Shannon Chakraborty ★★★★☆
33. Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence by Rachel Sherman ★★★★★
34. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach ★★★☆☆
35. A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green ★★★★☆
36. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner ★★★★☆
37. Understanding Semiconductors by Richard Corey ★★☆☆☆
38. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande ★★★★★
39. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong ★★★☆☆

June
40. Skyward by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★★
41. Starsight by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★☆
42. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia ★★★★☆
43. Skyward Flight by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson ★★★☆☆
44. The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow ★★★★☆
45. Spark by John Twelve Hawks ★★★☆☆
46. Demon Daughter by Lois McMaster Bujold ★★★★☆
47. This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone ★★★★☆
48. Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse ★★★☆☆
49. Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn ★★★★☆

July
50. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell ★★★★☆
51. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver ★★★★☆

August
52. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus ★☆☆☆☆
53. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson ★★★★☆
54. Harold by Steven Wright ★★★☆☆
55. High Times in the Low Parliamant by Kelly Robson ★★★☆☆
56. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland ★★★★☆
57. The Eagles of Heart Mountain by Bradford Pearson ★★★★☆
58. The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid ★★★★☆

September
59. Terciel and Elinor by Garth Nix ★★★★☆
60. Escaping the Housing Trap by Chuck Marohn and Daniel Herriges ★★★★☆
61. Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson ★★★★☆
62. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner ★★★☆☆
63. A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert Sapolsky ★★★★☆
64. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline ★★★★☆
65. The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History by Don Oberdorfer and Robert Carlin ★★★★☆

September
66. Children of Earth and Sky by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★☆
67. A Brightness Long Ago by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★☆

October
68. All the Seas of the World by Guy Gavriel Kay ★★★★☆
69. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr ★★★★☆
70. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell ★★★★☆

November
71. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner ★★★☆☆
72. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner ★★★★☆
73. A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner ★★★★☆
74. Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner ★★★★☆
75. Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner ★★★★☆
76. Moira's Pen by Megan Whalen Turner ★★☆☆☆

December
77. The Tower of Fools by Andrzej Sapkowski ★★★★☆
78. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ★★★★☆
79. A Little Hatrid by Joe Abercrombie ★★★★★
80. His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem ★★★☆☆
81. The Trouble With Peace by Joe Abercrombie ★★★★☆
82. The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie ★★★★☆
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Zikoris on December 31, 2024, 01:18:35 PM

It'll be about a year or so before I read wind and truth (have read the first four). I'm avoiding general reviews because of spoilers. How did you like it compared to the rest of the series?


I liked the story itself, but he did a shit job of wrapping up the arc by the end. The Mistborn arcs were really well done in that sense - a clear end to each arc with everything tied up. With Wind and Truth there are a lot of dangling bits left over at the end, and clearly the next story arc will be more of a continuation versus something totally new, which is not great given he's said it will be somewhere in the 2030s before he writes any more for that series. It honestly doesn't even feel like the end of a story arc, it feels maybe second-to-end at best.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: nessness on December 31, 2024, 05:30:11 PM
49. The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

50. One Life by Barbara Winton

51. Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet

52. Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck

53. The Holy Bible. This year I listened to nearly the whole New Testament in song form (using the Living Water ESV music project), which I really enjoyed.

Overall a good reading year with lots of variety 🙂
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Wanttobehome on January 01, 2025, 06:32:48 AM
Jan
1. The Donkey principle - Rachel Anne Ridge
2. Magic lessons - Alice Hoffman
3.A Sting in the Tale - My adventures with Bumble bees - Dave Goulson
4.The Arbornaut - Meg Lowman
5. Small bodies of water- Nina Powles


Feb
6. Doomsday Match - Jeff Wheeler
7. Jaguar Prophecies - Jeff Wheeler
8.The book of magic - Alice Hoffman
9.The wood - John Lewis-Stempel

March
10.Seven Brief lessons on physics - Carlo Rovelli
11. The natural navigator - Tristan Gooley
12.How to give up plastic - Will McCallum
13. Seven sins of memory  - Daniel Schacter

April
14. The stream of everything - John Connell
15.  The way home - tales from a life without technology
16. Why does it still hurt? -Paul Biegler
17. The edge of the plain - James Crawford

May
18. The Full English - Stuart Maconie
19. Under the stars - Matt Gaw
20. Braintenece - Julia Ravey
21. Outlive  - Dr Peter Attia
22Nature is never silent - Dr Madlen Ziege

June
23. Amazing thinkers and humanitarians - Collins
24. Unruly - David Mitchell
25. River Kings Cat Jarman
26. How to cope - Dr Clare Hayes
27. How to survive almost anything - Ollie Ollerton
28. Rootbound - Alice Vincent

July
29 The Poyson Garden -Karen Harper
30 Improbable destinies - Fate, Chance and the future of evolution
31 Broke Millennial - Erin Lowry
32 Fry's Ties- Stephen Fry
33 A brief history of the earth- Andrew Knoll

August
34 Un do it - D and A Ornish
35 Still Water - John Lewis Stempel
36 The Hobbit   JRR Tolkien
37 Dream Big Daily Joys -
38 Rewild your home - Victoria Harrison

September
39 DNA the story of the  genetic revolution  - James Watson
40 This view of life, Completing the Darwinian Revolution - David Sloan Wilson
41 Origins how earth shaped human history - Lewis Dartnell
42 Take Note  - Real life lessons  - Toni Tone
43 The wild year -Jen Benson

October
44 And life lights up - Alice Taylor
45Walking - Esling Kagge
46 Cultured How ancient foods can feed our microbiome - Katherine Courage
47 1000 little things - Marc and Angel Chenoff

November
48 12 rules for life - Jordan Peterson
49 The Strange order of everything - Antonio Damasio
50 The Price of Money - Rob Dix
51 Playing to the gallery - Grayson Perry

December
52 A mudlarking year - Lara Maiklem
53 About time - David Rooney
54 Crypt - Life, death and disease in the middle ages and beyond - Dr Alice Roberts
55 Entangled life - how fungi make our worlds, change our minds and shapes the future - Merlin Sheldrake

Finished the year with some interesting books.
Target for 2025 is to improve on 55 books.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Avolonte on January 01, 2025, 09:16:49 AM
 28     Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan    2021
 29     Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris    1997
 30     When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris    2008
 31     House of Stairs by William Sleator    1974
 32     Winter Street by Elin Hilderbrand    2014
 33     Meet Me Under the Mistletoe by Jenny Bayliss    2022
 34     Winter Stroll by Elin Hilderbrand    2015
 35     Think Again by Adam Grant    2021
 36     Winter Storms by Elin Hilderbrand    2016

Wow, you guys who read 100+ books are an inspiration! I didn't make it to 50 this year, but I read some great books. I'll add Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan to my best of 2024 list (along with The Queen's Gambit and Beautyland). Thanks to all for sharing your books and thoughts on books!
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on January 01, 2025, 10:17:32 AM
2024 Finished:

January
1. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
2. A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay
5. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrick Backman
6. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
7. Spare by Prince Harry
February
8. All Sinners Bleed by S.A. Crosby
9. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
10. Family Meal by Bryan Washington
11. And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
12: Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
13. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
14. Three-inch Teeth by C.J. Box
March
15. North Woods by Daniel Mason
16. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
17. Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
April
18. Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
19. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
20. Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby
21. The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano
May
22. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Posnanski
23. Horse by Geraldine Brooks
24. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
25. My Darkest Hour by S.A. Cosby
June
26. Hyperion by Dan Simmons
27. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
28. Fire & Blood by George R.R. Martin
July
29. Walk Upon Time: An Appalachian Trail Thru-hike by Leslie Fletcher
30. My Appalachian Trial by Steve Adams
31. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
32. Traitor's Blade by Sebastien de Castell
August
33. The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
34. Becoming Odessa by Jennifer Pharr Davis
35. Dead Mans Walk by Larry McMurtry
36. Knight's Shadow by Sebastien de Castell
September
37. Saint's Blood by Sebastien de Castell
38. First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
39. Tyrant's Throne by Sebastien de Castell
40. Pitch Dark by Paul Dorion
41. Cascade Failure by I.M. Sagas
October
42. Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
43. Gravity Lost by I.M. Sagas
44. The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
45. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
46. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
47. The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
November
48. Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson
49. Commanche Moon by Larry McMurtry
December
50. Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
51. Financial Feminist by Tori Dunlap
52. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
53. Wind & Truth by Brandon Sanderson
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: hudsoncat on January 01, 2025, 10:23:34 AM

It'll be about a year or so before I read wind and truth (have read the first four). I'm avoiding general reviews because of spoilers. How did you like it compared to the rest of the series?


I liked the story itself, but he did a shit job of wrapping up the arc by the end. The Mistborn arcs were really well done in that sense - a clear end to each arc with everything tied up. With Wind and Truth there are a lot of dangling bits left over at the end, and clearly the next story arc will be more of a continuation versus something totally new, which is not great given he's said it will be somewhere in the 2030s before he writes any more for that series. It honestly doesn't even feel like the end of a story arc, it feels maybe second-to-end at best.

I would agree with all of this. Generally liked the story. Many of character arcs were moved forwarded nicely, in ways that made me happy and/or made sense to me and a bit of closure for some smaller arcs, but not a lot of closure of the overall arc.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Kwill on January 01, 2025, 11:08:55 AM
I just barely finished my 50th book last night. Thank you to the OP for starting the challenge. I finished more books than I would have otherwise.
Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: redhead84 on January 02, 2025, 07:36:53 AM
56) The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis
57) The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
58) Maybe This Time by Cara Bastone

Title: Re: 50 Books in 2024!
Post by: Serendip on January 04, 2025, 01:13:04 PM
End of Year list with favourites bolded (have some that I'm halfway through but they will go into my 2025 list)

1) The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs by Patricia McConnell
2) Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
3) Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart by Jen Sookfong Lee
4) A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are by Byron Katie w/ Stephen Mitchell
5) A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (fiction)
6) Rewilding: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature by Micah Mortali
7) The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (fiction)
8) For the Love of a Dog by Patricia McConnell (audiobook)
9) Living on Almost Nothing by Amber Storck
10) The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen (fiction)
11) There There by Tommy Orange (fiction)
12) Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (graphic novel)
13) Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka
14) Tao Te Ching: A New English Version by Lao-tzu /Stephen Mitchell
15) The Do No Harm Dog Training and Behaviour Handbook by Linda Michaels
16) Projections: A Story of Human Emotions by Karl Deisseroth
17 & 18) The Ex Hex and The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling (bookclub)
19) Bring Me the Rhinoceros: And Other Zen Koans to Save Your Life by John Tarrant
20) Hell is a World Without You by Jason Kirk
21) How to Know a Person by David Brooks
22) The Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation by Frederick Franck
23) Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt (fiction)
24) Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe (graphic novel)
25) Playing for Time: Making art as if the world mattered by Lucy Neal
26) The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (fiction)
27) The Hiking Book From Hell by Are Kalvo (memoir)
28) Normal People by Sally Rooney (fiction)
29) A Mind at Home with Itself by Byron Katie
30) Solito by Javier Zamora (bookclub, memoir)
31) Dinosaurs: A novel by Lydia Millet(fiction)
32) Big Swiss by Jen Beagin (fiction)
33) Behavior Adjustment Training: BAT for Fear, Frustration, and Aggression in Dogs by Grisha Stewart
34) Bad Cree by Jessica Johns (fiction)
35) The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young (re-read)
36) Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (fiction)
37) Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M. Sapolsky
38) Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut by Will Bulsiewicz.
39) Hunting Together: Harnessing Predatory Chasing in Family Dogs by Simone Mueller
40) The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley
41) Mating in Captivity by Ester Perel (bookclub)
41) And a Dog Called Fig: Solitude, Connection, the Writing Life by Helen Humphreys
42) Lying by Sam Harris
43) Not On My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon by Alexandra Morton (bookclub)
44) Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis
45) The Forever Dog: Surprising New Science to Help Your Canine Companion Live Younger, Healthier, and Longer by Rodney Habib, Karen Shaw Becker
46) The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing
47) Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
48) The Forever Dog Life: 120+ Recipes, Longevity Tips, by Dr. Karen Shaw Becker & Rodney Habib
49) The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (bookclub, fiction)
50) Beneath the Surface of Things (essays) by Wade Davis
51) Inside the Belly of an Elephant (memoir) by Todd Lawson
52) Yamas and Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice by Deborah Adele
53) On Freedom by Timothy Snyder
54) A Life of Meaning: Exploring our Deepest Questions and Motivations by James Hollis (audiobook)
55) Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford
56) Martyr! a novel by Kaveh Akbar (bookclub, fiction)
57) Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
58) The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis