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re: 2023 Reading Challenge
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:18 pm to NfamousPanda
Posted on 9/21/23 at 4:18 pm to NfamousPanda
I'm about to finish book #36 tomorrow. I'll list them out at the end of the year but it's nothing but Lee Child, John Sandford and Vince Flynn. So really nothing riveting or noteworthy 
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Posted on 9/21/23 at 6:15 pm to Adajax
Don't judge my literary genre...
Books Read so far in 2023.
(My book binge started August 1, 2023 and there are a few more that I cannot recall the titles of)
1. A Little Life
2. It Ends With Us
3. It Starts With Us
4. Twisted Love
5. Twisted Games
6. Twisted Hate
7. Twisted Lies
8. If We Ever Meet Again
9. If The Sun Never Sets
10. If Love Had a Price
11. If We Were Perfect
12. King of Wrath
13. King of Pride
14. Throttled
15. Collided
16. Wrecked
17. Redeemed
18. The Fine Print
19. Final Offer
20. Terms and Conditions
21. Pretty Reckless
22. Angry God
23. God of Malice
24. My Dark Romeo
25. The Words
26. Credence
27. Vicious
28. Ruckus
29. Bane
30. Scandalous
31. Defy
32. 365 Days
33. This Day
34. The Next 365 Days
35. Temptation
36. Addiction
37. Eruption
38. Devotion
39. Seduction
40. The Light to My Darkness
41. A Whirlwind of Color
42. This is Love
43. Haunting Adeline
44. Hunting Adeline
45. Things We Never Got Over
46. Does It Hurt
47. Things We Hide From the Light
48. No One Has To Know
49. The Devil's Bargain
50. Things We Left Behind
51. Your Last First Kiss
52. How Does It Feel
53. Lorenzo
54. Dante
55. If He Had Been With Me
56. Consider Me
Books Read so far in 2023.
(My book binge started August 1, 2023 and there are a few more that I cannot recall the titles of)
1. A Little Life
2. It Ends With Us
3. It Starts With Us
4. Twisted Love
5. Twisted Games
6. Twisted Hate
7. Twisted Lies
8. If We Ever Meet Again
9. If The Sun Never Sets
10. If Love Had a Price
11. If We Were Perfect
12. King of Wrath
13. King of Pride
14. Throttled
15. Collided
16. Wrecked
17. Redeemed
18. The Fine Print
19. Final Offer
20. Terms and Conditions
21. Pretty Reckless
22. Angry God
23. God of Malice
24. My Dark Romeo
25. The Words
26. Credence
27. Vicious
28. Ruckus
29. Bane
30. Scandalous
31. Defy
32. 365 Days
33. This Day
34. The Next 365 Days
35. Temptation
36. Addiction
37. Eruption
38. Devotion
39. Seduction
40. The Light to My Darkness
41. A Whirlwind of Color
42. This is Love
43. Haunting Adeline
44. Hunting Adeline
45. Things We Never Got Over
46. Does It Hurt
47. Things We Hide From the Light
48. No One Has To Know
49. The Devil's Bargain
50. Things We Left Behind
51. Your Last First Kiss
52. How Does It Feel
53. Lorenzo
54. Dante
55. If He Had Been With Me
56. Consider Me
This post was edited on 10/8/23 at 1:12 pm
Posted on 9/23/23 at 7:11 pm to tigernurse
I reread the 13 Saxon stories/Last Kingdom from Bernard Cornwell but since those weren't new, didn't count them.
1. Poppy War
2. Will of the Many
3. Shadow of What was Lost
4. Echo of Things to Come
5. Light of All That Falls
6. Mistborn Final Empire
7. Mistborn Well of Ascension
8. Mistborn The Hero of Ages
9. Way of Kings
10. Words of Radiance
11. Oathbringer
12. Rythm of War
13. Warbreaker
14. Tres of the Emerald Sea
15. Fourth Wing
16. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
17. Red Rising
18. Golden Son
19. Morningstar
20. Iron Gold
21. Dark Age
22. Light Bringer
23. Liar's Poker
24. Flash Boys
25. Foundation
About to start Misborn era 2 and then need to start thinking about what's next
1. Poppy War
2. Will of the Many
3. Shadow of What was Lost
4. Echo of Things to Come
5. Light of All That Falls
6. Mistborn Final Empire
7. Mistborn Well of Ascension
8. Mistborn The Hero of Ages
9. Way of Kings
10. Words of Radiance
11. Oathbringer
12. Rythm of War
13. Warbreaker
14. Tres of the Emerald Sea
15. Fourth Wing
16. Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
17. Red Rising
18. Golden Son
19. Morningstar
20. Iron Gold
21. Dark Age
22. Light Bringer
23. Liar's Poker
24. Flash Boys
25. Foundation
About to start Misborn era 2 and then need to start thinking about what's next
This post was edited on 9/24/23 at 8:25 am
Posted on 9/27/23 at 8:52 am to GenesChin
well i set a goal for 30 books this year, but that, it seems, has turned out to be a little too optimistic. that said, some of the books that I picked were pretty dense and those slowed me down. Dont regret that. We'll see how far I get by the end of the year, hopefully at least 23-24. The two I'm reading right now are both 800+ page non-fiction though, so that will take awhile.
Completed so far in 2023:
1. Himmler - Peter Padfield
2. Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom - Slavomir Rawicz
3. No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
4. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution - Christopher Browning
5. Death in Big Bend - Laurence Parent
6. The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
7. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick
8. Hundred Days: The Campaign that Ended World War I - Nick Lloyd
9. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
10. The Regulators - Richard Bachman / Stephen King
11. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil - Michael Malice
12. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War - David Halberstam
13. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 - William Manchester
14. No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah - Bing West
15. Gods and Generals - Jeff Shaara
16. Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989 - Rodric Braithwaite
17. Skeleton Crew - Stephen King
Completed so far in 2023:
1. Himmler - Peter Padfield
2. Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom - Slavomir Rawicz
3. No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
4. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution - Christopher Browning
5. Death in Big Bend - Laurence Parent
6. The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
7. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick
8. Hundred Days: The Campaign that Ended World War I - Nick Lloyd
9. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
10. The Regulators - Richard Bachman / Stephen King
11. The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil - Michael Malice
12. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War - David Halberstam
13. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 - William Manchester
14. No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah - Bing West
15. Gods and Generals - Jeff Shaara
16. Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-1989 - Rodric Braithwaite
17. Skeleton Crew - Stephen King
This post was edited on 9/27/23 at 8:53 am
Posted on 10/8/23 at 10:13 am to BluegrassBelle
Goal of 20, update
1. All about love - bell hooks
2. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
3. When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
5. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
6. Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
7. Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
8. Highland Raven (Book 1) - Melanie Karsak
9. Highland Blood (Book 2) - Melanie Karsak
10. Highland Vengence (Book 3) - Melanie Karsak
11. Highland Queen (Book 4) - Melanie Karsak
12. Book of Magic (Book 4 of Practical Magic series) - Alice Hoffman
13. Weyward- Emilia Hart
14. The Day I Disappeared - Brandi Reed
15. Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
16. The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
17. milk and honey - Rupi Kaur
18. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
19. the sun and her flowers - Rupi Kaur
1. All about love - bell hooks
2. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
3. When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
5. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
6. Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
7. Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
8. Highland Raven (Book 1) - Melanie Karsak
9. Highland Blood (Book 2) - Melanie Karsak
10. Highland Vengence (Book 3) - Melanie Karsak
11. Highland Queen (Book 4) - Melanie Karsak
12. Book of Magic (Book 4 of Practical Magic series) - Alice Hoffman
13. Weyward- Emilia Hart
14. The Day I Disappeared - Brandi Reed
15. Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
16. The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
17. milk and honey - Rupi Kaur
18. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
19. the sun and her flowers - Rupi Kaur
This post was edited on 12/13/23 at 11:08 pm
Posted on 10/27/23 at 2:00 am to BluegrassBelle
Bump
Posted on 11/3/23 at 4:35 pm to Adajax
Finished #43 today 
And 44 today
And 44 today
This post was edited on 11/6/23 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 11/16/23 at 4:39 pm to Bama and Beer
Finished #96 today
Posted on 12/3/23 at 8:06 am to SW2SCLA
1. The Eighth Sister - Robert Dugoni
2. The Nineties - Chuck Klosterman
3. Educated - Tara Westover
4. Catch-22 - Joseph Keller
5. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation - Kristin Kobes Du Mez
6. Friends, Lovers, and the Big, Terrible Thing - Matthew Perry
7. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear
8. Pines - Blake Crouch
9. Wayward - Blake Crouch
10. The Last Town - Blake Crouch
11. Cemetary Road - Greg Iles
12. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
13. The Cabinet of Dr. Leng - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
14. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
15. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - Tom Clavin & Bob Drury
16. The Sanotorium - Sarah Pearse
17. Black Ops: The Life of a CIA shadow Warrior - Ric Prado
18. Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics - Edward Haslam
19. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West - McCullough
20. DJ Screw: A Life In Slow Revolution - Lance Scott Walker
21. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
22. The Seance - John Hardwood
23. A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
24. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
25. Yearbook - Seth Rogan
26. Dune - Frank Herbert
27. I Hate You - Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, 3rd Edition - Jerold J Kreisman
28. The Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
29. The Whistler - John Grisham
30. The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
31. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan Peterson
32. City on Fire - Don Winslow
33. World Gone By - Dennis Lehane
34. Upgrade - Blake Crouch
35. Devolution - Max Brooks
36. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
37. Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy
38. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
39. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
40. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
41. The Judge's List - John Grisham
42. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
43. City of Dreams - Don Winslow
44. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base - Annie Jacobsen
45. If You Tell: a True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood - Gregg Olsen
46. The Lost Gospel - Joe Edd Morris
47. The Terminal List - Jack Carr
48. Poverty, By America - Matthew Desmond
49. True Believer - Jack Carr
50. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - Timothy Egan
51. The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality - Mike Sielski
52. We Are The Light - Matthew Quick
53. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece - Tom Hanks
54. The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For - David McCullough
55. Marathon Man - Liam Goldman
56. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History - S.C. Gwynne
57. Small Mercies - Dennis Lehane
58. Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History - Brian Kilmeade
59. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage - Nick de Semlyen
60. The Big Heist: The Real Story of the Lufthansa Heist, the Mafia, and Murder - Anthony DeStefano
61. Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl
62. 1776 - David McCullough
63. Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
64. A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
65. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues - Jonathan Kennedy
66. The House in the Pines - Ana Reyes
67. Savage Son - Jack Carr
68. Fairy Tale - Stephen King
69. Dead Mountain - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
70. The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 - David McCullough
71. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
72. God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State - Lawrence Wright
73. Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
74. The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward
75. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization - Neil deGrasse Tyson
76. How to Sell a Haunted House - Grady Hendrix
77. All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby
78. The Sun Down Motel - Simone St. James
79. The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
80. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, & Murder - David Grann
81. The Wright Brothers - David McCullough
82. Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias - Kevin Cook
83. The Devil's Hand - Jack Carr
84. Daphne - Josh Malerman
85. Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
86. In the Blood - Jack Carr
87. One Last Kill - Robert Dugoni
88. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
89. Beartown - Fredrik Backman
90. Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice - Tom Clavin
91. Only the Dead - Jack Carr
92. The Dead Zone - Stephen King
93. The River We Remember - William Kent Krueger
94. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit - John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
95. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know - Malcolm Gladwell
96. The Secret History of the World - Mark Booth
97. The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell
98. Us Against Them - Fredrik Backman
99. The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World - Tim Marshall
100. The Winners - Fredrik Backman
101. Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell - Tom Clavin
102. Holly - Stephen King
103. 11/22/63 - Stephen King
104. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder - Douglas Preston
105. The Exchange - John Grisham
2. The Nineties - Chuck Klosterman
3. Educated - Tara Westover
4. Catch-22 - Joseph Keller
5. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation - Kristin Kobes Du Mez
6. Friends, Lovers, and the Big, Terrible Thing - Matthew Perry
7. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear
8. Pines - Blake Crouch
9. Wayward - Blake Crouch
10. The Last Town - Blake Crouch
11. Cemetary Road - Greg Iles
12. Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
13. The Cabinet of Dr. Leng - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
14. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
15. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - Tom Clavin & Bob Drury
16. The Sanotorium - Sarah Pearse
17. Black Ops: The Life of a CIA shadow Warrior - Ric Prado
18. Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics - Edward Haslam
19. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West - McCullough
20. DJ Screw: A Life In Slow Revolution - Lance Scott Walker
21. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
22. The Seance - John Hardwood
23. A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
24. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
25. Yearbook - Seth Rogan
26. Dune - Frank Herbert
27. I Hate You - Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, 3rd Edition - Jerold J Kreisman
28. The Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
29. The Whistler - John Grisham
30. The Passenger - Cormac McCarthy
31. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan Peterson
32. City on Fire - Don Winslow
33. World Gone By - Dennis Lehane
34. Upgrade - Blake Crouch
35. Devolution - Max Brooks
36. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
37. Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy
38. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
39. The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
40. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
41. The Judge's List - John Grisham
42. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
43. City of Dreams - Don Winslow
44. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base - Annie Jacobsen
45. If You Tell: a True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood - Gregg Olsen
46. The Lost Gospel - Joe Edd Morris
47. The Terminal List - Jack Carr
48. Poverty, By America - Matthew Desmond
49. True Believer - Jack Carr
50. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - Timothy Egan
51. The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality - Mike Sielski
52. We Are The Light - Matthew Quick
53. The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece - Tom Hanks
54. The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For - David McCullough
55. Marathon Man - Liam Goldman
56. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History - S.C. Gwynne
57. Small Mercies - Dennis Lehane
58. Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers: The Texas Victory That Changed American History - Brian Kilmeade
59. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage - Nick de Semlyen
60. The Big Heist: The Real Story of the Lufthansa Heist, the Mafia, and Murder - Anthony DeStefano
61. Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor Frankl
62. 1776 - David McCullough
63. Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid
64. A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
65. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues - Jonathan Kennedy
66. The House in the Pines - Ana Reyes
67. Savage Son - Jack Carr
68. Fairy Tale - Stephen King
69. Dead Mountain - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
70. The Path between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 - David McCullough
71. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
72. God Save Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State - Lawrence Wright
73. Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
74. The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward
75. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization - Neil deGrasse Tyson
76. How to Sell a Haunted House - Grady Hendrix
77. All the Sinners Bleed - S.A. Cosby
78. The Sun Down Motel - Simone St. James
79. The Only Good Indians - Stephen Graham Jones
80. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, & Murder - David Grann
81. The Wright Brothers - David McCullough
82. Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias - Kevin Cook
83. The Devil's Hand - Jack Carr
84. Daphne - Josh Malerman
85. Interview With the Vampire - Anne Rice
86. In the Blood - Jack Carr
87. One Last Kill - Robert Dugoni
88. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
89. Beartown - Fredrik Backman
90. Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice - Tom Clavin
91. Only the Dead - Jack Carr
92. The Dead Zone - Stephen King
93. The River We Remember - William Kent Krueger
94. Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit - John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
95. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know - Malcolm Gladwell
96. The Secret History of the World - Mark Booth
97. The Bomber Mafia - Malcolm Gladwell
98. Us Against Them - Fredrik Backman
99. The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World - Tim Marshall
100. The Winners - Fredrik Backman
101. Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell - Tom Clavin
102. Holly - Stephen King
103. 11/22/63 - Stephen King
104. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder - Douglas Preston
105. The Exchange - John Grisham
This post was edited on 12/28/23 at 8:42 am
Posted on 12/4/23 at 9:32 am to SW2SCLA
can you bold your top 5?
Posted on 12/6/23 at 8:28 am to Sir Drinksalot
quote:
can you bold your top 5?
7, 19, 36, 47, and 89. That's just from a quick scroll through and picking out 5 favorites. The Terminal List series and the Beartown trilogy are probably my favorite fiction of the year, so I included the first book in each series.
Posted on 12/7/23 at 1:14 pm to SW2SCLA
On pace to hit 24 this year. Slow start but picked up the finish. Good luck to the rest of y’all .
.Posted on 12/21/23 at 6:51 am to spehog
Goal of 20, update
1. All about love - bell hooks
2. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
3. When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
5. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
6. Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
7. Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
8. Highland Raven (Book 1) - Melanie Karsak
9. Highland Blood (Book 2) - Melanie Karsak
10. Highland Vengence (Book 3) - Melanie Karsak
11. Highland Queen (Book 4) - Melanie Karsak
12. Book of Magic (Book 4 of Practical Magic series) - Alice Hoffman
13. Weyward- Emilia Hart
14. The Day I Disappeared - Brandi Reed
15. Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
16. The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
17. milk and honey - Rupi Kaur
18. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
19. the sun and her flowers - Rupi Kaur
20. Blackbird House - Alice Hoffman
Got my 20 with a couple weeks to spare.
Think I’ll shoot for 30 for next year. It took me a bit this year to get back into the groove of reading.
1. All about love - bell hooks
2. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
3. When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
5. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
6. Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
7. Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
8. Highland Raven (Book 1) - Melanie Karsak
9. Highland Blood (Book 2) - Melanie Karsak
10. Highland Vengence (Book 3) - Melanie Karsak
11. Highland Queen (Book 4) - Melanie Karsak
12. Book of Magic (Book 4 of Practical Magic series) - Alice Hoffman
13. Weyward- Emilia Hart
14. The Day I Disappeared - Brandi Reed
15. Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
16. The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides
17. milk and honey - Rupi Kaur
18. Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
19. the sun and her flowers - Rupi Kaur
20. Blackbird House - Alice Hoffman
Got my 20 with a couple weeks to spare.
Think I’ll shoot for 30 for next year. It took me a bit this year to get back into the groove of reading.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 11:28 am to BluegrassBelle
top 3?
I'm at 80 so far and there are so many duds on my list.
I like to get recs from others but only on the good ones....
I'm at 80 so far and there are so many duds on my list.
I like to get recs from others but only on the good ones....
Posted on 12/22/23 at 12:56 pm to Sir Drinksalot
Need to do this for 2024. Do you count audiobooks, or just books you read?
Posted on 12/22/23 at 1:27 pm to VolSquatch
Just books. Audio books are too slow for my liking.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 2:41 pm to Sir Drinksalot
quote:
top 3?
That's a tough one. I don't know that I could necessarily pick out three and order them but these were my favorites:
Braiding Sweetgrass was really good but I'm a big plant person, so it was pretty interesting to me.
Killers of the Flower Moon. While not the best written book I've ever read from a wordsmith perspective, the story is pretty incredible and I like how David Grann worked it from an investigative perspective.
Weyward scratched that witchy itch for me and I liked how it's a story that is connected throughout generations.
Tress of the Emerald Sea is my first Sanderson and I really loved it. Had a Princess Bride feel that I liked and a magical quirkiness that I appreciated. I think this was my favorite overall, with Weyward a close second.
Posted on 12/22/23 at 2:42 pm to VolSquatch
quote:
Do you count audiobooks, or just books you read?
I count both. Usually listen to audiobooks on my commute
Posted on 12/26/23 at 11:02 pm to BluegrassBelle
quote:
Tress of the Emerald Sea is my first Sanderson and I really loved it. Had a Princess Bride feel that I liked and a magical quirkiness that I appreciated. I think this was my favorite overall, with Weyward a close second.
The book was extremely well done and a fun read.
You saw all sorts of different things from the Cosmere in your first go at it. Haha.
Posted on 12/28/23 at 2:49 pm to Adajax
No goal, as usual. Book club selections marked (BC)
1. Blood Diamonds at the Lost Bazaar. Pittman. 327pgs. (BC)
2. Cop Under Fire. Clarke. 244pgs
3. The Hot Kid. Elmore. 387pgs
4. The Intruders. Marshall. 392pgs
5. Blood of Angels. Marshall. 401pgs
6. The Flying Tigers. Kleiner. 236pgs
7. Cane River. Tademy (BC)
8. Junkyaed Dogs. Johnson.
9. Dry Bones. Johnson. 306pgs
10. The Cold Dish. Johnson. 608pgs
11. Miracle. Golenbeck. 386pgs
12. The Winds of War. Wouk. 888pgs
13. Dead and Gone. Vachss. 334pgs
14. Shooting Star. Zolotow. 385pgs
15. The Ox. Rees. 332pgs
16. War and Remembrance vol2. Wouk. 569pgs
17. The Book of Basketball. Simmons. 687pgs
18. The Eagle Has Flown. Higgins. 335pgs
19. Indestructible. Brunig. 501pgs
20. Heat Lightning. Sandford. 386pgs
21. Shattered Bone. Stewart. 384pgs
22. King Suckerman. Pelecanos. 324pgs
23. Flight of the Intruder. Coonts. 329pg
24. Baltimore Noir. Lippman(ed). 291pgs
25. Flying Tigers. Ford. 361pgs (BC)
26. The Day I Owned the Sky. Scott. 232
27. White Star. Thayer. 303pgs
28. The Nugget. Deutermann. 308pgs
29. Great Baseball Writing. Fieder(ed). 557pgs
30. No Middle Name. Child. 418 pgs
31. Mask Market. Vachss. 322pgs
32. Bombs Away. Turtledove. 432pgs
33. Hell and Back. Johnson. 336pgs
34. Fallout. Turtledove.
35. Armistice. Turtledove.
36. Billy Boyle. Benn. 372pgs
37. Blood Alone. Benn. 313pgs
38. Red Metal. Greaney/Rawlings. 638pgs
39. Fish Out of Water. Harris. 73pgs (BC)
40. Evil for Evil. Benn. 325pgs
41. The Wingmen. Lazarus. 232pgs
42. A Serpent's Tooth. Johnson. 335pgs
43. Dumb but Lucky. Curtis. 315pgs
44. Rome: Destroy Carthage. Gibbins. 387pgs
45. 2034. Ackerman/Stavridis. 303pgs
46. So, Anyway...Cleese. 375pgs
47. Football Done Right. M. Lombardi. 292pgs
48. Autobiography of Malcolm X. Haley. 500pgs
49. Panzer Commander. vonLuck. 347pgs
50. The Pagan Land. Cornwall. 480pgs
51. Interview With the Vampire. Rice (BC)
52. When the Cat's Away. Friedman. 244pgs
53. A Case of Lone Star. Friedman. 189pgs
54 The Last Folk Hero. Pearlman. 430pgs
55. Ask Not. Collins. 316pgs
56. Outliers. Gladwell. 285pgs
57. The Captains. Griffith. 406pgs
58. The Aviators. Griffith. 455pgs
59. The Generals. Griffith. 378pgs
60. The Protector's War. Stirling. 591pgs
61. The Devil's Code. Sandford. 321pgs
62. The Flight From Winter's Shadow. White. 312pgs
63. Last Dance. Feinstein. 351pgs.
1. Blood Diamonds at the Lost Bazaar. Pittman. 327pgs. (BC)
2. Cop Under Fire. Clarke. 244pgs
3. The Hot Kid. Elmore. 387pgs
4. The Intruders. Marshall. 392pgs
5. Blood of Angels. Marshall. 401pgs
6. The Flying Tigers. Kleiner. 236pgs
7. Cane River. Tademy (BC)
8. Junkyaed Dogs. Johnson.
9. Dry Bones. Johnson. 306pgs
10. The Cold Dish. Johnson. 608pgs
11. Miracle. Golenbeck. 386pgs
12. The Winds of War. Wouk. 888pgs
13. Dead and Gone. Vachss. 334pgs
14. Shooting Star. Zolotow. 385pgs
15. The Ox. Rees. 332pgs
16. War and Remembrance vol2. Wouk. 569pgs
17. The Book of Basketball. Simmons. 687pgs
18. The Eagle Has Flown. Higgins. 335pgs
19. Indestructible. Brunig. 501pgs
20. Heat Lightning. Sandford. 386pgs
21. Shattered Bone. Stewart. 384pgs
22. King Suckerman. Pelecanos. 324pgs
23. Flight of the Intruder. Coonts. 329pg
24. Baltimore Noir. Lippman(ed). 291pgs
25. Flying Tigers. Ford. 361pgs (BC)
26. The Day I Owned the Sky. Scott. 232
27. White Star. Thayer. 303pgs
28. The Nugget. Deutermann. 308pgs
29. Great Baseball Writing. Fieder(ed). 557pgs
30. No Middle Name. Child. 418 pgs
31. Mask Market. Vachss. 322pgs
32. Bombs Away. Turtledove. 432pgs
33. Hell and Back. Johnson. 336pgs
34. Fallout. Turtledove.
35. Armistice. Turtledove.
36. Billy Boyle. Benn. 372pgs
37. Blood Alone. Benn. 313pgs
38. Red Metal. Greaney/Rawlings. 638pgs
39. Fish Out of Water. Harris. 73pgs (BC)
40. Evil for Evil. Benn. 325pgs
41. The Wingmen. Lazarus. 232pgs
42. A Serpent's Tooth. Johnson. 335pgs
43. Dumb but Lucky. Curtis. 315pgs
44. Rome: Destroy Carthage. Gibbins. 387pgs
45. 2034. Ackerman/Stavridis. 303pgs
46. So, Anyway...Cleese. 375pgs
47. Football Done Right. M. Lombardi. 292pgs
48. Autobiography of Malcolm X. Haley. 500pgs
49. Panzer Commander. vonLuck. 347pgs
50. The Pagan Land. Cornwall. 480pgs
51. Interview With the Vampire. Rice (BC)
52. When the Cat's Away. Friedman. 244pgs
53. A Case of Lone Star. Friedman. 189pgs
54 The Last Folk Hero. Pearlman. 430pgs
55. Ask Not. Collins. 316pgs
56. Outliers. Gladwell. 285pgs
57. The Captains. Griffith. 406pgs
58. The Aviators. Griffith. 455pgs
59. The Generals. Griffith. 378pgs
60. The Protector's War. Stirling. 591pgs
61. The Devil's Code. Sandford. 321pgs
62. The Flight From Winter's Shadow. White. 312pgs
63. Last Dance. Feinstein. 351pgs.
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