May as well get this going for people to start compiling 2021 reading lists. I managed to hit 39 books last year, acheiving my 35 books goal.

I know I can hit 35 again so I think a 40 Book goal in 2021 will be a good challenge.

Already have lots of books I want to check out compiled in the old thread that I will transfer over to start this years list.

Happy New Year!

(1) Heir of Novron by Michael J. Sullivan ~ 900 pages (Finished)
(2) Operation Gladio by Paul Williams ~ 320 pages (Finished)
(3) The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre ~ 330 pages (Finished)
(4) Midnight Tides by Steven Erikson ~ 950 pages (Finished)
(5) House of Chains by Steven Erikson ~ 850 pages (Finished)
(6) Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny ~ 175 pages (Finished)
(7) The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny ~ 180 pages (Finished)
(8) Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny ~ 185 pages (Finished)
(9) The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny ~ 180 pages (Finished)
(10) The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny ~ 190 pages (Finished)
(12) Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay ~ 650 pages (Finished)
(13) Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons ~ 705 pages (Finished)
(14) Jhereg by Stevan Brust ~ 175 pages (Finished)
(15) Yendi bt Steven Brust ~ 140 pages (Finished)
(16) Teckla by Steven Brust



Audiobooks:
(1) From the Ruins of Empire by Pankaj Mishra (Finished)
(2) A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford (Finished)
(3) Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari (Finished)
(4) A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (Finished)
(5) Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (Finished)
(6) SPQR by Mary Beard (Finished)
(7) Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
(8) The Tangled Tree by David Quammen (Finished)
(9) Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie (Finished)
(10) Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne (Finished)
(11) The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant (Finished)
(12) The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan (Finished)
(13) Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll (Finished)
(14) Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing (Finished)
(15) The Great Courses: The French Revolution (Finished)
(16) The Great Courses: Ancient Egypt (Finished)
(17) Underworld by Graham Hancock (Finished)
(18) Citizens by Simon Schama

To Read List:

The Peregrine
Persian Fire by Tom Holland ~ 370 pages
Hyperspace
The Fabric of the Cosmos
Ordinary Men
Shadow rising
Towers of Midnight
Memory of Light
Rise of Endymion
A Good Day to Die by Jim Harrison
My Dog Skip
Ready Player One
No Country For Old Men
Rising Tide
Power of the Dog
The Cartel
The Border
The Orphan Masters Son
City of Theives
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Fantasy Series List


Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolf
Books of Babel - JOSIAH BANCROFT
Long Price Quartet - Daniel Abraham

Gormenghast Series - Mervyn Peake
Craft sequence - Max Gladstone
Divine Cities by Robert Jackson bennett
Black Iron Legacy by Gareth Ryder Hanrahan
Cradle Series & Travelers Gate - Will Wight
Echoes of Empire - Market T. Barnes
Marc Turner - Chronicles of Exile

Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee

Water Margin: Heroes of the Marsh
- 14th century Chinese masterpiece, kind of like Robin Hood but with way more wine and murder.

Romance of the 3 Kingdoms
14th-century historical novel attributed to Luo Guanzhong. It is set in the turbulent years towards the end of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history, starting in 169 AD and ending with the reunification of the land in 280 by Western Jin.

Shogun
- About a European who lands in Japan and gets caught up in this dudes quest to become Shogun. Based on a true story.

Dark Tower+++ Order

• The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (2003 Revised Edition)
• The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
• The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)
• The Stand: Complete and Uncut Edition (1990)
•The Talisman (1984) waa
• The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
• The Eyes of the Dragon (1987)
• "Little Sisters of Eluria" from Everything's Eventual (2002)
• The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
• Salem's Lot (1975)
• The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
• The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004)
• Insomnia (1994)
• "Low Men in Yellow Coats" from Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
• Black House (2001)
• "Everything's Eventual" from Everything's Eventual (2002)
• The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)

Robert McCammon - Swan Song
The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
Ashendem by Somerset Maugham
The Belgariad - Eddings
Leslie Charteris

Sufficiently Advanced Magic ? Arcane Ascension by Andrew Rowe

Goal: 30 books

There will be a healthy mix between history/politics/foreign affairs, novels, and spiritual/theological.

The list will be challenging, undoubtedly.

My reading year starts on 25 December because I have time off and I get new books.

1. The Evening and the Morning. Ken Follett
2. Prisoners of Geography. Tim Marshall
3. The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy. William F. Burns
4. The Death of Adam. Marilynne Robinson
5. Backpacking with the Saints. Belden C. Lane

Bold denotes completion

However you want to categorize it.

My goal is just books but i will still be marking down my audiobooks separately.

If you want to group them together or just do audiobooks i dont think it matters

Scaling back to 48 this year.

Completed

1) The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson 354p
2) Daylight by David Baldacci 404p
3) Dark City by F Paul Wilson 364p
4) Johnny U: The Life and Times of Johnny Unitas by Tom Callahan 276p...4*
5) Fear City by F Paul Wilson 460p
6) The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum 611p
7) Death Without Company by Craig Johnson 271p
8) Nightworld by F Paul Wilson 398p
9) Kindness Goes Unpunished by Craig Johnson 288p
10) Stan Musial: An American Life by George Vecsey 335p
11) Split Second by David Baldacci 404p
12) Another Man's Moccasins by Craig Johnson 298p
13) Hour Game by David Baldacci 720p (large print)
14) Simple Genius by David Baldacci 407p
15) The Scorpion's Tail by Preston and Child 401p
16) First Blood by David Morrell 300p
17) The Dark Horse by Craig Johnson 303p
18) First Family by David Baldacci 724p (large print)
19) The Patriot Threat by Steve Berry 377p
20) The Sixth Man by David Baldacci 607p (large print)coming!
21) Junkyard Dogs by Craig Johnson 307p
22) King and Maxwell by David Baldacci 419p
23) The 14th Colony by Steve Berry 443p

30 books is my goal. I ordered 8 tonight from Amazon, and have 5 on standby at the house. All history

30 was my goal for 2020 and I finished at 32. I went a little over a month in the summer where I barely read anything, so I left some meat on the bone.

I think for 2021 I'll set the same goal, but read more challenging books. I read a lot of easy books in 2020, mostly because I went down a Perry Mason rabbit hole after watching the HBO series.

Think I'm also going to do the chapter a day project on War & Peace again. This would be my 3rd time doing it.

Haven’t really read books since high school, but will try to do so this year. I’ll start small and try to do a book a month. About to start with The little book of common investing tonight, I would like to learn more about the stock market and investing.

I’ll also listen to a couple of audio books this year.

I’m going to read all of the Star Wars Legends books, however many there are.

I need to go back to reading — reserving my posting spot.

Not gonna set a big goal this year. Hit my goals last couple years but time to read is dropping off so I am just gonna list some books i want to read and try to get through them by the end of the year. May throw some other stuff in too
Read alot of sci fi last year as planned so gonna try to read a little better mix of stuff

Goal: 15 books

Completed

1. *The Conquering Sword of Conan - Robert E. Howard, 398 pages, 5/5
Last of the Conan books that are made up of the original stories. All the stories in this book are pretty good but the best by far is the last, Red Nails

2. *The Shorter Writings - Xenophon, 404 pages, 4/5

3. City - Clifford D. Simak, 264 pages, 3/5

4. The Trojan War - Translated by R.M. Frazier Jr., 168 pages, 3/5

5. *Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming, 230 pages, 4/5
Better than the movie and better than the previous book, Casino Royale. Pretty close to the character in the movies actually

Books to read

Captain John Smith's writings

Cobra Strike

Alexander the Great Biography

The Nightland

To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Oxford's History of Ancient Egypt

On the Beach

Kull Exile of Atlantis