re: 2023 Reading Challenge

I just hope to finish the 30 or so I have bought and never started..

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Currently reading The Somme by Peter Hart. Have finished two so far.

Finished my first one yesterday! Back to finish Malazan now.

I’m going for 25 again this year.

1. Gone for Good by Harlan Coben
2. House of Wolves by James Patterson
3. The Vineyard at Painted Moon by Susan Mallery
4. Ms. Demeanor by Elinor Lipman
5. The Book Club on Waverly Lane by Rachel Hanna
6. The Friendship List by Susan Mallery
7. 2 Sisters Detective Agency by James Patterson
8. Without a Trace by Carissa Anne Lynch
9. The Girls of Mischief Bay by Susan Mallery
10. California Girls by Susan Mallery
11. Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark
12. Where Are the Children Now? Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
13. You Can’t Joke About That by Kat Timpf
14. 23rd Midnight by James Patterson
15. The One for Me by Rachel Hanna
16. The Best of Friends by Susan Mallery
17. Only the Dead by Jack Car
18. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
19. Obsessed by James Patterson and James O Born
20. Sleepless City by Reed Farrell Coleman
21. The Investigators by John Sandford
22. Lion and Lamb by James Patterson and Duane Swierczynski
23. Hope on the Inside by Marie Bostwick
24. Community Board by Tara Conklin
25. Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew Perry
26. Haunted by James Patterson and James O. Born
27. The Hotel Book Club by Sarah Morgan
28. Summer Beach House by Sarah Morgan

Late to the party but I’ve been giving myself reading goals for the last few years. The most I’ve read in a year is 74 (with 30 being nonfiction)

This year I’m in grad school until September so it’ll hamper my personal enjoyment reading but I’ll read several textbooks in the program. I’ll likely read several between each semester then the bulk from September-December.

I’ll still set my goal for 50 with a 10 book nonfiction requirement. My favorite nonfiction books are WWII and true crime.

So far this year:
1) Tell No Lies-Allison Brennan

Setting my goal at 60 again for 2023. Set the same goal last year and read 77. Off to a pretty good start one month in.

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

Bump way behind schedule but finished The Crippled God last book of Malazan Book of the Fallen. Fantastic but deep and dark series. Got choked up multiple times on this one. Trying Sandersons Skyward series next to get some easy quick books in and it was the Year Of Sanderson box this month.

I am extremely behind, but here we go.

My goal for 2023 is to read 10 books.

Completed:

-The Passenger- Cormac McCarthy- 5*
-Catch-22- Joseph Heller- 5*
-Count Zero- William Gibson- 3.5*
-Vurt- Jeff Noon- 4*
-Titanium Noir- Nick Harkaway-4*

In Progress:

-The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway

Bump.

Been a steady diet of Warhammer 40k stuff. Might switch it up for the next book.

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What did you think of this one? I'm about a quarter through it and I find it hilarious. I'm always into the absurdist black humor stuff, and this reads a lot like Vonnegut.

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I laughed out loud many times. Really fun read. Hope you enjoyed the rest of it