2024 Reading Challenge

I look forward to as good or a better reading year in 2024.

My list to follow:

1. The Little Liar - Mitch Albom, hardcover 333pp. 4.5*
2. Broken City - various - an anthology, paperback 441pp. 4*
3. A Time to Kill - John Grisham, paperback 515pp. 4*
4. The Bookkeeper’s Skull - Justin D. Hill, hardcover 200pp. 3.5*
5. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - Brandon Sanderson, hardcover 400pp. 4.5*
6. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley, paperback 221 pp. 3.5*

Keeping my goal at 24 for 2024.

Completed
1) Savage Son by Jack Carr 391p
2) The Devil's Hand by Jack Carr 538p
3) In the Blood by Jack Carr 420p
4) Only the Dead by Jack Carr 522p
5) The Chaos Agent by Mark Greaney 543p
6) The Gashouse Gang by John Heidenry 291p
Great book about the 1934 STL Cardinals
7) Mount Dragon by Preston and Child 349p
8) Shogun part 1 by James Clavell 693p
9) Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton 287p
10) Shogun part 2 by James Clavell 853p

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Got a gift card to a local bookstore so i’ll be heading over there to pick up a couple books this week

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Not sure where you are, S but highly recommend updating your library card and downloading Libby. If you have a Kindle, it’ll send it right to it.

For OP, shooting for 35 books this year (did 20 this last year).

I’m going to up it to 30 this year. I hit 28 this year.

1. Meant to be Yours by Susan Mallery
2. Dead Fall by Brad Thor
3. The Christmas wedding Guest by Susan Mallery
4. Holmes, Marple and Poe by James Patterson and Brian Sitts
5. The Island Villa by Sarah Morgan
6. The Never Game by Jeffrey Deaver
7. Golden Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
8. The #1 Lawyer by James Patterson and Nancy Allen

I fell a little short of 20 books last year, so I'll go with 18.

Hopefully I can hit that. I know there were some stretches where I didn't read like I could've and I'm wanting to read a couple longer books again this year.

Goal: 18 Books

1. The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane - Robert E. Howard, 414 pages, 4/5
Moon of skulls may be my favorite story by Howard now.

2. The First Poems in English - Various, translated by Michael Alexander, 140 pages, 4/5
These poems (much like Beowulf) blend the old pagan England with the Christian one, and rather match the grafting in of Gentiles. Pretty good.

3. When God spoke Greek - Timothy Michael Law, 174 pages, 3/5
Very opinionated and at times reads like a Wikipedia entry mixed with a blog. Still, interesting stuff about the history of the Septuagint and the Bible.

4. Red Rabbit - Tom Clancy, 636 pages, 3/5
First Clancy book I've read in awhile. Was ok.

5. The Complete Plays - Sophocles, 440 pages, 4/5

6. Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ - Lew Wallace, 488 pages, 5/5
A few quotes I really loved
"Could he have taken the offer and said the word, history might have been other than it is; but then it would have been history ordered by men, not God - something that never was and never will be."

"The intentions of God are always strange to us; but not more so than the means by which they are wrougt out, and at last made plain to our belief."

"All the servants hastened weeping to see him; for he had the love of every living thing with which he had anytime to do;but when they beheld his face, and the smile upon it, they dried their tears, saying, "It is well. He is happier this evening than when he went out in the morning."

Missed my goal of 24 books by 200 page…doing Abercrombie Age of Madness trilogy, finishing Defiant, and might do wheel of time reread…aiming for 20 this year. Got to be realistic on these kind of things.

1. Defiant - Skyward Series - Brandon Sanderson 1/2
2. A Little Hatred - First Law/Age of Madness - Joe Abercrombie 1/15
3. The Trouble With Peace - First Law/Age of Madness - Joe Abercrombie 2/4
4. The Wisdom of Crowds - First Law/Age of Madness - Joe Abercrombie 2/22
5. Red Rising - The Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown 3/2
6. Golden Sun - The Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown 3/9
7. Morning Star - The Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown 3/19
8. Iron Gold - The Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown 4/3
9. Dark Age - The Red Rising Series - Pierce Brown 4/19

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Missed my goal of 24 books

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I've missed my goal of 24 for two straight years. My biggest problem has been forcing myself to read some books that didn't really interest me and I drug my heels.

I'm going to make sure I hit it this year.

My goal last year was 20 books on GR. I adjusted as the year went on. I finished with 32. I had a 3 month gap when I didn’t read anything. Kindle Paperwhite was a game changer for me. Going for 40 this year. Doing our library’s adult reading challenge this year for the first time too. Hoping to trim down some of the titles that have been on my want to read list for a while.

Completed
1. When You Find My Body -Dee Dauphinee
2. Atomic Habits -James Clear
3. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas -John Boyne
4. Die Trying: Jack Reacher #2 -Lee Child
5. Life is Magic -Jon Dorenbos
6. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe -C.S. Lewis
7. So Many Steves -Steve Martin (Audio, not much of a book.)
8. A Walk in the Woods -Bill Bryson
9. Heartland -Sarah Smarsh
10. A Confederacy of Dunces -John Kennedy Toole
11. Make Me: Jack Reacher #20 -Lee Child
12. The Hobbit -J.R.R. Tolkien
13. Tuesdays with Morrie -Mitch Albom
14. Red Dragon: Hannibal Lecter #1 -Thomas Harris
15. The Silence of the Lambs: Hannibal Lecter #2 -Thomas Harris
16. Red Sauce -Ian MacAllen
17. Welcome to Dunder Mifflin -Brian Baumgartner
18. Killers of the Flower Moon -David Grann

Goal last year was 24 but finished with 34.

Gonna set the goal at 30 this year.

A few on the list for this year that I’ve never read are The Witcher series, Legends of the Empire trilogy, and Rise and Fall trilogy. Also wanna get a Stormlight re-read in before book five drops.

So with just those and finishing my re-reread of Wheel of Time, that’ll get me to 25.

Completed
1. Crossroads of Twilight - Jordan
2. Knife of Dreams - Jordan
3. The Gathering Storm - Sanderson/Jordan
4. Towers of Midnight - Sanderson/Jordan
5. A Memory of Light - Sanderson/Jordan
6. The Last Wish - Sapkowski
7. Sword of Destiny - Sapkowski

Currently Reading
Blood of Elves - Sapkowski

Just finished the 4th skyward. Enjoy them! Didn’t realize there are set of novella/novellas that go along side them. Feel like I missed something going from book 3 to book 4, they explained it well enough but wish I read if that helps.