Reading Challenge 2018

I did 25 last year, so 30 could be my goal I guess.

I'm gonna read the new Brown book over the next week, but sometimes I get stuck into long arse books where I read them on and off for a long period. Into the rise and fall of the third reich now and it's a slow go and pretty long

Edit: think I want to read something on the Cuban Missile Crisis next. any recommendations? Looked through a few and one minute to midnight seemed like a good one?


7/1 update - already at 20 although a couple were short

7 Harry Potter book reread
Iron Gold
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Steelheart - Sanderson
FireFight - Sanderson
Blockade Billy - King
HBR - Mental toughness
The Peter Principle
Dreamcatcher - King
Calamity - Sanderson
Salem's Lot - King
Stiletto - o’malley
The old man and the sea - Hemingway
Mitosis - Sanderson
11/22/63 - King
Elantris - Sanderson
Thirteen Days - Kennedy
The Alloy of Law - Sanderson
Shogun - Clavell
The one - Roberts
Guns of August - Tuchman
Behave - Sapolsky
Leaders Eat Last - Sinek
The road to unfreedom - Snyder
The night circus - Morganstern
Fool's assassin - Hobb
Fool's quest - Hobb
Assassin's Fate - Hobb
Directorate S - Coll
Fear - Woodward


Edit: I read on a kindle and those pages are bullcrap, so I won't have pages.

Edit 2: I got a library card from the DC library (I live here but you can buy one for $25 for 2-3 years) and you get everything for free. I've read probably 15 books in the last 3 months because money is no longer an issue.

Can have 10 books/audio books checked out at a time and 15 more on hold (when there's a waitlist for popular books).

Not the best or fastest reader. Setting goal at 20 books for the year. Also i decided to start with "How to read a book". I'll follow this thread and post my readings as well.

Altered Carbon- Richard K. Morgan- 375 pages
Red Rising - Pierce Brown- 401 pages

now reading Golden son

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When do you find that much time to read? I love to read but it takes me forever to get through a book because of limited free time

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That’s just less than 1 a week. Not impossible.

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When do you find that much time to read?

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Backing off of tv time is the biggest thing and I read on my kindle in bed before I fall asleep.

Like I said though, 50 is lofty but what’s the point in setting a goal I know I can achieve easily?

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Beerjeep

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I know, I know. I’m at work but when I get home I’ll add pages to title and author in my op. I’ll use paperback version page numbers as well. No cheating on kindle.

Goal: 24 books
bold = finished

1. Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare (476) paperback 17 Jan
2. The Likeness - Tana French (464) paperback
3. The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky (213) iBooks
4. The Bear and the Nightingale - Katherine Arden (323) iBooks
5. Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy - Eric Metaxas (542) Hardback [still reading]
6. Counterfeit Gods - Timothy Keller (171) paperback
7. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (971) hard cover
8. Martin Luther King Jr.: A life - Marshall Frady (216) paperback
9. The Four Loves C.S. Lewis (180) paperback
10. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (306) paperback

Keeping it simple this year after a struggle of a finish for 2017. Only 20

1. Ready Player One, Ernest Cline, 374
2. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, David Lagercrantz, 347
3. Iron Gold, Pierce Brown, 596
4. Stone Sky, N.K. Jemisin, 398
5. Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan, 855
6. The Body Farm, Patricia Cornwell, 293
7. A Higher Loyalty, James Comey, 277
8. The Dragonbone Chair, Tad Williams, 635
9. All the President’s Men, Woodward and Brienstein, 336
10. The Red Sphinx, Dumas, 775
11. Windhaven, George RR Martin &Lisa Tuttle, 336
12. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72, Hunter S. Thompson, 481

I haven't set a goal for number of books. I set two goals - 1) read War & Peace, & 2) read for at least 20 minutes every day.


So far, so good on both.

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Sure is

At 30-50 pages a day, I should be able to make it.

I'll set a goal at 30 book, my books of choice can be kind of a bitch somtimes so gotta be reasonable.

(1) Toll the Hounds - Stephen Erikson ~ 1,200 pages (finished but started in 2017)
(2) Dust of Dreams - Stephen Erikson ~ 1,200 pages (Finished)
(3) The Crippled God - Stephen Erikson ~ 1,200 pages (Finished)
(4) American Gods - Neil Gaiman ~ 600 pages (Finished)
(5) A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking ~ 190 pages (Finished)
(6) The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene ~ 445 Pages (Finished)
(7) Our Mathematical Universe - Max Tegmark ~ 435 Pages (Finished)
(8) Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson ~ 635 pages (Finished)
(9) Well of Ascension - Brandon Sanderson ~ 750 pages (Finished)
(10) Hero of the Ages - Brandon Sanderson ~ 730 Pages (Finished)
(11) The Black Company - Glen Cook ~ 320 Pages (Finished)
(12) The LIes of Locke Lamora - John Lynch ~ 730 Pages (Finished)
(13) Red Seas Under Red Skies - John Lynch ~ 775 Pages (Finished)
(14) Republic of Thieves - John Lynch ~ 675 Pages (Finished)
(15) Malice - John Gwynne - 625 pages (Finished)
(16) Valour - John Gwynne - 675 pages (Finished)
(17) Ruin - John Gwynne - 700 pages (Finished)
(18) Wrath - John Gwynne - 685 pages (Finished)
(19) The Alloy of Law - Brandon Sanderson - 385 pages (Finished)
(20) Shadows of Self - Brandon Sanderson - 430 pages (Finished)
(21) The Bands of Mourning - Brandon Sanderson - 485 pages (Finished)
(22) The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu - 395 pages (Finished)
(23) The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu - 505 pages (Finished)
(24) Death's End - Cixin Liu - 605 pages (Finished)
(25) The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan - 785 pages (Finished)
(26) The Great Hunt - Robert Jordan - 680 pages (Finished)
(27) The Dragon Reborn - Robert Jordan - 675 pages (Finished)
(28) The Shadow Rising - Robert Jordan - 980 pages (Finished)
(29) The Fires of Heaven - Robert Jordan - 960 pages
(30) Lord of Chaos - Robert Jordan - 990 pages

More to come, have some series i want to check out but need to get through some of the above before making a decision.