- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- Parasite by Mira Grant
- Symbiont by Mira Grant
- Chimera by Mira Grant
- How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them by Barbara P Walter.
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Just After Sunset by Stephen King
- The Murder At The Vicarage by Agatha Christie
- Feed by Mira Grant
- It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
- In The Company of Witches by Auralee Wallace
- Deadline by Mira Grant
- Countdown by Mira Grant
- The Maze Runner by James Dashner
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Blackout by Mira Grant
- Elevation by Stephen King
- The Woman In Me by Britney Spears
- It’s Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
- Murder On The Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- The Firm by John Grisham
- Sitting Pretty The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig
- It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
- The Last Stand Of The California Browncoats by Mira Grant
- In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
- My French Whore by Gene Wilder
- The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
- The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
- The Grownup by Gillian Flynn
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King
- The Mysterious Affair At Styles by Agatha Christie
- Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
- The Exchange by John Grisham
- Double Homicide: Santa Fe, Boston by Jonathan & Faye Kellerman
- The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
- No Time Like The Future by Michale J. Fox 39.The Death Cure by James Dashner
- The Kill Order by James Dashner
- The Fever Code by James Dashner
- Dolly Parton Songteller by Dolly Parton with Robert K. Dermann
- Mean Baby by Selma Blair
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told by Alex Haley
- A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to The Future by Michael J. Fox
- Wildflower by Drew Barrymore
- The Book of Hope by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
- Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
- Throttle by Joe Hill and Stephen King
- The Fold by Peter Clines
- Full Throttle by Joe Hill
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
- The Hollow Places b y T. King Fisher
- Something Wicked This Way Come by Ray Bradbury
- Her Little Flowers by Shannon Morgan
- The Fireman by Joe Hill
- The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
- Theodore Boone The Abduction by John Grisham
- Yes Man by Danny Wallace
- Theodore BooneThe Accused by John Grisham
- Theodore Boone The Activist by John Grisham
- The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter
- Theodore BooneThe Fugitive by John Grisham
- Theodore Boone The Scandal by John Grisham
- The Assault On Reason by Al Gore
- Theodore BooneThe Accomplice
- Gerald’s Game by Stephen King
- Sooley by John Grisham
- Her Daughter’s Eyes by Jessica Barksdale Inclan
- Mr. Was by Pete Hautman
- Witch Upon A Star by Angela M. Sanders
- Christine by Stephen King
- She’s Not Sorry by Mary Kubica
- How Green This Land, How Blue This Sea by Mira Grant
- When the Crow’s Away by Auralee Wallace
- Neil Patrick Harris Choose Your Own Autobiography
- Bait and Witch by Angela M. Sanders
- Seven-Year Witch by Angela M. Sanders
- Fifth Avenue 5AM by Sam Wasson
- Calico Joe by John Grisham
- Ford County by John Grisham
- Witch and Famous by Angela M. Sanders
- Gone With the Witch by Angela M. Sanders
- The King of Torts by John Grisham
- The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- The Ghost Orchid by Jonathan Kellerman
- How To Win Friends and Influnce People by Dale Carnegie
- Strange Weather by Joe Hill
- Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
- You Like It Darker by Stephen King
- Zoey is too Drunk for this Dystopia by Jason Pargin
- Mondy Mourning by Kathy Reichs
- Envy by Gregg Olsen
- The Green Man Tales from the Mythic Forest Edited by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind
- Everything Must Go by Jenny Fran Davis
- Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
- Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker
Napkin math: So slightly less than two books a week? Like 280 pages or so per book, two per week, so 80 pages a day? Roughly?
That’s great, I’m happy for you. But hey, if you have a machine that puts more hours into a day, please share with the rest of us, we’re dying out here.
I can read over 200 pages in a day. Far as time honestly I read a majority of those at work. When we are slow and I am waiting for customers I read. I am lucky to have a boss that allows that.
He used to gripe but I quit if he took my books away and besides I do my job and it doesn’t get in the way of doing that. Gasp he also allows me to seat on a stoll but it isn’t the most comfortable.
I’ve read about the same number this year, and work full time. But we hardly watch anything on TV and don’t go to movies.
Edit: I thought I saw it was 44 books, but I see it’s 104, so that’s way more than me. Not someone who works full time, I’d guess.
I do work full-time, I have the privilege of reading at work and also I have always been a face reader.
Wow, that’s neat! Do you mind me asking what kind of work you do that let’s you read?
Customer service, I sort am like a cashier but don’t work in retail.
Oh, okay, that makes sense. I’ve seen security guards reading, but always wonder if the bosses are okay with that.
By the way, Lemmy is trying to make your asterisks into italics formatting and it’s messing up your number formatting halfway down.
Okay I take them out then I was wondering why it kept doing that.
Edit well that didn’t work what else could do that. When I go to edit it is all in line correctly but when I post it does that.
If you start a line with an asterisk and a space, it will make a bullet. If you put a word or words between asterisks, it will make them italics. If you put them between pairs of asterisks (no space) it will make them bold.
It’s my personal pet peeve when they put movie characters on the cover of a book.
Tell me about it. Why I prefer physical books and hardcover if I can.get them, but I have been using Libby for my ebooks and every Kindle book does that.
Dang.
Would love to know more. What are the starred ones? Which did you like most or least?
Stared one are the physical copies. How I kept ebooks from physical organized. The Maze Runner series would be the least favorite. I truly love all the John Grisham novels, and obviously Stephen King. I also surprisingly enjoyed the Witch Way Librarian Mystery series. Also highly recommend In The Lives of Puppets. Also can never go wrong reading Jason Pargin.
Awesome, thanks!
Also if you haven’t read it before I highly recommend The Wizard First Rule. It reminded me of a combination of Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings.
It is a massive world the author has created and this book by Terry Goodkind is just the first of a very large series called the Sword of Truth.
I have bought the next three books in the series and look forward to reading them.
Also I am huge murder mystery fan but I normally reading Agatha Christie or Jonathan Kellerman for my fix. But after reading Monday Morning and realized it was book 7 in the Tempe Brennan series I ordered and received the first in the series Deja Dead.
Depending on how you enjoy your books csn use Libby for ebooks or buy books from Thriftbooks.com
Also I found several great novels at Goodwill.
I read Sword of Truth series when I was pretty young and new to fantasy, so liked it a lot, but as you go further, there are many issues with the series. The author also has a unique point of view about fantasy, and his work vs other fantasy works, but that’s a separate thing.
I would love to hear your thoughts about it once you have read a few more books in the series.
Thanks will save this comment and would love to dicuss the series. I will reach out once I finish the next three books.
I’m just trying to finish(?) The Wandering Inn.
Nice reading!
Thanks my goal was 100 books this year I surpass that so my next goal is 200 by end of year.
Not sure I’ll get it done the Sword of Truth series is large. The first book was over 800 the next three in the series are just as large. But going give it one hell of a go.
Coo! Sounds like your enjoying yourself. What’s your current Best/worst?
For me, I’ve been reading off of royal road this last year or so.
A bit of a sidenote. Bookwyrm made it a bit easier to track and follow other people’s books, but it’s pretty alpha.
It took a lot for me to get through the Maze Runner series. I finished 5 of the books but they just weren’t that good to me but I read them anyway because I was hoping for a better ending that I never got.
That’s a pretty great list. Congratulations on crossing 100 books count, and good luck with your goal of 200 books this year!
You might be interested in our Book Bingo ( https://lemmy.world/post/14905693 ). Links are on the sidebar. Also, we have a weekly thread about what you have been reading, or what you have read since you last posted. Would love to follow your journey there.
Thanks I seen the thread on what your reading this week and I posted a comment couple of times but I read sometimes 1 to 2 books in a day depending on how long they are. Only two books took me a week on that list and it was the Fireman by Joe Hill and The Wizards First Rule by Terry Goodkind. But I will try to post more often.
Not sure on Bingo though.
Nothing wrong with posting 10-12 books in a post. You can just do a small review of everything you read since last week and give a small review. That can be interesting. Or you can just post the names as you read them. Whatever works for you.
Also, Bingo is just a way to gamify your reading, and can help you go out of your comfort zone and read something different. But of course, if you don’t care about it, nothing wrong with it.
Oh, and Happy Cake Day!
Wow really is it been a year already? Thank you.
I’m sure this is true.
However, if someone else offered that list I’d call complete bullshit.
He’s mine (all ebooks, so no pictures)
- The Cloud Roads, Wells
- Passage, Willis
- Gods of Risk, Corey
- Sundiver, Brin
- Transition State, Leckie
- The Serpent Sea, Wells
- Abaddon’s Gate, Corey
- Hominids, Sawyer
- The Time Ships, Baxter
- Beggars in Spain, Kress
- Humans, Sawyer
- Blindsight, Watts
- Startide Rising, Brin
- The Churn, Corey
- Leech, Ennes
- The Siren Depths, Wells
- Starter Villain, Scalzi
- The Host, Meyer
- Provenance, Leckie
- Nona the Ninth, Muir
- Perdido Street Station, Meiville
- The Watchmen, Moore
- How to live safely in a science fictional universe, Yu
- The City & The City, Mieville
- The Sirens of Titan, Vonnegut
- Neptune’s Brood, Stross
- The Scar, Meiville
- The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, Chambers
- Children of Time, Tchaikovsky
- Rule 34, Stross
- Consider Phlebas, Banks
- The Fifth Season, Jemison
- Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro
- Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory, Wells
- The Saint of Bright Doors, CHANDRASEKERA
- The Player of Games, Banks
- Children of Ruin, Tchaikovsky
- The Edge of Worlds, Wells
- 17776, Bois
- Echopraxia, Watts
Some of those are novellas, but some of them are really long, so probably balances out. When I’m not working and my chores are done, I’m usually reading.
How did you read Watchmen without pictures?
It was on Kindle with pictures. In fact, part of my reason for reading it was to see how that was. It was actually good - I was on a tablet, so not too tiny.
See you read Children of Time. You read the rest of the series?
I’ve read the second, which I liked tremendously, but haven’t gotten to the third yet.
Sure, but like, weird flex.
I mean that could be complete bullshit, who would know? I’m more inclined to think the sort of person that lists all the books they have supposedly read is probably the same sort of person that is trying to show off and therefore likely to exaggerate a bit.
Either way, good for you if you enjoyed them. Weird to think anyone else would care.
Maybe take one book and talk about how it made you feel, or something.
Not sure how anyone would consider it a brag, any more than listing movies that you watched or whatever. I have the list handy because I make notes about each book so that I can refer back and they don’t blur together. I was just saying it doesn’t seem unbelievable to me.
I did post my list to the SF community here after I had a year’s worth, along with my notes, in case it would help someone else with their reading list, which a number of people said it did. Still not a brag, just info.
Forgot this is the internet and people do lie on here. I have read all those books of course a lot of the Kindle ones are short stories but I still believe they count.
I list my books I read at end of the year as a tradition. Started for me on Reddit just go look up my user name on there and you will see. Only reason I posted now instead of end of year because this the first time since childhood that I read 100 books.
Why this is possible is two fold I am fast reader always have been, and second my job finally allows me to read at work. Second job that allows this.
But I am always reading weather during my lunch break, or just relaxing at home on the weekend.
The only ones of those I’ve read are The Book Thief, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, and I may have read The Firm. All good books.
Of all of the books listed, which has been your favorite?
That’s hard choice but I say Zoye to Drunk for this Dystopia and the Fireman were excellent books. But so was Heart-shaped Box. But a couple of the non fictions I really enjoyed. Black Like Me and The Killers of the Flower Moon were greats reads.
