Once more unto the book dear friends: 2024 reading challenge thread

[furluxor]

1/15 - The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
2/15 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
3/15 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
4/15 - Circe by Madeline Miller
5/15 - The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (reread)
6/15 - The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben
7/15 - The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
8/15 - Complete Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials by Roger Sexton, Barbara Bogusz
9/15 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
10/15 - Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
11/15 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
12/15 - Vilnius. Wilno. Vilna. Three Short Stories by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
13/15 - Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince
14/15 - The Official DVSA Theory Test for Car Drivers by DVSA
15/15 - The Official Highway Code by DVSA
16/15 - Autumn Chills by Agatha Christie
17/15 - Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
18/15 - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
19/15 - Granta 168: Significant Other
20/15 - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
21/15 - Recursion by Blake Crouch

22/15 - The Fraud by Zadie Smith. "Sometimes envy is so much like a recognition of fundamental similarity that the two emotions prove hard to separate"
It's a book I didn't particularly enjoy but do respect. All I knew about slaves on British colonies in the U.S. was that they had been treated abominably, so it was interesting to read more about their lives in Jamaica. It's also interesting to read a book set in XIXc. by a modern author, as it's a lot more candid than the classics. Where it felt short for me is that it's very sober to the point of dryness, and I felt somewhat detached throughout.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

In terms of BOOK books kindle infms me i finished 10 this year

Travis Baldree: Legends & Lattes
Lois McMaster Bujold: Penric and the Bandit (penric & desmona series)
Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's moving castle
Jim Butcher: Olympian Affair
Quenby Olson: Miss Percy's definitive guide to the restoration of dragons.
Travis Baldree: Bookshops & Bonedust
Martha Wells: System Colapse
Sarah Beth Durst: The Spell Shop
Delehatch: the house witch - the enchanting of the hearth
Delehatch: the house witch - the charming of austice


Audio books

The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest by Jennifer Paxton, The Great Courses

Maybe more. I don't know when I finished these others

 

[pseudonarcissus]

How big is the "we"?

40, but there may be some folk in the early pages that only added books early on

belboid

Biddleybee

BoatieBird

braindancer

chilli.s

CNT36

colbhoy

farmerbarleymow

Favelado

Fozie Bear

frogwoman

furluxor

hitmouse

Hollis

imposs1904

inva

Kevbad the Bad

krtek a houby

krtek a houby

marty21

Mattym

May Kasahara

Me76

MrSki

nogojones

nottsgirl

petee

pseudonarcissus

PursuedByBears

QueenOfGoths

rich!

rubbershoes

shifting gears

Shippou-Sensei

Signal 11

surreybrowncap

the button

yield

YouSir

zedr