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Just reached my Goodreads challenge for the year which was 60 books. My total last year was 92 but I had a lot of shorter ones last year. 

So this is what I read since my last post here:
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Wheel of Time looks really daunting to start. I've never read it except New Spring which I read out of sequence and was probably too young for as well. I actually have the entire set, one of a few longer series I need to properly start. I don't think I could read the whole lot of those one after the other. Probably one, maybe two every so often once I dig into them.
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Christ, I feel like a reading noob compared to the rest of you...I'm still reading the Wheel of Time series and it's basically the first series I'll have read anything of and completed. That being said I AM becoming more and more of a bookworm, so I'll catch up to you's all...in time!Wink
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Have just read this trilogy one after the other:



I think Adrian is one of the best current writers in the fantasy and sci-fi realm. These were no exception, though I did feel parts of the middle book dragged a bit. Also maybe he wrote his influences on this sleeve a bit with this series: it seems highly unlikely that he wasn't in some way influenced by Neal Asher's Polity universe here. I mean not only does he actually use the word polity to describe human culture in the book, the concept of unspace is very like Asher's underspace and there's also a character that feels similar in purpose and abilities, if not origin, to one from Asher's Agent Cormac series. I'm not saying they're a rip-off - the stories are completely different - or that similar plot devices haven't been used before Asher, but having read the Agent Cormac series (most of them still relatively recently) it felt a bit on the nose. 
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Hit 50 books read in 2024 today. My Goodreads target for this year was set at 60. Last year I read 92 which is an unprecedented record for me. With most of four months to go I'm maybe not coming close to that again this year and I'm got some bigger books I want to try to get in before the year is out, but I'll comfortably hit the 60 books goal. 

Here's everything I read this year so far in order:

  1. Brandon Sanderson - Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
  2. Elly Griffiths - The Stranger Diaries
  3. Elly Griffiths - The Postscript Murders
  4. Elly Griffiths - Bleeding Heart Yard
  5. Arkady Martine - A Desolation Called Peace
  6. Neal Asher - Brass Man
  7. Kate Ellis - The Merchant's House
  8. Michael Connelly - The Black Echo
  9. Michael Connelly - The Black Ice
  10. Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The Reckoning
  11. Stuart MacBride - A Dark So Deadly
  12. LJ Ross - Holy Island
  13. Lucy Clarke - The Hike
  14. Gillian McAllister - Wrong Place, Wrong Time
  15. Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Ruin
  16. Jo Nesbo - Blood on Snow
  17. Peter May - The Critic
  18. Alastair Reynolds - Redemption Ark
  19. Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - Ashes to Dust
  20. Elly Griffiths - The Last Word
  21. Cixin Liu - The Three-Body Problem
  22. Ann Cleeves - Raven Black
  23. Michael Connelly - The Concrete Blonde
  24. Stuart MacBride - The Coffinmaker's Garden
  25. Ragnar Jonasson - Outside
  26. Elizabeth Moon - Surrender None
  27. Elizabeth Moon - Liar's Oath
  28. LJ Ross - Sycamore Gap
  29. Alastair Reynolds - Absolution Gap
  30. Alastair Reynolds - Galactic North
  31. LJ Ross - Heavenfield
  32. Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The Absolution
  33. Stuart MacBride - No Less the Devil
  34. Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Memory
  35. Neal Asher - Polity Agent
  36. LJ Ross - Angel
  37. Kate Ellis - The Armada Boy
  38. Jo Nesbo - Midnight Sun
  39. LJ Ross - High Force
  40. Neal Asher - Line War
  41. Neal Asher - Shadow of the Scorpion
  42. Michael Connelly - The Last Coyote
  43. LJ Ross - The Cove
  44. LJ Ross - The Creek
  45. Stuart MacBride - In a Place of Darkness
  46. LJ Ross - The Bay
  47. NK Jemisin - The Fifth Season
  48. NK Jemisin - The Obelisk Gate
  49. NK Jemisin - The Stone Sky
  50. Yrsa Sigurðardóttir - The Day is Dark
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Not the most diverse lot and as with the case of 2023 I have one author who's been dominating a bit (LJ Ross) but I'm on a break from them now. Will keep reading thrillers between them but going to try to clear a few trilogies off my reading pile for the rest of the year, as well as maybe start some of the bigger fantasy series because if I don't make a start I'll never read them at all. 
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That's probably only actually true of maybe half a dozen authors but yeah, when I like an author I do tend to stick with them although there's a few on there I've thrown the towel in over. Although I am hoping to get a few new authors in this year. 
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Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

And here's my list of all books read as of the end of 2023:


57/465

It looks like once you get onto an author you like you just keep going with everything they've written.
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And here's my list of all books read as of the end of 2023:
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Originally posted by adg211288 adg211288 wrote:

Just put my book list up for 2023:


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Just put my book list up for 2023:
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I'll finish my first of the year today.

I set myself a target of 50 for 2023 and made 92, though some books were quite short or had large print.

I've set myself 60 for this year which may or may not be ambitious. It really depends on if this is the year I finally tackle The Wheel of Time, although I don't imagine reading those one book after the other. 
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Got my challenge kicked off for the year. I finished one of the books I had on the go. I've decided I need to go to the library more this year, so I went and grabbed a handful of books today to get started on. I'm not back to work until Tuesday, so I've got a bit of time for some nice quiet reading.
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I've only got one in common with you there, coincidentally also read this year: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. 
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I've got two books on the go and I'm not going to get them finished before the end of the year, so here's a List Challenge of all the books I've read this year.
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Stormed through these two since my last post with the first one:




Real page turners, highly recommend fantasy using a modernised setting. 
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Two novellas from the Revelation Space universe. Seem pretty self-contained with the second having a throwback to the first compared to what I've read from the main books so far.



The second Dresden File. I think I prefer the first one slightly. There are a lot of these and I'm not as enamoured with them as some series I've started, but I'll keep going as long as I can find them, whenever that may be by the right I actually find a copy of book 3. They're not a series I feel like I'm going to shop ebay for.



A prequel to some books I read a couple of years back. The trilogy was good but it's been a while and it took a bit of time to re-familiarise myself with the characters. 



Just started this trilogy. This is very different for fantasy because it's set in a more or less modern world, maybe on a technology level with around the 1970s-1980s I guess. The actual story is about two warring gangs. The author is of Asian heritage and was influenced by Hong Kong gangster movies and the Wuxia genre. First book was bloody brilliant and I already started the second one this morning. 
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