The 2022 Annual Reading Challenge List Thread

[Waylander]

1. January: 10 books read
2. February: 11 books read
3. March: 9 books read
4. April: 10 books read
5. May: 8 books read
6. June: 10 books read
7. July: 12 books read
8. August: 19 books read
9. September: 13 books read
10. October: 13 books read
11. November: 12 books read
12. December: 10 books read

138 books read in 2022

[sun surfer]

Happy New Year!

I did really well with my goal of something like 42 last year, so I think I'll go with 42 books for 2022!

[AdamGott]

I'm going to shoot for reading 52 books this year. I've done it in the past but it's so much harder to do these days with all of the distractions (tablets, smartphones, streaming video services, etc.). Retiring sometime between March and July and that should really help.

Did it! Retired and am over my goal now!

Graphic Novels (comic books) count towards my goal. AND... I really need to read more than I buy but it's so hard with all of those sweet bundle deals (Storybundle, Baen, etc.), library rentals, and free/cheap books on Amazon.

Currently Reading: Unsouled by Will Wight, Best Little Stories from the Civil War by Brian Kelly, The Complete Peanuts Volume 4

Books Read So Far (53), last three completed:

Vampire Tales Vol.1 (Marvel Comics)
The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick
Mudd In Your Eye (Star Trek)by Jerry Oltion

[ianthe06]

Goals

• have fun reading
• read at least 40 books
• reduce TBR pile (starting the year with 694 books on the list)

"Soft goals"

• more current fiction
• more female authors
• more from "non-western" authors
• more classics
• read some short stories
• read some non-fiction

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January (8)

• Catherine Louisa Pirkis: The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894)
  female, classics, short stories
• Anna Burns: Milkman (2018)
  current, female
• Heinrich Mann: Das Wunderbare und andere Novellen (1897)
  classics, short stories
• Astrid Lindgren: Ronja Räubertochter (1981), audio book read by Ulrich Noethen
  Original title: Ronja Rövardotter
  female,
• Muriel Barbery: Die Eleganz des Igels (2006)
  Original title: L'Élégance du hérisson
  female
• Maren Urner: Schluss mit dem täglichen Weltuntergang : wie wir uns gegen die digitale Vermüllung unserer Gehirne wehren (2019)
  female, non-fiction
• Lynne Truss: Eats, Shoots and Leaves : The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (2003)
  female, non-fiction
• Stanislaw Lem: Sterntagebücher : aus den Erinnerungen Ijon Tichys (1957)
  Original title: Dzienniki gwiazdowe
  short stories

February (4)

• James Joyce: Dubliners (1914)
  classics, short stories
• Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows (1908)
  classics
• Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
  female
• Michael Goodwin / Dan E. Burr: Economix : wie unsere Wirtschaft funktioniert (oder auch nicht) (2012)
  Original title: Economix : how our economy works (and doesn't work)
  non-fiction

March (3)

• Marlen Haushofer: Die Wand (1963)
  female
• Katherine Mansfield: The Garden Party (1922)
  female, classics, short stories
• Scholem Alejchem: Anatewka : die Geschichte von Tewje, dem Milchmann (1895)
  Original title: Tōbijjā, der milkiger
  "non-western", classics

April (5)

• Christa Wolf: Der geteilte Himmel (1963)
  female, classics
• Oscar Wilde: A Woman of No Importance (1893)
  classics
• Georg Ebers: Die Geschichte meines Lebens (1893)
  non-fiction
• Cordula Neuhaus: Lass mich, doch verlass mich nicht (2005)
  female, non-fiction
• Doris Ryffel-Rawak: ADHS bei Frauen : den Gefühlen ausgeliefert (2004)
  female, non-fiction

May (3)

• Harald Scherk / Marion Kamp: Immer auf dem Sprung : Leben mit ADHS (2012)
  non-fiction
• Dirk von Lowtzow: Aus dem Dachsbau (2019)
  short stories
• Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)
  classics

June (2)

• Georges Simenon: Maigret 2 - Maigret und der verstorbene Monsieur Gallet (1931)
  Original title: Monsieur Gallet, décédé
• Vladimir Sorokin: Der Schneesturm (2010)
  Original title: Метель
  current

July (1)

• Hilary Mantel: Wölfe (2009)
  Original title: Wolf Hall
  current, female

August (1)

• Hilary Mantel: Falken (2012)
  Original title: Bring up the bodies
  current, female

September (2)

• Klaus Neitmann (ed.): Im Schatten mächtiger Nachbarn : Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur der Niederlausitz (2006)
  non-fiction
• Friedrich Beck / Eckart Henning (ed.): Die archivalischen Quellen : eine Einführung in ihre Benutzung (1994)
  non-fiction

October (3)

• Dörte Hansen: Altes Land (2015)
  current, female
• Juli Zeh: Unterleuten (2016)
  current, female
• Mathias Beer: Flucht und Vertreibung der Deutschen : Voraussetzungen, Verlauf, Folgen (2011)
  non-fiction

November (5)

• Gila Lustiger: Die Schuld der Anderen (2015)
  current, female
• Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband (1894)
  classics
• Colin Dexter: Last Bus to Woodstock (1975)
• Colin Dexter: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (1977)
• Colin Dexter: Service of All the Dead (1979)

December (10)

• Charlotte Brontë: Villette (1853)
  female, classics
• Florian Illies: 1913 : der Sommer des Jahrhunderts (2012)
  non-fiction
• Marie Kondo: Magic Cleaning 2 : Wie Wohnung und Seele aufgeräumt bleiben (2014)
  Original title: Jinsei ga Tokimeku Katazuke no Mahō 2
  female, non-fiction
• Georges Simenon: Maigret - 03 - Maigret und der Gehängte von Saint-Pholien (1931)
  Original title: Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien
• Sabine Bode: Die vergessene Generation : Die Kriegskinder brechen ihr Schweigen (2004)
  non-fiction
• Hans Fallada: Der Trinker (1950)
• Stine Pilgaard: Meine Mutter sagt (2012)
  Original title: Min mor siger
  current, female
• Bertrand Russell: Lob des Müßiggangs (1935)
  Original title: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
  non-fiction
• Helmut Remschmidt: Autismus : Erscheinungsformen, Ursachen, Hilfen (2012)
  non-fiction
• Georges Simenon: Maigret - 04 - Maigret und der Treidler der "Providence" (1931)
  Original title: Le Charretier de la Providence

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My Conclusion

I have read 47 books - my goal were 40, so that went well.
I certainly enjoyed all of the books I read - some more than others, of course.

As to my "soft goals":

• 8 current fiction
• 20 female authors
• 1 "non-western" authors
• 11 classics
• 6 books with short stories
• 15 non-fiction

Short stories will not become my favourite reading material.
I have a strong tendency towards the classics - and why not?
I found Spotify to be a decent source for audio books - not the biggest selection and horrible search facilities, but still...
Reduced my TBR pile from 694 to 671 - by reading but also by cleaning it out a bit.

[Mikou]

GOALS FOR 2022

I'm working on some goals I started last year and some new ones.

1. Complete 3 or more book series that I started prior to 2022 (complete)
   The Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells
   The Expanse by James S. A. Corey
   The Brown Sisters trilogy by Talia Hibbert
   Rockton by Kelley Armstrong
   Myst trilogy by Rand Miller
   
   
2. Read 4 or more nonfiction books/works that are not biographies or memoirs (complete)
   The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston
   Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
   Stiff by Mary Roach
   The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
   The Diabetes Code by Jason Fung, MD
   
   
3. Read 4 epic poems (complete)
   Gilgamesh interpreted by Stephen Mitchell
   Beowulf interpreted by Seamus Heaney
   The Divine Comedy by Dante Alghieri, interpreted by John Ciardi
   Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longellow
   
4. Read a book in French or Spanish language (complete)
   El Secreto de Xein by Laura Gallego[/COLOR]
   
5. Read 7 physical books that I purchased before 2022 (complete)
   Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
   The Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan He
   Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
   Myst: The Book of Ti'ana by Rand Miller
   Myst: The Book of D'ni by Rand Miller
   Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
   Lore Olympus, Volume 1 by Rachel Smythe
   
6. Read the Holy Bible from cover to cover (complete)
   NRSV Holy Bible Catholic Edition
   
7. Continue the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson
   
8. Continue Steven Erickson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series
   

[Polarpenguin]

Hoping to get back to reading after a very crap year last year.
No number goal, just reading and enjoying.

1. False Values (Rivers of London #8):Ben Aaronovitch
2. An Eye for an Eye (DI Jessica Daniels #12): Kerry Wilkinson
3. Silent Suspect (DI Jessica Daniels #13): Kerry Wilkinson
4. Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike #5): Robert Galbraith
5. The Tattooist of Auschwitz: Heather Morris
6. The Penguin Lessons: Tom Michell
7. Five Mile House: Karen Novak



Short Stories
Re-Read
Play
Poetry
Non Fiction

[Bookstooge]

My soft goal for '22 is to read 150, whether novels, graphic novels, short stories or individual comics.

With it being April when I started this thread I have a back log to catalog so I'll be slowly filling this space in.


March

Spoiler:

6 Days of the Condor
In the Court of the Yellow King
Bone: Spring Fair
The Double
OP #17
Starpilot's Grave
Groo: The Medallion
Protect and Defend
Daring Detectives
Dark Operator
Earth Unaware
Earth Afire
Earth Awakens
Asterix and the Big Fight
Henry the 6th, Part I
Sharpe's Prey
OP #18
Caves of Ice
TMNT #3
Blood of Empire
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Death-Reach 2
Jim Henson the Biography

April:

Spoiler:

Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Heavy Weather by PG Wodehouse
The Cave (Bone #8) by Jeff Smith
Madness of Cthulhu by ST Joshi
Tales of Angria by Charlotte Bronte
One Piece #19
Flashman by Fraser
Mystery of the Chinese Orange by Ellery Queen
Groo the Wanderer #4 by Aragones
By Honor Betray'd by Doyle and MacDonald
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Doyle
Asterix in Britain by Goscinny & Uderzo
Stories to be Read with the Door Locked, Vol 1 by Alfred Hitchcock
One Piece #20
A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Turgenev
Extreme Measure by Vince Flynn
TMNT #4
Rebellion by "Doc" Spears

May

Spoiler:

Henry VI, Part II by Shakespeare
Conan the Valorous by John Roberts
The Mystery Cow (Bone #9) by Jeff Smith
Sector Thirteen (SS) by Sandy Mitchell
One Piece #21
Fatal Encounter by Charles Ray
Groo the Wanderer #5 by Aragones
The Uncollected Father Brown by Chesterton
Three by Jay Posey
Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
Asterix and the Normans by Goscinny & Uderzo
Monster Hunter Bloodlines by Larry Correia
One Piece #22
Blandings Castle & Elsewhere by Wodehouse
The King in Yellow Tales by Joseph Pulver
TMNT #5 by Eastman & Laird
And on the 8th Day by Ellery Queen
The Gathering Flame by Doyle and MacDonald

June

Spoiler:

Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
THe Great Cow Race (Bone 10) by Jeff Smith
I Want My Mummy edited by Hitchcock
One Piece #23
Curse of the Phoenix by Dan Willis
Groo the Wanderer #6 by Aragones
Dead Souls by Gogol
The Living Shadow by Grant
Hostile Takeover by Dan Willis
Asterix the Legionary
No Fail by Doc Spears
One Piece #24
Henry VI part 3 by Shakespeare
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #6 by Eastman & Laird
Conan the Champion by John Maddox Roberts
The Silent Speaker by Rex Stout

I think I am done keeping track here. It's becoming just too burdensome....