The 2023 Annual Reading Challenge List Thread

[Hollow Man]

Completed:

• Dumb, Dumb, Dumb: My Mother's Book Reviews - Mary Jo Pehl
• Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson
• Hercule Poirot's Christmas - Agatha Christie
• Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee
• Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language - Gretchen McCulloch
• The Pearl - John Steinbeck
• Who Goes There? - John W. Campbell Jr.
• The Last Chairlift - John Irving
• Armada - Ernest Cline
• The Murder On the Links - Agatha Christie
• Random - Penn Jillette
• Mickey7 - Edward Ashton
• Cyberpunk - Bruce Bethke
• Burning Chrome (collection) - William Gibson
• Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
• On the Road - Jack Kerouac
• Jamaica Inn - Daphne du Maurier
• Edison's Conquest of Mars - Garrett P. Serviss
• The Peripheral - William Gibson
• Five Little Pigs - Agatha Christie
• Rebel Moon - Bruce Bethke
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• Antimatter Blues - Edward Ashton
• Six Wakes - Mur Lafferty
• No Exit - Taylor Adams
• The Living Dead - George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus
• The Player of Games - Iain M. Banks
• Death in the Clouds - Agatha Christie
• Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
• The Ink Black Heart - Robert Galbraith
• The Mystery of the Blue Train - Agatha Christie
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Phillip K. Dick
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• The Night Lives On - Walter Lord
• Agency - William Gibson
• The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
• Dumb Witness - Agatha Christie
• Binary - John Lange
• Stupefying Stories 24 - edited by Bruce Bethke
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana - Michael Azerrad
• Stupefying Stories 25 - edited by Bruce Bethke
• Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• Easy Go - John Lange
• The Adventures of the Teen Archaeologists: The Land of the Moepek - Larry and Denise Brown Ellis

[Shalinireads]

Hi everyone,

My name is Shalini and like many of you, I love reading books.

This year I am aiming to read one book each week. I have also started my own blog where I will share a brief summary as well as my personal take and opinion on each book I have read. If you are interested feel free to check it out: Book Reviews by Shalini

So far I have read in 2023:

1 Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
2 Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Reading right now:
3 Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

[fduniho]

As it has been for the past few years, my goal is to read at least 52 books. I have been able to manage this so far. I tend to fall behind near the end of the year but manage to pull ahead before the year ends. I normally keep track of my reading with LibraryThing. Here are My Read Books for 2023. As I post this, I have completed three books this year, which is on target.

[ianthe06]

Goals

• as always: have fun reading
• read at least 50 books (managed 47 last year, so I want to challenge myself a little)
  January already looks great but I know, once the gardening season has started, there will not be that much time for reading...
• reduce TBR pile (starting the year with 670 books on the list)

I will not define any other specific goals, but I will keep using last year's tags:

• current (from the last 10 years, if that seems relevant to me)
• female author (in fiction and in non-fiction, if I consider the female perspective might be relevant to the content)
• "non-western" author
• classics (what I personally consider to be a "classic")
• non-fiction

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Currently reading

• Jane Austen: Persuasion (1817)
• Sarah Waters: The Night Watch (2006)

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January (11)

Spoiler:

• Saša Stanišić: Herkunft (2019)
  current
• Oscar Wilde: The Canterville Ghost (1887)
  classics
• Florence Given: Frauen schulden dir gar nichts (2022) (Audio)
  Original title: Women don't owe you pretty
  current, female, non-fiction
• Sophie Passmann: Alte weiße Männer : ein Schlichtungsversuch (2019) (Audio)
  current, female, non-fiction
• James Clear: Die 1%-Methode : minimale Veränderung, maximale Wirkung (2018)
  Original title: Atomic habits
  non-fiction
• Patric Modiano: Ein Stammbaum (2005)
  Original title: Un pedigree
• Marcus Stobbe: Lösungsorientiert denken und handeln (2019) (Audio)
  non-fiction
• Milan Kundera: Der Scherz (1967)
  Original title: Žert
• David Allen: Ich schaff das! : Selbstmanagement für den beruflichen und privaten Alltag (2008) (Audio)
  Original title: Making it all work
  non-fiction
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
  female, classics
• Georges Simenon: Maigret - 05 - Maigret kämpft um den Kopf eines Mannes (1931)
  Original title: La tête d'un homme

February (1)

Spoiler:

• Georges Simenon: Maigret - 07 - Maigrets Nacht an der Kreuzung (1931)
  Original title: La nuit du carrefour

March (x)


April (x)


May (x)


June (x)


July (x)


August (x)


September (x)


October (x)


November (x)


December (x)

[Quizlit]

Am shooting for 60 this year and so far I'm at 20, so on track so far.
Did manage 65 last year so that seems to be around my pace