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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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The 2024 Annual Reading Challenge List Thread
![]() ![]() Welcome to our 15th Annual Reading Challenge! The Annual Reading Challenge is not a race, nor an “exclusive club”, anyone can join! This is just a fun activity that some of us have enjoyed doing in the past. Many of us have found reading challenges to be an entertaining way to set goals for ourselves, get ideas for books, and see what others are reading. This thread is for you to keep a running tally for your chosen challenge. Please state your goals at the top of your post (in the title line if you can), and then start your list in the body of your post. As you read books, edit your post to update your list of books read, or other challenge status. Please Remember: No discussion posts in this thread. Please use the other thread for that. Non-List posts will be deleted or moved to the other thread. Discussions & Ideas can be found here: Post #2 of this thread is dedicated to a Table of Contents for all participants in this thread. Names will be added to this TOC in alphabetical order with a link to that individual’s post number from this thread. Previous threads were for 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010 Last edited by pdurrant; 12-04-2023 at 02:16 AM. |
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Table of Participants
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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To Reduce my TBR
Once again, my goal is to buy fewer books than I read.
Last year I managed to reduce my TBR pile by 22 books! I start 2024 with 681 books on my TBR pile. Books removed from TBR Read and Reading
Books added to TBR Freebies (Unread)
Bought (Unread)
Analysis TBR: 673 Books read: 109 (includes 12 freebies, 4 re-reads) Books otherwise removed from TBR pile: 1 (0 read previously, 1 discarded) Books removed from TBR pile: 105 Books added to TBR pile: 97 (includes 12 freebies, 1 omnibuses counted as 5) Removed/Added: 1.09 Net reduction for 2023: -8 Non-free books read: 97 (includes 4 re-reads) Total cost of books read: £127.77 Average cost of books read: £1.33 Non-free books bought: 91 (includes 7 not added to TBR, 1 omnibuses counted as 5) Total cost of books bought: £142.53 Average cost of books bought: £1.59 Rating System: 1: Bad. 2: Poor. (Or just not to my taste.) 3: Satisfactory. 4: Good. 5: Excellent. Pages are as given by the ADE algorithm in Calibre, or from the Amazon web page. Last edited by pdurrant; Yesterday at 03:52 PM. Reason: Bought King Rat, Whirlwind, Noble House |
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Diligent dilettante
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Primary goals:
Read no more than 210 books Read no fewer than 36 nonfiction books. Ten of them will be my picks for the 2024 StoryGraph Reads the World Challenge (my picks in the screenshot) DONE Complete the MobileRead Users 2024 TBR Reduction Challenge Read at least the two non-English books in the screenshot Last edited by Uncle Robin; 02-02-2024 at 09:12 PM. |
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Read twice as many books as I buy. (May: Excluding Bundles)
Bought: 36 Bundles: 1 (125 books) Borrowed: 15 Free: 13 Read: 41 Books read: 1. The Last Blade Priest - W P Wiles (k) - 547 2. Titanium Noir - Nick Harkaway (k) - 261 3. The Winter King - Bernard Cornwell (k) - 488 --- 4. Blackstone Fortress - Darius Hinks (e) - 244 5. Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo (h) - 478 6. Roboteer - Alex Lamb (k) - 425 7. Master of the Five Magics - Lyndon Hardy (k) - 410 8. Newcomer - Keigo Higashino (p) - 322 --- 9. Home from the Sea - Mercedes Lackey (e) - 311 10. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Angela Carter (k) - 167 11. The Rook - Daniel O'Malley (k) - 481 12. The Thief - Megan Whalen Turner (k) - 218 13. Round the Bend - Nevil Shute (h) - 362 14. The Siege of Skyhold - John Bierce (k) - 463 --- 15. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (k) - 275 16. The Justice of Kings - Richard Swan (k) - 413 17. Provenance - Ann Leckie (k) - 438 18. The Spirit Thief - Rachel Aaron (k) - 352 19. Tokyo Express - Seicho Matsumoto (k) - 149 20. The Green Man's Foe - Juliet E McKenna (k) - 366 --- 21. Decision at Thunder Rift - William H Keith Jr (e) - 302 22. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton (e) - 402 23. The Gathering Storm - Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson (k) - 825 --- 24. Wool 4: The Unraveling (novella) - Hugh Howey (k) - 125 25. Wool 5: The Stranded (novella) - Hugh Howey (k) - 181 26. Sorcerer to the Crown - Zen Cho (k) - 378 27. The Mill House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji (k) - 247 28. Board Games in 100 Moves - Ian Livingstone & James Wallis (h) - 169 29. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty (e) - 415 --- 30. Mercenary's Star - William H Keith Jr (e) - 378 31. The Village of Eight Graves - Seishi Yokomizo (k) - 349 32. Nine Princes in Amber - Roger Zelazny (p) - 190 (reread) 33. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August - Claire North (k) - 404 34. Trillions - Nicholas Fisk (k) - 99 35. Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee (e) - 352 --- 36. Tongue Eater - John Bierce (k) - 504 37. Wine of Violence - Priscilla Royal (e) - 218 38. The Knight of the Swords - Michael Moorcock (p) - 193 (reread) 39. Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman (k) - 432 40. Incursion - Sarah Hawke (k) - 240 41. An Alien Heat - Michael Moorcock (k) - 178 (reread) Monthly Breakdown: Spoiler:
Achievements: 1. Buy It, Read It. Start at least 75% of the books I buy. Current total: 16/36 (44%) 2. King of the Mountains. My 5 longest books should total over 3000 pages. Current total: 2845 Spoiler:
3. Paper Chase. Reduce my unread paper book collection. Out: 4 In: 4 Net reduction: 0 4. Never Gonna Be Respectable. Read a classic or literary-award-adjacent book. COMPLETED The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga - Booker winner, 2008 5. He Scores. Read a book by Nevil Shute. This is a bit of an annual tradition since I inherited my father's collection, so I thought I would make it official. COMPLETED Round the Bend - Nevil Shute (h) - 362 6. And Then. Series points challenge. 1 point for a sequel, 2 points if it's a serial rather than a disconnected sequel, 3 points for the last book in a serial or defined set. -1 for the first book in a series. 0 for the first book in a sub-series. Target: 15 points. Current total: 3 Spoiler:
7. Comic On. Bonus graphic novel challenge. I don't usually track my graphic novels and comics here, but I need to catch up a bit. Read 10 comics on paper and 10 digital comics. Paper total: 3 Digital total: 5 Spoiler:
8. Bundleer - Ongoing attempt to get value-for-money from bundles by spreading the cost over books read. OK is under £5 (the price of an average ebook), Good is under £2 per book. Spoiler:
Legend: (p) paperback, (h) hardback, (k) kindle, (e) epub, (i) ibook, (f) pdf, (a) audio On target, Off target, Completed Last edited by DrNefario; 08-29-2024 at 04:02 PM. |
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These are my provisional 2024 goals:
Length Goals:
Substantive Goals:
Completed Books : Storygraph List Short Stories:
Poems: 1. "Burning the New Year" by Naomi Shihab Nye, 1995 2. 'What rage or madness drives you?' by Jay Hulme, 2023 3. "Winter Song" by Wilfred Owen, 1917 4. "If Night You Were a City" by Adam Wiedewitsch, 2024 5. From “The Land” 'Shepherds and stars are quiet with the hills' by Vita Sackville-West 1926 6. "A Line-storm Song" by Robert Frost 1915 7. "Her Kind" by Anne Sexton 1962 8. "Justice Denied in Massachusetts" by Edna St. Vincent Millay 1927 Last edited by astrangerhere; 01-22-2024 at 10:11 AM. |
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o saeclum infacetum
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Ancient; US history; Victorian and earlier.
Only three themes this year plus my benchmark for total books. So here they are; I link to my relevant GR threads.
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Last year was more sucessful for me than the previous year so I will start with a goal of 120, which is about where I finished 2023.
1) Order of Deamon Hunters volume one Order of Deamon Hunters by Eric Vall 2) Frontier Summoner volume three Fronieer Summoner 3 by Jack Bryce 3) Cullinary King volume one Cullinary King by Logan Jacobs 4) How to Hunt Ghosts and Get Girls volume two How to Hunt Ghosts and get Girls 2 by Logan Jacobs 5) Summoner School volume eight Summoner School 8 by Eric Vall 6) Prosecution Force volume one First Strike by Logan Ryles 7) Satan's Sorority Girls volume four Satan's Sorority Girls 4 by Eric Vall 8) Sherlock Homes and Lucy James volume one Last Moriarty by Charles Velley 9) Cullinary King volume two Cullinary King 2 by Logan Jacobs 10) Fear the Reaper volume one Tooth and Nail by Mark Allen 11) Time Pirate volume four Time Pirate 4 by Eric Vall 12) Dino Rider volume one Dino Rider 13) Frontier Summoner volume 6 Frontier Summoner 6 by Jack Bryce 14) Frontier Summoner volume 7 Frontier Summoner 7 by Jack Bryce 15) Jason Trapp volume four Depth Charge by Jack Slater 16) Ink Warrior volume two Ink Warrior 2 by Jack Logan 17) Looting the 13th Floor volume 8 Looting the 13th Floor 8 by Eric Vall 18) Jason Trapp volume three Flash Point by Jack Slater 19) Princess Master volume six Princess Master 6 by Eric Vall 20) Fury of the Shifter volume one Fury of the Shif by Logan Jscobs 21) Spellforge volume one Spell Forge by Logan Jacobs 22) Spellforge volume two Spellforg 2 by Logan Jacobs 23) King of Superheros volume five King of Superheros 5 by Logan Jacobs 24) Jason Trapp volume six Black Eagle by Jack Slatter 25) Spellforge volume one Spell Forge by Logan jacobs 26) Fury of the Shifter volume one Fury of the Shifter by Logan Jacobs 27) Super natural Travel Agency volume one Super natural travel agency by Dante King 28) Frontier Summoner volume eight Frontier Summoner 8 by Jack Bryce 29) Dangmerous Girls volume one Dangerous Girls Eric Vall 39) Beneath the Ashes volume one Beneath the Ashes by Misty Vixen 40) Beneath the Ashes volume two Beneath the Ashes 2 by Misty Vixen 41) Brew Master volume three Brew Master 3 by Logan Jacobs 42) Castle Coeds volume one Castle Coeds by Eric Vall 43) Frontier Summoner volume 9 Frontier Summoner 9 by Jack Bryce 44) Culinary king volume three Culinary King 3 by Logan Jacobs 45) King of Superheroes volume six King of Superheroes 6 by Eric Vall 46) Stone World volume two Stone World 2 by Logan Jacobs 47) Reverse Summoner volume one Reverse Summoner by Eric Vall 48) Noah Wolf volume twenty three Shadow of Aligence by David Archer 49) Master of the Maner volume one Master of the Manor by Dante King 50) Primal Conjurer by Danny Rogen 51) A Warm Place volume five A Warm Place 5 by Misty Vixen 52) A Warm Place volume four A Warm Place 4 by Misty Vixen 53) A Warm Place volume three A Warm Place 3 by Misty Vixen 54) A Warm Place volume two A Warm Place 2 by Misty Vixen 55) A Warm Place volume one A Warm Place by Misty Vixen 56) A Warm Place Prologue by Misty Vixen December Summoner School volume eight summoner school $8 - total $8 Frontier Summoner volume three Fronteer Summoner 3 by Jack Bryce - $13 - total $21 How to hunt ghosts and get girls volume two How to hunt ghosts and Get girls 2 by Logan Jacobs $8 - total $29 Court of the Shifter volume one Court of the Shifter by Logan Jacobs - $8 - total $37 Page Keeper volume two Page Keeper 2 by Dante King - $8 - total $45 Order of Deamon Hunters volume one Order of Deamon Hunters by Eric Vall - $8 - total $53 Harry Baur volume twelve Blood of the Innocent by Blake Banner - $8 - total $61 Dragon Spirit Hunter volume one Dragon Spirit Hunter - $8 - total $69 January Frontier Summoner volume four Frontier Summoner 4 by Jack Bryce by Jack Bryce - $13 - total $13 Prosecution files volume one First Strike by Logan Ryles - $19 - total $33 Prosecution files volume two first strike by Logan Ryles - $19 - total $51 Culinary King volume two Culinary King 2 by Logan Jacobs - $8 - total $59 Satan's Sorority Girls volume four Satan's Sororty Girls 4 by Eric Vall - $8 - total $67 A Sherlock Homes and Lucy James Mstery volume one The Last Moriarty - $16 - total $83 Jack Nobel volume two A Deadly Distance by LT Ryan - $20 - total $103 Fear the Reaper volume one Tooth and Nail by Mark Allen - $8 - total $111 Jason Trapp volume one Dark State by Jack Slater - $13 - total $124 Fear the Reaper volume two Center Mass by Brent Townes - $13 - total $137 Jason Trapp volume two False Flag by Jack Slater - $13 - total $150 February Noah Wolf volume twenty-two Rogue Wolf by David Archer and Vince Vogek - $14 - total $14 Frontier Summoner volume five Frontier Summoner 5 by Jack Bryce - $8 - total $21 Stone World by Logan Jacobs - $8 - total $29 Time Pirate volume four Time Pirate 4 by Eric Vall - - $8 - total $37 The Extractor volume eleven the impersonator by Mike Ryan - $8 - total $45 Dino Riders volume one Dino Riders by Eric Vall - $8 - total $53 Prosecution Task Force volume two First Strike by Logan Ryles - $ 19 - total $72 Ard's Oath volume one Magic's Mantle by Bruce Sentar - $15 - total $87 Frontier Summoner volume 6 Frontier Summoner 6 by Jack Brtuce $8 - total $75 March Princes Master volume six Princess Master 6 vy Eric Vall $8 - total $8 Last edited by jbcohen; 07-04-2024 at 11:11 AM. |
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Wizard
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2024 Goals
60 books: 39 20,000 pages: 13,286+500 Storygraph Mobile Reads Challenge: 3/12 4 books over 600 pages: 1 TBR Down 10 for each category: Ebooks: +36 Audiobooks: +60 Magazines: Magazines Read So Far: 0 Spoiler:
2024 Purchases Read: Bought: 78 Read: 3 Free: 63 Read: 1 Spoiler:
Short Stories: 7 Spoiler:
Books Spoiler:
TBR as of 1/1/24 Audiobooks 1,349 Ebooks&magazines 1,950 Last edited by Tarana; 08-26-2024 at 09:42 PM. |
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Connoisseur
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Goals for 2024:
I start the year with a TBR of 240. Pages Read: 16,925/20,000 Current TBR: 234 TBR: 17 Kindle Unlimited: 18 Kobo Plus: 10 Library: 12 Borrowed: 0 Freebie: 4 MR StoryGraph Challenge:
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Wizard
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Goal: Read 12,000 pages in 2024
Same goal for 2024 at 12,000 pages. It's been a good fit for the last couple years because it pushes me just a little, even though I finished in October, but isn't so much that I stress over it.
Page Goal:: Read 12,000 Pages in 2024 Status as of August 28: 10,411 pages read, 41 books/short stories completed (15,811 projected) 2024 Stats:
Current and upcoming books:
Spoiler:
My lists: 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 Last edited by Dazrin; 08-29-2024 at 01:36 AM. Reason: Updated book list |
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Wizard
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In again.
Primary goals - (Again) more Amazon Themed Short story collections Select author goals Finish re-read of Chronicles of Narnia in audio Read and possible remove more physical shelves for Horror, Gothic, Category Romance, some chunkster romance, mysteries 5 Maritime setting, 5 space setting Catch up on borrowed nonfiction and bio Digital Library Borrow Catch-up log (it's ridiculous #) Comic and graphic novel exploration More progress on owned audiobooks already have or have to borrow Last edited by Paperbackstash; 12-05-2023 at 12:50 PM. |
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Grand Sorcerer
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Sign me up!
I have a mix of reading goals for 2024, but mainly to put another "big" dent in my TBR. They include:
January 2024 Read 35 books. February 2024 Read 38 books. Finished the Tried-and-True Challenge Round One. March 2024 Read 52 books. Finished the Tried-and-True Challenge Round Two. April 2024 Read 44 books. Finished the Tried-and-True Challenge Round Two, Round Three, and Round Four. May 2024 Read 39 books. Finished the Tried-and-True Challenge Round Five. June 2024 Read 33 books. Finished the Tried-and-True Challenge Round Six. July 2024 Read 17 books. August 2024 Finished the 24 in 24 Phonics Challenge. September 2024 October 2024 November 2024 December 2024 Last edited by library addict; 08-26-2024 at 09:32 PM. Reason: update tally |
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Wizard
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I want to participate. I have big books I want to knock out so I am going by page count not book count. Let's say 20,000 pages So probably 40-60 books depending on how big they are. I have a ton of big page count books in my library I been avoiding I need to read. I will still read small books as a break in-between the big chunky ones. Since I am going by page count I will not feel guilty if I need to DNF a book.
1) Being Henry(246pg) -Henry Winkler 2) The Dark Forest(513pg)( Three Bodied Problem) 3) Needful Things(817pg)- S. King 4) Hurricane Wars-(477 pg) DNF I could not get into it. stopped around page 106 5) Cold Storage-(304 pg) David K. 6) Tom Lake (278 pg) 7) A Day of Fallen Night. 865 pgs 8) The Atlas Six(408 pgs) 9) Starter Villain (272 pgs) DNF around page 135 10) The Atlas Paradox (pgs. 399) 11) Red Rabbit(447 pages) 12) The Atlas Complex(477 pgs) 13) Crescent City 1 (804 pages) 14) A Fate Inked in Blood DNF but read the first 211 pages 15) The Passage 787 pg 16) The Burning Girls (352 pg) 17) The Atlas Complex (480) 18) Cresent Series book 2 what ever the name is around 820pg 19) The Salt Grows Heavy 81 pg 20) Mother Daughter Murder Might 21) The Serpent and the Wings of Night 22 god killer. dnf at 100 pages. not a bad book i am just burned out on fantasy books and cant seem to follow story 22) The Running Man by Stephen King 23) magic hour 24 ) sons of darkness DNF 25) House of flame and shadow 26) masters of death 27 pineapple street 28)city of mirrors 29) face of fear 30) masters of death 31) sanctuary of shadow 32) Intercepts 33) the way of kings Last edited by HLS; 08-25-2024 at 10:12 AM. |
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Addict
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Usual goal of reading a lot. Started to investigate Central/Eastern literature. Will continue that. Also continuing investigation of Central/Eastern European history, etc. Balkans and/or Central Asia might be next. Trying to limit "fun" reading (i.e. sci-fi, people like Stephen King, Robert Galbraith, etc.) to when I am on vacation. Did pretty well with this last year.
Konstantin Paustovsky - The Story of a Life (Books 1-3) (trans. Douglas Smith) A. Wess Mitchell - The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire Antanas Škėma - White Shroud (trans. Karla Gruodis) Dalia Grinkevičiūtė - Shadows on the Tundra (trans. Delija Valiukenas) George Packer - The Unwinding Giedra Radvilavičiūtė - Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again (trans. Elizabeth Novickas) Alexander Watson - Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I Simon Shuster - The Showman: Inside the invasion that shook the world and made a leader of Volodymyr Zelensky Alexander Watson - The Fortress: The Siege of Przemyśl and the Making of Europe's BloodlandsJurgis Kunčinas - Tūla (trans. Elizabeth Novickas) Bohumil Hrabal - All My Cats (trans. Paul Wilson) Derek Sayer - The Coast of Bohemia: A Czech History Bohumil Hrabal - Mr. Kafka and Other Tales From the Time of the Cult (trans. Paul Wilson) Bohumil Hrabal - Too Loud a Solitude (trans. Michael Henry Heim) Bohumil Hrabal - Closely Watched Trains (trans. Edith Pargeter) Jiří Gruša - The Questionnaire (trans. Peter Kussi) Jáchym Topol - Angel Station (trans. Alex Zucker) Patrik Ouřednik - Case Closed (trans. Alex Zucker) Patrik Ouřednik - The Opportune Moment, 1855 (trans. Alex Zucker) Peter Demetz - Prague in Black and Gold: the History of a City Derek Sayer - Prague: Crossroads of Europe Jaroslav Pánek, Oldřich Tůma, et alii. - A History of the Czech Lands (Second Edition) Kevin McDermott - Communist Czechoslovakia, 1945-89: a Political and Social History Mary Heimann - Czechoslovakia: the State That Failed Franz Kafka - The Trial (trans. Mike Mitchell) Angelo Maria Ripellino - Magic Prague (trans. David Newton Marinelli; edit. Michael Henry Heim) Jaroslav Hašek - The Good Soldier Švejk (trans. Cecil Parrott) Franz Kafka - The Castle (trans. Anthea Bell) Stephen King - Just After Sunset (ebook) Stephen King - Night Shift (ebook) Alastair Reynolds - Revenger (Revenger Universe 01) Alastair Reynolds - Shadow Captain (Revenger Universe 02) Alastair Reynolds - Bone Silence (Revenger Universe 03) Stephen King - Nightmares and Dreamscapes (ebook) Studs Terkel - "The Good War" Jeffrey Barlough - Hooting Grange (Western Lights 11) Alan Garner - Treacle Walker D.J. Taylor - The Windsor Faction Joanne McNeil - Wrong Way The Handyman Method - Nick Cutter & Andrew F. Sullivan Daniel O'Malley - Blitz (Checquy 3) Christopher Miller - The War Came to Us: Life & Death in Ukraine Yaroslav Trofimov - Our Enemies Will Vanish: the Russian Invasion & Ukraine's War of Independence Andrey Kurkov - Diary of an Invasion Rowan Phoenix - Bunnyes at War: an Illustrated Essay of Fur & Fury in the Rabbit Realms Tim Judah - In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine Kathryn Hughes - Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World (UK edition) Simon Reynolds - Futuromania: Electronic Dreams. Desiring Machines & Tomorrow's Music Today Kevin Fedarko - A Walk in the Park: a True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon Martin Sixsmith - Russia: a 1,000-year Chronicle of the Wild East Orlando Figes - The Story of Russia Adolphe de Custine - Letters from Russia (NYRB; 1843 translation, ed. & rev. Anka Muhlstein) Laurence Sterne - The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Oxford Classics ed.) Matthew Green - Shadowlands - A Journey Through Lost Britain Philipp Blom - The Vertigo Years: Europe, 1900-1914 Philipp Blom - Fracture: Life & Culture in the West, 1918-1938 Orlando Figes - A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924 Illia Ponomarenko - I Will Show You How It Was: The Story of Wartime Kyiv Serhiy Zhadan - Sky Above Kharkiv: Dispatches From the Ukrainian Front Geoffrey Parker - Emperor: A New Life of Charles V Geoffrey Parker - Imprudent King: A New Life of Philip II Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger - Maria Theresa: the Habsburg Empress in Her Time Tim Blanning - Frederick the Great, King of Prussia Miklós Molnár - A Concise History of Hungary Lászlo Krasznahorkai - The Melancholy of Resistance (trans. George Szirtes) 2023 list Last edited by Indio777; 08-21-2024 at 06:40 PM. Reason: list update |
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