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2022 Read All the Books: On Cloud NineI am going to start out aiming for 24 books for this one (2 per month), but since I HATE reading series out of order and I try to read a whole series before moving on to a new one, a single book from the group bookshelf may mean reading a series of books, in real life.
I put a star by ones I own, and the rest are going to come from the library or community free books shelves, so I listed more than 24 options in case some are easier to find than others.
Piranesi
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (I've been meaning to read a few of Paolini's books, so I may read all of his that our library has available)
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library #1)
The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)
Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege #1)
The Humans (Matt Haig is another author that I may focus on in 2022)
The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire, #1)
*A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) (La Guin is another author I may focus on in 2022. I tried to read this series in middle school and couldn't get into it, but I figure I may like it more as an adult.)
*Zodiac (Stephenson)
*Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1) (My sister wants me to read Novik next year.)
*A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
*Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles
The Windup Girl (Bacigalupi is another author I am thinking of focusing on in 2022)
Blackout (All Clear, #1)
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
The Master and Margarita (need to read for other group lists as well)
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
*The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1)
*The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
Gun, With Occasional Music
Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad, #1) (I know I read this series in middle school, but it has been decades and I barely remember it.)
*Sphere (Crichton)
*Starship Troopers
The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
2022 TBR Cleanup Challenge1. Book with nine lives The 13 1/2 Lives Of Captain Bluebear
2. Don't be suspicious Star Well
3. Dressed to the nines The Spellcoats
4. Head in the clouds Century Rain
5. One for the clubhouse The Burning Page
6. Of its time Before the Coffee Gets Cold
7. "Revolution is in the individual spirit" Moonrise
8. Cover with distinct art style A Darker Shade of Magic
9. 9 or 22 * Jupiter (book #9 of Bova's Grand Tour series)
10. Why not both? The Variable Man
11. Seasonal A Winter's Promise
12. I need a nap! Nightshade
13. Thorns and roses
14. A little slice of heaven
15. Fluffy!
16. "Humans are doing the best they can" Doctor Who: Escape Velocity
17. "Such conduct is the prerogative of the truly wise" The Magicians
18. 240-270 pages
19. Nein
20. ??? City of Orange
Jamie wrote: "since I HATE reading series out of order and I try to read a whole series before moving on to a new one, a single book from the group bookshelf may mean reading a series of books, in real life."The same here - there is one so far complete series in the list though: Ann Leckie's Imperial Radch series. I enjoyed the first one and will be reading the second and third for this challence
not only do i hate not reading the whole series , i have been known to wait until i have bought the whole series before reading any of the books. of course that is with a fav author. i used to pick up the first book in a series at the library and if any good buy the rest of the series. This didnt work well when years later i decided to re read the series. I was missing the first book!!!
Aaronovitch, Ben - Rivers of London (Midnight Riot)Abercrombie, Joe - Blade Itself
Abercrombie, Joe - Red Country
Abraham, Daniel - Dragon's Path
Alderman, Naomi - Power
Allende, Isabel - House of the Spirits
Arden, Katherine - Bear and the Nightingale
Bacigalupi, Paolo - Pump Six and Other Stories
Bacigalupi, Paolo - Windup Girl
Bardugo, Leigh - Six of Crows
Barker, Clive - Weaveworld
Barry, Max - Machine Man
Beagle, Peter S. - Last Unicorn
Bear, Elizabeth - Karen Memory
Bennett, Robert Jackson- City of Stairs
Bester, Alfred - Stars My Destination
Beukes, Lauren - Broken Monsters
Beukes, Lauren - Zoo City
Black, Holly - White Cat
Bledsoe, Alex - Sword-Edged Blonde
Bodard, Aliette de - Servant of the Underworld
Brennan, Marie - Natural History of Dragons
Brett, Peter V. - Warded Man
Brissett, Jennifer Marie- Elysium
Brodsky, Jordanna Max- Wolf in the Whale
Brooks, Max - World War Z
Brown, Pierce - Red Rising
Brunner, John - Sheep Look Up
Bujold, Lois McMaster - Warrior's Apprentice
Bulgakov, Mikhail - Master and Margarita
Bull, Emma - War for the Oaks
Burke, Sue - Semiosis
Butcher, Jim - Aeronaut's Windlass
Butcher, Jim - Furies of Calderon
Butcher, Jim - Storm Front
Butler, Octavia E. - Dawn
Butler, Octavia E. - Parable of the Sower
Butler, Octavia E. - Wild Seed
Buxton, Kira Jane - Hollow Kingdom
Carey, Jacqueline - Kushiel's Dart
Carey, M.R. - Book of Koli
Carey, M.R. - Girl with All the Gifts
Cargill, C. Robert - Sea of Rust
Carriger, Gail - Soulless
Chabon, Michael - Yiddish Policeman's Union
Chambers, Becky - Closed and Common Orbit
Chambers, Becky - Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Chen, Mike - Here and Now and Then
Cherryh, C.J. - Forty Thousand in Gehenna
Choo, Yangsze - Ghost Bride
Chupeco, Rin - Bone Witch
Clark, P. Djèlí - Master of Djinn
Clarke, Susanna - Piranesi
Cline, Ernest - Armada
Cline, Ernest - Ready Player One
Cook, Glen - Black Company
Corey, James S.A. - Caliban's War
Corey, James S.A. - Leviathan Wakes
Crichton, Michael - Sphere
Cronin, Justin - Passage
Crouch, Blake - Recursion
Crowley, John - Little, Big
Czerneda, Julie E. - Reap the Wild Wind
Delany, Samuel R. - Babel-17
Dickinson, Seth - Traitor Baru Cormorant
Effinger, George Alec - When Gravity Fails
Elliott, Kate - Cold Magic
Emrys, Ruthanna - Winter Tide
Erikson, Steven - Gardens of the Moon
Eschbach, Andreas - Carpet Makers
Fforde, Jasper - Early Riser
Fforde, Jasper - Eyre Affair
Friedman, C.S. - This Alien Shore
Gaiman, Neil - Preludes & Nocturnes (Sandman Vol. 1)
Gemmell, David - Legend
Gladstone, Max - Three Parts Dead
Goodkind, Terry - Wizard's First Rule
Goodman, Alison - Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
Grant, Mira - Into the Drowning Deep
Hackwith, A.J. - Library of the UnwrittenHaig, Matt - Humans
Haldeman, Joe - Accidental Time Machine
Hambly, Barbara - Silent Tower
Hambly, Barbara - Those Who Hunt the Night
Hamilton, Peter F. - Pandora's Star
Hardinge, Frances - Deeplight
Harris, Joanne M. - Gospel of Loki
Harrow, Alix E. - Ten Thousand Doors of January
Hawkins, Scott - Library at Mount Char
Headley, Maria Dahvana - Mere Wife
Hearn, Lian - Across the Nightingale Floor
Hearne, Kevin - Hounded
Heinlein, Robert A. - Starship Troopers
Hobson, M.K. - Native Star
Hodder, Mark - Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack
Hoffmann, Ada - Outside
Hopkinson, Nalo - Brown Girl in the Ring
Hurley, Kameron - Stars Are Legion
Itäranta, Emmi - Memory of Water
Jemisin, N.K. - City We Became
Jemisin, N.K. - Fifth Season
Jemisin, N.K. - Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Jemisin, N.K. - Killing Moon
Jemisin, N.K. - Obelisk Gate
Jeter, K.W. - Infernal Devices
Jimenez, Simon - Vanished Birds
Jones, Diana Wynne - Charmed Life
Kade, Kel - Fate of the Fallen
Kay, Guy Gavriel - Lions of Al-Rassan
Kay, Guy Gavriel - Summer Tree
Kay, Guy Gavriel - Tigana
Kay, Guy Gavriel - Under Heaven
Keyes, Greg - Briar King
Kingfisher, T. - Raven and the Reindeer
Kirstein, Rosemary - Steerswoman
Kowal, Mary Robinette - Calculating Stars
Kritzer, Naomi - Catfishing on CatNet
Kuang, R.F. - Poppy War
Künsken, Derek - Quantum Magician
Lafferty, Mur - Six Wakes
LaValle, Victor - Changeling
Lawrence, Mark - Prince of Thorns
Lawrence, Mark - Red Sister
Le Guin, Ursula K. - Dispossessed
Le Guin, Ursula K. - Farthest Shore
Le Guin, Ursula K. - Lathe of Heaven
Le Guin, Ursula K. - Left Hand of Darkness
Le Guin, Ursula K. - Tombs of Atuan
Le Guin, Ursula K. - Wizard of Earthsea
Le Guin, Ursula K. - Word for World is Forest
Leckie, Ann - Ancillary Justice
Leckie, Ann - Ancillary Mercy
Leckie, Ann - Ancillary Sword
Lee, Fonda - Jade City
Lee, Yoon Ha - Ninefox Gambit
Leiber, Fritz - Swords and Deviltry
Lethem, Jonathan - Gun, with Occasional Music
Liu, Cixin - Three-Body Problem
Liu, Ken - Grace of Kings
Lord, Karen - Best of All Possible Worlds
Lowachee, Karin - Warchild
Lukyanenko, Sergei - Night Watch
Lynch, Scott - Lies of Locke Lamora
Martine, Arkady - Memory Called Empire
Maslakovic, Neve - Regarding Ducks and Universes
McHugh, Maureen F. - China Mountain Zhang
McKillip, Patricia A. - Alphabet of Thorn
Miéville, China - City & the City
Miéville, China - Embassytown
Miéville, China - Perdido Street Station
Modesitt Jr., L.E. - Haze
Modesitt Jr., L.E. - Magic of Recluce
Moon, Elizabeth - Remnant Population
Moon, Elizabeth - Speed of Dark
Moorcock, Michael - Doctor Who The Coming of the Terraphiles
Moore, Alan - Watchmen
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia - Gods of Jade and Shadow
Morgan, Richard K. - Altered Carbon
Muir, Tamsyn - Gideon the Ninth
Naam, Ramez - Nexus
Newman, Emma - Planetfall
Niven, Larry - Mote in God's Eye
Nix, Garth - Sabriel
North, Claire - First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
North, Claire - Touch
Novik, Naomi - His Majesty's Dragon
Novik, Naomi - Spinning Silver
Novik, Naomi - Uprooted
O'Keefe, Megan E. - Velocity Weapon
O'Malley, Daniel - Rook
Ogawa, Yōko - Memory Police
Okorafor, Nnedi - Book of Phoenix
Older, Daniel José - Shadowshaper
Oppegaard, David - Suicide Collectors
Palmer, Ada - Too Like the Lightning
Parker, K.J. - Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
Pears, Iain - Arcadia
Polk, C.L. - Witchmark
Powers, Tim - Anubis Gates
Priest, Cherie - Boneshaker
Rice, Waubgeshig - Moon of the Crusted Snow
Russell, Mary Doria - Sparrow
Ryan, Anthony - Blood Song
Sakurazaka, Hiroshi - All You Need Is Kill
Salvatore, R.A. - Homeland
Sapkowski, Andrzej - Last Wish
Scalzi, John - Collapsing Empire
Scalzi, John - Fuzzy Nation
Scalzi, John - Lock In
Scalzi, John - Old Man's War
Scalzi, John - Redshirts
Shawl, Nisi - Everfair
Simmons, Dan - Terror
Sprunk, Jon - Shadow's Son
Stephenson, Neal - Diamond Age
Stephenson, Neal - Zodiac
Stevenson, Noelle - Nimona
Stewart, Andrea - Bone Shard Daughter
Stirling, S.M. - Against the Tide of Years
Stirling, S.M. - Island in the Sea of Time
Stirling, S.M. - On the Oceans of Eternity
Stronach, Sascha - Dawnhounds
Sullivan, Michael J. - Crown Conspiracy
Taylor, Dennis E. - We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Tchaikovsky, Adrian - Cage of Souls
Tchaikovsky, Adrian - Children of Time
Tepper, Sheri S. - Grass
Thompson, Tade - Rosewater
Turtledove, Harry - Opening Atlantis
Valente, Catherynne M. - Deathless
Valente, Catherynne M. - In the Night Garden
Vinge, Joan D. - Snow Queen
Vinge, Vernor Fire - Upon the Deep
Walschots, Natalie Zina - Hench
Walton, Jo - Among Others
Walton, Jo - Just City
Wang, M.L. - Sword of Kaigen
Watts, Peter - Blindsight
Weeks, Brent - Black Prism
Weeks, Brent - Way of Shadows
Wells, Martha - City of Bones
Westerfeld, Scott - Leviathan
Wexler, Django - Thousand Names
White, Alex - Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe
Whitehead, Colson - Underground Railroad
Wilhelm, Kate - Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang
Williams, Tad - Dragonbone Chair
Willis, Connie - Blackout
Willis, Connie - Doomsday Book
Wilson, Robert Charles - Spin
Wilson, Willow G. - Alif the Unseen
Winters, Ben H. - Last Policeman
Wolfe, Gene - Shadow of the Torturer
Wong, David - John Dies at the End
Zelazny, Roger - Lord of Light
Zelazny, Roger - Night in the Lonesome October
Zelazny, Roger - Nine Princes in Amber
how you get time to write this list i dont know, i have so many books to read i need to live until 500
Kateb wrote: "how you get time to write this list i dont know, i have so many books to read i need to live until 500"I am so used to having a list to check off books, from being in the Reading 1001 group for so long, that it really, REALLY bugged me not having one here. :)
2022 Short Fiction ChallengeJanuary Stories Read:
Circadian Reading Challenge:1. UTC -12
2. UTC -11
3. UTC -10
4. UTC -9
5. UTC -8
6. UTC -7
7. UTC -6
8. UTC -5
9. UTC -4
10. UTC -3
11. UTC -2
12. UTC -1
13. UTC 0
14. UTC +1
15. UTC +2
16. UTC +3
17. UTC +4
18. UTC +5 (Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbeijan, Armenia, Maldives)
19. UTC +6 (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Vostok Station in Antarctica)
20. UTC +7 (Siberia, Southeast Asia, Davis Station in Antarctica, Mongolia, Western Indonesia)
21. UTC +8 (China)
22. UTC + 9 - Before the Coffee Gets Cold
23. UTC + 10 (Papua New Guinea, Kamchatka, Guam)
24. UTC + 11
25. UTC + 12
Series:The Mirror Visitor series, by Christelle Dabos
Finished: A Winter's Promise, The Missing of Clairdelune, The Memory of Babel
Revelation Space, by Alastair Reynolds
Finished: Chasm City, Revelation Space
The Grand Tour series, Ben Bova
The Culture series, by Iain M. Banks
SFF Group Bookshelf Books Finished 2021:A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick - futuristic drug culture, reminded me of Trainspotting, Snow Crash, A Million Little Pieces, etc., combined with surveillance technology and a drug supply conspiracy.
An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon -
The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie J. Anders
Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
The Algebraist, by Iain M. Banks
More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon
Annihilation, by Jeff Vandermeer
Non-Group books I read in 2021:
Dr. Bloodmoney, by Philip K. Dick
Interworld, by Philip K. Dick
The Warding of Witch World, by Andre Norton
Galapagos, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Factory Witches of Lowell, by C.S. Malerich
The 2084 Report, by James L. Powell
The Girl in Red, by Christina Henry
Yesterday's Son (Star Trek), by AC Crispin
Feersum Indjinn, by Iain M. Banks
Quag Keep, by Andre Norton
Strata, by Terry Pratchett
Lady of the Trillium, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Children of Men, by PD James
Insomnia, by Stephen King
Demigods & Magicians, by Rick Riordan
The Dreamthief's Daughter, by Michael Moorcock
Venus Plus X, by Theodore Sturgeon
The Lost Hero, by Rick Riordan
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, by Italo Calvino
The Wounded Sky, by Diane Duane
The Witness for the Dead, by Katherine Addison
The Cloven Viscount, by Italo Calvino
The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino
The Every, by Dave Eggers
2023 TBR Clean-Up Challenge1. Only one (a stand-alone?)
2. Binary
3. Three's company
4. Four corners of the earth
5. Five Finger Discount
6. At sixes and sevens
7. Showstopper
8. Book page total ends in an 8
9. Nine-to-five
10. Top 10
11. From the library
12. Let's try this again
13. Sweet Revenge
14. Technical Challenge
15. My old friend
16. Scrumptious
17. Cover with text only, no images
18. Around the Shelf
19. Bingeworthy
20. Zero to hero
These are the titles I am most interested in reading for 2023.1. Piranesi (tried to get into this one at the end of 2022, unsuccessfully)
2. To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (I've been meaning to read a few of Paolini's books, so I may read all of his that our library has available)
3. Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1)
4. The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library #1)
5. The Dragonbone Chair (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, #1)
6. Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City (The Siege #1)
7. The Humans (Matt Haig is another author that I may focus on in 2023)
8. The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire, #1)
9. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) (La Guin is another author I may focus on in 2023. I tried to read this series in middle school and couldn't get into it, but I figure I may like it more as an adult.)
10. Zodiac (Stephenson)
11. Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth, #1)
12. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1) (My sister really wants me to read Novik)
13. A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
14. Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles
15. The Windup Girl (Bacigalupi is another author I am thinking of focusing on in 2023)
16. Blackout (All Clear, #1)
17. John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
18. The Master and Margarita (need to read for other group lists as well)
19. Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
20. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
21. The Yiddish Policemen's Union
22. The Dragon's Path (The Dagger and the Coin, #1)
23. The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
24. Gun, With Occasional Music
25. Pawn of Prophecy (The Belgariad, #1) (I know I read this series in middle school, but it has been decades and I barely remember it.)
26. Sphere (Crichton)
27. Starship Troopers
28. The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
29. Six of Crows
30. Hollow Kingdom
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Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller
Ship of Magic, by Robin Hobb
Consider Phlebas, by Iain M. Banks
Player of Games, by Iain M. Banks
A Darker Shade of Magic, by V.E. Schwab