All About Books discussion

2021: 250 209
2022: 300 221
2023: 300 254

so obviously
2024: 500

Will I make it?
No.
But will it be fun to at least try?
Also no.
Just kidding.

January



Geschichte Deutschlands, Basiswissen

24/500

January: 24

February

47/500

January: 24
February: 23

March

85/500

January: 24
February: 23
March: 37

April

106/500

January: 24
February: 23
March: 37
April: 22

May



Shadowsinger

106/500

January: 24
February: 23
March: 37
April: 22
May: 25

You've got this Kat. I think you're doing really well so far.

Thanks, Alannah 💕

June

158 /500

January: 24
February: 23
March: 37
April: 22
May: 25
June: 27

but:

July

180 /500

January: 24
February: 23
March: 37
April: 22
May: 25
June: 27
July: 22

August

214 /500

January: 24
February: 23
March: 37
April: 22
May: 25
June: 27
July: 22
August: 34

Would you be willing to try some novellas/short stories? That might help your goal.

Good idea! Do you have any recommendations?

Kat wrote: "Good idea! Do you have any recommendations?"

I will have a look through my lists and let you know.

Thank you ☺️

Some novellas I've read and loved.

1. Animal Farm – George Orwell
2. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
3. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
4. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
5. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
6. Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
7. Any of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower – Stephen Chbosky
9. Carmilla – J. Sheridan Le Fanu
10. The Chimes – Charles Dickens
11. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

Oscar Wilde short stories: https://www.wilde-online.info/short-s...

❤️ Awesome, thanks so much! Maybe I can still meet my goal 😬

Here are a few suggestions—
1- Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
2- The Transposed Heads, Thomas Mann
3- Billy Budd Foretopman, Herman Melville
4- Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville
5- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin
6- Why I Live at the P. O., Eudora Welty
7- First Love, Eudora Welty
8- The Underground Man, Fyodor Dostoevsky
9- The Double, Fyodor Dostoevsky
10- A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
11- The Fall of the House of Usher, E. A. Poe

Thanks for your help, Steve! ❤️

Have a look on youtube too, you can get some older short stories available on audiobook there.

really? never heard of that! Will definetly check that out

September

246 /500

January: 24
February: 23
March: 37
April: 22
May: 25
June: 27
July: 22
August: 34
September: 32

October

273 /500

January: 24
February: 23
March: 37
April: 22
May: 25
June: 27
July: 22
August: 34
September: 32
October: 27

November

297 /500

January: 24
February: 23
March: 37
April: 22
May: 25
June: 27
July: 22
August: 34
September: 32
October: 27
November: 24

December

Total: 318 / 500

January: 24
February: 23
March: 37
April: 22
May: 25
June: 27
July: 22
August: 34
September: 32
October: 27
November: 24
December: 21