Another year older and another year of reading. I set myself the entirely insane goal of 120 books this year–10 a month–almost one every three days. And for most of the year, I was actually hitting that goal. And then October hit, with a pile of birthdays. And November, with NaNoWriMo (still going strong at just over 120k words; I should be done in the next day or two). And then the holidays. Thanksgiving. Christmas. Not really an excuse. More of an explination.
Alltogether, I read 113 books this year. One of those I finished today…
I don’t think I’ll do that again next year. Perhaps we’ll go for 100 again and try to hold to ten books a year up through October. That seems much more manageable now…
It looks pretty rediculous when you write it all out like that doesn’t it. And that’s only one book per series. Some of those (cough The Grand Tour cough took a while).
Of those, a bit under half were audiobooks (52) and 9 were non-fiction. Eight I read with my wife discussing one chapter a day as a sort of email book club.
I read a few novels as short as Legion at 88 pages and a few doorstoppers: The Pillars of the Earth is just shy of 1000. Overall, I read or listened to just over 40,000 words, increasing my general average to 110 pages per day or 350 ber book.
I continue to rate books highly, averaging 4.4 stars. I hope this coming year to get away from star ratings in general. They’re not super helpful if you’re reading books that you already expect to like (for the most part).
As mentioned before, there are a few series that I’ll be continuing into the new year:
Series | Books Left |
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1 |
2 | |
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25, plus spin off series (plural) |
And there are a few I just didn’t get to which I’ll be bumping to next year:
Series | Category | Books |
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Fiction | 3 |
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Fiction | 2 |
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Fiction | 3 |
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Fiction | 3 |
Nowhere near as bad as least year! Look for my 2020 reading list tomorrow.
Here’s the full list:
Posts in 2019 Book Reviews:
- 2019 Reading List
- Academ's Fury
- Magic Bites
- Magic Burns
- Magic Strikes
- Cursor's Fury
- Magic Bleeds
- Captain's Fury
- The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications
- Stiletto
- The Car Hacker's Handbook: A Guide for the Penetration Tester
- Princeps' Fury
- Magic Slays
- First Lord's Fury
- Magic Rises
- Magic Breaks
- Skyward
- Magic Shifts
- Gray Hat C#: A Hacker's Guide to Creating and Automating Security Tools
- Magic Binds
- Silence Fallen
- The Lies of Locke Lamora
- Magic Triumphs
- We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
- For We Are Many
- All These Worlds
- Practical Forensic Imaging: Securing Digital Evidence with Linux Tools
- Burn Bright
- Children of the Nameless
- Lies of the Beholder
- Red Seas Under Red Skies
- Powersat
- The Fallen
- Privateers
- Harbinger
- Empire Builders
- Mars
- Dark Matter
- Moon Shades
- Moonrise
- Moonwar
- Return to Mars
- Illusive Echoes
- The Precipice
- A Curse of Memories
- Jupiter
- The Rock Rats
- Children of Blood and Bone
- The Republic of Thieves
- The Silent War
- A Darker Shade of Magic
- The Aftermath
- A Gathering of Shadows
- Saturn
- A Conjuring of Light
- First Shift: Legacy
- Leviathans of Jupiter
- Second Shift: Order
- Titan
- Third Shift: Pact
- Dawn
- Mercury
- Adulthood Rites
- Dune
- Mars Life
- Imago
- Venus
- Aurora: CV-01
- Wild Cards
- The Rings of Haven
- Spinning Silver
- The Legend of Corinair
- Aces High
- Jokers Wild
- Freedom's Dawn
- ZACH-LIKE, A Game Design History
- Aces Abroad
- Rise of the Corinari
- Head of the Dragon
- Procedural Content Generation in Games
- Down and Dirty
- The Expanse
- The Pillars of the Earth
- Ace in the Hole
- Celestia CV-02
- The Last Lecture
- Resistance
- Liberation
- Dead Man's Hand
- Pacific Vortex!
- Born of the Ashes
- The Mediterranean Caper
- Iceberg
- Rise of the Alliance
- Raise the Titanic!
- 2019 Reading List Retrospective