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Sri's Sonorous Slumbers
Decades Challenge - Personal
Date: 1/1/16 - no deadline
Books read: 51/216
1801-1810
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1811-1820
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1821-1830
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1831-1840
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1841-1850
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1851-1860
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1861-1870
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1871-1880
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1881-1890
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1891-1900
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1901-1910
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1911-1920
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1921-1930
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1931-1940
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1941-1950
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1951-1960
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1961-1970
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1971-1980
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1981-1990
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1991-2000
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2001 - 2010
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2011 - till date
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Challenge idea courtesy, WRC
Sri's Bucket List 2018
Duration: 1/1/18 - 31/12/18
Books completed: --/12
January - The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
✔ February - The Brothers Karamazov
March - East of Eden
April - The Museum of Innocence
May - The Orphan Master's Son
June - The Iliad
July - The Idiot
August - The Odyssey
September - Memories of Ice
October - Ulysses
November - Imperial Woman
December - The Stand
Months might change as I am reading The Stand with Syl, so will read it when she does. Also, East of Eden is with Manu, so might just change that as well.
Sri's 12+4 Reading Goals
Duration: 1/1/18 - 31/12/18
Books read: --1/12 or 16
1. The Master and Margarita
2. Washingtonil Thirumanam
✔ 3. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - 8/8/16 - ★★★★★
4. Assassin's Quest
5. Proven Guilty
6. The Thousand Names
7. Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata
8. Blindness
9. The Black Lung Captain
10. The Illicit Happiness of Other People
11. Five Plays: Kamala; Silence! the Court Is in Session; Sakharam Binder; The Vultures; Encounter in Umbugland
12. The Myth of Sisyphus
Additional 4
1. Exile and the Kingdom
2. Immortality
3. Red Sorghum
4. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1. Harry Dresden (Am sure one person will positively beam on seeing this as being my first chosen series to complete)
2. Eve Dallas - had read quite a lot of these but had started these again last year in an attempt to read the later and newer ones..but Ms. Robb keeps churning them faster than I can finish...
3. Farseer Trilogy - this isn't a series but a trilogy. I have read books 1 and 2 way back i don't even remember when... and need to finish book 3. So Fitz, my love, don't worry, I shall be with you soon. ;)
4. The Malazan Book of the Fallen - Books 1 and 2 read and the remaining lying in wait for me to finish... and hopefully finish I shall...
5. The Sullivans - One of my favourite romance series and Ms Andre is the best. Again, she writes faster than I can read.. so here's hoping to get to the stage where she has to write the next one.
6. The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett
and more shall be added as and when I remember them.
I love reading books of all genres and non fiction is something that is oft neglected by me merely for want of time and space to read. However, this year, I am planning to read at least 10 non fiction titles to ensure that I have a holistic reading year.
✔ 1. Last Chance to See - 4/2/18 - ★★★★★
✔ 2. Vanthargal Vendrargal - 11/2/18 - ★★★★
✔ 3. Aesthetics: A Beginner's Guide - 2/3/18 - ★★★★
✔ 4. The Terracotta Army - 4/16/18 - ★★★
✔ 5. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World - 5/6/18 - ★★★★
✔ 6. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche - 5/29/18 - ★★★★
✔ 7. The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - 5/31/18 - ★★★★★
✔ 8. The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story - 6/1/18 - ★★★
✔ 9. Istanbul: Memories and the City - 6/18/18 - ★★★★★
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Before you all go crazy, I shall confess, I am not religious per se and neither am I a devout practitioner of any religion or philosophy. However, the idea of religion and philosophy intrigues me, given that it is the force behind most of our arguments today. Haven't really planned on what I am reading on these topics but am sure I will stumble upon something that will suit my needs and quench my thirst for knowledge without making me go mad... ;)
✔ 1. Original Sin: A Cultural History - 1/3/18 - ★★★★
✔ 2. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors - 28/4/18 - ★★★★
✔ 3. Classical Philosophy - 5/15/18 - ★★★★★
As in 2017, I have just returned from a short but wonderful trip to Ireland. And like last year, I bought a few books (names of which I shall share later) to add to my ever increasing pile of books bought but not read. My endeavour this year is to read a few Irish authors, books set in Ireland, topics relevant to Irish society, basically a whole gamut of Irish fangirling which is long pending.
The icing on this cake will be my completion of James Joyce's Ulyssess, which I am planning to seriously attempt this year.
Here's to an Irish bookventure. Books to be listed soon.
When you go from one I (India) to another I(Ireland), it doesn't take much imagination to assume that my reads planned for this year would include Indian authors, Indian topics and books set in my homeland. The quest this year is to read as much as I can in this regard but given my miserable performance in this regard in the previous years, I shall restrict my goal to 10 books.
The icing on the Indian cake would be the completion of a Tamil book, which is long pending. I might just go the audio way as my reading speed is abysmal (shamefully so..)
✔ 1. பார்த்திபன் கனவு Parthiban Kanavu - 10/2/18 - *****
✔ 2. Vanthargal Vendrargal - 11/2/18 - ****
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I haven't really been a great lover of audio books but my recent long plane journey taught me just how good an audio book can be. And ever since, I am in love. So in keeping with this newfound love and in order to prove to myself that I am quite the diverse reader (?) that I say I am, I am planning to listen to at least 10 audios this year.. one of which is definitely a Tamil one! :)
✔ 1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - 13/1/18 - ★★★★★
✔ 2. The Woman in the Window - 22/1/18 - ★★★
✔ 3. Norse Mythology - 23/1/18 - ★★★★★
✔ 4. True History of the Kelly Gang - 25/1/18 - ★★★
✔ 5. பார்த்திபன் கனவு Parthiban Kanavu - 10/2/18 - ★★★★★
✔ 6. Vanthargal Vendrargal - 11/2/18 - ★★★★
✔ 7. Year One - 2/20/18 - ★★★
✔ 8. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things - 2/22/18 - ★★★★
✔ 9. Child 44 - 4/21/18 - ★★★★★
✔ 10. - Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders - 4/22/18 - ★★★★★
✔ 11. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World - Stephen Brusatte - 5/6/18 - ★★★★
✔ 12. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino - 6/4/18 - ★★★★★
Like any other year, I shall be joining a few challenges and hopefully completing them. Here i shall hopefully list the challenges that I am planning to do. The posts following these will record the actual challenge once I join or decide to join.
One challenge I am sure of doing is the Book Riots Read Harder Challenge.
List of Completed Challenges
✔ 1. Historical Landmarks of West Virginia - completed on 3/31/18
✔ 2. West Virginia Spell Challenge - completed on 3/31/18
List of Ongoing Challenges
All About You
Goodreads Choice Awards 2017
Books in a Series YAHTZEE
The Twelve Towers Challenge
Decades Challenge 2018
Author Alphabet Challenge
New Authors to U Challenge
Reading University Challenge
The Ultimate International Reading Challenge
Popsugar Reading Challenge 2018
Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2018
WRC 18x18 Challenge
Snow White and Seven Dwarfs Quarterly Challenge
NBRC Reading Through Europe Challenge
NBRC The End of Your Life Book Club Reading Challenge
NBRC The Anne Bishop Reading Challenge
It's Me Mario Challenge
WRC Ohio Spell Challenge
WRC Historical Landmarks of Ohio
Series-Ously Sri
Snakes & Ladders
am only didn't blank reserves spaces. But whatever you fill them up with later is surely to be awesome 👌
1. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
2. The Woman in the Window
3. Norse Mythology
4. True History of the Kelly Gang
February Reads
1. Breakfast of Champions
2. Last Chance to See
3. பார்த்திபன் கனவு Parthiban Kanavu
4. Vanthargal Vendrargal
5. This Cradle Won't Fall
6. Letters to the Lady Upstairs
7. Appusamyum Azhagi Pottiyum
8. Come on Appusamy Come on
9. Human Bomb Appusamy
10. Letter from New York: BBC Woman's Hour Broadcasts
11. Fantasy Lover
12. Year One
13. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
14. Stories of Your Life and Others
15. 2002 Lesser Known Tales From The Mahabharata: Volume 1
16. 2002 Lesser Known Tales From The Mahabharata: Volume 2
17. 2002 Lesser Known Tales From The Mahabharata: Volume 3
18. 2002 Lesser Known Tales From The Mahabharata: Volume 4
19. 2002 Lesser Known Tales From The Mahabharata: Volume 5
20. 2002 Lesser Known Tales From The Mahabharata: Volume 6
21. 2002 Lesser Known Tales From The Mahabharata: Volume 7
22. 2002 Lesser Known Tales From The Mahabharata: Volume 8
March Reads
1. Original Sin: A Cultural History
2. Aesthetics: A Beginner's Guide
3. In the Café of Lost Youth
4. All I Ever Need Is You
5. A Discovery of Witches
6. The Good Soldier
7. The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury
8. Lake Silence
9. Now That I've Found You
10. Since I Fell for You
11. The Best Is Yet To Come
12. Every Beat of My Heart
13. You Do Something to Me
14. Sweeter than Ever
15. Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
16. Just One Damned Thing After Another
17. Breathless In Love
18. Reckless In Love
19. Fearless In Love
20. Irresistible In Love
21. Last Resort
22. Someday Beach
23. Rip Current
24. Maid for Love
25. In Too Deep
26. Swept Away
27. High Tide
28. Written in Red
29. Murder of Crows
30. Vision in Silver
31. Marked in Flesh
32. Etched in Bone
33. The Encyclopedia of the Dead
34. Nylon Rope
35. Blood Song
36. The Brothers Karamazov
37. The Widow Ching-Pirate
38. The Oxford Murders
39. The Eye of the World
40. Dead Beat
1. A Symphony of Echoes
2. The Very First Damned Thing
3. When a Child is Born
4. The Magician Murders
5. Dragon Slippers
6. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
7. Last Evenings on Earth
8. The House of the Dead
9. The Terracotta Army
10. Dead Souls
11. Child 44
12. Lincoln in the Bardo
13. The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors
14. The Only Story
May Reads
1. The Obsession
2. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
3. Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse
4. Classical Philosophy
5. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
6. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
7. The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
June Reads
1. The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
2. Invisible Cities
Srividya wrote: "Religion and Philosophy
Before you all go crazy, I shall confess, I am not religious per se and neither am I a devout practitioner of any religion or philosophy. However, the idea of religion and ..."
Hehe, if you need some recommendations, just ask :D
Baap reh!
bringing both maa and baap into the wxclama4ion after seeing th3 challenges .👌👌🤚
Srividya wrote: "Religion and Philosophy
Before you all go crazy, I ..."
I always try to push myself so much that I don't feel bad when I don't do it all and simply amaze myself when I do get something done! lol!!
And definitely contacting you for reccos on religion! :D
Baap reh!
bringing both maa and baap into the wxclama4ion after seeing th3 challenges .👌👌🤚"
LMAO!!!
All the best for your reading year!
Am exhauted just looking at the challenges 🤕😨😵
All bestest. Hope somewhere amidst these challenges there's a konaa for our BRs🤗
I haven't really been a great lover of audio books but my recent long plane journey taught me just how good an audio book can be. And ever since, I am in love. So in keeping with t..."
Yas yas and yass i have a few reccos
Thanks Manu! :) Hahahaha, you are as usual biased by your love for me! :D
All the best for your reading year!"
Thanks Harry! :)
Am exhauted just looking at the challenges 🤕😨😵
All bestest. Hope somewhere amidst these challenges there's a konaa for our BRs🤗"
Hahahahah! Don't be. It's only on paper! :P
Thanks twinny! And YES!!! Our BRs are definitely there. :D
And before Manu protests, our BRs as well buddy dear! :D
I haven't really been a great lover of audio books but my recent long plane journey taught me just how good an audio book can be. And ever since, I am in love. So ..."
Am definitely looking forward to those! :D :D
Good luck and happy reading! :)
Good luck and happy reading! :)"
Hahahahaha!! Not really a fan of classical literature but am a glutton for punishment! :P
Thanks for the wishes! :)
Lol
I'm the opposite: if I push myself too much, I give up before trying because I'm already exhausted.
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Lol
I'm the opposite: if I push mysel..."
That happens to me as well but then I have the excuse ready that I did try to overachieve! ;) :P
January sees me enter GR with a literal bang after a break of nearly 10 months. Suddenly, it isn't enough for me to just create this thread and read books but I have the urge, one I will describe as being similar to withdrawal symptoms that addicts experience (although I have lived without it for months and according to all gurus, I should be able to live without it), to joining challenges.
Challenges have always been a part of my GR life and last year I had taken a complete break from them wanting to get the addiction out of my system. However, the break last year only made me want to join all the challenges that were available this year and that would really make me go dizzy with happiness.
I went to my favourite group for challenges and lo and behold, there were many to suit my needs. I literally went challenge crazy but then restrained myself a bit. Now in the light of the day, I have to see whether restraint worked or craziness did! ;)
All About You
Duration: 1/1/18 - 12/31/18
Books read:
Month 1: Read your Birthday Month (Spell it out challenge)
✔ J - Just One Damned Thing After Another - ★★★★★
✔ U - Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche - 5/29/18 - ★★★★
✔ L - Letter from New York: BBC Woman's Hour Broadcasts - 2/18/18 - ★★★★
✔ Y - Year One - 2/20/18 - ★★★
Month 2: Read your Birthstone (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with covers that match the color of your birthstone or 3 or 4 books with the name of your Birthstone in the title
✔ R - Reckless In Love - 3/13/18 - ★★★★
✔ U - The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II - 5/31/18 - ★★★★★
✔ B - Breathless In Love - 3/13/18 - ★★★★
✔ Y - You Do Something to Me - 3/10/18 - ★★★★
Month 3: Read your sign (Spell it out challenge)
✔ L - Letters to the Lady Upstairs - 2/17/18 - ★★★★★
✔ E - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine - 1/13/18 - ★★★★★
✔ O - Original Sin: A Cultural History - 3/1/18 - ★★★★
Month 4: Read your Chinese zodiac sign (Spell it out challenge) or Read your favorite flower (Spell it out challenge) or read 3 or 4 books with your favorite flower on the cover
✔ R - Rip Current - 3/15/18 - ★★
✔ A - Aesthetics: A Beginner's Guide - 3/2/18 - ★★★★
✔ B - The Brothers Karamazov - 3/26/18 - ★★★★★
✔ B - Blood Song - 3/24/18 - ★★★★★
✔ I - In the Café of Lost Youth - 3/3/18 - ★★★★★
✔ T - True History of the Kelly Gang - 1/25/18 - ★★★
Month 5: Read 3 or 4 books set in a country you'd like to visit
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Month 6: Read 3 or 4 books from your favorite genre
✔ 1. Written in Red
✔ 2. Murder of Crows
✔ 3. Vision in Silver
✔ 4. Dead Beat
Month 7: Read 3 or 4 books with your child or a friend
✔ 1. Fantasy Lover - 2/19/18 - ★★★★
✔ 2. A Discovery of Witches - 3/4/18 - ★★★★★
✔ 3. Dragon Slippers - 4/4/18 - ★★★
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Month 8: Read 3 or 4 books written by some of your favorite authors
✔ 1. Norse Mythology - 1/23/18 - ★★★★★
✔ 2. Breakfast of Champions - 2/5/18 - ★★★★
✔ 3. Stories of Your Life and Others - 2/24/18 - ★★★★
✔ 4. Since I Fell for You - 3/10/18 - ★★★★
Month 9: Set yourself a personal goal to exceed the amount of books you normally read in a month
Goal set: 20
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Month 10: Read one of your favorite foods (Spell it out challenge)
✔ C - Can't Take My Eyes Off of You
✔ H - High Tide
✔ O - The Oxford Murders
✔ C - Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith - 4/21/18 - ★★★★★
✔ O - The Only Story - Julian Barnes - 4/30/18 - ★★★★
✔ L - Last Resort
✔ A - All I Ever Need Is You
✔ T - The Templars: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors - 4/28/18 - ★★★★
✔ E - The Eye of the World
✔ C - Classical Philosophy
✔ A - All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
K - King of Thorns
✔ E - The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Month 11: Read 3 or 4 books by authors you've never read before, but have been meaning to
✔ 1. Last Chance to See - 2/4/18 - ★★★★★
✔ 2. Parthiban Kanavu - 2/10/18 - ★★★★★
✔ 3. Vanthargal Vendrargal 2/11/18 - ★★★★
✔ 4. The Widow Ching-Pirate 3/27/18 - ★★★★
Month 12: Read your favorite Book Crush's name
✔ T - The Terracotta Army - John Man - 4/16/18 - ★★★
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✔ L - Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders - 4/22/18 - ★★★★★
✔ E - Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin - 5/13/18 - ★★★★
✔ R - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World - Stephen Brusatte - 5/6/18 - ★★★★
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Ooh I love this one. Am in. Am mixing two levels for this.
Goodreads Choice Awards 2017
Duration: 1/1/18- 12/31/18
Books read:
Level: A little bit of everything
Easy: 0/5
Level: Read a combination that suits you best
Moderate: 0/20
Proposed books and Genres
Fiction
✔ Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
Exit West
Bear Town
Home Fire
Mystery/Thriller
Into the Water
Secrets in Death
Historical Fiction
Column of Fire
✔ Lincoln in Bardo
Pachinko
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Fantasy
✔ Norse Mythology
The Bear and the Nightingale
Romance
Come Sundown
White hot
Wait for it
Science Fiction
Artemis
The Collapsing Empire
Horror
Sleeping Beauties
Non Fiction
✔ The lost city of the monkey god
We were 8 years in power
HIstory and Biography
Radium Girls
On Tyranny
Hue 1968
Debut Authors
The Hate U give
YA
Turtles all the way down
YA fantasy
The Song Rising
More to be seen and decided....
Books in a series YAHTZEE Challenge
Duration: 1/1/18 - 12/31/18
Level: Masters 20+ books
Option: 1
Books read:
Roll 1
3, 6, 4, 1, 5 - Small Straight
✔ Roll 2
2, 2, 2, 1, 1 - Twos (3 twos)
✔ Roll 3
4, 1, 3, 4, 6 - Fours (2 fours)
Roll 4
6, 2, 5, 5, 6 - Chance
Roll 5
5, 2, 5, 5, 4 - Fives (3 fives)
✔ Roll 6
1, 6, 1, 1, 5 - Aces (3 ones)
Roll 7
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - Large Straight
Roll 8
2, 2, 3, 2, 6 - Three of a kind
Roll 9
6, 6, 6, 4, 4 - Full House
Roll 10
6, 6, 6, 1, 6 - Four of a kind
✔ Roll 11
5, 6, 3, 3, 3 - Threes (3 threes)
✔ Roll 12
5, 6, 6, 6, 2 - Sixes (3 sixes)
Roll 13
The Twelve Towers Challenge #2
January 20, 2018 - January 19, 2020
Level: Quick as a bunny
Goal: 0/78
12 books that you've acquired most recently (from start date)
11 books that you never find time to get around to or that have been on your shelves the longest
10 books you randomly select from your shelves
9 sequels, series continuations, or spin-offs
8 novellas or short-stories - they can be part of anthologies, you don't have to read the whole book in this case.
7 books that everyone seems to have read but you
6 anticipated releases
5 books that were recommended to you via Goodreads
4 books that you started but never finished
3 books that you've already read before
2 books with covers that you don't think fit the storyline or that you don't like the covers of but everyone raves about the books
1 book that intimidates you
Decades Challenge 2018
Duration: 1/8/18 - 1/9/19
Books read: 0/135
2009
1. Skinwalker
2. The Leopard
3. Best Served Cold
4. Open
5. Turn Coat
6. The Demon King
7. The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
8. Under the Dome OR Horns
9. Brooklyn
2010
1. The Way of Kings
2. A Visit from the Goon Squad
3. The Forty Rules of Love OR The Weed that Strings the Hangman's Bag
4. The Emperor of all Maladies
5. The Black Prism
6. Changes
7. The Faithful Place
8. The Distant Hours
9. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
10. The Exiled Queen
2011
✔ 1. A Discovery of Witches
✔ 2. Blood Song
✔ 3. Aesthetics
4. Prince of Thorns
5. The Sisters Brothers
6. A Monster Calls
7. Ghost Story
8. Theft of Swords
9. Lost in Shangri La
10. Leviathan Wakes
11. This side of the grave
2012
1. Shadow of Night
2. The Time Keeper
3. The Orphan Master's Son
4. The Twelve
5. Broken Harbour
6. Cold Days
7. The End of Your Life Book Club
8. The Blinding Knife
9. The Emperor's Soul - Brandon Sanderson
10. Wool Omnibus
11. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
12. The Secret Keeper
2013
✔ 1. Letters to the Lady Upstairs
✔ 2. Written in Red
✔ 3. Just one damned thing after another
✔ 4. A Symphony of Echoes
✔ 5. Colonel Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of Pilgrimage
6. Promise of Blood
7. Neanderthal Seeks Human
8. Shift
9. Dust
10. The Signature of All Things
11. The Rithmatist
12. The Thousand Names
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2014
✔ 1. Murder of Crows
✔ 2. Classical Philosophy
2. Red Rising
3. Everything I never told you
4. Mr. Mercedes
5. The Storied Life of A J Fikry
6. The Good Girl
7. Annihilation
8. Words of Radiance
9. The Book of Life
10. The Bone Clocks
11. The Paying Guests
12. Elizabeth is Missing
13. The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
14. City of Stairs
2015
✔ 1. Last Resort
✔ 2. Vision in Silver
✔ 3. All I Ever Need is You
✔ 4. Someday Beach
✔ 5. Breathless in Love
✔ 6. Rip Current
✔ 7. In too Deep
✔ 8. Reckless in Love
9. Six of Crows
10. A Little Life
11. Between the World and Me
12. Simon vs Homo Sapiens Agenda
13. In a Dark Dark Wood
14. Career of Evil
15. The Fifth Season
2016
✔ 1. Marked in Flesh
✔ 2. Now that I've Found You
✔ 3. Fearless in Love
✔ 4. All the Ugly and Beautiful Things
✔ 5. Since I fell for You
✔ 6. The Obsession
7. Truly Madly Guilty
8. The Underground Railroad OR When Breath Becomes Air
9. A Gentleman in Moscow
10. Beartown
11. Scythe
12. The Bands of Mourning
13. The Obsession
14. Calamity
15. Autumn
16. The Obelisk Gate
2017
✔ 1. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
✔ 2. Norse Mythology
✔ 3. 2002 Lesser Known Tales from the Mahabharata Volume 1
✔ 4. 2002 Lesser Known Tales from the Mahabharata Volume 2
✔ 5. 2002 Lesser Known Tales from the Mahabharata Volume 3
✔ 6. 2002 Lesser Known Tales from the Mahabharata Volume 4
✔ 7. Year One
✔ 8. 2002 Lesser Known Tales from the Mahabharata Volume 5
✔ 9. 2002 Lesser Known Tales from the Mahabharata Volume 6
✔ 10. You do Something to Me
✔ 11. The Best is Yet to Come
✔ 12. Can't Take my Eyes off You
✔ 13. Irresistible in Love
✔ 14. Etched in Bone
✔ 15. Lincoln in Bardo
✔ 16. The Templars
✔ 17. The Lost City of the Monkey God
2018
✔ 1. The Woman in the Window
✔ 2. 2002 Lesser Known Tales from the Mahabharata Volume 7
✔ 3. 2002 Lesser Known Tales from the Mahabharata Volume 8
✔ 4. Lake Silence
✔ 5. The Magician Murders
✔ 6. The Only Story
✔ 7. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
8. Thunderhead
9. Dark in Death
10. Circe
11. The Exact Opposite of Okay
12. Wild in Love
13. Cormoran Strike 4
14. Children of Blood and Bone
15. The Cruel Prince
16. Magic Triumphs
17. The Great Alone
18. Shelter in Place
Author Alphabet Reading Challenge 2018
Duration: 1/1/18 - 12/31/18
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New 2 U Authors: 2018
duration : Jan 1- Jan 31, 2018
Level: Devil May Care
Books read: 0/20+
January
1. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman - 1/13/18 - *****
Indian Readers
Books mentioned in this topic
Istanbul: Memories and the City (other topics)Istanbul: Memories and the City (other topics)
I, Claudius (other topics)
Austerlitz (other topics)
Child 44 (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Orhan Pamuk (other topics)Robert Graves (other topics)
W.G. Sebald (other topics)
Julian Barnes (other topics)
Svetlana Alexievich (other topics)
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I don't know what I want this place to record any more than I know whether I want to record it or not. However, the fact that I have a place where I can bore all those who stumble in here (whether by choice or otherwise) is absolutely scintillating and exciting as a prospect.
So, as usual, be prepared to be bored by loads of lengthy monologues about nothing and everything. It might have a few bookish mentions and some stray thoughts on plans for the year or years to come. It will be my musing space.. and everyone is definitely welcome here.
I shall start off by recording some of the ambitious things that I plan to do this year and you can all go away amazed and patting yourselves on your back --- because my plans are rarely put into effect!
Happy reading everyone!