[Dazrin]

I lowering my goal for 2019 based on some changes in schedule. My new goal is 24,000 pages down from 30,000 in 2018 and almost 40,000 pages read in 2018.

I continued to participate in the New Leaf Book Club but didn't finish as many as I had wanted to.

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Page Goal: Read 24,000 pages in 2019.
Status as of December 31: 24,075 pages read, 96 books/short stories completed.
Page Goal Completed: 12/24/2019

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Final Charts:


Overall Summary Stats:

• Total books read since 2011: 820, 788 unique.
  • In 2019: Read 96 books, 14 re-reads.
• Total pages read since 2011: 264,095.
  • In 2019: Read 24,075 pages.
• Total authors read since 2011: 394.
  • New-to-Me authors since 2011: 346, 88% of all authors and 77% of total books.
  • In 2019: Read 68 different authors, 37 of which are new to me.
• Total years read since 2011: 120.
  • Overall most read year is 2011 with 73.
  • In 2019: 43 different years, 5 of which I hadn't read before.
  • In 2019, most read year is 2019 with 12.
  • In 2019, oldest read book was from 1839, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe.
• Read 42 library books (42%).
• Read 31 books that either won or were shortlisted for a literary award.
• Read 30 different genres, 52 Fantasy titles.
• Read 44 audio books, totaling 121H.
• Books were on average 251 pages long, 71 pages shorter than my average.

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Completed books:
Ordered by finish date

1. Deathworld - Harry Harrison - from the Classic Tales podcast
2. The Dreaming Void (Void Trilogy 1, Commonwealth 3) - Peter F. Hamilton - continued from 2018
3. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin - January 2019 NLBC Selection
4. Out of the Dark (Orphan X 4) - Gregg Hurwitz
   • Abandoned - Downbelow Station - C.J. Cherryh
5. Mono no aware - Ken Liu - From the Levar Burton Reads podcast (Live in Boston) and Lightspeed Magazine
6. A Delicate Truth - John Le Carre - NLBC February 2019
7. The Last Hero (Discworld 27) - Terry Pratchett
8. The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Discworld 28) - Terry Pratchett
9. Book 9
10. Night Watch (Discworld 29) - Terry Pratchett
11. The Wee Free Men (Discworld 30/Tiffany Aching 1) - Terry Pratchett
12. Playing Nice with God's Bowling Ball - N.K. Jemisin - From the Levar Burton Reads podcast (Live in Brooklyn)
13. Childfinder - Octavia Butler - From the Levar Burton Reads podcast
    • Abandoned - Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens - NLBC March 2019
14. Penric's Demon (Penric and Desdemona 1) - Lois McMaster Bujold - Audio book
15. Penric and the Shaman (Penric 2) - Lois McMaster Bujold - Audio book
16. The City of the Goneaway - Ambrose Bierce - Classic Tales Podcast
17. The Middle Toe of the Right Foot - Ambrose Bierce - Classic Tales Podcast
18. The Cave of Horror - J.S. Meek - Read by Wil Wheaton as an impromptu podcast
19. The Crystal Egg - H.G. Wells - Classic Tales Podcast
20. The Man with Two Left Feet - P.G. Wodehouse - Classic Tales Podcast
21. The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion - Thomas Hardy - Classic Tales Podcast
22. Monstrous Regiment (Discworld 31) - Terry Pratchett
23. Penric's Fox (Penric 5) - Lois McMaster Bujold - Audio book
24. A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld 32/Tiffany Aching 2) - Terry Pratchett
25. Penric's Mission (Penric 3) - Lois McMaster Bujold - Audio book
26. Mira's Last Dance (Penric 4) - Lois McMaster Bujold - Audio book
27. Miracle - Tope Folarin - LeVar Burton Reads
28. Going Postal (Discworld 33) - Terry Pratchett
29. The Prisoner of Limnos (Penric 6) - Lois McMaster Bujold - Audio book
30. Sheepfarmer's Daughter (Paks 1) - Elizabeth Moon
31. Divided Allegiance (Paks 2) - Elizabeth Moon
32. Oath of Gold (Paks 3) - Elizabeth Moon
33. How to Think - Alan Jacobs - Audio book
34. Kwoon - Charles Johnson - Levar Burton Reads podcast
35. Oath of Fealty (Paks 4) - Elizabeth Moon
36. Those Who Walk in Darkness (Paks 3.5) - Elizabeth Moon
37. Kings of the North (Paks 5) - Elizabeth Moon
38. Echoes of Betrayal (Paks 6) - Elizabeth Moon
39. Limits of Power (Paks 7) - Elizabeth Moon
40. Mr. Hadj's Sunset Ride - Saladin Ahmed - From the Levar Burton Reads podcast #41
41. Surrender None (Paks 0.1) - Elizabeth Moon
42. Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension - Matt Parker
43. Every Tool's a Hammer - Adam Savage
44. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman - NLBC May 2019
45. The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex - Tobias S. Buckell - Levar Burton Reads podcast #43
46. The Dead and the Countess - Gertrude Atherton - Classic Tales Podcast #619
47. The Colour Out of Space - H.P. Lovecraft - Classic Tales Podcast #597
48. Articulated Restraint (Lady Astronaut 1.5) - Mary Robinette Kowal - from Tor.com
49. Toward Happy Civilization - Samanta Schweblin - Levar Burton Reads podcast #44
50. Liar's Oath (Paks 0.2) - Elizabeth Moon
51. The Undertakers - Rudyard Kipling - The Classic Tales Podcast #629
52. Crown of Renewal (Paks 8) - Elizabeth Moon
53. Flying Carpets - Steven Millhauser - LeVar Burton Reads #45
54. Book 54
55. Book 55
56. Book 56
57. The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code - Margalit Fox - NLBC June 2019
58. L'Aquilone du Estrellas (The Kite of Stars) - Dean Francis Alfar - LeVar Burton Reads #48
59. The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate - Ted Chiang - LeVar Burton Reads #46-47
60. The Temporal Void (Void 2) - Peter F. Hamilton
61. The Sword in the Stone - T.H. White
62. The Best We Can - Carrie Vaughn - LeVar Burton Reads podcast #40
63. The Rival Mechanicians - Lydia Maria Child - From the Classic Tales Podcast
    • Abandoned - I Am a Cat - Soseki Natsume - NLBC August 2019 selection
64. Sheepfarmer's Daughter (Paks 1) - Elizabeth Moon
65. Oath of Gold (Paks 3) - Elizabeth Moon
66. If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again - Zen Cho - 2019 Hugo Award Winning Novellette
67. Head of a Snake, Tail of a Dragon - Zen Cho
68. Shoggoths in Traffic - Tobias S. Buckell - LeVar Burton Reads #50
69. The Simplest Equation - Nicky Drayden - LeVar Burton Reads #49
70. Cuisine des Mémoires - N.K. Jemisin - LeVar Burton Reads #51
71. The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District - James Rebanks - NLBC September 2019
72. Wolverine: The Lost Trail - Percy Benjamin - Wolverine Podcast season 2
73. The October Man (Rivers of London 7.5) - Ben Aaronovitch - Audio book
    • Abandoned - A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
74. Mark One - John Hindmarsh
75. Three Hearts and Three Lions - Poul Anderson
76. Face Value - Sean Williams - LeVar Burton Reads #53
77. Blur - Carmen Maria Machado - LeVar Burton Reads #54
78. The People of the Black Circle - Robert E. Howard - The Classic Tales Podcast #635 - 638
79. The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe - The Classic Tales Podcast #645
80. Tiger Baby - J.Y. Yang - LeVar Burton Reads #55
81. Boundless (Generations 2) - R.A. Salvatore
82. How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems - Randall Munroe
83. Zeroes - Scott Westerfield, Margo Lanagan, Deborah Biancotti
84. The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart - Audiobook
85. The Ebony Frame - Edith Nesbit - The Classic Tales Podcast #651
86. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams - NLBC October 2019
87. Thud! (Discworld 34) - Terry Pratchett
88. Slow Horses (Slough House 1) - Mick Herron
89. Wintersmith (Discworld 35) - Terry Pratchett
90. Starsight (Skyward 2) - Brandon Sanderson
91. The Horse Lord (Book of Years 1) - Peter Morwood
92. The Evolutionary Void - Peter F. Hamilton
93. Penric's Demon (Penric and Desdemona 1) - Lois McMaster Bujold - ebook this time
94. Making Money - Terry Pratchett
95. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (HP1) - J.K. Rowling
96. The Orphans of Raspay (Penric 5) - Lois McMaster Bujold

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New Leaf Book Club selections read or attempted: 9/12

• The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin - January 2019 NLBC Selection
• A Delicate Truth - John Le Carre - NLBC February 2019
• Abandoned - Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens - NLBC March 2019
• Not available in time - Daughter of Time - Josephine Tey - NLBC Selection for April 2019
• The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman - NLBC May 2019
• The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code - Margalit Fox - NLBC June 2019
• Abandoned - The Natural - Bernard Malamud - NLBC July 2019 - The movie is better
• Abandoned - I Am a Cat - Soseki Natsume - NLBC August 2019 selection
• The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District - James Rebanks - NLBC September 2019
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams - NLBC October 2019
• No interest - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
• Not available in time - The End of the Affair - Graham Greene - NLBC December 2019

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