[Dazrin]

I kept the 12,000 page goal that I had used the last couple years; it seems about right for my current needs. My secondary goal this year was to catch up with the Stormlight Archive by the beginning of December in anticipation of book 5, Wind and Truth. I finished book 3 plus the intervening novellas in early November, but I didn't end up starting book 4. That will be pushed into 2025.

My favorite books of 2024 are here: link

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Page Goal:: Read 12,000 Pages in 2024
Status as of December 27: 15,391 pages read, 59 books/short stories completed (15,561 projected)



Here is my complete set of goals and achievements since I started tracking in 2011. As of 2020, my available reading time dropped about 60% due to a change in work routine. Taking that into account, my average reading speed hasn't really changed at all. Meaning, I would still average between 36,000 and 38,000 pages if I had as much reading time as I used to have. That makes me feel a little better about the current plateau I've been on the last 5 years.
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This year I thought I'd look at the publication dates of the books I read an a few different ways. The first is just the histogram, asking the question "what years have I read and how many have I read from them?"
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The second chart, asks "when did I read each of these books (and what format)?"
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The last chart is an attempt to see how diverse my reading is on a year-by-year basis. As you can see, there are some years where I read books from a very narrow range of years and others where I read a very broad range of years.
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Totals

• 2024 Books Read: 59
• 2024 Pages Read: 15,391
• 2024 Audio Books complete (total duration): 29 (93h 20m)
• 2024 Books Abandoned: 3
• 2024 Books in Progress: 1
• Total books since 2011: 1,142
• Total pages since 2011: 337,660
• Total words since 2011: 98,261,514
• Total hours since 2011: 42 days 1 hrs 16 min listened

Formats

• Audio books: 29 books/short stories, 93 hrs 20 min listened
• Library Books: 23, 59 hrs 28 min listened

Authors

• New Authors: 13
• Authors Read: 47
• Total Authors Read since 2011: 517

Publication Dates

• New Years Read: 6 (1717, 1726, 1798, 1836, 1883, 2024)
• Years Read: 36
• Total Years Read since 2011: 149

Miscellaneous

• Most Read Genre: Science Fiction (26)
• Number of Genres: 29
• Most Read Author: Brandon Sanderson (6)

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Completed Books:

Novels/Novellas (>50 pages)
Short Stories (< 50 pages)
Audiobooks

January: 9 book(s), 9 pages, 16,201 projected

• Waystation City - A.T. Greenblatt - Read by LeVar Burton
• The Most Dangerous Game - Richard Connell - Read by B.J. Harrison (Link)
• System Collapse (Murderbot Diaries 7) - Martha Wells - Read by Kevin R. Free
• Bears Discover Fire - Terry Bisson (Link)
• The Captain of the Pole-Star - Arthur Conan Doyle - Read by B.J. Harrison
• Winter's Gifts (Rivers of London 9.5) - Ben Aaronovitch - Read by Penelope Rawlins
• Demon Daughter (Penric 12) - Lois McMaster Bujold
• The Olympian Affair (Cinder Spires 2) - Jim Butcher
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Read by B.J. Harrison

February: 7 book(s), 1,291 pages
Total: 16 books, 2,664 pages, 16,248 projected

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Read by B.J. Harrison
• Defiant (Skyward 4) - Brandon Sanderson
• To Build a Fire - Jack London - Read by B.J. Harrison (Link)
• For We Are Many (Bobiverse 2) - Dennis E. Taylor
• The Destroyer - Tara Isabella Burton - Read by LeVar Burton (Link)
• Folk Hero Motifs in Tales Told by the Dead - K.T. Bryski - Read by LeVar Burton (Link)
• The Better Part of Valor (Confederation 2) - Tanya Huff

March: 9 book(s), 1,242 pages
Total: 25 books, 3,906 pages, 15,708 projected

• A Rare Book of Cunning Device (Rivers of London 6.1) - Ben Aaronovitch - Read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
• All These Worlds (Bobiverse 3) - Dennis E. Taylor
• Quarropts Can't Dance - Rodrigo Culagovski - Read by LeVar Burton
• An Interview with Penric & Desdemona - Lois McMaster Bujold (Link)
• Referent - Ray Bradbury - Read by B.J. Harrison
• The Heart of Valor (Confederation 3) - Tanya Huff
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - Unknown - Read by B.J. Harrison
• Valor's Trial (Confederation 4) - Tanya Huff
• Contact Procedures - T.F. Meacker (Link)

April: 6 book(s), 990 pages
Total: 31 books, 4,896 pages, 14,809 projected

• The Last Watch (The Divide 1) - J.S. Dewes - Read by Andrew Eiden (Narrator), Nicol Zanzarella
• Lone Wolf (Orphan X 9) - Gregg Hurwitz
• The Hidden Forests of Earth and Mars - Anna Zumbro - Read by LeVar Burton (Link)
  • Abandoned - The Black Company (Black Company 1) - Glen Cook
• Leave it to Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse - Read by B.J. Harrison (Link)
• The Coffin Maker - AnaMaria Curtis - Read by LeVar Burton (Link)
• A Voyage to Lilliput - Jonathan Swift - Read by B.J. Harrison

May: 5 book(s), 2,315 pages
Total: 36 books, 7,211 pages, 17,363 projected

• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Erik Larson - Read by Scott Brick
• Magician: Apprentice (Riftwar 1) - Raymond E. Feist
• Magician: Master (Riftwar 2) - Raymond E. Feist
• Gone Dark - Dorian Roland
  • Abandoned - Smallworld: A Science Fiction Adventure Comedy - Dominic Green
• Relentless (Legend of Drizzt 36) - R.A. Salvatore
  • Abandoned - Lust Killer - Ann Rule - Read by Callie Beaulieu

June: 2 book(s), 469 pages
Total: 38 books, 7,680 pages, 15,444 projected

• Starlight Enclave (Legend of Drizzt 37) - R.A. Salvatore
• Red Alert (Dresden 17.5) - Jim Butcher

July: 1 book(s), 1,280 pages
Total: 39 books, 8,960 pages, 15,396 projected

• The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archive 1) - Brandon Sanderson

August: 2 book(s), 1,600 pages
Total: 41 books, 10,560 pages, 15,840 projected

• Edgedancer (Stormlight Archive 2.5) - Brandon Sanderson
• Words of Radiance (Stormlight Archive 2) - Brandon Sanderson

September: 3 book(s), 1,332 pages
Total: 44 books, 11,892 pages, 15,885 projected

• Rainbow Six (Jack Ryan 10) - Tom Clancy
• The Anubis Gates (Anubis Gates 1) - Tim Powers
• For a Breath I Tarry - Roger Zelazny

October: 5 book(s), 560 pages
Total: 49 books, 12,452 pages, 14,942 projected

• Devolution - Max Brooks - Read by Judy Greer (Narrator), Full cast
• Ligeia - Edgar Allan Poe - Read by B.J. Harrison (Link)
• The Hobbit (Abridged, BBC Radio Program) (LOTR 0) - J.R.R. Tolkien - Read by Full Cast
• The Rocket - Jackson Allen - Read by Jeremiah Jones
• Carmilla - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Read by B.J. Harrison

November: 6 book(s), 2,007 pages
Total: 55 books, 14,459 pages, 15,797 projected

• The Eighth Detective - Alex Pavesi - Read by Emilia Fox
• Dawnshard (Stormlight Archive 3.5) - Brandon Sanderson
• A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens - Read by Patrick Stewart
• An Exchange of Fire and Flesh - Jack Black (Link)
• Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive 3) - Brandon Sanderson
• All Summer in a Day - Ray Bradbury (Link)

December: 4 book(s), 932 pages
Total: 59 books, 15,391 pages, 15,561 projected

• Remnant Population - Elizabeth Moon
• Valor's Choice (Confederation 1) - Tanya Huff
• Penric and the Bandit (Penric 13) - Lois McMaster Bujold - Read by Grover Gardner
• Randomize - Andy Weir - Read by Janina Gavankar

Books in progress:

• Parable of the Sower (Earthseed 1) - Octavia E. Butler

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My lists: 2011 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 2024 - 25

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