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Length Goals:
  • Total Books: 75 (stretch goal of 100) (up from 50/75 last year)
  • Total Pages: 25,000
  • E-TBR Reduction: 25
  • Print-TBR Reduction: 10

Substantive Goals:
  • Read at least 51% non-American authors
  • Read at least 51% female/nonbinary authors than male authors
  • Read at least 52 short stories
  • Read at least 10 books across all our collections that are my wife's or that she wants me to read.

BOOKS 75 of 75 GOAL MET
Spoiler:

1. Takekurabe by Natsu Higuchi
2. The Incindiaries by R.O. Kwon (dropped)
3. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
4. Claudine by Riyoko Ikeda
5. Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 by Madeline Albright
6. City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
7. Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
8. Paper Girls, Book One by Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chiang
9. Paper Girls, Book Two by Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chiang
10. Paper Girls, Book Three by Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chiang
11. Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
12. City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
13. Gently French by Alan Hunter
14. The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon
15. Gently in Trees by Alan Hunter
16. Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie
17. Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie
18. City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett
19. All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
20. The Waves by Virginia Woolf
21. Black as He's Painted by Ngaio Marsh
22. Gently With Love by Alan Hunter
23. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
24. Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
25. Whose Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
26. Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L. Sayers
27. Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers
28. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L. Sayers
29. Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers
30. Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
31. Gently Where the Birds Are by Alan Hunter
31. Five Red Herrings, The by Dorothy L. Sayers
32. Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers
33. Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
34. Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
35. Love and Friendship by Jane Austen
36. The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien by Georges Simenon
37. The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers
38. The Acceptance World by Anthony Powell
39. Guady Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
40. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
41. Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
42. The Carter of La Providence by George Simeneon
44. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
45. Turmoil, The (Growth #1) by Booth Tarkington
46. East Lynne by Elizabeth Wood
47. Crow Trap, The by Ann Cleeves
48. Woman of No Importance, A by Oscar Wilde
49. Telling Tales by Ann Cleeves
50. East by West Vol 1 by Henry Lucy
51. Yellow Dog, The by Georges Simenon
52. Hidden Depths by Ann Cleeves
53. Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
54. Something New by PG Wodehouse
55. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
56. Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
57. At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell
58. Long Call, The by Ann Cleeves
59. Silent Voices by Ann Cleeves
60. Light Brigade, The by Kameron Hurley
61. When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo
62. Blue Marlin by Lee Smith
63. Gently Instrumental by Alan Hunter
64. Devil and the Dark Water, The by Stuart Turton
65. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
66. Lost Lady, A by Willa Cather
67. Haunted Hotel, The: A Mystery of Modern Venice by Wilkie Collins
68. Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
69. Magician, The by Colm Toibin
70. Will to Battle, The by Ada Palmer
71. Cricket on the Hearth, The by Charles Dickens
72. Hollow Needle, The by Maurice Leblanc
73. Harbour Street by Ann Cleeves
74. Lost on Planet Earth Magdelene Visaggio
75. Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer



SHORT STORIES 35 of 52 GOAL FAILED
Spoiler:

1. The Million Dollar Bond Robbery by Agatha Christie
2. Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
3. God's Fools by Mary Roberts Rinehart
4. The Flight of Betsey Lane by Sarah Orne Jewett
5. A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
6. The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin
7. Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie
8. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane
9. The Gospel According to Joan by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
10. Hop-Frog by Edgar Allen Poe
11. The Outsider by HP Lovecraft
12. The Horror at Red Hook by HP Lovecraft
13. A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury
14. Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
15. Marriage a-la Mode by Katherine Mansfield
16. Un Morso doo Pang by Edna Ferber
17. The Second Gong by Agatha Christie
18. Wireless by Agatha Christie
19. The Book by HP Lovecraft
20. Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin
21. Rocket Summer by Ray Bradbury
22. The Mixer (Moves in Society) by PG Wodehouse
23. The Legend of Don Munio Sancho de Hinojosa by Washington Irving
24. The Fly by Katherine Mansfield
25. A Problem by Anton Chekov
26. Phantom Hearse, The by Mary Fortune
27. Telephone Call, A by Dorothy Parker
28. I Stand Here Ironing by Tillie Walden
29. Straight Pool by John O'Hara
30. The Great Detective by Delia Sherman
31. The Kidnapped Prime Minister by Agatha Christie
32. High Water Mark by Bret Harte
33. The Man in the Case by Anton Chekov
34. The Iceman by Emma Cline
35. The Enchanted Bluff by Willa Cather




BOOKS SELECTED BY MY WIFE 10 of 10 - GOAL MET
Spoiler:

1. City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
2. Paper Girls, Books One, Two and Three by Brian K. Vaughn and Cliff Chiang
3. City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
4. City of Miracles by Robert Jackson Bennett
5. The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
6. Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
7. Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
8. The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer
9. Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
10. Lost on Planet Earth Magdelene Visaggio
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