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Old 12-01-2025, 01:48 PM   #16
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I'm in for 2026! Like last year, my goal is 3 books a month.


January
The Eagle And The Wolves by Simon Scarrow, 320 pgs
Field Of Dishonor by David Weber, 302 pgs



Books Read 2
Pages Read 622
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Old 12-02-2025, 01:25 AM   #17
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2026 Goals

60 books: 3
20,000 pages: 887
4 books over 600 pages: 0

TBR Down 10 for each category:
Ebooks: 1
Audiobooks: -3
Magazines: 0


Magazines Read So Far: 0
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01.


2026 Purchases Read:
Bought: 5 Read: 0
Free: 4 Read: 0

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January
1. Tangled Up In Blue - Joan Vinge
2. World's End - Joan Vinge
3. Dead Man's Hand - James J Butcher
4. Years Best SF 15 - Gardner Dozois
5. The Summer War - Naomi Novik


Free
1. Dead Wrong - Helen Durrant
2. In His Wake - Chad Zunker
3. The People's Library - Veronica G Henry
4. Body in the Bookstore - Ellie Alexander



Short Stories: 0
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01.



Books Finished: 03
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January
01. 5 The Flood Tide - Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (audio+ebook)
Excellent story
02. 4 Killing Cousins - Flora Fletcher (audio+ebook)
Excellent narrator. Story was almost comical.
03. 4 The Rowan - Anne McCaffrey (audio)
Good story.
04. Let the Dead Sleep - Heather Graham (audio)



TBR as of 1/1/26
Audiobooks 1,512
Ebooks&magazines 2,139
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Old 12-02-2025, 02:06 PM   #18
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January
1) King of Sorrow - Author Joe Hill
2) The Tin Men - Author Nelson Demille - Alex Demille
3) The Venom Business - Author Michael Crichton
4) Killer of the Flower Moon - Author David Grann
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Old 12-02-2025, 11:19 PM   #19
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My challenge is to read 24 book next year.

Completed
  • January
  • February
  • March
  • April
  • May
  • June
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December

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Old 12-06-2025, 04:06 PM   #20
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2026 Reading Challenge List

Currently Reading
1. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge by David McCullough
2. Here Burns My Candle by Liz Curtis Higgs
3. Sleeping with Schubert by Bonie Marson
4. The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros
5. Refining Emma by Delia Parr
6. U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton

January 2026
1. The Goodbye Quilt by Susan Wiggs
2. A Hearth in Candlewood by Delia Parr
3. Veins of Gold by Charlie N. Holmberg
4. The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

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Length Goals:
  • Total Books: 50 (stretch goal of 75)
  • Total Pages: 25,000 (stretch of 30,000)
  • Read from Print-TBR: 20

Substantive Goals:
  • Read at least 51% non-American authors
  • Read more female/nonbinary authors than male
  • Read at least 52 poems
  • Read at least 12 books across all our collections that are selected by my wife. It's a great way to read things I would not ordinarily do, and I almost always end up enjoying them. List of books will be added as soon as my wife selects them. Denoted by +


POEMS READ
  1. "Burning the New Year" by Naomi Shihab Nye
  2. "The Man in the Wind" by Anne Stevenson
  3. "Renegade" by Lionel Jonhson
  4. "Absence" by Elizabeth Jennings
  5. "The Want of Peace" by Wendell Berry
  6. "Inversnaid" by Gerard Manly Hopkins
  7. "The Problem with Early Warnings" by Charles Rafferty

BOOKS READ
  1. The Mermaids Singing by Val McDermid - DROPPED
  2. A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith
  3. The Saint of Bright Doors by Varja Chandrasekera +
  4. The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk +
  5. The Black Mountain by Rex Stout
  6. Notes to John by Joan Didion +
  7. Book and Dagger: : How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham - DROPPPED
  8. If Death Ever Slept by Rex Stout
  9. And Four to Go by Rex Stout
  10. Not Quite Dead Enough by Rex Stout
  11. The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer +
  12. Might as Well Be Dead by Rex Stout
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Old 12-09-2025, 05:34 PM   #22
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  • Read 52 books
  • Read at least 2 books for every 1 book I buy

Read
  • January
    • Dog Songs, by Mary Oliver
    • The Rose Code, by Kate Quinn
    • The Art of War, by Sun Tzu. Audiobook narrated by Aidan Gillen
    • How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying, by Django Wexler

Bought
  • January:
    • Print: 1
    • Ebooks: 4
    • Audiobooks: 0
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Goal: Read 100 books in 2026
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  2. February:
  3. March:
  4. April:
  5. May:
  6. June:
  7. July:
  8. August:
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  10. October:
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January:

A Wrinkle in Time
Long Walk
Housemaid
Lion Women of Tehran
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Old 12-30-2025, 03:51 PM   #25
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Thanks to government shutdown & a three-week vacation when I ended up staying at home, as well as reading more shorter books, managed to read a lot in 2025. 2026 more classical history/literature and other stuff, including in translation.

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky - The letter killers club (tr. Joanne Turnbull)
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky - Stravaging "strange" (tr. Joanne Turnbull)
Anthony Kaldellis - The New Roman Empire: a history of Byzantium
Alfonz Bednár - The hours & the minutes (tr. David Short)
Anthony Kaldellis - A cabinet of Byzantine curiosities
Vladimir Sorokin - Their four hearts (tr. Max Lawton)
Vladimir Sorokin - Blue lard (tr. Max Lawton)
Vladimir Sorokin - Ice trilogy (tr. Jamey Gambrell)
Vladimir Sorokin - Day of the oprichnik (tr. Jamey Gambrell) (reread)
Vladimir Sorokin - The sugar Kremlin (tr. Max Lawton)
Vladimir Sorokin - The blizzard (tr. Jamey Gambrell)
Vladimir Sorokin - Telluria (tr. Max Lawton)
Vladimir Sorokin - The Queue (tr. Sally Laird)
Vladimir Sorokin - Dispatches from the District Committe (tr. Max Lawton)
Vladimir Sorokin - Red pyramid: selected stories (tr. Max Lawton)

2025 list
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Old 01-02-2026, 06:20 PM   #27
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I'm also in, hopefully better than last year .

Goal - 10 books -
Pages - 3500 -

January: 0 books - 30 pages




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1. Chapterhouse Dune - 640 pgs -


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5 - Awesome (I would read it again)
4 - Good (I can recommend it)
3 - Ordinary (but I finished it)
2 - Boring (I barely finished it)
1 - Awful (will never come back, didn't finish it)

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