The 2012 Annual Reading Challenge – List Thread!

[Kaylee Skylyn]

Hopefully not to late to jump on. I've set a goal of 20 books for 2012 (but after going through my library history I'm farther ahead than I thought).

My 2012 Reading List
(working list...needs work)

1) Maelstrom (Destroyermen 3) - Taylor Anderson – 400 pg - Finished Jan 2012
2) Dragon's Time - Anne McCaffrey and Todd McCaffrey – 352 pg - Finished Jan 2012
3) Blood Rights (Dresden files 6) - Jim Butcher – 479 pg - Finished Feb 2012
4) Dead Beat (Dresden files 7) - Jim Butcher – 378 pg - Finished Feb 2012
5) Distant Thunders (Destroyermen 4) - Taylor Anderson – 432 pages - Finished Feb 2012
6) Death Masks (Dresden files 5?) - Jim Butcher - 372 pg - Finished March 2012
7) The Hunger Games (Hunger Games 1) - Suzanne Collins – 374 pages - Finished 12 April 2012
8) The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver – 546 pages - Finished June 04
9) Clockwork Angel (Infernal Devices 1) - Cassandra Clare - 479 pg - Finished July 04
10) Prey (Infected 1) - Andrea Speed - 376 pg - Finished July 16
11) Elisha's Bones - Don Hoesel - 335 pg - Finished July 31
12) Rising Tides (Destroyermen, #5) - Taylor Anderson - 496 pg - Finished Sep sometime...
13) Firestorm (Destroyermen, #6) - Taylor Anderson - 432 pg - Finished Oct 15
14) Proven Guilty (Dresden files #8) - Jim Butcher - 479 pg - Finished Oct 30
15) White Knight (Dresden files #9) - Jim Butcher - 416 pg - Finished Nov 15?
16) Pearl in the Sand - Tessa Afshar - 320 pg - Finished Dec 15

17-20) not done
Next, or soonish: The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
(GoodReads "To Read" list here....in no particular order...)

Bonus Reads (FanFictions, BigBangs, Ect. Not really in order read anymore)

1) “This is not the House That Pain Built” 134 pages (35k words)
2) “Reddish Gold and Caramel” 153 pages
3) “The Song of the Treadmill” 166 pages
4) Bettaed – “Shifting Change” (working title) 138 pages (in word)
5) Bettaed – “Love Lies Burning” (working title) 191 pages (in word)
6) "Even a Man of Pure Heart" - around 25,500 words
7) "Step Into the Light" - 7,000 words, + "Step Out of the Fire", - 10,600 words + "Step Into Life" - 9,500 words
8) "I think therefore I am" - 37K words
9) "Superheroes Suck..." - 33,100 words
10) "Lakota Falls" - 38,492 words
11) "Zero Minus One" - ~31,800 words
12) "Dignity of Dragons" - ~51k words
13) "Open Heart Dentistry" - 25,000 words
14) "Two Cures for Love" - 35,000 words
(Lots of ongoing fics and probably lots more finished fanfictions I've forgotten about)

Set goals for 2012 of 20 dead tree books (which looks like I can surpass) and a goal of 10000 pages (or more...maybe not...).

End of year note: I failed to meet my # read goal...I got distracted near the end by fanfiction again and then with the process of buying my first home. I don't think I've met the # pages either but hard to say as most fanfiction is measured in words rather than pages and I'm just to lazy to convert it.

[maxiart]

My goal for this year is reading 30 books, of which I've read 11 already:

1 )The Iron King (Accursed Kings, #1) - Maurice Druon
2 )Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1) - Steven Erikson
3 )Never Knew Another (Dogsland Trilogy, #1) - J.M.McDermott
4 )Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2) - Steven Erikson
5 )Cold Magic (Spiritwalker Trilogy, #1) - Kate Elliot
6 )Memories of Ice (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #3) - Steven Erikson
7 )The Curse of Chalion (Chalion, #1) - Lois McMaster Bujold
8 )House of Chains (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #4) - Steven Erikson
9 )Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
10)Empress (Godspeaker Trilogy, #1) - Karen Miller
11)Night of Knives (A novel of the Malazan Empire, #1) - Ian C. Esslemont
12)Midnight Tides (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #5) - Steven Erikson
13)When We Were Executioners (Dogsland Trilogy, #2) - J.M.McDermott
14)Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
15)Cold Fire (Spiritwalker Trilogy, #2) - Kate Elliot
16)The Bonehunters (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #6) - Steven Erikson
17)Elantris - Brandon Sanderson
18)The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
19)Reaper's Gale (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #7) - Steven Erikson
20)Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1) - Brandon Sanderson
21)Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) - Frank Herbert
22)Toll of the Hounds (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #8) - Steven Erikson
23)The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) - Brandon Sanderson
24)Paladin of Souls (Chalion, #2) - Lois McMaster Bujold
25)Dust of Dreams (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #9) - Steven Erikson
26)The Crippled God (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #10) - Steven Erikson
27)Feast of Souls (The Magister Trilogy, #1) - C.S.Friedman
28)A Certain Slant of Light (Light, #1) - Laura Whitcomb
29)The Killing Moon (Dreamblood, #1) - N.K.Jemisin
30)Lord Foul's Bane (Thomas Covenant, #1) - Stephen R. Donaldson

The above, however, is only a temporal plan, very much likely to change if I end up liking Mistborn very much, in which case its following books would replace all the other following serie-openers (Dune, The Way of Kings, Feast of Souls, Lord Foul's Bane)

[fantasyfan]

I'm starting mid-year, so my goal will be 20 books for the rest of the year.

Books read:

1. The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce--Book One of the Darkangel Trilogy
2. Judith Paris by Hugh Walpole
3. A Gathering of Gargoyles by Meredith Ann Pierce--Book Two of the Darkangel Trilogy
4. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
5. The Pearl of the Soul of the World by Meredith Ann Pierce
6. Terror of the Autons by Terrance Dicks
7. Crocodile On the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
8. Mind of Evil by Terrance Dick
9. The Kitten's Garden of Verses by Oliver Herford {1911 edition with illustrations by the author}
10. The Night Lives On (1986) Walter Lord
11. Middlemarch by George Eliot
12. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K.Rowling
14. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
15. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
16. Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
17. Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
18. M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman
19. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
20. We by Eugene Zamiatin

[Djedefre]

I set my goal at 200 books, but I jumped into the challenge late, so I'm hella behind. I am confident though that I'll catch up.

My Read List:

1. Devil In Dress Blues by Karen Foley
2. Dead to the World by Charlaine Harris
3. 1st to Die by James Patterson
4. 2nd Chance by James Patterson
5. 3rd Degree by James Patterson
6. 4th of July by James Patterson
7. The 5th Horseman by James Patterson
8. The 6th Target by James Patterson
9. 7th Heaven by James Patterson
10. Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
11. Leopard Moon by Jeanette Battista
12. Jackal Moon by Jeanette Battista

Currently Reading:

1. Bag of Bones by Stephen King
2. Goliath by Steve Alten
3. The 8th Confession by James Patterson

To Read (for now):

1. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
2. Kronos by Jeremy Robinson
3. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
4. The Loch by Steve Alten
5. Domain by Steve Alten
6. Resurrection by Steve Alten
7. Phobos by Steve Alten
8. The Shell Game by Steve Alten
9. Grim Reaper: End of Days by Steve Alten
10. Mortal Coils by Eric Nylund
11. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
12. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
13. The Arithmetic of Life and Death by George Shaffner
14. Voices of the Dead by Peter Leonard
15. American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us by Jesse Ventura
16. Democrips and Rebloodlicans: No More Gangs in Government by Jesse Ventura
17. Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund
18. Halo: The Flood by William Dietz
19. Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund
20. Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund
21. Halo: Contact Harvest by Joseph Staten
22. Halo: The Cole Protocol by Tobias Buckell
23. 10th Anniversary by James Patterson
24. 11th Hour by James Patterson
25. Restoring Harmony by Joëlle Anthony
26. Raylan by Elmore Leonard

[kevorkian]

I know that 2012 is a few months away from being over, but I've been keeping a reading goal this year, and I've been looking for somewhere to document it.

My goal for the year is to read 20 books and 5,000 pages.

Books Read:

1. A Game of Thrones - George RR Martin (819 pages)
2. A Clash of Kings - George RR Martin (969 pages)
3. A Storm of Swords - George RR Martin (973 pages)
4. A Feast for Crows - George RR Martin (852 pages)
5. A Dance with Dragons - George RR Martin (1045 pages)
6. Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo (336 pages)
7. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (275 pages)
8. Animal Farm - George Orwell (112 pages)
9. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (409 pages)
10. Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilly (462 pages)
11. Six Sacred Stones - Matthew Reilly (506 pages)
12. Five Greatest Warriors - Matthew Reilly (400 pages)
13. Cujo - Stephen King (319 pages)
14. Ready Player One - Ernest Cline (374 pages)

Progress:

14/20 books
8,357/5,000 pages

Currently Reading:

Middlemarch - George Eliot (904 pages)