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2021 - TRACK THE BOOKS YOU READ! (Sticky, please, iffen you don't mind!)

Started by indianasmith, December 31, 2020, 11:45:44 PM

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indianasmith

In 2018 I read 60 books.
In 2019, I read 46 (in my defense, a couple of them were whoppers of over 600 pages!)
IN 2020, I read 43, but there were NO cartoon anthologies on the list this time!
So let's see how many books we can all read in 2021!
Start your list in the replies and update it when you finish a new one!

JANUARY

Jan. 17 - PRESIDENT WITHOUT A PARTY: THE LIFE OF JOHN TYLER by Christopher J. Leahy
Jan. 23 - THE TWO TOWERS by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jan. 28 - THE EXPATRIATION OF FRANKLIN PIERCE by Garry Boulard
Jan. 29 - OLD BONES by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

FEBRUARY

Feb. 2 - DRACUL by Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker
Feb. 9 - THE WORST PRESIDENT: THE STORY OF JAMES BUCHANAN by Garry Boullard
Feb. 13 - THE RETURN OF THE KING by J.R.R. Tolkien
Feb. 14 - THE SCORPION'S TAIL by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Feb. 16 - THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson
Feb. 17 - RELIQUARY by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Feb. 18 - THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

MARCH

Mar. 8 - ZACHARY TAYLOR: SOLDIER, PLANTER, STATESMAN OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST by K. Jack Bauer
Mar. 10 - THE EMPEROR'S REVENGE by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison
mar. 13 - TYRANNOSAUR CANYON by Douglas Preston
Mar. 19 - 1421: THE YEAR THE CHINESE DISCOVERED AMERICA by Gavin Menzies

APRIL

Apr. 17 - THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON: THE PATH TO POWER by Robert A. Caro
Apr. 18 - THE CASE FOR JESUS by Brant Pitre
Apr. 23 - PIRATE by Clive Cussler

MAY

May 7 SAM HOUSTON by James Haley

JUNE

June 11 - CROMWELL: OUR CHIEF OF MEN by Antonia Fraser
June 30 - ENDLESS NIGHTS by Neil Gaiman

JULY

July 2 - HITLER: ASCENT by Volker Ullrich
July 5 - RIPTIDE by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
July 7 - BURIED SECRETS by Irene Hannon
July 13 - HAMILTON VERSUS WALL STREET by Nancy Spannaus

AUGUST

Aug. 5 - FOUNDATIONS OF FEAR, edited by David G. Hartwell
Aug. 7 - ROUGH DIAMOND: THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S FORGOTTEN SON, WILLIAM STEPHEN HAMILTON by Angela Fielding
Aug. 10 - THE LAST ORACLE by  James Rollins
Aug. 13 - The sandman: PRELUDE AND NOCTURNE by Neil Gaiman
Aug. 19 - I ALONE CAN FIX IT by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker
Aug. 24 - ENDLESS NIGHTS by Neil Gaiman

September
Sept. 1 - THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON: MEANS OF ASCENT by Robert Caro
Sept. 7 - PONTIUS PILATUS: DARK PASSAGE TO HEAVEN by Michael Ponzio
Sept. 12 - ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S GUIDE TO LIFE by Jeff Wilser
Sept. 28 - The Sandman: THE DOLL HOUSE by Neil Gaiman

October:
Oct. 1 - The Sandman: DREAM COUNTRY by Neil Gaiman
Oct. 7 - The Sandman: SEASON OF MISTS by Neil Gaiman
Oct. 29 - The Sandman: A GAME OF YOU by Neil Gaiman

November

Nov. 1 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson: MASTER OF THE SENATE by Robert Caro
Nov. 9 - THE KRAKEN PROJECT by Douglas Preston
Nov. 13 - FABLES AND REFLECTIONS by Neil Gaiman
Nov. 27 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson: THE PASSAGE OF POWER by Robert Caro

December

Dec. 3 - PRESIDENT HAMILTON: A NOVEL OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY by Lewis Ben Smith
   (Yes, I read my own books for entertainment.  They're THAT good! LOL )
Dec. 14 - VALLEY FORGE by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Dec. 22 - WE THE SONS by Scarlet Ingstad
Dec. 26 - MORE THAN A SKELETON by Paul Maier
"I shall smite you in the nostrils with a rod of iron, and wax your spleen with Efferdent!!"

Allhallowsday

Quote from: indianasmith on December 31, 2020, 11:45:44 PM
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JANUARY

Jan. 17 - PRESIDENT WITHOUT A PARTY: THE LIFE OF JOHN TYLER by Christopher J. Leahy
How did you like it? 
If you want to view paradise . . . simply look around and view it!

Alex

Jan.
Players Guide to the Sword Coast.
The Magic Engineer.
Armies of the Soviet Union.

Feb.
The Order Wars.
Players Handbook.
Dungeon Masters Guide.
Monster Manual.

Mar.
The Complete Warrior.
Monster Manual II.
Hail to thyself
For I am my own master
I am my own god
I require no shepherd
For I am no sheep.

Sitting Duck

Anticipating the release of the newest hardcopy collection, I've been plowing my way through the Girl Genius books again. Also currently making my way through the TV series The Expanse on Amazon and am considering checking out the books they're adapted from.

WingedSerpent

Jan
finished Bonsai Babies.  It's a collection of short stories written by someone I actually know through my fencing classes.
At least, that's what Gary Busey told me...

Rev. Powell

January: Mark Fisher, "The Weird and the Eerie"

April: Yoko Ogawa, "The Memory Police"

May: Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs, "Immoral Tales" (re-read)
Ingrid Nunez, "What Are You Going Through?"

July: Guillaume Apollinaire, "Selected Writings"

September: Jean Cocteau, "The Art of Cinema"
Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss, "The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time (and How They Got That Way)"

November: "A Hedonist Manifesto"

(Boy, it seems like I must have read something else and forgotten to update it, but I can't remember what for sure.)
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

AoTFan


WingedSerpent

Finished in Feb
Just My Type: A book about Fonts by Simon Garfiled
At least, that's what Gary Busey told me...

Sitting Duck

Crently working on Gun Runner by Larry Correia and John D. Brown.

WingedSerpent

This year I finished
Bonsai Babies by Nacy Tuzzilo
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfiled
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker

Not necessarily going for a certain of books, I'm just trying to read more in general. 
At least, that's what Gary Busey told me...

pacman000

Finished Exile's Quest. Started The Space Mavericks, by Michael Kring.

ER

There's a book coming out this week called The Last House on Needless Street that I want to check out. Heard about it? Stephen King described it as Gone Girl meets Hill House. That description's a hooker right there.
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

The Burgomaster

I just started reading "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L Shirer
"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."

pacman000

Finished The Space Mavericks. Wow; that was bad. It just piles one new, ridiculous plot point on top of another till there's enough for it to be called a novel, & the writing's flat, with a lot of sentence fragments.

Started Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber. Heard good things about Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, the book's characters, so I decided to try it.

Alex

Quote from: pacman000 on April 06, 2021, 03:14:02 PM
Started Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber. Heard good things about Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, the book's characters, so I decided to try it.

I am a fan of Fritz Leiber. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Hail to thyself
For I am my own master
I am my own god
I require no shepherd
For I am no sheep.