50 Book Challenge 2014

[juneybean]

Hopefully nobody minds me starting this thread.

The idea is to read 50 books in 2014 (or more as many people have achieved this year!)

Please also check out our group on Goodreads if you're stuck for ideas of what books to read!

www.goodreads.com/group/show/59438-the-book-vipers

I'm joining in again :)

Read over 100 books this year, not sure if I'll manage to do that again in 2014.

Cote - I think it began with C. I just opened it at a random couple of pages. It was very fat and had lots of typical sci-fi sounding names if that helps at all?!

What I really want to do this year is read lots more classic sci-fi (ie pre 1959ish, I guess), as well as lots more history books. I'd also like to find an author I haven't read before, and fall in love with him for at least three books!

Yes, I'll join. It was really good to keep a note of what I read this year - and also what I didn't finish. I want to read everything on my Kindle before I buy any more books, though.

I'm in, avidly followed the 2013 thread but was too late to join.

Cryptonomicon? It's really good. Alan Turing is one of the characters

Re old school sci-fi, I'd recommend these three authors:
Isaac Asimov (Foundation books and Nightfall)
Arthur C Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey and it's sequel 2010)
Robert Heinlein (Stranger In A Strange Land, Friday, Time Enough For Love)

I'll join. Having a bit of a stressful life at the moment so reading is my escape.

I read about 115 books last year (I spend quite a bit of time on trains and waiting for DC while they do activities) but I have quite a few longer books on my list for this year so I expect it will be considerably less.

lostdomain, The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a beautiful book. The idea is quite original and it's touching. I thoroughly recommend it.

Khaled Hosseini is one of my favourite authors, I haven't read this latest one, but I am looking forward to reading it, absolutely loved THe kite runner and A thousand splendid suns.

Thanks, Cote.

Have read (and liked) Stranger and some Asimov, but will deffo read more of both.

Missing the point a bit (as its pretty new and more fantasy than SF) but have you read Daughter of Smoke and Bone it's fab and the first of a trilogy the last of which is out later this year.

I'm in, I lost track of what I read last year but would like to aim for 50 this year if I can stop falling asleep in my books

I'd like to try. Would be better than looking at my phone all the time! I'm reading The Goldfinch and will not finish it before 2014 so hopefully that can count as my first.

Ooh! Can I join? I read lots mainly trashy crap and hope to get some new ideas for authors I've not tried. Too embarrassed to admit what I'm reading at the moment, chick lit doesn't even begin to cover it .

Remus - You must also read Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

Great idea! I'm definitely in :-)

Only want 'old' ones, Cote. The 'modern' stuff just doesn't work for me tbh.

I'm in, read 31 last year, aiming for 50 in 2014

Hyperion is old school. It's much more like Arthur C Clarke & Asimov's books than anything written in the last 50 years. It's a classic. You really must read it.

I'm in. Only read 16 books this year and really would like to read more in 2014.

Going to start with either 'Quiet' or 'Appletree Yard'.

Oooh marking my place. I've downloaded oooh hundreds of cheap kindle books over the xmas hols.

Marking my place for the 2014 challenge. I got to 65 in 2013, and want to try for the same again.

I'm in I read 80 this year and would like to think I could match that. Though it's not really helping get my list down as I keep buying more.

Remus... have you read Alfred Bester? The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man both utter classics.

Sirens Of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, too.

I lurked on the 2013 thread to get ideas for books and downloaded quite a few recommendations and have lots of free/cheapy ones to get through too.

I only managed to read 17 books last year but for me that is good seeing as the previous year I managed 8 and previous to that I only had time to read when we were on holiday, so it was 1 a year pretty much.

Realistically I hope to read 24, really not sure how I would read more than 2 in a month, but I guess I may get on a roll.

I and am currently 50% through The Book Thief which I am really enjoying, its moving and beautifully written, so evocative.

Great- I'm definitely doing this again. I will join the Good Reads group too. I need to remember to tick my books off there too though- I posted them here, but mostly forgot to there.

Thanks, Meg. Have only read Slaughterhouse Five by KV. Enjoyed it but didn't LOVE it in the way I'd thought I might - but I must read some more of his, so thanks for reminding me. Looking up the others now.

Cote - let me do some 'old uns' first and then I'll reconsider.