50 Book Challenge 2017 Part One

[southeastdweller]

Welcome to the first thread of the 50 Book Challenge for this year.

The challenge is to read fifty books (or more!) in 2017, though reading fifty isn't mandatory. Any type of book can count, please try to let us all know your thoughts on what you've read.

Who's in for this year?

I'm in! I used to easily read 50 books a year but then some unhappy things happened and I couldn't any more.

I can now so this is all part of my recovery.

Currently reading Sapiens. A brief history of humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and finding it fascinating.

I comfort bought books for some years so have a huge unread pile. Also doing a no buy for books this year with a few exceptions such as anything new by Kate Atkinson. I want to do some re reading too.

All of my course books are fiction novels

Hello again and happy new year!

1. The Crossing by Michael Conelly. A Bosch story with bits of Haller, not as complex and well plotted as his earlier work, but a good holiday read.

Hello 2017 listers

First book of the year is likely to be book club selection - the Tanya Brydon book recommended on here (it was my turn to select candidates).

I'm another one planning to limit book buying whilst trying to work my way through the kindle and bookshelf TBRs as they have reached a ridiculously large number

Oooh can I join please? Need to get back in the habit of doing little things I find relaxing for me and reading is one of them....

raindripsonruses I've just started the first Jack Reacher book too! I've read a couple of the other books out of sync in the past but wanted to read them in order - I have most of them!

SangtheSun I read Sapiens recently and found it very interesting. In fact, I've now put his next book Homo Deus on my kindle.

May I join even though my very played aim is to read more than last year's total of 12 books?
I used to read a book a day but life has got in the way. I would love to get back into the habit and stop wasting time on MN my phone in the evenings.
I also have a massive pile to read!

That should be paltry aim!

Piling in to a very interesting thread (how did i miss it before?). Thank you for a great idea and a shiny new thread. This year, i have our current bookgroup choice the couple next door on my list, and have added David Lagerkrantz's Fall of man in Wilmslow to my current list. Plus lots that I loaded onto my kindle for the holidays, and now cannot recollect, so will check out later.

Onwards and upwards.

I'm in! Don't know if I'll get to 50 but I probably should as I'm a librarian . Going to start with Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith.

Happy New Year, everyone. I'd like to join again this year. I fell off the thread round about May last year I shall aim to do better this time around.

I like this idea of not buying new books, I'm definitely going to try and make a bit of a dent in my TBR stack.

Bearing that in mind, I'm happy to report that my first book this year is By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London by Adrian Tinniswood. Someone recommended it to me two or three years ago and it's been sitting on my bedside table for months.

Tarahumara let me know what you think of Homo Deus.
Loving Sapiens, so many new things to think about.

I'm in!

I'm in for 2017 but my challenge will be 20 books. Hope that's ok! I lost my reading mojo in the depths of 2015 and read about 4 books last year, so I need to work my way up to a sensible personal target again. First on my list is "Eileen" one of the Booker runner ups this year.

Happy New Year. Thank you for the new thread southeast

Interspersed with my usual reading matter, this year I am going to read books from my Dad's kindle, which has been lying in a drawer since he died. I thought I was going to do this at one point last year, but I got as far as switching it on and seeing Dadsname's Kindle at the top. I know there are about 80 books on there, I guess mostly crime, thrillers, possibly military stuff. Planning to look at it later when my Mum's gone home.

museum that sounds like a real challenge - but a lovely idea. All the best with it, I hope it brings some comfort

I'm in! 50 does sound like a lot... I have a baby due in April so not sure how much reading I'll get done!

museum that sounds like a lovely idea!

I think I'll start with I see you by Claire Mackintosh

I'd like to join too please. I'm going to aim for 50. I used to read at least a book a week, if not more, but seem to have lost my reading mojo the past few years so I'd like to get going again.

I'm also not wanting to buy new books, though did get an Amazon voucher for Christmas which I may save for anything I really feel I can't live without! I've just counted at least 30 things on my kindle that haven't been read, , plus a sizeable pile of 'real' books too.

Currently reading The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper, saw it recommended as a good seasonal read but it's not really gripped me to be honest. I'll count my next book as number 1.

I'm in - my aim is for 50 and I've decided to expand my reading by setting targets of different genres etc. I listen to books adapted for radio so may count those if it looks as though I won't hit my target!
I've discovered Goodreads and will try to read the classic per month - for January it's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' which I have at home as eldest daughter studied it for GCSE. I'll start this soon as well as Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods'.
I also aim to read the books I have at home - I did buy Susan Hill's 'Howard's End is on the Landing' to inspire me.

I've got three on the go to start the year, although one of them is a read a bit every day for the year kind of thing! That's The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman. I'm also reading The Spartans by Paul Cartledge and The Hedge Witch's Way by Rae Beth.

Has anyone ever read all of Clarissa by Samuel Richardson? It's a doorstop of a book which I first attempted when I was 14 - 26 years ago! I go back to it periodically but have never yet managed to finish it, so I may try a tactic someone suggested and read it in real time, meaning on the days when the letters within are dated. So I need to remember to start it on 10th January and hope I might make it all the way through this time round.

Thanks to this thread I've already ordered two new books - which I do not need. At all.

I'm in! I read 53 in 2016, despite having DD2 in August: I have the kindle app on my phone and read during night feeds which helps greatly!
I finished my library book, 1. Frog Music by Emma Donaghue this morning, I only had about 20 pages left though. Fascinating historical fiction based on real people in late c19th San Francisco,focusing on the murder of a cross dressing frog catcher, Jenny Bonnet.
I'm about a third of the way through After the Crash by Michele Bussi on my kindle too.

Gosh already up to page 4.

Happy New Year book lovers. I'm reading It for the first time in 20 years after getting it in the Kindle sale. He's such a great story teller.

I've read Clarissa. It's v silly and over the top. I enjoyed it hugely!

I'm in, just started The Essex Serpent.