Target: 100+
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Several years ago I decided that I would do my utmost to read a book a week, because I felt like I was getting out of the habit of reading new things and I thought that having a goal to aim for would help. The effort paid off, and it's something I've kept up (off and on) ever since -- it encourages me to read more widely, and it helps me to justify to myself the vast quantities of books that I buy.
So last year, for the first time in a decade I failed to average even a book a week, and didn't read Underworld (though I did start it, again, and got some way through it, again).
I suspect the times when I "don't have time to read" are the times when I most need to make time to read. This year I'm going to kick the Candy Crush habit and hope that that frees up more time for reading.
| Week | Book(s) read |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | Robert Galbraith, The Silkworm |
| Dan Rhodes, When the Professor got Stuck in the Snow | |
| George Orwell, Books v. Cigarettes | |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | Kate Thompson, The New Policeman |
| Toon Tellegen, The Day No One Was Angry | |
| Robin Stevens, Murder Most Unladylike | |
| Jan 15 - Jan 21 | Frances Hardinge, The Lie Tree |
| Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Frances Hardinge, Fly by Night |
| Tristan Taormino, Opening Up | |
| Frances Hardinge, Verdigris Deep | |
| Jan 29 - Feb 4 | Alison Uttley, A Traveller in Time |
| Feb 5 - Feb 11 | Robert Galbraith, Career of Evil |
| T. Kingfisher, The Raven and the Reindeer | |
| Feb 12 - Feb 18 | Emily Oster, Expecting Better |
| Mary Hoffman (ed.), Daughters of Time: an anthology from The History Girls | |
| Feb 19 - Feb 25 | |
| Feb 26 - Mar 4 | |
| Mar 5 - Mar 11 | |
| Mar 12 - Mar 18 | Randall Munroe, What If? |
| Mar 19 - Mar 25 | |
| Mar 26 - Apr 1 | Frances Hardinge, Cuckoo Song |
| Apr 2 - Apr 8 | Frances Hardinge, Gullstruck Island |
| Apr 9 - Apr 15 | Jo Nesbø, Cockroaches |
| Apr 16 - Apr 22 | |
| Apr 23 - Apr 29 | |
| Apr 30 - May 6 | |
| May 7 - May 13 | |
| May 14 - May 20 | |
| May 21 - May 27 | |
| May 28 - Jun 3 | Siobhan Dowd, The London Eye Mystery |
| Jun 4 - Jun 10 | |
| Jun 11 - Jun 17 | Philip Reeve, Here Lies Arthur |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | David Ferry, Gilgamesh |
| Jun 25 - Jul 1 | Neil Gaiman, Odd and the Frost Giants |
| Charles Stross, Halting State | |
| Jul 2 - Jul 8 | Various authors, OxCrimes |
| S. F. Said, Phoenix | |
| Jul 9 - Jul 15 | |
| Jul 16 - Jul 22 | |
| Jul 23 - Jul 29 | |
| Jul 30 - Aug 5 | Hunter Davis (ed.), I knew Daisy Smuten |
| Aug 6 - Aug 12 | Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods |
| Aug 13 - Aug 19 | |
| Aug 20 - Aug 26 | Daniel Heath Justice, Badger |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | Noel Streatfeild, Theatre Shoes |
| Sep 3 - Sep 9 | Naomi Novik, Temeraire |
| Sep 10 - Sep 16 | Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor and Park |
| Sep 17 - Sep 23 | Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus |
| Various authors, Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out | |
| Sara Gruen, Water For Elephants | |
| Ruth Manning-Sanders, Stories from the English and Scottish Ballads | |
| Lindsay Ashford, The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen | |
| Sep 24 - Sep 30 | Tamora Pierce, Battle Magic |
| Oct 1 - Oct 7 | |
| Oct 8 - Oct 14 | Sophie Hannah, The Monogram Murders |
| Noel Streatfeild, Dancing Shoes | |
| Meg Rosoff, How I Was | |
| Noel Streatfeild, Tennis Shoes | |
| Oct 15 - Oct 21 | Jo Nesbø, Police |
| Oct 22 - Oct 28 | Anna Roberts, The Wolf Witch |
| Diana Wynne Jones, Archer's Goon | |
| Oct 29 - Nov 4 | Anna Roberts, Isle of Spirits |
| Anna Roberts, Full Fathom Five | |
| Nov 5 - Nov 11 | |
| Nov 12 - Nov 18 | |
| Nov 19 - Nov 25 | Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit |
| Nov 26 - Dec 2 | |
| Dec 3 - Dec 9 | |
| Dec 10 - Dec 16 | Joan Aiken & Quentin Blake, The Winter Sleepwalker |
| Dec 17 - Dec 23 | Jordan Stratford, The Case of the Missing Moonstone |
| Philip Reeve & Sarah McIntyre, Cakes in Space | |
| Dec 24 - Dec 31 | Edmund Crispin, Swan Song |
| U. A. Fanthorpe, Christmas Poems | |
| Dana Simpson, Phoebe and her Unicorn |