Target: 100+
Running total: (fiction: , non-fiction: , ebooks: )
Week:
Many 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 ever since (with the exception of 2003, for reasons which are lost in the mists of time). It encourages me to read more widely, and it helps me to justify to myself the vast quantities of books that I buy.
Last year I made my target but really didn't read much non-fiction. I just never seem to have the time or energy or headspace to concentrate on anything that requires thought and concentration. Maybe this year will be different. Maybe.
| Week | Book(s) read |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | Danny Wallace, Awkward Situations for Men |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter, The Long Mars |
| Jan 15 - Jan 21 | Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter, The Long Utopia |
| Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter, The Long Cosmos | |
| Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Noelle Stevenson et al, Lumberjanes 1: Beware the Kitten Holy |
| Judith Kerr, Mister Cleghorn's Seal | |
| Jan 29 - Feb 4 | |
| Feb 5 - Feb 11 | Georgette Heyer, Death in the Stocks |
| Feb 12 - Feb 18 | Georgette Heyer, Envious Casca |
| Charlie Higson, Silverfin | |
| Feb 19 - Feb 25 | Charlie Higson, Double or Die |
| Jane Shaw, Susan Rushes In | |
| Capt. W. E. Johns, Biggles Makes Ends Meet | |
| Anthony Horowitz, Never Say Die | |
| Zane Radcliffe, London Irish | |
| Feb 26 - Mar 4 | Jacqueline Wilson, Midnight |
| Mar 5 - Mar 11 | Anna James, Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Bookwanderers |
| Mar 12 - Mar 18 | Madeline Miller, Circe |
| Mar 19 - Mar 25 | Robin Stevens, Arsenic for Tea |
| Robin Stevens, First Class Murder | |
| Mar 26 - Apr 1 | Terry Pratchett, Dodger |
| Shirley Hughes, Hero on a Bicycle | |
| Apr 2 - Apr 8 | Terry Pratchett, Nation |
| Apr 9 - Apr 15 | Muriel Spark, The Finishing School |
| Apr 16 - Apr 22 | Robin Stevens, Jolly Foul Play |
| Apr 23 - Apr 29 | Robin Stevens, Mistletoe and Murder |
| Robin Stevens, A Spoonful of Murder | |
| Robin Stevens, Cream Buns and Crime | |
| Jonathan Coe, Middle England | |
| Apr 30 - May 6 | Oyinkan Braithwaite, My Sister, the Serial Killer |
| Alan Garner, Where Shall We Run To | |
| May 7 - May 13 | Robin Stevens, Murder in the Spotlight |
| Jo Walton, Lifelode | |
| Anna James, Pages & Co: The Lost Fairy Tales | |
| May 14 - May 20 | Elinor M. Brent-Dyer, Challenge for the Chalet School |
| Robin Stevens, The Case of the Missing Treasure | |
| May 21 - May 27 | |
| May 28 - Jun 3 | |
| Jun 4 - Jun 10 | Anna Mazzola, The Unseeing |
| Jun 11 - Jun 17 | Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | Mary Doria Russell, Dreamers of the Day |
| Ladee Hubbard, The Talented Ribkins | |
| Jun 25 - Jul 1 | Melvin Burgess, Billy Elliot |
| Walter Mosley, Diablerie | |
| Catherynne M. Valente, Space Opera | |
| Jul 2 - Jul 8 | Parker Bilal, The Heights |
| Jul 9 - Jul 15 | Benjamin Zephaniah Teacher's Dead |
| Alex Gino, George | |
| Alex Gino, Rick | |
| Iona Datt Sharma, Not For Use In Navigation | |
| Jul 16 - Jul 22 | Sarah Gailey, Magic for Liars |
| Jul 23 - Jul 29 | Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock And Discredit You |
| Hayley Chewins, The Turnaway Girls | |
| Aaron Reynolds, Effin Birds: a field guide to identification | |
| Jul 30 - Aug 5 | Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Blood and Bone |
| Aug 6 - Aug 12 | Victor LaValle, Big Machine |
| Aug 13 - Aug 19 | |
| Aug 20 - Aug 26 | Stephanie Burgis, Moontangled |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | K. J. Charles, Slippery Creatures |
| Sep 3 - Sep 9 | K. J. Charles, The Sugared Game |
| Sep 10 - Sep 16 | |
| Sep 17 - Sep 23 | |
| Sep 24 - Sep 30 | Allie Brosh, Solutions and other Problems |
| Oct 1 - Oct 7 | Dave Shelton, Emily Lime, Librarian Detective: The Book Case |
| Oct 8 - Oct 14 | John Lanchester, The Wall |
| Oct 15 - Oct 21 | Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material |
| Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers | |
| Susan Cooper, Mandrake | |
| Oct 22 - Oct 28 | |
| Oct 29 - Nov 4 | |
| Nov 5 - Nov 11 | Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers, A Presumption of Death |
| Nov 12 - Nov 18 | Henning Mankell, The Pyramid |
| Nov 19 - Nov 25 | Ian Rankin, Dead Souls |
| Ian Rankin, Set in Darkness | |
| Nov 26 - Dec 2 | Ian Rankin, Resurrection Men |
| Dec 3 - Dec 9 | Ian Rankin, A Question of Blood |
| Dec 10 - Dec 16 | Ian Rankin, Fleshmarket Close |
| Dec 17 - Dec 23 | Ian Rankin, The Naming of the Dead |
| Dec 24 - Dec 31 | Ian Rankin, Exit Music |
| Robin Stevens, Top Marks for Murder | |
| Ian Rankin, Standing in Another Man's Grave | |
| Ian Rankin, Saints of the Shadow Bible |