Target: 100+
Running total: (fiction: , non-fiction: , ebooks: )
Week:
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.
Made my total last year but not by much. Struggling to find anything new to say about anything here to be honest (and nobody reads it anyway). This year I'm going to read or get rid of everything on my physical to-read pile.
| Week | Book(s) read |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | Margery Allingham, The Tiger in the Smoke |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | Caryl Brahms & S. J. Simon, No Bed for Bacon |
| Tim Powers, Declare | |
| Emery Lee, Meet Cute Diary | |
| Margery Allingham, The White Cottage Mystery | |
| Emma Carroll, Letters from the Lighthouse | |
| Jan 15 - Jan 21 | Michael Morpurgo, Friend or Foe |
| Emily St John Mandel, The Glass Hotel | |
| Jordan L. Hawk, Widdershins | |
| Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Dean Burnett, Psycho-Logical |
| qntm, There is no Antimemetics Division | |
| Robert Westall, The Machine Gunners | |
| Jan 29 - Feb 4 | Robert Westall, Blitz |
| Feb 5 - Feb 11 | Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun |
| Feb 12 - Feb 18 | |
| Feb 19 - Feb 25 | |
| Feb 26 - Mar 4 | Tom Cox, Help The Witch |
| Margery Allingham, Hide My Eyes | |
| Margery Allingham, The China Governess | |
| Mar 5 - Mar 11 | Margery Allingham, Mr Campion and others |
| Mar 12 - Mar 18 | |
| Mar 19 - Mar 25 | Joseph Elliott, The Good Hawk |
| Mar 26 - Apr 1 | Andrew Lane, Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud |
| Tamsin Muir, Harrow the Ninth | |
| Apr 2 - Apr 8 | Margery Allingham, Take Two at Bedtime |
| Apr 9 - Apr 15 | Margery Allingham, Safer than Love |
| Apr 16 - Apr 22 | W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and Ale |
| Apr 23 - Apr 29 | |
| Apr 30 - May 6 | |
| May 7 - May 13 | |
| May 14 - May 20 | Jill Paton Walsh & Kevin Crossley-Holland, Wordhoard: Anglo-Saxon stories for young people |
| May 21 - May 27 | Jamie Sumner, Roll With It |
| Haifaa Al Mansour, The Green Bicycle | |
| May 28 - Jun 3 | Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Vol 1 |
| Jun 4 - Jun 10 | Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Vol 2 |
| Hannah Foley, The Spellbinding Secret of Avery Buckle | |
| Jun 11 - Jun 17 | Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Vol 3 |
| Alice Oseman, Heartstopper: Vol 4 | |
| Alexia Mason, Rock Paper Killers | |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo |
| Alice Oseman, Nick and Charlie (A Heartstopper Novella) | |
| Jun 25 - Jul 1 | Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters |
| Jul 2 - Jul 8 | |
| Jul 9 - Jul 15 | |
| Jul 16 - Jul 22 | |
| Jul 23 - Jul 29 | Anne Tyler, Redhead by the Side of the Road |
| Jul 30 - Aug 5 | |
| Aug 6 - Aug 12 | |
| Aug 13 - Aug 19 | Jeff VanderMeer, Borne |
| Aug 20 - Aug 26 | Alice Oseman, Loveless |
| Alice Oseman, I Was Born For This | |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest |
| R. A. Macavoy, Tea With the Black Dragon | |
| Alice Oseman, Solitaire | |
| Sep 3 - Sep 9 | S. Arrowsmith, Light on the Wind |
| Sep 10 - Sep 16 | Portia Da Costa, A Gentlewoman's Quartet |
| Anonymous, A Weekend Visit | |
| Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service | |
| Sep 17 - Sep 23 | Shayla Black, Wicked Ties |
| Sep 17 - Sep 23 | Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice |
| Sep 24 - Sep 30 | Malinda Lo, Ash |
| Oct 1 - Oct 7 | Ele Fountain, Fake |
| Alice Oseman, This Winter | |
| Oct 8 - Oct 14 | |
| Oct 15 - Oct 21 | |
| Oct 22 - Oct 28 | Jo Baker, Longbourn |
| Oct 29 - Nov 4 | |
| Nov 5 - Nov 11 | Kaye Umansky, Witch for a Week |
| Nov 12 - Nov 18 | |
| Nov 19 - Nov 25 | |
| Nov 26 - Dec 2 | |
| Dec 3 - Dec 9 | |
| Dec 10 - Dec 16 | |
| Dec 17 - Dec 23 | Rob Palk, Animal Lovers |
| Neill Cameron & Kate Brown, Tamsin and the Deep | |
| Dec 24 - Dec 31 | Quentin Crisp, Manners from Heaven |
| Cecily Gayford (ed.), A Very Murderous Christmas: Ten Classic Crime Stories for the Festive Season | |
| Ben Aaronovitch, False Value |