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.
Made my target last year, but only just. Failed to read everything on the to-read pile, but now have a new shelf for the pile so it's easier to find. Maybe this will be the year?
| Week | Book(s) read |
|---|---|
| Jan 1 - Jan 7 | |
| Jan 8 - Jan 14 | Dorothy L. Sayers, The Nine Tailors |
| Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body? | |
| Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Views the Body | |
| Jan 15 - Jan 21 | Ann Cleeves, The Long Call |
| Jan 22 - Jan 28 | Dorothy L. Sayers, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club |
| Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison | |
| Dorothy L. Sayers, Five Red Herrings | |
| Jan 29 - Feb 4 | Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon |
| Feb 5 - Feb 11 | Henning Mankell, One Step Behind |
| Lauren James, Green Rising | |
| Feb 12 - Feb 18 | Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire |
| Natasha Ngan, Girls of Storm and Shadow | |
| Natasha Ngan, Girls of Fate and Fury | |
| Dorothy L. Sayers, In the Teeth of the Evidence | |
| Feb 19 - Feb 25 | T. J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea |
| Malinda Lo, A Scatter of Light | |
| Feb 26 - Mar 4 | Malinda Lo, A Line in the Dark |
| Mar 5 - Mar 11 | Samira Ahmed, Internment |
| Mar 12 - Mar 18 | Tamora Pierce, Tempests and Slaughter |
| Mar 19 - Mar 25 | Bryan Lee O'Malley Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life: vol 1 |
| Mar 26 - Apr 1 | Alexis Hall, Iron and Velvet |
| Alexis Hall, Shadows and Dreams | |
| Alexis Hall, Fire and Water | |
| Alexis Hall, Paris Daillencourt is About to Crumble | |
| Alexis Hall, Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake | |
| Alexis Hall, 10 Things that Never Happened | |
| Apr 2 - Apr 8 | T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones |
| Apr 9 - Apr 15 | Chris Brookmyre, Dead Girl Walking |
| Apr 16 - Apr 22 | Chris Brookmyre, Black Widow |
| Chris Brookmyre, Want You Gone | |
| Apr 23 - Apr 29 | |
| Apr 30 - May 6 | C. K. McDonnell, The Stranger Times |
| C. K. McDonnell, This Charming Man | |
| C. K. McDonnell, Love Will Tear Us Apart | |
| C. K. McDonnell, Relight My Fire | |
| May 7 - May 13 | Dana K. White, Organizing for the Rest of Us: 100 Realistic Strategies to Keep Any House Under Control |
| May 14 - May 20 | |
| May 21 - May 27 | |
| May 28 - Jun 3 | |
| Jun 4 - Jun 10 | |
| Jun 11 - Jun 17 | |
| Jun 18 - Jun 24 | |
| Jun 25 - Jul 1 | |
| Jul 2 - Jul 8 | |
| Jul 9 - Jul 15 | |
| Jul 16 - Jul 22 | |
| Jul 23 - Jul 29 | Iris Murdoch, The Red and the Green |
| Jul 30 - Aug 5 | Sarah Caudwell, Thus Was Adonis Murdered |
| Aug 6 - Aug 12 | N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became |
| Sarah Caudwell, The Shortest Way to Hades | |
| Aug 13 - Aug 19 | Alasdair Gray, Poor Things |
| Aug 20 - Aug 26 | Martin Allison Booth, The Reichenbach Problem |
| Aug 27 - Sep 2 | |
| Sep 3 - Sep 9 | |
| Sep 10 - Sep 16 | |
| Sep 17 - Sep 23 | |
| Sep 24 - Sep 30 | |
| Oct 1 - Oct 7 | Veronica Stallwood, Oxford Letters |
| Lydia Rogue (ed.), Trans-Galactic Bike Ride: Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories of Transgender and Nonbinary Adventurers | |
| Oct 8 - Oct 14 | |
| Oct 15 - Oct 21 | |
| Oct 22 - Oct 28 | Nick Hornby, Dickens and Prince: a particular kind of genius |
| Oct 29 - Nov 4 | Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher: Blood of Elves |
| Alexandra Benedict, The Christmas Jigsaw Murders | |
| John Buchan, The Dancing Floor | |
| Max Brooks, Minecraft: The Island | |
| Ann Cleeves, Silent Voices | |
| Ann Cleeves, The Rising Tide | |
| Ann Cleeves, The Glass Room | |
| Nov 5 - Nov 11 | Ann Cleeves, A Lesson in Dying |
| Ann Cleeves, Murder in My Backyard | |
| Ann Cleeves, The Raging Storm | |
| Ann Cleeves, A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy | |
| Ann Cleeves, Killjoy | |
| Ann Cleeves, The Healers | |
| Nov 12 - Nov 18 | Ann Cleeves, The Seagull |
| Ann Cleeves, The Moth Catcher | |
| Ann Cleeves, Harbour Street | |
| Ann Cleeves, Hidden Depths | |
| Ann Cleeves, The Darkest Evening | |
| Nov 19 - Nov 25 | |
| Nov 26 - Dec 2 | Travis Baldree, Legends and Lattes |
| Dec 3 - Dec 9 | Travis Baldree, Bookshops and Bonedust |
| Dec 10 - Dec 16 | Gretchen Galway, Dead Witch on a Bridge |
| Dec 17 - Dec 23 | Richard Thompson, Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967–75 |
| E. F. Benson, Mapp and Lucia | |
| Dec 24 - Dec 31 |