Challenge: How Many Books Are You Going to Read in a Year?

[HeySeuss]

Table of Contents

• People's initial posts will get linked here so we can keep track a bit. Information on how many books they've completed and their start date will go here as well.
• braniac3397 Start: 10/4/12 Completed: 0
• HeySeuss Start: 10/4/12 Completed: 24
• squints Start: 10/5/12 Completed: 2
• The Australian Start: 10/5/12 Completed: 3
• Brooklyn Start: 10/6/12 Completed: 15
• mbl Start: 10/6/12 Completed: 26
• Lyvee Start: 10/6/12 Completed: 11
• confidence Start: 10/6/12 Completed: 8
• Squee Start: 10/6/12 Completed: 7
• Rilla Start: 10/7/12 Completed: 2
• Yevin Start: 10/7/12 Completed: 6
• PrimezTime Start: 10/7/12 Completed: 1
• Seravee Start: 10/8/12 Completed: 4
• The Bouquineuse Start: 10/8/12 Completed: 0
• Aragorn Start: 10/14/12 Completed: 23
• Evilayn Start: 10/16/12 Completed: 88
• JurassicHole Start: 11/2/12 Completed: 12
• ladybella Start: 11/14/12 Completed: 6
• Black Mage Saki Start: 11/26/12 Completed: 1
• Sinrus Start: 11/27/12 Completed: 0
• BeneGesserit Start: 12/3/12 Completed: 5
• Knightshade Start: 12/5/12 Competed: 13
• Gedanken Start: 12/21/12 Completed: 0
• lovethatpanda Start: 1/25/13 Completed: 6
• Rose Swan Start: 11/13/12 Completed: 24
• Byrd Man Start: 12/25/12 Completed: 7
• StellaVeraLea Start: 2/4/13 Completed: 6
• Gowi Start: 4/16/2013 Completed: 0

Intent

This thread is intended to be a thread where RP'ers can list books read from the first day that they post in this thread through an entire year; the idea is to see how many books the average RP'er goes through in a year. Since this is a bit of a contest, I put it in Spam, but at the same time, this isn't really a Spam thing except that it kind of ends up here.

Rules

• No Trolling Over Other People's Choices. This isn't Spam. You might not like the books others are reading; that's cool, but this isn't the thread to discuss it.
• On the other hand...this is a good thread to discuss books, what you think of the ones you've read and so forth. Recommendations are always welcome...because some of us are always shopping for books.
• This is the books you have read starting from the first day you post in the thread; so that day next year is when challenge ends.
• A book title only counts once -- you can reread something you read before, but it only counts once in this contest.
• Assigned course reading/books are cool, but not textbooks. Those don't count.
• No comics or manga or whatever else that is based on graphics.
• Keep your list up to date on one post because I'll be linking to it. You can, however, post when you've updated -- that will be appreciated.
• It's not hard to cheat on this, but if you do, karma will take a dump in your Wheaties. So please be honest in reporting.

Format

Just a suggestion on how to organize one's reading list.

Start Date: Here.

Books

1. Dune by Frank Herbert
   
2. The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
   
3. Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein

Key:

• Strikethrough means the book is completed
  
• Underline means that the book is currently being read
  
• A title with no modification means its on the list to be read; it's like I know I'm definitely going to read the book next -- maybe I'm going through a trilogy or something, right?

[brainiac3397]

I once read 3 books(1200 pages in total) in a period of 1 day, then have a painful sensation in my left eye for the next 5 days.

I guess I'll start. First let me go find a book somewhere in my shelf.

Books:
1-Napoleon's Wars(author to be added when I find the book...)

[HeySeuss]

Start Date: 10/4/2012

Books

1. Year Zero, by Rob Reid
   
2. It's So Easy and Other Lies, by Duff McKagan
   
3. Redshirts, by John Scalzi
   
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson
   
5. Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles, by Robin Baker
   
6. Slash, the Autobiography, by Saul Hudson and Anthony Bozza
   
7. The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University, by Kevin Roose
   
8. Charlie Wilson's War, by George Crile
   
9. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R Tolkien
   
10. The Two Towers, by J.R.R Tolkien
    
11. The Return of the King, by J.R.R Tolkien
    
12. Cold Days, by Jim Butcher
    
13. Agincourt, by Bernard Cornwell
    
14. The Postman, by David Brin
    
15. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
    
16. Tuf Voyaging, by George R.R. Martin
    
17. The Forever War, by George Haldemann
    
18. The Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follet
    
19. Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
    
20. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
    
21. Amped, by Daniel Wilson
    
22. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, by Kate Wilhelm
    
23. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
    
24. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report the Banality of Evil, by Hannah Arendt
    
25. The Fountains of Paradise, by Arthur C. Clarke
    
26. Rainbow's End, by Vernor Vinge

Key

• Strikethrough means the book is completed
  
• Underline means that the book is currently being read

[squints]

Factotum by DM Cornish
Writers of the Future XXVIII anthology edited by L. Ron Hubbard
Side Jobs Jim butcher

[HeySeuss]

Updated the thread. Welcome to the challenge.

[The Australian]

The Lives of Dax, by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
Foundation, by Issac Asimov
The Tales of the Dominion War, by Keith DeCandido
The rest is TBD

[Brooklyn]

This is an awesome idea, holy crap.

Books

Looking For Alaska - John Green
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
The Fault In Our Stars - John Green
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Paper Towns - John Green
Marked - P.C. Cast
Betrayed - P.C. Cast
Raven's Gate - Anthony Horowitz
Evil Star - Anthony Horowitz
Nightfire - Anthony Horowitz
Nercropolis - Anthony Horowitz
Oblivion - Anthony Horowitz
Marley and Me - John Grogan
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
Chosen - P.C Cast

[mbl]

I am taking British Lit this semester so... I am required to read these books but I will list them anyways:
Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
1984- George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Hamlet- Shakespeare
Henry VI- Shakespeare
Julius Caesar- Shakespeare
Macbeth- Shakespeare
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll

Then These books I am planning to read on my own:
The Canterbury Tales- Geoffrey Chaucer
The Silent Blade- R.A. Salvatore
Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad
Dune - Frank Herbert
Lord of the Rings Series - J. R. R. Tolkien
Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
Sherlock Holmes Novels - Conan Doyle
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Sherman Alexie
Kira-Kira- Cynthia Kadohata
The Drowned World- J. G. Ballard
Drowning World- Alan Dean Foster
Storm Front- Jim Butcher
Fool Moon- Jim Butcher
Grave Peril- Jim Butcher
Summer Knight- Jim Butcher
Death Masks- Jim Butcher
Blood Rites- Jim Butcher
Dead Beat- Jim Butcher
Proven Guilty- Jim Butcher
White Night- Jim Butcher
Small Favor- Jim Butcher
Turn Coat- Jim Butcher
Changes- Jim Butcher
Ghost Story- Jim Butcher
Cold Days- Jim Butcher

Along with a crapload of VNs which I am not going to list on here...

[Lyvee]

mbl I'm doing a Sociology course and have to read some of those books! Haha

Books

The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels.
1984 - George Orwell.
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley. [Gave up]
The Light Fantastic - Terry Pratchett.
Equal Rites - Terry Pratchett
Mort - Terry Pratchett
Sourcery - Terry Pratchett.
Dodger - Terry Pratchett.
Wyrd Sisters - Terry Pratchett
Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
Eric - Terry Pratchett
Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters - Austen and Winters

[HeySeuss]

When I get home from work and can edit this on a real computer instead of a tablet, I will update everyone.