Prince Myshkin Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Easier to scrap together if you have a Goodreads account. My aim was to read wide ranging well respected books and specific topics that interest me (science/feminist based for example) and films I have enjoyed which came from books. Here's what I managed in 2013: Is There A God - Bertrand Russell Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Lying - Sam Harris Letters To A Young Contrarian - Christopher Hitchens Mortality - Christopher Hitchens The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley The Origin Of Species - Charles Darwin Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen Discordia - Laurie Penny & Molly Crabapple The Penal Colony - Franz Kafka Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane Guns - Stephen King Politics And The English Language - George Orwell Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors & Harm Patients - Ben Goldacre Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism - Laurie Penny The Burden Of Scepticism - Carl Sagan Lord Of The Flies - William Golding Homage To Catalonia - George Orwell Planet Of The Apes - Pierre Boulle The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda - Noam Chomsky Secrets, Lies and Democracy - Noam Chomsky Pale Blue Dot - Carl Sagan What Uncle Sam Really Wants - Noam Chomsky The Prosperous Few & The Restless Many - Noam Chomsky The Dice Man - Luke Rhinehart Out Of Your Mind - Alan Watts The French Revolution: A Short History - R.M.Johnston Terra Incognita - Vladimir Nabokov Drugs: Without The Hot Air - Prof. David Nutt Beyond Good & Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche The Perks of Being A Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky The Art of War - Sun Tzu The Man Who Fell To Earth - Walter Tevis Big Sur - Jack Kerouac Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche Lady Windermere's Fan - Oscar Wilde The Shining - Stephen King Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck On Writing - Stephen King How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life & Deaths of a Standup Comedian - Stewart Lee The House Of The Dead - Fyodor Dostoevsky Autobiography - Morrissey The Machine Stops - E.M Forster Why I Write - George Orwell Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk Misery - Stephen King A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet - Laurie Penny The Time Machine - H.G. Wells The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald Dr Jeckyl & Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson Death Of A Salesman - Arthur Miller The 39 Steps - John Buchan Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness - Richard H. Thaler Goodreads also tells me that this was 11,778 pages, over 56 books (about 210 pages per book and 32 pages per day). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Lots Is Goodreads a good site to log the books read? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Myshkin Posted January 2, 2014 Author Share Posted January 2, 2014 Lots Is Goodreads a good site to log the books read? Yeah, I find it really useful for recommendations too. Don't bother with the user reviews though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darlene_Ihnfsa Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Last year I mostly kept reading steampunk, regional authors, young authors and literary tales which are less known works of great authors, I still read philosophic, classic and gothic horror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Myshkin Posted December 16, 2014 Author Share Posted December 16, 2014 I read a few but not many more books this year. Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution - Laurie Penny Cities of the Ancient World - Steven L. Tuck Understanding Cultural & Human Geography - Paul Robbins For Whom The Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway Revolution - Russell Brand Twelve Angry Men - Reginald Rose Women of The Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism - Kira Cochrane A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity - Nicholas D. Kristof All The Rebel Women: The Rise of the Fourth Wave of Feminism - Kira Cochrane The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It - Owen Jones Interventions - Noam Chomsky Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel The Hanging - George Orwell Psycho - Robert Bloch Empire Of The Sun - JG Ballard The Lady With The Toy Dog - Anton Chekhov Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet Standup Comic - Woody Allen The Beauties - Anton Chekhov Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science - Norman Doidge The Clinton Vision: Old Wine, New Bottles - Noam Chomsky Side Effects - Woody Allen The Silence of The Lambs - Thomas Harris Borders: A Very Short Introduction - Alaexander Diener We - Yevgeny Zamyatin International Migration: A Very Short Introduction - Khalid Koser Primates & Philosophers: How Morals Evolved - Frans De Waal Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe Red Dragon - Thomas Harris A History of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr Germs, Genes & Civilisations: How Epidemics Shaped Who We Are Today - David P Clark A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams Penny Red: Notes From The New Age of Dissent - Laurie Penny Feral: Rewilding The Land, The Sea & Human Life - George Monbiot Talking Heads - Alan Bennett Epigenetics: How Environments Shape Our Genes - Richard C Francis On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky The Gambler - Fyodor Dostoevsky What Should We Be Worried About? The Hidden Threats Nobody is Talking About - John Brockman Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest For Global Dominance - Noam Chomsky An American Addiction - Noam Chomsky The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus 9-11 - Noam Chomsky The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks Monday Or Tuesday - Virginia Woolf What We Say Goes: Conversations on US Power in a Changing World - Noam Chomsky Experience & Education - John Dewey Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies - Noam Chomsky Case Studies in Hypocrisy: US Human Rights Policy - Noam Chomsky American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis Deliverance - James Dickey The Emerging Framework of World Power - Noam Chomsky For A Free Humanity: For Anarchy - Noam Chomsky The New War Against Terror - Noam Chomsky Propaganda & Control of the Public Mind - Noam Chomsky Class War - Noam Chomsky Coming Up For Air - George Orwell A Room With A View - E M Forster Transparent Things - Vladimir Nabokov Too Loud A Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal Hard Times - Charles Dickens Blindness - Jose Saramago Currently reading On Liberty by Shami Chakrabarti and hope to have that done by the start of next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobalt Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 I tried to read a book then couldn't really keep attention or focus for more than a few pages rip in pieces my reading career (I used to read heaps too :( ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grids Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 Last year I mostly kept reading steampunk, regional authors, young authors and literary tales which are less known works of great authors, I still read philosophic, classic and gothic horror. Oh hi Ari :D Well, mostly boring textbooks :lol: which now I'm kinda miss school. I started reading motivational books since last year.. Dont prefer to read thicker books though, they put me into sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeddingDom Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 1984 - George Orwell Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky Metro 2034 - Dmitry Glukhovsky Moby Dick - Charles Dickens The Book Thief - Markus Suzak To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Colyer Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Lots of astronomy books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annabelle Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Mostly biographies and autobiographies, as well as some poetry and several factual books (wildlife related). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christa42 Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 Gone Girl Mick Fleetwood's Autobiography Netflix Schedule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Myshkin Posted January 8, 2015 Author Share Posted January 8, 2015 Mostly biographies and autobiographies, as well as some poetry and several factual books (wildlife related). Have you read Feral by George Monbiot? I recommend that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annabelle Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Have you read Feral by George Monbiot? I recommend that. No, I haven't read that. I'll have to check it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidA Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Just started reading big-time again and DAAHF is helping me deal with the ending of His Dark Materials... They said it was for kids. They lied. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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