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How many books have you read so far this year?

For me it's 6 actual books and 2 audiobooks

>> No.12846827

11 read and 2 currently reading

>> No.12846850

>>12846634
4 read and 2 reading, didn't read for all of february and most of march while staying at the beach for Carnaval

>> No.12846856

I've read ten, currently reading one. That's more books than I've read in the past couple years so the year's off to a good start so far.

>> No.12846860

Three. ONE behind schedule

>> No.12846869

4 and currently reading 2.

>> No.12846872

>>12846827
Same here
>>12846856
Keep it up

>> No.12846876

>>12846827
>>12846850
>>12846869
Why would you read more than one book at the same time?

>> No.12846885

>>12846876
one fiction and one non-fiction, jumping between them stops me from procrastinating

>> No.12846897

>>12846634

4.

Huxley - Brave new world
Murakami - Norwegian wood
Steinbeck - Of mice and men
Natt och dag - 1793

Will probably start with Fahrenheit 451 this weekend.

>> No.12846976

>>12846856
was going to list the books and forgot, mb
>Jane Eyre (re-read)
>Blood Meridian
>Outer Dark
>No Longer Human
>And She Was (weird book about Aleutian curses by a literal who, found it laying around and burned through it)
>When Breath Becomes Air
>Looking for Alaska (nostalgia read lmao)
>The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>Beautiful Boy (wasn't exactly on my to-read list, bought it at the airport)

currently reading
>The Third Reich (Roberto Bolano)

The Third Reich isn't too bad so far, I also have 2666 by Bolano so I might start that next.

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11 here

>The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
>Battle Angel Alita Vol. 1
>Early Greek Philosophy, Volume I: Introductory and Reference Materials
>Tolkien Treasures
>Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts: Plato's Alcibiades 1-2, Symposium 212c-223a, Aeschines' Alcibiades
>Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny
>The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity (2 Volumes)
>Freedom™ (Daemon, #2)
>Shadow & Claw (The Book of the New Sun #1-2)
>Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
>Ball Lightning

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18, finished one today so not in the middle of anything right now.

>> No.12847016

>>12847005
what website is that

>> No.12847037

I read and re-read books often enough that I don't count them
>The Future of Invention
>Rhythmanalysis
>Difference and Repetition
>Forgiveness (Jankélévitch)
>When Site Lost the Plot
>The English Renaissance Stage
>The Darker Side of Modernity
>Capital and Time
>The Power at the End of the Economy
A bunch more I can't be bothered to remember at the moment

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>> No.12847061

>>12847016

Goodreads

>> No.12847082

>>12846634
5 one i re-read

>> No.12847083

5

>Wild Soundscapes by Bernie Krause
>Industrial Society and Its Future by Theodore J. Kaczynski
>Can Life Prevail? by Pentti Linkola
>To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
>Republic by Plato

currently reading
>Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

There might have been something else.

>> No.12847088

>>12846897
Fahrenheit 451 is great. Was thinking about reading it again this weekend as well.

>> No.12847094

>>12846634
12 so far

>> No.12847102

Only 10 and I feel awful for it.

>> No.12847121

7. I'm on Infinite Jest rn so that's slowing me down, hoping to knock out like 15 this summer at least and 1 more before school ends (I have a shit ton of papers due so I can't squeeze much reading in).

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I've started ten

I've finished none

>> No.12847231

10

>> No.12847254

>>12846634
5 complete, 2 in progress

>> No.12847270

>>12847138
Read something lighthearted and fun! :)

>> No.12847271

26 so far. Seems like this year will be a ´100 books´ year.

>> No.12847283

None so far

>> No.12847293

>>12847088

Lovely. I've heard good things about it and it's been on my list for a while.

>> No.12847308

>>12846634
Finished four plus one I dropped. About six more are half-read. Plus a large number of short stories and essays.

>> No.12847322

8th. Next one is Being and Time

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Middlemarch
Berlin Alexanderplatz
The Farm in the Green Mountains
The Puritan Dilemna
Illuminations
Puritan Village
The Torch in My Ear
Red Cavalry
A Good School
Old School


Currently reading pic related

>> No.12847350

26 / 60. I think after I hit 60 I get out of 'competition' mode and start relaxing with some 1000+ pagers.

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>>12847350

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>>12847350
That goodreads challenge stat amuses me. Here's 2018, and the user updates at the bottom are gold. 4 million participants and only 700k met their goal. The average pledged 61 books... How fucking delusional do you have to be? That's a book or two every week. NEET on /lit/ can do it no problem but the average 9-5 normalfag? They'd have to at least give up a tenth of their netflix time.

>> No.12847447

>>12847368
yikes

>> No.12847457

I am halfway through the drizzt books because I keep them in my bathroom and switched to white russians

>> No.12847926

2

>> No.12847934

7

>> No.12848597

>>12847414
fucking carol

>> No.12848614

>>12847414
>>12848597
Carol and a few more retards screwed the entire challenge.
I only read 23 of my goal of 53 last year, but at least I didn't went full retard

>> No.12848630

>>12846634
3. Currently finishing a 1500 pages one that took a lot of my reading time

>> No.12848652
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12848652

faulkner sucks desu

>> No.12848720

Black Leopard, Red Wolf - James, Marlon
Thin Air - Morgan, Richard K.
The Sisters Brothers - deWitt, Patrick
The Punic Wars - Goldsworthy, Adrian
Caesar: Life of a Colossus - Goldsworthy, Adrian
The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic - Duncan, Mike
The New World (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #2) - Churchill, Winston S.
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 - Toll, Ian W.
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal - Hornfischer, James D.
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945 - Hornfischer, James D.

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I'm a dutchie so..

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12848758

The Books without covers are Submarine Tech and Military Hardware reference books. If Interested I can link them.

>> No.12849440

>>12846634
I've read al-Koran twice

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Going to get into something a bit longer now

>> No.12849503

>>12846634
None

>> No.12849544

>>12846876
one dry philosophy, one fun nonfiction

>> No.12849749

I don't think I managed to finish one lol. Reading isn't my priority rn sadly

>> No.12849812

Complete Conan stories
Complete Kull stories
Complete Bran Mak Morn stories
A Portrait of the Artist

Currently reading Le Mort Darthur

>> No.12849961

On 8.
Been slacking the first couple of months. So January/Feb was just:
Catch 22
The handmaid's tale
March:
Doctor Zhivago
Mother night
Lolita
The gambler
The alchemist (fucking hated)

My modest goal was 20 for the year so I think I'm doing OK.

Currently reading "on the road" after abandoning naked lunch. Finding it hard to get into beat

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>>12846634
One books

>> No.12850030

>>12849480
How did you find hard boiled?

>> No.12850060

5 read, 2 reading

>> No.12850070

>>12846634
4 but Don Quioxte took nearly 2 months.

>> No.12850072

>>12849480
Baudolino is comfy

>> No.12850101

22. 23 soon, almost done with Anna Karenina.

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17 so far

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>>12847368
>Lem
Absolutely based.

>> No.12850345

>>12850030
This was my second readthrough and I really enjoyed it. Definitely in my top 2 or 3 Murakami novels.

>>12850072
It definitely is, I need to get onto some more Eco soon

>> No.12850369

>Lucky Jim
>tiny coffee table book on maths I got for Christmas
>No Longer Human
>Philosophy: The Basics
>The Great Gatsby (reread)
>Kafka short story collection
>Faust Part One
>Things: A Story of the Sixties and A Man Asleep
>The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
>Mrs Dalloway
>Don Quixote (took a month)
>Welcome to the NHK
Currently
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (reread)
>The Book Of Disquiet
So that's 12 finished, on one hand most of them are really short but on the other hand one of them is 940 pages

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I've read 13:
>Guan Hanqing - The Injustice to Dou E
>Laozi - Daodejing
>The Kudrunlied
>Solomon Volkov - Testimony: The memoires of Dmitri Shostakovich
>The Song of Igor's Campaign (Nabokov Translation)
>Pushkin - Ruslan and Ludmila
>Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
>Houellebecq - Whatever
>Lev Shestov - Dostoevsky and Nietzsche
>Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground
>Mishima - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
>Tolstoy - The Death of Ivan Ilich
>Liu Zhang - Chung Gui, the Demon Hunter (No idea what this one is called in English, or Chinese for that matter, the edition doesn't list either a pinyin title or one using the original characters. It's apparently some obscure Qing-era novel)

Currently reading:
Thomas Bernhard - The Lime Works

>> No.12850395

>>12848652
>literally the best translation

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ha hah
noobs
>:]

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>>12850574
heres my list

>> No.12851160

18 books so far. Hoping to hit 20 before April hits. Goal is 100 by end of the year.