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I plan on reading 156 books in 2016 (12 more books from last year).

See the posts below for my various reading goals.

Progress: 157/156

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2016 South African Book Lovers BOTM:

Read
1. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
2. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
3. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
4. Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot
5. The Mall by S.L. Grey
6. Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor
7. Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein
8. Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
9. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
10. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
11. The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie
12. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
13. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
14. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
15. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two by J.K. Rowling
16. The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston
17. Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson



Currently reading
18. It by Stephen King
19. South by Frank Owen

2016 Gail's Book Group BOTM:

Gail Carriger's book group.

Read
1. The Raven Ring by Patricia C. Wrede
2. Terrier by Tamora Pierce
3. Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan



Currently reading

2016 Victorians! BOTM:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

Read
1. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
2. Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
3. North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
4. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
5. The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
6. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell



Currently reading
7. Middlemarch by George Eliot
8. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain by Charles Dickens

A book published in every decade (and every year after the new millennium):


20th Century
1800 - Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth (1800)
1810 - Mathilda by Mary Shelley (1819)
1820 - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (1820)
1830 - The Nose by Nikolai Gogol (1836)
1840 - The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe (1843)
1850 - The Haunted House edited by Charles Dickens (1859)
1860 - The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (1868)
1870 - Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy (1874)
1880 - Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (1889)
1890 - Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung (1899)
1900 - The Mezzotint by M.R. James (1904)
1910 - The Beckoning Fair One by Oliver Onions (1911)
1920 - The End of the Party by Graham Greene (1929)
1930 - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
1940 - The Hangman's Whip by Mignon G. Eberhart (1940)
1950 - There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury (1950)
1960 - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962)
1970 - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (1971)
1980 - Shadow Magic by Patricia C. Wrede (1982)
1990 - The Alienist by Caleb Carr (1994)



21st Century
2000 -
2001 - American Gods by Neil Gaiman
2002 - The Barmy British Empire by Terry Deary
2003 - Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
2004 - Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern
2005 - Warprize by Elizabeth Vaughan
2006 - Terrier by Tamora Pierce
2007 - Austenland by Shannon Hale
2008 - The Scandalous Life of the Lawless Sisters: Criminally Illustrated With What Was To Hand by Philip Ardagh
2009 - The Help by Kathryn Stockett
2010 - The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
2011 - I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
2012 - Dare Me by Megan Abbott
2013 - The Boleyn King by Laura Andersen
2014 - The Mark by Edyth Bulbring
2015 - The Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
2016 - Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt

Happy reading, Janice. I've put my book published in each decade into this challenge https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

My final version is a bit insane, but at least I'll be challenged.

Carolien wrote: "Happy reading, Janice. I've put my book published in each decade into this challenge https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

My final version is a bit insane, but at least I'll be challenged."

Wow, kudos on the books selected. Good luck and I hope you get to read all you wish to read!

2016 Tor.com eBook Club:

http://www.tor.com/tag/tor-com-ebook-...

Read
1. The Just City by Jo Walton
2. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
3. Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear



Currently reading
4. Spin by Robert Charles Wilson