What's Next? discussion

would like to read at least

1 non fiction
1 biography/autobiography
1 non ebook
1 classic

other suggestions?

I take similar approach, and rotate fiction, non-fiction and short stories. Will add few autobiographies too.

Books to read 2017 (draft list!)

Finish Game of Thrones (2 to go!)
Ron Chernow’s Hamilton
One of the Ken Follett series, The Pillars of the Earth or The Century Trilogy — recommendation?
The Help
Memoirs of a Geisha

Book of poetry
The Moon Reminded Me

Short Stories
The Thing Around Your Neck
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Classics:
To Kill a Mockingbird
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
One Hundred Years of Solitude
One of Tolstoy’s great novels: War and Peace or Anna Karenin — recommendation?
One of Dicken’s novels

Non-fiction
When Breath becomes Air
Predictably Irrational
Give and Take

Autobiographies
Ruth Bader Ginsberg

Would like to read one of Tolstoy's too, likely War and Peace (since recently watched the BBC series).... Although that might mean I have to push back finally tackling the lengthy The Count of Monte Cristo...

Will put a graphic novel as one of my books too

My 2017 Resolution - less social media, more "Good Reads/Books"!

On the target list:
All of Ruth Reichl's books
My Own Words and other Ruth Ginsburg related books
The Nest
My name is Lucy Barton

+ all the new inspiration as it comes in 2017....

2017 so far. I was re-reading my original list and realize I've read only a few of the titles I set out to read this year: Game of Thrones (the last two); The Thing Around Your Neck (short stories); When Breath Becomes Air (non fiction); and Give and Take (non-fiction; two-thirds finished; excellent content but slow read). I started the Ruth Ginsberg autobiography but could not get into it. I still plan to read one of the Ken Follet books, Ron Chernow's Hamilton (maybe) and possibly some poetry.

So what I have I read instead? I haven't tackled the classics on my draft list, but I picked up some others: Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express); Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451); Edgar Allan Poe (The Gold Bug); and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. I continued to cover the Murakami catalogue (Kafka on the Shore plus his new book Men and Woman); and more recent authors with new classics -- Amor Towles (Gentleman in Moscow); Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun); Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things); Ruth Ozeki (A Tale for the Time Being); and Angie Thomas (The Hate You Give). For non-fiction, Option B and Never Out of Season are excellent reads.

I also picked up dystopian fiction theme after the election. I've read two (Fahrenheit 451 and The Handmaid's Tale) with three more on the list -- 1984; It Can't Happen Here; and Brave New World

The rest of the year will be a mixture of new authors and inspirations and books long on my "to read" list.

Which books have surprised you the most this year?

Still a bit reluctant to name the exact books I want to read for the remainder of the year, mainly because that depends a bit on the 'mood of the time', both micro (me, myself) and macro (the political/social/pop culture atmosphere)...

Still deciding on which classic to read, although I'm increasing leaning towards a neat short one, like one of Ernest Hemingway's...?

The Everything Store (book on Jeff Bezos and Amazon) is a surprise so far. Came across it when I was browsing a list of business books on FT and until then did not realise how much I want to know more about the website I spend (frankly) too much of my online time everyday!

The biography for the year will likely be Unstoppable, my life so far by Maria Sharapova (tennis star again...)

Oh looking back I've surprised myself by reading (guiltily) quite a few (hit) books published this year!

Ok, one month left and my biography of the year seems to be of a journalist who covered Trump during the presidential campaign and my classic is going to be a John le Carre... !?