75 Books...More or Less! discussion

Will try to read 1 ebook per month, 1 large book per month and 1 award winner per month, as well as one group read per month

January:

Large book (Also award winner - Man Booker for 2013), The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton, 848 pages, 1/11/2019

Constant Reader group read: Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara, ordered but delivered to wrong place so am substituting We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth, 1/28/2019

Eread for January: Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene M. Pepperberg, 1/20/2019

February:

Big book: Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor, 613 pages, 2/13/2019

Eread for February: Sundance, Butch And Me by Judy Alter, 2/3/2019

Group read from Fantasy & Science Fiction: Catseye by Andre Norton, 2/16/2-19

Also read group read originally selected for January. It was delivered to the wrong library and due to continuing stormy winter weather arrived two weeks late.

Constant Reader group read: Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara, 2/10/2019

Award winner: Light, winner of the James Tiptree Jr. Award, 2/22/2019

March

Eread: Pierced by the Sun by by Laura Esquivel, 3/6/2019

Big book: Ghost Story by Jim Butcher, 481 pages, 3/2/2019, 411 pages
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder, 3/3/2019, 427 pages

Classic group read: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, 3/13/2019

Award Winner: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein, Hugo Award for Best Novel (1962), Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (1987), 3/11/2019 (Also qualifies as a large book, 528 pages)
The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley Newbery Medal (1985), 3/22/2019

April

Large book: Labyrinth by Kate Mosse, 4/14/2019, 515 pages
Cold Days by Jim Butcher, 4/18/2019, 515 pages
Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi, 4/22/2019, 461 pages

Group read: Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen (YA Group Read), 4/12/2019

Eread: The Turtle Boy by Kealan Patrick Burke, 4/7/2019

Award winner: The Isle of the Lost by Melissa de la Cruz (Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Middle Grade & Children's of 2015)
Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara (Edgar Award Winner), 4/27/2019

May

Eread: King Alfred of England by Jacob Abbott, 5/29/2019

Big book: The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, 5/2/2019, 518 pages, 5/15/2019

Group read: June read for Historical Fictionistists: The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict,

Award winner: The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo, 5/11/2019, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2014), Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by by Terry Pratchett, Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (1991), World Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Novel (1991), 5/25/2019

June:

Eread: Girl on a Wire by Gwenda Bond, 6/5/2019 and The Freedom Star by Jeff Andrews, 6/9/2019

Big book: The Snowman by Jo Nesbø, 530 pages and Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness, 6/23/2019, 577 pages

Group read and Pulitizer Prize for Fiction 1958: A Death in the Family by James Agee, Constant Reader group read, 6/26/2019

July:

Large book: The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss, 7/4/2019, 519 pages, and A Cold Treachery by Charles Todd, 400 pages, 7/9/2019

Award Winner: The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, Pulitizer Prize 1974, which I have meant to read for some time but it's a difficult one for me. I have not read much about pyschology beyond my college course so I read a few pages at a time and ponder what I have read. While I continue to work on this book I am substituting Looking for Alaska by John Green, 8/18/2019, which rose to the top of my TBR when I saw an interiew with this author on Public Television. The author won both a Printz medal and Printz honor for this book.

ERead: Robin: Lady of Legend by R.M. ArceJaeger, 7/13/2019

Group Read: Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo by Stephanie Storey , Historical fictionistas for July - library copy arrived late, 8/2/2019

August:

Large Book: Every Secret Thing by Susanna Kearsley (474 Pages), 8/5/2019; Marlene (432 pages), 8/13/2019
Ysabel (416 pages), 8/16/2019

Award Winner: The Sea by John Banville (Man Booker 2005), 9/14/2019

ERead: Whispers of Goodbye by Karen White, 9/30/2019

Group Read: The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky, Science Fiction and Fantasy September group read, 9/19/2019, Also s big book read, 544 pages.

September:

Large Book: Dead Beat by Jim Butcher, 517 pages, 9/16/2019

Award winner: Paper Towns by John Green (Edgar Award winner), 9/23/2019

Eread: The Secret of Mirror House by Jennifer Blake, 10/11/2019

Group Read: The Secret Agent (Sept. Classic read)

October

Large Book Hostage Taker by Stefanie Pintoff, 10/14/2019 (422 pages)

Award Winner Lamb in His Bosom by Caroline Miller (Pulitzer Prize Winner), 11/4/2019

Group Read Normal People by Sally Rooney, 10/19/2019

ERead: The Wolf's Sun by Karen Charbonneau, 11/3/2019

November

Large book: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1316 pages, 12/30/2019

Award winner: Iron Council by China Miéville, Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel (2005), Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel (2005), 1/8/2020

Group read: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Sci Fi and Fantasy Book Club), 11/19/2019

Eread: The Romany Princess by Margaret Brazear, 11/18.2019

December

Large book: The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, 532 pages, 12/5/2019, and The Aeronaut's Windlass by Jim Butcher, 632 pages, 12/14/2019

Award Winner: The Cats of Tanglewood Forest by Charles de Lint, 12/9/2019, Sunburst Award for Young Adult (2014)

Group Read: The Raven and the Reindeer by T. Kingfisher, 12/31/2019, Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Club group read.

ERead: Child of the Northern Spring by Persia Woolley, 1/2/2020

Hi! I like your monthly goals. Where do you find your group reads? I am thinking of starting that for this group. Would you be interested?

Rusty wrote: "Eread for January: Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene M. Pepperberg, in process..."

I can't wait to read this one! Hoping to get to it this year.

Excuse me, I'm a Chinese student, I very love to read the English novel.I can but read the translated books that many are masterpiece.i wanna read some not famous but great.
could you tell me How and where did you get the ebook, please? some of the books are not free. and I don't know which books are worth reading, would you mind me asking you to recommend some books? I like history(not the official writing),novel（not the series), poetry the most.
Forgiving my unnatural expression if I might give offense.

Asa wrote: "Excuse me, I'm a Chinese student, I very love to read the English novel.I can but read the translated books that many are masterpiece.i wanna read some not famous but great.
could you tell me How ..."

The books I choose for ereads are or have been free on Amazon and are in my ebook library. I choose those by authors I like or have been recommended by someone else. Many classics are free from various sources. Our library has ebooks that we can rent, too, so I sometimes use that.

Asa wrote: "Excuse me, I'm a Chinese student, I very love to read the English novel.I can but read the translated books that many are masterpiece.i wanna read some not famous but great.
could you tell me How ..."

Hi Asa,
Check out this post here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/.... It has some good resources on how to get eBooks. The Gutenberg Project for example has tons of classics for free.