75 Books...More or Less! discussion

Belatedly starting a thread over here - previously I was just using Librarything for tracking my yearly reading. Here we go:

January:
01. The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network - Kate Losse

February:
02. A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
03. A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin

March
04. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks - Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs
05. Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City - Kirsten Miller

April
06. A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin

May
07. A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
08. A Dance with Dragons - George R. R. Martin

June
09. The Revolution Starts at Home - Ching-In Chen and others
10. Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones
11. The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro

July
12. Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show - Frank Delaney

August
13. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident - Donnie Eichar
14. The Giver - Lois Lowry
15. The Maze Runner - James Dashner
16. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
17. If Minds Had Toes - Lucy Eyre
18. The Asylum: A collage of couture reminiscences...and hysteria - Simon Doonan
19. The Ruins - Scott Smith
20. Hark! A Vagrant - Kate Beaton

September
21. Blindness - Jose Saramago
22. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
23. Hedy's Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World
24. MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood
25. Lethal Marriage: The Uncensored Truth Behind the Crimes of Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka - Nick Pron

October
(26, Abandoned:) Netsuke - Rikki Ducornet
27. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
28. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
29. The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
30. Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America - Barbara Ehrenreich
31. The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere - John Chu
32. The Lady Astronaut of Mars - Mary Kowal
33. How To Suppress Women's Writing - Joanna Russ

Currently I'm actively working on The Bone Clocks and How to Suppress Women's Writing. I'm enjoying them both!

If anyone has suggestions for me based on my to-read shelf, I would welcome them! I've been trying to whittle it down by reading one book I already own for every new book, with debatable success.

Kristin-Leigh wrote: "Currently I'm actively working on The Bone Clocks and How to Suppress Women's Writing. I'm enjoying them both!

If anyone has suggestions for me based on my to-read ..."

Welcome Kristin-Leigh! I'm planning on reading The Bone Clocks soon. I won it in the First Reads giveaway. Game of Thrones is very time-consuming but very good!

Kristin-Leigh, welcome! I'm so glad you decided to join us. I know what you mean about balancing books already owned with all the new ones that come along just begging to be read!

Thank you, Karol and Elyse! I think I have a bad habit of going to bookstores and buying 3-4 books at once, and then not being "in the mood" for any of the rest once I've finished the first one in the stack! My goal is to be down to under 20 physically-owned-but-not-read books by the end of the year, with an eventual goal of keeping that number around 10. :)

I finished The Bone Clocks! I have mixed feelings about it - Mitchell writes beautifully and I very much enjoyed the experience of reading his book, but it has a lot of weaknesses, especially as compared to something like Cloud Atlas. If this had been my first Mitchell novel I'm not sure I would want to read anything else of his. As-is, I'm hoping to pick up Black Swan Green soon as a palate cleanser.

I also finally got around to reading the last couple chapters of Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America, which I started in July and then got distracted away from.

Welcome Kristin-Leigh, it's so great to have you as part of our little group. I like how rounded your list of books is with a little bit of everything!

Thank you, Andrea, and thanks for reminding me that I've been neglecting to update this list!

October (cont)
34. The Jewel in the Crown - Paul Scott
35. Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie
36. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
37. Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg
38. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
39. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
40. Don't Look Now and Other Stories - Daphne du Maurier
41. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
42. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s - Sheila Fitzpatrick

November
43. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America - Jill Leovy
44. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
45. The Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon
46. The Road Through the Wall - Shirley Jackson

Wow, and the greatness of your list continues!