Exactly what it says on the tin; DLP is one of the best-read places I've ever been, so just out of curiosity, I'm prying. My only hope for 2011 - I didn't make any "resolutions" - was to read more.

So, what have you read since 2011 started?

I'll get the ball rolling:

- The Way of Kings
- Mistborn 1-4
- Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
- 3 Dresden Files (Turn Coat, Changes, Ghost Story)
- White Wolf (David Gemmell)
- The Lost Fleet: Book 1
- Codex Alera 1-5
- The Lies of Locke Lamorra
- Bossypants (Tina Fey)

And on the finish-by-the-end-of-year list:

- Codex Alera 6
- 11/22/63
- Red Seas Under Red Skies

 

I've read so far in 2011:

Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear
Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn Trilogy
Joe Abercrombie - The First Law Trilogy
Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
China Mieville - Perdido Street Station

Currently reading: Guy Gavriel Kay - Tigana

And books that are already waiting on my shelf:

Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora & Red Seas under Red Skies
Guy Gavriel Kay - Under Heaven
Chris Wooding - Retribution Falls

I'm pretty disappointed - I wanted to read more than that. And with all the impending job interviews and tests it doesn't look as if I'm going to manage many more this year. Well, there's always next year I guess.

 

The Dresden Files series.
The Song of Ice and Fire series.
Reread Robert Jordans tDR series and read the new book.
A couple of Swedish novels by Jan Guillou.
And a few stray books that hasn't attached itself in my memory.

During the winter holiday my plan is to start off with Codex Alera, can't let a series with it's own subsection here go unread can I?

 

According to GoodReads:

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Player of Games by Iain Banks
59 Seconds by Richard Wiseman
The Problem of China by Bertrand Russel
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Dresden #1: Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Dresden #2: Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Dresden #3: Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
Dresden #4: Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
Dresden #5: Death Masks by Jim Butcher
John Dies at the End by David Wong
Choices of One by Timothy Zahn
A Step Farther Out by Jerry Pournelle
Physics for Future Presidents by Richard Muller
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Effective Java Programming by Joshua Bloch
The Princess & the Penis by R. J. Silver
Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielsen

More than I read last year, at least - that was my only real reading goal.

I also read a shit ton of Harry Potter fanfiction, but you probably guessed that.

 

Lord of the Rings 1-3
The Belgariad 1-5
The Mallorean 1-5
Codex Alera 1-6
Dresden Files 1-14 (I counted Side Jobs as one)
The Wheel of Time 1- however many there are. I forget.
The Inheritance Cycle 1-3 and am currently reading 4

I am sure there is some other stuff, but it must not have been important if I don't remember. I've had nothing but time on my hands for most of this year.

 

The Dresden Files 1-10, got halfway through turncoat and got bored. This was in Jan/Feb.
The Dresden Files 1-6. Going through this again, this time I'll finish all the ones I didn't before.
Malazan: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. Extremely dry and boring, unless you like reading a million conspiracy theories dressed up as The Silmarillion in drag.
The Culture 1-9 by Iain Banks. Good books. Scifi isn't my norm, but I liked them.
Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice. Never finished it, was pretty boring and longwinded.
Southern Vampire Mysteries 1-11 by Charlaine Harris. Good series. It's like a redneck version of Dresden Files as written by a female. It goes down hill a bit after book 8, with 8 being the pinnacle, but still a very good read. It's a lot different than that joke of a show Trueblood.
The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King by Michael Craig. One of my favorite books of all time
HP 1-7. Nuff said.
Dead Eye, Pennies for the Ferryman by Jbern. Got about halfway and never finished, it wasn't very good.

 

Star Trek New Frontier series: Mission in Action, Treason, Blind man's bluff
Discworld series: Unseen Academical. Also lots of re-reads.
World War Z
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - I first read this in Chinese and hadn't really finished the English version until I purchased it.

Probably more, and lots of re-reads, but didn't remember all of them.

 

I haven't read much this year, or last year, unfortunately. Not many long bus rides or study halls or anything that fueled my reading in high school.

What I remember reading (as in fully, back to front, and not just select excerpts) this year:

- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Stand by Stephen King (again)
- World War Z by Max Brooks (again)
- The Dresden Files: Ghost Story by Jim Butcher
- The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
- The Blood of Elves by Andrzej Sapkowski

I might've missed something.

I'm planning on reading The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by the end of this year, and maybe another book in that series if I have time. By the end of next year I'm hoping to have finished that series, started up where I left off on The Wheel of Time (Book 6, I think...), read A Dance With Dragons in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, and maybe that American Gods book by Neil Gaiman.

 

Never enough, never ever enough. D8

I did read ASOIAF, Tales of Dunk and Egg, a few other GRRM novels, a slew of historical fiction probably 20-25 titles long, Gregory Maguire's newest Oz book, and I'm currently reading Dresden. As I said, not enough.

 

Do you guys usually purchase the books, or borrow them from libraries?

Also, Ashaya, your current avatar is incredibly disturbing.

 

I download mine in ebook form. >.>

Oruma, yes, yes it is. Only one more day of it, I think.

 

^Thumb just for the avatar comment.

And for the record, I borrow almost everything, unless I plan on reading it again.

 

Let's see here...

Completed
Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
Mistborn 1-3 - Brandon Sanderson
Runelords 1-7 - David Farland
Heroes of Olympus 1-2 - Rick Riordan
Kane Chronicles 1-2 - Rick Riordan
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin
Gentleman Bastards 1-2 - Scott Lynch
Prince of Thorns - Mark Lawrence (part of the new Broken Empire series)
Spellwright - Blake Charlton
Farseer 1-3 - Robin Hobbs
The Shadow of the Torturer (Book 1 of The Book of the New Sun) - Gene Wolfe
Night Angel 1-3 - Brent Weeks
Black Prism (Lightbringer 1) - Brent Weeks
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
Inheritance (Eragon 4) - Christopher Paolini
Vector Prime (New Jedi Order 1) - R. A. Salvatore
random other shit (like some kid novels by Garth Nix)

Currently trying to read
Spellbound - Blake Charlton
Mistborn 4 (and other assorted stuff by Sanderson) - Brandon Sanderson
Black Company - Glen Cook
rest of Book of New Sun series - Gene Wolfe
Malazan series - Steven Erikson (taking me forever to get into, though)
Artemis Fowl 7 - Eoin Colfer

Stuff that I want to read at some point
Dresden - Jim Butcher
Culture series - Iain Banks
stuff on NPR's Top 100 Scifi/Fantasy list
more random fantasy that I cbf to list out

So basically, way too much fantasy. I want to branch out into more scifi stuff and then various other genres in the future, but right now I think I have enough fantasy/fanfiction/school to occupy my time with.

Also, I'm going to go ahead and say that I enjoyed everything on the completed list (some more than others, of course), because what I don't enjoy I usually don't finish.

Edit: >90% of these I get as ebooks. To be honest I enjoy reading physical books more (sometimes an LCD can get annoying), but I don't have the money to finance buying everything I want to read nor the desire to have a bunch of deadweight sitting around after I finish with them. And going to the library takes too much time (plus historically I have a bad record with late fees).

I should probably at least get a device with an eInk screen, though.

 

How did you enjoy that? I found it nigh on impossible to finish that book, I had to force myself to continue reading. I eventually just put it aside and donated it to a library.

 

Oh, wow, good thread. Just books I haven't read before this year?

Let's see...

Edit: I'll highlight recommendations in bold/italics


Tuesdays With Morrie
His Dark Materials
The Hunger Games
Slaughterhouse Five
Infinite Jest
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Stranger
World War Z
Brave New World
House of Leaves
1984
Fight Club
Catch 22
Necronomicon (Collection of Lovecraft)
Wise Man's Fear
Way of Kings
Inheritance
11/22/63
Against All Things Ending
Under The Dome
Armageddon in Retrospect
The Forever War
The Definitive Book of Body Language
What Every Body Is Saying
The Long Run
Jaden Baker
The Son of Neptune
Mile 81
Bad Radio (Elemental Earth, Book One)
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers
Getting Things Done - The Art of Stress Free Productivity
Works of Walt Whitman
Horror, Humor, Heroes - Volume 2
Everything Beautiful Began After
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Containment
Ghost Story
Under Heaven
Three Hundred Zeroes
The Bindings of Fate
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
1Q84 (1,2,3) (Currently reading)
The Frozen Sky
Heat Wave
Scorpia Rising
I Am Number Four
Incarceron
Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves
Meaning & Argument
Love Begins in Winter
Awol on the Appalachian Trail
Manual for Living
Good Omens
White Blaze Fever
On the Beaten Path
Man's Search For Meaning
Full Dark, No Stars
Tony Blair - A Journey

I'm a big believer in ebooks, which makes finding a good read all the easier. I also believe that you can't write effectively without reading effectively. Alongside all of that, I've re-read the good stuff, such as Harry Potter, Tolkien, Wheel of Time, Stephen King's Dark Tower... Sanderson! And so on...

TRIG, your next book shall be Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay. If I hadn't been reading Simon Van Booy's work all year, I'd consider it possibly the most beautiful book ever written.

 

I read this year

The whole ASOIAF
Name of the Wind and the Wise Man's Fear
The last two Dresden Files
The latest Percy Jackson
3 or 4 Discworld novels
The Dark Towers 1-3 (The rest are on my to-read list)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series

Next on my to read list is '11/22/63' again by Stephen King.

I read too little nowadays.

 

The Broken Sword – Poul Anderson
The Claw of the Conciliator – Gene Wolfe
The Left Hand of God – Paul Hoffman
The Drawing of the Dark – Tim Powers
The Citadel of the Autarch – Gene Wolfe
The Wise Man’s Fear – Patrick Rothfuss
The Neon Court – Kate Griffin
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
Best Served Cold – Joe Abercrombie
The Eye of the World – Robert Jordan
The Way of Kings – Brandon Sanderson
The Great Hunt – Robert Jordan
Ghost Story – Jim Butcher
Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson
Titus Awakes – Meryn Peake
Elantris – Brandon Sanderson
Tinker Tailer Soldier Spy – John le Carre
Warbreaker – Brandon Sanderson
Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life – Lee O’Malley
Scott Pilgrim vs the World – Lee O’Malley
Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness
Scott Pilgrim gets it together
The Dragonbone Chair - Tad Williams
Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
On Stranger Tides - Tim Powers
EDIT 2: I completely forgot I'd read Terry Pratchett's latest, Snuff.

Currently reading:
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace (by which I mean I've caught up with the hundred or so pages I read last time I tried it, before not picking it up for nearly a year...)
Sherlock Holmes (all of it)

TL;DR: I read too much fantasy...
Edit: Also, I bought all but four of them, or already had them and hadn't read them.

 

Will do. I saw Tigana recommended somewhere and bought it on a whim, and after the first 200 pages I stopped reading long enough to order Under Heaven. That's next up.

By the way, how readable is Heat Wave? You didn't recommend it, but is it just a tribute to the show or a decent book in its own right?

 

Oh, just because I didn't highlight something, doesn't mean it wasn't a good read.

Heat Wave is a tribute, though. A decent tribute. It's fun because you can see the TV show in it, and imagine how the characters on the show would react to their portrayals in the novel... based on the show.

It isn't a bad read, although the writing is lacking--it's fun.

 

I haven't read much this year...
Or compared to Joe.


Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Andrew Hurley
Dresden Files (1-13 + side jobs)
Independent People by Halldor Laxness~I only got a quarter of the way through before I ran out of free time. Hopefully I can read during winter break.
Firestarter by Stephen King
Carrie by Stephen King
Cujo by Stephen King
The Promise by Jonathan Alter
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
Name of the Wind and Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel
Born to Run by Christopher Mcdougall
Convict Conditioning by Paul Wade
I reread a number of books this year too, but I don't remember all of them.
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My favorite books were 'Consider the Lobster', 'Collected Fictions' and 'Cujo.'
The first two were just really fun to read, in the literary, 'oh look I'm a /serious/ writer' kind of way, and 'Cujo' was the scariest book I've read. I <3 dogs, but 'Cujo' was simply horrifying...