I read quite a lot
According to Goodreads (Gotta love that website):
Rated from 1-10

Abraham, Daniel
Long Price Quartet, #1-4 (8 )
The Dagger and the Coin, #1-3 (8 )

Banks, Iain M.
Culture, #1-2 (7)

Brett, Peter V.
Demon Cycle, #1-3 (10)

Bujold, Lois McMaster
Chalion, #1-2 (7)

Butcher, Jim
Cold Days (9)

Card, Orson Scott
The Ender Quintet, #1-2 (9.5)

Cline, Ernest
Ready Player One (9)

Cornwell, Bernard
The Saxon Stories, #1-7 (9)

Duncan, Dave
The Reluctant Swordsman (Seventh Sword, #1) (7)

Feist, Raymond E
Daughter of the Empire (The Empire Trilogy, #1) (7)

Forman, M.L.
Slathbog's Gold (Adventurers Wanted, #1) (6)

Gaiman, Neil
American Gods (American Gods, #1) (8 )

Gemmell, David
Troy, #1-3 (8 )

Hobb, Robin
Rain Wild Chronicles, #1-4 (8 )

Howey, Hugh
Wool, #1-8 (9)

Jr., L.E. Modesitt
Imager Portfolio, #1-3 (8 )

King, William
Trollslayer (Gotrek & Felix, #1) (6)

Lynch, Scott
The Republic of Thieves (Gentleman Bastard, #3) (10)

Maas, Sarah J.
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2) (6)

Manning, Michael G.
Mageborn, #1-4 (8 )

McClellan, Brian
Promise of Blood (The Powder Mage, #1) (9)

Neff, Henry H.
The Tapestry, #1-4 (8 )

Nielsen, Jennifer A.
The Ascendance Trilogy, #1-2 (6)

Pogue, Aaron
Dragonprince Trilogy #1-2 (8 )

Ryan, Anthony
Blood Song (Raven's Shadow, #1) (10)

Salyards, Jeff
Scourge of the Betrayer (Bloodsounder's Arc, #1) (7)

Sanderson, Brandon
Warbreaker (Warbreaker, #1) (9)
The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) (10)
The Rithmatist (Rithmatist, #1) (8.5)
Steelheart (Reckoners, #1) (9)

Scalzi, John
Fuzzy Nation (9)

Schafer, Courtney
The Whitefire Crossing (Shattered Sigil, #1) (6)

Shier, B. Justin
Zero Sight, #1-2 (8 )

Stackpole, Michael A.
Talion: Revenant (9)

Stewart, K.A.
Jesse James Dawson, #1-3 (8 )

Stiefvater, Maggie
The Scorpio Races (6)

Stover, Matthew
The Acts of Caine, #1-4 (9)

Weber, David
Safehold, #1-6 (8 )

Wecker, Helene
The Golem and the Jinni (8.5)

Wells, Martha
Books of the Raksura, #3 (7)

Wexler, Django
The Thousand Names (The Shadow Campaigns, #1) (9)

Wight, Will
House of Blades (The Traveler's Gate Trilogy, #1) (6)

 

The Gentleman Bastards series
The Way of Kings
The Dresden Files (various re-reads + Cold Days)
Codex Alera
The Hunger Games
Discworld novels (about two dozen re-reads)
The Lost Fleet series (re-reads)
Worm
The Vorkosigan Saga

Doesn't look like a long list, but if I went through all the books it'd be around 45-50 books + Worm.

 

So this was good, huh? I almost picked it up in an airport a few weeks back but didn't because of reviews on Amazon. The premise looked pretty neat though. Maybe I'll pick it up now.

 

In no particular order:

The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (beyond awesome)

Hilarity Ensues by Tucker Max (somewhat funny but forced to look at my life ultimately depressing)

Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence (loved it)

King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence (only okay)

Broken Quill by Joe Ducie (beyond awesome)
Knight Fall by Joe Ducie (see above)

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming (waited far too long to read this)
Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming(^^^)

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (read while sober = awesome, with whiskey more so)
A Farewell to Arm by Ernest Hemingway (this book probably cost me $400 in Johnnie Walker)

Cold Days by Jim Butcher (not my favorite book in the series by still pretty good)

 

Dresden files, twice. Puts the reread count up to 6 or 7 for some of the earlier novels. Except for 1 and 2, which I skipped because they're terrible. And 9 as well.
Some of the Dan Brown novels, Angels and Demons, Davinci Code, etc.
Southern Vampire Mysteries in it's entirety. Last book was released in may, so that's when I did it. After book 7 the whole thing just goes downhill, but I grit my teeth and trudged my way through. This is what happens when an author starts changing things because her series suddenly becomes popular - they ruin it.
Hatchet series. Pretty good if you can get past the author's hatred of anything machinelike.
A Song of Ice an Fire in its entirety. I'm glad I finally did this, though some parts are extremely boring for longs periods of time (all of book 4)
Harry Potter in its entirety twice. Reread count is probably in the 20s for the first 3.

 

It's a beautiful piece of writing, but it's not a conventional fantasy story. Very unlike his other work, but it still has that contemporary fairy-tale tone to the language.

A better review: http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/201...ned-reading-the-ocean-at-the-end-of-the-lane/

 

Embarrassingly little. *Checks Goodreads*

The Way of Kings
A Memory of Light
Steelheart
A Game of Thrones
The Rule of Four
I am Number Four - TERRIBLE
Cold Days
And guess you can add Worm to the list as well.

Currently reading Carl Sagan's The Demon Haunted World, but I usually only bring it out in the Metro/Subway.

 

1. Oblivion – Anthony Horowitz

2. Queen of Sorcery – David Eddings
3. Midnight Tides – Steven Erikson
4. Red Country – Joe Abercrombie
5. Alcatraz vs the Scriveners Bones – Brandon Sanderson
6. Alcatraz vs the Knights of Crystillia – Brandon Sanderson
7. Magician’s Gambit – David Eddings
8. Castle of Wizardry – David Eddings
9. Enchanter’s Endgame – David Eddings
10. The Scar – China Mievelle +
11. Alcatraz vs the Shattering Lens – Brandon Sanderson
12. Stray Souls – Kate Griffin +
13. The Bonehunters – Steven Erikson
14. Bedlam – Christopher Brookmyre
15. Reapers Gale – Steven Erikson
16. Toll the Hounds – Steven Erikson
17. The Owl Service – Alan Garner
18. Saga (vol.1) – Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples +
19. Fables (vol.1) – Bill Willingham, art by Mark Buckingham
20. The Ides of April – Lindsay Davis
21. How to Live Safely in a Science-Fictional Universe – Charles Yu
22. Distant Star – Joe Ducie (also my first Kindle book!)
23. Broken Quill – Joe Ducie
24. Right Ho, Jeeves – PG Wodehouse +
25. The Ocean at the End of the Lane – Neil Gaiman +
26. Dust of Dreams – Steven Erikson
27. The Crippled God – Steven Erikson
28. Broken Homes – Ben Aaronovitch
29. Consider Phlebas – Iain M. Banks
30. The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks +
31. Saga vol.2 - Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples +
32. Forge of Darkness – Steven Erikson
33. Night of Knives – Ian Cameron Esslemont
34. The Glass God – Kate Griffin +
35. Love on a Branch Line – John Hadfield
36. Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel +
37. The Red House – Mark Haddon
38. Doctor Sleep – Stephen King
39. Asterix and the Picts - Jean-Yves Ferri, Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo (YES Asterix counts!)
40. Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson (re-read)

By the end of the year, I'll (probably) have finished: Return of the Crimson Guard (Ian Esslemont), Allan Quartermain (H.Rider Haggard), and Deadhouse Gates (Steven Erikson, re-read).


Yes, I am sad enough to keep a list all year. '+' indicates top books of the year (and I'd generally recommend Steven Erikson's stuff).

 

It's about a decade old now, but I'd never read it before:

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

An amazing book. I'll let a few non-spoilery quotes speak to its quality:

“Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

And one more, one of my favourites:

“I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

 

Argh. Now I have the awkward decision of reading the English version and having fun, or reading the original and it feeling a bit like work. I want to do the former, I feel obligated to do the latter...

 

Enderverse(Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon/Puppets/Giant, Earth Unaware/Earth Afire).
Inheritance Cycle(All four).
DLP Anthologies(Unbowed, Unbroken, Unrelenting/Mysterious, Monstrous, Metropolitan).

Those are the only big ones that I remember. I'm sure I've had a few smaller names here and there between January and April, but eh.

 

Why wouldn't you recommend House of Leaves?

 

Sorry, dude.

 

So many books, here are the recent ones:

• Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
• The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
• The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
• The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith*
• Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey**
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
• Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clarke
• Penpal by Dathan Auerbach***
• The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker
• A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
• More Than This by Patrick Ness
• Starters by Lissa Price
• Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card
• The Glass God by Kate Griffin

*) alias JK Rowling
**) Wool 1-5
***) read it on Reddit

Then, here are the top three of all the fiction books I've read this year IMO:

1. The Ocean at the End of the Lane: Its old-style fantasy, dream-like writing, and nostalgia-inducing story is totally unrivalled. Quite probably Gaiman's finest.
2. The Way of Kings: An epic action-adventure story filled with great magic systems and breathtaking fantasy world. And it's just the beginning.
3. The Age of Miracles: Whether this book is good or not is totally debatable, but in my opinion the melodramatic-style, great premise, and fantastic narration itself is more than enough.

 

Worm
Brandon Sanderson: Recently went on a spree reading everything I could find including Mistborn 1 - 3, Alloy of Law, Elantris, Steelheart, The Emperor's Soul, The Rithmatist, Warbreaker, Way of Kings
The latest Percy Jackson
Nine Princes of Amber - Found it bit dull
Ciaphas Cain 1 - 3
Belgariad 1 - 5
Malloreon - Currently reading book 3
Gentlemen Bastards 1 - 3
Girl with The Dragon Tattoo
Jack Ryan 1 - 2
Pines - Blake Crouch
Wild Cards 1 - 2
A Dance with Dragons
Alex Verus 1 - 3
Ender saga 1 - 12

 

LMAO. The only reason I didn't quite after the first page was that I actually paid to read the stupid thing. To be honest, the writing improves enough that I can achieve full immersion. And the second book is interesting. I ended up reading the main books, and will probably read the rest of the main serious.

However, I think it was a very good original story line wasted on bad writing.

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Books I've read: Fiction

Lorien Legacies
I am Number Four
The Power of Six
The Rise of Nine
The Fall of Five

Divergent Series
Divergent
Insurgent
Allegiant

Ender's Game

Legend Series
Legend
Prodigy
Champion (Will finish Champion by the time the year's over).

Twilight (re-read. Shut up, I was bored).

Harry Potter
Sorcerer's Stone
Chamber of Secrets

Phoenix Rising

Non Fiction:
A load of books that would bore you all to death.

 

Haha, yeah. I needed to go over the story from scratch to get a reminder of details I had forgotten since writing the first chapter of Last Dragonrider and starting the secong a year or better ago.

I remember two more novels I've finished up with- The Name of the Wind/Wiseman's Fear. Excellent stories overall.

 

Add to my list:

Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days #1)
World After (Penryn & the End of Days #2)

Now Reading: The Paradise War (The Song of Albion #1)
by Stephen R. Lawhead