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Post by notacrook on Jan 4, 2023 17:46:52 GMT
Fittingly got through 22 books in '22. Lots of great stuff. Aiming for a good few more reads in 2023, and definitely a lot more non-fiction.
A roughly ranked top 10:
1. Beloved, Toni Morrison
2. Outline, Rachel Cusk
3. A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara (I actually have some big problems with this book, and can fully understand why some hate it, but it might have been the most powerful reading experience I've ever had, so that's gotta count for something)
4. Slaughter-House Five, Kurt Vonnegut
5. Jamaica Inn, Daphne du Maurier
6. The Power of the Dog, Thomas Savage
7. All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
8. Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart
9. Amongst Women, John McGahern
10. The Gathering, Anne Enright
A pretty big disappointment for me was Donna Tartt's The Secret History - a reasonably interesting 300-page book inflated to a 600-page slog.
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 4, 2023 18:31:30 GMT
Just about 60 books read in '22, more than my usual avg. Lots of story collections, autobios, Westerns....
01. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
02. Zero Gravity - Woody Allen
03. Quite Early One Morning: Stories - Dylan Thomas
04. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog - Dylan Thomas
05. The Sundial - Shirley Jackson
06. The Shake of the Bag: Stories - Lynn Doyle
07. Letters from a Lost Uncle - Mervyn Peake
08. Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories - Raymond Carver
09. The Ballad of Dingus Magee - David Markson
10. The Log of a Cowboy - Andy Adams
11. Fun: Spies, Puzzle Solvers, and a Century of Crosswords - Paolo Bacilieri
12. Toad Oil - Akira Kurosawa
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Post by SZilla on Jan 4, 2023 18:46:44 GMT
Finished 11 books/plays (17 technically since a few were collections). My favorites were:
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Dune by Frank Herbert
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
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Post by Sharbs on Jan 4, 2023 19:10:42 GMT
16 in all. top 6-7 are masterpiece level and liked/loved the bottom 3
1. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
2. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
3. From Hell - Alan Moore
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien
5. White Noise - Don DeLillo
6. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
7. Heat 2 - Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner
8. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
9. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
10. The Troop - Nick Cutter
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Post by themoviesinner on Jan 4, 2023 19:54:20 GMT
The only books I read in 2022 were all twelve volumes of Christopher Tolkien's The History Of Middle-Earth. Some really interesting stuff in them, but they have more literary and textual value and are definitely not suited for light reading (although they contain many J.R.R. Tolkien's texts that cannot be found anywhere else).
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 4, 2023 22:03:14 GMT
30 books in total. First half of the year was better than the second but got some masterpieces in there for sure
[these were all audiobooks and the best ones were enhanced by some really beautiful narration]
01. Circe by Madeline Miller
02. Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
03. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
04. Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley
05. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
06. Red by Jack Ketchum
07. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakaur
08. Story of O by Pauline Réage
09. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
10. This Is Not My Memoir by André Gregory
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Post by DeepArcher on Jan 5, 2023 0:08:09 GMT
Klara and the Sun - Ishiguro (My favorite thing I've read in years tbh)
Liberation Day - Saunders
Lavinia, The Lathe of Heaven - Le Guin
The Secret History - Tartt
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
Love in the Time of Cholera - Marquez
Butcher's Crossing, Stoner - Williams
Heat 2 - Mann, Gardiner
My disappointment was Blonde - a reasonably interesting 30-page story or even 80-page novella inflated to a 750-page slog. I still haven't watched the movie lol.
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Post by Brother Fease on Jan 5, 2023 0:45:40 GMT
Here's mine:
A Gambling Man by David Baldacci
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
XO by Jeffery Deaver
Drop Shot by Harlan Coben
The Cuckoos Calling by JK Rowling
Winter Kill by C.J Box
Open Season by C.J Box
The Match by Harlan Coben
The Late Show by Michael Connelly
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Post by stabcaesar on Jan 5, 2023 6:37:10 GMT
The Secret History - Tartt +1 |
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Post by VERITAS on Jan 5, 2023 20:46:43 GMT
Demon Copperhead and Nights of Plague were my best reads from last year...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2023 1:33:30 GMT
The Romanov Empress by C.W. Gortner The Landower Legacy by Victoria Holt Courting Her Highness by Jean Plaidy 
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Post by Nikon on Jan 12, 2023 5:33:57 GMT
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih.
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Post by tep on Jan 19, 2023 0:30:38 GMT
Last year was the first time I've read more than a couple of books in a single year in a while. I feel like I rediscovered reading and it's been amazing. Been focusing on Stephen King (and Joe Hill), but some read some other stuff too, mostly horror. Here's a rough top 15:
1. The Waste Lands by Stephen King
2. Salem's Lot by Stephen King
3. Locke & Key by Joe Hill (complete series)
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
6. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
7. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
8. Full Throttle by Joe Hill
9. Carrie by Stephen King
10. Dracula by Bram Stoker
11. The Gunslinger by Stephen King
12. The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
13. Strange Weather by Joe Hill
14. The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
15. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Jan 20, 2023 12:28:06 GMT
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Post by popperthekungfudragn on Jan 23, 2023 11:34:33 GMT
Just about 60 books read in '22, more than my usual avg. Lots of story collections, autobios, Westerns.... 01. Moby Dick - Herman Melville Getting through this book was probably my biggest slog ever reading-wise. |
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Post by speeders on Feb 16, 2023 0:18:04 GMT
My Year of Rest and Relaxation & The Stepford Wives
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 16, 2023 0:37:34 GMT
I read a lot of stuff but the only things I really loved were: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (short story) and Things: A Story of the Sixties (novel, 1967) by George Perec The Yellow Wallpaper is a flat-out masterpiece that I totally missed......and I lived 282 years...... wtf......  |
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Post by Drish on Feb 16, 2023 1:31:39 GMT
01. The Shadow of the Wind
02. The Road
03. The Big Sleep
04. Little Fires Everywhere
05. Under the Banner of Heaven
06. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
07. Rock Paper Scissors
08. Smiley's People
09. The Good Nurse
10. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Loved Dracula as well but the FFC's movie absolutely trumps the book imo.
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