Goodreads 2020 Reading Challenge

[Anonymous No.17039720]

16 days left in the year.
Post your progress. Are you going to make it?

[Anonymous No.17039727]

>>17039720

[Anonymous No.17039735]

62/75
Took up too many big books that I certainly don't regret reading because who gives a damn about a Goodreads challenge.

[Anonymous No.17039815]

>>17039720
I stopped reading when i got banned earlier this year and just got unbanned today so i'm not really close to any goal. Maybe i'll read 3 or 4 books before 2021.

[Anonymous No.17039826]

>>17039727
Half of these are for teens and i can't read the names of the other ones. Got a bigger pic?

[Anonymous No.17040027]

>>17039815
Why did they ban you?

[Anonymous No.17040039]

>>17039826
>half of these are for teens
why would you say that anon :(

[Anonymous No.17040052]

>>17039826
what does "for teens" mean? I read the same stuff in high school that I'm reading now...

[Anonymous No.17040086]

>>17039720
I wanted to read more, but oh well

[Anonymous No.17040109]

>>17040086
0/42 please stop reading

[Anonymous No.17040122]

>>17040109
"No!"

[Anonymous No.17040159]

>>17040086
>babyfucker
wtf is that

[Anonymous No.17040178]

>>17040159
A man may or may not be fucking babies

[Anonymous No.17040196]

>>17040178
please stop reading

[Anonymous No.17040205]

Haven't finished a real book. But read shit loads of mangas.

[Anonymous No.17040235]

>>17040196
Neveeeeeeer

[Anonymous No.17040333]

self bump

[Anonymous No.17040643]

44/52 lol maybe I really wanna do it but I don't know.

[Anonymous No.17040668]

>>17040086
How were the Mushroom, Spinal, Sex Worker, & Fighting Girl?

[Anonymous No.17041021]

>>17039720
14/10 right now first year seriously reading

[Anonymous No.17041108]

>>17041021
What's your goal for next year?

[Anonymous No.17041152]

> relying on electric Shaitans to store your Read Books library
so they can swap letters in titles, effectively wiping the contents from your memory? no thanks

[Anonymous No.17041158]

>>17040039
what did you black out. what was it. answer at once

[Anonymous No.17041168]

>>17040086
> babyfucker
> carmilla
> male colors
> pelevin
uhhh based department?

[Anonymous No.17041184]

>>17039727
>Oxford very short introductions
Ah yes, a good tactic to boost the count

[Anonymous No.17041357]

>>17041152
Based paranoid ruskie

[Anonymous No.17041622]

/doomer/ here

[Anonymous No.17041674]

I think my goal was 80 but I burnt my eyeballs reading off a screen all September and really trailed off.

JANUARY 2020
1. A Tranquil Star - Primo Levi
2. The Definitive Book of Body Language - Allan & Barbara Pease
3. Why We Get Fat - Gary Taubes
4. The Hunger Artists - Maud Ellmann
5. Hung, Thirst, Sex & Sleep - John Young
6. A History of Force Feeding - Ian Miller
7. Metamorphoses - Ovid (t. Horace Gregory)
FEBRUARY 2020
1. Hunger: A Modern History - James Vernon
2. Atonement - Ian McEwan
3. China in Ten Words - Yu Hua
4. Things Fall Appart - Chinua Achebe
5. Grass Soup - Zhang Xianlang
6. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality - Sigmund Freud
MARCH 2020
1. A Mother's Ordeal - Stephen Mosher
2. Late Victorian Holocausts - Mike Davis
3. On China - Henry Kissenger
4. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
5. The Idea of North - Peter Davidson
APRIL 2020
1. About A Boy - Nick Hornby
2. Mythologies - Roland Barthes
3. Against Everything - Mark Greif
4. Discipline & Punish - Michelle Foucault
5. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
6. Lovers Discourse: Fragments - Roland Barthes
7. Hallucinations - Oliver Sacks
May 2020
1. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K Le Guin
2. Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny - Michael Tomasello
3. The Quiet American - Graham Greene
4. Critical Mass - Philip Ball
5. The Pleasures of the Text - Roland Barthes
6. Lord of the Rings: Two Towers - JRR Tolkien
7. How to Read a Book - Mortimer J. Adler
8. Faust - Gothe
June 2020
1. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King - JRR Tolkien
2. Imagined Communities - Benedict Anderson
3. Impossible Exchange - Jean Baudrillard
4. Auschwitz Report - Primo Levi & Leonardo De Bortoli
July 2020
1. Planet of Slums - Mike Davis
2. Alien Zone - Annette Khun
3. Practical Genetic Counselling - Peter Harper
4. A Guide to Genetic Counseling - R. Uhlmann, Jane L. Schuette, Beverly M. Yashar
5. European Nations - Miroslav Hrosch
August 2020
1. Miracle in the Andes - Nando Parado
2. Facilitating the Genetic Counseling Process: Practice-Based Skills - Patricia McCarthy Veach, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Nancy P. Callanan
3. Normative and Pragmatic Dimensions of Genetic Counseling - Joseph B. Fanning
4. All That Is Solid Melts into Air - Marshall Berman
5. The Divided Self - R. D. Laing
6. Ethical Dilemmas in Genetics and Genetic Counselling - Ed. Janice L. Berliner
September 2020
1. The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
2. Our Minds Our Selves - Kieth Oatley
3. Fear and Trembling - Soren Kierkegaard
4. Conversational Style - Deborah Tannen
5. Dicourse Strategies - John Gumperz
6. Language and Social Identity - John Gumperz
7. Gender and Discourse - Deborah Tannen
8. The Tao of Architecture - Amos Ih Tiao Chang
9. Talking Voices - Deborah Tannen
October 2020
1. Steps to and Ecology of Mind - Gregory Bateson
November 2020
1. The poetics of space - Gaston Bachelard
2. Saturday - Ian McEwan
December 2020
1. The Games People Play - Eric Berne
2. Ancient Chinese Thought, Modern Chinese Power - Yan Xuetong

[Anonymous No.17042165]

>>17041674
damn thats alot

[Anonymous No.17042181]

67/52 I did it easily thanks to the virus

Novels and short stories

Anonymous - The Epic of Gilgamesh
Apollinaire - L’Hérésiarque et Cie (underrated gem)
Calvino - La speculazione edilizia
Calvino - The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Céline - Guignol’s band I et II
Collectif - Voyages en train
Cyrano de Bergerac - Voyage dans la Lune
Cyrano de Bergerac - Les États et Empires du Soleil
De Quincey - Le Mangeur D’opium (unfaithful translation of Confession of an English opium-eater by de Musset)
de Régnier - Esquisses Vénitiennes
Flaubert - Salammbô
France - The Gods Will Have Blood
Gracq - Un balcon en forêt
Gracq - Le rivage des Syrtes (favourite novel this year)
Gracq - Château d’Argol
Grass - The Tin Drum
Huysmans - Là-bas
Huysmans - À rebours
Huysmans - En Rade / Un Dilemme / Croquis Parisiens
Huysmans - Sac au dos / A vau l’eau
Jünger - Sturm
Jünger - Die Zwille (underrated gem)
Mirbeau - Torture Garden (underrated gem)
Naipaul - An Area of Darkness (least favourite novel this year - though not bad per se)
Ovid - Metamorphoses
Perec - Life: A User's Manual
Petronius - Il Satiricon
Rachilde - La Marquise de Sade
Roussel - Impressions d’Afrique
Sacher-Masoch - Venus in Furs
Schwob - La porte des rêves (underrated gem)
Villiers de L’Isle-Adam - Tomorrow’s Eve
Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway

Non-Fiction

Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions
Baudrillard - The Vital Illusion
Baudrillard - La société de consommation
de Tocqueville - De la Démocratie en Amérique, Vol. 1
Despentes - King Kong théorie
Gaddafi - الكتاب الأخضر
Gracián - The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Gracq - Préférences (underrated gem)
Héraclite - Fragments: Citations et Témoignages (favourite non fiction this year)
Jaspers - The Question of German Guilt
Jünger - Storm of Steel
Leopardi - Zibaldone
Serres - Esthétiques sur Carpaccio (worst book this year)
Xenophon - The Symposium
Xenophon - Anabasis

Poetry

Apollinaire - Alcools
Baudelaire - Les Fleurs Du Mal Et Autres Poèmes
Char - Les Matinaux / La parole en archipel
Corbière - Les Amours jaunes
Dante - Vita Nova
du Bellay - Les Regrets / Les Antiquités de Rome
Éluard - Capitale de la douleur / L'amour la poésie
Gracq - Liberté Grande (underrated gem)
Lautréamont - Les Chants de Maldoror (favourite poetry - excluding reread)
Plath - Ariel
Pompidou - Anthologie de la poésie française
Prévert - Paroles (least favourite poetry book - though some very good poems in it too)
Saint-John Perse - Exil / Anabase / Eloges / Gloires des Rois
Tagore - L’Offrande lyrique / La Corbeille de fruits
Verhaeren - Les Campagnes hallucinées / Les Villes tentaculaires
Villon - Poésies

Plays

Molière - Tartuffe

[Anonymous No.17042343]

>>17041357
schizo supremacy NOW
ps to be fair it's not exactly 100 full-length books, theres one 40p short story, a couple 70-150 page ones, about three books dropped halfway in. the rest are legit, two 750-800p books, about 4 600 pagers, rest are 200-500p

[Anonymous No.17042461]

>>17041158
it was a light novel

[Anonymous No.17042708]

>>17041622
nice Blanchots

[Anonymous No.17042974]

This was the first year I haven't in a long time.
16/30 :3

Work and life just get in the way.

[Anonymous No.17043092]

>>17039720
86/60

[Anonymous No.17043124]

>>17040668
Mushroom was interesting, especially the concept of cross contamination as a way of organisms to interact between each others.
Spinal was also good but more in a "dude imagine if..." way, but it makes sense too.
Sex worker is basically "a bitchy whore with a heart of gold gets transported to another world... hilarity ensues" good for a light reading.
Fighting girl, I am not still sure to be honest while it explains waifufags in a coherent (for psychoanlysis) way I think that kind of misses a lot, also it was written several decades ago and I saw some anons bitchin because it didn't specifically talked about their waifus lel

[Anonymous No.17043126]

70. I might knock out a few more by New Year's.

>Best fiction work read in 2020
The Tunnel
>Best non-fiction work
God Without Being
>Best surprise
The Red Badge of Courage
>Biggest let-down
The Plot Against America
>Best re-read
Absalom, Absalom!

[Anonymous No.17043148]

>>17041674
Based and respected

[Anonymous No.17043229]

>>17041152
wew whole lot of 10/10s there. might want to consider utilizing the full scale, not just 7-10

[Anonymous No.17043257]

>>17041674
how many pages do you read a day

[Anonymous No.17043266]

>>17041184
Post book log then

[Anonymous No.17043286]

>>17042181
based and polyglot-pilled

[Anonymous No.17043646]

>>17043229
sorry man, I dont read shit books
i may reconsider the rating later but if the book leaves me feeling like it's a 10, i'll be sure to slap it a 10

[Anonymous No.17043689]

>>17043646
you must have low standards. even among universally acclaimed books, a normal person will have some he just doesn't like.

[Anonymous No.17043738]

>>17039720
I tend to be a fast reader but with history books, I can't go too fast since I can miss a detail or explanation that will throw me off in later chapters. This particularly with the political or government functions which are more complex to understand. I'm currently reading The Lost History by Jack Beatty to wrap up this year.

[Anonymous No.17043788]

>>17043738
I can smell you from here
Eww

[Anonymous No.17043801]

>>17043788
lolwut. I'm a normie by 4chan standards. I couldn't read too much either since I was studying to wrap up my Architect license. I just enjoy history.

[Anonymous No.17043893]

>>17040086
Nice list

[Anonymous No.17043952]

>avg books pledged: 61

[Anonymous No.17043961]

>>17043738
good list

[Anonymous No.17043973]

>>17043738
Read any history books about the dark ages/medieval? Pic related is what I plan on reading.

[Anonymous No.17043997]

i've given up. never gonna make it tbqh

[Anonymous No.17044077]

>>17041184
Lol i literally boost with Manga. I know I deserve to die and painfully.

[Anonymous No.17044120]

>>17043997
what's your goal

[journal No.17044220]

>>17041108
20 would be good challenge might have to stick with shorter books though

[Anonymous No.17044510]

Here are my books. There is a lot of Finnish books, so do not mind those.

[Anonymous No.17044869]

>>17044220
Sounds good. Keep it up and higher every year. It's one thing you will never regret.

[Anonymous No.17045055]

>>17043973
No, the only one I read was The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge, which I highly recommend. It is an easy to read book but it is an excellent overview of the First-Third Crusades, life in Outremer, who Salahadin was, and battle descriptions.

[Anonymous No.17045173]

>>17044510
I'm a big fan of cohen's music, is book of longing worth getting?

[Anonymous No.17045195]

90/100

Don't think I'm going to make it bros. I shouldn't have slacked off during summer start of fall.

[Anonymous No.17045476]

Based

[Anonymous No.17045639]

>>17045195
Prove it

>>17045476
what is

[Anonymous No.17045740]

how many books should I try and read for 2021? I will have important exams coming up for uni but reading is something I partially enjoy but knwo is very important

[Anonymous No.17045891]

>>17045740
only you can answer that question anon

[Anonymous No.17045908]

15/12

Read
>Bhagavad Gita
>The Crying of Lot 49
>The Iliad
>White Nights
>One, No one and One Hundred Thousand
>A Farewell to Arms
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
>Plato's Dialogues
>The Gay Science
>The Savage Detectives
>a Pessoa's anthology
>Freud essays
>On the Heights of Despair

also read the first part of Don Quixote a couple of months ago but I haven't picked up the second part yet, and I've been reading Aristotle's metaphysics very slowly throughout the year. Pretty shit year desu. No uni made me lose a lot of good habits that I've been picking up again these last weeks

[Anonymous No.17046003]

>>17045740
focus on uni bro, reading too much can get you overworked

[Anonymous No.17046087]

>>17039720
Some pretty nice lists itt, especially >>17041674
>>17042181

No goodreads, but wanted to read 60 this year, currently at 70. Will try to hit 75. Highlights of the year were the Greek (Homer, Hesiod and Aeschylus, plus some commentaries), Zola, some nonfiction (The Shock Doctrine, Lost in Maths, a work on Vézelay, some economics), as well as Colette, Duras, Leduc and Saki.

[Anonymous No.17046131]

I have 16 days to go from Job to Revelations, which is approximately 700 pages. I really don't think I can do it. That's 44 pages of Bible every day. So far I've only been doing about 30 pages a day. And it feels like a lot, I can read 3-4 pages of novel in the time it takes me to read a single Bible page.

And sure, the Wisdoms are verse form so there's fewer words per page, but that doesn't mean it'll be quicker to read. Sometimes it takes longer because you dwell on a line to extract its full meaning. Basically I think I'm fucked and won't be done by January 7th

[Anonymous No.17046150]

I got GR in July and I've read 61 books

[Anonymous No.17046303]

I should have read at least 300 books this year but I didn't bother to set the finishing date for each one so I can't tell for sure how many I read

[Anonymous No.17046518]

>>17040159
I downloaded a .zip full of ‘/lit/‘ books and happened to read this one because it was short, I can not believe I subjected myself to that. Anyone who advocates for that book is a sicko Faggot and will be purged in the gulag.

[Anonymous No.17046552]

>>17039720
In my defense I started at the halfway point

[Anonymous No.17046575]

>>17046518
w-what was it about

[Anonymous No.17046671]

I put 25 and moved the goalpost to 30. Might finish 1 more before the end of the year.

[Anonymous No.17046794]

>>17046518
Imagine not wanting to fuck babies (allegedly)

[Anonymous No.17046833]

>>17041622
How was The Loser?

[Anonymous No.17046847]

why does it matter how much books you read per year you retards annoy me

[Anonymous No.17046856]

>>17046833
Excellent, funniest bernhard me thinks

[Anonymous No.17046875]

>>17043973
God, I tried to read this book and it was so dry and boring; the author just names people and places without explaining the meaning of anything.I highly recommend avoiding it!

[Anonymous No.17046887]

>>17046131
I feel you anon, I had planned to spend the whole of December reading the three Athenian tragedian plus Aristophane, so that I would have finished the year with a complete run of all major Athenian playwrights. But I haven't even started. it's going to be about 3600 pages.

[Anonymous No.17046939]

>>17046887
At least get one of them read

[Anonymous No.17047046]

>>17039720
The blank covers are the hoofed thing by R.E Howard and everyman by anon

[Anonymous No.17047089]

>>17047046
> arsène lupin
Check out Miyazaki's Lupin the third, anon. Great movie

[Anonymous No.17047100]

[Anonymous No.17047121]

>>17047100
Software engineer?

[Anonymous No.17047141]

>>17047121
not in software. good insight bro!

[Anonymous No.17047163]

>>17046303
Just finished setting the correct date to all of the books I read this year, before you ask why many covers are blank, it's because those are obscure works or plays and operas that I shelved together with the books, I may have accidentally added the same books twice also, Goodreads says it's 507 books, but the total amount of books in this list doesn't correspond to the books i have read. I'd suppose i read about 470 books in 2020 and I'm still adding the ones I'm reading now to the list as soon as I'll be done with them.

[Anonymous No.17047198]

>>17047163
> he started with the greeks
the man, the myth

[Anonymous No.17047209]

>>17046847
It can keep people motivated to read more and it's fun to keep track and look back at all the things you read at the end of the year.

[Anonymous No.17047218]

>>17047198
I started with the Greeks then continued with the Romans and now I'm delving into the Middle Ages but I took a detour to check out the modern philosophers before going back to reading in a chronological order

[Anonymous No.17047220]

>>17047163
How much do you read a day?

[Anonymous No.17047227]

>>17039720
my goal was to read 12 and i think i can still get to 14
its not much (comparatively itt) but its the most i've ever read in a single year

[Anonymous No.17047233]

>>17047218
You planning on moving to modern-contemporary literary, or are you not really interested in that?

[Anonymous No.17047242]

>>17047227
Congrats on breaking your record
Your handwriting looks cool and spooky btw

[Anonymous No.17047243]

>>17047220
I read 3 books per day but depending on the length I'll stick to reading 10% of the books each day if they're long and 20 or 30% if they're short.

[Anonymous No.17047249]

>>17039720
i've read 2, recommend me 38 extremely short books i can knock out in the next two weeks

[Anonymous No.17047259]

>>17047243
>>17047218
Do you have a Middle Ages reading list by chance? What books are you planning on reading?

[Anonymous No.17047260]

>>17047249
Read individual short stories bro (make sure they are added onto GR)

[Anonymous No.17047269]

I didn't really have a goal to read at all this year, so I'm late to the party starting this month -- more as an early New Year's resolution. I've read 4 and might get to 8 before 2021. I don't really have a number in mind for next year, just whatever reading list I create.

Thanks for reading my diary.

[Anonymous No.17047278]

>>17047242
thanks! i don't get a lot of compliments on my penmanship but years ago someone told me it looked like roger waters' in the liner notes of 'the wall' and i've never looked back

[Anonymous No.17047281]

>>17047163
I highly doubt you managed to absorb much with that kind of pace. 400+ in a year is just too much.

[Anonymous No.17047289]

>>17046131
Don't rush through the Bible, take your time. Also, are you reading the full canon including deuterocanonicals?

[Anonymous No.17047350]

>>17047233
Yeah eventually I'll get to the contemporaries unless I drop dead beforehand. Right now I'm working on european medieval romances and Christian mysticism while I'm trying to make it to the 14th century in each secondary source of european history.

>>17047259
>Do you have a Middle Ages reading list by chance?
No but I suggest you to start with the Mabinogion and Snorri's Edda and move on to the mythological historical accounts of England, then read
Chrétien de Troyes and see if the period is to your liking. The middle ages are full of repetitive chivalry romances and allegorical romances, the Arthurian romances stand out more than the others, but sometimes you'll have to deal with untranslated Middle English works and rely on the footnotes of the books. On top of that, some works like most of romances in the Carolingian cycle have never been translated and are inaccessible to people who don't know ancient French, including me.

>>17047281
I can't guarantee I remember all of the books I have read, but I can call to mind the ones that struck me the most.

[Anonymous No.17047378]

>>17047289
I plan on reading them after

[Anonymous No.17047425]

>>17046131
just skip to the new testament, all of the good shit in the OT happens in genesis, exodus, judges, and kings

[Anonymous No.17047455]

>>17047425
samuels are way better than kings

[Anonymous No.17047471]

>>17047455
oh fuck you're right, for some reason i was thinking the david shit was in kings, not samuel

[Anonymous No.17047497]

>>17047471
nah kings is a lot of soloman's temple autism

[Anonymous No.17048305]

>>17043257
Depends. Some times I won't read for like a week, others might be like 4-5 hours a day so say 150-200 pages. I'm not particularly fast.

[Anonymous No.17048597]

>>17047089
Thank you, I already seen it and I have to agree with you that’s it’s a good anime movie. By the way not to be rude, but the book is actually fantomas. Which is pretty close to the Lupin books.

[Anonymous No.17049230]

>>17045173
It has a few funny and witty poems, but overall it is a very mediocre book. :(

Also i

[Anonymous No.17049544]

>>17039720
Lol no, I'm a lazy bum and I hate it.

[Anonymous No.17049580]

k suck my e-penis anons on /lit/

[Anonymous No.17049598]

>>17049580
NO

[Anonymous No.17049656]

>>17049580
how did Rome fall?

[Anonymous No.17050027]

4 more books and 1000 pages more than last year and I'm gonna finish one or two more which makes me happy. Funnily the longest and the shortest book have the same word in title "death". 2021 will be a year of no frivolous reading of meaningless titles.
>>17049580
How is the book about pagans?

[Anonymous No.17050506]

>>17050027
that werther cover lmao

[Anonymous No.17050730]

>>17046856
What about it was funny to you?

[Anonymous No.17050780]

>>17049656
the earthquake that happened after I unzipped my fly

[Anonymous No.17051088]

>>17049580
Pure cringe

[Anonymous No.17051112]

>>17041184
I just add what I read. No one cares about the count, reading is not a competition.

[Anonymous No.17051223]

>>17039720
Why are those four Pavementt Niggers pretending to read? Globohomo aty is terrible.

[Anonymous No.17051552]

>>17051223
Whiter than you muhammad

[Anonymous No.17052916]

>>17039720 I'm at 165 books for the year.

[Anonymous No.17053507]

>>17039720
24 out of 12
First serious year of reading.

[Anonymous No.17053520]

>>17040027
racism, antisemitism, transphobia and discrimination. no wonder I got banned when 95% of the goodreads users are femoids.

[Anonymous No.17053528]

>>17042461
It was 50 shades, wasn't it?

[Anonymous No.17053533]

>>17041152
I have a text file on my computer

[Anonymous No.17053535]

>>17039720
i had a decent year so far
>noble house
>battle of jutland 1916
>dragon lance 1-3
>re read war and peace (anthony briggs best edition)
>dr zhivago
>the name of the rose
>sarum

[Anonymous No.17053566]

>>17053507
Same, I only really started in June.

[Anonymous No.17053695]

>>17039720
6 books behind schedule. I could just read comics, but I wanna read some novellas to catch up.

[Anonymous No.17053717]

Some rookie numbers in this thread lads