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BQRyno
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8:19p, 12/30/25
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Also not as many as others, but at 27 books, I'm pretty sure I read more this year than I have any any other single year in my life. Thanks to many here for recommendations that showed up on this list!

Memory's Legion by James S A Corey
The Mercy of Gods (Book 1 of The Captive's War) by James S A Corey
A Woman Underground (Cameron Winter Mysteries #4) by Andrew Klavan
Dune
Dune: Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
Heretics of Dune
Chapterhouse: Dune
Livesuit (Novella from The Captive's War) by James S A Corey
The Martian by Andy Weir
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
The Great Good Thing by Andrew Klavan
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (DCC #2)
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (DCC #3)
The Gate of the Feral Gods (DCC #4)
The Butcher's Masquerade (DCC #5)
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (DCC #6)
This Inevitable Ruin (DCC #7)
Pines (Wayward Pines #1) by Blake Crouch
Wayward (Wayward Pines #2) by Blake Crouch
The Last Town (Wayward Pines #3) by Blake Crouch
After That, The Dark (Cameron Winter Mysteries #5) by Andrew Klavan
Shogun Part 1 by James Clavell
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling (read to my son)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling (read to my son)
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In reply to BQRyno • 9:11p, 12/30/25
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Wonder when they split Shogun into two parts? One book when read it the 80s.
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Wondering how so many people keep strick exact track of what they read. I suppose my kindle would tell me what my body count was, but I don't really care to be that exact about something I do for pure pleasure. Definitely would never set a goal. But, to each their own, if it makes you happy to track it, go for it!
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In reply to Absolute • 9:42p, 12/30/25
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Absolute said:
Wondering how so many people keep strick exact track of what they read. I suppose my kindle would tell me what my body count was, but I don't really care to be that exact about something I do for pure pleasure. Definitely would never set a goal. But, to each their own, if it makes you happy to track it, go for it!


I enter them on Goodreads app (very easy). Mainly so I can be sure I don't buy a book I've already read.
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In reply to Clavell • 10:03p, 12/30/25
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Clavell said:
Absolute said:
Wondering how so many people keep strick exact track of what they read. I suppose my kindle would tell me what my body count was, but I don't really care to be that exact about something I do for pure pleasure. Definitely would never set a goal. But, to each their own, if it makes you happy to track it, go for it!


I enter them on Goodreads app (very easy). Mainly so I can be sure I don't buy a book I've already read.
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Fair. Kindle tells me if I already own it of if I pick it to read.

All for more readers, though most on here probably don't need my support.


Not at all being negative toward this thread. Have found tons of great recommendations here. Carry on!
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In reply to Absolute • 10:07p, 12/30/25
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Read mixture of ebooks on Kindle and B&N and real books so helps.
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10:10p, 12/30/25
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I keep a notes on my phone. Goodreads is linked to my family Amazon and so it's not just me.
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In reply to Absolute • 11:01p, 12/30/25
I have a lot of "complete works of", "collections", and anthologies. Kindle doesn't acknowledge/recognize individual books in those works, so I can keep track of them by listing them. Also, some of them are so user unfriendly the only way to figure out what your progress is, is to keep track of the pages or locations where you stop. The Agatha Christie collection I'm reading doesn't have hot-links to each book, and each one has the complete list of titles at the end of each chapter. It's one reason why I haven't gotten back to it for a while.
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12:15a, 12/31/25
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I keep an excel spreadsheet on my phone with the list of authors I follow and their books so I know what I have already purchased and read. I have bought the same book more than once at half price books before I started to track this. Lol

I also log everything on goodreads.

Best Christmas gift received from my mom this year was this tshirt!





Edit to add: looks like I'm going to end up at 43 books read this year, short of my goal of 50.
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Had a lot of fun reading this year

The Da Vinci Code
Wayward Pines Trilogy
Project Hail Mary (easy favorite)
The Lost World
Enter The Wu-Tang
Into The Heart of the Sea
A Moveable Feast
The Wager
A Moveable Feast
Dungeon Crawler Carl 1-7
The Long Goodbye
Sphere
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Philo B 93
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I'm finishing the year with 25 books completed. After some slogs in the 4th quarter, I went through a few self-published kindle books over the last few weeks. They were books with fun ideas and catchy covers that came in under 400 pages. Overall, they were as good as books from well known authors published by the big guys. I'll try a few more to start 2026, then try some more of the major stuff that this board all agrees on. Happy New Year fellow readers.
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