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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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9:22p, 12/30/25
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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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1:55a, 12/31/25
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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
Dungeon Crawler Carl 1-7
The Long Goodbye
Sphere
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7:24a, 12/31/25
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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7:59a, 12/31/25
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Last chance y'all!

Who starts the 2026 thread and will it be linked here?
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9:10a, 12/31/25
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Well definitely don't think I'll finish the count of Monte Christo this year as I'm about halfway through. So looks like it'll be my first book of 2026!
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9:31a, 12/31/25
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My 2025 recap:
  • 54 books read
  • Of those 54, 15 were re-reads and 39 were brand-new to me
  • Of those 54, 51 were fiction and 3 were nonfiction
  • 6 series/trilogies completed(Joe Abercrombie's The First Law and Age of Madness trilogies and the trilogy of standalone novels that connect the two, John Gwynne's The Faithful and The Fallen and Of Blood and Bone, and Tad Williams' Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn)
  • 2 sets of books and their sequels(Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World and Caleb Carr's The Alienist and Angel of Darkness)
  • 5 Charles Dickens novels(A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend, and A Christmas Carol)
  • 6 Stephen King novels(The Stand, The Outsider, Revival, Duma Key, Cell, and Salem's Lot)
  • 3 of my 4 favorite books of all time(The Great Gatsby, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Count of Monte Cristo)
  • 1 DNF(Robert Ludlum's Bourne trilogy)
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In reply to Philo B 93 • 10:57a, 12/31/25
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Philo B 93 said:
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.



I have come to really like some of the self published stuff on kindle unlimited. Have found a few authors that I now follow closely and actually buy the books to help support.
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1:18p, 12/31/25
For all of you that read or are reading The Count of Monte Cristo, it was announce today that PBS will air the recent BBC production starting in March of 2026.

Here's a link:

TCOMC on PBS
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In reply to The Marksman • 1:19p, 12/31/25
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A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. Starting a re-read of the entire Sherlock Holmes canon.

I take it these are worth the read? I've always wanted to read them, but haven't so far. There are many authors who have written Sherlock Holmes books, it seems, but I think it's Doyle who is was the original creator, but please correct me if this is wrong.
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Ag12thman said:
The Marksman said:
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. Starting a re-read of the entire Sherlock Holmes canon.

I take it these are worth the read? I've always wanted to read them, but haven't so far. There are many authors who have written Sherlock Holmes books, it seems, but I think it's Doyle who is was the original creator, but please correct me if this is wrong.

I enjoy them! They were my first introduction to the mystery genre, and are obviously very iconic. Doyle(who invented Sherlock Holmes) has 4 short novels and 56 short stories, so they're pretty easy to get in and out of as you please. As far as others who have written Sherlock Holmes books, I can't speak on that because I have never read any Holmes but Doyle's original canon.
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In reply to The Marksman • 1:27p, 12/31/25
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The Marksman said:
Ag12thman said:
The Marksman said:
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. Starting a re-read of the entire Sherlock Holmes canon.

I take it these are worth the read? I've always wanted to read them, but haven't so far. There are many authors who have written Sherlock Holmes books, it seems, but I think it's Doyle who is was the original creator, but please correct me if this is wrong.

I enjoy them! They were my first introduction to the mystery genre, and are obviously very iconic. Doyle(who invented Sherlock Holmes) has 4 short novels and 56 short stories, so they're pretty easy to get in and out of as you please. As far as others who have written Sherlock Holmes books, I can't speak on that because I have never read any Holmes but Doyle's original canon.

Thanks for sharing this! I am going to put A Study in Scarlet on my to-read list and see if I can get into it and the rest of his canon hopefully early in 2026. I've seen them highly recommended online by others at times as well. Thanks again.
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Ag12thman said:
The Marksman said:
Ag12thman said:
The Marksman said:
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle. Starting a re-read of the entire Sherlock Holmes canon.

I take it these are worth the read? I've always wanted to read them, but haven't so far. There are many authors who have written Sherlock Holmes books, it seems, but I think it's Doyle who is was the original creator, but please correct me if this is wrong.

I enjoy them! They were my first introduction to the mystery genre, and are obviously very iconic. Doyle(who invented Sherlock Holmes) has 4 short novels and 56 short stories, so they're pretty easy to get in and out of as you please. As far as others who have written Sherlock Holmes books, I can't speak on that because I have never read any Holmes but Doyle's original canon.

Thanks for sharing this! I am going to put A Study in Scarlet on my to-read list and see if I can get into it and the rest of his canon hopefully early in 2026. I've seen them highly recommended online by others at times as well. Thanks again.


Highly commendable. We audible them on trips with elementary and middle school age kids, who enjoy them.
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