What did you read in 2017?

Oh, I somehow missed that people were including comics in their lists. I'll just say that I also read approximately four times my body weight in comics and leave it at that.

only read 30 books last year, kinda slacked in the middle of the summer and never really hit a stride again. didn't have one big book like i did in 2016 (infinite jest), i'd like to do at least one this year but not sure which. have anna karenina sitting on my shelf but idk, haven't even read notes from the underground yet...

On Bowie — Rob Sheffield
Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? — Thomas Frank
The Master Plan: ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy for Final Victory — Brian Fishman
Homesick for Another World — Ottessa Moshfegh
Universal Harvester — John Darnielle
Collected Poems & Stories — Mallory Whitten
The Broom of the System — David Foster Wallace
American Pastoral — Philip Roth
Firestarter — Stephen King
God Box — Mallory Whitten
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany — Norman Ohler
A Colony in a Nation — Chris Hayes
literally show me a healthy person — Darcie Wilder
It — Stephen King
How the Hell Did This Happen?: The Election of 2016 — P.J. O’Rourke
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign — Jonathan Allen & Amie Parnes
Cujo — Stephen King
The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood
Meet Me in the Bathroom — Lizzy Goodman
Private Citizens — Tony Tulathimutte
Touch — Courtney Maum
The Sarah Book — Scott McClanahan
Eileen — Ottessa Moshfegh
Kill All Normies — Angela Nagle
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? — Mark Fisher
All the Dirty Parts — Daniel Handler
No Is Not Enough — Naomi Klein
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? — Philip K. Dick
The Original Face — Guillaume Morissette
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine — Joe Hagan
Hit So Hard — Patty Schemel

favorites were both books by Ottessa Moshfegh, It, Meet Me in the Bathroom, Universal Harvester, and Shattered.

lol sorry im mixing up my dour russians

oh American Pastoral was absolutely amazing but I read the majority of that on a trip in September 2016 but didn't finish until February

think i'll try to read 365 short stories this year.

gotta set yourself a microfiction rule

yeah i was thinking that reading stuff from flash fiction: very short stories would not satisfy.
my first rule is that anything in a collection of short stories not devoted to flash fiction counts.

Maybe a Chekhov a day? Wouldn't keep the doctor away, since he wss one, but prob good for what ails you (if nothing ails you, even better I say)

won't keep the typos away, nothing will.

ooh i should do that too

in a chaotic and confusing world, programmatic reading can remove the heavy burden of too much choice

Old Lunch, what is the Mircea Eliade like? I have enjoyed his fiction a lot.

Fairly dense but elucidating if (like me) you're relatively ignorant of where/how various religious ideas originated. Reading now about the variety of theological constructs from across Europe and India that sprang from the same proto-Indo-European origins. I had no idea.

Took me a little while to write this lot up but:

Fyodor Dostoevsky – Crime & Punishment
Muriel Spark – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Kevin MacNeil – The Brilliant and Forever
Angela Carter – The Magic Toyshop
Ray Celestin – The Axeman’s Jazz
Paul Beatty – The Sellout
Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
John Cheever – The Complete Stories
Joan Didion – Slouching Towards Bethlehem
John Dos Passos – USA
Michaelangelo Matos - The Underground Is Massive
Anita Brookner – Hotel du Lac
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Love In The Time of Cholera
Elmore Leonard – Freaky Deaky
Eimear McBride – The Lesser Bohemians
Barney Norris – Five Rivers Met On A Wooded Plane
Sana Krasikov – The Patriots
Julian Barnes – The Noise of Time
Rob Duncan – Psychedelia and Other Colours
Alan Sillitoe – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
George Saunders – Lincoln In The Bardo
John Darnielle – Universal Harvester
Naomi Aldermann – The Power
Zadie Smith – On Beauty
Don DeLillo – Mao II
John Le Carre – Smiley’s People
David Stubbs – Future Days
Mariana Enriquez – Things We Lost In The Fire
Stephen King – The Stand
Danilo Kis – Hourglass
Emile Zola – La Bete Humaine
Tom Wolfe - Bonfire of the Vanities

Good year!

Some of you people are machines. The poster 'one way street' reading 129 books in 2017 is both awesome and insane. I think one year I read 52 books (one a week), but I was unemployed for half of the year. Now I barely average two books a month.

A chunk of those 129 appear to be graphic novels, if that makes any difference.

i only read 30 books last year & i feel like i was slacking

reading the Michael Wolff book now, v good fan fic

No more than 40. That's counting honest books only. Would have been more but July was lost.

(This month looks to be unimpressive too.)

By participating these "What did you read" threads for the past five years or so, I now know I recently average about 45 books a year.

I read >cough< about 250 books, no way am I typing all those up

How much time do you read per day, James?

Maybe 3-4 hours if it's a work day (public transport, lunch break, insomnia)

I believe I read much slower than the average person, which is depressing. There's no chance I'm reading a whole book in one sitting, no matter how light or easy it is.

I fear I might be incapable of reading as fast as the people I hope to catch up with.

I will read no more for ever

There's no chance I'm reading a whole book in one sitting, no matter how light or easy it is.

I seldom finish a book in one sitting. Its fine, this is not a competition.

read Hard to be a God this week, the translation was iffy and the conversion to ebook was shoddy but it's a fine piece of work

put it in your 2018 list :)

haha wasn't even checking thread titles :)

how tf can you finish a book in one sitting unless it's like <150 pages
i read Universal Harvester in two sittings in one day
read Noah Cicero's new (excellent) poetry collection in two sittings over two days, but that's one I could've easily read in one sitting
Darcie Wilder's book last year, I think that was three sittings?
idk

what have y'all read in one sitting? genuinely curious. and impressed. my bum would go numb

This one, as orig. posted on an ILM Eagles thread, think it's A Good Day In Hell:

Also I picked up Felder's hefty Between Heaven and Hell in the library, and read the whole thing that afternoon, which never happens. Gist: his father comes off as a self-made, self-righteous, self-torturing workaholic and skinflint, and Don follows suit during his Eagles years, with infinitely more bucks and perks than blue collar Dad ever had, of course. Furthermore, Dr. Phil, he somewhat recreates his own defiant-dependent teen relationship with Dad, now played by Henley and Frey.
When he finally gets his ass fired, after having papers served in the studio, he actually calls back, all crying---"Try to seek some higher ground in this, Fingers," Frey counsels, and the ex-Mrs. Felder fervently seconds.
So he does, with this book of excellent anecdotes (also careful references to ongoing litigation), from early years in Florida---girlfriend accuses him of stepping out with blondes, who turn out to be pre-facial hair, though tressed-for-success Gregg and Duane)[;"Tommy" Petty is his guitar student; Stephen Stills is "the funniest kid I ever met," passing through town while running away from military school, back to his parents (though every kid I knew back then who was sent to military school, was sent for a good reason); Bernie Leadon is his local connection to the budding El Lay country rock scene.
Also lots of good stuff about "The Gods," as everybody who worked with and for the Eagles called Henley and Frey; supposedly many of these--even the Gods themselves, individually---called Felder up to trade the latest atrocity stories.
But I also get, in terms of more perhaps unintended reveals, that the Gods were trying to keep their associates' and their own assholes-with-money tendencies somewhat in line, at least for the sake of making even more money (by keeping up the musical standards, for instance). Nevertheless, Felder and I are somewhat respectful of, for instance, Joe Walsh's working out his frustrations on whole floors of hotels (and he lasted longer than any non-God in the line-up, I think, so maybe the mayhem helped).

When he finally gets his ass fired, after having papers served in the studio, he actually calls back, all crying That is, Felder had papers served on Frey (for the first time).