Another list (this time from here), another poll.

If you don't have a Livejurnal account, I believe that you can sign in with Twitter, Facebook or Google accounts to tick the boxes.

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Not quite sure where this came from, but it's an interesting list of books to aim to read this year.

The 2016 Read Harder Challenge List
(annotated where I've read books in the relevant category in January 2016)

• Read a horror book
• Read a nonfiction book about science
• Read a collection of essays
       Baptism of Fire: The Birth of the Modern British ( Read more... )

As seems somehow appropriate, there are several different lists in circulating, each claiming to be the authentic tally of David Bowie's 100 favourite books. I'm using the one from www.davidbowie.com which seems most likely to be canonical. (One of the others has only 75 books on the list.) How many have you read? (I think you can vote with your ( Read more... )

A poll about books which are celebrating their anniversaries this year. Recommendations (including from me) in the comments.

Poll

As with the previous year, the best-selling book of 1916 was a forgotten work by Booth Tarkington, in this case Seventeen. The best-selling book of 1966 was Valley of the Dolls.

I got this from Victoria over at Eve's Alexandria - her answers are much more interesting than mine.

1. How do you keep track of your TBR pile?

Physically, I have an entire bookshelf (see last picture here) with books owned but not yet read beside the bed. Its population fluctuates - we bought a companion bookshelf a couple of months ago, already ( Read more... )

Yes, it's yet another book poll!
( Books of 1965, 1915, 1865, 1815 and 1765 )

This is a great idea from a friend in a locked post. See how many of the squares you can check off with your recent reading. I'm restricting to books read this year, but you can cast your net as wide as you like.


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From cassiphone here, original here. As per usual, bold the ones you have read, italicise the ones you started but didn't finish.

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Bold if you've read, italicize ones you fully intend to read, underline if it's a book/series you've read part but not all of. Strikethrough if you never plan to read the book or hated it.

( The latest list of 100 sff books )

Usual rules: bold if you've read, strike through if you hated, italics if it's on the shelf waiting to be read.

Both these lists are from Ian Sales. The first is his list of "Mistressworks":

( 24 out of 91 )