OK, bookworms! It's time for a new year full of books!

If you want to make and update a post containing full list of books read in 2019, tell me with "INCLUDE ME" - I'll link the post with your username here (than you can remove "include me" and reaorganize a post as you wish). Feel free to PM me in any doubts or problems.

Than just come back once in a while to share your thoughts, interesting titles and reader's findings here.
Have a nice readings and wish you a lot of time for both games and books!

Readers:
• andysheets1975
• Cavalary
• ciemnogrodzianin
• DavidOrion93
• entroumi
• InkPanther
• megarock58
• morolf
• mqstout
• Nadruk
• PetrusOctavianus
• Timboli
• xa_chan
• zlaywal

Previous years:
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014

Include me please!

1/1 The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
1/2 The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
1/5 A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
1/7 The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Note: Yes, I'm currently reading all those old sleuth novels

None so far. But hey - the year is just a few hours old. :)

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Genialni. Lwowska szkoła matematyczna by Mariusz Urbanek
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger
Enter the Saint by Leslie Charteris
Girl on the Moon by Jack McDonald Burnett
A Hymn Before Battle by John Ringo
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
To Dream in the City of Sorrows by Kathryn M. Drennan
Preludium fundacji by Isaac Asimov
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
Hello World by Hannah Fry
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton
Sally's in the Alley, by Norbert Davis
Beren and Luthien, by JRR Tolkien
Mighty Thor Omnibus vol. 3
Justice League of America Silver Age Omnibus vol. 1
The Outlaw of Torn, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Dr. Strange Omnibus
The Hurting Circus, by Paul O'Brien
Werewolf by Night Omnibus
The Killing Bone, by "Peter Saxon"
Song of Kali, by Dan Simmons
The Thing and Human Torch: Strange Tales Complete Collection
Bethany's Sin by Robert McCammon
It, by Stephen King
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Omnibus vol. 2
Kyrik and the Lost Queen, by Gardner Fox
Neuromancer, by William Gibson

So far this year I've read:

War and Peace
The Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest
Worm
The full Wheel of Time series.
The full Song of Ice and Fire series.
The full Dark Tower series.
The warranty card for my brand new, state of the art iPhone 3.

What can I say? I've kind of been slacking off lately.

2016 List
2017 List
2018 List
Books read in 2019:
The Complete Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales by Hans Christian, edited by Lily Owens
Showcase Presents: The Great Disaster featuring the Atomic Knights published by DC Comics
Before the Golden Age Book 3 edited by Isaac Asimov
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, Translated by Andrew Hurley

Books read in 2019:

★☆☆ Becoming a Better Programmer / Pete Goodliffe
★☆☆ Lean management po polsku / Tomasz Król
★★★ Dark Eden / Chris Beckett
★★☆ Mother of Eden / Chris Beckett
★★☆ Syberiada polska / Zbigniew Domino
★★☆ Profesor Andrews w Warszawie. Wyspa / Olga Tokarczuk
★☆☆ Mastering Exploratory Analysis with pandas / Harish Garg
★☆☆ The Chaos Imperative / Ori Brafman
★★☆ Gar’Ingawi. Wyspa szczęśliwa. Tom I / Anna Borkowska
★☆☆ Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli / Wiesław Myśliwski
★★☆ Entanglement / Zygmunt Miloszewski
★☆☆ A Grain of Truth / Zygmunt Miloszewski
★★☆ Rage / Zygmunt Miloszewski
★★☆ SQL: Visual QuickStart Guide / Chris Fehily
★★★ The Longest Day / Cornelius Ryan
★☆☆ The Dark Sacrament: Exorcism In Modern Ireland / David M. Kiely, Christina McKenna
★☆☆ Python Data Analysis / Ivan Idris
★☆☆ Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind / Yuval Noah Harari
★★☆ The One Minute Manager / Kenneth H. Blanchard
★★★ The One Minute Manager Meets the Monkey / Kenneth H. Blanchard, William Oncken Jr.
★☆☆ Największy bogacz wszech czasów / Greg Steinmetz
★★☆ War's Unwomanly Face / Svetlana Alexievich
★★☆ Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt / Michael Lewis
★☆☆ Wilcze leże / Andrzej Pilipiuk
★☆☆ Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python / Joel Grus
★★☆ Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street / Tomáš Sedláček
★★★ The Art of War / Sun Tzu
★★☆ Kato-botoks Trzy sposoby odmładzania duszy / Szymon Hołownia
★☆☆ Gar’Ingawi. Wyspa szczęśliwa. Tom II / Anna Borkowska
★☆☆ The Anti-Procrastination Habit: A Simple Guide to Mastering Difficult Tasks / S.J. Scott
★☆☆ Bajeczki ekonomiczne / Maciej Rybiński
★★★ Chinlandia / Roman Konik, Damian Leszczyński
★★☆ Przeszłość jest prologiem / Jacek Bartosiak
★★☆ The 7 Habits of Happy Kids / Sean Covey
★★☆ Dzienniki / Stefan Kisielewski
★☆☆ The Wolf Hunters / James Oliver Curwood
★☆☆ On War / Carl von Clausewitz
★☆☆ No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline / Brian Tracy
★☆☆ Mimochodem o chodzeniu / Szymon Augustyniak
★☆☆ Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager / Kenneth H. Blanchard, Susan Fowler, Lawrence Hawkins
★☆☆ Habit Stacking: 97 Small Life Changes That Take Five Minutes or Less / S.J. Scott
★★☆ Port of Earth #1-12 / Zack Kaplan, Andrea Mutti
★☆☆ The Now Habit / Neil A. Fiore
★☆☆ Rule of St. Benedict / St. Benedict
★☆☆ Święty spokój. Instrukcja obsługi emocji / Jarosław Gibas
★☆☆ Palimpsest / Catherynne M. Valente
★☆☆ Your Kids Are Your Own Fault: A Guide for Raising Responsible, Productive Adults / Larry Winget
★★☆ Galloway's Book on Running / Jeff Galloway
★★☆ Dary Bogów / Witold Jabłoński
★★☆ L'Apparition / Didier van Cauwelaert
★☆☆ Przygotowanie przedszkolaka do szkoły / Beata Nadolna
★★★ Dark Matter / Michelle Paver
★☆☆ Sherlock Holmes - Odcienie Czerni / Adam Chyliński, Bartosz Szpak
★★☆ The Ruins / Scott B. Smith
★★★ Znaczy Kapitan / Karol Olgierd Borchardt
★★☆ The Whispers in the Dark / Jonathan Aycliffe
★★☆ Dom na Wyrębach / Stefan Darda
★☆☆ Nowy dom na Wyrębach / Stefan Darda
★★★ The Book of Trees / Piotr Socha
★★☆ Złowrogi cień Marszałka / Rafał A. Ziemkiewicz
★★★ Szaman morski / Karol Olgierd Borchardt
★☆☆ Czarna Madonna / Remigiusz Mróz
★★★ The War of the Worlds / H.G. Wells
★★★ Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results / Stephen Guise
★★☆ Meditations / Marcus Aurelius
★☆☆ Getting Things Done / James Fallows David Allen
★★★ Python Tricks / Dan Bader
★★☆ Broad Peak. Niebo i piekło / Bartek Dobroch, Przemyław Wilczyński
★★☆ Kult / Łukasz Orbitowski
★☆☆ Ograć nawyki / Jadwiga Korzeniewska
★★☆ Route 66 nie istnieje / Wojciech Orliński
★★☆ Głosy. Co słyszał morderca? / Dionisios Sturis, Ewa Winnicka
★★☆ Sierżant Cuff / Krzysztof Komander, Kinga Krzemińska
★☆☆ Cień Bafometa / Stefan Grabiński
★★★ Wy jesteście światłem świata / Martin Rhonheimer
★☆☆ Słowo na każdy dzień. Ewangelia 2019 / many authors
★☆☆ Kolebka nawigatorów / Karol Olgierd Borchardt

Previous years:
• 2018
• 2017

Thanks for continuing that thread this year too!

1 - Les bienveillantes - Jonathan Littell
2 - The Body Farm - Patricia Cornwell
3 - Mr Mercedes - Stephen King
4 - Finders Keepers - Stephen King
5 - End of watch - Stephen King
6 - Laboratoire de catastrophe générale - Maurice G. Dantec
7 - The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
8 - The Crime of Inspector Maigret - Georges Simenon
9 - Le Roi de fer - Maurice Druon
10 - La Reine étranglée - Maurice Druon
11 - Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward
12 - A battle of nerves - Georges Simenon
13 - Spellfire - Ed Greenwood
14 - Un trou dans la zone - Franck Pavloff
15 - La cerise sur le gateux - Jean-Jacques Reboux
16 - Les poisons de la couronne - Maurice Druon
17 - World war Z - Max Brooks
18 - Micro - Michael Crichton & Richard Preston
19 - The Black Company - Glen Cook
20 - Malevil - Robert Merle
21 - A case of Need - Michael Crichton
22 - Le Cantique des cantines - Claude Mesplède
23 - Panic - Jeff Abbott
24 - Un crime - Georges Bernanos
25 - Zombi - Joyce Carol Oates
26 - La fachosphère - Dominique Albertini & David Doucet
27 - The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
28 - Les pis rennais - Pascal Dessaint
29 - La Passe-Miroir - La fiancée de l'hiver - Christelle Dabos
30 - Les pieds de la dame aux clebs - Olivier Thiébaut
31 - Même pas mort - Jean-Philippe Jaworski
32 - Chili incarné - Gérard Delteil
33 - The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
34 - The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien
35 - The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien
35 - Condamner à mort au Moyen Âge - Claude Gauvard
36 - Les éléphants d'Hannibal - Robert Silverberg
37 - Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
38 - La Sirène rouge - Maurice G. Dantec
39 - La loi des mâles - Maurice Druon
40 - Permaculture: A Beginner's guide - Graham Burnett
41 - La louve de France - Maurice Druon
42 - Le lis et le lion - Maurice Druon
43 - Quand un roi perd la France - Maurice Druon
44 - Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Here's my first read of 2019 !

Les bienveillantes - Jonathan Littell

"The Kindly Ones" in english was a big success in France in 2006, where it earned the Goncourt, the highest literary prize in my country. Quite the sensation at that time, was it worth the fuss?

Well, after reading it, starting in 2018 (1400 pages!!), I can't really answer that question... Yes, Littell has a real knack for writing stories. It's the story of a fictious nazi, Maximilain Aue, doctor in Law, and his life during the nazi Germany era. From the offices in Berlin to the gruesome battle of Stalingrad, Aue is a complex character which I won't describe here since it's, after all, the main point of this book. Written like an autobiography, it's a story of sex, feces, concentration camps, violence... and so many other things.

Problem: was a story worth telling? I don't know. It's well written, but, frankly, I couldn't care less for the main character. Too extreme to my taste. Too long sometimes, to be honest.

Still, it's an intriguing book, might be worth a try, after all!

So far in 2019: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/books_finished_in_2019/post10

Thanks for joining! :)

Here's my first one this year:

★☆☆ Becoming a Better Programmer / Pete Goodliffe

Very disappointing. The Table of Contents looked fascinating, but the book is full of truisms and lacks examples. I also didn't like the author's sense of humour, but it may also be the consequence of my overall disappointment (nothing is funny in wasting time)...

Sally's in the Alley, by Norbert Davis. This is the second of three early 1940s novels Davis wrote about Doan, a slob alcoholic PI, and his partner Carstairs, a Great Dane who's so big that he should arguably be considered a new species. Doan is hired by the government to trick a crazy prospector into selling some land that would benefit the war effort, but people start turning up dead and eventually some enemy agents appear who are trying to get the land for their own countries.

The book is funny but it's more of a "just smiling" funny rather than "laughing out loud". Despite all the hype about Carstairs being the smart one of the pair, he actually doesn't do much except growl at people and nap while Doan does all the work. My favorite character was Harriet Hathaway, a fanatically patriotic woman joining the WAACs who can't stop throwing her opinions at everyone she meets. Doan is okay but it's hard to like a guy who hates his own dog that much.

The Andromeda Strain, by Michael Crichton. I've read some of Crichton's earlier books, and some of his later ones, but this was the one that made him a bestselling star. A deadly bacteria from space comes down with a satellite and wipes out a small town in a few hours, so some top level scientists have to contain it, figure out what it is, and prevent it from killing everything on earth.

It's kind of impressive that this sold so well because it's dryly written, although I suppose back in the late 60s few had seen this kind of technothriller writing, with stuff like fake footnotes, anecdotes, and illustrations meant to give the impression of something that could really happen. And very little really happens in the book from an action perspective - the scientists do various experiments in their compound, talk and think about the disease, and then do more experiments until they finally figure it out, and then it ends with an exciting chapter of a guy having to run through the lab to shut off a nuclear bomb while defense mechanisms are shooting tranquilizer darts into him. Admittedly, fiction today is so hysterical that you'd be unlikely to see a story like this in which obstacles to the heroes take the form of stuff like "forgot to autopsy test subject's brain", but this is part of what makes the story believable. Crichton knew what he was doing to make this gripping instead of dull, even if in later years he would start having robots and dinosaurs slaughter people all over the place.

Please include me.
I just read Shatterpoint by Matthew Stover. one of the best Star Wars Legends books.

And? How it looks now? ;)

Welcome on board!