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 2021, tell me with "INCLUDE ME" - I'll link the post with your username here (than you can remove "include me" and reorganize your 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
• bhrigu
• Cavalary
• ciemnogrodzianin
• DavidOrion93
• InkPanther
• morolf
• OptimalBreez
• seba_86
• SomeGuy8504
• Thiefer
• Timboli
• xa_chan

Previous years:
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014

Great thanks for IShoot4lolz, madth3 and catpower1980, who maintained the previous years' editions!

Include me, please. I'll lurk around just like last year. hides

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-- To Be Taught, If Fortunate -- Becky Chambers
-- A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking -- T. Kingfisher (Ursula Vernon)
-- Rocket Men -- Robert Kurson (I read 2/3 of the book last year)
-- Every Living Thing -- James Herriot
-- Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima -- Gordon Thomas
-- Wyjście z cienia -- Janusz A. Zajdel
-- Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant -- J. Gregory Keyes
-- Tropy wiodą przez prerię -- Wiesław Wernic
-- Into the Storm -- Taylor Anderson
-- Szeryf z Fort Benton -- Wiesław Wernic
-- Wherever Seeds May Fall -- Peter Cawdron
-- Siedem lat w Tybecie -- Heinrish Harrer
-- The Curse of Chalion -- Lois McMaster Bujold
-- O północy w Czarnobylu -- Adam Higginbotham
-- Roadside Picnic -- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
-- Galaktyczny zwiad -- Siergiej Sniegow
-- Project Hail Mary -- Andy Weir
-- The Alpha Protocol -- Duncan Hamilton
-- City -- Clifford D. Simak
-- Tomek na Alasce -- Alfred Szklarski, Maciej J. Dudziak
-- The Emperor's Soul -- Brandon Sanderson
-- Foundation -- Isaac Asimov
-- Niezwyciężony -- Stanisław Lem
-- All Creatures Great and Small -- James Herriot
-- Three Hearts and Three Lions -- Poul Anderson
-- Spiderlight -- Adrian Tchaikovsky
-- Warships After London: The End of the Treaty Era in the Five Major Fleets, 1930–1936 -- John Jordan
-- The Way of Kings -- Brandon Sanderson

My 2021 list (more detailed reviews in subsequent comments)

1. Klaus-Jürgen Müller, Generaloberst Ludwig Beck. Eine Biographie.
2. Gerhard Wolf, Ideologie und Herrschaftsrationalität. Nationalsozialistische Germanisierungspoltik in Polen.
3. James Barr, A line in the sand. Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East.
4. James Barr, Lords of the desert. The battle between the United States and Great Britain for supremacy in the modern Middle East.
5. John W. Dower, War without mercy. Race and power in the Pacific war.
6. Thucydides, The war of the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, edited by Jeremy Mynott (Cambridge texts in the history of political thought).
7. Holger Afflerbach, Falkenhayn: Politisches Denken und Handeln im Kaiserreich.
8. Polybius, The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield (Oxford world's classics).
9. Christopher Caldwell, The age of entitlement. America since the Sixties.
10. Tacitus, Agricola.
11. Markus Pöhlmann, Der Panzer und die Mechanisierung des Krieges. Eine deutsche Geschichte 1890 bis 1945.
12. Tacitus, Dialogus de oratoribus.
13. Janet L. Nelson, King and emperor. A new life of Charlemagne.
14. Pat Shipman, The evolution of racism. Human differences and the use and abuse of science.
15. Geoffrey Parker, Global crisis. War, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century.
16. Walker Connor, Ethnonationalism. The quest for understanding.
17. Tacitus, Annals book 11.

Include me.

1. Jan 10-14: The House of Wael | 2/5 (GR | blog)
2. Feb 8-13: Shadows of Self | 4/5 (GR | blog)
3. May 9-23: Capital in the Twenty-First Century | 3/5 (GR | blog)
4. Jul 13-17: Shadowrun Returns Anthology | 3/5 (GR | blog)
5. Aug 24-Sep 3: The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality | 2/5 (GR | blog)
6. Sep 13-15: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming | 3/5 (GR | blog)
7. Oct 6-14: Europe: A Natural History | 4/5 (GR | blog)
8. Nov 24-27: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | 4/5 (GR | blog)
9: Dec 9-11: The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future | 4/5 (GR | blog)
10. Dec 15-17: Asta a spus Seneca. Tu ce spui? (Seneca Said This. What Do You Say?) | 2/5 (GR | blog)
11. Dec 23-25: Unde nu-i cap, vai de popoare (Where There’s No Head, Woe to the Peoples) | 4/5 (GR | blog)
12. Dec 29-30: The Bard's Tale | 3/5 (GR | blog)

2020 list
2019 list
2018 list
2017 list
2016 list
2010-2015 list

To go further back, check my read shelf on Goodreads (doesn't seem to allow resorting if not logged on though? and defaults to sorting by date added instead of date read, which is a mess). List is also less complete the farther back you go.

2012 "Emperor's Soul, The" Brandon Sanderson
1886 "Potop" Henryk Sienkiewicz

My most recent reads before 2021:

1895 "Faraon" Bolesław Prus
1884 "Ogniem i Mieczem" Henryk Sienkiewicz
1834 "Pan Tadeusz" Adam Mickiewicz

Really really enjoying K. M. Shea's book Enthroned, King Arthur and Her Knights, 1/2 done with it.

(I don't know if I want to be on the master list of usernames or not, as I don't read that many books anymore, and might forget to comment here if I do.)

Swords of Steel Omnibus
Well of the Worlds, by Henry Kuttner
Supercade, by Van Burnham
Amazing Stories, March 1942
The Deep Blue Good-by, by John D. MacDonald
The Godblade, by J. Christopher Tarpey
Speaks the Nightbird, by Robert McCammon

2020 was a terrible reading year for me. So much sitting around, I felt bad doing more to read. I'll join in here should I get a couple done. I haven't even read either of last year's Dresden Files books!

Klaus-Jürgen Müller, Generaloberst Ludwig Beck. Eine Biographie.

A biography of general Ludwig Beck, chief of staff of the German army from 1933 to 1938, when he retired because of his opposition to Hitler's war policy; later he became one of the leaders of the plot of 20 July 1944. The book is a bit slow going for the first 200 pages (of 540) or so, but gets progressively more interesting, as it traces Beck's intellectual evolution (from initial support for Hitler's regime and organizer of a massive rearmaments campaign to principled opponent and finally conspirator). Very interesting, if also rather depressing.
My rating: 4/5.

Include me please!

I am excited to be a part of this club this year.

Hello there! thanks for including me.

***** Dec. 2020 *****
° (Spa) M. Moorcock - Elric of Melniboné [Elric Saga] ......................... ★★★☆☆
° (Spa) M. Moorcock - The Sailor on the Seas of Fate [Elric Saga] .... ★★★☆☆
° (Spa) A.C. Doyle - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [SH Canon] .. ★★★★☆

***** Jan 2021 *****
° (Spa) M.Moorcock - The Weird of the White Wolf [Elric Saga] ........ ★★★☆☆
° (Spa) L.M. Bujold - Borders of Infinity [Vorkosigan Saga] ................... ★★☆☆☆

***** Mar 2021 *****
° (Spa) S. Erikson - Reaper's Gale [Malazan Book of the Fallen #7] .............................................. ★★★☆☆
° (Spa) Cordwainer Smith - La Dama muerta de Clown Town [Instrumentality of Mankind] .. ★★★☆☆
° (Spa) S. Westerfeld - The Risen Empire [Succession #1] ............................................................... ★★☆☆☆
° (Spa) S. Westerfeld - The Killing of Worlds [Succession #2] ......................................................... DNF 60%

***** Apr 2021 *****
° (Spa) A.C. Doyle - The Return of Sherlock Holmes [SH Canon] ......... ★★★☆☆

***** Jun 2021 *****
º (Spa) S. Erikson - Toll the Hounds [Malazan Book of the Fallen #8] ... ★☆☆☆☆

***** Jul 2021 *****
º (Spa) I. Asimov - The End of Eternity ..................................................... ★★★★☆
º (Spa) I. Asimov - Foundation's Edge ....................................................... ★★★☆☆
º (Spa) Cordwainer Smith - Norstrilia [Instrumentality of Mankind] .. ★★★☆☆

***** Aug 2021 *****
° (Spa) A.C. Doyle - The Valley of Fear [SH Canon] ........................... ★★★★☆
º (Spa) I. Asimov - Foundation And Earth ............................................ ★★☆☆☆

***** Sep 2021 *****
º (Spa) F. Herbert - Children of Dune [Dune #3] ................................ ★★★★★
º (Spa) Y. Kishiro - Gunnm #1 .................................................................. ★★★☆☆

***** Oct 2021 *****
º (Spa) S. Erikson - Dust of Dreams [Malazan Book of the Fallen #9] ... ★☆☆☆☆
º (Spa) Y. Kishiro - Gunnm #2 to #6 .............................................................. ★★★☆☆
° (Spa) A.C. Doyle - His Last Bow [SH Canon] ............................................ ★★★☆☆
° (Spa) L.M. Bujold - Ethan of Athos [Vorkosigan Saga] ............................ ★☆☆☆☆

***** Nov 2021 *****
º (Spa) Y. Kishiro - Gunnm #7 to #9 ............................................................... ★★★★☆

***** Dec 2021 *****
º (Spa) S. Erikson - The Crippled God [Malazan Book of the Fallen #10] ......................... ★★☆☆☆
º (Spa) Cordwainer Smith - Quest of the Three Worlds [Instrumentality of Mankind] .. ★★☆☆☆

Hey
I would like to read The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn this year.

I think this may be habit forming. LOL

See my prior reading here, which also includes explanations - My reading list for 2019 - What I Read In 2020

2020
71 - ROBERT JORDAN [21] - WARRIOR OF THE ALTAII - PCF - 30-DEC-20 --> 6-JAN-21 (Paperwhite)

2021
01 - J.T. NICHOLAS [1] - SINTHETIC - PCF - 6-JAN-21 --> 9-JAN-21 (Kobo)
02 - J.T. NICHOLAS [2] - SINDICATE - PCF - 9-JAN-21 --> 11-JAN-21 (Paperwhite)
03 - J.T. NICHOLAS [3] - SINDROME - PCF - 11-JAN-21 --> 17-JAN-21 (Paperwhite)
04 - DAVID BALDACCI [1] - MEMORY MAN - PCF - 19-JAN-21 --> 23-JAN-21 (Kobo)
05 - PETER BROWN [2] - THE WILD ROBOT ESCAPES - PCF - 25-JAN-21 --> 27-JAN-21 (Samsung)
06 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [23] - INFIDELS - PCF - 28-JAN-21 --> 3-FEB-21 (Paperwhite)
07 - DAVID BALDACCI [2] - THE LAST MILE - PCF - 5-FEB-21 --> 7-FEB-21 (Kobo)
08 - DAVID BALDACCI [3] - THE FIX - PCF - 8-FEB-21 --> 11-FEB-21 (Kobo)
09 - DAVID LUDDINGTON [1] - FOREVER ENGLAND - PCF - 12-FEB-21 --> 14-FEB-21 (Paperwhite)
10 - H.Y. HANNA [11] - ANOTHER ONE BITES THE CRUST - PCF - 16-FEB-21 --> 20-FEB-21 (Paperwhite)
11 - DAVID BALDACCI [4] - LONG ROAD TO MERCY - PCF - 21-FEB-21 --> 24-FEB-21 (Kobo)
12 - ISAAC ASIMOV [15] - PRELUDE TO FOUNDATION - Pb - 24-FEB-21 --> 5-MAR-21
13 - DAVID BALDACCI [5] - A MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT - PCF - 7-MAR-21 --> 10-MAR-21 (Kobo)
14 - DAVID LUDDINGTON [2] - THE RETURN OF THE HIPPY - PCF - 12-MAR-21 --> 16-MAR-21 (Kobo)
15 - DAVID LUDDINGTON [3] - LEAVING SAMANTHA & OTHER STORIES - PCF - 16-MAR-21 --> 17-MAR-21 (Kobo)
16 - DAVID BALDACCI [6] - ZERO DAY - PCF - 17-MAR-21 --> 21-MAR-21 (Kobo)
17 - DAVID LUDDINGTON [4] - THE STORYMAN - PCF - 17-MAR-21 --> 17-MAR-21 (Kobo)
18 - GEORGES SIMENON [1] - PIETR THE LATVIAN - PCF - 22-MAR-21 --> 28-MAR-21 (Kobo)
19 - H.Y. HANNA [12] - APPLE STRUDEL ALIBI - PCF - 30-MAR-21 --> 3-APR-21 (Paperwhite)
20 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [24] - SINS OF THE TITANIC - PCF - 4-APR-21 --> 6-APR-21 (Paperwhite)
21 - ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH [20] - THE TALENTED MR. VARG - PCF - 6-APR-21 --> 11-APR-21 (Paperwhite)
22 - DAVID BALDACCI [7] - THE FORGOTTEN - PCF - 11-APR-21 --> 14-APR-21 (Kobo)
23 - DAVID ANDERSON [1] - THE BEACHHEAD - PCF - 14-APR-21 --> 19-APR-21 (Kobo)
24 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [25] - THE LAZARUS MOMENT - PCF - 20-APR-21 --> 21-APR-21 (Paperwhite)
25 - DAVID ANDERSON [2] - THE REMNANT - PCF - 22-APR-21 --> 25-APR-21 (Kobo)
​​​​​​​26 - DAVID BALDACCI [8] - THE ESCAPE - PCF - 26-APR-21 --> 30-APR-21 (Kobo)
27 - DAVID ANDERSON [3] - THE CITADEL - PCF - 30-APR-21 --> 11-MAY-21 (Kobo)
28 - H.Y. HANNA [13] - FLIP-FLOPS AND MURDER - PCF - 1-MAY-21 --> 7-MAY-21 (Paperwhite)
29 - DAVID BALDACCI [9] - NO MAN'S LAND - PCF - 17-MAY-21 --> 20-MAY-21 (Kobo)
30 - ROBERT THOROGOOD [1] - MURDER IN THE CARIBBEAN - PCF - 20-MAY-21 --> 24-MAY-21 (Kobo)
31 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [26] - SAINT PETER’S SOLDIERS - PCF - --> 25-MAY-21 --> 26-MAY-21 (Paperwhite)
32 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [27] - BLACK WIDOW - PCF - 26-MAY-21 --> 29-MAY-21 (Paperwhite)
33 - MATTHEW REILLY [1] - TROLL MOUNTAIN - PCF - --> 30-MAY-21 (Kobo)
34 - VAL McDERMID [28] - CLEANSKIN - PCF - 30-MAY-21 --> 30-MAY-21 (Paperwhite)
35 - DAVID LUDDINGTON [5] - THE MONEY THAT NEVER WAS - PCF - 31-MAY-21 --> 1-JUN-21 (Paperwhite)
36 - DAVID BALDACCI [10] - THE FALLEN - PCF - 1-JUN-21 --> 3-JUN-21 (Paperwhite)
37 - ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH [21] - THE LIMPOPO ACADEMY OF PRIVATE DETECTION - TRA - 3-JUN-21 --> 5-JUN-21
38 - C.J. BOX [34] - DARK SKY - PCF - 6-JUN-21 --> 7-JUN-21 (Paperwhite)
39 - VAL McDERMID [29] - THE GRAVE TATTOO - PCF - 8-JUN-21 --> 13-JUN-21 (Paperwhite)
40 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [28] - THE THIRTEENTH LEGION - PCF - 14-JUN-21 --> 16-JUN-21 (Paperwhite)
41 - DAVID BALDACCI [11] - THE INNOCENT - PCF - 17-JUN-21 --> 18-JUN-21 (Paperwhite)
42 - H.Y. HANNA [14] - THE DOUGH MUST GO ON - PCF - 19-JUN-21 --> 20-JUN-21 (Paperwhite)
43 - ISAAC ASIMOV [16] - FORWARD THE FOUNDATION - Pb - 20-JUN-21 --> 27-JUN-21
44 - DAVID BALDACCI [12] - THE HIT - PCF - 27-JUN-21 --> 30-JUN-21 (Kobo)
... 00 - SUSAN KIERNAN-LEWIS - An American In Paris Mysteries: Books 1,2,3 (Omnibus) - PCF - 30-JUN-21 --> 27-JUL-21
... 01 - SUSAN KIERNAN-LEWIS - An American In Paris Mysteries: Books 1,2,3 (Omnibus) - PCF
45 - SUSAN KIERNAN-LEWIS [1] - DEJA DEAD - PCF - 30-JUN-21 --> 2-JUL-21 (Kobo)
46 - DAVID LUDDINGTON [6] - SCHRODINGER'S COTTAGE - PCF - 2-JUL-21 --> 5-JUL-21 (Paperwhite)
47 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [29] - RAGING SUN - PCF - 6-JUL-21 --> 7-JUL-21 (Paperwhite)
... 02 - SUSAN KIERNAN-LEWIS - An American In Paris Mysteries: Books 1,2,3 (Omnibus) - PCF
48 - SUSAN KIERNAN-LEWIS [2] - DEATH BY CLICHE - PCF - 7-JUL-21 --> 9-JUL-21 (Kobo)
49 - VAL McDERMID [30] - TRICK OF THE DARK - PCF - 10-JUL-21 --> 14-JUL-21 (Paperwhite)
50 - DAVID BALDACCI [13] - THE TARGET - PCF - 14-JUL-21 --> 16-JUL-21 (Kobo)
51 - RAFAEL SABATINI [35] - THE LOST KING - HC - 17-JUL-21 --> 24-JUL-21
... 03 - SUSAN KIERNAN-LEWIS - An American In Paris Mysteries: Books 1,2,3 (Omnibus) - PCF
52 - SUSAN KIERNAN-LEWIS [3] - DYING TO BE FRENCH - PCF - 24-JUL-21 --> 27-JUL-21 (Kobo)
53 - DAVID BALDACCI [14] - THE GUILTY - PCF - 28-JUL-21 --> 30-JUL-21 (Kobo)
54 - H.Y. HANNA [15] - THE MOUSSE WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR - PCF - 31-JUL-21 --> 3-AUG-21 (Paperwhite)
55 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [30] - KILL CHAIN - PCF - 4-AUG-21 --> 5-AUG-21 (Paperwhite)
56 - VAL McDERMID [31] - THE VANISHING POINT - PCF - 6-AUG-21 --> 9-AUG-21 (Paperwhite)
57 - SUSAN KIERNAN-LEWIS [4] - MENAGE A MURDER - PCF - 10-AUG-21 --> 12-AUG-21 (Kobo)
58 - DAVID LUDDINGTON [7] - WHOSE REALITY IS THIS ANYWAY? - PCF - 14-AUG-21 --> 18-AUG-21 (Paperwhite)
59 - DAVID BALDACCI [15] - END GAME - PCF - 18-AUG-21 --> 20-AUG-21 (Kobo)
60 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [31] - WAGES OF SIN - PCF - 21-AUG-21 --> 22-AUG-21 (Paperwhite)
61 - SUSAN KIERNAN-LEWIS [5] - MURDER IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE - PCF - 23-AUG-21 --> 26-AUG-21 (Kobo)
62 - VAL McDERMID [32] - Christmas Is Murder - PCF - 27-AUG-21 --> 27-AUG-21 (Re-Read) (Paperwhite)
63 - VAL McDERMID [33] - Gunpowder Plots - PCF - 28-AUG-21 --> 28-AUG-21 (Re-Read) (Keyboard)
64 - DAVID BALDACCI [16] - REDEMPTION - PCF - 29-AUG-21 --> 1-SEP-21 (Kobo)
65 - TERRY PRATCHETT [59] - THE SHEPHERD'S CROWN - PCF - 1-SEP-21 --> 27-SEP-21 (Paperwhite)
66 - DAVID BALDACCI [17] - WALK THE WIRE - PCF - 28-SEP-21 --> 3-OCT-21 (Kobo)
67 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [32] - FORGOTTEN - PCF - 5-OCT-21 --> 14-OCT-21 (Paperwhite)
68 - VAL McDERMID [34] - THE SKELETON ROAD - PCF - 15-OCT-21 --> 19-OCT-21 (Paperwhite)
69 - DAVID BALDACCI [18] - THE LAST MAN STANDING - PCF - 19-OCT-21 --> 22-OCT-21 (Kobo)
70 - ROB PHILLIPS [1] - THE CASCADE KILLER - PCF - 22-OCT-21 --> 26-OCT-21 (Paperwhite)
71 - TERRY BROOKS [37] - HIGH DRUID'S BLADE - PCF - 27-OCT-21 --> 3-NOV-21 (Paperwhite)
72 - TERRY BROOKS [38] - THE DARKLING CHILD - PCF - 3-NOV-21 --> 6-NOV-21 (Paperwhite)
73 - TERRY BROOKS [39] - THE SORCERER'S DAUGHTER - TRA - 6-NOV-21 --> 9-NOV-21
74 - DAVID BALDACCI [19] - DAYLIGHT - PCF - 10-NOV-21 --> 12-NOV-21 (Kobo)
75 - DAVID BALDACCI [20] - MERCY - PCF - 12-NOV-21 --> 14-NOV-21 (Kobo)
76 - DAVID LUDDINGTON [8] - CAMP SCOUNDREL - PCF - 15-NOV-21 --> 19-NOV-21 (Paperwhite)
77 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [33] - WRATH OF THE GODS - PCF - 20-NOV-21 --> 23-NOV-21 (Paperwhite)
78 - DAVID BALDACCI [21] - ABSOLUTE POWER - PCF - 23-NOV-21 --> 25-NOV-21 (Kobo)
79 - KATHY REICHS [3] - CROSS BONES - HC - 25-NOV-21 --> 28-NOV-21
80 - VAL McDERMID [35] - NORTHANGER ABBEY - PCF - 30-NOV-21 --> 12-DEC-21 (Paperwhite)
81 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [34] - THE AGENDA - PCF - 13-DEC-21 --> 15-DEC-21 (Paperwhite)
82 - BRANDON SANDERSON [4] - SNAPSHOT - PCF - 18-DEC-21 --> 19-DEC-21 (Kobo)
83 - DAVID BALDACCI [22] - TOTAL CONTROL - PCF - 21-DEC-21 --> 02-JAN-22 (Kobo)

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My projected list for the year (intent)

(This has been relocated by me to my next post, due to what seems to be a word limit in posts.) 16th December 2021

"Potop" - part two of Trylogia Sienkiewicza (Sienkiewicz's Trilogy), written to "comfort Poles' hearts", as the author described it himself, in time when Poland was partitioned by nearby powers in nineteenth century. Part one, "Ogniem i Mieczem" ("With Fire and Sword") became moderately famous after being made into a mod for Mount & Blade: Warband.

Ordinarily I prefer shorter reads and this is one of the longest books I've ever read, but it was worth it if for historical value alone (even though it's a history fiction book, it's based on true events). I won't get into details as it would probably not mean much for anyone outside of Poland. What I do believe (although it's not officially confirmed) is that Sapkowski drawn heavily from those books while writing his "Witcher" series.

To be completely honest I liked first part much more, as this one is quite a heavy read. Still I'm looking forward to third book in the trilogy - "Pan Wołodyjowski" (Thankfully this one is much shorter than previous ones).