Joe B's 2018 Reading Goals

[Joe]

I've been on a trend of reading thicker, denser books at a very slow pace the last couple of years. Now I'm hooked up with audio books and picking up speed.

30 Books in 2018
Books: 21/30 (audio: 14) (paper: 7)
Pages: 8355 (audio: 5571) (paper: 2784)

1. The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett (1/18) 277 pages
2. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (3/27) 947 pages
3. Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World by Evan Thomas (4/8) 484 pages (audio)
4. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by John Meacham (5/4) 759 pages (audio)
5. Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian (5/25) 496 pages
6. Start Something That Matters by Blake Mycoskie (6/1) 185 pages (audio)
7. Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (6/8) 870 pages (audio)
8. The Fish That Ate The Whale by Rich Cohen(6/13) 270 pages (audio)
9. Quiet Until the Thaw by Alexandra Fuller (6/17) (288 pages) (audio)
10. The Iliad by Homer (6/17) (192 pages)
11. Lyndon Johnson's War: America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968 by Michael H. Hunt (6/30) (131 pages)
12. Madame Secretary: A Memior by Madeleine Albright (7/6) (576 pages) (audio)
13. The Greatest Salesman In the World by Og Mandino (7/11) (128 pages) (audio)
14. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (7/20) (292 pages) (audio)
15. Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly (7/24) (487 pages)
16. The Quiet American by Graham Greene (7/31) (180 pages) (audio)
17. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (8/18) (231 pages)
18. Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill (8/14) (320 pages) (audio)
19. Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times by Kenneth Whyte (9/25) (640 pages) (audio)
20. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez (11/2) (348 pages) (audio)
21. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (11/16) (254 pages)

Not Finished:
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
The $100 Startup

[Blagica]

“I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library.” I hope you find a corner in Paradise with some great books!!

[Joe]

Blagica wrote: "“I have always imagined paradise will be a kind of library.” I hope you find a corner in Paradise with some great books!!"

That sounds hopeful. Especially since I have always said that my biggest regret will be all of the books left unread when I die :-).

[Blagica]

=)