2020 Read All the Books: Seven Wonders

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

As we have done, so shall we do again!

The Read All the Books Challenge encourages group members to read as many books--current and past-- off the group shelf as they can. Tell us how it's going in this thread and any thoughts you have while you do it! May it fill you with wonder more often than it makes you wonder!

To sign up, go to the challenge and remember to link one of your own shelves to it!

[Anna]

My goal was to hit 200 read by the end of 2020, and I did it, yay!

32/32

18/24 Group Reads 2020
         
       

04/24 Group Reads 2020 (previously read)
   

02/24 Group Reads 2020 (noped out)
 

14/12 Group Reads Earlier
         
   

[DivaDiane]

I think I will go for 12 right off the bat this year. I already have a few I plan on reading (catching up on a few 2019 Group reads) and hope to join in one new Group read per month.

[Silvana]

I did not join the challenge this year but next year I plan to read 10 at least.

[Meredith]

I’ll aim for 16, should be doable between my TBR and group picks.

[Amanda]

I'm gonna shoot for 24, half from the current shelf and half from next year's group reads.

[Bill]

I was going to go for 29 to hit 200 but don’t want to copy Anna so I’ll do 30 and stay 1 ahead :)

1. Rosewater by Tade Thompson - 1/2/20
2. Catseye by Andre Norton - 1/5/20
3. Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn - 1/7/20
4. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov - 1/8/20
5. Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem - 1/8/20
6. White Cat by Holly Black - 1/9/20
7. The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner - 1/12/20
8. Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant - 1/14/20
9. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow - 1/14/20
10. Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett - 1/15/20
11. Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones - 1/16/20
12. Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton - 1/20/20
13. Semiosis by Sue Burke - 1/23/20
14. Soulless by Gail Carriger - 1/23/20
15. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham - 1/27/20
16. The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay - 1/29/20
17. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm - 1/30/20
18. Ubik by Philip K. Dick -1/31/18
19. Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke - 2/20/20
20. The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov - 2/20/20
21. The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester - 2/23/20
22. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick - 3/25/20
23. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi - 3/29/20
24. The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco - 4/3/20
25. The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal - 4/6/20
26. Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson - 4/12/20
27. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North - 4/12/20
28. Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente - 4/14/20
29. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - 4/24/20
30. Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie - 4/25/20
31. Haze by L.E. Modesitt Jr. - 4/28/20
32. Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie - 4/30/20
33. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke - 5/4/20
34. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia - 5/12/20
35. The Briar King by Greg Keyes - 6/3/20
36. The City & the City by China Miéville - 6/4/20
37. The Magic of Recluce by L.E. Modesitt Jr. - 6/6/20
38. The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo - 6/8/20
39. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - 7/23/20


By Month:
January - 18
February - 3
March - 2
April - 9
May - 2
June - 4

[Anna]

Bill wrote: "I was going to go for 29 to hit 200 but don’t want to copy Anna so I’ll do 30 and stay 1 ahead :)"

Haha, excellent strategy! :D

[Jen]

I'm going to aim for 10 and see how that goes!

[Raucous]

I'm really torn here. I've read 90 books off of the group bookshelf. If I read nine I'll still be in the licorice section of the clubhouse. I do have a weakness for licorice. But... Chocolate. Hmm...

I'll try to read 10 anyway in 2020 and hope that no one sees me sneaking back.

[Dawn F]

This is the thread for 2020?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Yep! This starts the RATB 7 which coincides with 2020

[Dawn F]

Great! I’m at 44 for this year, way off my goal of 30, so it’s going pretty well XD

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Haha that's your Sixth Book Sense! You just know how to keep reading!

[Dawn F]

Apparently so! I hope I’ve got some wonders as well ^_^

[Karin]

I am going to try this but will aim low since I am foolishly signed up to do the Popsugar challenge for the first time in some years. I do plan to include some scifi in those reads. I have said 5 so far, but if I am doing well, can I up the goal?

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Absolutely! You can change it whenever throughout the year :)

[Karin]

PS right now it says the dates are in 2019

[Anna]

Karin wrote: "PS right now it says the dates are in 2019"

What says?

Oh, I see you just signed up for the 2019 challenge. The 2020 challenge opens on January 1st, 2020, which is when you can sign up for that!

[Anna]

Karin, I just edited my above message :)

[Karin]

Anna wrote: "Karin, I just edited my above message :)"

Thanks. Makes total sense.

[Anthony]

I’ll be going for 30 again.

[Coralie]

I am currently on 273 and I aim to read another two this year, so I will go for 25 to make it a nice round 300.

[Kaa]

My goal for 2020 is going to be 15 books, either this year's books or books from previous years, with a stretch goal of 18, which would get me to 40% of the bookshelf read.

[Carolyn]

I think I’ll have read 14 by the end of this year so I’ll make goal for 2020 15 books.

[Gabi]

I have to go for either 25 (doable) or 75 books (quite ambitious), cause I need nice round numbers (150 or 200 from the shelf)

[Saar The Book owl]

Not sure on how many I'm going to read, because I failed the current one and forget about it. Maybe I'll start with 15.

[Mary]

Is there a way to compare my shelves to the group shelf? Other than scrolling.. Thanks

[Melanie, the neutral party]

Use Anna's spreadsheet!

[Anna]

GR list of group books
Spreadsheet of group books (Just updated this morning!)

[Anna]

Mary wrote: "Is there a way to compare my shelves to the group shelf? Other than scrolling.. Thanks"

Try this!

[Silvana]

Anna wrote: "Mary wrote: "Is there a way to compare my shelves to the group shelf? Other than scrolling.. Thanks"

Try this!"

very useful, thanks!

[CBRetriever]

you'll still want to manually check if you read any omnibus or collections by an author

[Beth]

Jen wrote: "I'm going to aim for 10 and see how that goes!"

I'll also aim for 10. I read 8 books from the shelf this year, and want to step it up a bit!

[Carrie]

I'm going to aim for 12 (I have more unread then 12) so that gives me 1 a month, and if I read more I'll up my number.

[Mary]

Anna wrote: "Mary wrote: "Is there a way to compare my shelves to the group shelf? Other than scrolling.. Thanks"

Try this!"

Thank you!!

[Mary]

I have 81 already on my TBR and physically own 12 so I'll go for the 12. I'm trying to read my owned books so this will help.

Should probably sign up for the TBR challenge too...

[Eva]

This year, I signed up in September and committed to reading 8 books from the group shelf, which I've already exceeded.

I'll commit to 15 next year: 12 group reads and 3 extra (I don't know how much time I'll have for reading next year and like setting myself easily-achievable goals). Maybe I'll increase the number once I've completed the challenge.

[Angie]

Even though I couldn't manage to read 12 this year, I'm opting for 12 again next year. Optimism!

[Alia]

I'm going to pledge to read 10 books.

[DivaDiane]

I'm spending way too much time fussing with this, but I just had to know for sure!

So, it seems as though I've read 83 from our shelves and own at least another 24 unread. I'm going to aim for 12 from my list of already owned books and I probably won't be able to resist a few of the new ones. We'll see!

[Karin]

I'm going to start with a low goal that I can raise if things are going well quickly. Also, I need to recount how many I've read from our shelves; I am going to figure out an easy way to see at a glance what I've read without messing up my sorting.

[Leticia]

I'll go for 12 as usual.

[Lost Planet Airman]

I managed 42 in 2018, and forty-and-two-halves so far in 2019, so I think I can make a hat trick and get 42 one more year.

Due to break 200 in the spring!

[Ben]

34 because thats how many I currently own off of the group shelf that I haven't read (they do tend to accumulate huh?). And after that I'll probably be reading the rest of the series that half of these have following them.

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Wow, great pace, Mike!!

Ben, a worthy goal haha! That's the problem with books, is reading one tends to lead to more reading you gotta do. *Shakes a loving fist at the books*

[Thomas]

I have generally been a part-time sci-fi and fantasy reader so I thought I might be out of my element here. I was happy to see that I have read 32 books from the group's bookshelf, and see several on my TBR list. Being new to this club's reading challenges, I am setting my goal at a modest 12.

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[Christopher]

I’m going to attempt 24 this year!

[Allison, Fairy Mod-mother]

Welcome, Tom! That's a pretty sweet start. I hope we help you find books that meld your interests :)

Huzzah, Christopher! May all our reads suit you well!

[Steve]

On course to do my 12 for 2019 - So I'm putting 12 as my goal for 2020 too!

Books intended so far:

The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) – Brandon Sanderson (I was going to try and get through it this week for the 2019 challenge but opted to make it book 1 of my 2020 challenge :) )
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2) – Brandon Sanderson
Uprooted– Naomi Novik
Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
The Book of Phoenix – Nnedi Okorafor
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2) – Becky Chambers
The Mere Wife - Maria Dahvana Headley
Too Like the Lightning – Ada Palmer
An Unkindness of Ghosts – Rivers Solomon
Pawn of Prophecy (Belgariad #1) – David Eddings (finally!)
Sea of Rust– C Robert Cargill
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1) – Jim Butcher (Fell off with the series, want to restart)