Dec. 10th, 2024

melreads: UT Tower in Austin (tower)
I should say if you stumble across this that my intent here is to put my old paper reading journals online, so this is an ongoing project! (And the ones I have here start in 2020, thus the list below is from that book.)

Stuff I bought in 2020
(probably mostly in Kindle format, if I know it's not I'll say so). Bold means I know I've read it at some point. Many/most of the others I started reading and just haven't ever finished!

The Physicians of Vilnoc (Penric & Desdemona)
In Their Own Worlds (stories)
Last of the Moon Girls (a freebie - First Reads, something like that)
White Out (First Reads)
A Curse So Dark & Lonely
The Unkindest Tide (October Daye #13 - paperback)
Someone to Romance (Westcott series)
Witch Is Where It All Began
Lost Horizon
Girl Waits With Gun
(Kopp Sisters #1)
The Unspoken
Vanished (I think this is part of a series but I didn't write the name down)
Spindle's End (Kindle copy; I wore out my paperback)
A Killing Frost (October Daye #14?)
Throne of Glass (this is a series, right? but I never read any further)
Aftermath (paperback) (Chuck Wendig, a Star Wars book)
The Fifth Season
Ancillary Justice (another series)
Ahsoka (Star Wars - obviously!)
Lady Cop Makes Trouble (Kopp Sisters #2)
One Salt Sea (October Daye - another replacement for a paperback that was falling apart)
Masquerade at Lodi (Penric & Desdemona)
Lord of the Rings (it doesn't say but I think this was one big edition with all three books), & also The Hobbit
Touch Not the Cat (a book I had in paperback years ago)

That's the end of that list (because I ran out of room), but there's more on a separate page:
Night of a Thousand Stars
Serpent and Dove
The Assassins of Thasalon
(more Penric and Des; that series is mostly novellas)
Thrawn Ascendancy
On Tyranny (pb)
The Once and Future Witches
Winterkeep (the Graceling series)
Silent in the Grave (a Lady Julia mystery)
Aftermath: Life Debt
Black Narcissus
A Court of Thorns and Roses
What the Dead Leave Behind (another mystery series but I don't remember the series name)
Cocaine Blues (Miss Fisher #1)
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion (hardback) and also a book of Sookie-related short stories
From Dead to Worse (pb)
The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
God-Shaped Hole (some book club was reading this)
Tears of Amber (1st Reads)
Murder on the Ballarat Train (Miss Fisher #3)
The Lily Bard series, which is 5 books, I think, and I bought over a couple of months - some in paperback
The Goblin Emperor
U.S. Grant (a combined edition of Catton's Grant/Civil War books, Grant Moves South and Grant Takes Command)
The City We Became
A Curious Beginning
(a series which I never read any more of)

The Dark Enquiry (Lady Julia series)
Coraline
Lincoln's Admiral





melreads: Text: "Me were English major in college" (english major)
This is books that I had not read previously, only. I'm a big re-reader so I keep a separate list for that. I don't usually feel any need to push myself on numbers since I read plenty anyway, but in 2020 I apparently had said that I would read at least one more (new-to-me) book than last year, so the goal was 18, and I had noted on the paper list that I got there in May. I believe I had a Kindle Unlimited account for part of the year, so that influenced what I was reading (an awful lot of various mystery series! I know that's where the "Lady Violet" bunch came from, among others).
  1. Winterkeep
  2. Star Wars: Aftermath
  3. Silent in the Grave (Lady Julia series)
  4. A Court of Thorns and Roses
  5. Cocaine Blues (Miss Fisher #1)
  6. Flying Too High (Miss F #2)
  7. Silent in the Sanctuary (Lady Julia #2)
  8. Silent on the Moors (Lady J #3)
  9. Real Murders (Aurora Teagarden? series, which I never continued with)
  10. Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard #1)
  11. Murder on the Ballarat Train (Miss Fisher #3)
  12. Murder and the Heir (Violet Carlyle #1)
  13. Kennington House Murder (Violet #2)
  14. Shakespeare's Champion (Lily B #2)
  15. Murder at the Folly (Violet #3)
  16. A Merry Little Murder (Violet #4)
  17. Dark Road to Darjeeling
  18. Murder Among the Roses (Violet #5)
  19. Shakespeare's Christmas (Lily Bard #3)
  20. Murder in the Shallows (Violet #6)
  21. Shakespeare's Trollop (Lily #4)
  22. The Assassins of Thasalon (Penric & Des)
  23. Shakespeare's Counselor (Lily #5)
  24. The Dark Enquiry (Lady Julia #5)
  25. Night of a Thousand Stars
  26. Gin and Murder (Lady Violet #7)
  27. Obsidian Murder (Lady Violet #8)
  28. Murder at the Ladies' Club (Violet #9)
  29. Wedding Vows & Murder (Violet #10)
  30. The Magic of Found Objects
  31. An Untimely Death (Anna Fairweather #1)
  32. An Unfortunate Demise (Anna F #2)
  33. What the Dead Leave Behind (Gilded Age Mysteries #1)
  34. An Uninvited Corpse (Anna F #3)
  35. An Unexpected Misfortune (Anna F #4)
  36. Shadow Hunter (Rosie O'Grady's Paranormal Bar & Grill #1)
  37. Strange Practice (Anna Helsing #1)
  38. The Schoolmistress of Emerson Pass (Emerson Pass #1)
  39. An Unhappy Murder (Anna F #5)
  40. An Untidy End (Anna F #6)
Novellas:
Lady Julia: Midsummer Night, Silent Night, Bonfire Night
All Systems Red (Murderbot #1)

Also I had a little list on one side of the page that says: "Things I read so long ago I don't remember them" - I assume that means things that might as well be on the new-books list, except that I actually did read them back in the dawn of time! (But you notice I didn't actually put them in the count, so I imagine they'll be on the re-reads list when I get to it.)

Grant Moves South
Grant Takes Command
Coraline
The Alienist (which I think I read when it was first published, so probably 2006)




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