Once again, hello book-loving GOGgers and welcome to a new year filled with other lives and worlds to experience, as well as depictions, analyses and commentaries about the one we happen to find ourselves in.

This is the place to list all the books you read in 2025, with as many and as few comments as you want about each. Asking for or offering book recommendations, exchanging impressions about books and having other discussions about books is also welcome.
If you want your list post to be linked to here, make sure to put "include me" in it at least until I'll add it here. After it's added, you may remove those words if you wish.
You may, of course, organize your "central" post as you wish, but if I may make a recommendation, it would be nice if on top of the full list of the books you read this year, for each title there would also be links to your reviews or commentaries posted either in this thread or elsewhere, ratings using whichever system you prefer, and if possible also dates.
In addition, if you want me to also include here a link to your profile on a book-related site, like Goodreads, LibraryThing or The StoryGraph, or even a personal site, or section of a site, dedicated to books, make sure to put "include link" in your list post at least until I'll add it here. Again, after it's added, you may remove those words if you wish. If you want multiple such links to be included, make sure to put "include" before each. If you add any such links without the word "include" first, I'll assume you don't want them added to the OP (though I'll probably ask, to be sure).
If I missed anything or you have any other questions or suggestions, feel free to PM me. And you may also want to do that if you edit your list post in order to add links to other profiles after I already added a link to the post here, so I won't miss the change.

Readers:
andysheets1975
chevkoch
ciemnogrodzianin
InkPanther
Timboli

Previous years:
2024 (11 readers, 164 posts)
2023 (11 readers, 96 posts)
2022 (9 readers, 121 posts)
2021 (13 readers, 214 posts)
2020 (15 readers, 335 posts)
2019 (14 readers, 177 posts)
2018 (16 readers, 226 posts)
2017 (no centralized list, 107 posts)
2016 (no centralized list, 309 posts)
2015 (no centralized list, 155 posts)
2014 (no centralized list, 208 posts)

And since I mentioned those previous threads, I also want to once again thank the previous managers: ciemnogrodzianin (2018-2021, also bringing the format of the centralized lists from the games threads to the books ones), catpower1980 (2017), madth3 (2015, 2016) and IShoot4lolz (2014).

Thanks for doing this again. I'd like to quietly lurk around this year too, so include me please. ;)

I'm happy you are hosting this again, please include me once more, Cavalary. Thanks.

@Cavalary - Thanks once again, and please include me. :)

What I Read In 2022 - (this also contains links for what I read in 2019, 2020, 2021)
What I Read In 2023
What I Read In 2024

71 - DAVID BALDACCI [47] - KING AND MAXWELL - PCF - 31-DEC-24 --> 03-JAN-25 (Kobo)
01 - CRAIG A. FALCONER [10] - CHASING TOMORROWS (15-Book Sci-Fi Box Set) - PCF - 21-SEP-24 --> reading (Paperwhite) Sci-Fi Sizzlers
.. (1) Wanderlust - 21-SEP-24 --> 21-SEP-24 (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (2) Bound For Glory - 29-SEP-24 --> 03-OCT-24 (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (3) Sunset Stays - 12-OCT-24 --> 12-OCT-24 (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (4) Arise With Us - 26-OCT-24 --> 26-OCT-24 (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (5) Whence They Came - 20-NOV-24 --> 20-NOV-24 (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (6) Replica - 14-DEC-24 --> 21-DEC-24 (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (7) Megaton Murphy - 04-JAN-25 --> 04-JAN-25 (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (8) A Scent Of Man - --> (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (9) Yester Year - --> (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (10) Too Good To Be True - --> (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (11) Happy, Inc. - --> (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (12) Pamela 2.0 - --> (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (13) Funscreen - --> (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (14) Pumpkin Splice - --> (Craig A. Falconer)
.. (15) When Santa Slays - --> (Craig A. Falconer)
02 - LEE CHILD [21] - PERSONAL - PCF - not yet --> (Kobo)
03 - KATHY REICHS [20] - BONES NEVER LIE - PCF - not yet --> (Kobo)
04 - J. ROBERT KENNEDY [62] - THE TEMPLAR DETECTIVE AND THE LOST CHILDREN - PCF - not yet --> (Paperwhite)
05 - ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH [41] - HOW TO RAISE AN ELEPHANT - PCF - not yet --> (Paperwhite)
06 - JAMES PATTERSON & Candice Fox [11] & [1] - NEVER NEVER - PCF - not yet --> (Kobo)
07 - T.J. KLUNE [5] - SOMEWHERE BEYOND THE SEA - PCF - not yet --> (Kobo)
08 - BRANDON SANDERSON [6] - SKYWARD - PCF - not yet --> (Kobo)
09 - TERRY BROOKS [45] - MAGIC KINGDOM FOR SALE -- SOLD! - Pb - not yet -->
10 - ANDY WEIR [1] - THE MARTIAN - PCF - not yet --> (Paperwhite)
11 - DAVID BALDACCI [48] - Bullseye - PCF - not yet --> (Kobo) Novella
... The Millennium Trilogy (Omnibus) - (1) - STIEG LARSSON
12 - STIEG LARSSON [1] - THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO - PCF - not yet --> (Kobo)
13 - MICHAEL CONNELLY [13] - CHASING THE DIME - PCF - not yet --> (Kobo)
... Roy Grace: Books 1–10 (Omnibus) - (5) - PETER JAMES - 05-APR-24 -->
14 - PETER JAMES [6] - DEAD TOMORROW - PCF - not yet --> (Kobo)

Include me, please.

Include me, please.

Thank you, Cavalary, for the new thread!

I'm just working on a small script to make my updates easier :) I'd like to update all my lists from the last few years and start to post here more often :D


Previous years:
• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017

Nice problem to have, needing automation to keep better track of reading :)

I started something like that back in December 2021.

It is called Extract Reading List.

Initially I used it to extract from what I had posted online, then gradually I changed it into being the other way around, and now it no longer does the former, and I keep adding new abilities to it.

Previously I just kept an Excel spreadsheet, with even more data, but as that was on my old Windows XP laptop with Office 2003 and a lot of macros, it just kept getting updates less and less, so I decided to develop something dual purpose and easy to maintain and export from.

The attached screenshot probably says it all.

P.S. If anyone has ever wondered why my postings look so organized etc, this is why. Pretty quick and easy to export entries for here, and a good searchable record or database as well, even including some stats, etc. My old Excel file now hasn't been updated for a couple of years at least.

P.S.S. It is essentially called Reading Record now, but I never did get around to changing the executable name.

Hello Cavalary, add me to the readers list, just finished Metro 2033 from Dmtry Glukhovsky.
Intristing book with an amazing setting, it's much darker and decadent than the one presented in the games. The games have an astounding atmosphere, but with all that weapons even on higer difficults you are OP. Artyom in the books are much more naive and vulnerable, the world is falling apart, survival is a core element in the Metro tunels, death is around every corner. What I can say it's that seems to me like a long book, could be shorted and some thing could be better presented, yet it does its job. Very recommended 4/5.