Dr Richard HusseyStarting off my 2024 #CurrentlyReading thread with "This Is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
Edit: whoops. Stayed up later than planned finishing that... 9th January.
Onto "The House in the Cerulean Sea" by TJ Klune next.
Edit: whoops, burnt through that one by staying up until 2-minutes-to-midnight so I can officially day finished on 12th January.
Book 3 for this year is "The Pattern of the World", coincidentally book 3 of the Pact and Pattern series by J.T. Greathouse.
Edit: finished 21st January.
Book 4 for 2024 is "Empire of the Vampire" by Jay Kristoff.
Edit: finished 11th February.
Book 5 for 2024 is "The Pollutant Speaks", by Alex Cochran.
Edit: finished 16th February.
Book 6 for 2024 is "The Fragile Threads of Power" by V. E. Schwab. A sequel to the "Shades of Magic" trilogy.
Edit: finished 10th March.
Book 7 is technically an anthology called "Vampires: The Original Stories" and includes Polidori's "Vampyre", "Carmilla", and even an Arthur Conan Doyle.
Edit: finished 10th March.
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Onto book 8: "Her Majesty's Royal Coven" by Juno Dawson.
Edit: finished 11th March.
Book 9 of 2024 is "The Hunting Moon" by Susan Dennard. Sequel to the Luminaries, which I think I read last year. Maybe the year before. Recently anyway!
Edit: finished 11th March.
Book 10 will be "Children of Ruin" by @aptshadow
Still spiders, so still only reading it in daytime.
Edit: finished 13th March.
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With that caveat in mind, book 11 of 2024 is "A Deadly Education" by Naomi Novik.
Edit: finished 11th March.
Book 12 of 2024 is "Vampire Stories" by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Edit: finished 14th March.
Book 13 is "Children of Memory" by @aptshadow
Less descriptions of spiders so far...
Edit: finished 14th March.
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Book 14 of 2024 is "The Vagrant" by Peter Newman.
Edit: finished 15th March.
Book 15 is "One For My Enemy" by Olivie Blake.
Edit: finished 22nd March.
Book 16 is "Book of Doors" by Gareth Brown.
Edit: finished 27th March.
Book 17 of 2024 is "Deadhouse Gates" by Steven Erikson.
Edit: finished 20th April.
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Book 18 is "Alcatraz Vs the Evil Librarians" by Brandon Sanderson.
First in the Evil Librarians series, this is one of Sanderson's non-Cosmere series.
Edit: finished April 23rd.
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Book 19 is the second book, "The Scrivener's Bones" by Brandon Sanderson.
Edit: finished 25th April.
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Book 20 is the third in the series: "The Knights of Crystallia" by Brandon Sanderson.
Edit: finished 29th April.
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Book 21 is, surprise, book 4 in the series: "The Shattered Lens" by Brandon Sanderson.
Edit: finished 7th May.
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Book 22 is a sneaky re-read of "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern.
One of my favourite books in my collection, I own four different editions of this one in varying degrees of deluxe.
Edit: finished just past midnight on 4th May.
Book 23 continues the theme with a re-read of "The Starless Sea" by Erin Morgenstern.
Actually my favourite book in the world.
Edit: Finished 6th May.
Book 24 is back to Alcatraz Vs The Evil Librarians book 5: "The Dark Talent" by Brandon Sanderson.
Edit: finished 8th May.
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Book 25 is book 6 in the series, but this time it's "Bastille vs the Evil Librarians" by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson.
Edit: finished ... in an hour.
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Book 26 is "Empire of the Damned" by Jay Kristoff.
Edit: finished 14th May.
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Book 27 of 2024 is "Nine Princes in Amber" by Roger Zelazny.
Edit: completed 14th May.
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Book 28 is the first in a trilogy, "Eon" by Greg Bear.
Edit: finished 16th May.
Book 29 of 2024 is the second book "Eternity", by Greg Bear.
Edit: Gave up on this one on 16th May. Barely 50 pages in.
Moving on to book 30, "The Museum of Extraordinary Things" by Alice Hoffman.
Edit: finished 17th May.
Book 31 is the "White Sand" graphic novel by Brandon Sanderson.
(I actually started it last night, but forgot to post)
This is the start of my Cosmere re-read ahead of Stormlight 5's release later this year. It should be timed to finish for the release, but if other books pop-up in this thread before then you'll know I've been reading faster than planned.
Edit: finished 25th May.
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Book 32 is "Elantris" by Brandon Sanderson (the 10th anniversary text).
Moving to Sel next for my Cosmere re-read.
Edit: finished 3rd June.
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Book 33 of 2024 is "The Emperor's Soul" by Brandon Sanderson.
This is my favourite book by him. It's so tightly woven and self-contained.
Edit: finished 4th June.
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Book 34 is "The Final Empire" by Brandon Sanderson.
Moving over to Scadrial next, with the first in the Mistborn series. Back to where I first started with the Cosmere 15 years ago and which I've never quite left.
What if the Dark Lord won?
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Book 35 is the next in the trilogy, "The Well of Ascension" by Brandon Sanderson.
Edit: finished 23rd June.
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Book 36 will be "The Hero of Ages" by Brandon Sanderson.
Edit: finished 30th June.
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Onto book 37, "Mistborn Secret History" by Brandon Sanderson.
Edit: finished 5th July.
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Book 38 of 2024 moves onto the second era in the Mistborn series with "Alloy of Law" by Brandon Sanderson.
Edit: finished 9th July.
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Book 39 is "Shadows of Self" by Brandon Sanderson, the second in the Era 2 tetralogy.
Edit: finished 15th July.
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Book 40 of 2024 is "The Bands of Mourning" by Brandon Sanderson.
Edit: finished 24th July.
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Book 41 is the final Era 2 book, "The Lost Metal" by Brandon Sanderson.
Completely forgot to post this on the 24th.
Edit: finished 2nd August.
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Onto book 42 of 2024, "Tress of the Emerald Sea" by Brandon Sanderson.
One of the standalone Secret Project novels from last year. This will be the first time I've read this since that bleary-eyed 7am I got the digital copy on New Year's Day 2023.
Edit: finished 8th August.
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I actually ended up reading this version, because I somehow forgot I had it when posting the listing!
This is the Dragonsteel deluxe edition from the Kickstarter campaign.
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Book 43 is "Yumi and the Nightmare Painter" by Brandon Sanderson.
The third secret project (number 2 wasn't Cosmere).
Edit: finished 17th August.
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Book 44 is "Arcanum Unbounded", short stories from the Cosmere by Brandon Sanderson.
Started and finished 18th August. I'd already read some of them earlier at appropriate points in my journey through different planets. This was catching up on the two standalone offerings: "Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell" and "Sixth of the Dusk".
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Curtis McHale@Vecna I very much enjoyed the trilogy, and the second series set a few hundred years later on the same world
@curtismchale Yeah, Mistborn is my favourite part of the Cosmere. :-)
This is all part of my full re-read ahead of Stormlight 5 later this year!
@Vecna Is the next one coming out later this year? Guess I need to plan on reading them all again as well.
@curtismchale "Wind and Truth" is due on the 5th December. :)
@Vecna Pre-ordered from my local store.
Ianhopkinson@Vecna I read this a very long time ago and it was mind-blowing!
@ianhopkinson Unfortunately I mostly found it a confusing mess shaped around some interesting ideas. I got 50 pages into the sequel and decided I couldn't face it any more!
Khleedril@Vecna It is a belter https://rdmp.org/dale-mellor/bookblog/?review=eon
Daniel Peake@Vecna yep, those books aren’t long!
@danielpeake I also needed to make sure I got through it before I left for a train.