2016 Reading List - Books Only!

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OK, time to start a new list for 2016! Post up what books you are reading or have read this year with a 0-5 rating and a quick opinion on what you think.

My goal is to read 52 books this year. I fell short by 11 books on my 50 book goal for 2015, so this is setting the bar pretty high. Let's see how it goes! :)

The first book of 2016 for me is Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors by Nicholas Wade. It is about human origins and movement out of Africa into the rest of the world.

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I am going to set my goal to 18 books again. I'm taking 9 credits this semester as well as working full time, and unfortunately I end up putting my leisure books on the back burner at night.

I'm still on All the Light We Cannot See :whistle .....

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How do you like it so far? Also read Memory Wall, Doerr's short story book. If nothing else, read the last story in the book - Afterworld. Haunting story.

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80 Books Every Person Should Read

http://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/new...n-should-read/

Anything worth a damn on that list?

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80 Books Every Person Should Read

80 Books Every Person Should Read

Anything worth a damn on that list?

No. Beyond lame. Total PC bullshit. There is such a thing as being OBJECTIVELY GOOD in literature. If a "best of" list has no Dickens, no Shakespeare, no Hugo, what the hell kind of list is this? And in the 20th century, no Ishiguro, no Steinbeck? The hell?

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Scrum if there was 1 book you could erase from your mind so that you could go back and enjoy it for the first time all over again which one would it be? You can only pick a single book. Doesn't matter the category or fiction or non fiction. Just a single book that was your greatest experience reading.

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That's an easy one - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. Timeless classic, has everything, adventure, betrayal, revenge. One of the greatest books ever written.

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Fb, how about you? I'm just trying to give myself the best chance I can to pick a book to start out with that I have the greatest chance of success with. I know that if I fail to stay interested in a book like I always have in the past that I'll probably be done for good. Lol.

I need a book that will take me to that place that book lovers talk about. That magical escape into a different world. I've never been able to get past that barrier of text on a page. My mind is literal and visual. So I literally see words on a page and no visual stimulus equals failure every time I try to get into a book.

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I gave you a couple of choices already. Read Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and Freakonomics by Steve Dubner. Both are great books and very easy to read. This is when you wanted nonfiction. If you wanted fiction, read "Odd and the Frost Giants" by Neil Gaiman. I just finished it and it is a very short book, only about 100 pages but very good.

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As much as I love to read, I can't even come up with an answer to that question. I'm like that with movies, too. I can say "yeah, it was pretty good" or "eh, not very good" but I'm never like "OMG, that changed my life!"


There's a book that everyone in my family loves. It's short, and it keeps your attention the whole time. I really like the idea behind it, a lot. I think you should read it. The Giver by Lois Lowry.

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Haha, FB! I was about to suggest that very same book.

Bouncer, there are a bunch of books that are written for young readers. I highly recommend starting with them. They are short, extremely well written and have very interesting and important themes.

The Giver is one of them. Number the Stars is another. Also, Hatchet. Try them, you will like them a lot

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Also try City of Ember.

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Yea I think the books made for a younger crowd may be my best bet. Part of me thinks.. "wait does that mean I'm a dipshit" :D but I'd probably have the best chance of success.

Here scrum, this is what you can never have by reading digital books. A shelf of Hemingway and Dickens.

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Yea I think the books made for a younger crowd may be my best bet. Part of me thinks.. "wait does that mean I'm a dipshit" :D but I'd probably have the best chance of success.

I was hoping that you wouldn't take it the wrong way... these books are great. The only difference is that they are short and so have to do their character development in a quick and straightforward way because they don't have 400 pages to do it over. I really helps the reading and often, the emotions and ideas are communicated more directly. I have no problems reading young adult books. A lot of them are really good.

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I agree. I read a lot of YA, and it's probably the most popular category of books. :thumb: