Currently roughly halfway through The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch and enjoying it a lot. Recently read Recursion by Blake Crouch and before that I finished the Mistborn era 1 trilogy in roughly 3 weeks.
What is everyone reading and hoping to finish before the new year? Also, what do you plan to pick up next? After The Gone World I am considering jumping into the first Dungeon Crawler Carl or The first law trilogy!
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The Crocodile by Dostoyevsky
I’ll probably just cross the finish line with Of Mice and Men at the start of the New Year. Tried to fit in a few smaller books this past week.
Pet Sematary. 229 pages left. Idk if I will be able to finish it or not. Let’s see.
I’m planning on finishing up Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett before the new year. Then finishing up Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky sometime in February ish
I’ll be wrapping up Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky as my last book – something short to wrap up the year after the busy holidays!
It was Great Expectations and I hated it
Nausea – Jean Paul Sartre
The Carpet Weaver
I might be able to knock out the end of *The Secret Garden*
King Sorrow – Joe Hill
Finished Jar of Hearts by Hillier yesterday. That one had me reading at 1am.
Une vie – Maupassant
The Greatest Story Ever Told Book 2 by Greg Laurie. I should finish it either this afternoon or tomorrow morning.
Finishing The Odyssey by Homer – translated by W.H.D. Rouse and starting The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain. I’ve got a list of 20+ books to read in 2026, and the order will be determined by “drawing numbers” and reading the book on my list that corresponds to the number I draw. It makes deciding what to read next so much easier.
On Kindle, I’m finishing Finders Keepers by Stephen King. I also have a list of to be read on Kindle, but I just pick then as I go. I like posts like these, and the weekly reading posts, because it gives me ideas to add to my constantly growing to be read lists.
The Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon
The horse by willy vlautin,
but I also have a Claire keegan novel just in case..
The Death of Materialism: A Skeptic’s Journey from Materialism to Panpsychism by David Michael Gibbs.
It’s a fantastic book about a doc who switched to believing consciousness creates reality after remote viewing. Pretty mind blowing read.
Next up: Dan Brown: The Secret of Secrets. I’m on a consciousness kick.
Am halfway through “You Like It Darker” (2024) by Stephen King. Haven’t read anything by him in ages, but am enjoying this collection of short stories way more than I thought that I would.
Just finished Stoner by John Williams today.
Henry Gee’s The Decline and Fall of Human Empire. Pretty great book. After that probably Ellison’s Invisible Man.
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
Misery by King. I think I’ll try the Harry Potters next, I missed that whole YA era
Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Finished The Secret History by Donna Tartt yesterday
Finishing borderlands by Lewis Baston. It’s alright but I wouldn’t really recommend it anyone
World without end by Ken Follett
to kill a mockingbird
the last one i started was “i know how this ends” by holly smale. it was an infuriating DNF for the bait and switch of the blurb saying she’s a meteorologist, but the truth being that she’s a shitty youtuber shill who makes meteorology videos.
i won’t finish the actual last one before the new year.
I finished *The Dictionary of Lost Words* by Pip Williams yesterday and started reading *Assassin’s Apprentice* by Robin Hobb today. *Middlemarch* by George Eliot and *The Pillars of the Earth* by Ken Follett are currently in progress too but they will have to wait until next year to be finished.
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
Don’t think I’ll finish it in time tho.
The game by Ken Dryden
25 pages left in Tropic of Cancer…then starting 2026 with Ulysses.
You’ve given me a goal. I’m halfway through The Secret History by Donna Tartt.
sometimes a great notion, next up is either counterweight or desert solitaire.
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
I’ll be reading a couple quick D&D and Star Wars books to start off the new year and then back into something with more weight.
The Coward. Have about 100 pages left I’ll finish it by tomorrow.
I finished the Mummy by Anne Rice yesterday and I don’t think I can finish any other book before the year ends.
I started reading the song of Achilles today, but that definitely won’t be done before new years.
I‘m currently listening to the never ending story by Michael Ende, but that still had about 10 hours on it and while technically possible, I just don’t feel like finishing it right now.
Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy. Having trouble finishing it.
Firefight – Brandon Sanderson. Not liking this one as much as Steelheart so I’m starting the Silo series after this.
I’m a Fan, Sheena Patel. i love a good book about women who are unhinged
About 30 pages left of Isaac by Curtis Garner
Carpenter’s Gothic by William Gaddis.