Half of 2025 is over. How many books did you read?

>>24525662 (OP)
i have read over 10000 pages but not finished a single book
so... whatever that is

>>24525664
It's zero.

>>24525662 (OP)

>>24525669
zero, aka about how interesting such a question can possibly be

>>24525662 (OP)
fuck i forgot. maybe like 3 or 4

>>24525859
revise that, more like 2

>>24525662 (OP)
4 + 2 shakespeare's plays (need recs for what I read next after Macbeth, preferably supernatural stuff, have read Hamlet and Midsummer Night's Dream) + 2 Beckett's entries in his trilogy if you count each as one + whatever books I read partially and some seminal essays + also a pending final read of Brothers Karamazov. Not so bad compared last year but still feels disappointing.

Physically read books: 3
Audiobooks : ~27
Digital: 8

>>24525662 (OP)
14 so far

>>24525662 (OP)
Here is my 2025 reading list including brief reviews.
Book Reviews 2025

December to January - Shadow of the torturer by Gene Wolf - I liked parts of it and was bored by other bits. Apparently the series is supposed to be read several times and has a massive following of people that swear it gets better. I may come back and read the other three books if I'm in a reading ditch but currently I am comfortable just leaving it at book one. Slightly reaffirms that I don't like my sci fi and my heroic fantasy blended.

January to February - Pale Fire by Nobokov - Very good, probably too smart for me but the somewhat ambiguous ending and writing style was excellent. Would love to read it at a huge university campus and then discuss it at a pub full of pseuds.

January to February - Legend by David Gemmell - Brilliant and inspiring. As one internet user said “this book has big swinging balls”. Still one of my favourite books, it holds up even after all this time and what is probably the third time I have read it.

February to March - The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon - The author of this book has managed to do what few have ever achieved, concisely explaining the life cycle of civilizations and the underpinning mechanisms that allow them to flourish and also destroy them. Genuinely brilliant book, some antiquated notions that are more funny than offensive but each page offers insights and wisdom that are as relevant now as they were in 1895. If this review seems overly serious it is because the book is now in my top 5 favourite books and has surpassed a few others that I would normally recommend to the ideologically and politically curious.

March to May - Journey to the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Genuinely beautiful and tragic book. Not for the feint of heart or for those who have never experienced tragedy or been the cause of it. A detached ride through all of the worst spectacles that mankind has to offer. Absolutely brilliant.

May to May - Ogres by Tchaikovsky - it was entertaining and pretty fun. It was a quick read and I liked the messages the book had.

May to DNF - The courage of hopelessness - Zizek - sorry Zizek, couldn't finish it, skim read a little and he seems very prophetic but due to me reading it about 10 years late my interest has waned. I probably just need to read something more contemporary of his. I would have loved it in 2018, I will try it again as a timepiece in about 10 years I think

May to June- the ancien regime and the revolution - Alexis de Tocqueville - An absolutely brilliant book that examines the french revolution in an easily digestible and interesting way. Definitely a historical classic and a masterpiece of political analysis. I hope to find more like it in future, very hard to find historical books that aren't full of overly academic tripe that detracts from the truth.

>>24525922
Cont
June to DNF - Pimp by Iceberg Slim - it was initially charming I was worn down by the lies by the third chapter. I am already not a fan of exaggerated biographies but this book doesn't have the utility to justify reading through the endless embellishments. Bit disappointing. The overarching message of the book is to not be a mark. I took that to heart and am not going to continue reading.

June to - Murphy by Samuel Beckett - currently reading, it's great so far

I've read 46 books so far this year

14 to completion, but I have 3 or 4 others that are about 80% done

Moving more towards philosophy and it takes a lot longer

>>24525662 (OP)
44 books, or 18710 pages
I'll focus more on reading long books for the rest of the year, I think

>10 books
>3631 pages
I do have a lot of unfinished books so maybe I'll reach 30 book by the end of the year.

>>24525662 (OP)
41 currently

41 books, about 11k pages.

>>24525922
Bought Journey and War from Céline recently, I was inclined to start with War as it's the shorter one and was written only two years after Journey. Do you recommend starting with Journey instead ?

>>24525840
about 60000 pages

>>24525664
It do be like that

>>24525662 (OP)
60. Half nonfiction.

i have no idea

Aeneid
The Comedy of Errors
Blood Meridian
Nichomachean Ethics
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Pale Fire
American Gods
Strong Opinions

>>24527219
>not a single female author

>>24527219
>Read men literature

My to-be read list is almost empty. Does that mean I'm finally free?

>>24526079
I haven't read war so giving an informed answer is difficult. Journey is a self contained narrative that doesn't need outside exposition to understand it's content so I suppose the order doesn't really matter but I didn't even know the book war existed and the section in journey about his time in the frontlines contains some of the best parts of the book.

20

>>24525922
intéressant.

essaie l'histoire de ma vie, de casanova, chez bouquins, la plus récente éditions.

>>24528783
Thanks mate I'll give it a go. Always appreciate a good recommendation.

>>24525662 (OP)
I can't be bothered to count all the books or pages I read, I wish there was a simple way to do it without me counting. I wish the reader I use did this for me. Which still wouldn't be too useful since it doesn't count the paper books I read.
Captcha: SAYMR

>>24525662 (OP)
18 including the one in progress

>>24525662 (OP)
I wanted to read all of Lord of the Rings but I'm still only 75% of the way through fellowship. I read the D&D Moldvay Basic rulebook though if that counts.

>>24525662 (OP)
12 :3

1. Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian
2. Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
3. The Gardener’s Son by Cormac McCarthy
4. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
5. Hombre by Elmore Leonard
6. The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
7. Guignol's Band by Louis Ferdinand Celine
8. Count Belisarius by Robert Graves
9. Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City by Jacques Yonnet
10. Paris Vagabond by Jean-Paul Clebert
11. Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece by Patrick Leigh Fermor
12 The Civil War, Volume 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
13. Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger


Just started The Big Money (part 3 of the USA trilogy) by John Dos Passos

>>24525662 (OP)
1. Plato (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phædo, Meno, Protagoras, Gorgias, Ion, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Alcibiades, Lysis, Laches, Charmides, Clitophon, Symposium, Phædrus, & Republic)
2. Blood Meridian
3. Aeschylus (Persians & Seven Against Thebes)
4. Genesis

22. If you don't count manga then 21. If you don't count audiobooks or manga then 16.

>east of Eden
>the idiot
>fathers and sons
>what is to be done? (Chernyshevsky)
>no longer human
>children of dune
>god emperor of dune
>remains of the day
>confessions of a mask
>forging war, making revolution: Russia 1917.
>the passenger
>stella maris
>chevengur
Idk what to read next. I’m in a slump

like 3

10/12 with 46 short stories
didn't have much time to read in the early part of the year but this is what i've got so far:
>The Road (read for an english class i dropped out of)
>Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
>The Myth of Sisyphus
>Don Quixote
>The Bell Jar
>Crime and Punishment
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
>Count of Monte Cristo
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>Neuromancer
Not sure what I'll read next. Probably Blood Meridian, I guess, or maybe the one Conan novel. I have some larger books but I want to at least try to reach my reading goal before I tackle another huge book. I don't normally obsess over it but I got kinda peeved by the NYT article about the average American reading 12 books a year and decided that would be my goal because there's no fucking way that's the real number and I don't want to be overshadowed by fictional dweebs reading Colleen Hoover or whatever the fuck.
I also picked up a copy of Mirrorshades, a Cyberpunk anthology, and a copy of Trouble and Her Friends. Mirrorshades will help because I want to write more scifi and I didn't own a unique anthology for the genre (and subgenre), but it won't count towards my overall reading goal because I try to only put novels up there. I do try to read 15 short stories a month though so they'll count towards that.

>>24525662 (OP)
8 books
>1. kids encyclopedia / finished 5 17 2025 3am
>2. Plato Philebus / june 11th wednsday / 70 pages
>3. Aristotle De Anima / june 13th friday / 70 pages
>4. Alien Information Theory/ june 14th saturday / 210 pages
>5. empiricus selections / june 19th thursday / 40 pages
>6. Book of lies / june 20th / 40 pages
>7. book of law / june 20th / 40 pages
>8. radical evolution / june 27th / 270 pages

>>24525662 (OP)
205

>>24525662 (OP)
Good thing I keep a calendar on these otherwise I’d forget immediately
>Dostojevski - Humiliated and Insulted
>Tolstoy - Cossacks
>Ilf & Petrov - 12 Chairs
>Quignard - Tous les Matins du Monde
>Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
>Kianto - The Red Line (Punainen Viiva)
>LOTR
>Gorki - Mother
And currently just 50 pages of Zolzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward left. Total would be 9, technically 12 all books included.

17 so far, year average is 16, but I've been reading way less since the heat became noticeable

2.875 (cultivationslop not included)

>>24527219
based