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1MarthaJeanne
My idea this year is to read 15x15 books, mixing German and English. I will do the statistics separately. I expect that there will be a lot more English here except in the children's books.
Statistics:
English
New books 22
Library books 26
Second hand books 36
Rereads 40
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 39/12/14
German
New books 7
Library books 21
Second hand books
Rereads 1
E-books/Gutenberg
Other
E-books 1
Categories of at least 10 (* means 15) 15/10
* Children's books in English
* Children's picture books in German
*Asimov
Lackey (10)
McCaffrey and Willis (11)
*Other Science Fiction and Fantasy
*US
Indian subcontinent and diaspora
* UK and other English speaking countries
International books (12)
Other countries (11)
* 100 years or more
* Prehistory and ancient world
*Short Stories (Includes those listed in Science Fiction and Fantasy)
*Other
Statistics:
English
New books 22
Library books 26
Second hand books 36
Rereads 40
E-books/Gutenberg/OverDrive 39/12/14
German
New books 7
Library books 21
Second hand books
Rereads 1
E-books/Gutenberg
Other
E-books 1
Categories of at least 10 (* means 15) 15/10
* Children's books in English
* Children's picture books in German
*Asimov
Lackey (10)
McCaffrey and Willis (11)
*Other Science Fiction and Fantasy
*US
Indian subcontinent and diaspora
* UK and other English speaking countries
International books (12)
Other countries (11)
* 100 years or more
* Prehistory and ancient world
*Short Stories (Includes those listed in Science Fiction and Fantasy)
*Other
2MarthaJeanne
Asia http://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#4987675
Asimov https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5074861
Century or more https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#4962454
Children's Books https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#4962459
Heyer http://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5112463
International https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5010850
Mercedes Lackey http://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5199977
Other https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5172644
Prehistory https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#4962455
Religion http://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5028839
Science Fiction and Fantasy https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#4962456
Short Stories http://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5021538
Asimov https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5074861
Century or more https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#4962454
Children's Books https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#4962459
Heyer http://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5112463
International https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5010850
Mercedes Lackey http://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5199977
Other https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5172644
Prehistory https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#4962455
Religion http://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5028839
Science Fiction and Fantasy https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#4962456
Short Stories http://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5021538
3MarthaJeanne
A century or more
1 The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
2 The Lost Prince
3,4 The portrait of a lady
5 Looking backward 2000-1887 (science fiction)
6 The jungle
7 Dotty Dimple at school
8 Herland (Science fiction)
9 Pygmalion
10 How to settle accounts with your laundress
11 The problem of cell 13 (Short Story)
12 Wanted, a young lady : a farce in one act
13 The scarecrow of Oz
Two centuries or more
1 Pride and Prejudice
2 Mansfield Park
3 Sense and Sensibility
1 The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat
2 The Lost Prince
3,4 The portrait of a lady
5 Looking backward 2000-1887 (science fiction)
6 The jungle
7 Dotty Dimple at school
8 Herland (Science fiction)
9 Pygmalion
10 How to settle accounts with your laundress
11 The problem of cell 13 (Short Story)
12 Wanted, a young lady : a farce in one act
13 The scarecrow of Oz
Two centuries or more
1 Pride and Prejudice
2 Mansfield Park
3 Sense and Sensibility
4MarthaJeanne
Prehistory
1 The Clan of the Cave Bear
2,3 The Valley of Horses
4,5 The Mammoth Hunters
6,7,8 The plains of passage
9, 10, 11 The Shelters of Stone
12,13 The land of painted caves
14 Promise of the wolves
15 Secrets of the Wolves
Ancient world
The testament of Mary
1 The Clan of the Cave Bear
2,3 The Valley of Horses
4,5 The Mammoth Hunters
6,7,8 The plains of passage
9, 10, 11 The Shelters of Stone
12,13 The land of painted caves
14 Promise of the wolves
15 Secrets of the Wolves
Ancient world
The testament of Mary
5MarthaJeanne
Science Fiction and Fantasy
1 City of Illusions
2 Sword of Avalon
3 Beauty
4 The strange library
5 Unwise child
6 Pastwatch : the redemption of Christopher Columbus
McCaffrey
1 To ride Pegasus
2 Pegasus in flight
3 Powers That Be
4 Power Lines
5 Restoree
Oxford
1,2 Doomsday book
3, 4 Blackout
5,6 All clear
Darkover
1 Thendara House
2 City of Sorcery
Tolkien
1 Smith of Wootton Major
2 Letters from Father Christmas
3 The hobbit
4,5 The fellowship of the ring
6 The Two Towers
7 Return of the King (not touchstoned)
Short Stories
1 Deryni tales
2 Get off the unicorn
3 Elementary : all-new tales of the elemental masters
4 The Need for better Regulation of Outer Space
5 Fire Watch
6 Daughter of Regals
7 The Apex Book of World SF Volume 4
8 One more for the road
9 No true way
10
See also Asimov https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5074861
Mercedes Lackey http://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5199977
1 City of Illusions
2 Sword of Avalon
3 Beauty
4 The strange library
5 Unwise child
6 Pastwatch : the redemption of Christopher Columbus
McCaffrey
1 To ride Pegasus
2 Pegasus in flight
3 Powers That Be
4 Power Lines
5 Restoree
Oxford
1,2 Doomsday book
3, 4 Blackout
5,6 All clear
Darkover
1 Thendara House
2 City of Sorcery
Tolkien
1 Smith of Wootton Major
2 Letters from Father Christmas
3 The hobbit
4,5 The fellowship of the ring
6 The Two Towers
7 Return of the King (not touchstoned)
Short Stories
1 Deryni tales
2 Get off the unicorn
3 Elementary : all-new tales of the elemental masters
4 The Need for better Regulation of Outer Space
5 Fire Watch
6 Daughter of Regals
7 The Apex Book of World SF Volume 4
8 One more for the road
9 No true way
10
See also Asimov https://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5074861
Mercedes Lackey http://www.librarything.com/topic/183683#5199977
6MarthaJeanne
Children's books
1 Make Way for Ducklings
2 The twenty-one balloons
3 Ballet shoes for Anna
4 Dragon boy
5 The goose girl
6 Party Shoes
7 Tennis Shoes
8 Charlotte's web
9 Witch Child
10 The painted garden
11 The load of unicorn
12 The giver
Picture books in German
1 Schneebären lügen nie
2 Ein Vogel im Schnee : nach einem Bild von Pieter Breugel
3 Der Vergessene Zauberspruch
4 Zeppelin
5 Der Osterfrosch
6 Der Paradiesvogel
7 Ein Osterhuhn hat viel zu tun
8 Fritzis Abenteuer im Gemüsegarten
9 Fritzis Abenteuer auf dem Bauernhof
10 Anton kann zaubern
11 Der Honigdieb
12 Der Ernst des Lebens
13 Großer Wolf & kleiner Wolf : das Glück, das nicht vom Baum fallen wollte
14 Der Gänsegeneral : eine Geschichte
15 Hendrik fliegt Hubschrauber
16 Ein bisschen mehr Jubel und Trubel bitte
Others in German
1 Das Gnu im linken Fußballschuh
2 Shibus größter Wunsch
3 Der geheimnisvolle Mönch
4 Artisten, Freaks und Übermenschen
5 Das Lapislazuliherz
Ebooks
1 Maya & Filippo Visit San Francisco
2 The Wizard and the Wood
3 Pookie and Tushka find a little piano
4 Bin ich klein? ?האמ אני קטנה : Kinderbuch Deutsch-Hebräisch
1 Make Way for Ducklings
2 The twenty-one balloons
3 Ballet shoes for Anna
4 Dragon boy
5 The goose girl
6 Party Shoes
7 Tennis Shoes
8 Charlotte's web
9 Witch Child
10 The painted garden
11 The load of unicorn
12 The giver
Picture books in German
1 Schneebären lügen nie
2 Ein Vogel im Schnee : nach einem Bild von Pieter Breugel
3 Der Vergessene Zauberspruch
4 Zeppelin
5 Der Osterfrosch
6 Der Paradiesvogel
7 Ein Osterhuhn hat viel zu tun
8 Fritzis Abenteuer im Gemüsegarten
9 Fritzis Abenteuer auf dem Bauernhof
10 Anton kann zaubern
11 Der Honigdieb
12 Der Ernst des Lebens
13 Großer Wolf & kleiner Wolf : das Glück, das nicht vom Baum fallen wollte
14 Der Gänsegeneral : eine Geschichte
15 Hendrik fliegt Hubschrauber
16 Ein bisschen mehr Jubel und Trubel bitte
Others in German
1 Das Gnu im linken Fußballschuh
2 Shibus größter Wunsch
3 Der geheimnisvolle Mönch
4 Artisten, Freaks und Übermenschen
5 Das Lapislazuliherz
Ebooks
1 Maya & Filippo Visit San Francisco
2 The Wizard and the Wood
3 Pookie and Tushka find a little piano
4 Bin ich klein? ?האמ אני קטנה : Kinderbuch Deutsch-Hebräisch
7MarthaJeanne
India (subcontinent and diaspora)
1 The last Kashmiri rose
2 My Bollywood wedding
3 One amazing thing
4,5 The Kashmir shawl
6 A Bollywood Affair
7 The reluctant fundamentalist (Pakistan)
8 Bend it like Beckham
9 Ragtime in Simla (1922)
10 The newlyweds
1 The last Kashmiri rose
2 My Bollywood wedding
3 One amazing thing
4,5 The Kashmir shawl
6 A Bollywood Affair
7 The reluctant fundamentalist (Pakistan)
8 Bend it like Beckham
9 Ragtime in Simla (1922)
10 The newlyweds
8MarthaJeanne
US
1 The wedding gift (pre-Civil War)
2 The story of a marriage (1950s)
3 Love medicine
4 Handmaidens of Rock 1960s-70s
5 Guilt by association 1962 - 1992
6 Vanishing acts (modern)
7 Someday, someday, maybe (modern)
8 Mudbound (194os, 50s)
9 Coming out (modern)
10 Code five (1970s) (religion)
11 The good thief
12 The last time I saw you
13 Mary Ann in Autumn
14 People who knock on the door (20th) (US)
15 The patron saint of liars (20th) (US)
1 The wedding gift (pre-Civil War)
2 The story of a marriage (1950s)
3 Love medicine
4 Handmaidens of Rock 1960s-70s
5 Guilt by association 1962 - 1992
6 Vanishing acts (modern)
7 Someday, someday, maybe (modern)
8 Mudbound (194os, 50s)
9 Coming out (modern)
10 Code five (1970s) (religion)
11 The good thief
12 The last time I saw you
13 Mary Ann in Autumn
14 People who knock on the door (20th) (US)
15 The patron saint of liars (20th) (US)
9MarthaJeanne
International
1 Portuguese irregular verbs
2,3 Lace
4 We need new names (Zimbawe, USA)
5 Ziemlich mitgenommen ( Germany to Turkey)
6 Besserland (USSR to Germany)
7 The Joy Luck Club (US - China)
8 The truth
9 The history of love (Poland, Argentina, New York)
10 The emperor's coloured coat
11 Solar (UK, US)
12 Holy cow : a modern-day dairy tale (US, Turkey, Israel, India)
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UK
1 Sunshine and showers (between the wars)
2 The mountain of light (modern)
3 The peppered moth
4 What happens in London (Regency, sort of)
5 That summer in Eagle Street (Post WWII)
6 Longbourn (Napoleonic war time)
7 The confession of Katherine Howard (16th)
8 Strolling with the one I love (early 20th)
9 Rapscallion (early 19th)
10 The taming of the queen (16th)
11 Driving in the dark (modern)
12 Hester's story (20th)
Grand Fenwick
1 Beware of the mouse
Australia
1 The light between oceans
Canada
1 Garbo laughs
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Austria
1 Später Ruhm
2 "Vatikan gesteht ein: Erde vermutlich doch keine Scheibe"
Germany
1 Ich bin nicht süß, ich hab bloß Zucker
2 Das Untier von Aachen 17th century
3 Die Gabe der Zeichnerin around 1000
Switzerland
1 And both were young
Africa
1 Circling the Sun
Turkey
1 The architect's apprentice
Saudi Arabia
1,2The Ruins of Us
1 Portuguese irregular verbs
2,3 Lace
4 We need new names (Zimbawe, USA)
5 Ziemlich mitgenommen ( Germany to Turkey)
6 Besserland (USSR to Germany)
7 The Joy Luck Club (US - China)
8 The truth
9 The history of love (Poland, Argentina, New York)
10 The emperor's coloured coat
11 Solar (UK, US)
12 Holy cow : a modern-day dairy tale (US, Turkey, Israel, India)
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UK
1 Sunshine and showers (between the wars)
2 The mountain of light (modern)
3 The peppered moth
4 What happens in London (Regency, sort of)
5 That summer in Eagle Street (Post WWII)
6 Longbourn (Napoleonic war time)
7 The confession of Katherine Howard (16th)
8 Strolling with the one I love (early 20th)
9 Rapscallion (early 19th)
10 The taming of the queen (16th)
11 Driving in the dark (modern)
12 Hester's story (20th)
Grand Fenwick
1 Beware of the mouse
Australia
1 The light between oceans
Canada
1 Garbo laughs
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Austria
1 Später Ruhm
2 "Vatikan gesteht ein: Erde vermutlich doch keine Scheibe"
Germany
1 Ich bin nicht süß, ich hab bloß Zucker
2 Das Untier von Aachen 17th century
3 Die Gabe der Zeichnerin around 1000
Switzerland
1 And both were young
Africa
1 Circling the Sun
Turkey
1 The architect's apprentice
Saudi Arabia
1,2The Ruins of Us
10MarthaJeanne
Short Stories
1 Enter Jeeves
2 Dangerous women 1
3 The Prussian officer and other stories
4 The wreck of the Titan : or, Futility (Short Stories)
5 Swan Song
6 Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten für Erstleser
1 Enter Jeeves
2 Dangerous women 1
3 The Prussian officer and other stories
4 The wreck of the Titan : or, Futility (Short Stories)
5 Swan Song
6 Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten für Erstleser
11MarthaJeanne
Religion
1 Silence (Japan)
2 Die Katze des Rabbiners - Sammelband 1
3 Confessions of a pagan nun (Ireland, ancient)
4 Ella Minnow Pea
5 Outside, Sewell
1 Silence (Japan)
2 Die Katze des Rabbiners - Sammelband 1
3 Confessions of a pagan nun (Ireland, ancient)
4 Ella Minnow Pea
5 Outside, Sewell
13MarthaJeanne
Asimov
1 I, Robot (Short Stories)
2 The Currents of Space
3 Pebble in the sky
4 Caves of Steel
5 The Stars Like Dust
6 Youth (Short Story)
7 Fantastic voyage
8 The Bicentennial Man (short stories)
9 Foundation
10 Foundation and empire
11 Second Foundation
12 Foundation's Edge
13,14 Foundation and Earth
15 The Positronic Man
1 I, Robot (Short Stories)
2 The Currents of Space
3 Pebble in the sky
4 Caves of Steel
5 The Stars Like Dust
6 Youth (Short Story)
7 Fantastic voyage
8 The Bicentennial Man (short stories)
9 Foundation
10 Foundation and empire
11 Second Foundation
12 Foundation's Edge
13,14 Foundation and Earth
15 The Positronic Man
16MarthaJeanne
Mercedes Lackey
1 Bastion
2 Closer to Home
3 Steadfast
4 Beauty and the werewolf
5 Arrows of the queen
6 Arrow's flight
7 Arrow's fall
8 By the Sword
9 Blood Red
10 From a High Tower
1 Bastion
2 Closer to Home
3 Steadfast
4 Beauty and the werewolf
5 Arrows of the queen
6 Arrow's flight
7 Arrow's fall
8 By the Sword
9 Blood Red
10 From a High Tower
17MarthaJeanne
August
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September
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October october
20MarthaJeanne
october
21MarthaJeanne
Officially finished with 15 categories of 10 each.
22MarthaJeanne
End of November.
