Why the gap in years? Didn't you read in 2013 and 2017 or am I reading it wrong? But yes, nice list, dude.

No doubt you missed or misunderstood this line.

Starting with some begun prior to 2019, but either finished in 2019 or read some of during.

In other words, I finished or read some in 2019, which this thread is about, that I had started in a year prior to 2019.

If no other prior years are mentioned, then either all the books read in those years were finished before 2019, or I read no part of them in 2019 ... to date.

Ah, thanks for clearing that up, dude and nice list. Happy reading to you down under, mate.

Of note, is the fact, that after all these years of reading in order of publication, I finally finished the last Agatha Christie novel, Sleeping Murder, which is number 93. That means I have read all her mystery and romance stories. I still have her autobiography and a book of children's stories & poems to read.

Sleeping Murder, which stars Miss Marple, is an excellent murder mystery story to finish on.

Agatha Christie actually wrote the novel about 30 years before she died, but kept it under wraps until after her death, along with the final Hercule Poirot novel, Curtain, which was also written well before her death, also a great book.

Very smart of her to do that, as the last few she wrote, weren't that great to my mind, so she finished on a high note ... not that she was around to get the accolades in person.

I must say I have enjoyed all her books, if some to a lesser degree, and a few much less.
She was a damn good period writer ... The Murder Mystery Queen.

Since last posting:

Sanderson's White Sands #3:
Enjoyed 1 and 2. #3 was super-rushed to make it fit "trilogy". I feel like it should have gone out to be 4 to explore what it wanted to fully.

Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration:
Great book. I'm already in the choir on this topic, but it was great to see some arguments I wasn't already familiar with.

Thanks for joining us and I'm sorry for late reply, unfortunately I'm a bit busy recently.

Interesting idea – that books-read-by-author counter! :) How is that even possible to read 92 books of Agatha Christie (and how was it possible for her to write all of them before ghost writers were invented?)? Are you still being surprised by her writing? Or you know the murderer after first few sentences? ;)

Thanks, no worries.

LOL. Actually, many have claimed that at least some of Alexandre Dumas' works were done by ghost writers or similar, and of course even rumors about Shakespeare and others ... so not a new thing.

Included in that 92 books of Agatha's is about 6 (I think) Romance novels she wrote using the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. Most of the time I have guessed the murderer, pretty much from when I first started reading her stories. One of those I didn't, is probably her most famous novel, The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, but I felt she cheated with that one, so of course, not a favorite for me. But I guess it made me less trusting of her after that, so maybe that helped with the others. Been a long time since I have been surprised by her writing, but there is a nice period familiarity to it, which always kept me returning ... but some stories were much better than others, and a few not that great ... most were quite entertaining though. A good number of the 92 were also short story collections, with some individual short stories being repeated or slightly different versions.

I read a lot of Burroughs when I was younger, nearly all his stories, a few rare ones aside. I remain a big fan. His Tarzan stories were a bit up and down in quality, and in the middle somewhere he was writing to order rather than from the heart. He wanted to write other tales, but was pressured into doing Tarzan much more than he wanted ... not often helped by other stories being knocked back by publishers ... all they wanted was Tarzan. Later on he came to terms with the whole Tarzan phenomenon and started to write better ones ... of course it probably also helped that he had written a good number on non Tarzan books by then.

I don't think anyone would ever claim that Burroughs was a literary writer par excellence, but he sure knew how to tell a good story, when he was inspired ... too many coincidences in his stories aside. He wrote to entertain, and he achieved that in spades, with his magnificent imagination. I equate him to a musician who plays by ear rather than sheet music.

Blood Tally (Brian McClellan; Valkyrie Collections #2)

I enjoyed it. It very much built on #1 though (which is OK). It kept me up quite late the couple nights it took me.

One of my last updates for 2019, maybe the last since I don't know if I'll be able to finish many other books until Year's end ! Well, 43 books is not so bad after all, it's not a competition to see who will read the most, right? Still I'm happy I still can read so many books, even if most of them are now on epub format, since I don't have enough space in my apartment in Japan for all my "real" books...

La Sirène rouge - Maurice G. Dantec

A rerererereread. Yeah, I love this writer. He sadly passed away recently. "The Red Siren" in English, a somewhat "classic" thriller but the one that finally is the corner stone of Dantec's following books, on the topics of serial killers, power over people and the future of Mankind. Certainly his most classic book. The topic: an anti-serbian militia activist back home will have to protect a young girl in her quest to find her father and escape her mother. To say more would be ruining the book!

Permaculture: A Beginner's Guide - Graham Burnett

Non-fiction book on permaculture. I'm interested in permaculture but didn't know much about it and this book was a very good introduction not on how to do it practically but why do it and how do it on a more philosophical/social/ecological point of view. Definitely got me hooked and the extended bibliography at the end of the book will certainly be the source of numerous reads in a very near future!

La loi des mâles - La louve de France - Le lis et le lion - Quand un roi perd la France - Maurice Druon

The remaining volumes of Maurice Druon's "Cursed Kings" series, where we go until John II "The Good" who will be captured at the battle of Nouaille-Maupertuis against king Edward's son. Gripping style, very interesting reads with lots of characters. The last volume is a bit different since it has ben written 20 years after the last one, as an epilogue of sorts. Everything is told by a cardinal trying to preserve peace between England and France, and, well, it doesn't "taste the same". Still a very good read and the whole series is really nice !

So far in 2019: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/books_finished_in_2019/post10

I was worng, I still had time to read a bit! ^_^

Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Two "monster" authors for a "dreamlike" collaboration. And you have to admit that it works. It's full of both authors' universes, quirks, and wittyness! It's really a good book, the eternal fight between Heaven and Hell, the 4 Riders of Apocalypse and England. Bery much, typical english humour!

A must read, absolutely. And even if I don't expect much from it, I'll certainly check the series on Netflix (David Tennant as Rampa the demon!!!)

So far in 2019; https://www.gog.com/forum/general/books_finished_in_2019/post10

Shoninki

What a great read! Great addition. I am even considering printing the damned thing, from the e-book!

Certainly not for me. I'm just trying to fit in as many as I can, but without getting too ridiculous about it ... it's all about whittling away at the backlog.

I've certainly been held up with my last book (J. ROBERT KENNEDY [8] - THE VENICE CODE), as I was away on holiday for six days, and was so tired at the end of each day from traveling around etc, that some nights I could not read or read much. Normally I whip through that author's books very quickly.

My tiredness meant I also never got around to setting up my new phone as a hotspot for my tablet, and thus checking my email, so I missed the GOG freebie I have been waiting ages for ... unbelievable.

Thanks for this list of books. There are a couple of books which I haven't read yet.
Thanks again!
Regards,
Lewis

There are still codes around, from those who already had it. See 3 in the Community Giveaway at the moment.