I agree that is one heck of a list. I wish I could get paid to read at work! Instead, I'd likely get fired. I guess it all depends on the type of job you have. My job isn't one that allows me to do that. If I was reading, there'd be something else I wasn't doing that I should be. I guess it comes with being a maintenance supervisor for a major auto manufacturer. Not a lot of slack or downtime. Stevil2001 and smellincoffee, I am definitely envious of your obvious speed reading abilities, as well as your being able to find the time to read so much. Enjoy and more power to you!
I was aiming for 100 novels / ebooks this year and almost made it... ended up at 96. 34 were Trek: Khan: Eugenics Wars 1 Eugenics Wars 2 To Reign in Hell TOS Standalone: Assignment: Eternity The Rings of Time That Which Divides From History's Shadow No Time Like the Past Vanguard: Declassified What Judgments Come Storming Heaven In Tempest's Wake Seekers: Second Nature Point of Divergence Lost Era: One Constant Star Voyager pre-relaunch: Caretaker The Black Shore Marooned Flashback Pathways Dark Matters: Cloak and Dagger Dark Matters: Ghost Dance Dark Matters: Shadow of Heaven Voyager Beyer: Protectors Acts of Contrition TNG post-Nemesis: The Light Fantastic Q Are Cordially Uninvited DS9 post-Fall: Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found) ...(almost finished The Missing, got it done today.) Titan: Absent Enemies DTI: Watching the Clock Forgotten History The Collectors Section 31: Disavowed The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms
Well, I am in graduate school and I teach literature, so a lot of them I read for my job, so to speak. And I actually do, as suggested above, read a decent amount of comic books for pleasure because they're easier to fit in around the books I read for "work." I am a fast reader (hence my choice of profession), but I am also really self-conscious about getting in a lot of reading time: I always read for pleasure over breakfast and before I go to sleep. Never ever use the computer during breakfast. Anyway, you got me curious, so I worked out how they all break down. Books for Teaching or Research: 39 Collected Comic Books or Graphic Novels: 65 Other Pleasure Reading: 39 Whoa, that is a lot of comics, huh. Some do take a while (the 52 Omnibus collected 52 comics!), but four issues of the mediocre Doctor Who comic just fly by!
Not counting non-fiction, this year I read 87 books and short stories. Of those, 9 were Trek. In the order I read them: Larry Nemecek, ST: Stellar Cartography: Selections from the Federation Astronomy Library David Mack, ST:TNG: Cold Equations: The Persistence of Memory David Mack, ST:TNG: Cold Equations: Silent Weapons Keith R.A. DeCandido, ST: The Klingon Art of War David Mack, ST:TNG: Cold Equations: The Body Electric Christopher L. Bennett, ST:E: Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel David R. George III, ST: The Fall: Revelation and Dust Una McCormack, ST: The Fall: The Crimson Shadow Christopher L. Bennett, STTI: The Collectors
Mirror U: Sorrows of Empire Mirror U: Glass Empires VAN: Reap the Whirlwind VAN: Open Secrets VAN: Declassified (half-finished before it went back to library) VAN: Precipice Typhon Pact: All books Cold Equations: All books The Fall: Books 1-4 TOS: Allegiance in Exile DTI: The Collectors ENT: Tower of Babel
A lot; 03/04/2014 – 04/04/2014 – TOS: A Choice of Catastrophes 07/04/2014 – 11/04/2014 – DS9: Twist of Faith 11/04/2014 – 14/04/2014 – TNG: Blaze of Glory 14/04/2014 – 23/04/2014 – DS9: These Haunted Seas 24/04/2014 – 25/04/2014 – TOS: The Better Man 28/04/2014 – 29/04/2014 – DS9: Cathedral 30/04/2014 – DS9: Lesser Evil 01/05/2014-02/05/2014 - DS9: Rising Son 05/05/2014 – 07/05/2014 – DS9: Unity 07/05/2014 – 09/05/2014 – TOS: No Time Like the Past 11/05/2014 – TOS: Seasons of Light and Darkness 12/05/2014 – 13/05/2014: TOS: The Pandora Principle 14/05/2014 – 16/05/2014: TOS: Unspoken Truth 27/05/2014 – 28/05/2014: TOS: Devil’s Bargain 28/05/2014 – 30/05/2014: TOS: The Weight of Worlds 02/06/2014 – 03/06/2014: TOS: The Covenant of the Crown 03/06/2014 – 04/06/2014: TNG: The Children of Hamlin 04/06/2014 – 06/06/2014: TOS: That Which Divides 09/06/2014 – 11/06/2014: DS9: Worlds of DS9 Volume 1 – Cardassia and Andor 11/06/2014 – 13/06/2014: DS9: Worlds of DS9 Volume 2 – Trill and Bajor 16/06/2014 – 17/06/2014: DS9: Worlds of DS9 Volume 3 – The Dominion and Ferenginar 18/06/2014 – 19/06/2014: DS9: Warpath 23/06/2014 – 24/06/2014: DS9: Fearful Symmetry 25/06/2014 – 26/06/2014: DS9: The Soul Key 30/06/2014 – 02/07/2014: DS9: A Stitch in Time 03/07/2014 – 04/07/2014: TNG: Rogue Saucer 14/07/2014 – 15/07/2014: Destiny #1 15/07/2014 – 17/07/2014: Destiny #2 17/07/2014 – 18/07/2014: Destiny #3 21/07/2014 – 22/07/2014: A Singular Destiny 23/07/2014 – 24/07/2014: TNG: Losing the Peace 24/07/2014 – 25/07/2014: TOS: The Disinherited 28/07/2014 – 29/07/2014: TP: Zero Sum Game 30/07/2014 – 31/07/2014: TP: Rough Beasts of Empire 04/08/2014 – 06/08/2014: TP: Paths of Disharmony 06/08/2014: TP: The Struggle Within 07/08/2014 – 11/08/2014: TP: Plagues of Night 11/08/2014 – 14/08/2014: TNG: Indistinguishable from Magic 15/08/2014 – 16/08/2014: TOS: Twilight’s End 26/08/2014 – 29/08/2014: TP: Raise the Dawn 01/09/2014 – 02/09/2014: TP: Brinkmanship 03/09/2014 – 05/09/2014: DS9: The Never-Ending Sacrifice 08/09/2014 – 09/09/2014: TNG: Immortal Coil 10/09/2014 – 11/09/2014: TNG: Cold Equations 1 15/09/2014 – 16/09/2014: TNG: Cold Equations 2 16/09/2014 – 17/09/2014: TNG: Cold Equations 3
Here' part 2 of my reading list Cast No shadow James Swallow, Un spoken, Truths Margaret Wander Bonnao, Ds9 Plague of Night Raise the Dawn by David R. George, Ds9 Soul Key. Q Zone Trilogy by Greg Cox. Star trek Sce Out of the Cocoon and No time like the past, TNG Rise like Lions.
My trek reading last year mostly in the order I read it: NF: Blind Man's Bluff by Peter David (started in 2013) A Very Klingon Khristmas by Paul Ruditis & Patrick Faircy Ongoing, Volume 3 (comic) The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice by James Swallow The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms by Dayton Ward VOY: Protectors by Kirsten Beyer TTN: Absent Enemies by John Jackson Miller TOS: No Time Like the Past by Greg Cox ENT: Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel by Christopher L. Bennett Tales from the Captain's Table by Various TOS: Seasons of Light and Darkness by Michael A. Martin TOS: Serpents in the Garden by Jeff Mariotte TNG: Hive (comic) The Klingon Art of War by Keith R.A. DeCandido TLE: One Constant Star by David R. George III TNG: The Light Fantastic by Jeffrey Lang TOS: The More Things Change by Scott Pearson SCE: The Belly of the Beast by Dead Wesley Smith SKRS: Second Nature by David Mack SKRS: Point of Divergence by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore SCE: Fatal Error by Keith R.A. DeCandido DS9: Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found) by Paula M. Block & Terry J. Erdmann VOY: Acts of Contrition by Kirsten Beyer SCE: Hard Crash by Christie Golden TNG: Q Are Cordially Uninvited... by Rudy Josephs S31: Disavowed by David Mack TOS: Foul Deeds Will Rise by Greg Cox SCE: Interphase by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore DTI: The Collectors by Christopher L. Bennett Ships of the Line (2nd ed.) Nero (comic) DS9: The Missing by Una McCormack (finished this year) I'm also going to include my non-Trek reading: "The Doom that Came to Sarnath" by H.P. Lovecraft Only Superhuman by Christopher L. Bennett Torchwood: The Lost Files (audio) The Kane Chronicles: The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan The Walking Dead, Volume 3: Safety Behind Bars Emberverse series: The Protector's War by S.M. Stirling Monk: Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu by Lee Goldberg Castle: Storm Season (comic) Fable: "Reaver" by Peter David Once Upon a Time: Shadow of the Queen (comic) Stargate SG-1: Valhalla by Tim Waggoner Mass Effect: Evolution (comic) Grimm: The Icy Touch by John Shirley Torchwood: Consequences by Various Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan Stargate Atlantis: Homecoming by Jo Graham & Melissa Scott Fringe: The Burning Man by Christa Faust The Walking Dead, Volume 4: The Heart's Desire Being Human: The Road by Simon Guerrier Walt Longmire: The Cold Dish by Craig Johnson Supernatural: The Dogs of Edinburgh (comic) Firefly/Serenity: Those Left Behind (comic) Stargate SG-1: Ouroboros by Melissa Scott Torchwood: Lost Souls (audio) Walt Longmire: Death Without Company by Craig Johnson Castle: A Calm Before Storm (comic) Fable: "Jack of Blades" by Peter David Halo: Ghosts of Onyx by Eric Nylund
TOS: Ex Machina (Personal rating 8/10) The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice (Personal rating 9/10) The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms (Personal rating 7.5/10) TNG: The Stuff Of Dreams (Personally rating 7.5/10) Voyager: Protectors (Personal rating 8/10) Titan: Absent Enemies (Personal rating 7.5/10) TNG graphic novel Forgiveness (Personal rating 7/10) Vanguard: In Tempest Wake (Personal rating 8/10) Seekers: Second Nature(Personal rating 8/10) Lust’s Latinum Lost (and Found) (Personal rating 7.5/10) Voyager: Acts of Contrition (Personal rating 8/10)
I read 103 books. The new job involves lots of time commuting on public transit... As far as Trek goes, I didn't feel like digging up all the titles but they pretty much fell into 3 categories: - All the 2013 titles I fell behind on. - All the 2014 titles until the 2nd Voyager book when I fell behind - The bulk of the old Voyager numbered books so I get get those off my unread shelf into a "read Star Trek" box. I think it was 16 of them. Man, that was brutal sometimes. Star Trek Reading Goals for 2015? - Finish up the 4 2014 books I'm behind on - Stay as up to date as possible on the 2015 books as they come up - Finish up the old TNG numbered books. I've just finished 3 which brings me down to 22 books, or 2 books a month for remaining months of the year. - A stretch goal is the 2nd Shatnerverse Trilogy. Assuming I hit my goals what I'll have left to read at the end of the year is: - What ever Shatnerverse books I haven't read yet - All 10 SNW, not really looking forward to that - And currently 35 old TOS numbered books. Then it's just staying caught up...
I read 72 books this year (not counting short stories), which was down considerably from the 120 I read the year before, though I did read hundreds of Comics/Graphic Novels (whatever you prefer to call them), which took up time I would previously have spent reading books. Of those 72, 29 were Trek books: Peaceable Kingdoms (The Fall) - Dayton Ward Mission Gamma I: Twilight (DS9) - David R. George III Mission Gamma II: This Grey Spirit (DS9) - Heather Jarman A Time To Be Born (TNG) - John Vornholt A Time To Die (TNG) - John Vornholt A Time To Sow (TNG) - Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore A Time To Harvest (TNG) - Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore A Time to Love (TNG) - Robert Greenberger A Time to Hate (TNG) - Robert Greenberger Absent Enemies (Titan) - John Jackson Miller A Time to Kill (TNG) - David Mack A Time to Heal (TNG) - David Mack A Time for War, A Time for Peace ( TNG) - Keith R A DeCandido Mission Gamma III: Cathedral (DS9) - Martin & Mangels Mission Gamma IV: Lesser Evil (DS9) - Robert Simpson Rising Son (DS9) - S.D. Perry Unity (DS9) - S.D. Perry No Time Like The Past (TOS) - Greg Cox The Siege (DS9) - Peter David The Light Fantastic (TNG) - Jeffrey Lang Seekers 1: Second Nature - David Mack Star Trek: Seekers 2 - Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore Lusts Latinum Lost (and found) (DS9) - Paula M Block Cast No Shadow (Star Trek) - James Swallow Q are cordially uninvited (TNG) - Rudy Josephs Hollow Men (DS9) - Una McCormack Section 31: Disavowed - David Mack Full Circle - Kirsten Beyer Unworthy - Kirsten Beyer I also read about half of Children of the Storm, but didn't finish it in the year so it doesn't count. Overall I read a lot of Trek in the first few months of the year, then tailed off and mostly read non-trek the rest of the year, with the exception of the new releases I was interested in, until December when I started reading the Voyage relaunch.
2014 was a great year of trek reading for me. Lots of great books to enjoy, and a few re-reads as well I read 11 of the trek novel releases for 2014: The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms VOY: Protectors TOS: Serpents in the Garden ROTF: Tower of Babel TLE: One Constant Star TNG: The Light Fantastic Seekers 1: Second Nature VOY: Acts of Contrition S31: Disavowed TOS: Foul Deeds Will Rise DS9: The Missing I also read some comics: Harlan Ellison's City on the Edge of Forever comic series Star Trek ongoing comic series #35-40 I also got about half way through both Seekers 2: Point of Divergence, and DS9: Hollow Men. Both will be picked up again...they were put aside for other trek novels. Some trek books I re-read included: TNG: A Time for War, a Time for Peace TNG/GKN: Diplomatic Implausibility GKN: A Good Day to Die TLE: The Art of The Impossible A Singular Destiny Older trek novels I read for the first time included: DS9: Avatar book 1 DS9: Avatar book 2 DS9: Section 31: Abyss DS9: Gateways #4: Demons of Air and Darkness DS9: Mission Gamma #1: Twilight MyrU: Infinity's Prism MyrU: Echoes and Refractions MyrU: Shattered Light 30+ trek stories read, and all of my re-reads were KRAD books. Can you tell I miss his trek work? Hopefully we get more from him in the future
Oh, I, second that. KRAD brings something unique to his novels, a certain brand of humour even in the most serious of stories which is sorely missing, consistent high quality... and his love for Star Trek which was reflected in every book he was involved with. I certainly hope he'll eventually be back in the novel-verse as well (at least he had a Trek-publication last year, so that's something, I guess).
Only three Trek books, but a bunch of other fiction and non-fiction, plus a boatload of grad school reading. I could have read a lot more if not for grad school... TNG: Q&A - DeCandido TNG: Articles of the Federation - DeCandido TOS: Troublesome Minds - Galanter
I read 19 trek books last year. I had read up to the typhon pact back when it debuted in '11, then stopped b/c there were no new books. Started reading Star Wars, then came back to Trek in the middle of 2014. I love what they're doing with it so far. Just finished Brinkmanship and gonna take another break for a month or two, or however long it takes to finish the new series I started. I don't wanna catch up again then be left with no more new trek!
Last year I was finally able to read Destiny. It took me a few years to read the books leading to Destiny but I eventually was able to read them for all series except DS9. So last year I read: - Homecoming - The Farther Shore - Old Wounds - Enemy of My Enemy - Destiny #1: Gods of Night - Destiny #2: Mere Mortals - Destiny #3: Lost Souls - A Singular Destiny - Losing the Peace - Over a Torrent Sea (which I started in 2014 and finished in 2015) That's between 9 and 10 Star Trek novels which is much more than the previous years. From now on I will be able to continue up to the Typhon Pact and I already started with Full Circle.
Lots of comics, lots of memoir/behind the scenes stuff, and some related stuff (Redshirts, for example). Several Ebook novellas -- I love these because I can polish them off in a single sitting. Novel-wise, it was three Voyager novels, and the most recent Rise of the Federation novel (I always read Christopher's stuff as soon as it comes out. He's the only Trek writer who I make time for upon release.) 01/17/2014 Star Trek TNG: Beginnings (gn) by Michael Carlin/Pablo Marcos, Carlos Garzon & Arne Starr 01/21/2014 Star Trek: A Choice of Catastrophes by Michael Schuster and Steve Mollmann 02/04/2014 Star Trek: Vanguard: In Tempest's Wake (na) by Dayton Ward 03/15/2014 Star Trek FAQ 2.0: Everything Left to Know About the Next Generation, the Movies, and Beyond by Mark Clark 04/21/2014 Just a Geek (audiobook) by Wil Wheaton 04/22/2014 Dancing Barefoot (audiobook) by Wil Wheaton 04/23/2014 The Happiest Days of Our Lives (audiobook) by Wil Wheaton 05/12/2014 Star Trek: Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Tower of Babel by Christopher L. Bennett 06/10/2014 Redshirts (audiobook) by John Scalzi 06/13/2014 Star Trek: TNG: The Q Trilogy (abridged audiobooks) by Peter David with John Delancie 08/10/2014 New Life and New Civilizations: Exploring Star Trek Comics (Anthology) Edited by Joseph F. Berenato 08/26/2014 These Are The Voyages - TOS Season Two by Marc Cushman with Susan Osborn 09/02/2014 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Lust's Latinum Lost (and Found) (na) by Paula M. Block & Terry J. Erdmann 09/06/2014 Star Trek: Countdown (gn) by Orci & Kurtzman, Johnson & Jones/Messina, Niro 09/06/2014 Star Trek: Nero (gn) by Orci & Kurtzman, Johnson & Jones/Messina, Niro 09/06/2014 Star Trek (gn) by Orci & Kurtzman, Johnson & Jones/Messina & Balboni, Carlucci, Niro & Traversi 09/08/2014 Star Trek: Voyager Season 1 (TV Series) by Various 10/12/2014 Star Trek: The More Things Change (na) by Scott Pearson 10/14/2014 Star Trek: Seasons of Light and Darkness (na) by Michael A. Martin 10/26/2014 Star Trek: Voyager: Unworthy by Kirsten Beyer 11/08/2014 Star Trek: Voyager: Children of the Storm by Kirsten Beyer 11/09/2014 Star Trek Volume 1 (gn) by Mike Johnson/Molnar & Phillips 11/10/2014 Star Trek Volume 2 (gn) by Mike Johnson/Corroney & Phillips 11/10/2014 Star Trek Volume 3 (gn) by Mike Johnson/Molnar & Balboni 11/10/2014 Star Trek Volume 4 (gn) by Mike Johnson/Molnar, Fajar, Prasetyo, Firmansyah 11/11/2014 Star Trek Volume 5 (gn) by Mike Johnson/ 11/11/2014 Star Trek Countdown to Darkness (gn) by Orci & Johnson/Messina & Castelvetro 11/11/2014 Star Trek Khan (gn) by Orci & Johnson/Messina, Castelvetro & Sposito 11/11/2014 Star Trek Volume 6 After Darkness (gn) by Parrot, Johnson/Balboni, Fajar 11/11/2014 Star Trek Volume 7 The Khitomer Conflict (gn) by Mike Johnson/Erfan Fajar 11/11/2014 Star Trek Volume 8 (gn) by Mike Johnson/Lianj, Fajar, Ardhi, Coronney, Moya, Doan 11/27/2014 Star Trek: Voyager: The Eternal Tide by Kirsten Beyer I had intended to rewatch all of Voyager before continuing on with the KMFB Relaunch (I read Full Circle several years ago, but never had time to read on) but only got as far as Season Two (Threshold, specifically) before giving up in disgust. Season One was much, MUCH better than I remembered it. Season Two was much, much worse. How did they go from "Pretty Damn Good" to "Oh My Gawd Awful" over the season break?