What Do You Plan to Read in 2019?

[JD]

Since we have a thread about what we read last year, I thought I'd start one about what we plan to read this year.
Right now most of my plans are a continuation of last years, with a few new things tossed in there.
I'm almost done getting caught up with the TNG & Titan books, so it shouldn't take me to much longer to get caught up on those. Since Hearts & Minds is part of Dayton Ward's 20th/21st Century arc, I'm going to be reading the first two novels in the arc, the TOS novels From History's Shadow and Elusive Salvation. After that all I have left of them will be the last Titan novel, Fortune of War by David Mack.
Once that's done I'm hoping to start on the post The Fall DS9 novels, and the DTI novels and novellas.
I'm also hoping to get back to work on the SCE/Corps of Engineers and IKS Gorkon/Klingon Empire series.
On the non-Trek front I'm close to getting caught up on the Dresden Files and Kate Daniels series, so if I'm lucky I might be able to finish those up by the end of the year. I've also got some other Urban Fantasy series I'm hoping to start, like the Mercy Thompson series, the Peter Grant series, Desert Reign, and Brotherhood of the Wheel.
I've got all three books that have been released in The Stormlight Archives, and I've been curious about Brandon Sanderson for a while, so I'll probably read at least the first book, The Way of Kings, this year. Each one of them is over 1,000 pages, and I'll probably take a break for a while between each book, so there's a pretty good chance I won't read all three this year.
I've also got some SFF books I've heard good things about, like A Canticle for Leibowitz, Neuromancer, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.
I've also got a whole bunch of comics focused on different DC and Marvel superheroes I've been curious about, I definitely plan on checking out DC's New 52 series for Aquaman, Harley Quinn, Batgirl, Batwoman, and Action Comics for Superman, and continuing the Batman and Flash series I already started.
For Marvel I'm already working on the Fantastic Four by Mark Waid and then Johnathan Hickman, the post Brand New Day Spider-Man, and the first Brian Micheal Bendis New Avengers series. I'm planning on starting Immortal Iron Fist, Incredible Hulk starting with the Prelude to Planet Hulk through to World War Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men, and Matt Fractions' Hawkeye series. I've also got some alternate version of the Marvel Universe, like Old Man Wolverine, and Marvel 1602.
I've also got a whole bunch of IDW Star Trek, and Marvel Star Wars comics, along with other tie-ins for Eureka, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, and the Dark Crystal.
Image has a bunch of series I'm also hoping to check out like Monstress, The Realm, Chew, Seven to Eternity, and Bitch Planet. There's stuff from other non-big two publshers I want to check out like Lola XOXO from Aspen, and X-O Manowar from Valiant, and I've definitely continuing on with Lumberjanes and Archer and Armstrong.

 

[marlboro]

I've had several books on my Kindle for months. I am bound and determined to read them this year. A sampling:

Midnight Front

The Essential Harlan Ellison

In the Garden of the North American Martyrs by Tobias Wolff

Dune

A Tale of Two Cities

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

White Fang

Hell on Ice by Edward Ellsberg

The Red Mark and Other Stories by John Russell

Walking Shadows by Alfred Noyes

The New Sun series by Gene Wolfe. (I've been meaning to start these for a loooong time)

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky (soon to be published sequel to his excellent Children of Time)



Trek stuff:

Articles of the Federation
The Last Stand by Brad Ferguson
First Frontier (I'll finish it this time, I swear!)
The Janus Gate trilogy by L.A. Graf
From the Depths by Victor Milan

 

[Kilana2]

The I.K.S. Gorkon novels.
The Janus Gate Trilogy.
The German edition of Section 31 - Control.
TNG Headlong Flight (Absturz)
DS9 Lichter im Dunkel (The Long Mirage)
Maybe I can start with the Captain's Table Omnibus: I've read the New Frontier book Once Burnt, as it was translatated into German. The other stories are still new. But this book is a huge tome. I will likely read one story and take a break to read something else between the single Captain's Table adventures.

 

[Damian]

I'm actually caught up on the current novels. Just finishing up the 3rd Prometheus novels and I plan on reading the new novels coming out this year.

I have an omnibus edition of Day of Honor and am about halfway through the first 'book', from TNG. Since it contains several novels it will take me a few months probably to get through all of it. And I'm still slogging through "Fate of the Phoenix".

As for older books, I still have a few stragglers from the 90's I never read while I was in college and I'll probably read a couple of those.

I also plan on re-reading some older Pocketbook novels from the 80's that I haven't read in more than 25 years probably, likely during the summer when I'm at my camper.

 

[JD]

I've had several books on my Kindle for months. I am bound and determined to read them this year. A sampling:

Midnight Front

I read this shortly after it came out and I loved it.

Dune

I read this back a few years ago, and it definitely deserves it's reputation as a classic.

Trek stuff:

Articles of the Federation
The Last Stand by Brad Ferguson
First Frontier (I'll finish it this time, I swear!)
The Janus Gate trilogy by L.A. Graf
From the Depths by Victor Milan

The only one of these I've read is AotF, and it is one of my all time favorites.

The I.K.S. Gorkon novels.
The Janus Gate Trilogy.
The German edition of Section 31 - Control.
TNG Headlong Flight (Absturz)
DS9 Lichter im Dunkel (The Long Mirage)
Maybe I can start with the Captain's Table Omnibus: I've read the New Frontier book Once Burnt, as it was translatated into German. The other stories are still new. But this book is a huge tome. I will likely read one story and take a break to read something else between the single Captain's Table adventures.

I just finished up Headlong Flight, it's a good one.

 

[Kilana2]

There are several old novels I've never read: Dyson Sphere and A Hard Rain. And novels I've read by borrowing them from a friend (like TOS Ghost-Walker). I'm not sure if I will ever acquire them. Also severel movie adaptions are still missing in my collection. And the John Ford novels. I've read How much for just the Planet and didn't like it.

 

[Damian]

There are several old novels I've never read: Dyson Sphere and A Hard Rain. And novels I've read by borrowing them from a friend (like TOS Ghost-Walker). I'm not sure if I will ever acquire them. Also severel movie adaptions are still missing in my collection. And the John Ford novels. I've read How much for just the Planet and didn't like it.

I just read A Hard Rain a few weeks ago. I didn't think I was going to like it at first. It has an odd structure and I'm not really into gangster stories. But I actually ended up enjoying it.

 

[Kilana2]

I've heard that Dyson Sphere is full of techobabble. So I kept my hands off it.

 

[Damian]

I've heard that Dyson Sphere is full of techobabble. So I kept my hands off it.

Nah, it was ok. They went back to the Dyson Sphere to investigate and found some suprises. It wasn't the best Star Trek book I ever read but it was entertaining enough to keep my interest.

If I remember correctly the technobabble wasn't overwhelming. There was a bit more because of the nature of the story with the Dyson Sphere and all, but I didn't think it was too bad.

I was interested to read the old Bantam original series novel, "A Starless World" which took place inside a Dyson Sphere as well. It was a pretty good book too and interesting since it was years before "Relics" premiered.

 

[David Weller]

Welll, difficult to name individual books as I tend to make it up as I go along.

Next up is Star Trek TNG: Indistinguishable from Magic.

During 2019 I will read:

Star Trek novels
Doctor Who novels
Marvel prose novels
Movie novelisations and prequels
Anything else that takes my fancy

 

[Stevil2001]

Star Trek-wise, I will continue to try to make my way through the Typhon Pact-era novels.

I will continue my projects of a New Doctor Who Adventure every three months, a James Bond novel every four, a Legion of Super-Heroes comic every six, and a Charles Dickens novel every twelve.

I will probably commit to reading all the Hugo finalists and voting for the third year in a row.

On my "general reading" list, the next thing up is to finish the Horatio Hornblower series. I read books 1-8 about ten years ago but for some reason never read the last three. Probably I'll read the first eight again for context.

 

[StefanM]

My plans for Star Trek Novels are:

Voyager: The Eternal Tide
Voyager: Protectors
Voyager: Acts of Contrition
Voyager: Atonement
Titan: Fallen Gods
Voyager: A Pocket Full of Lies

With my son: continuing Double Helix with novels 3-6, then start with Cold Equations 1-3, then The Fall 1-5 (or maybe the Fall right after Double Helix, if I alone am faster with all 6 books on my list, then I will read Cold Equations myself).

With my daughter: we will soon finish the novelization of Star Trek XI, then continue with Star Trek XII (Into Darkness). After them? Good Question....... Maybe the gigantic McCoy – Provenance of Shadow. Or the old novelizations of the Animated Series(we are just watching the show).

 

[Kilana2]

The McCoy tome was gripping and one of the best Trek books I've ever read. Just my humble opinion.

 

[StefanM]

The McCoy tome was gripping and one of the best Trek books I've ever read. Just my humble opinion.

Yes, that's what I also heard about it.
The question for me is just, is it the right book to read with your children?
My son is 12, and we are reading Trek novels since 2 or 3 years. So my 8 year old daughter also wanted me to read a Star Trek book for her. We started with the Academy books (Kelvin-Timeline), but that's only 4 novels, so we continued "after the academy" with the movie-novels. She likes the TOS-crew, so we will read TOS-books, and McCoy is the first one from Cross Cult. So maybe we might first read some of the old TAS story. I have them all, but not read them yet, so they might be the better alternative.

 

[Kilana2]

The only problem I see is that McCoy is really huge....... You can't go wrong with books with a smaller page number.

 

[indianatrekker26]

i would love to get caught up on the Post-Nemesis Treklit. I've read bits and pieces of stuff over the years. So I jumped in with Star Trek: Destiny as a good jumping back-on point. I plan to go forward from there. I'm also reading all the old Legends Star Wars adult fiction. So i should be quite content with reading for 2019.

 

[Reanok]

I plan on reading the new Star Trek novels and novels from different mystery series I like. And a back log of books I haven't had time to read yet.

 

[Desert Kris]

For Star Trek it'll be:
Demons
Enterprise: The First Adventure
Battlestations
Hopefully I'll be able to make it to Deep Domain and Strangers from the Sky. I'm strongly considering revisiting the novelization for The Motion Picture, too. Will probably hold off on The Voyage Home novelization.
Star Trek DC Volume 1; finish off Kirk's tenure on the Excelsior's shakedown cruise, and get into the swing of the post-TVH status quo.

James Bond
From Russia With Love, followed by a short hiatus, and then
Dr. No

Stephen King
Eyes of the Dragon (just started)
Apt Pupil from the Different Seasons Collection
The Shining or Firestarter or The Dead Zone
Drawing of the Three

Star Wars
Just started making my way through the ANH era comics, hope to get to the Dr. Aphra comic
The Poe Dameron story from Before the Awakening, followed by the Poe Dameron comic
Aftermath: Life Debt
Thrawn

Doctor Who
All the 1st and 2nd Doctor novelizations that correspond to the destroyed stories, slotted between watching the stories that surround them (basically a DW viewing marathon with the novelizations to fill the gaps)

The Bonehunters from the Malazan Book of the Fallen series, hopefully.

 

[Damian]

For Star Trek it'll be:
Demons
Enterprise: The First Adventure
Battlestations
Hopefully I'll be able to make it to Deep Domain and Strangers from the Sky. I'm strongly considering revisiting the novelization for The Motion Picture, too. Will probably hold off on The Voyage Home novelization.
Star Trek DC Volume 1; finish off Kirk's tenure on the Excelsior's shakedown cruise, and get into the swing of the post-TVH status quo.

James Bond
From Russia With Love, followed by a short hiatus, and then
Dr. No

Stephen King
Eyes of the Dragon (just started)
Apt Pupil from the Different Seasons Collection
The Shining or Firestarter or The Dead Zone
Drawing of the Three

Star Wars
Just started making my way through the ANH era comics, hope to get to the Dr. Aphra comic
The Poe Dameron story from Before the Awakening, followed by the Poe Dameron comic
Aftermath: Life Debt
Thrawn

Doctor Who
All the 1st and 2nd Doctor novelizations that correspond to the destroyed stories, slotted between watching the stories that surround them (basically a DW viewing marathon with the novelizations to fill the gaps)

The Bonehunters from the Malazan Book of the Fallen series, hopefully.

I always found the novelization to Star Trek V: The Final Frontier to actually be an excellent book as well (not sure if you read it or not). I actually read it before the movie came out (the book was released a few days prior) and I thought it was going to be a really good movie after I read the book. Sadly the movie wasn't quite as good as the book (there is plenty I liked about TFF but obviously there were issues).

As an aside, I made the mistake of reading the Star Trek VI novel before the movie came out (same thing, book was released a few days prior). Of course that being somewhat of a mystery story I already knew 'who dunnit' before seeing the movie and it wasn't the butler. Sort of ruined it for me, though I still loved the movie.

 

[Desert Kris]

I always found the novelization to Star Trek V: The Final Frontier to actually be an excellent book as well (not sure if you read it or not). I actually read it before the movie came out (the book was released a few days prior) and I thought it was going to be a really good movie after I read the book. Sadly the movie wasn't quite as good as the book (there is plenty I liked about TFF but obviously there were issues).

As an aside, I made the mistake of reading the Star Trek VI novel before the movie came out (same thing, book was released a few days prior). Of course that being somewhat of a mystery story I already knew 'who dunnit' before seeing the movie and it wasn't the butler. Sort of ruined it for me, though I still loved the movie.

I also read it before I saw the movie, and I agree it is an excellent novelization. I generally like JM Dillard's work, and especially when she did novelizations that were sooo expanded from the source material. There's so much extra in TFF, and some nice added bits in TUC (although I mostly see complaints about her additions and changes there). The high point with her was a 400 page novelization for the movie length War of the Worlds television first episode. The last of her novelizations that I read was for the opening DS9 episode, at which point for some reason my interest was waning. I was disappointed by how her novelizations for TNG movies became shorter and shorter...and I compared them to that monster 400 pager of War of the Worlds and wish it had turned out differently.

From what I can recall, the novel for TFF draws on Hikaru Sulu's backstory from The Entropy Effect, Sybok zooms in on a bad incident from his childhood. I'm keeping it in mind for a reread, too.