What Do You Plan to Read in 2021

[Sci]

And Chekov name-dropping Leningrad (rather than St. Petersburg) in "I, Mudd."

Leningrad Oblast still exists even if the city has been renamed. Maybe Chekov was talking about the oblast.

 

[Max G]

I have a fairly ambitious reading list this year...

• By Una McCormack
  • The Undefeated (In Progress)
  • Picard: The Last Best Hope by Una McCormack (In Progress)
  • The Never-Ending Sacrifice (Have read in past; re-read)
  • The Crimson Shadow (Have read in past; re-read)
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• "Perchance to Dream" by Sarah Brand
• By John le Carré
  • The Honourable Schoolboy (Partially read in past; will need to restart. Book II of Karla trilogy.)
  • Smiley's People (Book III of Karla trilogy)
  • A Perfect Spy (Autobiographical)
  • A Legacy of Spies (Follow-up to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold)
  • Agent Running in the Field (Final novel)
• A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Amrstrong (Partially read in past; will need to restart)
• By Toni Morrison
  • Beloved
  • Jazz
  • Paradise
• By Ursula K. Le Guinn
  • The Dispossessed
  • The Left Hand of Darkness
  • "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" (Have read before. Re-read.)
  • "Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown"
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• By Lara Elena Donnelly
  • Amberlough (Nebula Award nominee; partially read in past; will need to restart)
  • Armistice
  • Amnesty
• Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
• The Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J. Sawyer
• By Seth Dickinson
  • The Traitor Baru Cormorant
  • The Monster Baru Cormorant
  • The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
• By Diana Peterfreund
  • For Darkness Shows the Stars
  • Across a Star-Swept Sea
  • Among the Nameless Stars
  • The First Star to Fall
• By Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Red Mars (Have read. Re-read)
  • Green Mars (Have read. Re-read)
  • Blue Mars (Partially read in past; will have to restart)
  • The Martians (Partially read in past; will have to restart)
  • The Ministry for the Future
• By Gabriel García Márquez
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien años de soledad) [Translated by Gregory Rabassa] (Partially read in past; will have to restart)
  • The Autumn of the Patriarch (El otoño del patriarca) [Translated by Gregory Rabassa)
  • Love in the Time of Cholera (El amor en los tiempos del cólera) [Translated by Edith Grossman]
  • The General in His Labyrinth (El general en su laberinto) [Translated by Edith Grossman]
  • Of Love and Other Demons (Del amor y otros demonios) [Translated by Edith Grossman] (Have read. Re-read.)
• By John Green
  • The Fault in Our Stars
  • Turtles All the Way Down
• The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
• By Stephen King
  • The Stand: Complete & Uncut Edition (Partially read in past; will have to restart)
  • The Eyes of the Dragon (Partially read in past; will have to restart)
  • It (Partially read in past; will have to restart)
• The Master and the Margarita (Мастер и Маргарита) by Mikhail Bulgakov [Translated by Diana Burgin and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor]
• By Bertolt Brecht
  • Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) by Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin [Translated by John Willett] (Play. Partially read in past; will have to restart.)
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis) [Translated by Matthew Earnest] (Play. Have read; re-read.)
• By Tony Kushner
  • Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes by Tony Kushner (Play. Have read. Re-read.)
  • The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (Play.)
• A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (Partially read in past; will have to restart)

I too plan on reading Ursula K. Le Guinn and Cien Años de Soledad, I read an excerpt of Le Guinn's work for one of my classes and found it really interesting, I do believe it was the one about Omelas, but only four pages. I'm not sure if that's the entire length of the story, but I'll have to find out.
I'm also reading How Long Till Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin, Habibi by Craig Thompson, and Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq. I have some books I'm reading for class, but they weren't chosen by me. I've recently discovered how to request books from my library online, so my local library will be seeing a lot of me at curb-side pickup.
I haven't read a Star Trek novel for quite some time, but I suspect I have a ton of unread ones at my parents' house from the yearly library dumps I used to attend.

 

[Jinn]

With the new Discovery novel set during season 3 I plan to finish Fear Itself, and then read Desperate Hours, The Light of Kahless, The Enterprise War, Succession, Captain Saru, Die Standing, Dead Endless and Aftermath. Plus all the episodes and Short Treks.

I'm also re-reading the Trek 20th-21st century period, so I'm almost done with From History's Shadow, and will then re-read Elusive Salvation, The Eugenic Wars and The Rings of Time. This time I'm also including SNW stories, so a ton of short stories are in the mix too. I'll then cap that era off with Hearts and Minds.

With the Coda trilogy coming up, I'll read the remaining LitVerse stuff Hearts and Minds, Available Light, Colateral Damage and, most excitingly, Enigma Tales.

I'm not quite sure what to do with New Frontier and Voyager. I still haven't read the novels after the time-jump in NF, or the final Voyager book. I'd probably read them before Coda, should they be relevant there, or the characters be brought up again, but if that isn't the case, I think I'd rather wait and do a full re-read of their respective series.

 

[Christopher]

Leningrad Oblast still exists even if the city has been renamed. Maybe Chekov was talking about the oblast.

Oh, blast, I should've known that.