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I read 5 books in September:

1. Wild Souls
2. The Big Sort
3. The Marriage Question
4. The History of Motion
5. The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob

This brings me to 75 books! I have achieved my goal, and I fully regret it!

I read one book in August:

1. Anatomy of a breakthrough.

I only have five books left. I’m sure I’ll read more books this month, but I think I will move much slower for the rest of the year.

I have only read four books in July:

1. A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

2. Jesus and John Wayne

3. The Closing of the American Mind

4. Natural Right and its History

I only have six books left, but I expect my reading this month and the next to be rather limited.

I have read 13 more books in June:

1. Seven Lessons in Physics

2. Woke, Inc.

3. Once upon a prime

4. The Nature of Economies

5. Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma

6. Belonging

7. Witness

8. Cognac

9. Hell to Pay

10. Career and Family

11. Paved Paradise

12. Truth and Repair

13. Aesthetic Intelligence

That makes 65 books this year, only ten more to go!!!

That seems like a lot of books, but I don't know you. That being said, would you be interested in collaborating on a book review substack with me that I just created? Use of ChatGPT to summarize and condense your thoughts would be encouraged. I'm basically inviting interesting people who have high book reading goals on Manifold.

@PatrickDelaney Thanks for the invite, for now I am going to say no. First, I'm already reading too much and it is preventing me from accomplishing my academic work. Second, I primarily listen to audiobooks, which makes remembering details a little more challenging. Third, I do not know how to review books well.

However, next year, I plan on revising my goal to encourage more deep engagement with books, and so my goal will probably be oriented around writing at least 24 book reviews in 2024. You are welcome and encouraged to check back in with me in December.

@Nadja_L Sounds great

here's some more motivation: https://manifold.markets/mistersplice/will-i-read-more-books-than-nadjal

Will I read more books than Nadja_L in 2023?

54% chance. based on the market found here: https://manifold.markets/Nadja_L/will-i-read-at-least-75-books-in-20 I set an insane goal of 84 books for myself and so far this year have read (or listened to) 55 books: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/42732825 [link preview]This market wi…

@mistersplice you’re still ahead of me, btw

I have read 14 books in May:

1. Birchers

2. Human Compatible

3. The Struggle for a Decent Politics

4. Torn Apart

5. No Way to Treat a Child

6. The Concept of the Political

7. The Shadow docket

8. Political theology 

9. Poverty, by America

10. Transgender History

11. Systems of Survival

12. The Debt Trap

13. The Cryptopians

14. Cities and the Wealth of Nations

That makes 52 books so far this year.

I have read 8 Books in April:

1. C.S. Lewis on Writing and Writers

2. Cribsheet

3. Chip War

4. We were once a family

5. The Philippine-American War

6. The Islam Book

7. An Assassin in Utopia

8. Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

This makes 38 books overall this year.

I have read 11 Books in March:

1. The Weirdest People in the World

2. Material Girls

3. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

4. From The Soil

5. Under the Influence

6. Why We Did It

7. A World Without Work

8. Silent Extinction

9. The Souls of Black Folks

10. Expecting Better

11. Demography (A Very Short Introduction)

This makes 30 books overall this year.

I have read 19 books so far. I read 9 books in January:

1. The Culture Transplant

2. Behave

3. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

4. Berlin Diaries

5. Transit

6. Why Nations Fail

7. Prisoners’ of Geography

8. Streets of Gold

9. The Genetic Library
   
   I read 10 books in February:
   

10. Development as Freedom

11. Start with Hello

12. Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction

13. The Conscious Mind

14. How to be Weird

15. Pure Colour

16. Purity and Danger

17. Why We Fight

18. The Secret To Our Success

19. What Money Can’t Buy

*The Genetic Lottery

I have a similar market going here:

I can definitely relate to listening to books while cleaning etc. Basically listening to them while doing physical things that require little attention. The latest book I read/listened to this way was the Old man and the sea a few weeks ago.

Are you using any platform to track the books? Anyway, good luck!

@firstuserhere Also interested to hear about reading multiple books at the same time. I do the same thing but don't usually come across people who also do. I try not to have overlapping domains. For example, Thinking fast and slow + The left hand of darkness is a good combo because they're about different things and it's easier to juggle. But reading 2 books on biases - i'd likely read one at a time than both at the same time.

@firstuserhere Listening while cleaning makes things so much easier! I do not have a platform to track books, aside from a .txt file. And Manifold. I think every month I will probably update the list of books I have read so far in the year, beginning March 1st.

I do not intentionally read multiple books at the same time, although I definitely know people who do. I read multiple books at the same time because I have access to several different libraries and books come off hold and are due at different times. The subject of my curiosity also shifts around a lot so I get books about different topics all at once, and it is rare that I can keep myself from starting a new book!