>Most read books for the first half of 2026This is on Goodreads, a social media site for reading. They have a yarly challenge, where you pick how many books you want to read this year and track your progress.These aren't the highest rated, or most reviewed books - just the most read.Thoughts?
>10/12 written by women>most read is one of the lone maleswomen need to realize and accept that men are just better at everything
>>25315362I get that inceldom is your pet issue, but this really isn't the thread for it. Like a vegan, your preeching is annoying and uncalled for.
>>25315360>Thoughts?I don't really care because I don't engage with the social media aspect of the website.Anyway here's how the challenge is going for me
>>25315360Post link pls.>Thoughts?I haven't read any of those book, but I have read another book by Emily Henry, which is nice and cozy.Allen Levi being this high on the list, is also very nice, since that's Christian Fiction and it's rarely up there. And a litfic in third place? Epistolary at that? Insanely based. I've heard people praising the Wedding people, and the premise is cool enough, but the execution sounds so bad.I still have the Heart the Lover in my tbr.Lots of movie books, btw. Sad that Reminders of Him got such an awful adaptation, we would have gotten that absolute masterpiece instead of these three ass picks.
>>25315452>Post link pls.https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/3130-readers-most-read-books-of-the-reading-challenge-so-farIf you scroll down, it has them by genre too.>>25315435Good job completing the 5 year plan in 3 years, comrade. Set a bigger plan next time.
>>25315455>Set a bigger plan next time.nokeep expectations to a minimum and you won't be disappointed
last year https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2025
>>25315458second half>>25315456clearly you dont believe that, or you'd set a goal of 1, just in casebut you set it at 6, risking failing. i am asking you only to do more of what you already do - calculated risk
>>25315378Kek seethe foid, men will aways be the superior writers. Now go back to reading your 7'5 werewolf billionaire rapist bdsm smut novel and leave us be
>>25315362Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary is the book you're choosing as the beacon for male writers?
>>25315378Is he wrong?
>>25315360porn and feminist tripe
>>25317338>enter restaurant>scream that mushrooms are the sexual organs of that organism and everyone here is eating fungi cocks>get kicked out>"b-b-b-but i wasn't wrong!!!!"
>>25315360I know it's slop but I'd read Heated Rivalry
>>25317358>Retarded logical equivalencyWhy do foids aways do this?
>>25317333Compared to most literary stuff we get in the 21st century? Unfortunately yes
>>25315360>wuthering heightsActually glad to see people read that one
>>25315458>>25315459What a shit year. The tradpub industry becoming entirely for and by middle aged single women is continuing to pay dividends, I see. I started - and quit - the four in genres I have any interest in.
The Taliban is right about women
>>25318138are you implying the average male reads better books than females? stupid incel
>>25318157Fucking obviously. All women read is porn. Tits or gtfo.
>>25317964Turning it into a star-studded movie with extensive production and advertising will almost get a book of substance to break the top ten.
Letting muslims use the internet has led to so much low IQ, dumb and dull misogyny and antisemitism, that not even /lit/ is safe.
Who the fuck sets a goal for reading? It's like a resolution to jerk off more. Just read another book when you finish the current one. Read when you have time and want to. No need to count, no need to dick measure. Counting doesn't matter anyway, all 54 warrior cats books don't actually amount to reading infinite jest twice.
>>25317370>i dont read
>>25318255I don't read post-modernist shit, yes. How could you tell?
>>25315360I watched Project Hail Mary when I was blackout for my dad's birthday and it was certainly a sequence of images and words. Seemed a bit soi but what do I know
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>>25318223>compares setting and achieving goals to jerking off>but then praises infinite jestWow, a gooner elitist. We have those now?
>>25315360Is this objective proof that Hail Mary is better then wuthering heights? I thought it was genreslop.
>>25315458Why do these covers all look the same to me Also I don't use that site but here's what I've read this year:- a bunch of math, business development, marketing, and programming books which I won't list- Blood Meridian - First three books of BotNS (reread) - King Solomon's Ring- Fear and Trembling - Knight by Gene Wolfe- half of the "Best of Wolfe" short story collection- The Fifth Head of Cerberus - "On Writing" by Borges - Rage by Bob Woodward (one of the worst books I've ever read, I read it to get a glimpse into the mind of the average boomer)- various books of the Bible - Madame Bovary - Other stuff I've probably forgottenAnd I think some others. I'm currently halfway through Kristin Lavransdatter (palate cleanser after Blood Meridian, it's ok but I keep thinking about how McCarthy's particular way of describing the Southwest would be amazing if applied to Norway which makes me like the book less) and a couple other books. Next up, at least for fiction, is Pride and Prejudice (rereading after ~16 years) and for nonfiction probably The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt. I'll probably start the latter first since BM is still echoing in my mind.
>>25319025you were in a very wolfe mood this year
Women read the most books, and are the most likely to approach it as a social activity, with book clubs and goodreads accounts and whatnot, so i am not in the least surprised. Nor am i angry. It is what it is.The only thing that really bothers me about the current state of literature is seeing romantasy in the fantasy section when it should be either with the other romance novels or in its own category if they are somehow incompatible. I feel like the romance demographic has way more in common with the romantasy crowd than the epic adventure fans do.
>>25319175You can't always separate them.Is the Hussite trilogy of Sapowski romance or fantasy? Its a fake medieval chronicle with mild magical elements, but the core of the plot is literally a love story.
All of my childhood friends are reading Project Hail Mary. One of them is reading some shit called Dungeon Crawler Carl. I don't even want to know what it is, I'm just tired of the soullessness.
>>25319193The Martian was great, read that in a weekend. Is Hail Marry similar?
>>25319149He's my favorite author and I haven't had time to pleasure read in almost a decade. Getting laid off has its perks. Hopefully I can finish the Long Sun cycle and all his short stories before I get another job and/or AI destroys civilization.>>25319193It could be worse.
>>25319228I don't get how people select Wolfe as their favorite fantast. His prose is dreamlike, and reads like some old religious scroll. Not much dialogue, not much action, not much certainty. Very anti-ganre.
>>25319230Well yes, it transcends the genre even as it uses it to express something it couldn't otherwise. The entire four books are like a weird retelling of the New Testament, almost. I don't really know how to explain why I love it so much but it (or at least BotNS, I think that's his best work by far) has a similar effect on me as Kubrick's films. I didn't like it as much (I still thought it was good) when I first read it at 19 but it stuck in my head for years and on a second reading I became enchanted. It's almost like a fractal, every part of it serves some purpose that isn't always clear.
>>25319249In my ear, too softly, I think, even for Hildegrin to hear, Dorcas said, "Yes,you were. Your face was full of beauty, of a kind of nobility. When the world ishorrible, then thoughts are high, full of grace and greatness."I looked at her, thinking she was mocking me, but she was not, "The world isfilled half with evil and half with good. We can tilt it forward so that moregood runs into our minds, or back, so that more runs into this." A movement ofher eyes took in all the lake. "But the quantities are the same, we change only their proportion here or there.""I would tilt it as far back as I can, until at last the evil runs outaltogether," I said."It might be the good that would run out. But I am like you; I would bend timebackward if I could.""Nor do I believe that beautiful thoughts - or wise ones - are engendered byexternal troubles.""I did not say beautiful thoughts, but thoughts of grace and greatness, though Isuppose that is a kind of beauty. Let me show you." She lifted my hand andslipping it inside her rags pressed it to her right breast. I could feel thenipple, as firm as a cherry, and the warmth of the gentle mound beneath it,delicate, feather-soft and alive with racing blood. "Now," she said, "what areyour thoughts? If I have made the external world sweet to you, aren't they lessthan they were?""Where did you learn all this?" I asked. Her face was drained of its wisdom,which condensed in crystal drops at the corners of her eyes
