Book progress update - September

At the start of the year, I set a few reading goals, with the overall aim of trying to make my way through books I've had for a while and haven't read, and trying not to acquire too many new books. The goals were:

1. Read at least 100 books in 2017 (approximately 2 per week; hopefully I can accomplish this)
2. Buy/acquire fewer books each month than I remove from my TBR shelf/list
3. Read or otherwise get rid of at least 1 of the books I've had since before 2015 (there were 4 on the list at the start of the year) and at least three of the books I  bought during 2015 (12 on the list)

They are (fairly) reasonable goals, which shouldn't stress me too much. In theory.

In January:  books read: 8; list reduced by: 2; pre-2015 reduction: 0; 2015 reduction: 1
In February: books read: 12; list reduced by: 11; pre-2015 reduction: 0; 2015 reduction: 1
In March: books read: 8; list increased by: 1;  pre-2015 reduction: 0; 2015 reduction: 0
In April: books read: 10; list increased by: 8; pre-2015 reduction: 1; 2015 reduction: 3
In May: books read, 14; list reduced by: 1; pre-2015 reduction: 0; 2015 reduction: 3
In June: books read, 9; list reduced by: 3; pre-2015 reduction: 0; 2015 reduction: 0
In July: books read: 7; list increased by: 5; pre-2015 reduction: 0; 2015 reduction: 1
in August: books read: 15; list reduced by: 1; pre-2015 reduction: 0; 2015 reduction: 1

And now, September: 

• I read five books from my list (More Than This, Patrick Ness, My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout, The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millweed Hargrave, All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders, Little Gods by Anna Richards )
• I read one library book - the second book about his experiences with autism by Naoki Higashida (Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight)
• I read one more of the books my class will be using as texts this school year (Treason by Berlie Docherty)
• I re-read one book, which I'd picked up for 40p from the Friends' table at the local library (Case Histories by Kate Atkinson). It wasn't on my list. 
• Starting September off with a bang, I bought 5 books in charity shops on the 1st of Sept! And ordered one book in the post from AbeBooks, as several friends had reviewed it well.

September goal progress:

1. books read: 8 of 17 books 
2. books removed from list: 5; books added:6; net result +1
3. books read/removed from list from before 2015: 0 of 3;  from 2015: 0 of 2

Here's the updated list of Books to Read in 2017.  There were 46 books at the beginning of January, and there are now 42, which seems like only a few less, but most of them have changed - only 11 books are left on the year from last year or before  - books acquired in 2017 are underlined. 

1. Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor (charity shop, April 2017)
2. Elizabeth Aston, Mr Darcy's Daughters (from Taffy's house in Florida, April 2017)
3. Susan Barker, The Incarnations (charity shop, July 2016)
4. Philip Baruth, The Brothers Boswell (Waterstones Canterbury bargain bin, July 2015)
5. Mikhail Bulgokov, The Master and Margarita (charity shop, April 2017)
6. Jessie Burton, The Muse (Waitrose, January 2017)
7. Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep (Mother's Day 2017)
8. Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Book People, May 2017)
9. Tracy Chevalier, At the Edge of the Orchard  (Waterstones Piccadilly, April 2017)
10. Emma Donohue, The Wonder (Waterstones Nottingham, July 2017)
11. Bi Fieyu, Three Sisters (charity shop, Farnham, September 2017)
12. Ford Maddox Ford, Parade's End (Nov 2012 - birthday present - bought after the BBC adaptation - but I knew I wouldn't read it straight away as I wanted to let time pass from the adaptation.  Enough time has probably passed now...) *
13. Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl (Waterstones Wimbledon, July 2017)
14. Claire Fuller, Our Endless Numbered Days (charity shop, Farnham, September 2017)
15. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (would be a re-read, bought shortly after his death - spring 2014 - as I was reminded how much I enjoyed it and I didn't seem to own a copy - think my old one fell apart, probably...) *
16. Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (2014)*
17. Linda Grant, The Dark Circle (Waterstones Nottingham, July 2017)
18. Hella Haasse, The Tea Lords (Bookhandel von Rossum, Amsterdam, August 2017)
19. Mark Haddon (Introduction), Experiences at the Edge of Consciousness (Waterstones Piccadilly, April 2017)
20. Siri Hustvedt, A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women (Waterstones Wimbledon, July 2017)
21. John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries  (Waterstones Piccadilly, April 2017)
22. N K Jemisin, The Fifth Season (AbeBooks, Sept 2017)
23. Lynn Knight, The Button Box  (Waterstones Piccadilly, April 2017)
24. Ernest van der Kwast, The Ice Cream Makers (Amsterdam, August 2017)
25. Neil MacGregor, Germany: Memories of  a Nation (birthday present, Nov 2016)
26. Edward Marston, The Railway Detective (Charity shop, Farnham, Sept 2017)
27. Alice Mattison, The Book Borrower (Used Book Depot, Vero Beach, April 2017)
28. Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Mother's Day, 2017)
29. Magnus Mills, The Restraint of Beasts (Abe Books, May 2017)
30. Alice Munro, Runaway (Waterstones Piccadilly, March 2016)
31. Flannery O'Connor, Complete Stories (charity shop, December 2015)
32. Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero (charity shop , April 2017)
33. Orhan Pamuk. A Strangeness in Mind (Christmas present 2016)
34. Michelle Paver, Dark Matter (charity shop, Farnham, September 2017)
35. Sara Perry, The Essex Serpent (Waterstones Nottingham, July 2017)
36. Natasha Pulley, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (Waterstones Wimbledon, December 2016)
37. Lucy Ribchester, The Hourglass Factory (charity shop, Farnham, September 2017)
38. Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram (Abe Books, July 2016)
39. Marcus Sedgewick, She is not Invisible (Waterstones Oxford, August 2017)
40. Jane Smiley, Early Warning (Abe Books, May 2017)
41. Sally Vickers, Cousins (Waterstones Wimbledon, July 2017)
42. Lucy Worsley, A Very British Murder (Waterstones Oxford, August 2017)