The History Book Club discussion

This is Douglass' "To Be Read" List (2021) for the 50 Books Read in 2021. This list will be added to as Douglass sets up the thread.

Whatever books are not completed on the list can be carried over to the 2022 Personal Reading List thread.

Sample Format Choices:

Sample Format for initial set up before completing books:

✓1. The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations Hardcover – May 22, 2018 by John McCain

by John McCain

2. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

by Rick Atkinson

3. Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

by Mark Kurlansky

Note: See the sample checkmark in number one that would show that I completed that book.

And if you like to see the strikethrough example that the book has been completed - see number 2.

On the Personal Reading Lists - you have a choice of either using checkmarks or strikethroughs.

For comprehensive assistance - we always have the "how to" thread.

See link: /topic/show/...

You can always check Bentley's Thread for the Personal Reading List Thread.

See Bentley's Sample Thread for the Personal Reading List Thread.

Link:

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Basic Information to help you get started:



For 2020, we are going to set up for all participants two threads - the first will be each participant's Personal Reading List thread where they can create lists of books that they want to read for the 50 Books Read challenge.

And as they read them - they can check them off or do a strikethrough.

It is your working thread.

You can check off each book as you read it by adding & # 10003 ; (with no spaces in between) right before the title of the book with additionally no spaces after the semicolon and before the title of the book.

If you would like to bold the title of the book and author - and number them - in addition to adding a checkmark - you would then add & # 10003 ;(with no spaces) and then < b >1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson< /b > with no spaces. You can easily preview what you have done to see if your code works.

✓1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

or without a number

✓The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

You can also do strikethroughs if you like - that is the same as bolding but using an s instead of b.

For example: < s > The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson < / s>
You would use this code without the spaces within the brackets or in front of the book title or after the name of the author.

It would look like this:

The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

If you want it bolded as well:

< s >< b >The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson < / b >< / s >
You would use this code without the spaces within the brackets or in front of the book title or after the name of the author.

It would end up looking like this:

The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

The second thread is just like it has always been.

If you want to also number the books as well as bold them using a strike through:

< s > < b >1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson < / b > < / s>
You would use this code without the spaces within the brackets or in front of the book title number or after the name of the author.

It would end up looking like this:

1. The British are Coming by Rick Atkinson

The second thread is the formatted reading thread for 50 Books that we always have done and includes your reviews using the designated format.

You must sign up for 50 Books Read in 2020 to get both threads - the Personal Reading List thread just for you and your own 2020 Books Read in 2020 thread. You must use the format on the Books Read in 2020 thread. If you would like to participate - then please add your name here and I will set up both threads. Active participants in the 2019 50 Books Read in 2020 get their own two threads.

The format for the Personal Lists when setting them up is easy:

Just number or list and skip one line in between.
After skipping one line - just add the citation.

bookcover, the word by, the author's photo and then the author's link

Then skip another line before adding your next book. As you read and complete them - either use a strikethrough or a checkmark - that means that you have added your review according to the standard format on your review thread (same as every other year).

Check the how to thread for additional directions and assistance. We will always be there to assist.

And even if you do not finish all of the books on your list or many on your list - remember whatever books are not completed on the list can be carried over to the 2021 Personal Reading List thread. All you have to do is to do an edit, copy and then a paste on next year's thread. So the sky is the limit.

Have fun with your list thread - you are ready to go!

Hello Douglass,

There are now two threads set up for you in the 50 Books Read in 2020.

The first is the normal 50 Books Read in 2020 thread which you are readily familiar with and you can just jump into that quickly.

And the second thread is your Personal Reading List/Tracker thread for the books that are on your to be read list for 2021. You can add to the list during the year, checkmark off the books that you have completed or you have a choice to do a strikethrough. You make a list for the books that you are planning to read for the year - order is not important - you can skip around. You can number them or not; you can checkmark them when done or you can do strikethroughs to show the ones that you have completed before adding the reviews to your normal 50 Books Read in 2021 thread.

I have provided the sample format with choices. You list the book with numbers or not - but you must skip one line after listing the title of book and the author and you then must add just the citation with bookcover, author's photo and author's link but the other choices are up to you. That helps the goodreads software create a linkable list of books and authors on the right hand white space of your tracker thread.

Your Personal Reading List - To Be Read thread is here:
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Your new 50 Books Read in 2020 thread is here:
/topic/show/...

The Introduction Thread is here:
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The 50 Books Read in 2020 - How To's Thread is here:
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The thread with the special instructions and explanations for the 50 Books Read in 2020 Personal Reading Lists is here:
/topic/show/...

Hope you enjoy!
Bentley

Thanks, Bentley!

Here are a couple that I am working on right now and look forward to finishing and reviewing soon.

✓1. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Novel, hardback

by Ta-Nehisi Coates (no photo)

✓2. Prices and Production and Other Works by Friedrich A. Hayek
Economics, ebook

by Friedrich A. Hayek

✓3. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
History, ebook

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Great start.

What I have been doing is making three lists - currently reading, completed and reviewed, and to read. Then you can check them off for your 2020 listing - add check marks or cross throughs etc. You can also have a list of books you are listening via audio, or the ones that are Kindle books - folks have been pretty ingenious. Looks like you have a great action list.

Good ideas. Thanks.

Next up:

4. The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludvig von Mises
Economics, ebook

by Ludwig von Mises

✓5. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Nonfiction, audiobook

by Michelle Alexander

✓6. The Histories by Herodotus (translated by Tom Holland)
History, paperback

by Herodotus

Tom Holland

Reading goals for work:

✓7. Inside the Choral Rehearsal by James Jordan
Music, hardback

by James Mark Jordan (no photo)

8. Self Made (formerly titled On Her Own Ground) by A'Lelia Perry Bundles
Biography, paperback

by A'Lelia Perry Bundles

9. Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar
Music, paperback

by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar (no photo)

Great lists.

Finished 4 of the 1st 9 and am close to finishing 2 more. Now I am adding 4 more to the queue. Hope I can get through it all this year!

10. by Ibram X. Kendi (no photo)
History, ebook

11. by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Graphic Novel, paperback

12. by Richard Rothstein (no photo)
History, paperback

13. by Jay Coles
Young Adult Novel, paperback

Looking good

More goals for 2020:

14. by Edwin E. Gordon (no photo)
Music, hardback

15. by Thomas Piketty
Economics, paperback

Great additions

More books for various projects I'm working on...

16. by John Spencer (no photo)
Education, paperback

✓17. by Steven Lee Myers
Biography, paperback

18. by Ludwig von Mises
History, ebook

Douglass - your personal reading list will be carried over year to year - so it will be your own personal thread marking your progress and your intent. I have updated the thread's headers in advance for 2021.

This is all for a project I am working on that has made the 2nd half of 2020 all the more busy and promises to do the same for 2021:

19. by Alena V. Ledeneva (no photo)

20. by Karen Dawisha (no photo)

21. by Anders Åslund (no photo)

22. by Tom Burgis (no photo)

23. by Pete Buttigieg

Just ordered 9 new books from the Princeton University Press January Sale, so I've got some work to do, starting with this one:

24. by Luke Mayville