Do you read? How often? What kind of content?

I like to read but my eyes are getting worse so I listen to books and podcasts
Wild West Extravaganza has been my go to for the last few weeks
If you like mountain Man and old west outlaws and lawmen it's a good listen
And he has a good story teller voice

I read constantly. John Steinbeck, Ivan Doig, Craig Johnson are my current favorite authors.

Every day on my work breaks-2 15s and an hour. 4 days a week.

I read every evening. If I don't have 4-5 novels needing to be read I get a little panicky and start looking for interesting books to buy.

I'm currently reading Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate based on somebody's recommendation here.

Next up is a pair of Steinbeck novels; Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday based on Gulo's recommedations.

Also in the "to read" stack; Empire of the Summer Moon AKA Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Commanches.

We have a "Books read Thread" on a Facebook Messenger chat with family and friends. We set goals at the beginning of each year and try to meet them. We also discuss books we've read and would like to read.

I read about 3 hours a day. Sometimes more. I read epic fantasy novels, wildlife books, trapping adventures and trapping diaries. I also like true adventure hunting. I also read many magazines and two papers a day.

I used to read alot when I was married. After I got divorced I pretty much stopped. At my daughters wedding ( her third marriage) reception, in August of 2017, I was talking to a woman about books and she reommended a book, One Thousand White Women. I got it and deciced I would start readding again. I started keeping track of the books I read, and the pages read. The number on the far right is the number of pages total. It looks like , up to this point I have read 104, 938 pages.
The asterics denote books I onsider good reading. I read mostly non-fiction, but there is some fiction.

Here is the list
Start August 2017


One Thousand White Women * 496 Jim Fergus
The Buffalo Hunters 372 Mari Sandez
The Cattlemen 552 Mari Sandez
There Were Sioux 118 Mari Sandez
The Dalton gang 239 Harold Preece
Wagons, Mules and Men 184 Nick Eggenhofer
All the Light We Cannot See * 544 Anthony Doerr
We Were the Lucky Ones ** 416 Georgia Hunter
The Silent Wife 352 Asa Harrison
The Chemist 528 Stephenie Meyer
Cheyenne Autumn 290 Mari Sandoz
Crazy Horse the Strange Man of the Oglalas 428 Mari Sandoz
Before We Were Yours* 384 Lisa Wingate
Flight of the Sparrow* 368 Amy Belding Brown
The Frontier World of Doc Holiday 305 Pat Jans Robert McGrath
Jersey Gold 384 Margaret Bowen and Gwendolyn Hiles
Angela's Ashes* 368 Frank McCourt
The Passenger 400 Lisa Lutz
A Walk in the Woods 274 Bill Bruson
The Innocent Killer* 330 Griesbach 7332
The Wilderness War 496 Allan Eckert
Killers of the Flower Moon* 352 David Grann
Catch-22 453 Joseph Heller
Fahrenheit 451 256 Ray Bradbury
A Brief History of Time 212 Stephen Hawking
Asrto Phyics for Those in a Hurry 244 Tyson
Convicted 224 McGee & Collins
Alias Grace* 468 Margaret Atwood
A Death in Live Oak* 576 James Grippando
See What I Have Done 352 Sarah Schmidt
Fire and Fury 336 Michael Wolff
What Happened 304 Hillary Clinton
Burial Rites* 338 Hannah Kent
Lilac Girls* 576 Martha Hall Kelly
Camino Island* 336 John Grisham
A Painted House* 388 John Grisham
Hidden Figures* 368 Margot Lee Shetterly
Ravensbrück* 784 Sarah Helm
The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück* 336 Rochelle Saidel
Women in the Resistance and Holocaust* 350 Vera Laska
After Anna 416 Lisa Scottoline 8165
Watchers (not worth reading) 352 Dale Koontz
The Gate Keeper* 336 Charles Todd
The Kept 368 James Scott
Blood Moon* 512 John Sedgwick
To the Edges of the Earth 352 Edward J. Larson
The Zookeepers Wife 288 Diane Ackerman
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt 960 Edmund Morris
The Return of George Washington 392 Edward J. Larson
The Worst Hard Time 352 Timothy Egan
Alaska's Wolf Man 330 Jim Reardon
The Wilderness of Denali 432 Charles Sheldon
Alaska Yukon Trophies Won and Lost* 304 G. O. Young
The Double Helix 226 Watson, Crick,Wilkins, Franklin
Hiroshima 160 John Hersey
Rough Crossings 445 Simon Schama
Washington's Crossing 576 David Hackett Fischner
Ordeal at Valley Forge 416 John Joseph Stoudt
The Girls of Atomic City* 416 Denise Kiernan
Fear 448 Bob Woodward
Alexander Hamilton 818 Ron Chernow
Fort Sumter to Kernstown 289 Shelby Foote 8356
Pea Ridge to the Seven Days 261 Shelby Foote
Second Manassas to Perryville 303 Shelby Foote
Fredericksberg to Chancellorsville 327 Shelby Foote
Gettysburg to Vicksburg 355 Shelby Fotte
Tullahoma to Meridian 288 Shelby Foote
Petersburg to Savannah 326 Shelby Foote
Five Forks to Appomattox 345 Shelby Foote
Dixie Betrayed 368 David Eicher
Behind Closed Doors 352 B.A. Paris
Uncle Tom's Cabin 496 Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Journeyer** 782 Gary Jennings
Chesapeake** 859 James Michener
In Cold Blood** 343 Truman Capote
The Reckoning 384 John Grisham
The Lost Girls of Paris* 384 Pam Jenoff
Before She Knew Him 320 Peter Swanson
Where The Crawdads Sing** 368 Delia Owens
Ordinary Grace 336 William Krueger
Shogun** 1152 James Clavell
Nine Perfect Strangers 464 Liane Moriarty
The Silent Patient 339 Alex Michaelides
The Lost City of Z 352 David Grann 9504
The Making of the Atomic Bomb** 886 Richard Rhodes
The Pioneers 258 David McCullogh
Freedom's Detective 352 Charles Lane
Houdini 333 Kalush and Sloman
Three Against the Wilderness 288 Eric Collier
The Last Pirate of New York 256 Rich Cohen
The Forgotten 500 336 Gregory A. Freeman
Out of Africa* 480 Isak Dinesen
Night 116 Elie Wiesel
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee 487 Dee Brown
Black Boy 419 Richard Wright
Death in the Long Grass 320 Peter Capstick
Never Cry Wolf 256 Farley Mowat
Narrative of the Life 96 Frederick Dougals
Tomorrow We Will Be Killed 356 Philip Gourevitch
D-DAY 624 Antony Beevor
Scalps and Tomahawks 378 Frederick Drimmer
A Life In Secrets 493 Sarah Helm
The Handmaid's Tale 311 Margaret Atwood
Undaunted Courage 592 Stephen Ambrosse
As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me* 288 Josef M. Bauer
The Silence of the North-Olive Fredrickson 290 Ben East 8215
Black Flags, Blue Waters 416 Eric Jay Dolin
The Blue Tattoo 280 Margot Mifflin
Snowman--John Hornsby in the Barren Lands* 340 Malcom Waldron
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison 142 James A. Seaver
Friends Divided John Adams Thomas Jefferson 512 Gordon S. Wood
Rising Tide 528 John M. Barry
This Tender Land 464 William Kent Krueger
Empire of the Summer Moon 371 S.C. Gwynne
The Girl Who Lived Twice 448 David Lagercrantz
The Early American Republic, 1790-1820 236 David & Jeanne Heidler
The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp 640 Charles Royster
The Calamity Papers 288 Dale L. Walker
Just Mercy 336 Bryan Stevenson
Iron Head 368 Mel Ellis
Hunting Charles Manson 336 Lis Wiehl
Becoming Teddy Roosevelt 206 Andrew Vietze
The Warmth of Other Suns 622 Isabel Wilkerson
Dead Wake 480 Erik Larson
The War the Women Lived 352 Walter Sullivan
Washington's End 225 Jonathan Horn
The Last Juror 496 John Grisham
Total Control 656 David Baldacci 8742
The DaVinci Code 689 Dan Brown
The Hunt for Red October 387 Tom Clancy
The Lost Symbol 528 Dan Brown
R is for Ricochet 352 Sue Grafton
1Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 223 J.K. Rowling
2Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 251 J.K. Rowling
3Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 317 J.K. Rowling
4Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire 636 J.K. Rowling
5Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 766 J.K. Rowing
6Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 607 J.K. Rowing
7Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 607 J.K. Rowling
The Last Castle 401 Denise Kiernan
The Count of Monte Cristo* 1096 Alexandre Dumas
The Room Where it Happened 592 John Bolton
The Grapes of Wrath* 464 John Steinbeck

The Moon Is Down 188 John Steinbeck
Cannery Row 208 John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men 107 John Steinbeck
East of Eden 608 John Steinbeck
Too Much and Never Enough 240 Mary L. Trump
Tortilla Flat 208 John Steinbeck
The Red Pony 128 John Steinbeck 9603
The Pearl 90 John Steinbeck
The Great Alone 576 Kristin Hannah
Rage 480 Bob Woodward
Flight Behavior 600 Barbara Kingsolver
A Very Stable Genius 512 Rucker--Leonnig
In Harm's Way 384 Doug Stanton
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine 383 Gail Honeyman
The Call of the Wild 232 Jack London
White Fang 298 Jack London
Nothing Like It In The World 432 Stephen E. Ambrose
The Pyramids of Giza 96 Tim McNeese
I Am Pilgrim 612 Terry Hayes
Unintended Consequences 400 Stuart Woods
Janis- Her Life and Music 400 Holly George-Warren
Grateful Dead 365 744 Holly George-Warren
Stoner 278 John Williams
Last Story of Mina Lee 384 Nancy Jooyoun Kim
Blood and Thunder 624 Hampton Sides
A Warning 259 Anonymous (Miles Taylor)
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz 464 Jeremy Dronfield
Genghis Khan making of the modern world* 312 Jack Weatherford
Neither Wolf Nor Dog 360 Kent Nerburn
American Wolf 320 Nate Blakeslee
The Last Million 672 David Nasaw 9512
Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper 318 E. N. Woodcock
The Wolf at Twilight 346 Kent Nerburn
Icebound 320 Andrea Pitzer
Children of Ash and Elm 624 Neil Price
Olive 368 Emma Gannon
South to Freedom 384 Alice L. Baumgartner
A Question of Freedom 432 William G. Thomas III
The Sweetness of Water 368 Nathan Harris
Igniting the American Revolution 432 Derek W. Beck
The Paris Wife 352 Paula McClain
The Zealot and The Emancipator 464 H.W. Brands
The Great Secret 416 Jennet Conant
The Rifle 278 Andrew Biggio
Wolf Island 184 L. David Mech
Paper Bullets 336 Jeffery H. Jackson
The Irish Assassins 416 Julie Kavanagh
The Kidnapping Club 368 Jonathan Wells
The Indispensables 432 Patrick K. O'Donnell
Madhouse at the End of the Earth* 384 Julianm Sancton
The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line 464 Major General Mari K. Eder
Walk In My Combat Boots 448 James Patterson and Matt Eversmann
From the River to the Sea* 352 John Sedgwick
The Feud -- The Hatfields & McCoys 464 Dean King
The Indian Frontier 345 Robert M. Utley 8495
On the Road 320 Jack Kerouac
Ordinary Men 384 Christopher R. Browning
It Happened On the Oregon Trail 192 Tricia Martineau Wagner
Genesis How Everything Began 240 Guido Tonelli
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies The Real West 304 David Fisher
Trouble In Mind 640 Leon F. Litwack
Cold Comfort Farm 192 Stella Gibbons
Covert Radio Agents 1939-1945 278 David Hebditch
Our First Civil War 444 H.W. Brands
Washington at the Plow 292 Bruce A. Ragsdale
Alaska Saga of a Bold Land 538 Walter R. Borneman
The Complete Maus 296 Art Spiegelman
The Bald Eagle 384 Jack E. Davis
In Pursuit of Jefferson 335 Derek Baxter
Watching Darkness Fall 355 David McKean
The Lost Boys of Mantouk 295 Amanda M. Fairbanks
Swamplands 266 Edward Struzik
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals 528 Steve Brusatte
She Kills Me 175 Jennifer Wright
Pillars of the Earth 973 Ken Follett
Running From Bondage 172 Karen Cook Bell
We Refuse To Forget 235 Caleb Gayle
Devil Dogs 533 David Saul 8076
African Founders 749 David Fischer
Traplines North 268 Stephen W. Meader
Texas Ranger 462 John Boessenecker
The Declassification Engine 400 Matthew Connelly
The Sisters of Auschwitz (large print) 491 Roxane Van Iperen
The Alpha Female Wolf 236 Rick Mcintyre
I Know Who You Are 242 Barbara Rae-Venter
Coffee with Hitler 329 Charles Spicer
Panther in the Sky 652 James Alexander Thom
The Safest Lie 175 Angela Cerrito
All The Living 199 C.E. Morgan
Death By His Grace 253 Kwei Quartey'
The Contract Surgeon 316 Dan O'Brien
Black Radishes 226 Susan Meyer
A Madman's Will 278 Gregory May
The Captured 305 Scott Zesch
American Prometheus 591 Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin
Beaver Land 281 Leila Philip
The Real Wild West 525 Michale Wallis 6978 93078
The Pioneers 258 David McCullough
Boys soldiers of the American Revolution 157 Caroline Cox
Revolutionary Mothers 161 Carol Berkin
Desperate Passage 249 Ethan Rarick
Journals of the Yankee Privateer 156 A Wanderer
The Indian Frontier 272 Robert M. Utley 1253 94331
The Oregon Trail 332 David Dary
Prisoners of the Bashaw 228 Frederick C. Leiner
Brave the Wild River 257 Melissa L. Sevigny
Eight bears 214 Gloria Dickie
Hidden History of Code Breakers 332 Sinclair McKay
The Island Of Extraordinary Captives 343 Simon Parkin
The Quickening 357 Elizabeth Rush
What's Gotten Into You 314 Dan Levitt
A Republic of Scoundrels 269 David Head & Tim Hemmis
The Sisterhood 397 Liza Mundy
Into Siberia 236 Gregory Wallance
Break 119 Brenna Ferrell 3647 97978
Battles & Leaders of the Civil War 620 Ned Bradford
Brothers and Sisters The Allman Brothers Band 296 Alan Paul
The Asteroid Hunter 281 Dante S. Lauretta
America's Black Capital 457 Jeffery O. Ogbar 99748
The Old Man and the Boy 303 Robert Raurk 99935
Native Nations 558 Kathleen Duval 100493
Three Ordinary Girls 286 Tim Brady
Oath and Honor 368 Liz Cheney
Starkweather 406 Harry N. Maclean
The Deerfield Massacre 246 James L. Swanson 101,799
The Last Outlaws 247 Tom Clavin
Legendary Lawmen Jelly Bryce 210 Ron Owens
The Journal of Jacob Fowler 174 Jacob Fowler
Camp fires in the Canadian Rockies 344 William T.Hornaday 102,744
Patton's Prayer 296 Alex Kershaw
Big Meg 204 Tim & Emma Flanery 103,244
The Situation Room 329 George Stephanopoulos
A Woman I Know 416 Maty Haverstick
(This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) Put to Shame 362 Earl Swift
A Gentleman and a Thief 327 Dean Jobb
Left for Dead 260 Eric Jay Dolin 104,938

Sci-fi /fantasy is most of my reading.

I read daily at work and also for fun at night. I usually read three or four books at the same time so I can pick and choose what I feel like reading. Just finished Mississippi Solo last night. Story of a guy who did the Mississippi River by himself.

Fiction, Sci-fi, horror, fantasy, anything hunting, trapping, fishing, and lots and lots of contracts and legal jargon for work. Eric
Sniper, you should check out the Dark Tower series if you haven’t read it. Eric

Westerns,sci-fi,fantasy,hunting,trapping,mountain man an some older mysteries. Reading Lonesome Dove right now and just finished the first three books in the Dune series.

With so much reading being done digitally nowadays, I wonder how libraries will survive

Great series, finished all four last year.

I don't go to the library, but I like owning physical books. I can't stand reading books off of a screen. I save all my books and magazines too when I'm done with them, in case I want to refer back to them for something, or the kids want to read them.

Most are government funded supplemented by donation,late fees and a few services

Same. I had to convert one of our bedrooms into a library to house all my books. And there’s constantly more coming in.

Boy, do I feel like a fish out of water. My wife is the reader. I read maybe one or two books a year. Maybe.
I'm glad for those of you who enjoy reading.

Reading a paper book is probably better for ones eyes than on a screen

I try to read a paper book for a few hrs every evening, but the web calls to me....