Books I've read
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Introduction | Rules | 2025
Rules
(which I've made for myself only and are not set in stone, again this is just for fun)
What counts as a book
- A traditionally published book with an ISBN number. For example: Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
- An unpublished, self-published or otherwise distributed book that doesn't have an ISBN number but still resembles a traditionally published book. For example, if I've read Andy Weir's The Martian from his website, before it was officially published, it would still count.
- Screenplays
- An audiobook or radio play version of a published book, either unabridged or abridged or adapted as long as it's still clearly based on the book. For example, I recently listened to a Soviet radio adaptation of Jules Verne's 20000 leagues under the sea, and decided to include it despite it being heavily abridged and taking a lot of creative liberties.
- Short stories, even those always published together, count as one entry each as long as each story can be read as a complete narrative. For example, Mikhail Bulgakov's A Young Doctor's Notebook is a collection of 6 to 8 stories (dependending on who you ask) of which I've read 7.
- A text book and its associated audiobook count as one entry, not two, given that they're essentially the same book, just in different mediums.
What doesn't count as a book