I'm up to 20 read and I'm currently working on 21, 22, and 23. I know it's a bid odd to read three books simultaneously (especially for a slow reader), but I've got my books in different contexts. One is my bed time book, Book 5 of Mistborn, which I'm slowly warming up to after devouring books 1-3. My living room book is House of Leaves, which just takes time to get through and can't easily be binged. My commuting book is The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, which is excellent but also bums me out (the perfect going into work book).
Right now my favorite for the year is probably Age of Surveillance Capitalism. It's not exactly revealing new ideas but more it's expanding upon those ideas into terrifying new depths. Excellent book and well worth a read.
I'm excited to finish the Mistborn series this year and I'll hit my goal of 25 books easily. I've already got books 24, 25, and 26 planned out. I'd love to hit 40 books this year but I'm not sure that will happen. I've not read that many books in one year since before middle school.
Least favorite reads? I picked up a Ray Kurzweil book about the singularity and put it down at 10 pages. It just felt so self congratulatory that I couldn't really get into it. Plus the argument felt supported by extreme cherry picking.
I also enjoyed but was a bit disappointed in NK Jemisin's sequel to The City We Became, titled The World We Make. It felt like a book that didn't need to be written and didn't really add to the characters or the world of the story. It was entertaining and evocative as all of Jemisin's works are, but it didn't leave as strong an impression as City which was disappointing.