2013 Reading Challenge Thread

[marty21]

1/50- City of Gold - Len Deighton
2/50- Outside- Shalini Bolan
3/50- Deep Black - Stephen Coonts and Jim Defelice
4/50- Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercombie
5/50 - Last Arguments of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
6/50 - The Horse At The Gates - DC Alden
7/50 - Shakespeare's Local - Pete Brown
8/50 - Ash - James Herbert
9/50 - Capital - John Lanchester
10/50 - Covert Reich - A K Alexander
11/50 - The American West - Dee Brown
12/50 - Dark Winter - David Mark
13/50 - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
14/50 - Light of the Western Stars- Zane Grey
15/50 -Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
16/50 - Mission to Paris - Alan Furst
17/50 -The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
18/50 - Acquired for Development By...A Hackney Anthology - Edited by Gary Budden and Kit Caless
19/50 -Prisoner to the Streets - Robyn Travis
20/50 - The Fear Index - Robert Harris
21/50 - Rebel - Bernard Cornwell
22/50 - Copperhead- Bernard Cornwell
23/50 - The Departure - Neal Asher
24/50 - Battle Flag - Bernard Cornwell
25/50 - The Bloody Ground - Bernard Cornwell
26/50 - Deep Country - Five Years in the Welsh Hills. - Neil Ansell
27/50 - Deception - Jonathan Kellerman
28/50 - Zero Point - Neal Asher
29/50 - Birdscapes - Birds in Our Imagination and Experience - Jeremy Mynott
30/50 - Extinction Point - Paul Antony Jones
31/50- Extinction Point: Exodus -Paul Antony Jones
32/50 - Burn Out - Traci Hohenstein
33/50 - The Urban Birder - David Lindo

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon
4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor
5/100 Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann
6/100 Walking With Ghosts by John Baker
7/100 Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
8/100 The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
9/100 The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
10/100 Pack Men by Alan Bissett
11/100 Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina
12/100 The Graduate by Charles Webb
13/100 Backhand by Liza Cody
14/100 Kill Your Friends by John Niven
15/100 Hazell and the Menacing Jester by P.B. Yuill
16/100 Bucket Nut by Liza Cody
17/100 Monkey Wrench by Liza Cody
18/100 True Grit by Charles Portis
19/100 Murder in the Central Committee by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (reread)
20/100 A Very Profitable War by Didier Daeninckx (reread)
21/100 Musclebound by Liza Cody
22/100 Bitter Blue by Cath Staincliffe
23/100 All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
24/100 Sideswipe by Charles Willeford
25/100 Tattoo by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
26/100 Smith by Leon Garfield
27/100 Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star by Tracey Thorn
28/100 Spotland: The Sun Also Rises (And Other Football Stories) by Mark Hodkinson
29/100 Black Jack by Leon Garfield
30/100 Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist by Simon Armitage
31/100 Kismet by Jakob Arjouni
32/100 My Time, My Life by George Camden
33/100 Life at the Top: Season in the Premiership with Barnsley FC by Mark Hodkinson
34/100 Scully by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
35/100 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
36/100 Killing Bono by Neil McCormick
37/100 Scully and Mooey by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
38/100 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
39/100 In Search of Alan Gilzean - The Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend by James Morgan
40/100 Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield
41/100 The House On The Embankment by Yuri Trifonov
42/100 That's Me in the Corner: Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world by Andrew Collins

43/100 The Thirtyfirst of February by Julian Symons

 

[BoatieBird]

1/50 - Grits, Niall Griffiths
2/50 - Suicide Hill, James Ellroy
3/50 - Children of Men, P D James
4/50 - Worlds of English, Module guide
5/50 - Whit, Iain Banks
6/50 - Paula Spencer, Roddy Doyle
7/50 - Harm Done, Ruth Rendell
8/50 - The News Where You Are, Catherine O'Flynn
9/50 - Birdman, Mo Hayder
10/50 - Money, Martin Amis
11/50 - The 5:2 Diet Book, Kate Harrison
12/50 - The Treatment, Mo Hayder
13/50 -The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
14/50 - The Little Friend, Donna Tartt
15/50 - What Was lost, Catherine O'Flynn
16/50 - Stonemouth, Iain Banks
17/50 - The One You Love, Paul Pilkington
18/50 - English in the World - OU Study Guide
19/50 - English in the World: History, Diversity, Change, Edited by Philip Seargeant and Joan Swann
20/50 - The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
21/50 - The Vanishing Point, Val McDermid
22/50 - The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
23/50 - Skagboys, Irvine Welsh
24/50 - Dracula, Bram Stoker
25/50 - Complicity, Iain Banks
26/50 - Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
27/50 - Ritual, Mo Hayder
28/50 - Feersum Endjinn, Iain M Banks

29/50 - One Across, Two Down, Ruth Rendell
30/50 - White Bones, Graham Masterton​

 

[braindancer]

1/30 Mockingbird - Walter Tevis
2/30 More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon
3/30 Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
4/30 Return of the Soldier - Rebecca West
5/30 Mister Johnson - Joyce Carey
6/30 The Death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave
7/30 The Room of Lost Things - Stella Duffy
8/30 The Hustler - Walter Tevis
9/30 On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
10/30 The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
11/30 Roadside Picnic - Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
12/30 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
13/30 The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene​

14/30 Slam - Nick Hornby​

15/30 Fatal Remedies - Donna Leon​

16/30 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel​

17/30 The Human Stain - Phillip Roth​

18/30 Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card​

19/30 2001 A Space Odyssey - Arthur C Clarke​

20/30 Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk​

21/30 The Colour Purple - Alice Walker​

22/30 The Motel Life - Willy Vlautin​

23/30 Amnesia Moon - Jonathan Lethem​

 

[colbhoy]

1/20 -The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo
2/20 - At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
3/20 - Lullaby Town by Robert Crais
4/20 - Gordon Smith, Prince of Wingers by Tony Smith
5/20 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
6/20 - The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
7/20 - Free Fall by Robert Crais
​

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1."Standing in Another Man's Grave" - Ian Rankin
2. "Child 44" - Tom Rob Smith
3. "The Leopard" - Jo Nesbo.
4. "Blood Money" - Chris Collett
5. "The Siege" - Simon Kernick
6. The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler
7. "When We Are Married"
6. "Jar City"
7. "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" - Michael Chabon
8. "Headless" - Adam Roberts
9."Stone's Fall"
10. "The Wrath of Angels" - John Connolly

11. "The Draining Lake" - Arnaldar Indridasdon. Okay but a bit un-engaging

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon
4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor
5/100 Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann
6/100 Walking With Ghosts by John Baker
7/100 Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
8/100 The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
9/100 The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
10/100 Pack Men by Alan Bissett
11/100 Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina
12/100 The Graduate by Charles Webb
13/100 Backhand by Liza Cody
14/100 Kill Your Friends by John Niven
15/100 Hazell and the Menacing Jester by P.B. Yuill
16/100 Bucket Nut by Liza Cody
17/100 Monkey Wrench by Liza Cody
18/100 True Grit by Charles Portis
19/100 Murder in the Central Committee by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (reread)
20/100 A Very Profitable War by Didier Daeninckx (reread)
21/100 Musclebound by Liza Cody
22/100 Bitter Blue by Cath Staincliffe
23/100 All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
24/100 Sideswipe by Charles Willeford
25/100 Tattoo by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
26/100 Smith by Leon Garfield
27/100 Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star by Tracey Thorn
28/100 Spotland: The Sun Also Rises (And Other Football Stories) by Mark Hodkinson
29/100 Black Jack by Leon Garfield
30/100 Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist by Simon Armitage
31/100 Kismet by Jakob Arjouni
32/100 My Time, My Life by George Camden
33/100 Life at the Top: Season in the Premiership with Barnsley FC by Mark Hodkinson
34/100 Scully by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
35/100 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
36/100 Killing Bono by Neil McCormick
37/100 Scully and Mooey by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
38/100 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
39/100 In Search of Alan Gilzean - The Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend by James Morgan
40/100 Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield
41/100 The House On The Embankment by Yuri Trifonov
42/100 That's Me in the Corner: Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world by Andrew Collins
43/100 The Thirtyfirst of February by Julian Symons

44/100 Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper by Frank Norman

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon
4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor
5/100 Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann
6/100 Walking With Ghosts by John Baker
7/100 Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
8/100 The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
9/100 The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
10/100 Pack Men by Alan Bissett
11/100 Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina
12/100 The Graduate by Charles Webb
13/100 Backhand by Liza Cody
14/100 Kill Your Friends by John Niven
15/100 Hazell and the Menacing Jester by P.B. Yuill
16/100 Bucket Nut by Liza Cody
17/100 Monkey Wrench by Liza Cody
18/100 True Grit by Charles Portis
19/100 Murder in the Central Committee by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (reread)
20/100 A Very Profitable War by Didier Daeninckx (reread)
21/100 Musclebound by Liza Cody
22/100 Bitter Blue by Cath Staincliffe
23/100 All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
24/100 Sideswipe by Charles Willeford
25/100 Tattoo by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
26/100 Smith by Leon Garfield
27/100 Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star by Tracey Thorn
28/100 Spotland: The Sun Also Rises (And Other Football Stories) by Mark Hodkinson
29/100 Black Jack by Leon Garfield
30/100 Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist by Simon Armitage
31/100 Kismet by Jakob Arjouni
32/100 My Time, My Life by George Camden
33/100 Life at the Top: Season in the Premiership with Barnsley FC by Mark Hodkinson
34/100 Scully by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
35/100 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
36/100 Killing Bono by Neil McCormick
37/100 Scully and Mooey by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
38/100 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
39/100 In Search of Alan Gilzean - The Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend by James Morgan
40/100 Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield
41/100 The House On The Embankment by Yuri Trifonov
42/100 That's Me in the Corner: Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world by Andrew Collins
43/100 The Thirtyfirst of February by Julian Symons
44/100 Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper by Frank Norman

45/100 The Gilt Kid by James Curtis

 

[Me76]

1/50 Rachels Holiday, Marian Keyes
2/50 Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
3/50 Life, Death and Vanilla Slices, Jenny Eclair
4/50 Pushed Too Far, Ann Voss Peterson
5/50 Born Weird, Andrew Kaufman
6/50 The People of the Abyss, Jack London
7/50 Gray Justice, Alan McDermott
8/50 Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child
9/50 the Hundred year old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson
10/50 First Murder, Fred Limberg
11/50 Capital, John Lanchester
12/40 An Order of Coffee and Tears, Brian Spangler
13/40 Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
14/40 Alone: The Girl in the Box, Robert J Crane
15/40 Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
16/40 Enemy in Blue: The Chase, Derek Blass
17/40 Out on a Limb, Lynn Barrett-Lee
18/40 Trapped, JN Konrath
19/40 Joyland, Stephen King
20/40 Girl Reading, Katie Ward
21/40 Safe House, Chris Ewan
22/40 The Half-life if Hannah, Nick Alexander
23/40 The Nightmare Stone, Finian Black

24/40 One Glass is Never Enough, Jane Wenham-Jones - fluffy chic lit. Average.

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon
4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor
5/100 Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann
6/100 Walking With Ghosts by John Baker
7/100 Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
8/100 The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
9/100 The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
10/100 Pack Men by Alan Bissett
11/100 Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina
12/100 The Graduate by Charles Webb
13/100 Backhand by Liza Cody
14/100 Kill Your Friends by John Niven
15/100 Hazell and the Menacing Jester by P.B. Yuill
16/100 Bucket Nut by Liza Cody
17/100 Monkey Wrench by Liza Cody
18/100 True Grit by Charles Portis
19/100 Murder in the Central Committee by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (reread)
20/100 A Very Profitable War by Didier Daeninckx (reread)
21/100 Musclebound by Liza Cody
22/100 Bitter Blue by Cath Staincliffe
23/100 All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
24/100 Sideswipe by Charles Willeford
25/100 Tattoo by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
26/100 Smith by Leon Garfield
27/100 Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star by Tracey Thorn
28/100 Spotland: The Sun Also Rises (And Other Football Stories) by Mark Hodkinson
29/100 Black Jack by Leon Garfield
30/100 Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist by Simon Armitage
31/100 Kismet by Jakob Arjouni
32/100 My Time, My Life by George Camden
33/100 Life at the Top: Season in the Premiership with Barnsley FC by Mark Hodkinson
34/100 Scully by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
35/100 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
36/100 Killing Bono by Neil McCormick
37/100 Scully and Mooey by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
38/100 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
39/100 In Search of Alan Gilzean - The Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend by James Morgan
40/100 Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield
41/100 The House On The Embankment by Yuri Trifonov
42/100 That's Me in the Corner: Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world by Andrew Collins
43/100 The Thirtyfirst of February by Julian Symons
44/100 Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper by Frank Norman
45/100 The Gilt Kid by James Curtis

46/100 Redemption by Tariq Ali (reread)

Published back in 1990, this is a genuinely funny pisstake of the International Trotskyist Movement. Recommended. Interesting review of Redemption that first appeared in the Socialist Standard.

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon
4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor
5/100 Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann
6/100 Walking With Ghosts by John Baker
7/100 Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
8/100 The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
9/100 The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
10/100 Pack Men by Alan Bissett
11/100 Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina
12/100 The Graduate by Charles Webb
13/100 Backhand by Liza Cody
14/100 Kill Your Friends by John Niven
15/100 Hazell and the Menacing Jester by P.B. Yuill
16/100 Bucket Nut by Liza Cody
17/100 Monkey Wrench by Liza Cody
18/100 True Grit by Charles Portis
19/100 Murder in the Central Committee by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (reread)
20/100 A Very Profitable War by Didier Daeninckx (reread)
21/100 Musclebound by Liza Cody
22/100 Bitter Blue by Cath Staincliffe
23/100 All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
24/100 Sideswipe by Charles Willeford
25/100 Tattoo by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
26/100 Smith by Leon Garfield
27/100 Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star by Tracey Thorn
28/100 Spotland: The Sun Also Rises (And Other Football Stories) by Mark Hodkinson
29/100 Black Jack by Leon Garfield
30/100 Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist by Simon Armitage
31/100 Kismet by Jakob Arjouni
32/100 My Time, My Life by George Camden
33/100 Life at the Top: Season in the Premiership with Barnsley FC by Mark Hodkinson
34/100 Scully by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
35/100 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
36/100 Killing Bono by Neil McCormick
37/100 Scully and Mooey by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
38/100 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
39/100 In Search of Alan Gilzean - The Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend by James Morgan
40/100 Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield
41/100 The House On The Embankment by Yuri Trifonov
42/100 That's Me in the Corner: Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world by Andrew Collins
43/100 The Thirtyfirst of February by Julian Symons
44/100 Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper by Frank Norman
45/100 The Gilt Kid by James Curtis
46/100 Redemption by Tariq Ali (reread)

47/100 The Narrowing Circle by Julian Symons

 

[ringo]

1/30 The Room Of Lost Things - Stella Duffy
2/30 At Hell's Gate: A Soldiers Journey From War To Peace - Claude Anshin Thomas
3/30 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
4/30 Altered Carbon - Richard K Morgan
5/30 The Chinese Potter: A Practical History Of Chinese Ceramics - Margaret Medley
6/30 Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
7/30 Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen
8/30 The City & The City - China Mieville
9/30 The Optimist's Daughter - Eudora Welty
10/30 The Stranger - Albert Camus
11/30 Clarks In Jamaica - Al Fingers
12/30 Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
13/30 Pao - Kerry Young
14/30 Skagboys - Irvine Welsh
15/30 Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party - Graham Greene
16/30 Gimpel The Fool - Isaac Bashevis Singer
17/30 The Pursuit Of Perfect - Tal Ben-Shahar
18/30 The Music Of Chance - Paul Auster. Crap. Worst he's written. What little that happens is stupidly unlikely, none of the handful of characters have any depth, the writing is poor and not much happens. Might have made a half decent short story at best but probably not.

 

[marty21]

1/50- City of Gold - Len Deighton
2/50- Outside- Shalini Bolan
3/50- Deep Black - Stephen Coonts and Jim Defelice
4/50- Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercombie
5/50 - Last Arguments of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
6/50 - The Horse At The Gates - DC Alden
7/50 - Shakespeare's Local - Pete Brown
8/50 - Ash - James Herbert
9/50 - Capital - John Lanchester
10/50 - Covert Reich - A K Alexander
11/50 - The American West - Dee Brown
12/50 - Dark Winter - David Mark
13/50 - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
14/50 - Light of the Western Stars- Zane Grey
15/50 -Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
16/50 - Mission to Paris - Alan Furst
17/50 -The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
18/50 - Acquired for Development By...A Hackney Anthology - Edited by Gary Budden and Kit Caless
19/50 -Prisoner to the Streets - Robyn Travis
20/50 - The Fear Index - Robert Harris
21/50 - Rebel - Bernard Cornwell
22/50 - Copperhead- Bernard Cornwell
23/50 - The Departure - Neal Asher
24/50 - Battle Flag - Bernard Cornwell
25/50 - The Bloody Ground - Bernard Cornwell
26/50 - Deep Country - Five Years in the Welsh Hills. - Neil Ansell
27/50 - Deception - Jonathan Kellerman
28/50 - Zero Point - Neal Asher
29/50 - Birdscapes - Birds in Our Imagination and Experience - Jeremy Mynott
30/50 - Extinction Point - Paul Antony Jones
31/50- Extinction Point: Exodus -Paul Antony Jones
32/50 - Burn Out - Traci Hohenstein
33/50 - The Urban Birder - David Lindo
34/50 - A Year in the Woods - Colin Elford

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon
4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor
5/100 Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann
6/100 Walking With Ghosts by John Baker
7/100 Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
8/100 The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
9/100 The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
10/100 Pack Men by Alan Bissett
11/100 Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina
12/100 The Graduate by Charles Webb
13/100 Backhand by Liza Cody
14/100 Kill Your Friends by John Niven
15/100 Hazell and the Menacing Jester by P.B. Yuill
16/100 Bucket Nut by Liza Cody
17/100 Monkey Wrench by Liza Cody
18/100 True Grit by Charles Portis
19/100 Murder in the Central Committee by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (reread)
20/100 A Very Profitable War by Didier Daeninckx (reread)
21/100 Musclebound by Liza Cody
22/100 Bitter Blue by Cath Staincliffe
23/100 All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
24/100 Sideswipe by Charles Willeford
25/100 Tattoo by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
26/100 Smith by Leon Garfield
27/100 Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star by Tracey Thorn
28/100 Spotland: The Sun Also Rises (And Other Football Stories) by Mark Hodkinson
29/100 Black Jack by Leon Garfield
30/100 Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist by Simon Armitage
31/100 Kismet by Jakob Arjouni
32/100 My Time, My Life by George Camden
33/100 Life at the Top: Season in the Premiership with Barnsley FC by Mark Hodkinson
34/100 Scully by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
35/100 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
36/100 Killing Bono by Neil McCormick
37/100 Scully and Mooey by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
38/100 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
39/100 In Search of Alan Gilzean - The Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend by James Morgan
40/100 Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield
41/100 The House On The Embankment by Yuri Trifonov
42/100 That's Me in the Corner: Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world by Andrew Collins
43/100 The Thirtyfirst of February by Julian Symons
44/100 Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper by Frank Norman
45/100 The Gilt Kid by James Curtis
46/100 Redemption by Tariq Ali (reread)
47/100 The Narrowing Circle by Julian Symons

48/100 Shoot The Piano Player by David Goodis
Absolutely brilliant pulp fiction novel from the 1950s. Now I just have to check Truffaut's film adaptation of the book.

 

[colbhoy]

1/20 -The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbo
2/20 - At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
3/20 - Lullaby Town by Robert Crais
4/20 - Gordon Smith, Prince of Wingers by Tony Smith
5/20 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
6/20 - The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
7/20 - Free Fall by Robert Crais
8/20 - The Complete Game, Reflections on Baseball and the Art of Pitching by Ron Darling

 

[Me76]

1/50 Rachels Holiday, Marian Keyes
2/50 Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
3/50 Life, Death and Vanilla Slices, Jenny Eclair
4/50 Pushed Too Far, Ann Voss Peterson
5/50 Born Weird, Andrew Kaufman
6/50 The People of the Abyss, Jack London
7/50 Gray Justice, Alan McDermott
8/50 Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child
9/50 the Hundred year old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson
10/50 First Murder, Fred Limberg
11/50 Capital, John Lanchester
12/40 An Order of Coffee and Tears, Brian Spangler
13/40 Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
14/40 Alone: The Girl in the Box, Robert J Crane
15/40 Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
16/40 Enemy in Blue: The Chase, Derek Blass
17/40 Out on a Limb, Lynn Barrett-Lee
18/40 Trapped, JN Konrath
19/40 Joyland, Stephen King
20/40 Girl Reading, Katie Ward
21/40 Safe House, Chris Ewan
22/40 The Half-life if Hannah, Nick Alexander
23/40 The Nightmare Stone, Finian Black
24/40 One Glass is Never Enough, Jane Wenham-Jones

25/40 What Stays in Vegas, Beth Labonte - more free chick lit. I've not been in an intellectual mood lately.

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon
4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor
5/100 Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann
6/100 Walking With Ghosts by John Baker
7/100 Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
8/100 The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
9/100 The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
10/100 Pack Men by Alan Bissett
11/100 Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina
12/100 The Graduate by Charles Webb
13/100 Backhand by Liza Cody
14/100 Kill Your Friends by John Niven
15/100 Hazell and the Menacing Jester by P.B. Yuill
16/100 Bucket Nut by Liza Cody
17/100 Monkey Wrench by Liza Cody
18/100 True Grit by Charles Portis
19/100 Murder in the Central Committee by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (reread)
20/100 A Very Profitable War by Didier Daeninckx (reread)
21/100 Musclebound by Liza Cody
22/100 Bitter Blue by Cath Staincliffe
23/100 All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
24/100 Sideswipe by Charles Willeford
25/100 Tattoo by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
26/100 Smith by Leon Garfield
27/100 Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star by Tracey Thorn
28/100 Spotland: The Sun Also Rises (And Other Football Stories) by Mark Hodkinson
29/100 Black Jack by Leon Garfield
30/100 Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist by Simon Armitage
31/100 Kismet by Jakob Arjouni
32/100 My Time, My Life by George Camden
33/100 Life at the Top: Season in the Premiership with Barnsley FC by Mark Hodkinson
34/100 Scully by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
35/100 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
36/100 Killing Bono by Neil McCormick
37/100 Scully and Mooey by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
38/100 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
39/100 In Search of Alan Gilzean - The Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend by James Morgan
40/100 Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield
41/100 The House On The Embankment by Yuri Trifonov
42/100 That's Me in the Corner: Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world by Andrew Collins
43/100 The Thirtyfirst of February by Julian Symons
44/100 Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper by Frank Norman
45/100 The Gilt Kid by James Curtis
46/100 Redemption by Tariq Ali (reread)
47/100 The Narrowing Circle by Julian Symons
48/100 Shoot The Piano Player by David Goodis

49/100 Night Squad by David Goodis

 

[imposs1904]

1/100 Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World by Graham Hunter
2/100 Ramones by Nicholas Rombes
3/100 The Train by Georges Simenon
4/100 Wild Boy: My Life in Duran Duran by Andy Taylor
5/100 Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism by Dave Hann
6/100 Walking With Ghosts by John Baker
7/100 Cupid's Dart by David Nobbs
8/100 The Pale Criminal by Phillip Kerr
9/100 The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
10/100 Pack Men by Alan Bissett
11/100 Gods and Beasts by Denise Mina
12/100 The Graduate by Charles Webb
13/100 Backhand by Liza Cody
14/100 Kill Your Friends by John Niven
15/100 Hazell and the Menacing Jester by P.B. Yuill
16/100 Bucket Nut by Liza Cody
17/100 Monkey Wrench by Liza Cody
18/100 True Grit by Charles Portis
19/100 Murder in the Central Committee by Manuel Vazquez Montalban (reread)
20/100 A Very Profitable War by Didier Daeninckx (reread)
21/100 Musclebound by Liza Cody
22/100 Bitter Blue by Cath Staincliffe
23/100 All the Sad Young Literary Men by Keith Gessen
24/100 Sideswipe by Charles Willeford
25/100 Tattoo by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
26/100 Smith by Leon Garfield
27/100 Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star by Tracey Thorn
28/100 Spotland: The Sun Also Rises (And Other Football Stories) by Mark Hodkinson
29/100 Black Jack by Leon Garfield
30/100 Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist by Simon Armitage
31/100 Kismet by Jakob Arjouni
32/100 My Time, My Life by George Camden
33/100 Life at the Top: Season in the Premiership with Barnsley FC by Mark Hodkinson
34/100 Scully by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
35/100 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
36/100 Killing Bono by Neil McCormick
37/100 Scully and Mooey by Alan Bleasdale (reread)
38/100 Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich Von Kleist
39/100 In Search of Alan Gilzean - The Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend by James Morgan
40/100 Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut by Rob Sheffield
41/100 The House On The Embankment by Yuri Trifonov
42/100 That's Me in the Corner: Adventures of an ordinary boy in a celebrity world by Andrew Collins
43/100 The Thirtyfirst of February by Julian Symons
44/100 Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper by Frank Norman
45/100 The Gilt Kid by James Curtis
46/100 Redemption by Tariq Ali (reread)
47/100 The Narrowing Circle by Julian Symons
48/100 Shoot The Piano Player by David Goodis
49/100 Night Squad by David Goodis

50/100 Black Friday by David Goodis

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1."Standing in Another Man's Grave" - Ian Rankin
2. "Child 44" - Tom Rob Smith
3. "The Leopard" - Jo Nesbo.
4. "Blood Money" - Chris Collett
5. "The Siege" - Simon Kernick
6. The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler
7. "When We Are Married"
6. "Jar City"
7. "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" - Michael Chabon
8. "Headless" - Adam Roberts
9."Stone's Fall" - Iain Pears
10. "The Wrath of Angels" - John Connolly
11. "The Draining Lake" - Arnaldar Indridasdon

12. "Natural Causes" - James Oswald. Not bad, a sort of supernatural police thriller. Quote gruesome at times.

 

[imposs1904]

1-50

51/100 Dark Passage by David Goodis

 

[marty21]

1/50- City of Gold - Len Deighton
2/50- Outside- Shalini Bolan
3/50- Deep Black - Stephen Coonts and Jim Defelice
4/50- Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercombie
5/50 - Last Arguments of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
6/50 - The Horse At The Gates - DC Alden
7/50 - Shakespeare's Local - Pete Brown
8/50 - Ash - James Herbert
9/50 - Capital - John Lanchester
10/50 - Covert Reich - A K Alexander
11/50 - The American West - Dee Brown
12/50 - Dark Winter - David Mark
13/50 - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
14/50 - Light of the Western Stars- Zane Grey
15/50 -Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
16/50 - Mission to Paris - Alan Furst
17/50 -The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
18/50 - Acquired for Development By...A Hackney Anthology - Edited by Gary Budden and Kit Caless
19/50 -Prisoner to the Streets - Robyn Travis
20/50 - The Fear Index - Robert Harris
21/50 - Rebel - Bernard Cornwell
22/50 - Copperhead- Bernard Cornwell
23/50 - The Departure - Neal Asher
24/50 - Battle Flag - Bernard Cornwell
25/50 - The Bloody Ground - Bernard Cornwell
26/50 - Deep Country - Five Years in the Welsh Hills. - Neil Ansell
27/50 - Deception - Jonathan Kellerman
28/50 - Zero Point - Neal Asher
29/50 - Birdscapes - Birds in Our Imagination and Experience - Jeremy Mynott
30/50 - Extinction Point - Paul Antony Jones
31/50- Extinction Point: Exodus -Paul Antony Jones
32/50 - Burn Out - Traci Hohenstein
33/50 - The Urban Birder - David Lindo
34/50 - A Year in the Woods - Colin Elford
35/50 - The Wild Places - Robert Mcfarlane

Beautiful book, makes you want to visit some the wild places, sleep on mountain tops, sleep by the sea or in forests.

 

[xenon]

01/30 Pimp - Iceberg Slim
02/30 I Can Make you Hate - Charlie Brooker
03/30 Back Story - David Mitchell
04/30 Century Rain - Alastair Reynolds
05/30 Debt the First 5000 Years - David Graeber
06/30 Ilium - Dan Simmons
07/30 Rapture of the Nerds - Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross
08/30 The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
09/30 Fairwell My Lovely - Raymond Chandler
10/30 Trick Baby - Iceberg Slim
11/30 Gardens of the Moon - Steven Erickson
12/30 Red Seas, Red Skies - Scott Lynch
13/30 Ack-Ack Macaque - Gareth L Powell
14/30 In The Shadow of the Sword - Tom Holland
15/30 Chronacles of the Black Company. The Black Company. - Glen Cook
16/30 The Black Dalier - James Ellroy
17/30 The Big Nowhere - James Ellroy
18/30 LA Confidential - James Ellroy
19/30 Shakedown - James Ellroy

 

[imposs1904]

1-50
51/100 Dark Passage by David Goodis

52/100 The Burglar by David Goodis

 

[Me76]

1/50 Rachels Holiday, Marian Keyes
2/50 Fingersmith, Sarah Waters
3/50 Life, Death and Vanilla Slices, Jenny Eclair
4/50 Pushed Too Far, Ann Voss Peterson
5/50 Born Weird, Andrew Kaufman
6/50 The People of the Abyss, Jack London
7/50 Gray Justice, Alan McDermott
8/50 Gone Tomorrow, Lee Child
9/50 the Hundred year old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson
10/50 First Murder, Fred Limberg
11/50 Capital, John Lanchester
12/40 An Order of Coffee and Tears, Brian Spangler
13/40 Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
14/40 Alone: The Girl in the Box, Robert J Crane
15/40 Uglies, Scott Westerfeld
16/40 Enemy in Blue: The Chase, Derek Blass
17/40 Out on a Limb, Lynn Barrett-Lee
18/40 Trapped, JN Konrath
19/40 Joyland, Stephen King
20/40 Girl Reading, Katie Ward
21/40 Safe House, Chris Ewan
22/40 The Half-life if Hannah, Nick Alexander
23/40 The Nightmare Stone, Finian Black
24/40 One Glass is Never Enough, Jane Wenham-Jones
25/40 What Stays in Vegas, Beth Labonte

26/40 How to be a Woman, Caitlin Moran

 

[imposs1904]

1-50
51/100 Dark Passage by David Goodis
52/100 The Burglar by David Goodis

53/100 Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK by Ian Bone

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I expect to read a book every week or two. I can't list them all, though. I have to pick them out at the bookstore on an as-needed basis, depending on what's interesting me at that moment.

 

[imposs1904]

1-50
51/100 Dark Passage by David Goodis
52/100 The Burglar by David Goodis
53/100 Bash the Rich: True Life Confessions of an Anarchist in the UK by Ian Bone

54/100 The Deportees and other stories by Roddy Doyle

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1."Standing in Another Man's Grave" - Ian Rankin
2. "Child 44" - Tom Rob Smith
3. "The Leopard" - Jo Nesbo.
4. "Blood Money" - Chris Collett
5. "The Siege" - Simon Kernick
6. The Hypnotist - Lars Kepler
7. "When We Are Married"
6. "Jar City"
7. "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" - Michael Chabon
8. "Headless" - Adam Roberts
9."Stone's Fall" - Iain Pears
10. "The Wrath of Angels" - John Connolly
11. "The Draining Lake" - Arnaldar Indridasdon
12. "Natural Causes" - James Oswald

13."The Book of Souls" - James Oswald. His writing is a little clunky at times but I do like his characters and the mix of police thriller and horror/supernatural

 

[el-ahrairah]

47. Caspar Addyman - Help Yourself
48. Salman Rushdie - The Satanic Verses (it's a bit good, so far)

right, haven't updated since this, let's see if i can remember...

49. Joanna Bourke - A History Of Rape
50. Cs Lewis - The Voyage Of The Dawntreader
51. John French - Ahriman: Exile
52. Luther Blissett - Q
53. Neil Gaiman - American Gods

 

[MrSki]

1/100 Dissolution - C J Sansom
2/100 Dark Fire - C J Sansom
3/100 Sovereign - C J Sansom
4/100 Across the Face of the World - Russell Kirkpatrick
5/100 The Right Hand of God - Russell Kirkpatrick
6/100 In Earth Abides the Flame - Russell Kirkpatrick
7/100 The Hobbit - J R R Tolkien
8/100 Temeraire Naomi Novik
9/100 Throne of Jade Naomi Novik
10/100 Black Powder War Naomi Novik
11/100 Empire of Ivory Naomi Novik
12/100 Victory of Eagles Naomi Novik
13/100 Tongues of Serpants Naomi Novik
14/100 Odalisque Fiona McIntosh
15/100 Emissary Fiona McIntosh
16/100 Goddess Fiona McIntosh
17/100 The Wilt Inheritance Tom Sharpe
18/100 The Truth about these Strange Times Adam Foulds
19/100 Heretic - C J Sansom
20/100 Gallows Thief - Bernard Cornwell
21/100 The Hartlepool Monkey - Sean Longley
22/100 Six Suspects - Vikas Swarup
23/100 Heartstone - C J Sansom
24/100 The Town with No Twin - Barry Pilton
25/100 Harlequin - Bernard Cornwell
26/100 Vagabond - Bernard Cornwell
27/100 School for Scumbags - Danny King
28/100 The Swap Anthony Moore
29/100 Heretic Bernard Cornwell
30/100 1356 Bernard Cornwell
31/100 Azincourt Bernard Cornwell
32/100 Oh Pure & Radiant Heart Lydia Millet
33/100 Sharpe’s Triumph Bernard Cornwell
34/100 Sharpe’s Fortress Bernard Cornwell
35/100 Sharpe’s Prey Bernard Cornwell
36/100 The Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell
37/100 The Pale Horseman Bernard Cornwell
38/100 Sharpe’s Rifles Bernard Cornwell
39/100 The Lords of the North Bernard Cornwell
40/100 Sword Song Bernard Cornwell
41/100 The Fort Bernard Cornwell
42/100 The Burning Land Bernard Cornwell
43/100 Death of Kings Bernard Cornwell
44/100 Sharpe’s Escape Bernard Cornwell
45/100 Sharpe’s Battle Bernard Cornwell
46/100 Sharpe’s Fury Bernard Cornwell
47/100 Sharpe’s Company Bernard Cornwell
48/100 The Generals Simon Scarrow
49/100 Fire & Sword Simon Scarrow
50/100 Stonehenge 2000 BC Bernard Cornwell
51/100 The Better Mousetrap Tom Holt
52/100 Sharpe’s Waterloo Bernard Cornwell
53/100 Bageye at the Wheel Colin Grant

54/100 The London Satyr Robert Edric
55/100 Wolf of the Plains Conn Iggulden
56/100 Lords of the Bow Conn Iggulden
57/100 Bones of the Hills Conn Iggulden
58/100 Empire of Silver Conn Iggulden
59/100 Conqueror Conn Iggulden
60/100 The Monocled Mutineer William Alison/John Fairley
61/100 How I Killed Margaret Thatcher Anthony Cartwright