2013 Reading Challenge Thread

[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"
8."Jar City"
9."The Yiddish Policeman's Union"

10. "Wolves Eat Dogs" Martin Cruz Smith -solid easy to read thriller

 

[Candi]

I've gone for 21 - 50, but a lot of them will be childrens books

 

[magneze]

1. Noam Chomsky - Occupy
2. Ian Bone - Bash The Rich
3. Iain Sinclair - London Orbital
4. Richard Morgan - Black Man
5. John Lanchester - Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay

A very good summary of the financial crisis of 2008. Couple of paragraphs in the penultimate chapter were out of date but otherwise it's pretty bang on. It's a good size and well written - took me less than a week.

 

[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

 

[el-ahrairah]

32. Ursula le Guin - City Of Illusion.
33. Brian Craig - Storm Warriors.

started to read a pop-science book called The Red Queen which starts out with some intelligent discussion of evolution and devolves into why women just love the cock and are biologically pogrammed to sleep with the writer so i chucked it away due to being a) dull b) stupid, and c) faactually inaccurate.

not sure what is next, my to-read pile is having one of those moments where nothing looks fun!

started reading Stanley Kim Robinson's Red Mars and got about half way through before accidentally leaving it somewhere

so i've now started

34. Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall, which is as good as everyone says it is

 

[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

Start of another Cornwell epic series, about the American Civil War, first 4 books only get up to 1862! Really enjoyed it, on the 2nd book now

 

[magneze]

1. Noam Chomsky - Occupy
2. Ian Bone - Bash The Rich
3. Iain Sinclair - London Orbital
4. Richard Morgan - Black Man
5. John Lanchester - Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay
6. David Herman - Effective JavaScript

Bit of techy background reading. If you're doing JavaScript then you need this book. Just as essential as the others in the series.

 

[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 - quite a good freebie this. A chase followed by a court case. With evil cops.

 

[starfish]

1/2? The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
2/2? Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
3/2? A German Requiem by Philip Kerr
4/2? Double Deuce by Robert B Parker
5/2? The Cats Table by Michael Ondattje
6/2? Mischief by Ed McBain ( i actually started this last year but left it at my sisters, have now finished it)

 

[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

 

[Red Storm]

1/20 - A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
2/20 - A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
3/20 - Physical Resistance by Dave Hann
4/20 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
5/20 - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
6/20 - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
7/20 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
8/20 - What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Noam Chomsky
9/20 - Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

10/20 - Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (4/5)

This months reading has been hit again by a spate on Victoria II: Heart of Darkness.

 

[magneze]

1. Noam Chomsky - Occupy
2. Ian Bone - Bash The Rich
3. Iain Sinclair - London Orbital
4. Richard Morgan - Black Man
5. John Lanchester - Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay
6. David Herman - Effective JavaScript
7. Francois Lelord - Hector & The Search For Happiness

A series of modern fables that explain happiness. It's written for all ages and occasionally the tone is a little too childish for me. Having said that, it's a nice, easy, yet thought provoking read. According to the back cover, Marie Claire magazine said it was "intelligently naive". To me, that's quite a nice description and sums up the book rather well.

 

[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

2nd book, really enjoying the series, looking forward to starting book 3

 

[Belushi]

Sebastian Faulks 'Birdsong' (1/20)
Colin Thubron 'Shadow of the Silk Road' (2/20)
Philip Larkin 'High Windows' (3/20)
Sally Brampton 'Shoot the Damn Dog' (4/20)
Hans Fallada 'Alone in Berlin' (5/20)
Robert Bartlett 'The Making of Europe 950 - 1350' (6/20)
Albert Camus 'The Outsider' (7/20)
Seamus Heaney 'New Selected Poems 1966-1987' (8/20)

 

[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

 

[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. Enjoyed this. Fluffy British chick lit but not bad.

 

[TruXta]

11/50. Men at Arms - Pratchett. Another re-read.

Bit slow on the reading front these days.

12/50. Peace - Gene Wolfe. Took me ages to finish this as we were moving and sorting out our new lives. I bought the first in Abercrombie's First Law series yesterday, will start that now.

 

[pennimania]

Had to reread Caterpilage.

Brilliant if you like that sort of thing

22/100 Love and Work. Gwyneth Cravens

23/100 Wolf Hall (reread) Hilary Mantel
24/100. Bring up the Bodies. Hilary Mantel
25/100 Kant : a very Short Introduction Rpger Scruton
26/100 Dr Tuck . Elizabeth Seifert
27/100. A Wrinkle in the Skin John Christopher
28/100. Without Warning. John Birmingham
29/100. The Light in the Lake. Ron Foster
30/100. World Made by Hand. James Howard Kunstler
31/100. Venus in Furs. Ritter von Leopoldo Sacher MasOch
32/100. The Passage. Justin Cronin
33/100. The Witch of Hebron. James Howard Kunstler


It is to be seen that I have not updated this thread for ages and also that I have been indulging in apocalyptica again

Most of it dire, but loved A Wrinkle in the Skin and the Kunstler stuff was ok.

Changed my mind about Hilary Mantel. Could simply not put Bring Up the Bodies down, I was travelling and read it in about ten hours almost nonstop .

 

[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 - really, really enjoyed this

 

[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​

 

[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

 

[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 - free book. Total violent, bloody, disgusting, horror shit. Quite well done though.

 

[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

 

[districtline]

Yoko Tawada - Schwager in Bordeaux (5/50)
John von Düffel - Vom Wasser (6/50)
Paul Krugman - End This Depression Now! (7/50)

 

[TruXta]

12/50. Peace - Gene Wolfe. Took me ages to finish this as we were moving and sorting out our new lives. I bought the first in Abercrombie's First Law series yesterday, will start that now.

13/50. The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie. First in a series, decent "hard-nosed" fantasy, might pick up the rest in the series.

 

[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

very enjoyable sci fi romp

 

[magneze]

1. Noam Chomsky - Occupy
2. Ian Bone - Bash The Rich
3. Iain Sinclair - London Orbital
4. Richard Morgan - Black Man
5. John Lanchester - Whoops!: Why everyone owes everyone and no one can pay
6. David Herman - Effective JavaScript
7. Francois Lelord - Hector & The Search For Happiness
8. Edward Tufte - The Visual Display of Quantative Information

Possibly the dullest sounding book, but again this was another background textbook that I've been reading in sections and finally got to the end of. It's a classic work - showing how data is unknowingly made to look like crap by the way it's displayed. Using good and bad examples you learn what works, what doesn't and why. Never use pie charts, apparently. Ever.

 

[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

 

[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​

 

[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......It is a great bit or writing, and has more new and interesting ideas and inventions in it than most writers manage in a career, but as pointed out by DotCommunist, he bloody knows it and wanks on endlessly being clever to the detriment of the book. Would have been better at half the length.