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" - JB Priestley
6. "Jar City"
7. "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" - Michael Chabon
8. "Headless" - Adam Roberts
9."Stone's Fall" - Iain Pears

10. "The Boys From Brazil" - Ira Levin. Good solid thriller

 

[saovkhach]

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

 

[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
9. Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
10. Stephen Few - Information Dashboard Design
11. Susan Cain - Quiet, the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

Fantastic book, if a little heavy on American examples. However, as one of the most extroverted countries this is forgivable. The book explains introversion/extroversion, how extroversion has become a cultural norm, been built into many workplaces and how introverts can struggle. She also explains a lot about how introverts work. Understanding this provides some interesting insight into how some small changes for an introvert in an extroverted world can make a big difference. Highly recommended for introverts or extroverts who wonder what's up with that quiet person in the corner.

 

[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

How odd. Are you me? Those were the first 4 books I read this year......

 

[BoatieBird]

How odd. Are you me? Those were the first 4 books I read this year......

strange

 

[petee]

11/30 beowulf
12/30 facing the ocean (cunliffe)

13/30 intelligence wars (powers)

 

[el-ahrairah]

40. Clive Aslet - Villages of Britain - The 500 Villages That Made Britain. a huge tome full of interesting thumbnail histories about villages.

41. Gav Thorpe - Deliverance Lost
42. John Reed - Ten Days That Shook The World - this is so awesome, really interesting eye-witness accounts of the November Revolution that took the Bolsheviks to power.

 

[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

interesting - Mynott is a uber twitcher, writing about the history of human interaction with our feathered friends

 

[Kidda]

1/15- North by Northwestern (Deadliest Waters) by Sig Hansen​

2/15- Narrowboat Dreams by Steve Haywood​

3/15- Baptism of Fire by Frank Collins
4/15- Ascension by Cameron Dante

5/15- Book by Whoopi Goldberg

Shockingly unread this year. Hoping to make up for it over the summer break.

 

[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

 

[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​

 

[Me76]

I picked up a book from the pile in the bathroom today an it was in comic book format which surprised me. I read it but not sure if it counts towards my reading list

 

[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.....Brilliant mixture of Polish/Jewish/rural magic, myth and folklore short stories. Full of love, pain, morality and a heavy dose of pathos.

 

[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

 

[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......Interesting guide to how to stop being a perfectionist, ostensibly to help you to be satisfied with and enjoy what you have got. Interested in this because of the age old record collector syndrome - need record, hunt for record, find record, pay lots of money for record, play record a few times then put on shelves and start process again, repeating for 35 years. Some good tips which I shall try to take on board and apply to other areas of life, so far so good.

 

[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 Anthony Jones

end of the world - alien germ invasion shenanigans

 

[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

 

[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

 

[Kidda]

1/15- North by Northwestern (Deadliest Waters) by Sig Hansen​

2/15- Narrowboat Dreams by Steve Haywood​

3/15- Baptism of Fire by Frank Collins​

4/15- Ascension by Cameron Dante​

5/15- Book by Whoopi Goldberg​

6/15- Undercover by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis.

Uncomfortable revelations on every page. Aghh. Meh. Bleugh.

 

[el-ahrairah]

41. Gav Thorpe - Deliverance Lost
42. John Reed - Ten Days That Shook The World - this is so awesome, really interesting eye-witness accounts of the November Revolution that took the Bolsheviks to power.

43. John Swallow - Deus Sanguinine
44. John Swallow - Red Fury
45. China Mielvil - King Rat (all the good bits have been nicked from Neil Gaiman
46. Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter - The Long Earth (many of the good bits have been nicked from Neil Gaiman (or possibly the places he nicked them from))

 

[DotCommunist]

43. John Swallow - Deus Sanguinine
44. John Swallow - Red Fury
45. China Mielvil - King Rat (all the good bits have been nicked from Neil Gaiman
46. Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter - The Long Earth (many of the good bits have been nicked from Neil Gaiman (or possibly the places he nicked them from))

Long Earth was a load of old shit and Lobsang is a twat


think King Rat predates gaimans stuff btw

 

[el-ahrairah]

1. i agree.
2. it doesn't, i checked.

 

[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. Excellent.

 

[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

 

[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 - haunted house story with Peter Pan. Alright but very predictable.

 

[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

 

[TruXta]

15/50. Chronicles of the Black Company, the first three in the Black Company series by Glen Cook.

16/50. Empty Space, M. John Harrison. Beautiful.

 

[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

 

[el-ahrairah]

43. John Swallow - Deus Sanguinine
44. John Swallow - Red Fury
45. China Mielvil - King Rat (all the good bits have been nicked from Neil Gaiman
46. Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter - The Long Earth (many of the good bits have been nicked from Neil Gaiman (or possibly the places he nicked them from))

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

 

[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