2013 Reading Challenge Thread

[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
12. Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
13. Ha-Joon Chang - 23 things they don't tell you about capitalism

Nicely written book railing against free-market capitalism, exposing many of the myths behind the ideology.

 

[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

62/100 Secrets in Priors End Eve Houston
63/100 Starters for Ten David Nicholls
64/100 Kill your Friends John Niven
65/100 Emperor Stephen Baxter
66/100 Life Liberty & the pursuit of Sausages Tom Holt
67/100 The London Train Tessa Hadley
68/100 A Memory of Light Robert Jordon Brandon Sanderson
69/100 Ratcatcher James McGee
70/100 Resurrectionist James McGee
71/100 Where the Shadows Lie Michael Ridpath
72/100 66 Degrees North Michael Ridpath
73/100 The Last days of Newgate Andrew Pepper
74/100 Rivers of London Ben Aaronovitch
75/100 Harry Revised Mark Sarvas

 

[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
36/50 - A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain - Owen Hatherley
37/50 -Without Warning - John Birmingham
38/50 - After America - John Birmingham

 

[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
55/100 Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
56/100 The Red Road by Denise Mina
57/100 Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon
58/100 The Sailors' Rendezvous by Georges Simenon
59/100 Anti-Fascist by Martin Lux
60/100 I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
61/100 Maigret at the "Gai-Moulin" by Georges Simenon
62/100 The Bar on the Seine by Georges Simenon
63/100 Lillian & Dash by Sam Toperoff
64/100 Street of No Return by David Goodis
65/100 The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman

66/100 Maigret Mystified by Georges Simenon

 

[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
20/30 White Jazz - James Ellroy
21/30 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Philip K Dick.
22/30 Running Wild - J G Ballard.
23/30 Jack - China Meiville
24/30 Fresco - Alastair Reynolds
25/30 The Engines of God - Jack McDevitt

 

[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
36/50 - A New Kind of Bleak: Journeys Through Urban Britain - Owen Hatherley
37/50 -Without Warning - John Birmingham
38/50 - After America - John Birmingham
39/50 - Angels of Vengeance - John Birmingham

 

[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
31/50 - Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
32/50 - The Crow Road, Iain Banks
33/50 - The Saint Zita Society, Ruth Rendell
34/50 - The Bat, Jo Nesbo
35/50 - The Shining, Stephen King
36/50 - The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
37/50 - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

38/50 - Skin, Mo Hayder

 

[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
24/30 Lonesome Dove - Larry McNurty
25/30 Minority Report - Phillip K Dick
26/30 High Rise - J.G. Ballard
27/30 The Cave - Tim Krabbe
28/30 Salt - Adam Roberts
29/30 Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem

 

[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
55/100 Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
56/100 The Red Road by Denise Mina
57/100 Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon
58/100 The Sailors' Rendezvous by Georges Simenon
59/100 Anti-Fascist by Martin Lux
60/100 I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
61/100 Maigret at the "Gai-Moulin" by Georges Simenon
62/100 The Bar on the Seine by Georges Simenon
63/100 Lillian & Dash by Sam Toperoff
64/100 Street of No Return by David Goodis
65/100 The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman
66/100 Maigret Mystified by Georges Simenon

67/100 Nine Inches: Stories by Tom Perrotta

 

[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
31/50 - Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
32/50 - The Crow Road, Iain Banks
33/50 - The Saint Zita Society, Ruth Rendell
34/50 - The Bat, Jo Nesbo
35/50 - The Shining, Stephen King
36/50 - The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
37/50 - The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
38/50 - Skin, Mo Hayder

A couple of short stories that I'm going to count as 1
39/50 - A Face in the Crowd, Stephen King + How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Neil Gaiman

and a couple of OU course books
40/50 - Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology
41/50 - The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence

 

[heinous seamus]

1/20 Filth - Irvine Welsh
2/20 A Disaffection - James Kelman
3/20 Consider Phlebas - Iain M. Banks
4/20 Sold as a Slave - Olaudah Equiano
5/20 One Hundred Red Hot Years: Big Moments of the 20th Century - Deborah Schnookal
6/20 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
7/20 Voices of Leith Dockers: Personal Recollections of Working Lives - Ian MacDougall
8/20 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg
9/20 A People's History of London - John Rees and Lindsey German

 

[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.
7/15- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
8/15- Time Bandit: Two brothers, the Bering sea and one of the worlds deadliest jobs by Jonathan and Andy Hillstrand

 

[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
19/30 Magnetism - F Scott Fitzgerald
20/30 The Art Of Conversation - Catherine Blyth
21/30 Hash: The Chilling Inside Story Of The Secret Underworld Behind The World's Most Lucrative Drug - Wensley Clarkson
22/30 Venus In Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
23/30 The Answer Is Never: A Skateboarder's History Of The World - Jocko Weyland
24/30 The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
25/30 Spook Country - William Gibson

 

[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
55/100 Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
56/100 The Red Road by Denise Mina
57/100 Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon
58/100 The Sailors' Rendezvous by Georges Simenon
59/100 Anti-Fascist by Martin Lux
60/100 I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
61/100 Maigret at the "Gai-Moulin" by Georges Simenon
62/100 The Bar on the Seine by Georges Simenon
63/100 Lillian & Dash by Sam Toperoff
64/100 Street of No Return by David Goodis
65/100 The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman
66/100 Maigret Mystified by Georges Simenon
67/100 Nine Inches: Stories by Tom Perrotta

68/100 Dr. Yes by (Colin) Bateman

 

[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
27/40 Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
28/40 Bad Games, Jeff Menapace

29/40 Swamplandia, Karen Russell

 

[Me76]

30/40 Bonded, Nicky Charles

Two books finished today. Now have a day of waiting until Dr Sleep comes out on Tuesday. :taps fingers:

 

[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
14. "Phantom - Jo Nesbo
15. "Mammoth Book of Alternate History Short Stories" - edited by Ian Watson and Ian Whates
16. "The Atrocity Archives" - Charles Stross. Loved it, excellent read

 

[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
19/30 Magnetism - F Scott Fitzgerald
20/30 The Art Of Conversation - Catherine Blyth
21/30 Hash: The Chilling Inside Story Of The Secret Underworld Behind The World's Most Lucrative Drug - Wensley Clarkson
22/30 Venus In Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
23/30 The Answer Is Never: A Skateboarder's History Of The World - Jocko Weyland
24/30 The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
25/30 Spook Country - William Gibson
26/30 The Red House - Mark Haddon

 

[BoatieBird]

30/40 Bonded, Nicky Charles

Two books finished today. Now have a day of waiting until Dr Sleep comes out on Tuesday. :taps fingers:

Really looking forward to reading Dr Sleep but I'm going to make myself finish the final assignment for my OU course before I buy it.
Should motivate me to pull my finger out and get on with it

 

[Greebo]

Narcomania - Max Daly & Steve Sampson
Polish for dummies - Daria Gabryanczyk
Findings & Finishings - Sharon Bateman
4/21-50 one third of A Week in December - Sebastian Faulkes. In my defence, it was a pretty bad month and that book was a lot less readable than expected.
5/21-50 The Lover's Watch - Aphra Behn. Read for no other reason than it was there, and all the better for it.
Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
6 Pas un Jour - Anne F Garreta
7 The Little Book of Demons: The positive advantages of the personification of life's problems - Ramsey Dukes
8 Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll
9 They Feed - Steve French
10 The Rover - Aphra Behn
11 Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
12 Foundation (about 2/3rds of it) - Isaac Asimov
13 the dispossessed - Ursula le Guin
14 Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre - Johanna Spyri
15 Heidi kann brauchen was es gelernt hat - Johanna Spyri
16 Buttered side down - Edna Ferber
17 The way we live now - Anthony Trollope
18 Le vampire - Polidori's translation of Byron's book
19 Les liaisons dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos
20 The Seducer's Diary - Robert Avon
22 Cataclysm Blues - Cari Silverwood
23 The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
24 The Eyes Have It - Phillip K Dick
25 The Unvierse Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You - Johnny B Truant
26 Easy as Pi - Jamie Buchan
27 Kurzgeschichten Band 1 -Thomas Herzberg
28 La Grotte - Claudio Paganini (trans by Manuela Corsino)
29 How to be happy (no fairy dust required) - Cara Stein
30 Poems of William Blake - William Blake
31 Reconceptualising Work with 'Carers': New Directions for Policy and Practice - Kirstin Stalker
32 Two-fisted Tweets - James Hutchings
33 As they slept - Andy Leeks
34 Liebe Frau Senta - Uli Aechtner
35 Shroud for a Nightingale PD James
36 Guns - Stephen King
37 Blix - Frank Norris
38 Shakedown - James Ellroy
39 Explaining the Explicit - Julian Barnes, David Bellos, Sarah Churchwell, Vicki Feaver, Rachel Johnson.
40 Die Entdeckung der Currywurst / The invention of curried sausage - Uwe Timm
41 1001 Polish words in Polish - Jorit Menka
42 As Easy As Pi - Jamie Buchan
43 Ach, waer ich nur zu Hause geblieben - Kersten Gier
44 Lost in Translation - Laurence M. Janifer
45 Les Noces Secretes - Gerard Caramaro
46 Otfried Preussler "Krabat" - auf den Spuren der historischen Sage ud ime Vergleich zu JK Rowlings "Harry Potter" - Nancy Schier
47 Selected Masterpieces of Polish Poetry - trans Jarek Zawadzki
48 English Polish Joke Book - Jeremy Taylor
49 Histoires a lire dans le bus - Catherine Perrot, Max Obione
50 Histoires a lire dans le metro - 10 authors whose names I CBA to type.
51 Geil, Bekifft, Arbeitsscheu... Charly Moraine & Frank Cordoba
52 We're Going to Die Here, Aren't We? - Erik Gumeny
52 Double Dare - Rhonda Nelson

 

[el-ahrairah]

58. CS Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
59. can't remember the author - The Ottoman Empire 1450 - 1700
60. Ben Counter - The Emperor's Gift
61. CS Lewis - The Silver Chair
62. Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide To Medieval England
63. Marge Piercy - Women On The Edge Of Time

argh, i've been forgetting to update this thread, here's a few of what i've read the last couple of weeks...

64. Guy Haley - Death Of Integrity
65. Brian Cathcart - Were You Still Up For Portillo?
66. Mike Lee - Fallen Angels

 

[el-ahrairah]

Narcomania - Max Daly & Steve Sampson

i was interviewed for that book i wonder if it made it in, seeing as how we got very very drunk...

 

[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
55/100 Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
56/100 The Red Road by Denise Mina
57/100 Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon
58/100 The Sailors' Rendezvous by Georges Simenon
59/100 Anti-Fascist by Martin Lux
60/100 I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
61/100 Maigret at the "Gai-Moulin" by Georges Simenon
62/100 The Bar on the Seine by Georges Simenon
63/100 Lillian & Dash by Sam Toperoff
64/100 Street of No Return by David Goodis
65/100 The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman
66/100 Maigret Mystified by Georges Simenon
67/100 Nine Inches: Stories by Tom Perrotta
68/100 Dr. Yes by (Colin) Bateman

69/100 Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall by Luke Haines

 

[belboid]

69/100 Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall by Luke Haines

that's almost spooky, as:

1: Peter May - The Blackhouse.
2: Kim Cooper - 33 1/3 Series: In the Aeroplane over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel.
3: Ben Thompson (Ed.) - Ban This Filth! The Mary Whitehouse Letters.
4: Paul D Gilbert - The Annals of Sherlock Holmes.
5/30 - ?? - The Secret Footballer.
6/30 - Hilary Mantel - Bring Up The Bodies.
7/30: K Marx - The Civil War in France.
8/30 - Pat Long - The History of the NME
9/30 - Iain Banks - Stonemouth.
10/30 - 30 Rock and Philosophy: We Want To Go There.
11/30 - Michael Powell & Ursula Le Guin - The Wizard of Earthsea (unfilmed screenplay)
12/30 - Mark Kermode - The Good, The Bad & The Multiplex
13/30 - Ismail Kadare - The Successor
14/30 - Peter May - The Lewis Man
15/30 - Peter May - The Chessmen
16/30 - David Belbin - Student
17/30 - David Belbin - Festival
18/30 - Paul D Gilbert - The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes
19/30 - Charlie Williams - Graven Image / Minette Walters - Dreadful Murder
20/30 - David Peace - Red or Dead

21 - Chris Ware - Building Stories
22 - Luke Haines - Post Everything: Outsider Rock 'n' Roll

 

[imposs1904]

that's almost spooky, as:



21 - Chris Ware - Building Stories
22 - Luke Haines - Post Everything: Outsider Rock 'n' Roll

I might be book-stalking you. I just borrowed Building Stories from my local library. Once I recover from actually having to carry it home, I might get round to reading it.

 

[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
55/100 Bullfighting by Roddy Doyle
56/100 The Red Road by Denise Mina
57/100 Maigret in Holland by Georges Simenon
58/100 The Sailors' Rendezvous by Georges Simenon
59/100 Anti-Fascist by Martin Lux
60/100 I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President by Josh Lieb
61/100 Maigret at the "Gai-Moulin" by Georges Simenon
62/100 The Bar on the Seine by Georges Simenon
63/100 Lillian & Dash by Sam Toperoff
64/100 Street of No Return by David Goodis
65/100 The Busconductor Hines by James Kelman
66/100 Maigret Mystified by Georges Simenon
67/100 Nine Inches: Stories by Tom Perrotta
68/100 Dr. Yes by (Colin) Bateman
69/100 Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall by Luke Haines

70/100 Maigret Goes Home by Georges Simenon

 

[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)
Freya Stark 'The Minaret of Djam: An Excursion in Afghanistan' (9/20)
Gustave Flaubert 'Madame Bovary' (10/20)
Graham Greene 'Brighton Rock' (11/20)
SE Hinton 'The Outsiders' (12/20)
Esther Freud 'Hideous Kinky' (13/20)

 

[belboid]

1: Peter May - The Blackhouse.
2: Kim Cooper - 33 1/3 Series: In the Aeroplane over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel.
3: Ben Thompson (Ed.) - Ban This Filth! The Mary Whitehouse Letters.
4: Paul D Gilbert - The Annals of Sherlock Holmes.
5/30 - ?? - The Secret Footballer.
6/30 - Hilary Mantel - Bring Up The Bodies.
7/30: K Marx - The Civil War in France.
8/30 - Pat Long - The History of the NME
9/30 - Iain Banks - Stonemouth.
10/30 - 30 Rock and Philosophy: We Want To Go There.
11/30 - Michael Powell & Ursula Le Guin - The Wizard of Earthsea (unfilmed screenplay)
12/30 - Mark Kermode - The Good, The Bad & The Multiplex
13/30 - Ismail Kadare - The Successor
14/30 - Peter May - The Lewis Man
15/30 - Peter May - The Chessmen
16/30 - David Belbin - Student
17/30 - David Belbin - Festival
18/30 - Paul D Gilbert - The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes
19/30 - Charlie Williams - Graven Image / Minette Walters - Dreadful Murder
20/30 - David Peace - Red or Dead
21 - Chris Ware - Building Stories
22 - Luke Haines - Post Everything: Outsider Rock 'n' Roll

knew I'd forgotten something!

23 - (well, about 18 actually) - Anthony Bourdain - Medium Raw

 

[Greebo]

Narcomania - Max Daly & Steve Sampson
Polish for dummies - Daria Gabryanczyk
Findings & Finishings - Sharon Bateman
4/21-50 one third of A Week in December - Sebastian Faulkes. In my defence, it was a pretty bad month and that book was a lot less readable than expected.
5/21-50 The Lover's Watch - Aphra Behn. Read for no other reason than it was there, and all the better for it.
6 Professor Unrat - Heinrich Mann
7 Pas un Jour - Anne F Garreta
8 The Little Book of Demons: The positive advantages of the personification of life's problems - Ramsey Dukes
9 Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum - Heinrich Boll10 They Feed - Steve French
10 The Rover - Aphra Behn
11 Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
12 Foundation (about 2/3rds of it) - Isaac Asimov
13 the dispossessed - Ursula le Guin
14 Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre - Johanna Spyri
15 Heidi kann brauchen was es gelernt hat - Johanna Spyri
16 Buttered side down - Edna Ferber
17 The way we live now - Anthony Trollope
18 Le vampire - Polidori's translation of Byron's book
19 Les liaisons dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos
20 The Seducer's Diary - Robert Avon
22 Cataclysm Blues - Cari Silverwood
23 The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
24 The Eyes Have It - Phillip K Dick
25 The Unvierse Doesn't Give a Flying Fuck About You - Johnny B Truant
26 Easy as Pi - Jamie Buchan
27 Kurzgeschichten Band 1 -Thomas Herzberg
28 La Grotte - Claudio Paganini (trans by Manuela Corsino)
29 How to be happy (no fairy dust required) - Cara Stein
30 Poems of William Blake - William Blake
31 Reconceptualising Work with 'Carers': New Directions for Policy and Practice - Kirstin Stalker
32 Two-fisted Tweets - James Hutchings
33 As they slept - Andy Leeks
34 Liebe Frau Senta - Uli Aechtner
35 Shroud for a Nightingale PD James
36 Guns - Stephen King
37 Blix - Frank Norris
38 Shakedown - James Ellroy
39 Explaining the Explicit - Julian Barnes, David Bellos, Sarah Churchwell, Vicki Feaver, Rachel Johnson.
40 Die Entdeckung der Currywurst / The invention of curried sausage - Uwe Timm
41 1001 Polish words in Polish - Jorit Menka
42 As Easy As Pi - Jamie Buchan
43 Ach, waer ich nur zu Hause geblieben - Kersten Gier
44 Lost in Translation - Laurence M. Janifer
45 Les Noces Secretes - Gerard Caramaro
46 Otfried Preussler "Krabat" - auf den Spuren der historischen Sage ud ime Vergleich zu JK Rowlings "Harry Potter" - Nancy Schier
47 Selected Masterpieces of Polish Poetry - trans Jarek Zawadzki
48 English Polish Joke Book - Jeremy Taylor
49 Histoires a lire dans le bus - Catherine Perrot, Max Obione
50 Histoires a lire dans le metro - 10 authors whose names I CBA to type.
51 Geil, Bekifft, Arbeitsscheu... Charly Moraine & Frank Cordoba
52 We're Going to Die Here, Aren't We? - Erik Gumeny
53 Double Dare - Rhonda Nelson
54 434 Tage - Anne Freitag

 

[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
19/30 Magnetism - F Scott Fitzgerald
20/30 The Art Of Conversation - Catherine Blyth
21/30 Hash: The Chilling Inside Story Of The Secret Underworld Behind The World's Most Lucrative Drug - Wensley Clarkson
22/30 Venus In Furs - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
23/30 The Answer Is Never: A Skateboarder's History Of The World - Jocko Weyland
24/30 The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie - Muriel Spark
25/30 Spook Country - William Gibson
26/30 The Red House - Mark Haddon
27/30 Journey Into Fear - Eric Ambler