2013 Reading Challenge Thread

[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
71/100 Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb
72/100 A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
73/100 The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
74/100 Two Pints by Roddy Doyle
75/100 The Flemish Shop by Georges Simenon

76/100 Brother Kemal by Jakob Arjouni

 

[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 Universe 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 Freytag
55 The little Quaker book of de-clutter - Ellie Caldwell
56 The little Quaker book of weight loss - Ellie Caldwell
57 PhiLOLzophy: critical thinking in digestible doses - Sarah Heuer & Chrissy Stockton
58 Santisima Muerte: How to call and work with Holy Death - Conjure Man Ali
59 Clarimonde - Theophile Gaultier
60 The Polish Experience - Nicholas Westerby

 

[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 Boll
10 They Feed - Steve French
11 The Rover - Aphra Behn
12 Oroonoko - Aphra Behn
13 Foundation (about 2/3rds of it) - Isaac Asimov
14 the dispossessed - Ursula le Guin
15 Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre - Johanna Spyri
16 Heidi kann brauchen was es gelernt hat - Johanna Spyri
17 Buttered side down - Edna Ferber
18 The way we live now - Anthony Trollope
19 Le vampire - Polidori's translation of Byron's book
20 Les liaisons dangereuses - Choderlos de Laclos
21 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 Universe 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 Freytag
55 The little Quaker book of de-clutter - Ellie Caldwell
56 The little Quaker book of weight loss - Ellie Caldwell
57 PhiLOLzophy: critical thinking in digestible doses - Sarah Heuer & Chrissy Stockton
58 Santisima Muerte: How to call and work with Holy Death - Conjure Man Ali
59 Clarimonde - Theophile Gaultier
60 The Polish Experience - Nicholas Westerby
61 Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

 

[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
10/20 Onion Johnnies - Personal Recollections by Nine Onion Johnnies of Their Working Lives in Scotland - Ian MacDougall
11/20 Africa in History - Basil Davidson
12/20 The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History - Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

 

[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
40/50 - Laidlaw - William McIlvanney
41/50 - Weapons of Choice: World War 2.1 - John Birmingham
42/50 - The Old Ways - Robert McFarlane

 

[Red Storm]

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
10/20 Onion Johnnies - Personal Recollections by Nine Onion Johnnies of Their Working Lives in Scotland - Ian MacDougall
11/20 Africa in History - Basil Davidson

12/20 The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History - Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

Sounds interesting, how was it?

 

[heinous seamus]

Sounds interesting, how was it?

I may have listed a book I've only just started

Definitely interesting so far though. And pretty heartbreaking too

 

[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
39/50 - A Face in the Crowd, Stephen King + How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Neil Gaiman
40/50 - Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology
41/50 - The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence
42/50 - The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
43/50 - Ghost in the Machine, Ed James
44/50 - Doctor Sleep, Stephen King
45/50 - A Judgement in Stone, Ruth Rendell

46/50 - The Bridge, Iain Banks

 

[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
23 - Anthony Bourdain - Medium Raw
24 - Rosa Luxemburg - The Mass Strike (with the introduction of Tony Cliff's RL biography)
25 - Brian Bendis, Bill Sienkiewicz - Daredevil, End of Days

26 - Michael Chabon - The Final Solution
27 - Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen/Moon of Gomrath

had to rush through the last two (no great problem with them being kids books n all) to get onto the next one. At my usual rate, it'll be about a month before I post again considering its thickness

 

[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
9/20 - Imperium by Robert Harris
10/20 - Sandy Koufax The Lefty's Legacy by Jane Leavy
11/20 - Sacred by Dennis Lehane

 

[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
14. Dan Saffer - Microinteractions
15. Jeff Gothelf - Lean UX

A relatively short book on how to integrate design techniques into a software development team is a very lightweight way, rather than get bogged down in process. That seems to be now 5 technical books so far this year. Back to non-techie for the rest of the year I think.

 

[MrSki]

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
76/100 The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim Jonathan Coe
77/100 Moon over Soho Ben Aaronovitch
78/100 The Whale Road Robert Low
79/100The Wolf Sea Robert Low
80/100 The Time Traveller’s Wife Audrey Niffenegger

81/100 Fallen Angels Bernard Cornwell & Susan Kells
82/100 Soldier of Fortune Edward Marston
83/100 Drums of War Edward Marston
84/100 Under Siege Edward Marston
85/100 Relics Pip Vaughan-Hughes
86/100 The Vault of Bones Pip Vaughan-Hughes
87/100 A Very Murdering War Edward Marston

 

[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
26/30 Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
27/30 Understand - Ted Chang
28/30 The Scheme for Full Employment - Magnus Mills
29/30 Super Freakonomics - Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
30/30 The English Civil War, A People's History. - Diane Purkis

 

[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- Working on the edge: King Crab fishing on Alaska's high seas by Spike Walker
9/15- Ship of ghosts by Neil Hinton
10/15- Trawlerman- Jimmy Buchan

 

[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
71/100 Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb
72/100 A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
73/100 The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
74/100 Two Pints by Roddy Doyle
75/100 The Flemish Shop by Georges Simenon
76/100 Brother Kemal by Jakob Arjouni

77/100 Autobiography by Morrissey

 

[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)
Armistead Maupin 'More Tales of the City' (14/20)

 

[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
30/30 2666 - Roberto Bolano

 

[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
71/100 Punk Rock: An Oral History by John Robb
72/100 A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
73/100 The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
74/100 Two Pints by Roddy Doyle
75/100 The Flemish Shop by Georges Simenon
76/100 Brother Kemal by Jakob Arjouni
77/100 Autobiography by Morrissey

78/100 Morbid Symptoms by Gillian Slovo

 

[pennimania]

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 .

Oh why have I not kept up to date with this

34/100 founders. James Wesley, Rawles
35/100 The Dumas Club. Arturo Peres-Reverte

 

[pennimania]

Oh why have I not kept up to date with this

34/100 founders. James Wesley, Rawles
35/100 The Dumas Club. Arturo Peres-Reverte

Whoops!

36/100 the Sunne in Splendour. Sharon Penman
37/100 Black and Blue. Ian Rankin
38/100 Advanced Style. Ari Seth Cohen.

More to follow

 

[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
40/50 - Laidlaw - William McIlvanney
41/50 - Weapons of Choice: World War 2.1 - John Birmingham
42/50 - The Old Ways - Robert McFarlane
43/50 - The Bat - Jo Nesbo

 

[Stigmata]

1/12 The Mammoth Book of Best New SF vol 25 - ed. Gardner Dozois
2/12 Shakespeare's Local - Pete Brown
3/12 Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
4/12 I Can Make You Hate - Charlie Brooker
5/12 Beowulf - trans. David Wright
6/12 Blake - Peter Ackroyd
7/12 The Business - Iain Banks
8/12 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
9/12 Shooting an Elephant and other Essays - George Orwell
10/12 Diary of a Nobody - George & Weedon Grossmith
11/12 Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales - Angela Carter
12/12 The Life of Charlemagne - Einhard
13/12 After Dark - Haruki Murakami

 

[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- Working on the edge: King Crab fishing on Alaska's high seas by Spike Walker
9/15- Ship of ghosts by Neil Hinton
10/15- Trawlerman- Jimmy Buchan
11/15- Unbreakable- Sharon Osbourne

 

[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
30/40 Bonded, Nicky Charles
31/40 Dr Sleep, Stephen King
32/40 Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman
33/40 Ghost in the Machine, Ed James
34/40 The Mating, Nicky Charles
35/40 The Flood, Emile Zola
36/40 Jet, Russell Blake

 

[el-ahrairah]

Fucking hell, i've lost count again. something, something.

67 (that i can remember). Alex Butterworth - The World That Never Was; A True Story Of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, & Secret Agents.
68. Luca Rastello - I Am The Market: How To Smuggle Cocaine By The Ton And Live Happily

The World That Never Was is great, really interesting.

I Am The Market is dull shite. The answer is "by being rich and clever and you'll still go to jail for a decade"

69. Art Spiegalman - Meta-Maus
70. Penny Rimbaud - Shibboleth
71. Graham McNeill - Priests Of Mars

 

[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
39/50 - A Face in the Crowd, Stephen King + How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Neil Gaiman
40/50 - Communicating in English: Talk, Text, Technology
41/50 - The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence
42/50 - The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
43/50 - Ghost in the Machine, Ed James
44/50 - Doctor Sleep, Stephen King
45/50 - A Judgement in Stone, Ruth Rendell
46/50 - The Bridge, Iain Banks

47/50 - The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt

 

[BoatieBird]

What did you think of Jet Me76?
I downloaded it free (or v cheap) ages ago, but haven't got round to reading it.
Worth a read?

 

[marty21]

oh BoatieBird , you read Bat - Jo Nesbo a while ago - just finished it - thought it was weaker than his others, much weaker, but it was his first, so he definitely gets better.

 

[BoatieBird]

oh BoatieBird , you read Bat - Jo Nesbo a while ago - just finished it - thought it was weaker than his others, much weaker, but it was his first, so he definitely gets better.

Cheers Marty, that's good to know.
I'll get round to reading some of his other stuff soon.

 

[marty21]

Cheers Marty, that's good to know.
I'll get round to reading some of his other stuff soon.

there's always a bender in his books though - i.e he falls off the wagon and loses a few days