2013 Reading Challenge Thread
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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
31/30 The Republic of Theives - Scott Lynch
32/30 Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
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
31/30 The Republic of Theives - Scott Lynch
32/30 Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
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
48/50 - Dead Man's Time, Peter James
49/50 - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce
50/50 - Persuasion, Jane Austen
51/50 - Killing for Company, Brian Masters
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
48/50 - Dead Man's Time, Peter James
49/50 - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce
50/50 - Persuasion, Jane Austen
51/50 - Killing for Company, Brian Masters
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
62 Anonym, Briefe der Lust - Megan Hart (translated into German by Ira Severin). What can I say? The translation wasn't distracting and the sex scenes were just about convincing, but the characters were irritating and a bit one dimensional. The plot was so so; straightforward chick lit for the first half but it improved after that, more twists and turns in the second half than in the Barbican. An extremely unconvincing ending - the main character spends the whole book learning things about herself only to get back with an ex who she'd nearly always known was wrong for her except for the chemistry between them? Really?
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
62 Anonym, Briefe der Lust - Megan Hart (translated into German by Ira Severin). What can I say? The translation wasn't distracting and the sex scenes were just about convincing, but the characters were irritating and a bit one dimensional. The plot was so so; straightforward chick lit for the first half but it improved after that, more twists and turns in the second half than in the Barbican. An extremely unconvincing ending - the main character spends the whole book learning things about herself only to get back with an ex who she'd nearly always known was wrong for her except for the chemistry between them? Really?
Me76
Not very good lurker
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
37/40 Every Day, Every Hour, Natasa Dragnic
38/40 The Keeping, Nicky Charles
39/40 Among the Hoods, Harriet Sergeant - i got this as its about a woman who spends time with some lads from a gang around west norwood which is where i live. It could have been so much better but it's really badly written and repetitive. Some good points are made but not followed up in any way. I think I was expecting a lot more.
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
37/40 Every Day, Every Hour, Natasa Dragnic
38/40 The Keeping, Nicky Charles
39/40 Among the Hoods, Harriet Sergeant - i got this as its about a woman who spends time with some lads from a gang around west norwood which is where i live. It could have been so much better but it's really badly written and repetitive. Some good points are made but not followed up in any way. I think I was expecting a lot more.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
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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
79/100 The Guts by Roddy Doyle
80/100 Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
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
79/100 The Guts by Roddy Doyle
80/100 Saints of the Shadow Bible by Ian Rankin
MrSki
Who am I to say you're wrong
92/100 Rebellion James McGee
93/100 An Act of Courage Allan Mallinson
94/100 Company of Spears Allan Mallinson
95/100 Man of War Allan Mallinson
96/100 Warrior Allan Mallinson
97/100 On His Majesty’s Service Allan Mallinson
98/100 The Pagan Lord Bernard Cornwell
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Macaroni cheese controller
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
28/30 The Crow Road - Iain Banks
29/30 A Dance With Dragons - George R R Martin
30/30 Gangs Of Jamaica: The Babylonian Wars - Thibault Ehrengardt
31/30 The Time Thief - Michael Thomas
32/30 Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
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
28/30 The Crow Road - Iain Banks
29/30 A Dance With Dragons - George R R Martin
30/30 Gangs Of Jamaica: The Babylonian Wars - Thibault Ehrengardt
31/30 The Time Thief - Michael Thomas
32/30 Humboldt's Gift - Saul Bellow
braindancer
not for long
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
31/30 Saturday - Ian McEwan
32/30 Margrave of the Marshes - John Peel
33/30 Gates of Eden - Ethan Coen - a selection of short stories - a couple of which were excellent, but on the whole a little disappointing.
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
31/30 Saturday - Ian McEwan
32/30 Margrave of the Marshes - John Peel
33/30 Gates of Eden - Ethan Coen - a selection of short stories - a couple of which were excellent, but on the whole a little disappointing.
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
16. Richard Morgan - Market Forces
17. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
Brilliant book. If you've not read it then you should. Will be reading more of his books from now on!
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
16. Richard Morgan - Market Forces
17. Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
Brilliant book. If you've not read it then you should. Will be reading more of his books from now on!
If you've read the book, but haven't watched the series, you really should. Even when you know what's going to happen, you're in for a treat.
magneze
🎧
Will do!
pennimania
still dre and drooling
39/100 Discours, Figure. Jean Francois Lyotard.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
40/100 A Handful of Dust. Evelyn Waugh.
41/100 Angus McPhee, Weaver of Grass. Joyce Laing.
42/100 Experiment:conversations in art and science. Arend and Thackera.
43/100 Exhibition Design. David Dernie.
44/100 The Mask of Dimitrios. Eric Ambler.
45/100 When Christ and his Saints Slept. Sharon Penman.
46/100 Encountering Eva Hesse. Pollock and Corby.
47/100 Eva Hesse. Lucy Lippard.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
53 books in one month is going to be tricky!
Hows everyone doing with their targets? I've unexpectedly gone a few over my prediction due to commuting by train instead of bike at the moment.
At one point in the year I didn't read a long book I had my eye on because it might make me miss my target
. I went back and read it anyway a week later.
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pennimania
still dre and drooling
I have yet to put down all the books I've read this year!53 books in one month is going to be tricky!
Hows everyone doing with their targets? I've unexpectedly gone a few over my prediction due to commuting by train instead of bike at the moment.
At one point in the year I didn't read a long book I had my eye in because it might make me miss my target
I need to get my library receipts out - I do admit doing a masters is slowing me down.
Merleau Ponty isn't a quick read
But I could add all the Lorna Hill, Chalet School and Monica Edwars comfort reads.
I think I will.
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
I'm currently reading 52/50 so I've gone over my target already.
I have found myself making the decision to read more often this year, so I'll go and read for a couple of hours instead of sitting with the boy and the bloke watching a film I'm not really that bothered about.
I've also really enjoyed looking at what other people are reading, it's made me research and read new authors so thanks thread
I have found myself making the decision to read more often this year, so I'll go and read for a couple of hours instead of sitting with the boy and the bloke watching a film I'm not really that bothered about.
I've also really enjoyed looking at what other people are reading, it's made me research and read new authors so thanks thread
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
was probably on schedule for 50, but now it's 5 in a month, wasted about 3 weeks this month attempting nanowrimo53 books in one month is going to be tricky!
Hows everyone doing with their targets? I've unexpectedly gone a few over my prediction due to commuting by train instead of bike at the moment.
At one point in the year I didn't read a long book I had my eye on because it might make me miss my target
but I reckon I'll hit the 50 - nearly through 45 atm
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
53 books in one month is going to be tricky!
Hows everyone doing with their targets? I've unexpectedly gone a few over my prediction due to commuting by train instead of bike at the moment.
At one point in the year I didn't read a long book I had my eye on because it might make me miss my target
i'm surprised to find that i'm not likely to hit mine. I always thought I read more books than I do! next year I will revise downwards as appropriate.
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
75. Spike Milligan - Mussolini: His Part In My Downfall
76. Spike Milligan - Where Have All The Bullets Gone
77. Laurie Goulding - Mark Of Calth
currently reading a self-published novel by one of my partner's friends. which is genuinely one of the worst things I have ever read.
I've reached mine, but trying to get my head around Polish, plus VP's usual winter relapse has really eaten into my spare time and energy since late summer.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
the 2014 thread will start in four weeks time.
Ever the ray of sunshine.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i know
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
have you participated in this year's thread? That sounds snotty. I don't mean to be.
hopefully next year more of the urbans from the 'what are you reading' thread will take part. It's always interesting to see what other people are reading, and I've definitely picked up some books - some good, some not so good - after seeing them mentioned on this thread.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i think you'll find i started this thread, as i did the one before it.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
53 books in one month is going to be tricky!
Hows everyone doing with their targets? I've unexpectedly gone a few over my prediction due to commuting by train instead of bike at the moment.
At one point in the year I didn't read a long book I had my eye on because it might make me miss my target
I set myself a goal of 100 books this year but I've only just finished number 80. I don't think I'm going to read 20 books over the course of December. November's been most month for finishing books 'cos I've been caught up in other stuff.
However, I'll probably set the same goal next year, with the proviso that I read more non-fiction.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
I know. That's why I'm asking.
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