2013 Reading Challenge Thread

[weltweit]

Not so many from me in 2016 so far ..

1) A Prison Diary, Jeffrey Archer
2) All Together Now, John Harvey-Jones
3) Taken on Trust, Terry Waite
4) The Meaning of Life, Spike Milligan
5) How I Very Slowly Became an Overnight Success, Rob Brydon
6) Notes on a Small Island, Bill Bryson
7) A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
8) Catch-22, Joseph Heller
9) Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down, Jo Brand
10) Look back in Hunger, Jo Brand
11) Moments of Reprieve, Primo Levi
12) Consider Phlebas, Iain (M) Banks
13) Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas
14) Look To Windwards, Iain (M) Banks
15) Wilt, Tom Sharpe
16) Iain (M) Banks, Matter

So DotCommunist I want to ask, I have just finished Matter, have read Look To Windwards, and Consider Phlebas. Is there a particular Culture book you would recommend for me next? List here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series

eta: Actually Dotty I think I asked you this once before and you recommended "Inversions".. perhaps I will get that next .. [eta now on order from my library]

 

[DotCommunist]

Not so many from me in 2016 so far ..

1) A Prison Diary, Jeffrey Archer
2) All Together Now, John Harvey-Jones
3) Taken on Trust, Terry Waite
4) The Meaning of Life, Spike Milligan
5) How I Very Slowly Became an Overnight Success, Rob Brydon
6) Notes on a Small Island, Bill Bryson
7) A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
8) Catch-22, Joseph Heller
9) Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down, Jo Brand
10) Look back in Hunger, Jo Brand
11) Moments of Reprieve, Primo Levi
12) Consider Phlebas, Iain (M) Banks
13) Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas
14) Look To Windwards, Iain (M) Banks
15) Wilt, Tom Sharpe
16) Iain (M) Banks, Matter

So DotCommunist I want to ask, I have just finished Matter, have read Look To Windwards, and Consider Phlebas. Is there a particular Culture book you would recommend for me next? List here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series

eta: Actually Dotty I think I asked you this once before and you recommended "Inversions".. perhaps I will get that next .. [eta now on order from my library]

Inversions is good- its not trad Culture but it is still culture. I also rate Player of Games which is very normal Culture and a great read

 

[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
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
52/50 - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
53/50 - The Redbreast, Jo Nesbo

54/50 - Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

 

[Cheesypoof]

this thread is crazy, and you shouldnt measure yourself upon how much you read.

 

[marty21]

this thread is crazy, and you shouldnt measure yourself upon how much you read.

I find it interesting to see what other people are reading, I like lists, you don't.

 

[Cheesypoof]

I find it interesting to see what other people are reading, I like lists, you don't.

whats the point of the thread?

if its to actually to read a list of the books people read in a year, i understand.

 

[belboid]

To set yourself a challenge. It encourages me to read more, which is a good thing.

 

[BoatieBird]

I see it as a challenge to myself, to watch less mediocre TV and read more books.
I enjoy seeing what other people are reading too.
If someone likes several of the same authors I do, then I will probably like other stuff that they list.

 

[MrSki]

whats the point of the thread?

if its to actually to read a list of the books people read in a year, i understand.

You can get suggestions of what to read by others choices. If they have read some books you have enjoyed then chances are that you might enjoy other books that they have listed.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

'fessing up
I did read more than the 11 books I recorded here but probably not the 52 I set myself as the challenge
I do a lot of reading for work and that seems to take up most of my attention span for reading I guess
I have read a lot of crap crime novels as per usual which make good commuter reading
I lost my kindle in May which also lost me some reading challenge ballast
maybe 2014 will be a year in which I balance the scales of the work/life balance in reading?

well done readers - lots of ideas for reading which I might take up in 2014

 

[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)
Laurie Lee 'Cider with Rosie' (15/20)
Jack Kerouac 'On the Road' (16/20)
J.D. Salinger 'The Catcher in the Rye' (17/20)

 

[imposs1904]

this thread is crazy, and you shouldnt measure yourself upon how much you read.

every year you pop up on this thread with the same gripe and every year people explain why they participate in this thread. get over yourself.

 

[white rabbit]

A month or two ago, I got well into A Secret History by Donna Tartt. I enjoyed it a lot (though I thought it failed to resolve itself). So I was keen to get into the next one, which was MaddAdam by Margaret Attwood and I couldn't get into it. So next I tried Libra by Don DeLillo. And again I'm stuck. It gets like this sometimes.

 

[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
18. Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
19. Mark Rowlands - Running with the pack

A book about running and philosophy. First half is absolutely brilliant. Trails off a bit in the second half, but still a really good read, especially if you run.

 

[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
31/30 Saturday - Ian McEwan
32/30 Margrave of the Marshes - John Peel
33/30 Gates of Eden - Ethan Coen
34/30 Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
35/30 Skagboys - Irvine Welsh

 

[Pickman's model]

the 2014 thread will be started in a few days time. this is only to allow people a while in which to make their estimates for 2014 reading before getting down to it. this thread will not be closed, so you will be able to post your reading although please put any books completed after midnight on the night of 31 dec / 1 jan in the 2014 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
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
81/100 Peace, Love & Petrol Bombs by D. D. Johnston

82/100 A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

It's been a long time for me not enjoying reading. Decided to change that and bought myself a Kindle as a birthday present in October.
I set myself the goal of reading ten books by the end of the year, i'm on my eleventh now

1/10 - A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin.
2/10 - Waiting for the Barbarians - J M Coetzee.
3/10 - Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck.
4/10 - A Clash of Kings - George R R Martin.
5/10 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey.
6/10 - Capital - John Lanchester.
7/10 - Homicide - David Simon.
8/10 - The Soul of Man under Socialism - Oscar Wilde.
9/10 - A Storm of Swords (Part one - Steel and Snow) - George R R Martin.
10/10 - A Storm of Swords (Part two - Blood and Gold) - George R R Martin.
11/10 - Lionel Asbo:State of England - Martin Amis.

 

[el-ahrairah]

78. Steven Connor - The Book Of Skin - a pseud's history of the body.

79. Charles Bukowski - The Most Beautiful Woman In Town & Other Stories. never read any bukowski before, not likely to again.

 

[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
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
52/50 - Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
53/50 - The Redbreast, Jo Nesbo
54/50 - Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

55/50 - Horns, Joe Hill

 

[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
37/40 Every Day, Every Hour, Natasa Dragnic
38/40 The Keeping, Nicky Charles
39/40 Among the Hoods, Harriet Sergeant
40/40 The Yonahlossee Riding School for Girls, Anton Disclafani
41/40 Betrayed, Nicky Charles
42/40 the Lifeboat, Charlotte Rogan

This was a great book. Reminded me of Sarah Waters.

I also realised, while looking through my list in a nostalgic way, that the number seemed to change from 50 to 40 at some point quite early on in the year. This means I haven't actually met my goal, presuming the original number was the correct one. But hey ho.

A year of mostly good books and I remember all of them, which is better than last year when some were so rubbish I didn't even remember what they were about!

 

[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
62 Anonym, Briefe der Lust - Megan Hart (translated into German by Ira Severin)
63 Die Muenze im Becher - Iny Lorentz
64 Girl, 20 - Kingsley Amis (I couldn't abide his writing before and still can't)

 

[Red Storm]

1/20 - A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
2/20 - A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
3/20 - Physical Resistance by Dave Hann
4/20 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
5/20 - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
6/20 - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
7/20 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
8/20 - What Uncle Sam Really Wants by Noam Chomsky
9/20 - Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
10/20 - Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
11/20 - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
12/20 - Dracula by Bram Stoker
13/20 - The Dark Tower by Stephen King
14/20 - A Feast of Crows by George R. R. Martin
15/20 - Dance of Dragons by George R. R. Martin
16/20 - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
17/20 - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
18/20 - The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many by Noam Chomsky
19/20 - Secrets, Lies and Democracy by Noam Chomsky

20/20 - Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War by Christopher Clark (4.5/5 - Excellent book, bought it after seeing it mentioned on here)

 

[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
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
33/30 The Counselor - Cormac McCarthy
34/30 The Diary Of A Young Girl - Anne Frank
35/30 The Shipping News - Annie Proulx.......Wasn't expecting this to be one of the best books I've ever read, but it was an absolute joy. Her descriptive prose is fantastic, can't wait to read more.

 

[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
44/50 -The Green Road Into The Trees: A Walk Through England - Hugh Thompson
45/50 - Nightwalk - A Journey to the Heart of Nature - Chris Yates
46/50 - The Whale Road - Robert Low
47/50 - The Papers of Tony Veitch - William Mcilvanney

 

[Pickman's model]

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
44/50 -The Green Road Into The Trees: A Walk Through England - Hugh Thompson
45/50 - Nightwalk - A Journey to the Heart of Nature - Chris Yates
46/50 - The Whale Road - Robert Low
47/50 - The Papers of Tony Veitch - William Mcilvanney

three to go i see

 

[marty21]

three to go i see

Can't see me reading 3 in 5 days tbh

 

[MrSki]

Can't see me reading 3 in 5 days tbh

Asterix

 

[Pickman's model]

Can't see me reading 3 in 5 days tbh

you won't if you keep pissing about on here

 

[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
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 Battle Edward Marston
88/100 The Nizam’s Daughters Allan Mallinson
89/100 Raiders from the North Alex Rutherford
90/100 Rumours of War Allan Mallinson
91/100 Rapscallion James McGee
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
99/100 Life of Pi Yann Martel
100/100 Artemis Julian Stockwin

101/100 Mutiny Julian Stockwin
102/100 Tenacious Julian Stockwin
103/100 Command Julian Stockwin
104/100 The Admiral's Daughter Julian Stockwin
105/100 Treachery Julian Stockwin
106/100 Invasion Julian Stockwin
107/100 Victory Julian Stockwin

Have started Conquest but not reading much before the new year so doubt I will finish. Had to miss a couple of Stockwin's out because of lack of availability in the library!