back by popular demand it's the 2017 reading challenge thread

[May Kasahara]

1/49 - Dave Eggers - The Circle
2/49 - John Masefield - The Box of Delights
3/49 - Jenny Nimmo - The Rinaldi Ring
4/49 - Sarah Helm - If This Is A Woman

5/49 - Art Spiegelman - Maus. Read this when I was about 10 or 11 and felt the horror, but a lot of the grown up human relationship stuff passed me by. Recently my 8yo found it and asked to read it, so I thought I'd revisit it to form an opinion. I will hold it back for a few years, as he is similarly unlikely to appreciate the very well charted personal dynamics within the book.

 

[spartacus mills]

01 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Monday Starts On Saturday
02 Jackie Higgins – Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus, Modern Photography Explained
03 Ed McBain – Fuzz
04 Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Netochka Nezvanova
05 James M. Cain – The Postman Always Rings Twice
06 Spike Milligan – Open Heart University
07 Tom Callaghan – A Killing Winter
08 John Steinbeck – East of Eden
09 Ed McBain – Let’s Hear It For the Deaf Man
10 Laszlo Krasznahorkai – War & War

 

[Beats & Pieces]

09. Candide - Voltaire.
10. The Cambridge Introduction To Michel Foucault - Lisa Downing

 

[nogojones]

Been having a flick through the thread today. None of the local libraries have got Dodgers! But I've put it on my list.

I've been looking for a EPUB/PDF online and failed as well. Anyone got one to share?

 

[nogojones]

1/35 Jim Thompson - Savage Night
2/35 Phil Edwards - More Work! Less Pay! Rebellion And Repression in Italy, 1972-77
3/35 Martin Ford - Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobleess Future
4/35 Franya J. Berkman - Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane
5/35 Anthony Burgess - The Wanting Seed
6/35 Theresa Urbainczyk - Slave Revolts in Antiquity

7/35 Iain M. Banks - Matter
8/35 Marvin E. Gettleman - Vietnam History, Documents and Opinions on a Major World Crisis
9/35 Ursula LeGuin - The Dispossessed

 

[Pickman's model]

7/35 Iain M. Banks - Matter
8/35 Marvin E. Gettleman - Vietnam History, Documents and Opinions on a Major World Crisis
9/35 Ursula LeGuin - The Dispossessed

you're steaming ahead, nog

 

[Fozzie Bear]

1/25 Malcolm X and Alex Haley - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
2/25 Alex de Jonge - Nightmare Culture: Lautremont & "Les Chants de Maldoror"
3/25 Viv Albertine - Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys

4/25 Endnotes 1: Preliminary Materials For A Balance Sheet Of The Twentieth Century
5/25 Susana Medina - The Bowie Neuro-Transmitter

 

[Biddlybee]

I've been looking for a EPUB/PDF online and failed as well. Anyone got one to share?

Think it's not long out. Get ringo's copy after Me76 if you don't mind paper books

 

[Wilf]

I've been reading such memorable things as 'that spy one from the charity shop' and 'that Russian thing I found on the kindle our lass nicked off me'. Do I need to be more specific?

 

[nogojones]

Think it's not long out. Get ringo's copy after Me76 if you don't mind paper books

Thanks, but someone kindly got one to me already

 

[Beats & Pieces]

11. 1984 - George Orwell

 

[SpookyFrank]

1/48 Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle - Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change
2/48 Poul Anderson - Tau Zero
3/48 David Mitchell - The Bone Clocks
4/48 Asa Briggs - Victorian Cities
5/48 Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
6/48 Jeff Vendermeer - Authority
7/48 Errico Malatesta - At the Cafe: Conversations on Anarchism

Trying to convince myself not to go straight onto the last book in that Vandermeer trilogy.

 

[kropotkin]

1. Tom Rob Smith - child 44
2. Louisa Lim - People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
3. Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami - Burning Country: Syrians in revolution and war
4. Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
5. John Courtenay Grinwood - Arabesk
6. Harsha walia - undoing border imperialism
7. Howard zinn - a people's history of the united states
8. Simon Mawer - the glass room

 

[inva]

1/60 The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America by Naomi Murakawa
bit of a slow start this year

 

[Beats & Pieces]

12. Renaissance Self-Fashioning - Stephen Greenblatt

 

[Threshers_Flail]

13/50 John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
14/50 Franz Kafka - The Trial (re-read)
15/50 Robert Baxell - Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism

 

[Pickman's model]

9/50 georges simenon, the hanged man of saint-pholien (london: penguin, 2014)

10/50 georges simenon, the carter of la providence (london: penguin, 2014)

 

[D'wards]

1/26 - Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (reread)
2/26 - Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians - Edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
3/26 - Frank Skinner on the Road by Frank Skinner
4/26 - Karlology by Karl Pilkington
5/26 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

 

[marshall]

11/109 - Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers - beautifully written, NYC art scene in the 70s/racing motorbikes/Italian politics (didn't realise the extent of rioting in Rome in the 70s), ends with 1977 power cut in NYC; as does the much-hyped City on Fire, but personally enjoyed this one loads more, so much so...

12/109 - Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba - early 50s, Cuba, American community harvesting the sugar cane, their teenage kids running away to join Castro in the hills, preparing for the big day. Again, loved it, really learned stuff from both these books, politically/socially. And, fantastic writing.

 

[marty21]

1/75 Sanctuary : After it Happened Book 5 - Devon C Ford
2/75 1916 : The Morning After - Tim Pat Coogan
3/75 Last Stand at Saber River - Elmore Leonard
4/75 After : The Shock - Scott Nicholson
5/75 After : The Echo - Scott Nicholson
6/75 After : Milepost 291 - Scott Nicholson
7/75 After : Whiteout - Scott Nicholson


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8/75 After : Red Scare - Scott Nicholson
9/75 Surviving The Evacuation : Ireland - Book 9 -Frank Tayell

Still working my way through various post apocalyptic/zombie novels , the Frank Tayell stuff is a jolly good read .

 

[Pickman's model]

10/50 georges simenon, the carter of la providence (london: penguin, 2014)

11/50 maurice druon, the lily and the lion (london: harpercollins, 2014)

 

[Sea Star]

3. Bruce Springsteen ~ Born to Run

Good in parts. Enjoyable stories. Nice insights into music. But also quite Self indulgent in parts with tedious stuff about Springsteen's politics and celebrity friends!

 

[Smokeandsteam]

4/25 - Getting By, Lisa McKenzie

Absolutely loving this book by the way.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

14/50 Franz Kafka - The Trial (re-read)
15/50 Robert Baxell - Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism
16/50 John Berger - Ways of Seeing

 

[Shechemite]

Picked up 'how to use your enemies' by
Baltasar Gracian for a quid at old street station.

It's a tiny book. I'll do well to finish it this year, if at all

For fucks sake it's not even an actual book, but excerpts from his proper books. Really let things slide

 

[Me76]

1/50 Teenage Revolution, Alan Davies
2/50 The Third Woman, Jonathan Freedland
3/50 The Art of Peeling an Orange, Victoria Avilan
4/50 Courting Trouble, Lisa M Hawkins
5/50 Dr Vigilante, Alberto Hazan
6/50 the Husband's Secret, Liane Moriarty - enjoyed this. Suburban drama set in Australia.

 

[ringo]

1/45 And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
2/45 Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
3/45 Thank You, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
4/45 Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
5/45 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
6/45 Fup - Jim Dodge
7/45 Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Gutierrez

 

[kropotkin]

1. Tom Rob Smith - child 44
2. Louisa Lim - People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
3. Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami - Burning Country: Syrians in revolution and war
4. Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
5. John Courtenay Grinwood - Arabesk
6. Harsha walia - undoing border imperialism
7. Howard zinn - a people's history of the united states
8. Simon Mawer - the glass room
9. Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism - Cindy Milstein (Editor)

 

[Biddlybee]

Had a week off work, and time to read, proper luxury for me!

1/10 - Chocky - John Wyndham
2/10 - Expecting - Chitra Ramaswamy
3/10 - The Spinning Heart - Donal Ryan

 

[ringo]

1/45 And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
2/45 Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
3/45 Thank You, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
4/45 Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
5/45 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
6/45 Fup - Jim Dodge
7/45 Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Gutierrez
8/45 Silk - Alessandro Baricco