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

[Voley]

Reading shouldn't be work, and even though I was trying to get my classics in. It can stick it's boring shit.

Yep. Gotta be done sometimes. If I ever find myself thinking ''This is like being back at school,'' the book goes.

 

[BoatieBird]

1/65 - Laurie Lee - Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
2/65 - John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany (1/10*)
3/65 - Ben Aaronovitch - Moon Over Soho
4/65 - William Boyd - Any Human Heart (2/10)
5/65 - Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
6/65 - John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat
7/65 - Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
8/65 - Tana French - Into The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad 1) (3/10)
9/65 - Larry McMurty - Lonesome Dove (4/10)
10/65 - Denise Mina - The Dead Hour (Paddy Meehan 2)

11/65 - Ian Rankin - The Flood

 

[Plumdaff]

1/25 Junk by Melvin Burgess
2/25 The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
3/25 The White Album by Joan Didion
4/25 Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
5/25 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
6/25 To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris.

7/25 Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. A sliver of Arctic dread. I enjoyed it a lot.

 

[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
6/26 - Pennine Walkies by Mark Wallington
7/26 - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole age 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (reread)
8/26 - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

 

[Sea Star]

4. Self made man ~ Norah Vincent

 

[polly]

1/29 Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
2/29 Raymond Chandler, The High Window
3/29 Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases
4/29 Dennis Covington, Salvation on Snake Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
5/29 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
6/29 Octavia E Butler, Kindred

7/29 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

 

[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
7/50 Sleep Tight, Rachel Abbot
8/50 A Dark Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
- Hard work to start off with, but worth it in the end.

 

[Orang Utan]

1/60 Richard Price - The Whites
2/60 Ali Smith - Public Library & Other Stories
3/60 Hannah Eaton - Naming Monsters
4/60 Jeff Vandermeer - Authority
5/60 Simon Garfield - To The Letter - A Celebration Of The Lost Art Of Letter Writing
6/60 Claire North - The Sudden Appearance Of Hope
7/60 Dan Lepard - Short & Sweet
8/60 Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
A bit poignant this one. I was reading it to Mum before she died, so she never got to hear the end of it. It's very funny and helped lighten her mood.

 

[Shirl]

1/25 Dead Tomorrow - Peter James
2/25 August is a wicked Month - Edna O'brien
3/25 Gallows View - Peter Robinson
4/25 Lady Lupin's Book of Etiquette - Babette Cole
5/25 Talking to the dead - Harry Bingham
6/25 The 50/50 Killer - Steve Mosby
7/25 No Cure for Shell Shock - Dylan Orchard
8/25 Blood,Salt-Water - Denise Mina
9/25 The Letter - Kathryn Hughes Amazon lied to me about this book. Number 1 best seller my arse. I only finished it because I'd given up on two books already this year.
10/25 The 39 Steps - John Buchan

 

[Beats & Pieces]

17. Alcibiades (I) - Plato

 

[Smokeandsteam]

1/25: On Anarchism - Noam Chomsky
2/25: The Corner Boys - Geoffrey Beattie
3/25: Rebel Cities - David Harvey
4/25: Getting By - Lisa McKenzie

5/25: David Harvey - A brief history of Neoliberalism
6/25 Johnny Marr - Set the boy free

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/25 Ken Follett - World Without End
2/25 Frances Hardinge - Fly By Night
3/25 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
4/25 Roald Dahl - Madness (short stories)
5/25 Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

6/25 David Rodigan - My Life in Reggae. Really enjoyed this, I always listen to his Sunday radio show on 1Xtra every week and his book's an insight into making your passion, in this case his love of reggae, into his life's work.

 

[Sea Star]

to date:

1. American Gods ~ Neil Gaiman
2. Good Omens ~ Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

3. Bruce Springsteen ~ Born to Run

4. Self made man ~ Norah Vincent

 

[crossthebreeze]

1/30 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie
2/30 Nnedi Okorafor - Lagoon
3/30 David Baird - Between Two Fires: Guerilla war in the Spanish sierras

4/30 Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
Who'd have thought i would have enjoyed reading the inner dialogue of the wife of a Tory MP so much?

 

[districtline]

Robert O’Brien & Marc Williams – Global Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics (5/30)
Tony Norfield – The City: London and the Global Power of Finance (6/30)

 

[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
6/26 - Pennine Walkies by Mark Wallington
7/26 - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole age 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (reread)
8/26 - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
9/26 - 2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (reread)

 

[Beats & Pieces]

18. Two uses of Genealogy: Michel Foucault & Bernard Williams - Colin Koopman

 

[Threshers_Flail]

17/50 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
18/50 Susan Sontag - On Photography
19/50 James Baldwin - Another Country

 

[Beats & Pieces]

19. Apology - Plato

 

[marshall]

15/109 - Chris Pavone, The Travelers (Am spelling) - superior spy thriller, pretty good actually, nice and twisty.

16/109 - Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore - would imagine this is the definitive account of the transportation of convicts to Oz from 1787, the date of the First Fleet; always been interested in why Australia, now I know

 

[Manter]

1/29 Volker Kutscher Babylon Berlin
2/29 Philip Kerr The other side of silence
3/29 Bill Beverley Dodgers
4,5,6/29 Robert Wilson Charlie Boxer series. (Capital punishment, you will never find me, stealing people)
7/29 Jay Kristoff Stormdancer - lotus trilogy
8/29 Amid the ruins- Ausma Zehanat Khan
9/29 the language of secrets- Ausma Zehanat Khan

More of the above with jihadi Iraqis this time

 

[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
9/45 Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
10/45 The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

 

[BoatieBird]

1/65 - Laurie Lee - Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
2/65 - John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany (1/10*)
3/65 - Ben Aaronovitch - Moon Over Soho
4/65 - William Boyd - Any Human Heart (2/10)
5/65 - Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
6/65 - John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat
7/65 - Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
8/65 - Tana French - Into The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad 1) (3/10)
9/65 - Larry McMurty - Lonesome Dove (4/10)
10/65 - Denise Mina - The Dead Hour (Paddy Meehan 2)
11/65 - Ian Rankin - The Flood

12/65 - Denise Mina - Slip of the Knife (Paddy Meehan 3)

 

[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
6/25 Michael Muhammad Knight - The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip Hop and the Gods of New York

7/25 Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

 

[Pickman's model]

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

12/50 georges simenon, maigret and the wine merchant

 

[polly]

1/29 Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
2/29 Raymond Chandler, The High Window
3/29 Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases
4/29 Dennis Covington, Salvation on Snake Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia
5/29 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
6/29 Octavia E Butler, Kindred
7/29 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

8/29 Bill Beverly, Dodgers

As everyone had said, a good story. Bit uncomfortable about it coming from a white man, this view of white America through black eyes. Anyone else feel that? I'd say more but don't want to give spoilers.

 

[Pickman's model]

12/50 georges simenon, maigret and the wine merchant

12/50 georges simenon, the prison

 

[BoatieBird]

1/65 - Laurie Lee - Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
2/65 - John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany (1/10*)
3/65 - Ben Aaronovitch - Moon Over Soho
4/65 - William Boyd - Any Human Heart (2/10)
5/65 - Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
6/65 - John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat
7/65 - Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
8/65 - Tana French - Into The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad 1) (3/10)
9/65 - Larry McMurty - Lonesome Dove (4/10)
10/65 - Denise Mina - The Dead Hour (Paddy Meehan 2)
11/65 - Ian Rankin - The Flood
12/65 - Denise Mina - Slip of the Knife (Paddy Meehan 3)

13/65 - Neil Gaiman - Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

 

[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
7/50 Sleep Tight, Rachel Abbot
8/50 A Dark Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
9/50 Patchwork Man, DB Martin - i kind of enjoyed it although it's very convoluted and I'm not sure i was keeping up, and then, because it's part of a series it basically finished in the middle. Didn't enjoy it enough to get the next one.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "Six Suspects" - Vikas Swarup
2. "Rather Be The Devil" - Ian Rankin
3. "Those We Left Behind" - Stuart Neville

4. "Transition" - Iain Banks. Wonderful