imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Nope. Waiting for the Netflix Originals adaptation.
back by popular demand it's the 2017 reading challenge thread
- Thread starter Pickman's model
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Nope. Waiting for the Netflix Originals adaptation.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
24/50 caitlín r kiernan, threshold (new york: roc, 2007)
stockwelljonny
Wait here I have gone to get help
1/20 Claudius the God - Robert Graves
2/20 - Thus Bad Begins - Javier Marias
3/20 - Slow Burn City - Rowan Moore
4/20 - Corvids, A life with Birds - Esther Moore
5/20 - Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
2/20 - Thus Bad Begins - Javier Marias
3/20 - Slow Burn City - Rowan Moore
4/20 - Corvids, A life with Birds - Esther Moore
5/20 - Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
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
8/75 After : Red Scare - Scott Nicholson
9/75 Surviving The Evacuation : Ireland - Book 9 -Frank Tayell
10/75 Crisis - Frank Gardner
11/75 Outcast London : A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society - Gareth Stedman Jones
12/75 After : Dying Light - Scott Nicholson
13/75 The Ruins - T W Piperbrook
14/75 Confederates - Thomas Keneally
15/75 Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi
16/75 The Revenge of History - Seumas Milne
17/75 The Great War : The American Front - Harry Turtledove.
18/75 The Wrong Side of Goodbye - Michael Connelly
19/75 Surviving The Evacuation : The Last Candidate - Book 10 . Frank Tayell
20/75 The Gunslinger : The Dark Tower - Stephen King.
21/75 Out of Bounds - Val McDermid
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22/75 Hurst - Robin Crumby
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
8/75 After : Red Scare - Scott Nicholson
9/75 Surviving The Evacuation : Ireland - Book 9 -Frank Tayell
10/75 Crisis - Frank Gardner
11/75 Outcast London : A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society - Gareth Stedman Jones
12/75 After : Dying Light - Scott Nicholson
13/75 The Ruins - T W Piperbrook
14/75 Confederates - Thomas Keneally
15/75 Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi
16/75 The Revenge of History - Seumas Milne
17/75 The Great War : The American Front - Harry Turtledove.
18/75 The Wrong Side of Goodbye - Michael Connelly
19/75 Surviving The Evacuation : The Last Candidate - Book 10 . Frank Tayell
20/75 The Gunslinger : The Dark Tower - Stephen King.
21/75 Out of Bounds - Val McDermid
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22/75 Hurst - Robin Crumby
1/60 The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America by Naomi Murakawa
2/60 The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones
3/60 The Lost Promise of Civil Rights by Risa L. Goluboff
4/60 Helen Macfarlane: Red Republican: Essays, articles and her translation of the Communist Manifesto edited by David Black
5/60 All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement by Carlotta R. Anderson
6/60 Behind the Crisis: Marx's Dialectics of Value and Knowledge by Guglielmo Carchedi
7/60 The Long Drop by Denise Mina
8/60 From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America by Leah N. Gordon
9/60 Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary by Carolyn Ashbaugh
10/60 Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class by Michael A. Lebowitz
11/60 Economics, Politics and the Age of Inflation by Paul Mattick
12/60 Maigret at Picratt's by Georges Simenon
13/60 Spring Sleepers by Kyoko Yoshida
14/60 Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
15/60 Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez
16/60 Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine
17/60 Mikumari by Misumi Kubo
2/60 The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones
3/60 The Lost Promise of Civil Rights by Risa L. Goluboff
4/60 Helen Macfarlane: Red Republican: Essays, articles and her translation of the Communist Manifesto edited by David Black
5/60 All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement by Carlotta R. Anderson
6/60 Behind the Crisis: Marx's Dialectics of Value and Knowledge by Guglielmo Carchedi
7/60 The Long Drop by Denise Mina
8/60 From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America by Leah N. Gordon
9/60 Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary by Carolyn Ashbaugh
10/60 Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class by Michael A. Lebowitz
11/60 Economics, Politics and the Age of Inflation by Paul Mattick
12/60 Maigret at Picratt's by Georges Simenon
13/60 Spring Sleepers by Kyoko Yoshida
14/60 Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
15/60 Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez
16/60 Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine
17/60 Mikumari by Misumi Kubo
braindancer
not for long
1/20 - The Secret History - Donna Tartt
2/20 - The Grifters - Jim Thompson
3/20 - His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
4/20 - The Sellout - Paul Beatty
5/20 - The North Water - Ian McGuire
6/20 - The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
7/20 - Black Water Lillies - Michel Bussi
2/20 - The Grifters - Jim Thompson
3/20 - His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
4/20 - The Sellout - Paul Beatty
5/20 - The North Water - Ian McGuire
6/20 - The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
7/20 - Black Water Lillies - Michel Bussi
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
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
11/45 Rodigan: My Life In Reggae - David Rodigan
12/45 Empire Of The Sun - JG Ballard
13/45 Post Office - Charles Bukowski
14/45 Chronicle Of A Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15/45 The Saga Of Erik The Viking - Terry Jones
16/45 The End Of The Affair - Graham Greene
17/45 The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
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
11/45 Rodigan: My Life In Reggae - David Rodigan
12/45 Empire Of The Sun - JG Ballard
13/45 Post Office - Charles Bukowski
14/45 Chronicle Of A Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15/45 The Saga Of Erik The Viking - Terry Jones
16/45 The End Of The Affair - Graham Greene
17/45 The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
polly
Well-Known Member
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
9/29 Xiaolu Guo, Once upon a time in the East
10/29 Paula Lichtarwicz, The First Book of Calamity Leek
11/29 Rick Bass, For a Little While
One for the Southern Gothic fans. These are short stories. They're just extraordinary and stunning - I've sobbed over these, even bits that weren't sad! Beautiful writing and perfect observations.
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
9/29 Xiaolu Guo, Once upon a time in the East
10/29 Paula Lichtarwicz, The First Book of Calamity Leek
11/29 Rick Bass, For a Little While
One for the Southern Gothic fans. These are short stories. They're just extraordinary and stunning - I've sobbed over these, even bits that weren't sad! Beautiful writing and perfect observations.
gawkrodger
Well-Known Member
1 - Kilcullen - Out of the Mountains
2 - McAlevey - Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) - re-read
3 - Srnicek - Platform Capitalism
4 - Frase - Four Futures
5 - Dickens - Night Walks
6 - Ellis & Henderson - English Planning in Crisis
7- Beaumont - Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London
8 - Dunn - Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
9 - Mieville - The City & The City
10 - Benjamin - One-way Street and other writings
11- Schlosser - Gods of Metal
12 - Machiavelli - The Prince
13 - Mieville - Perdido Street Station
14 - Shaw + Graham (eds.) - Our Digital Rights to the City
15 - William Morris - The Pilgrims of Hope
For the first time in a long time I've started reading some fiction.
2 - McAlevey - Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) - re-read
3 - Srnicek - Platform Capitalism
4 - Frase - Four Futures
5 - Dickens - Night Walks
6 - Ellis & Henderson - English Planning in Crisis
7- Beaumont - Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London
8 - Dunn - Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
9 - Mieville - The City & The City
10 - Benjamin - One-way Street and other writings
11- Schlosser - Gods of Metal
12 - Machiavelli - The Prince
13 - Mieville - Perdido Street Station
14 - Shaw + Graham (eds.) - Our Digital Rights to the City
15 - William Morris - The Pilgrims of Hope
For the first time in a long time I've started reading some fiction.
27. Unpacking My Library - Walter Benjamin
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
Thanks Yuwipi Woman , I fancied something a bit silly and mindless and this is doing the job perfectly. And Happy Birthday^This. I have to have a little mind candy now and then to balance things out a little.
If you want some seriously mindless, but entertaining shite, try this:
Think: Tank Girl runs a brothel in outer space.
Me76
Not very good lurker
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
10/50 Gone Bad, JB Turner
11/50 The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
12/50 The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald
13/50 While My Eyes Were Closed, Linda Green
14/50 Total Victim Theory, Ian Ballard
15/50 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins
16/50 Dodgers, Bill Beverly
17/50 Tess of the D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
18/50 Secrets of Happiness, Lucy Diamond - nice silly and predictable fluff.
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
10/50 Gone Bad, JB Turner
11/50 The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
12/50 The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald
13/50 While My Eyes Were Closed, Linda Green
14/50 Total Victim Theory, Ian Ballard
15/50 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins
16/50 Dodgers, Bill Beverly
17/50 Tess of the D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
18/50 Secrets of Happiness, Lucy Diamond - nice silly and predictable fluff.
1/60 The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America by Naomi Murakawa
2/60 The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones
3/60 The Lost Promise of Civil Rights by Risa L. Goluboff
4/60 Helen Macfarlane: Red Republican: Essays, articles and her translation of the Communist Manifesto edited by David Black
5/60 All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement by Carlotta R. Anderson
6/60 Behind the Crisis: Marx's Dialectics of Value and Knowledge by Guglielmo Carchedi
7/60 The Long Drop by Denise Mina
8/60 From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America by Leah N. Gordon
9/60 Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary by Carolyn Ashbaugh
10/60 Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class by Michael A. Lebowitz
11/60 Economics, Politics and the Age of Inflation by Paul Mattick
12/60 Maigret at Picratt's by Georges Simenon
13/60 Spring Sleepers by Kyoko Yoshida
14/60 Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
15/60 Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez
16/60 Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine
17/60 Mikumari by Misumi Kubo
18/60 The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order by Adam Tooze
19/60 The Transparent Labyrinth by Keiichrō Hirano
2/60 The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones
3/60 The Lost Promise of Civil Rights by Risa L. Goluboff
4/60 Helen Macfarlane: Red Republican: Essays, articles and her translation of the Communist Manifesto edited by David Black
5/60 All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement by Carlotta R. Anderson
6/60 Behind the Crisis: Marx's Dialectics of Value and Knowledge by Guglielmo Carchedi
7/60 The Long Drop by Denise Mina
8/60 From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America by Leah N. Gordon
9/60 Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary by Carolyn Ashbaugh
10/60 Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class by Michael A. Lebowitz
11/60 Economics, Politics and the Age of Inflation by Paul Mattick
12/60 Maigret at Picratt's by Georges Simenon
13/60 Spring Sleepers by Kyoko Yoshida
14/60 Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
15/60 Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez
16/60 Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine
17/60 Mikumari by Misumi Kubo
18/60 The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order by Adam Tooze
19/60 The Transparent Labyrinth by Keiichrō Hirano
Threshers_Flail
Well-Known Member
1/50 Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory
2/50 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
3/50 Steve Reicher - Mad Mobs and Englishmen?: Myths and realities of the 2011 riots
4/50 Stuart Jeffries - Grand Hotel Abyss
5/50 Sean Birchall - Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-fascist Action
6/50 Alasdair Gray - Lanark
7/50 Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
8/50 Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
9/50 Justin McGruick - Radical Cities
10/50 Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
11/50 Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
12/50 Martin Ford - Rise of the Robots
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
16/50 John Berger - Ways of Seeing
17/50 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
18/50 Susan Sontag - On Photography
19/50 James Baldwin - Another Country
20/50 Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
21/50 Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
22/50 Gunter Grass- The Tin Drum
23/50 Cormac McCarthy - Child of God
24/50 Nathan Hill - The Nix
25/50 Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
26/50 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
27/50 Elena Ferrante - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
28/50 John Dinges - The Condor Years
2/50 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
3/50 Steve Reicher - Mad Mobs and Englishmen?: Myths and realities of the 2011 riots
4/50 Stuart Jeffries - Grand Hotel Abyss
5/50 Sean Birchall - Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-fascist Action
6/50 Alasdair Gray - Lanark
7/50 Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
8/50 Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
9/50 Justin McGruick - Radical Cities
10/50 Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
11/50 Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
12/50 Martin Ford - Rise of the Robots
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
16/50 John Berger - Ways of Seeing
17/50 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
18/50 Susan Sontag - On Photography
19/50 James Baldwin - Another Country
20/50 Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
21/50 Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
22/50 Gunter Grass- The Tin Drum
23/50 Cormac McCarthy - Child of God
24/50 Nathan Hill - The Nix
25/50 Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
26/50 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
27/50 Elena Ferrante - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
28/50 John Dinges - The Condor Years
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
25/50 georges simenon, maigret's revolver (london: penguin, 2017)
28. The Call of Cthulhu - H.P Lovecraft
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
26/50 john a nagl, knife fights: a memoir of modern war in theory and practice (new york: penguin, 2015)
29. The Phoenix On The Sword - Robert E. Howard
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
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)
10/26 - Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
11/26 - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
12/26 - Dead Funny Encore: More Horror Stories by Comedians - Edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
13/26 - The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (reread)
14/26 - IT by Stephen King
15/26 - What Planet Am I On? by Shaun Ryder
16/26 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
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)
10/26 - Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
11/26 - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
12/26 - Dead Funny Encore: More Horror Stories by Comedians - Edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
13/26 - The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (reread)
14/26 - IT by Stephen King
15/26 - What Planet Am I On? by Shaun Ryder
16/26 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
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)
10. Platform Capitalism - Nick Srnicek
11. The Meaning of Race - kenan malik
12. The name of the wind- Patrick Rothfuss
13. Folding Beijing - Hao Jingfang
14. Stories of your life and others- Ted Chiang
15. House of God - Samuel Shem
16. The Sellout - Paul Beatty
17. Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher
18. The Clockwork rocket- greg egan
19. Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class - Immanuel Ness
20. The power- naomi alderman
21. Stalin: court of the red tsar - Simon sebag-montefiori
22. The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
23. Violent Borders - refugees and the right to move - Reece Jones
24. Cultural Studies: A Theoretical History - Stuart Hall
25. Dodgers by Bill Beverly
26. A gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
27/45. The stranger - Albert Camus
28/45. Lustrum - Robert Harris
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)
10. Platform Capitalism - Nick Srnicek
11. The Meaning of Race - kenan malik
12. The name of the wind- Patrick Rothfuss
13. Folding Beijing - Hao Jingfang
14. Stories of your life and others- Ted Chiang
15. House of God - Samuel Shem
16. The Sellout - Paul Beatty
17. Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher
18. The Clockwork rocket- greg egan
19. Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class - Immanuel Ness
20. The power- naomi alderman
21. Stalin: court of the red tsar - Simon sebag-montefiori
22. The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
23. Violent Borders - refugees and the right to move - Reece Jones
24. Cultural Studies: A Theoretical History - Stuart Hall
25. Dodgers by Bill Beverly
26. A gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
27/45. The stranger - Albert Camus
28/45. Lustrum - Robert Harris
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
1/25 Kevin Barry - Dark Lies the Island
2/25 Elvis Costello - Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink*
3/25 George Saunders - The Brain-Dead Megaphone
4/25 George Saunders - Tenth of December
5/25 Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge*
6/25 Kathleen Walker-Meikle - Medieval Dogs
7/25 Jon McGregor - This Isn't the Sort of Thing that Happens to Someone Like You
8/25 Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
9/25 Alison Moore - Death and the Seaside
10/25 Alison Moore - The Lighthouse
11/25 Ben & David Crystal - You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents
12/25 Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son*
13/25 Oliver Sachs - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Slow progress this year. But the *s indicate 600+-page books, and this year's target was more about getting through a few of them that I have lying around than it was about the overall number of books read.
2/25 Elvis Costello - Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink*
3/25 George Saunders - The Brain-Dead Megaphone
4/25 George Saunders - Tenth of December
5/25 Charles Dickens - Barnaby Rudge*
6/25 Kathleen Walker-Meikle - Medieval Dogs
7/25 Jon McGregor - This Isn't the Sort of Thing that Happens to Someone Like You
8/25 Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
9/25 Alison Moore - Death and the Seaside
10/25 Alison Moore - The Lighthouse
11/25 Ben & David Crystal - You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents
12/25 Charles Dickens - Dombey and Son*
13/25 Oliver Sachs - The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Slow progress this year. But the *s indicate 600+-page books, and this year's target was more about getting through a few of them that I have lying around than it was about the overall number of books read.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Thanks Yuwipi Woman , I fancied something a bit silly and mindless and this is doing the job perfectly. And Happy Birthday
Glad to be of help. And, thank you for the b-day wishes.
5/10 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Beautiful scifi world building. Didn't want it to end.
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
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
14/65 - Bill Beverly - Dodgers
15/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Face of Trespass
16/65 - John Irving - The World According to Garp (5/10)
17/65 - Val McDermid - Out of Bounds
18/65 - Stuart Maconie - Hope and Glory: A People's History of Modern Britain
19/65 - Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
20/65 - Kate Atkinson - Emotionally Weird
21/65 - Roald Dahl - Madness
22/65 - Tana French - The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad 2) (6/10)
23/65 - Daniel Woodrell - The Maid's Version
24/65 - Laline Paull - The Bees
25/65 - Jonathan Franzen - Freedom (7/10)
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
14/65 - Bill Beverly - Dodgers
15/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Face of Trespass
16/65 - John Irving - The World According to Garp (5/10)
17/65 - Val McDermid - Out of Bounds
18/65 - Stuart Maconie - Hope and Glory: A People's History of Modern Britain
19/65 - Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
20/65 - Kate Atkinson - Emotionally Weird
21/65 - Roald Dahl - Madness
22/65 - Tana French - The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad 2) (6/10)
23/65 - Daniel Woodrell - The Maid's Version
24/65 - Laline Paull - The Bees
25/65 - Jonathan Franzen - Freedom (7/10)
gawkrodger
Well-Known Member
1 - Kilcullen - Out of the Mountains
2 - McAlevey - Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) - re-read
3 - Srnicek - Platform Capitalism
4 - Frase - Four Futures
5 - Dickens - Night Walks
6 - Ellis & Henderson - English Planning in Crisis
7- Beaumont - Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London
8 - Dunn - Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
9 - Mieville - The City & The City
10 - Benjamin - One-way Street and other writings
11- Schlosser - Gods of Metal
12 - Machiavelli - The Prince
13 - Mieville - Perdido Street Station
14 - Shaw + Graham (eds.) - Our Digital Rights to the City
15 - William Morris - The Pilgrims of Hope
16 - Mieville - The Scar
2 - McAlevey - Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) - re-read
3 - Srnicek - Platform Capitalism
4 - Frase - Four Futures
5 - Dickens - Night Walks
6 - Ellis & Henderson - English Planning in Crisis
7- Beaumont - Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London
8 - Dunn - Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
9 - Mieville - The City & The City
10 - Benjamin - One-way Street and other writings
11- Schlosser - Gods of Metal
12 - Machiavelli - The Prince
13 - Mieville - Perdido Street Station
14 - Shaw + Graham (eds.) - Our Digital Rights to the City
15 - William Morris - The Pilgrims of Hope
16 - Mieville - The Scar
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
1. "Six Suspects" - Vikas Swarup
2. "Rather Be The Devil" - Ian Rankin
3. "Those We Left Behind" - Stuart Neville
4. "Transition" - Iain Banks
6. "Streets of Darkness" - A.A. Dhand
7. "The Rapture" - Liz Jensen
8. "Collusion" - Stuart Neville. Very, very good but didn't enjoy it as much as 'The Twelve"
2. "Rather Be The Devil" - Ian Rankin
3. "Those We Left Behind" - Stuart Neville
4. "Transition" - Iain Banks
6. "Streets of Darkness" - A.A. Dhand
7. "The Rapture" - Liz Jensen
8. "Collusion" - Stuart Neville. Very, very good but didn't enjoy it as much as 'The Twelve"
Threshers_Flail
Well-Known Member
1/50 Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory
2/50 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
3/50 Steve Reicher - Mad Mobs and Englishmen?: Myths and realities of the 2011 riots
4/50 Stuart Jeffries - Grand Hotel Abyss
5/50 Sean Birchall - Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-fascist Action
6/50 Alasdair Gray - Lanark
7/50 Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
8/50 Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
9/50 Justin McGruick - Radical Cities
10/50 Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
11/50 Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
12/50 Martin Ford - Rise of the Robots
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
16/50 John Berger - Ways of Seeing
17/50 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
18/50 Susan Sontag - On Photography
19/50 James Baldwin - Another Country
20/50 Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
21/50 Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
22/50 Gunter Grass- The Tin Drum
23/50 Cormac McCarthy - Child of God
24/50 Nathan Hill - The Nix
25/50 Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
26/50 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
27/50 Elena Ferrante - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
28/50 John Dinges - The Condor Years
29/50 Albert Camus - The Fall
2/50 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
3/50 Steve Reicher - Mad Mobs and Englishmen?: Myths and realities of the 2011 riots
4/50 Stuart Jeffries - Grand Hotel Abyss
5/50 Sean Birchall - Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-fascist Action
6/50 Alasdair Gray - Lanark
7/50 Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
8/50 Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
9/50 Justin McGruick - Radical Cities
10/50 Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
11/50 Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
12/50 Martin Ford - Rise of the Robots
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
16/50 John Berger - Ways of Seeing
17/50 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
18/50 Susan Sontag - On Photography
19/50 James Baldwin - Another Country
20/50 Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
21/50 Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
22/50 Gunter Grass- The Tin Drum
23/50 Cormac McCarthy - Child of God
24/50 Nathan Hill - The Nix
25/50 Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
26/50 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
27/50 Elena Ferrante - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
28/50 John Dinges - The Condor Years
29/50 Albert Camus - The Fall
29. Lecture on Nietzsche (McGill University 1971) - Foucault
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