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

[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
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)

26/65 - Nicola Morgan - Blame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed

 

[Pickman's model]

26/50 john a nagl, knife fights: a memoir of modern war in theory and practice (new york: penguin, 2015)

27/50 georges simenon, maigret is afraid (london: penguin, 2017)

 

[Pickman's model]

27/50 georges simenon, maigret is afraid (london: penguin, 2017)

28/50 georges simenon, maigret, lognon and the gangsters (london: penguin, 2017)

 

[districtline]

Andrew Walker & Gautam Sen – Analyzing the Global Political Economy (1/30)
Björn Hettne - Thinking About Development (2/30)
Ellen Meiksins Wood - The Origin of Capitalism (3/30)
Peter Ackroyd - London: The Biography (4/30)
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)

Gian Luca Gardini – Latin America in the 21st Century: Nations, Regionalism, Globalization (7/30)
Richard Ford – The Sportswriter (8/30)
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. – Is the American Century Over? (9/30)

 

[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

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


12/29 Zora Neale Hurston, Of Mules and Men

13/29 Julie Ann Barnhill, She's Gonna Blow


The Hurston was really exciting. It details a trip to the South to discover and transcribe black folklore. She has a really quiet, dry humour in her narration, even through her re-telling of the stories. I hadn't read her before but will try her fiction next.


The other one is a parenting book for angry mothers (yes, specifically) I bought it when feeling vulnerable.

 

[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
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
18/45 Demon Dentist - David Walliams

 

[Pickman's model]

28/50 georges simenon, maigret, lognon and the gangsters (london: penguin, 2017)

29/50 anthony mcintyre, good friday: the death of irish republicanism (new york: ausubo, 2008)

 

[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
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
19/50 St Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves, Karen Russell
20/50 Love Nina, Nina Stubbs

 

[QueenOfGoths]

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

9. "Magpie Murders" - Anthony Horowitz. Very enjoyable read

 

[Sea Star]

7. Salems Lot ~ Stephen King
not as good as I remembered. It's quite repetitive, slow, and extremely wordy. Started the first Game of Thrones book yesterday and quite excited about it.

8. A Game of Thrones ~ George Argh Argh Martin
9. The Secret history of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost

Now: several chapters into 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

 

[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
7/25 Alan Garner - The Owl Service
8/25 William Goldman - The Princess Bride
9/25 George Orwell - Burmese Days
10/25 John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
11/25 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
12/25 Brian Jacques - Redwall

13/25 Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (reread)

 

[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
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
18/45 Demon Dentist - David Walliams
19/45 Koko Takes A Holiday - Kieran Shea

 

[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
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
22/75 Hurst - Robin Crumby

*******
23/75 The Great War : Walk In Hell - Harry Turtledove

 

[braindancer]

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
8/20 - The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry

 

[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
10/35 Studs Terkel - American Dreams Lost & Found
11/35 Mikhail Bulgakov - Heart Of A Dog
12/35 John Edwards - The Spanish Inquisition
13/35 Kevin Doogan - New Capitalism? The Transformation of Work
14/35 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
15/35 Vilem Flusser - The History of the Devil
16/35 Daniel Woodrell - The Ones You Do
17/38 Herbert Marshall - Mayakovsky and His Poetry
18/35 Iain M. Banks - The Hydrogen Sonata

19/35 Jim Thompson - The Criminal
20/35 Charles E. Cobb - This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed

 

[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
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)
26/65 - Nicola Morgan - Blame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed

27/65 - Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things

 

[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
6/49 - Will Ferguson - 419
7/49 - Bram Stoker - Dracula
8/49 - Paul Cornell - Witches of Lychford
9/49 - John Connolly - Night Music
10/49 - Kristin Cashore - Graceling
11/49 - Deborah Levy - Swimming Home
12/49 - Sue Lloyd-Roberts - The War on Women
13/49 - Belinda Bauer - The Shut Eye

14/49 - Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice. I really enjoyed this, although as a big Cyteen fan that was probably a given.

 

[marshall]

24/109 - Dave Eggers - Heroes of the Frontier, loved it, reminded me of TC Boyle's Drop City, young mum on the run from her past/present takes her two kids to Alaska, rents a campervan, meets the off-the-grid locals.
25/109 - Carl Hiaasen - Razor Girl - lots of laughs, wisecracks, typical H.
26/109 - Bernard Cornwell - Flame Bearer, yay, he's finally home!
27/109 - Leaf Fielding - To Live Outside the Law, story of the main man/chemist, LSD, Operation Julie, really interesting, like Orange Sunshine. But in the UK.
28/109 - Jonathan Rendell - Scream (The Tyson Tapes), oral history of Iron Mike, sure he did wrong, but what a background/early life story.
29/109 - Tsiolkas - The Slap, bit late to this, but wanted to read what all the fuss as about, s'ok.
30/109 - Tom Pitts - Piggyback, noir, two teen girls agree to run some weed across US, little knowing they're also carrying a quantity of coke (piggybacking), hard boiled, nice.
31/109 - Richard Lowe/William Shaw - Travellers, 80s/early 90s, Peace Convoy/New Age Travellers, each chapter devoted to an individual traveller and why they're doing what they do, interesting, but sad to read all the details of the Beanfield again and a way of life running out of road.

 

[belboid]

God, my reading has benn terrible this year, just haven't been able to get my head properly into literature this year. Fortunately a holiday has helped me get down to it a bit:

1/30 - Red Rosa - Kate Evans
2/30 - How Will Capitalism End? Wolfgang Streeck
3/30 - Lying in Wait, Liz Nugent
4/30 - Inventing the Future - Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams
5/30 - I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music, Sylvia Patterson
6/30 - The Girls, Emma Cline
7/30 - The Traitors Niche, Ismail Kadare

All well worth reading, well, except number 4 which is worth reading a long review of.

 

[belboid]

14/60 Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici

I'm just starting that. Did you enjoy it?

 

[inva]

I'm just starting that. Did you enjoy it?

I thought it was brilliant, one of the best books I've read. it's quite short but full of ideas and Federici draws in so much in analysing the witch trials and clashes over the role and treatment of women in society, ranging over things like the transition from feudalism to capitalism, heretical movements, colonisation, globalisation, social reproduction - grounded in a perspective of class struggle. Plus it is pretty accessibly written as far as politics books go too I thought.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

30. Security, Territory, Population (Lectures at the College de France 1977 - 1978) - Michel Foucault

In which the swerve to 'governmentality' truly takes place.

 

[inva]

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
20/60 American Genius, a Comedy by Lynne Tillman
21/60 Parade by Shuichi Yoshida

 

[Biddlybee]

1/10 - Chocky - John Wyndham
2/10 - Expecting - Chitra Ramaswamy
3/10 - The Spinning Heart - Donal Ryan
4/10 - The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
5/10 - Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
6/10 - Confessions of a Domestic Failure - Bunmi Laditan

 

[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)
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
29/45. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind- Yuval Noah Harari



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[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)
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
17/26 - The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

 

[Beats & Pieces]

31. Celsius 7/7 - Michael Gove

A book written, it would seem, with more than one 'The Idiot's Guide to' at hand. This is the only way to possibly understand the simplicity and lack of understanding around many of the issues described. Utter tosh.

 

[Me76]

1/10 - Chocky - John Wyndham
2/10 - Expecting - Chitra Ramaswamy
3/10 - The Spinning Heart - Donal Ryan
4/10 - The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
5/10 - Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
6/10 - Confessions of a Domestic Failure - Bunmi Laditan

Will that last one make me feel better about not cleaning my house?

 

[Biddlybee]

Maybe, it's more about being a normal, not perfect pinterest, mum... goes hand-in-hand with not cleaning much ime.

 

[1927]

Thread title annoys me. It says "back by popular demand the 2017 reading challenge", but i cant find any other thread called "the 2017 reading challenge" that went away only to return by popular demand!