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

How many books do you anticipate reading in 2017?

  • Total voters
    79
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

28/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Killing Doll
 
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)

14/25 Stephen P Kershaw - A Brief History of the Roman Empire: Rise and Fall
 
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
22/60 Marxism: Last Refuge of the Bourgeoisie? by Paul Mattick
23/60 The Bees by Laline Paull
 
1/25: Noam Chomsky - On Anarchism
2/25: Geoffrey Beattie - The Corner Boys
3/25: David Harvey - Rebel Cities
4/25: Lisa McKenzie - Getting by
5/25: David Harvey - A brief history of neoliberalism
6/25 Johnny Marr - Set the boy free
7/25 David Keenan - This is memorial device
8/25 Michael Grenfell - Pierre Bourideu: Key Concepts
9/25 Winlow/Hall/Treadwell - The rise of the right
10/25 Anthony Cartwright - Iron Towns
11/25 Jones/Lukes/Wodke - Triptych: Three Studies of Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible
12/25 David Harvey - The Condition of Postmodernity
13/25 Maajid Nawaz - Radical
14/25 Mike Savage - Social Class in the 21st Century
 
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

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24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
 
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

21/35 Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan
22/35 Andre Breton - What is Surrealism? : Selected Writings
 
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
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves

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25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
 
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
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
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26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes
 
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
28/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Killing Doll

29/65 - Denise Mina - Sanctum
 
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

10."A Dark So Deadly" - Stuart MacBride. Enjoyably but ultimately a little unsatisfying
11. "Conclave" - Robert Harris. Very good and quite immersive
 
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
18/26 - Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys by Viv Albertine
 
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
21/35 Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan
22/35 Andre Breton - What is Surrealism? : Selected Writings

23/35 Bret Easton Ellis - Imperial Bedrooms
24/35 Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People
 
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
30/50 Elena Ferrante - The Story of the Lost Child
31/50 Roberto Bolaño - By Night In Chile

 
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
9/60 George RR Martin - A Feast For Crows
10/60 Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
11/60 Adam Roberts - The Thing Itself
12/60 Roger Crowley - Empires Of The Sea The Final Battle For The Mediterranean, 1521-1580
13/60 Philip Hoare - Leviathan, or The Whale
14/60 Johan Hari - Chasing The Scream (don't bother reading this, it's shite)
15/60 George RR Martin - A Dance With Dragons: Dreams & Dust
16/60 George RR - A Dance With Dragons: After The Feast
17/60 Gilbert Shelton - The Freak Brothers Omnibus: Every Freak Brothers Story Rolled Into One Bumper Package
18/60 Jeff Vandermeer - Acceptance
19/60 Dan Rhodes - Little Hands Clapping
 
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
8/48 Halldor Laxness - The Atom Station
9/48 M. John Harrison - The Centurai Device
10/48 Margaret Atwood - Life Before Man
11/48 Steven Pinker - The Sense of Style
12/48 Octavia E Butler - Dawn
13/48 Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
14/48 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

15/48 Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
16/48 Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear
17/48 Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus
18/48 Andy Weir - The Martian
 
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
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes

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27/75 Critical Strike - Wearmouth & Barnes
 
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
21/35 Kurt Vonnegut - Sirens of Titan
22/35 Andre Breton - What is Surrealism? : Selected Writings
23/35 Bret Easton Ellis - Imperial Bedrooms
24/35 Noam Chomsky - Profit Over People

25/35 Martin Luther King - The Words Of...
26/35 Dan Georgakas & Marvin Surkin - Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
 
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

15/49 - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time. Excellent evolutionary sci fi.
 
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
22/60 Marxism: Last Refuge of the Bourgeoisie? by Paul Mattick
23/60 The Bees by Laline Paull
24/60 When Mystical Creatures Attack! by Kathleen Founds
25/60 The Girl Who is Getting Married by Aoko Matsuda
26/60 Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
 
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
30/45. All the Birds in the Sky- Charlie Jane Anders
31/45. Our kind of traitor - John le carre
 
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
10/29 a conjouring of light- VE Schwab
11/29 strangers in their own land- Arlie Russell Hochschild.
12/29 A death in Sarajevo- Ausma Zehanat Khan
13/29 still midnight (Alex Morrow)- Denise Mina
14/29 Sometimes I lie- Alice Feeney
15/29 the wheel of osheim- Mark Lawrence.
16/29 saint's blood- Sebastian de Castel
17/29 the shadow of what was lost- James Islington
18/29 tyrant's throne- Sebastian de Castel
19/20/21/29 the invisible library, the masked city, the burning page - Genevieve Cogman
22/29 a teaspoon of earth and sky- Dina Nayeri
23/29 The Waking Fire- Anthony Ryan
 
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
28/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Killing Doll
29/65 - Denise Mina - Sanctum

30/65 - John Williams - Butcher's Crossing.
 
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
15/49 - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time

16/49 - Stephen King - Bag of Bones. This is a classic SK half and half - so many familiar tropes (the mystic child, the mystic black folks, the queasy romance between midlife narrator and too-perfect much younger woman) and frankly the whole thing could use a good prune...but I still found it absorbing enough to ignore my children and chores for.
 
May Kasahara said:
16/49 - Stephen King - Bag of Bones. This is a classic SK half and half - so many familiar tropes (the mystic child, the mystic black folks, the queasy romance between midlife narrator and too-perfect much younger woman) and frankly the whole thing could use a good prune...but I still found it absorbing enough to ignore my children and chores for.
Click to expand...

:D

It is a thing that crops up a lot in SK books.
It makes me a little queasy too.
 
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