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

[May Kasahara]

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

Particularly in his post-near death experience novels - Mr Mercedes and Revival had the same thing, in fact the woman in Mr Mercedes follows exactly the same character arc, which now I come to think of it is the same as Susan in Salem's Lot. It's disappointing.

 

[Biddlybee]

22/29 a teaspoon of earth and sky- Dina Nayeri

What did you think of this Manter? It's on my list.

 

[Manter]

What did you think of this Manter? It's on my list.

Brilliant. Really well written, you kind of sink into the world she creates for you. One of those books where you can almost smell the dust and see the village. Took me a while to unpick who was who, though, and it has a strong thread of magic realism in it, so what is true and what is not isn't immediately apparent. Gasped a couple of times, cried too. Really good book

 

[Biddlybee]

Might bump it up my list

 

[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
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes
27/75 Critical Strike - Wearmouth & Barnes
*********
28/75 The Birdwatcher - William Shaw

 

[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)
14/25 Stephen P Kershaw - A Brief History of the Roman Empire: Rise and Fall

15/25 China Miéville - Perdido Street Station

 

[Threshers_Flail]

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
32/50 Junot Diaz- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

 

[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
9/20 - The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler

 

[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
28/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Killing Doll
29/65 - Denise Mina - Sanctum
30/65 - John Williams - Butcher's Crossing

31/65 - Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac

 

[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
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes
27/75 Critical Strike - Wearmouth & Barnes
28/75 The Birdwatcher - William Shaw
**********

29/75 Dodgers - Bill Beverly

 

[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
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
27/60 Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell
28/60 Whigs & Hunters by E.P. Thompson
29/60 Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State by Olivier Roy

 

[Beats & Pieces]

34. The Birth of Biopolitics (Lectures 1978 - 1979) - Michel Foucualt

 

[Beats & Pieces]

35. Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[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)
14/25 Stephen P Kershaw - A Brief History of the Roman Empire: Rise and Fall
15/25 China Miéville - Perdido Street Station

16/25 Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology

 

[marshall]

32/109 - James Lee Burke - House of the Rising Sun - it's Burke, so it's typically lyrical, poetic, almost up there with McCormac, tale that spans 1910 Mexican rev, 1st WW, arse-end of the days of the Wild West, loved it
33/109 - Jedidiah Ayres - Peckerwood - hilariously dark Southern noir, gritty innit
34/109 - Robert Harris - Conclave - surprisingly interesting story of cardinals in Rome choosing the next Pope
35/109 - Viereck and Eldridge - My First Two Thousand Years - first published in 1928, the story of the Wandering Jew, takes in philosophy, science, history, still feels fresh, the kind of book you can dip in and out of, bedside reading.

 

[ringo]

32/109 - James Lee Burke - House of the Rising Sun - it's Burke, so it's typically lyrical, poetic, almost up there with McCormac, tale that spans 1910 Mexican rev, 1st WW, arse-end of the days of the Wild West, loved it
33/109 - Jedidiah Ayres - Peckerwood - hilariously dark Southern noir, gritty innit

They sound good, particularly the second one

 

[BoatieBird]

I loved Peckerwood, must see what else he's written.

 

[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
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes
27/75 Critical Strike - Wearmouth & Barnes
28/75 The Birdwatcher - William Shaw
29/75 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
******
30/75 Dark Town - Thomas Mullen

 

[districtline]

Hans Abrahamsson – Understanding World Order and Structural Change: Poverty, Conflict and the Global Arena (12/30)
John Kay – Other People’s Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People? (13/30)
John Kenneth Galbraith – A Short History of Financial Euphoria (14/30)

 

[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

21/50 Innocence, Dean Koontz
22/50 Diamonds in the Sky, MA Harper
23/50 Son of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses

Bit of trash lately. Think I need to sack off Dean Koontz, he's got very samey over the last few years.
The diamonds in the sky one was pure rubbish, although trying not to be.
Serial killer good murder trash. Got it as a free trilogy so more to come.

High Rise is after that, to try and make my list a bit more high brow.

 

[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
10."A Dark So Deadly" - Stuart MacBride
11. "Conclave" - Robert Harris

12. "A Time of Torment" - John Connolly. Excellent as ever

 

[Ptolemy]

Aiming for 20-29 this year. Not listed in much of an order, as I keep forgetting what I've read!

1/30. Owning Up - George Melly.
2/30. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius.
3/30. Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S. Thompson.
4/30. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
5/30. The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan.
6/30. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels.
7/30. Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare - Philip Short.
8/30. Orlando: A Biography - Virginia Woolf.
9/30. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway.
10/30. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway.
11/30. Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages - Frances & Joseph Gies.
12/30. Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics - Richard Seymour.
13/30. Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. - Rudolph Grey.
14/30. The History Man - Malcolm Bradbury.

Have also made headway into a lot of other books, so am well on my way to my target; much better than the past couple of years where I did not read much at all.

 

[gawkrodger]

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
17 - Mieville - Iron Council
18 - Steinbeck - The Pearl
19 - Mieville - Kraken
20 - Graham - Cities under siege: The new military urbanism

 

[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
20/45 The Son - Phillip Meyer

 

[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
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes
27/75 Critical Strike - Wearmouth & Barnes
28/75 The Birdwatcher - William Shaw
29/75 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
30/75 Dark Town - Thomas Mullen
*******
31/75 A Hero In France - Alan Furst

 

[Pickman's model]

30/50 georges simenon, the madman of bergerac (london: penguin, 2003)

31/50 ernest tidyman, shaft (london: bloomsbury, 2000)

 

[Voley]

1/30 Substance: Inside New Order - Peter Hook
2/30 The Illustrated A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking
3/30 A Clash Of Kings - George R.R. Martin
4/30 Reelin' In The Years: The Soundtrack Of A Northern Life - Mark Radcliffe
5/30 Look Back In Hunger: The Autobiography - Jo Brand
6/30 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
7/30 Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels And The Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day - Joel Selvin
8/30 Live At The Brixton Academy: A Riotous Life In The Music Business - Simon Parkes
9/30 Travels With Charley: In Search Of America - John Steinbeck
10/30 A Storm Of Swords Book 1: Steel And Snow - George R.R. Martin
11/30 Girl In A Band - Kim Gordon
12/30 The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Taken me a long time to finish this epic but really really worth it. Love, loss, fate, self-destruction, the nature of beauty, obsession - weighty stuff discussed with great characterisation and a plot that I couldn't predict right to the end. Best book I've read so far this year.

 

[billy_bob]

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

14/25 Eliza Robertson - Wallflowers
15/25 Arthur Conan Doyle - The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases
16/25 Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

 

[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
21/50 Innocence, Dean Koontz
22/50 Diamonds in the Sky, MA Harper
23/50 Son of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses
24/50 Blood of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses.

25/50 When my Ship Comes In, Sue Wilsher. Written by one of my work colleague's wife and not half bad.

 

[Ptolemy]

17/50 Tess of the D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy.

What did you think about this? I had the opportunity to read it years ago and passed it up, always been curious about it though.