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

[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
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

27/35 Elizabeth David - French Country Cooking
28/35 Peter Godfrey-Smith - Other Minds - A pretty interesting exploration of octopus and cuttlefish intelligence
29/35 Graham Greene - It's a Battlefield

 

[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
18/26 - Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys by Viv Albertine
19/26 - Watership Down by Richard Adams
20/26 - The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole by Sue Townsend (reread)
21/26 - The Martian by Andy Weir
22/40 - Don't You Leave Me Here by Wilko Johnson
23/40 - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend (reread)
24/40 - The Darling Buds of May by H.E. Bates
25/40 - The Son by Philipp Meyer

 

[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
32/65 - Peter James - Need You Dead
33/65 - Stephen King - Carrie
34/65 - Andy Hamilton - The Star Witness
35/65 - Jessie Burton - The Muse
36/65 - Stephen King - Christine (8/10)
37/65 - Belinda Bauer - The Beautiful Dead

38/75 - John Irving - The Cider House Rules (9/10)

 

[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
18/26 - Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys by Viv Albertine
19/26 - Watership Down by Richard Adams
20/26 - The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole by Sue Townsend (reread)
21/26 - The Martian by Andy Weir
22/40 - Don't You Leave Me Here by Wilko Johnson
23/40 - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend (reread)
24/40 - The Darling Buds of May by H.E. Bates
25/40 - The Son by Philipp Meyer
26/40 - Adrian Mole the Cappuccino Years by Sue Townsend (reread)

 

[Fozzie Bear]

1/25 Malcolm X and Alex Haley - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
2/25 Alex de Jonge - Nightmare Culture: Lautremont & "Les Chants de Maldoror"
3/25 Viv Albertine - Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys
4/25 Endnotes 1: Preliminary Materials For A Balance Sheet Of The Twentieth Century
5/25 Susana Medina - The Bowie Neuro-Transmitter
6/25 Michael Muhammad Knight - The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip Hop and the Gods of New York
7/25 Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
8/25 Endnotes 2: Misery And The Value Form
9/25 Kim Gordon: Girl In A Band
10/25 Tom Vague - King Mob Echo: From The Gordon Riots to Situationists and Sex Pistols
11/25 Paul Harrison - Inside The Inner City: Life Under The Cutting Edge
12/25 Cosey Fanni Tutti - Art Sex Music
13/25 Karl Marx - Capital volume 3
14/25 Chris Kraus - I Love Dick
15/25 Jeffrey Boakye - Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials & the Meaning of Grime
16/25 Rosa Schling - The Lime Green Mystery: An Oral History of the Centerprise Co-Operative
17/25 David Keenan - This Is Memorial Device
18/25 Endnotes 3: Gender, Race, Class And Other Misfortunes

19/25 Emmanuelle Waeckerle & Stefan Szczelkun - Rise With Your Class Not From It: The Working Press Archive Is A Thorn

 

[Orang Utan]

1/60 Richard Price - The Whites
2/60 Ali Smith - Public Library & Other Stories
3/60 Hannah Eaton - Naming Monsters
4/60 Jeff Vandermeer - Authority
5/60 Simon Garfield - To The Letter - A Celebration Of The Lost Art Of Letter Writing
6/60 Claire North - The Sudden Appearance Of Hope
7/60 Dan Lepard - Short & Sweet
8/60 Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
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
20/60 Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens.
21/60 Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project
22/60 Grace Jones - I'll Never Write My Memoirs

 

[Beats & Pieces]

40. On Violence - Hannah Arendt

This is a text offering a classic 'straw man' argument - with a simplistic and arbitary analysis of no value. Her views regarding the Black Panther Movement are highly questionable - if not racist in the extreme.

 

[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
10/20 - Girl in a Band - Kim Gordon
11/20 - We are all completely beside ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
12/20 - The Son - Phillip Meyer
13/20 - The Power - Naomi Alderman

 

[nogojones]

22/60 Grace Jones - I'll Never Write My Memoirs

Any good? I imagine she's led a quiet and somewhat sheltered life

 

[Orang Utan]

Any good? I imagine she's led a quiet and somewhat sheltered life

It's very good. Lots of great stories, but many to be taken with a pinch of salt. She's surprisingly diplomatic. Most of the bad behaviour is her own and no one really gets a slagging. It's told' to Paul Morley, so it's written very well.
She has led an interesting life!

 

[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
17/25 Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See
18/25 George Orwell - Politics and the English Language

19/25 Martin Cutts - Plain English
20/25 Ernest Gowers - Plain Words
21/25 Jonathan Kuttner - You, Pain Free

I'm tackling a seriously long one next as per #31. May not be back here for a while.

 

[Rimbaud]

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.

Why do you think Inventing the Future is not worth reading? It's only 200 pages and I thought it was great, the critique of "folk politics" was spot on imo.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

41. A Dead Man In Deptford - Anthony Burgess

 

[Manter]

]1/29 Volker Kutscher Babylon Berlin
2/29 Philip Kerr The other side of silence
3/29 Bill Beverley Dodgers
4,5,6/29 Robert Wilson Charlie Boxer series. (Capital punishment, you will never find me, stealing people)
7/29 Jay Kristoff Stormdancer - lotus trilogy
8/29 Amid the ruins- Ausma Zehanat Khan
9/29 the language of secrets- Ausma Zehanat Khan
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
24/29 Assassin's Fate- Robbin Hobb
25/29 Our dark duet- V E Schwab
26/29 Defectors- Joseph Kanon
27/29 The Legion of Flame- Anthony Ryan
28/29 The Power- Naomi Alderman

Aside from the Alderman, no great literature there, but really enjoyed them all

 

[Manter]

1/29 Volker Kutscher Babylon Berlin
2/29 Philip Kerr The other side of silence
3/29 Bill Beverley Dodgers
4,5,6/29 Robert Wilson Charlie Boxer series. (Capital punishment, you will never find me, stealing people)
7/29 Jay Kristoff Stormdancer - lotus trilogy
8/29 Amid the ruins- Ausma Zehanat Khan
9/29 the language of secrets- Ausma Zehanat Khan
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
24/29 Assassin's Fate- Robbin Hobb
25/29 Our dark duet- V E Schwab
26/29 Defectors- Joseph Kanon
27/29 The Legion of Flame- Anthony Ryan
28/29 The Power- Naomi Alderman
29/29 chasing embers- James Bennett utter crap

 

[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
32/75 Reelin' in The Years : The Soundtrack of a Northern Life. - Mark Radcliffe
33/75 The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
34/75 Roads :A Millennial Journey Along America''s Great Interstate Highways - Larry McMurtry
35/75 Rebellion: After It Happened Book 6 - Devon C Ford
36/75 Sentinel - Robin Crumby
37/75 The Fire Sermon - Raphael Dogg
38/75 Earth Alone - Daniel Arenson
39/75 Earth Lost - Daniel Arenson
40/75 Earth Rising - Daniel Arenson
41/75 I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
42/75 To Kill The President - Sam Bourne

*******
43/75 The Contours of American History - William Appleman Williams

 

[belboid]

Why do you think Inventing the Future is not worth reading? It's only 200 pages and I thought it was great, the critique of "folk politics" was spot on imo.

that part was largely fine, it had elements of being a phd thesis turned into a sellable book, but for the most part it was a promising start. But it mostly faded after that, the sections on The Future were largely inferior to the versions as described in the Paul Mason book our book group had read previously, and their suggestions for what next were just weak as fuck. The part on the history of neoliberalism was good as well. So maybe stop a quarter of the way through.

 

[Pickman's model]

35/50 michael connelly, nine dragons (london: orion, 2010)

36/50 joe hill, the fireman (london: gollancz, 2016)

 

[Ptolemy]

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.
15/30. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen.
16/30. Cambodia: 1975 - 1982 - Michael Vickery.
17/30. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung - Mao Zedong.
18/30. Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler.
19/30. The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler.

 

[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
32/65 - Peter James - Need You Dead
33/65 - Stephen King - Carrie
34/65 - Andy Hamilton - The Star Witness
35/65 - Jessie Burton - The Muse
36/65 - Stephen King - Christine (8/10)
37/65 - Belinda Bauer - The Beautiful Dead
38/65 - John Irving - The Cider House Rules (9/10)

39/65 - Ruth Rendell - A New Lease of Death

 

[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
32/75 Reelin' in The Years : The Soundtrack of a Northern Life. - Mark Radcliffe
33/75 The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
34/75 Roads :A Millennial Journey Along America''s Great Interstate Highways - Larry McMurtry
35/75 Rebellion: After It Happened Book 6 - Devon C Ford
36/75 Sentinel - Robin Crumby
37/75 The Fire Sermon - Raphael Dogg
38/75 Earth Alone - Daniel Arenson
39/75 Earth Lost - Daniel Arenson
40/75 Earth Rising - Daniel Arenson
41/75 I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
42/75 To Kill The President - Sam Bourne
43/75 The Contours of American History - William Appleman Williams
*****

44/75 The Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Seymour Hersh.

 

[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
26/50 Fanatic, Jams N Roses
27/50 Brilliant & Forever, Kevin McNeil
28/50 The Girl in the Maze, RK Jackson
29/50 The Martian, Andy Weir

30/50 High Rise, JG Ballard - Was disappointed by this. Far too long and for once I thought the film was better than the book.

31/50 Affliction, Laurell K Hamilton

 

[Smokeandsteam]

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
15/25 Mark Fisher - Ghosts of my life
16/25 Simon Charlesworth - A phenomenology of working class experience
17/25 EP Thomson - The Making of the English Working Class
18/25 Richard Hoggart - The uses of Literacy
19/25 Paul Willis- Learning to Labour

 

[Orang Utan]

1/60 Richard Price - The Whites
2/60 Ali Smith - Public Library & Other Stories
3/60 Hannah Eaton - Naming Monsters
4/60 Jeff Vandermeer - Authority
5/60 Simon Garfield - To The Letter - A Celebration Of The Lost Art Of Letter Writing
6/60 Claire North - The Sudden Appearance Of Hope
7/60 Dan Lepard - Short & Sweet
8/60 Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
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
20/60 Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens.
21/60 Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project
22/60 Grace Jones - I'll Never Write My Memoirs
23/60 Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney

The Loney was excellent - really creepy, evocative sense of place (the miserable damp Lancashire coast), an acutely observed examination of faith and how it means different things to different people.

 

[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. The stranger - Albert Camus
28. Lustrum - Robert Harris
29. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind- Yuval Noah Harari
30. All the Birds in the Sky- Charlie Jane Anders
31. Our kind of traitor - John le carre
32. Cyber-marx: cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism - Nick dyer-witherford
33. I contain multitudes- Ed Yong
34. The Plot Against America- Phillip Roth
35. We Want Everything - Nanni Balestrini
36. October- China Mieville
37. A tale of two cities - Charles Dickens
38. The wizard of earthsea - ursula leguin
39. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
40. Stoner- John Williams

 

[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
32/75 Reelin' in The Years : The Soundtrack of a Northern Life. - Mark Radcliffe
33/75 The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
34/75 Roads :A Millennial Journey Along America''s Great Interstate Highways - Larry McMurtry
35/75 Rebellion: After It Happened Book 6 - Devon C Ford
36/75 Sentinel - Robin Crumby
37/75 The Fire Sermon - Raphael Dogg
38/75 Earth Alone - Daniel Arenson
39/75 Earth Lost - Daniel Arenson
40/75 Earth Rising - Daniel Arenson
41/75 I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
42/75 To Kill The President - Sam Bourne
43/75 The Contours of American History - William Appleman Williams
44/75 The Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Seymour Hersh.
*****
45/75 Nomad - James Swallow.

 

[colbhoy]

1/19 - D-Day:The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
2/19 - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
3/19 - Stan Musial: An American Life by George Vecsey
4/19 - Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P G Wodehouse
5/19 - The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
6/19 - The Fort by Bernard Cornwell

 

[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
13. "The House of Dolls" - David Hewson
14. "A Game of Ghosts" - John Connolly

15 "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" - Joel Dicker. Brilliant

 

[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. The stranger - Albert Camus
28. Lustrum - Robert Harris
29. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind- Yuval Noah Harari
30. All the Birds in the Sky- Charlie Jane Anders
31. Our kind of traitor - John le carre
32. Cyber-marx: cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism - Nick dyer-witherford
33. I contain multitudes- Ed Yong
34. The Plot Against America- Phillip Roth
35. We Want Everything - Nanni Balestrini
36. October- China Mieville
37. A tale of two cities - Charles Dickens
38. The wizard of earthsea - ursula leguin
39. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
40. Stoner- John Williams

41. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

 

[Orang Utan]

41. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

any good? heard a lot about it