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

[billy_bob]

27/25 Mark Helprin - The Pacific and other stories

 

[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
14/20 - Another Country - James Baldwin
15/20 - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
16/20 - The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
17/20 - Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr
18/20 - The Last Picture House - Larry Mcmurtry
19/20 - Concrete Island - J.G. Ballard
20/20 - Ashes of London - Andrew Taylor
21/20 - Bel Canto - Ann Patchett
22/20 - Cats Cradle - Kurt Vonnegurt
23/20 - Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin

 

[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
46/75 Surviving The Evacuation: Search and Rescue . Book 11 - Frank Tayell
47/75 The Strength of the Wolf : The Secret History of America's War on Drugs - Douglas Valentine.
48/75 I Am Missing - Tim Weaver.
49/75 Exile - James Swallow
50/75 The Ministry of Nostalgia - Owen Hatherley
51/75 The Age of Jihad - Patrick Cockburn
52/75 Holy Island - LJ Ross
53/75 Sycamore Gap - LJ Ross
54/75 Heavenfield - LJ Ross
55/75 Angel - LJ Ross
56/75 High Force - LJ Ross
57/75 Cragside - LJ Ross
58/75 Extreme Measures - Vince Flynn
59/75 Transfer of Power - Vince Flynn
60/75 The Third Option - Vince Flynn
61/75 Seperation of Power - Vince Flynn
62/75 Executive Power - Vince Flynn
63/75 The Great War : Breakthroughs - Harry Turtledove
64/75 Memorial Day - Vince Flynn
65/75 Consent To Kill - Vince Flynn

**********
66/75 Act of Treason - Vince Flynn

 

[Beats & Pieces]

But have you noticed how fast he can read these great tomes? I for one am in awe. It'll be Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus tomorrow and something else by Tuesday.

If you get a Kindle you would be amazed at how much material is available (for free) and what a difference it can make in terms of reading. Wittgenstein isn't of interest at the present time - the next book will likely be John Reed's 'Ten Days That Shook the World' - although this thread is for completed books - so I can't post that up just yet.

 

[imposs1904]

If you get a Kindle you would be amazed at how much material is available (for free) and what a difference it can make in terms of reading. Wittgenstein isn't of interest at the present time - the next book will likely be John Reed's 'Ten Days That Shook the World' - although this thread is for completed books - so I can't post that up just yet.

Archive.org is wonderful for discovering lost gems - not just from the 'classics' - from the pre-1920s.

 

[belboid]

If you get a Kindle you would be amazed at how much material is available (for free) and what a difference it can make in terms of reading. Wittgenstein isn't of interest at the present time - the next book will likely be John Reed's 'Ten Days That Shook the World' - although this thread is for completed books - so I can't post that up just yet.

It’s not the cost that people are doubting

 

[Beats & Pieces]

It’s not the cost that people are doubting

Not my problem. Insecurity is a terrible thing - especially when projected by way of ego.

 

[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
21/45 Futuristic Violence And Fancy Suits - David Wong
22/45 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
23/45 The Power Of The Dog - Thomas Savage
24/45 Friction - Joe Stretch
25/45 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept - Elizabeth Smart
26/45 Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson
27/45 Niwaki: Pruning, shaping and training trees the Japanese way - Jake Hobson
28/45 The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
29/45 Still Midnight - Denise Mina
30/45 The Intimate Diary Of A London Call Girl - Belle De Jour
31/45 Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions - Russell Brand
32/45 La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
33/45 Last Argument Of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
34/45 The Pearl - John Steinbeck

 

[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
20/25 Charles Mingus - Beneath The Underdog
21/25 Thaler & Sunstein - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness
22/25 Dave Tomlin - Tales from the Embassy: Communiques from the Guild of Transcultural Studies 1976-1991
23/25 David Robins and Phil Cohen - Knuckle Sandwich: Growing Up in the Working-Class City
24/25 Angela Carter - The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise In Cultural History
25/25 RosaLee Goldberg - Laurie Anderson
26/25 Simon Morris - Creepshots
27/25 Gabi Losoncy - Second Person
28/25 Philip Best - Captagon

29/25 Samantha Davies and Matthew Bower - Talisman Angelical

Unintentionally hilarious occult rubbish by members of Skullflower

 

[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
40/65 - Stephen King - It (10/10)
41/65 - Annie Proulx - Heart Songs
42/65 - Ruth Rendell - Wolf to The Slaughter
43/65 - Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
44/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Best Man To Die
45/65 - Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
46/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Guilty Thing Surprised
47/65 - David Mitchell - number9dream
48/65 - Ruth Rendell - No More Dying Then
49/65 - Denise Mina - The Long Drop
50/65 - Ruth Rendell - Murder Being Done Once
51/65 - Jon McGregor - So Many Ways to Begin
52/65 - Owen King & Stephen King - Sleeping Beauties (11/10)
53/65 - Ruth Rendell - Some Lie and Some Die
54/65 - Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
55/65 - Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
56/65 - Ruth Rendell - Shake Hands For Ever
57/65 - Jack London - The Call of The Wild
58/65 - Emma Donoghue - The Wonder
59/65 - Nic Pizzolatto - Between Here and the Yellow Sea

60/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Sleeping Life

 

[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
20/25 Charles Mingus - Beneath The Underdog
21/25 Thaler & Sunstein - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness
22/25 Dave Tomlin - Tales from the Embassy: Communiques from the Guild of Transcultural Studies 1976-1991
23/25 David Robins and Phil Cohen - Knuckle Sandwich: Growing Up in the Working-Class City
24/25 Angela Carter - The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise In Cultural History
25/25 RosaLee Goldberg - Laurie Anderson
26/25 Simon Morris - Creepshots
27/25 Gabi Losoncy - Second Person
28/25 Philip Best - Captagon
29/25 Samantha Davies and Matthew Bower - Talisman Angelical

30/25 Jason Williamson - Slabs From Paradise

Depressing short stories / sketches of depressing characters by the shouty one from Sleaford Mods.

 

[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)
27/40 - Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
28/40 - The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
29/40 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
30/40 - Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians by Sue Townsend
31/40 - Undisclosed by Steve Alten
32/40 - Head On by Julian Cope
33/40 - Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
34/40 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling (reread)
35/40 - Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks (reread)
36/40 - Holidays in Hell by P. J. O'Rourke
37/40 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (reread)
38/40 - The Time-Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
39/40 - Repossessed by Julian Cope

 

[8115]

1/20 My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
2/20 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
3/20 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
4/20 Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Arundhati Roy
5/20 The Private Patient, PD James
6/20 The Outrun, Amy Liptrot
7/20 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
8/20 The Underground Railway, Colson Whitehead
9/20 The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
10/20 White Teeth, Zadie Smith
11/20 Abandoned Buildings in North Texas, Jen Waldo
12/20 Christodora, Tim Murphy
13/20 Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro
14/20 La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman
15/20 Cousins, Salley Vickers
16/20 Heroes of the Frontier, Dave Eggers
17/20 The Bricks that Built the Houses, Kate Tempest

 

[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
17/26 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (reread)
18/26 Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (reread)
19/26 James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes
20/26 Felicia Day - You're Never Weird On The Internet (almost)
21/26 James S A Corey - Caliban's War
22/26 James S A Corey - Abbadon's Gate
23/26 Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
24/26 Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
25/26 Alastair Reynolds - Blue Remembered Earth

26/26 George Orwell - Coming Up For Air

 

[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
16. "From the Dead" - Mark Billingham
17. "Black Water Lillies" - Michel Bussi
18. "Written in Bones" - James Oswald
19. "The Hanging" - Lotte and Soren Hammer
20. "An Uncertain Place" - Fred Vargas

21. "Black Eyed Susans" - Julia Heaberlin. Very readable and very good

 

[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
17/26 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (reread)
18/26 Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (reread)
19/26 James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes
20/26 Felicia Day - You're Never Weird On The Internet (almost)
21/26 James S A Corey - Caliban's War
22/26 James S A Corey - Abbadon's Gate
23/26 Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
24/26 Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
25/26 Alastair Reynolds - Blue Remembered Earth
26/26 George Orwell - Coming Up For Air

27/26 Philip Pullman - La Belle Sauvage

 

[yield]

1/10 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
2/10 The Unreal and the Real. Volume 1: Where on Earth by Ursula K. LeGuin
3/10 The Cold Commands by Richard K. Morgan
4/10 The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. Short story.
5/10 Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
6/10 Buying Time by Wolfgang Streeck
7/10 The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by Nora K. Jemisin
8/10 Blood Year by David Kilcullen
9/10 Trouble in Paradise by Slavoj Zizek
10/10 Red Rosa by Kate Evans
11/10 The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
12/10 Before They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
13/10 Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie

14/10 Light by M. John Harrison.

Strange scifi novel which felt like a psychological thriller. Reminds me of Philip K Dick, Iain M Banks & Peter Watts. Had no idea what was going on until the end. First of a trilogy. Odd but liked it.

 

[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.
20/30. Three Tang Dynasty Poets - Wang Wei (Youcheng), Li Bai and Du Fu.
21/30. Lenin for Beginners - Richard Appignanesi.
22/30. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell.
23/30. Thérèse Raquin - Émile Zola.
24/30. The Twelve Caesars - Suetonius (re-read).
25/30. The Rum Diary - Hunter S. Thompson.

 

[gawkrodger]

I've been really bad with my reading (at least of books) over the last 4-6 weeks

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
21 - Fisher - Capitalist Realism (re-read for a reading group)
22 - Nagle - Kill All Normies
23 - Pettifor - The Production of Money
24 - McKinstry - Spitfire
25 - Liz Berry - Black Country
26 - McKinstry - Lancaster
27 - Adamczak - Communism for Kids
28 - Southwood - Non-Stop Inertia (re-read for this reading group)
29 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Clandestine in Chile
30 - Durand - Fictious Capital: How Finance is appropriating our future
31 - Varoufakis - Adults in the room
32 - Mieville - October
33 - Meiksins Wood - The Origins of Capitalism: A Longer View - excellent. Read a few journal articles by her, but never read any of her books, more fool me
34 - Woodcock - Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres

 

[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
13/30 Hound Dog - Richard Blandford
14/30 American Gods - Neil Gaiman
15/30 Daft Wee Stories - Limmy
16/30 Don't You Leave Me Here - Wilko Johnson
17/30 What Planet Am I On? - Shaun Ryder
18/30 My Old Man: Tales Of Our Fathers - ed. Ted Kessler
19/30 The Outsider - Albert Camus
20/30 Kill Your Friends - John Niven
21/30 The Devil All The Time - Donald Ray Pollock
22/30 Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse - David Mitchell
23/30 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
24/30 Knots And Crosses - Ian Rankin
25/30 Inside Out: A Personal History Of Pink Floyd - Nick Mason
26/30 Hold Your Own - Kate Tempest
27/30 His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
28/30 Let Them Eat Chaos - Kate Tempest

"This poem was written to be read aloud" is the subtitle of this, so I listened to the record for the first time as I read it. It's great. She really gets South London, really nails the alienation of the city, gives gentrification a right kicking, and ends up pleading with everyone to love more. It's a fine poem. I'm not a huge fan of the music tbh, but there's a bit where the synths come in as she's starting Tunnel Vision that gave me goosebumps. You'd miss that just reading it. Glad I've read and enjoyed a bit of poetry this year - I struggle with it a lot of the time.

 

[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
24/60 Bill Beverley - Dodgers
25/60 Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap
26/60 Lynley Dodd - Hairy Maclary, Shoo
27/60 David Ellwand - Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes
28/60 Storytime Tales - I Love You, Mummy
29/60 Victoria Tebbs - See & Say: Baby Jesus Story
30/60 Unknown - Play With Peppa: A Puppet Play Book
31/60 Valerie Thomas/Korky Paul - Winnie's Dinosaur Day
32/60 Unknown - Tell Me About The Farm
33/60 Carol Lawson - The Big Wish
34/60 Carol Benoist/Cathy Gilmore - Easter Bunny's Amazing Day
35/60 Frances Barry - Duckie's Ducklings
36/60 Unknown - Thomas & Friends: Edward and the Party
37/60 Janet & Allen Ahlberg - The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters
38/60 Storytime Tales: Excuse Me!
39/60 Paul Beatty - The Sellout
40/60 Naomi Alderman - The Power
41/60 Ted Chiang - Stories Of Your Life
42/60 Nikesh Shukla (ed.) - The Good Immigrant
43/60 Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos (illustrator), Annie Di Donna (illustrator) - Logicomix: An Epic Search For Truth
44/60 Nicholas Gurewitch - The Trial Of Colonel Sweeto & Other Stories
45/60 Robert Webb - How Not To Be A Boy
46/60 Philip Pullman - La Belle Sauvage
47/60 China Mieville - October: The Story Of The Russian Revolution
48/60 Jarett Kobek - I Hate The Internet
49/60 Giulia Enders - Gut: The Inside Story Of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
50/60 Rob Davis - The Motherless Oven
51/60 Harvey Pekar - Another Day
52/60 Roz Chast - Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
53/60 Jason Hazely & Joel Morris - The Ladybird Book Of The Quiet Night In
54/60 Jason Hazely & Joel Morris - The Ladybird Book Of The Big Night Out
55/60 Jason Hazely & Joel Morris - The Ladybird Book Of The Zombie Apocalypse
56/60 Jason Hazely & Joel Morris - The Ladybird Book Of The Hangover
57/60 Jason Hazely & Joel Morris - The Ladybird Book Of The Ex
58/60 Jason Hazely & Joel Morris - The Ladybird Book Of The Dog
59/60 Jason Hazely & Joel Morris - The Ladybird Book Of The Cat
60/60 Jason Hazely & Joel Morris - The Ladybird Book Of The Bay

 

[iona]

1) Insurgent - Veronica Roth
2) 1Q84, Book One - Haruki Murakami
3) 1Q84, Book Two - Haruki Murakami
4) Fatal Burn - Lisa Jackson
5) 1Q84, Book Three - Haruki Murakami
6) The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
7) Anathem - Neal Stephenson
8) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick (reread)
9) Obelisk - Stephen Baxter
10) Take Back The Sky - Greg Bear
11) A Room Full of Bones - Elly Griffiths
12) The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
13) The Thirst - Jo Nesbø
14) Dying Fall - Elly Griffiths
15) A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
16) The Outcast Dead - Elly Griffiths
17) The Caltraps of Time - David I. Masson

 

[Beats & Pieces]

67. The Sorrows of Young Werther (Re-read) - Goethe

 

[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
46/75 Surviving The Evacuation: Search and Rescue . Book 11 - Frank Tayell
47/75 The Strength of the Wolf : The Secret History of America's War on Drugs - Douglas Valentine.
48/75 I Am Missing - Tim Weaver.
49/75 Exile - James Swallow
50/75 The Ministry of Nostalgia - Owen Hatherley
51/75 The Age of Jihad - Patrick Cockburn
52/75 Holy Island - LJ Ross
53/75 Sycamore Gap - LJ Ross
54/75 Heavenfield - LJ Ross
55/75 Angel - LJ Ross
56/75 High Force - LJ Ross
57/75 Cragside - LJ Ross
58/75 Extreme Measures - Vince Flynn
59/75 Transfer of Power - Vince Flynn
60/75 The Third Option - Vince Flynn
61/75 Seperation of Power - Vince Flynn
62/75 Executive Power - Vince Flynn
63/75 The Great War : Breakthroughs - Harry Turtledove
64/75 Memorial Day - Vince Flynn
65/75 Consent To Kill - Vince Flynn
66/75 Act of Treason - Vince Flynn

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67/75 Protect and Defend - Vince Flynn

 

[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
40/65 - Stephen King - It (10/10)
41/65 - Annie Proulx - Heart Songs
42/65 - Ruth Rendell - Wolf to The Slaughter
43/65 - Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
44/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Best Man To Die
45/65 - Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
46/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Guilty Thing Surprised
47/65 - David Mitchell - number9dream
48/65 - Ruth Rendell - No More Dying Then
49/65 - Denise Mina - The Long Drop
50/65 - Ruth Rendell - Murder Being Done Once
51/65 - Jon McGregor - So Many Ways to Begin
52/65 - Owen King & Stephen King - Sleeping Beauties (11/10)
53/65 - Ruth Rendell - Some Lie and Some Die
54/65 - Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
55/65 - Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
56/65 - Ruth Rendell - Shake Hands For Ever
57/65 - Jack London - The Call of The Wild
58/65 - Emma Donoghue - The Wonder
59/65 - Nic Pizzolatto - Between Here and the Yellow Sea
60/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Sleeping Life

61/65 - Ian McEwan - The Innocent

 

[8115]

1/20 My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
2/20 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
3/20 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
4/20 Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Arundhati Roy
5/20 The Private Patient, PD James
6/20 The Outrun, Amy Liptrot
7/20 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
8/20 The Underground Railway, Colson Whitehead
9/20 The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
10/20 White Teeth, Zadie Smith
11/20 Abandoned Buildings in North Texas, Jen Waldo
12/20 Christodora, Tim Murphy
13/20 Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro
14/20 La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman
15/20 Cousins, Salley Vickers
16/20 Heroes of the Frontier, Dave Eggers
17/20 The Bricks that Built the Houses, Kate Tempest
18/20 All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews

 

[Signal 11]

13/20 - Cricket's Greatest Rivalry: A History of the Ashes in 10 Matches - Simon Hughes
14/20 - Flight: My Life In Mission Control - Chris Kraft
15/20 - Empire of Capital - Ellen Meiksins Wood

 

[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
40/65 - Stephen King - It (10/10)
41/65 - Annie Proulx - Heart Songs
42/65 - Ruth Rendell - Wolf to The Slaughter
43/65 - Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
44/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Best Man To Die
45/65 - Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
46/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Guilty Thing Surprised
47/65 - David Mitchell - number9dream
48/65 - Ruth Rendell - No More Dying Then
49/65 - Denise Mina - The Long Drop
50/65 - Ruth Rendell - Murder Being Done Once
51/65 - Jon McGregor - So Many Ways to Begin
52/65 - Owen King & Stephen King - Sleeping Beauties (11/10)
53/65 - Ruth Rendell - Some Lie and Some Die
54/65 - Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
55/65 - Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
56/65 - Ruth Rendell - Shake Hands For Ever
57/65 - Jack London - The Call of The Wild
58/65 - Emma Donoghue - The Wonder
59/65 - Nic Pizzolatto - Between Here and the Yellow Sea
60/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Sleeping Life
61/65 - Ian McEwan - The Innocent

62/65 - Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures with Extremists

 

[8115]

1/20 My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
2/20 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
3/20 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
4/20 Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Arundhati Roy
5/20 The Private Patient, PD James
6/20 The Outrun, Amy Liptrot
7/20 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
8/20 The Underground Railway, Colson Whitehead
9/20 The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
10/20 White Teeth, Zadie Smith
11/20 Abandoned Buildings in North Texas, Jen Waldo
12/20 Christodora, Tim Murphy
13/20 Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro
14/20 La Belle Sauvage, Philip Pullman
15/20 Cousins, Salley Vickers
16/20 Heroes of the Frontier, Dave Eggers
17/20 The Bricks that Built the Houses, Kate Tempest
18/20 All My Puny Sorrows, Miriam Toews
19/20 Hollow City, Ransom Riggs

 

[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
33/50 Angela Davis - An Autobiography
34/50 Donna Tartt - The Secret History
35/50 Ali Smith - How to Be Both
36/50 Wallace Stegner - The Spectator Bird
37/50 Paul Lewis and Rob Evans - Undercover - The True Story of Britain's Secret Police
38/50 Jakob Wassermann - My First Wife
39/50 E.P Thompson - The Making of the English Working Class
40/50 Larry McMurtry - The Last Picture Show
41/50 James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time
42/50 Julian Maclaren-Ross - Of Love and Hunger
43/50 Alexander Vasudevan - The Autonomous City - A History of Urban Squatting
44/50 Niall Griffiths - Grits
45/50 His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
46/50 Perfume - Patrick Süskind