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

[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
29/30 Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel's Barrier For Fun - Mark Thomas

Enjoyed this. Just as you'd expect from him, really. Good comment, decent travel writing, a healthy disregard for his own safety and pithy little lines like

"There are two schools of thought on the legality of the Israeli settlements built over the Green Line: Israel believes them to be legal, and the rest of the world does not."

Good book.

Just one more book for me this year and I'll be joining the upper echelons of this thread currently occupied by Me76 I might have to choose a short one.

 

[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
61/60 Jenny Uglow - Mr Lear: A Life Of Art & Nonsense
62/60 John Lanchester - Capital

 

[Beats & Pieces]

72. The Master & Margarita (re-read) - Mikhail Bulgakov

 

[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
40/40 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
41/40 - A Simple Plan by Scott Smith

 

[Voley]

Reckon I should do it this year. 30 is just about right for me. Just started this and it's great so I'm rattling through it:


Wanted to read about Robin Friday ever since I saw him on the cover of this SFA single:

 

[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
40/40 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
41/40 - A Simple Plan by Scott Smith
42/40 - Dispatches from the Sofa - Frank Skinner

 

[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
35/45 1984 - George Orwell (Reread)
36/45 All That Man Is - David Szalay
37/45 Sredni Vashtar - Saki

 

[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
67/75 Protect and Defend - Vince Flynn
68/75 Endangered Nation - Frank Tayell
69/75 Corpus - Rory Clements

*********
70/75 Dark Skies LJ Ross

 

[Voley]

Challenge completed!

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
29/30 Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel's Barrier For Fun - Mark Thomas
30/30 The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: The Robin Friday Story - Paul McGuigan and Paolo Hewitt

Reading/Cardiff player who, by pretty much all accounts, should've played for England. Liked his drink/drugs a bit too much and died aged 38. I liked the way this book was put together - not much narrative, just press reports/interviews that tell a riotous tale even given the constraints of 70's sports journalism. There was talk of a film a bit back. Done right, it could be very good.

 

[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
35/45 1984 - George Orwell (Reread)
36/45 All That Man Is - David Szalay
37/45 Sredni Vashtar - Saki
38/45 Cat Person - Kristen Roupenian

 

[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
63/65 - William Boyd - The Blue Afternoon
64/65 - Ruth Rendell - Put on by Cunning

65/65 - Jason Arnopp - The Last Days of Jack Sparks

Challenge complete

 

[Shirl]

1/25 Dead Tomorrow - Peter James
2/25 August is a wicked Month - Edna O'brien
3/25 Gallows View - Peter Robinson
4/25 Lady Lupin's Book of Etiquette - Babette Cole
5/25 Talking to the dead - Harry Bingham
6/25 The 50/50 Killer - Steve Mosby
7/25 No Cure for Shell Shock - Dylan Orchard
8/25 Blood,Salt-Water - Denise Mina
9/25 The Letter - Kathryn Hughes. Amazon lied to me about this book. Number 1 best seller my arse. I only finished it because I'd given up on two books already this year.
10/25 The 39 Steps - John Buchan
11/25 Dead like You - Peter James
12/25 The Goldfinch -Donna Tart
13/25 Travels with my Aunt - Graham Green
14/25 Dead Man's Grip Peter-James
15/25 Turning Blue - Benjamin Myers
16/25 These Darkening Days - Benjamin Myers
17/25 Holy Island - LJ Ross

 

[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
29/35 Graham Greene - It's a Battlefield
30/35 Iain M. Banks - Surface Detail
31/35 Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
32/35 Eric Hazan - A History of the Barracade
33/35 Philip K. Dick - The Collected Stories of, Vol.4.
34/35 Angela Nagle - Kill All Normies
35/35 Evelyn Anderson - Hammer or Anvil - A History of the German Labour Movement
36/35 P.G. Wodehouse - The Clicking of Cuthbert
37/35 Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound/ The Suppliants/ Seven Against Thebes/ The Persians
38/35 Hans Fluck - Medicinal Plants and Their Uses
39/35 Ellen Meisksins Wood - The Pristine Culture of Capitalism
40/35 William Garrtiot - Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America
41/35 John Davies - Political Policing in Wales
42/35 Eric Hasan & Kamo - First Measures of the Coming Insurection
43/35 Iain M. Banks - Feersum Endjinn
44/35 Jon Ronson - The Men Who Stare at Goats
45/35 Nancy Kress - Beggars in Spain

46/35 James Baldwin & Nikki Giovanni - A Dialogue

I guess this will be me for the year now as everything else I'm reading is pretty long/only just started

 

[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
18) The Zig Zag Girl - Elly Griffiths
19) A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

 

[iona]

Tempting at this point in the year to bring all the really short books I've got lined up to the front of the queue. Not like I've got a target to meet this year though so I think I'll just keep reading them in the order I'd planned - got a few long ones coming up next so that might be me done for this year. Saying that, I did read the first game of thrones book in about 24 hours

 

[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
63/65 - William Boyd - The Blue Afternoon
64/65 - Ruth Rendell - Put on by Cunning
65/65 - Jason Arnopp - The Last Days of Jack Sparks

66/65 - Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

 

[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
42. Kill all normies - angela nagle
43. Shadow of the Silk Road - Colin Thurbon
44. The Vorrh - Brian Catling
45. The left hand of darkness - Ursula LeGuin
46. Before the Fall - Noah Hawley
47. Tortilla Flat- John Steinbeck
48. Kolyma Tales- Varlam Shalamov
49. Slow river- Nicola Griffith
50. ‎Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
51. ‎Neptune's Brood - Charles Stross
52. ‎Fear the Sky- Stephen Moss
53. ‎The Humans - Matt Haig
54. ‎"Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance" - M. Testa
55. ‎Fear the Survivors- Stephen Moss
56. ‎The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
57. ‎Cabin Fever - B. M. Bower
58. ‎The Ministry of Utmost Happiness - Arundhati Roy
59. ‎All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
60. ‎His Bloody Project - Graeme Burnett
61. ‎ The Brothers Ashkenazi - I. J. Singer
62. ‎The Edible Woman - Margaret Attwood

 

[Voley]

Saying that, I did read the first game of thrones book in about 24 hours

Woah. They take me about a month.

 

[iona]

Woah. They take me about a month.

It was probably a few hours more. I didn't time it, just know I started reading it in the evening, went to bed around a fifth of the way in, read all the next day and finished it that night.

I would like to be better at reading slowly and really noticing every word, but I seem to take in even less that way when I try

 

[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.
26/30. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler.
27/30. A Short History of the Labour Party - Henry Pelling.
28/30. "Saving the World"?: Gordon Brown Reconsidered - William Keegan
29/30. Germinal - Émile Zola.

I loved, loved, loved this last one - it's gone straight into my top 10 novels of all time. I can't decided whether I regret not reading Zola earlier, or glad that I'm enjoying the pleasure of reading his works for the very first time now.

 

[Me76]

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.
26/30. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler.
27/30. A Short History of the Labour Party - Henry Pelling.
28/30. "Saving the World"?: Gordon Brown Reconsidered - William Keegan
29/30. Germinal - Émile Zola.

I loved, loved, loved this last one - it's gone straight into my top 10 novels of all time. I can't decided whether I regret not reading Zola earlier, or glad that I'm enjoying the pleasure of reading his works for the very first time now.

I've read a couple of Zola. Both I have loved, although for one I felt the translation was more clunky than the other.

Just really excellent real life stuff. It makes me wish I could read French.

 

[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
31/50 Affliction, Laurell K Hamilton
32/50 Slip, David Estes
33/50 Synchronised Breathing, Tara Ellison
34/50 Savage Lane, Jason Starr
35/50 A Smudge of Gray, Jonathan Sturak
36/50 A Family Saga, Patricia Jetson
37/50 High Society, Ben Elton
38/50 The Wonder, Emma Donoghue
39/50 Hunter / Prey, Sam Sisavath
40/50 Taking Flight, Adrian Magnuson.
41/50 Sleeping Beauties, Stephen and Owen King
42/50 Focused and Challenged, Lisa M Hawkins.
43/50 Playing Dead, Julia Heaberlin
44/50 Miss You, Kate Eberlen
45/50 Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
46/50 Creatures of Appetite, Todd Travis
47/50 Before We Met, Lucie Whitehouse
48/50 Cold Fear, Rick Mofina
49/50 The Bonesetter's Daughter, Amy Tan
50/50 Among Wolves, RA Hakok

51 The Cursed Child, JK Rowling et al

Started reading this before seeing the play, and then got tickets. Made myself finish reading it today, mostly cos of this thread. I was reading it all in the actors voices, made it so much better.

 

[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
24/20 - Hag Seed - Margaret Atwood
25/20 - A Whole Life - Robert Seethahaler

 

[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
31/25 David Harvey - The Limits of Capital
32/25 Nathan Connolly (ed) - Know Your Place: Essays on the working class, by the working class
33/25 Howard Zindiq - ‘Shariah don’t like it ...?’ Punk and religion in Indonesia

34/25 Muriel Spark - The Driver's Seat

 

[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
63/65 - William Boyd - The Blue Afternoon
64/65 - Ruth Rendell - Put on by Cunning
65/65 - Jason Arnopp - The Last Days of Jack Sparks
66/65 - Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

67/65 - P D James - The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories

 

[imposs1904]

1/26 The Invoice: A Novel by Jonas Karlsson
2/26 Porridge by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais and Ian Marshall (Reread)
3/26 Up The Junction by Nell Dunn

4/26 The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain's Most Insane Group by Dave Simpson

 

[iona]

Out of interest, what do other people do about recording books that contain more than one book/story/whatever (iyswim)?

I tend to go by the rule that if it's also available as separate books then it's OK to count it as such. Sometimes this feels obvious - Lord of the Rings is obviously three separate books, for example, while a collection of short stories that've never been published alone other than in magazines are obviously one - but in some cases I can't help but feel like I'm "cheating" to bump my numbers up...

 

[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
40/40 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
41/40 - A Simple Plan by Scott Smith
42/40 - Dispatches from the Sofa - Frank Skinner
43/40 - James Acaster's Classic Scrapes by James Acaster

 

[D'wards]

Out of interest, what do other people do about recording books that contain more than one book/story/whatever (iyswim)?

I tend to go by the rule that if it's also available as separate books then it's OK to count it as such. Sometimes this feels obvious - Lord of the Rings is obviously three separate books, for example, while a collection of short stories that've never been published alone other than in magazines are obviously one - but in some cases I can't help but feel like I'm "cheating" to bump my numbers up...

I had this issue cos I got Julian Cope's autobiography which is two volumes in one book. The second volume is upside down on the back, so you start it from the rear cover iyswim.

But i looked it up and they were published six years apart so I counted it as two books

 

[imposs1904]

1/26 The Invoice: A Novel by Jonas Karlsson
2/26 Porridge by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais and Ian Marshall (Reread)
3/26 Up The Junction by Nell Dunn
4/26 The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain's Most Insane Group by Dave Simpson

5/26 All Backs Were Turned by Marek Hlasko