Me76
Not very good lurker
I do what you do. Although it still annoys me that I wasted 4 weeks of my life on Don Quixote this year but because I only read part 1 I don't feel I can count it.
back by popular demand it's the 2017 reading challenge thread
- Thread starter Pickman's model
- Start date
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
it's up to you, is the short answer. but i'd say that if something's been published as a series of books and an omnibus volume - for example the dark is rising sequence, or the earthsea books, i would be tempted to say reading the dark is rising in those omnibus volumes would count as one book if - and if - you have read it through and not skipped bits. if you then read another of the books within the omnibus volumes then that's another you can put up. if you feel that you'd rather just count the omnibus volume as one, then that's fine too.
however, you're not competing against anyone other than yourself. the only real rules are books must be completed between 0001 on 1 january of the year and 0000 on 31 december of the same year. the books must be read right through and not have pages skipped or just dipped into. and it doesn't matter about the format of the book or whether it is read by or to you, as long as it is read in its entirity
I know that, I was just interested to see what other people do.
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
20) Earthman, Come Home - James Blish
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
20) Earthman, Come Home - James Blish
Ptolemy
like an unwound clock, I just don't seem to care.
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.
30/30. Nana - Émile Zola.
Another great Zola novel, with some laugh-out-loud scenes and moments of utter tragedy, even if it doesn't quite reach the lofty heights of Germinal for me.
Hell's bells, a New Year's resolution I actually managed to keep - 30 books read! Hoping to add one or two in the remainder of the year though....
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.
30/30. Nana - Émile Zola.
Another great Zola novel, with some laugh-out-loud scenes and moments of utter tragedy, even if it doesn't quite reach the lofty heights of Germinal for me.
Hell's bells, a New Year's resolution I actually managed to keep - 30 books read! Hoping to add one or two in the remainder of the year though....
73. The Man with Compound Eyes - Wu Ming Yi
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
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
6/26 The Crazy Gang by Dave Bassett and Wally Downes
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
6/26 The Crazy Gang by Dave Bassett and Wally Downes
Threshers_Flail
Well-Known Member
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 Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project
46/50 Patrick Süskind - Perfume
47/50 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
Think that's it from me this year.
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 Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project
46/50 Patrick Süskind - Perfume
47/50 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
Think that's it from me this year.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
new thread posted: it's the all-singing all-dancing 2018 reading challenge thread
but continue posting here for books completed in 2017
but continue posting here for books completed in 2017
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
98 - General Theory of the Precariat: Great Recession, Revolution, Reaction - Alex Foti (Who'd of though the euromayday-chainworkers projects would end up in precarity chauvinism and eutopian fantiasies?)
99 - Platform Capitalism, - Nick Srnicek
100 - Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres - Jamie Woodcock
99 - Platform Capitalism, - Nick Srnicek
100 - Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres - Jamie Woodcock
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
21/48 Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
22/48 Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
23/48 Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time
24/48 Iain M Banks - The Hydrongen Sonata
25/48 China Mieville - The City and The City
26/48 William Gibson - Zero History
27/48 Stephen Jay Gould - The Richness of Life
28/48 Michel Faber - The Crimson Petal and the White
And probably a couple of other things I forgot about, but clearly I've been watching too much telly and reading too few books in the latter half of this year.
74. Master & Commander - Patrick O'Brian
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
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
39/45 The Lumber Room - Saki
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
39/45 The Lumber Room - Saki
Dragnet
Well-Known Member
23/25 Stewart Lee - Content Provider
I'm about half way through Lanark by Alasdair Gray at the moment, but I doubt I'll finish it by the the end of the year.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
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
39/45 The Lumber Room - Saki
40/45 If You Liked School You'll Love Work - Irvine Welsh
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
39/45 The Lumber Room - Saki
40/45 If You Liked School You'll Love Work - Irvine Welsh
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
One of my favourite books by one of my favourite writers. You genuinely feel like you might be losing your mind a bit by the end of it...
Threshers_Flail
Well-Known Member
I also loved Lanark, could you recommend anything else by him?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I've had that on my to-read shelf/bookcase for years? Is it worth the commitment?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
What did you think of it? I found it a bit disturbing, esp cos I had to read it to a bunch of kids
Dragnet
Well-Known Member
The only other one of his that I've read is '1982, Janine', which is genuinely excellent; one of my favourite novels.
I'm probably not far enough in to make a proper judgement, but I've been enjoying it so far.
75. The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
billy_bob
Air of bewilderment model's own
Poor Things is good (you probably need to have read Frankenstein first). I really enjoyed Every Short Story a couple of years ago - which does what it says on the tin. More range than most writers in terms of style and subject matter.
Okay, so I'm done. I'm reading Les Miserables again and was hoping to finish it before the new year, not likely now as I have writing to get on with. I beat my target, which I'm pleased about, and looking forward to next year and a new batch of books.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
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
17/25 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (reread)
18/25 Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (reread)
19/25 James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes
20/25 Felicia Day - You're Never Weird On The Internet (almost)
21/25 James S A Corey - Caliban's War
22/25 James S A Corey - Abbadon's Gate
23/25 Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
24/25 Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
25/25 Alastair Reynolds - Blue Remembered Earth
26/25 George Orwell - Coming Up For Air
27/25 Philip Pullman - La Belle Sauvage
28/25 Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played With Fire
29/25 James S A Corey - Cibola Burn
Another Expanse book, was good. I think that's my last book this year.
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
17/25 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (reread)
18/25 Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (reread)
19/25 James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes
20/25 Felicia Day - You're Never Weird On The Internet (almost)
21/25 James S A Corey - Caliban's War
22/25 James S A Corey - Abbadon's Gate
23/25 Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
24/25 Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
25/25 Alastair Reynolds - Blue Remembered Earth
26/25 George Orwell - Coming Up For Air
27/25 Philip Pullman - La Belle Sauvage
28/25 Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Played With Fire
29/25 James S A Corey - Cibola Burn
Another Expanse book, was good. I think that's my last book this year.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
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
6/26 The Crazy Gang by Dave Bassett and Wally Downes
7/26 Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
A writer I wouldn't have discovered if it wasn't for this thread. Thank you.
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
6/26 The Crazy Gang by Dave Bassett and Wally Downes
7/26 Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin
A writer I wouldn't have discovered if it wasn't for this thread. Thank you.
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
20/20 Heft, Liz Moore
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
20/20 Heft, Liz Moore
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
20/20 Heft, Liz Moore
21/20 Ecstasy, Irvine Welsh
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
20/20 Heft, Liz Moore
21/20 Ecstasy, Irvine Welsh
Ptolemy
like an unwound clock, I just don't seem to care.
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.
30/30. Nana - Émile Zola.
31/30. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
I admit, I didn't know anything about this book beyond "Heathcliff", "Cathy" and "wild, windswept moors". It was hardly Romeo and Juliet set in Yorkshire. What an astounding book, and I'm so glad to have read it at long last.
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.
30/30. Nana - Émile Zola.
31/30. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
I admit, I didn't know anything about this book beyond "Heathcliff", "Cathy" and "wild, windswept moors". It was hardly Romeo and Juliet set in Yorkshire. What an astounding book, and I'm so glad to have read it at long last.
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