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

[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
44/40 - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

 

[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.
30/30. Nana - Émile Zola.
31/30. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë.
32/30. The Tunnel Under the World/The Hated - Frederik Pohl.

These two short stories were a Christmas present from my mum who really likes his work; I'd never heard of him before. Sharp, suspenseful sci-fi with unexpected twists - what's not to love?

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Never voted in the original poll, but I'm at 39 so far this year - might start Ted Chiang's Arrival tonight, make it a round 40 for the year.

 

[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

68/65 - John Irving - Last Night in Twisted River (12/10)

 

[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

***********************
71/75 - October: The Story of the Russian Revolution - China Mieville

 

[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
63/60 Authors Unknown - Laugh On The Loo

 

[Shirl]

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
18/25 We Want Plates - Ross McGinnes
19/25 Jeremy Corbyn Annual 2018
20/25 Morelabraorable - Villager Jim

Last 3 were Christmas quickies
I'll never manage 5 books in 3 days so I've failed again

 

[May Kasahara]

1/49 - Dave Eggers - The Circle
2/49 - John Masefield - The Box of Delights
3/49 - Jenny Nimmo - The Rinaldi Ring
4/49 - Sarah Helm - If This Is A Woman
5/49 - Art Spiegelman - Maus
6/49 - Will Ferguson - 419
7/49 - Bram Stoker - Dracula
8/49 - Paul Cornell - Witches of Lychford
9/49 - John Connolly - Night Music
10/49 - Kristin Cashore - Graceling
11/49 - Deborah Levy - Swimming Home
12/49 - Sue Lloyd-Roberts - The War on Women
13/49 - Belinda Bauer - The Shut Eye
14/49 - Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice
15/49 - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time
16/49 - Stephen King - Bag of Bones
17/49 - Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13
18/49 - Jeff Vandermeer - Borne
19/49 - Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test
20/49 - Susan Cain - Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
21/49 - Naomi Alderman - The Power
22/49 - William Goldman - The Princess Bride

23/49 - Stephen King - 11.22.63

 

[Biddlybee]

1/10 - Chocky - John Wyndham
2/10 - Expecting - Chitra Ramaswamy
3/10 - The Spinning Heart - Donal Ryan
4/10 - The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter
5/10 - Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
6/10 - Confessions of a Domestic Failure - Bunmi Laditan
7/10 - The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
8/10 - A Necklace of Raindrops - Joan Aiken

I'm halfway through 9 and 10 - one paper, one electronic - but not going to be done by Monday

I've had a baby this year is my excuse

 

[Riklet]

A belated update!

1/25 Walking the Portuguese Camino - Porto to Santiago - John Rowan
2/25 Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? - Mark Ficher
3/25 - Dare to Bare Nudist Beach Guide To Gran Canaria - Alex Bramwell
4/25 Lonely Planet Guide to Canarias - Various
5/25 Postcapitalism: A Guide To Our Future - Paul Mason (didnt finish, gave up, dont shoot me)
6/25 100 Mejores Vinos Por Menos de 10e 2017 - Alicia Estrada
7/25 Best British Dishes - Margarite Patten
8/25 Sherry - Julian Jeffs
9/25 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
10/25 Pocket Wine Book 2017 - Hugh Johnson
11/25 High fidelity - Nick Hornby
12/25 Bom Dia Camaradas - Ondjaki
13/25 El Asesino de la Regañá - Julio Muñoz Gijon
14/25 Scagboys - Irvine Welsh
15/25 Los Supervinos 2018 - Juan C Martín
16/25 A sherry and a little plate of tapas - Kay Plunket-Hodge
17/25 Cami de Cavalls Menorca - Joan Mercadal
18/25 Walking on Menorca - Paddy Dillon
19/25 Wines of Portugal - Approach Guide
20/25 Wild Guide to Portugal - Edwina Pitcher
21/25 A Survival Guide to the Portuguese Camino - Jeffery Barrera
22/25 Best Wines in the Supermarket 2018 - Ned Halley

Not finished yet...

23/25 Ana Karenina - Tolstoy
24/25 Capital Vol 1- Karl Marx
25/25 Liberty and Property - Ellen Meiksins Wood
26/25 Frontlines: Battlefield Tours Of The Spanish Civil War - David Mathieson

Bit of a mixed bag! Not a disaster I suppose. Read some long stuff. Short stuff. Shit stuff. Foody boozy stuff. And challenging stuff. Stuff not in English. And truly great stuff. Definitely not read 25 proper novels by any means but hoping to read more fiction next year. Just need to finish off Capital in the next 4 days!

 

[Voley]

I'm literally halfway through a book atm and doubt I'll get it finished by the New Year. Might have to cheat a bit and stick it in next year's.

 

[marty21]

I'm going to fall short of the 75 target (was an ambitious target tbf) might finish 2 that I have on the go , to get up to 73 but no way I'll get to 75 . Working between Christmas and New Year has foiled me

 

[Pickman's model]

43/50 tim powers, last call (new york: perennial, 2003)

44/50 rory clements, corpus (london: zaffre, 2017)
45/50 bryan Talbot, grandville: force majeure (london: jonathan cape, 2017)
46/50 john masefield, the box of delights (london: lions, 1984)

 

[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
68/65 - John Irving - Last Night in Twisted River (12/10)

69/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Speaker of Mandarin

 

[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.
30/30. Nana - Émile Zola.
31/30. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë.
32/30. The Tunnel Under the World/The Hated - Frederik Pohl.
33/30. Betting the House: The Inside Story of the 2017 Election - Tim Ross and Tom McTague.

I heard about this book when someone on here (sadly can't remember who) mentioned reading this and saying it was good. A hugely interesting read with some real insights into the dysfunction of the Tory campaign (not least of which is Lynton Crosby's love of pro-May Hindi pop songs, enough to blast them out repeatedly at work in CCHQ!)

I might finish one last book before the end of New Year's Eve, but likely this will be my last read of the year. Thanks to this thread, I ended up reading 5x as many books this year as in 2016!

 

[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
20) Earthman, Come Home - James Blish
21) They Shall Have Stars - James Blish

 

[gawkrodger]

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

Glad I'm not the only one who thought the Foti book is shit

What did you think of the Srnicek?

 

[gawkrodger]

1 - Kilcullen - Out of the Mountains
2 - McAlevey - Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) - re-read
3 - Srnicek - Platform Capitalism
4 - Frase - Four Futures
5 - Dickens - Night Walks
6 - Ellis & Henderson - English Planning in Crisis
7- Beaumont - Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London
8 - Dunn - Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
9 - Mieville - The City & The City
10 - Benjamin - One-way Street and other writings
11- Schlosser - Gods of Metal
12 - Machiavelli - The Prince
13 - Mieville - Perdido Street Station
14 - Shaw + Graham (eds.) - Our Digital Rights to the City
15 - William Morris - The Pilgrims of Hope
16 - Mieville - The Scar
17 - Mieville - Iron Council
18 - Steinbeck - The Pearl
19 - Mieville - Kraken
20 - Graham - Cities under siege: The new military urbanism
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
35 - Foti - General Theory of the Precariat: Great Recession, Revolution, Reaction - don't bother
36 - Hardt + Negri - Labour of Dionysus (Cheers Butchers!) - do bother - I should note I only read the chapters in this which interest me at the mo, but I'm counting it!
37 - Mieville - The Last Days of the New Paris
38 - John Dolan - The War Nerd Iliad

 

[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
52 Either Side of Midnight, Tori de Clare
53 The Versions of Us, Laura Barnett

That's me done for the year.

 

[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
20/20 Heft, Liz Moore
21/20 Ecstasy, Irvine Welsh
22/20 May We Be Forgiven, A. M. Holmes

 

[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
20) Earthman, Come Home - James Blish
21) They Shall Have Stars - James Blish
22) The Time Machine - H. G. Wells

 

[butchersapron]

Glad I'm not the only one who thought the Foti book is shit

What did you think of the Srnicek?

Well, there wasn't that much of it and what there was seemed to be summations of three or four other books. I felt the classifications of each platform were a bit vague and wobbly and not rooted enough materially. And the suggestions for the future - state ran platforms allied with a state doled out basic income - Ugh.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

75. Post Captain - Patrick O'Brian
76. The End of Policing - Alex S. Vitale
77. Dido, Queen of Carthage - Christopher Marlowe
78. Non-Thinking in the Name of the Normative - Judith Butler

 

[gawkrodger]

1 - Kilcullen - Out of the Mountains
2 - McAlevey - Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) - re-read
3 - Srnicek - Platform Capitalism
4 - Frase - Four Futures
5 - Dickens - Night Walks
6 - Ellis & Henderson - English Planning in Crisis
7- Beaumont - Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London
8 - Dunn - Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
9 - Mieville - The City & The City
10 - Benjamin - One-way Street and other writings
11- Schlosser - Gods of Metal
12 - Machiavelli - The Prince
13 - Mieville - Perdido Street Station
14 - Shaw + Graham (eds.) - Our Digital Rights to the City
15 - William Morris - The Pilgrims of Hope
16 - Mieville - The Scar
17 - Mieville - Iron Council
18 - Steinbeck - The Pearl
19 - Mieville - Kraken
20 - Graham - Cities under siege: The new military urbanism
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
35 - Foti - General Theory of the Precariat: Great Recession, Revolution, Reaction - don't bother
36 - Hardt + Negri - Labour of Dionysus (Cheers Butchers!) - do bother - I should note I only read the chapters in this which interest me at the mo, but I'm counting it!
37 - Mieville - The Last Days of the New Paris
38 - John Dolan - The War Nerd Iliad
39 - Hall - The Uberfication of the University
40 - Marx + Engles - The Communist Manifesto - a shameless re-read to enable me to hit 40 books by the end of today!

 

[gawkrodger]

Well, there wasn't that much of it and what there was seemed to be summations of three or four other books. I felt the classifications of each platform were a bit vague and wobbly and not rooted enough materially. And the suggestions for the future - state ran platforms allied with a state doled out basic income - Ugh.

I'm Not a fan of Srnicek's UBI obsession.

Not having read the main books he referenced, I found it a usefuldrawing together of other works, but as you alluded to, it felt like it was published 6-12 months too early - it read almost as a thinking through process, a publication of notes rather than a finished product

 

[Signal 11]

1/20 - Trawl - B. S. Johnson
2/20 - Games Without Frontiers - Joe Kennedy
3/20 - Redemption Song: The Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer - Chris Salewicz
4/20 - Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life - Karen E. Fields & Barbara J. Fields
5/20 - Towards a Science of Belief Systems - Edmund Griffiths
6/20 - Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary - Ernest Harsch
7/20 - General Strike: Trades Councils in Action - Emile Burns
8/20 - Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys - Viv Albertine
9/20 - Capital vol. 1 - Karl Marx
10/20 - Space Challenger: The Story of Guion Bluford - Jim Haskins & Kathleen Benson
11/20 - The Tribe - Jean-Michel Mension, tr. Donald Nicholson-Smith
12/20 - The Consul - Ralph Rumney, tr. Malcolm Imrie
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
16/20 - Unlikely Warriors: The Extraordinary Story of the Britons Who Fought for Spain - Richard Baxell
17/20 - House Mother Normal - B. S. Johnson
18/20 - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels
19/20 - The Civil War in France - Karl Marx
20/20 - The State: Its Historic Role - Peter Kropotkin
21/20 - The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State - Friedrich Engels

 

[marty21]

I'm going to fall short of the 75 target (was an ambitious target tbf) might finish 2 that I have on the go , to get up to 73 but no way I'll get to 75 . Working between Christmas and New Year has foiled me

I have declared at 71

 

[D'wards]

I have declared at 44, SMASHING my initial goal of 26, so I'm well happy with that.

Going for 26 again next year as I feel this is a good amount for me to read.

(I also set myself targets of 52 new films watched and 12 new (to me) albums listened to and "got into")

 

[xenon]

Fallen a bit short.

01/25. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
02/25. Google Hackking for Penetration Testers. 3rd Edition - Johnny Long, Bill Gardner, Justin Brown.
03/25. Software - Rudy Rucker.
04/25. Wetware - Rudy Rucker.
05/25. Freeware - Rudy Rucker.
06/25. Realware - Rudy Rucker
07/25. Survival of the Fittest: Heavy Metal in the 1990's - Greg Prat
08/25. The Delirium Brief - Charles Stross
09/25. Gridlinked - Neal Asher
10/25. The Line of Polity - Neal Asher
11/25. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
12/25. Brass Man - Neal Asher
13/25. The Docker Book - James Turnbull
14/25. Social Engineering. The art of Human Hacking. - Christopher Hadnagy
15/25. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life. Peter Godfrey-Smith
16/25. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Max Tegmark
17/25. What Does This Button Do - Bruce Dickinson
18/25. The Mixing Engineer's Handbook 4th Edition - Bobby Owsinski
19/25. Electronic Music: 25 Mixing Tips for Modern Electronic Music Production - Roy Wilkenfeld

 

[pennimania]

14. A Scent of Cloves - Nora Lofts
15. Testing Zero - N G Simsion
16. HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour - Nicholas Monsarrat
17. The View from the Corner Shop - Kathleen Hey

18. What Happened to the Corbetts - Nevil Shute
19. Look to Windward - Iain M Banks
20. The Checker Board - Nevil Shute
21. Landfall - Nevil Shute
22. Fame is the Spur - Howard Spring (reread)
23. Pastorale - Nevil Shute
24. Use of Weapons - Iain M Banks
25. A Monk at the Potter's Wheel - Vincent Eley
26. Time and the Hour - Howard Spring
27. The System of Objects - Jean Baudrillard