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

[pennimania]

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

28. Two is Lonely - Lynn Reid Banks
29. The Rainbow Trail - Zane Grey
30. Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
31. Kind of Blue: a Political Memoir - Ken Clarke
32. The Co-Op's got Bananas - Hunter Davies

 

[pennimania]

28. Two is Lonely - Lynn Reid Banks
29. The Rainbow Trail - Zane Grey
30. Riders of the Purple Sage - Zane Grey
31. Kind of Blue: a Political Memoir - Ken Clarke
32. The Co-Op's got Bananas - Hunter Davies

33. The Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle
34. The Obesity Code - Jason Fung
35. Forager - Peter R Stone
36. The Alpha Plague - Michael Robertson
37. Little Men - Louisa May Alcott (reread)
38. The Sixth Extinction - Glen Johnson
39. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (reread)
40. Anna of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett (reread)
41. The Inn at Eagle Point - Sherryl Woods

There are more - I've just been looking at my Kindle. Some of the apocalyptica are so terrible I can't even remember what they were about.

New Year - new books, I'm about to start Lady Susan - curiously the only Austen novel I haven't read.

 

[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 - Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
25/20 - A Whole Life - Robert Seethahaler

First time I've exceeded my target! Helped my spending more time on trains than ever before.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

1/40 This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus the Climate - Naomi Klein
2/40 Feed - MT Andersen
3/40 Unstoppable - Bill Nye
4/40 Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies - Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith
5/40 Uglies - Scott Westerfeld
6/40 Pretties - Scott Westerfeld
7/40 Specials - Scott Westerfeld
8/40 Extras - Scott Westerfeld
9/40 The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood
10/40 Gone - Michael Grant
11/40 The Telomere Effect - Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn
12/40 Fated - Benedict Jacka
13/40 Hexed - Kevin Hearne
14/40 Hunted - Kevin Hearne
15/40 Bound - Kevin Hearne
15/40 Hidden - Kevin Hearne
16/40 Fated - Kevin Hearne
17/40 Chosen - Kevin Hearne
18/40 Tricked - Kevin Hearne
19/40 Trapped - Kevin Hearne
20/40 Culture Jam - Kalle Lash
21/40 Hounded - Kevin Hearne
22/40 Shattered - Kevin Hearne
23/40 Veiled - Benedict Jacka
24/40 Anne of Gree Gables - LM Montgomery
25/40 Hammered - Kevin Hearne

Pretty short list this year.

I my defense, I don't think I got all of them on the list.

 

[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
39/45 The Lumber Room - Saki
40/45 If You Liked School You'll Love Work - Irvine Welsh
41/45 The Pier Falls - Mark Haddon
Well written, but incredibly bleak.

 

[Steel Icarus]

1/48 Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle - Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change
2/48 Poul Anderson - Tau Zero
3/48 David Mitchell - The Bone Clocks
4/48 Asa Briggs - Victorian Cities
5/48 Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
6/48 Jeff Vendermeer - Authority
7/48 Errico Malatesta - At the Cafe: Conversations on Anarchism
8/48 Halldor Laxness - The Atom Station
9/48 M. John Harrison - The Centurai Device
10/48 Margaret Atwood - Life Before Man
11/48 Steven Pinker - The Sense of Style
12/48 Octavia E Butler - Dawn
13/48 Patrick Rothfuss - The Name of the Wind
14/48 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

15/48 Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
16/48 Patrick Rothfuss - The Wise Man's Fear
17/48 Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus
18/48 Andy Weir - The Martian

SpookyFrank How was Homo Deus?

 

[SpookyFrank]

SpookyFrank How was Homo Deus?

Not as good as Sapiens. Still interesting, but it rehashes a lot of ideas and doesn't really have a central idea of any kind.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Not as good as Sapiens. Still interesting, but it rehashes a lot of ideas and doesn't really have a central idea of any kind.

I've not really read much in this area - the future of mankind/technology - but i some fascinated by it, any recommendations you might have would be most welcome.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I've not really read much in this area - the future of mankind/technology - but i some fascinated by it, any recommendations you might have would be most welcome.

I've got some stuff on my reading list in this vein, will report back in due course

 

[Steel Icarus]

I've got some stuff on my reading list in this vein, will report back in due course

Nice one, ta. Just about to hit Waterstones so might get Deus anyway, but am always looking for new books to read