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

[braindancer]

I targeted 30 but only managed 23 last year. Will aim for 25 this year....

 

[marshall]

3/109 Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent - liked this, bit of a sucker for historical fiction, particularly in the winter for some reason, and the writer's local so all good.

 

[BoatieBird]

1/65 - Laurie Lee - Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I read a load of shite. Probably 60% (70%)! don't be embarrassed . It's just a list.

Yep. Mine is at least 70% shite. I call it "mind candy."

 

[Orang Utan]

1/50 Richard Price - The Whites
2/50 Ali Smith - Public Library & Other Stories

 

[marty21]

1/75 Sanctuary : After it Happened Book 5 - Devon C Ford.
2/75 1916 : The Mornings After - Tim Pat Coogan.

 

[Me76]

1/50 Teenage Revolution, Alan Davies
2/50 The Third Woman, Jonathan Freedland
3/50 The Art of Peeling an Orange, Victoria Avilan - this is the first one actually started in 2017. Very weird but good. I'm not sure why I had in my to read list, but I try to trust my past self that puts books there after reading a review, and I don't read the blurb again, just go by the cover when choosing which to read next.

 

[maomao]

1/99 Peppa's Christmas - Author Unknown
2/99 Peppa Pig - My Mummy - Author Unknown
3/99 Freddy The Frog - Axel Scheffler
4/99 Katie The Kitten - Axel Scheffler
5/99 The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
6/99 World War Z - Max Brooks

(I'm actually more ashamed of number 6 than I am of the other 5)

 

[nogojones]

As I beat last years target I'll up it to 35 I think

1/35 Jim Thompson - Savage Night
2/35 Phil Edwards - More Work! Less Pay! Rebellion And Repression in Italy, 1972-77

 

[spartacus mills]

01 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Monday Starts On Saturday
02 Jackie Higgins – Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus, Modern Photography Explained
03 Ed McBain - Fuzz

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/99 Peppa's Christmas - Author Unknown
2/99 Peppa Pig - My Mummy - Author Unknown
3/99 Freddy The Frog - Axel Scheffler
4/99 Katie The Kitten - Axel Scheffler
5/99 The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle
6/99 World War Z - Max Brooks

(I'm actually more ashamed of number 6 than I am of the other 5)

The very hungry Caterpillar is a stone cold classic. I read it (to a small boy) only yesterday.

 

[maomao]

The very hungry Caterpillar is a stone cold classic. I read it (to a small boy) only yesterday.

My fingers don't fit in the holes.

 

[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*)

* the first of the 10 longer books of my sub-target, and what a corker

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1/50 Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory
2/50 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
3/50 Steve Reicher - Mad Mobs and Englishmen?: Myths and realities of the 2011 riots
4/50 Stuart Jeffries - Grand Hotel Abyss
5/50 Sean Birchall - Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-fascist Action

Few of these were started in 2016.

 

[Pickman's model]

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

Few of these were started in 2016.

It's the date of completion which counts

 

[Manter]

1/29 Volker Kutscher Babylon Berlin
2/29 Philip Kerr The other side of silence

Brilliant! Return to form. Twisty and a bit bleak.

 

[Plumdaff]

1/25 Junk by Melvin Burgess
2/25 The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
3/25 The White Album by Joan Didion

Had been on my list for years. She's one hell of a writer and this conjures up the queasy free wheeling paranoid days of the late 60s better than anything else I've read but sometimes the bourgeois obliviousness was trying. Felt I should be listening to Forever Changes by Love as an accompinant.

 

[kropotkin]

Aiming for 45 including audiobooks

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

 

[Dragnet]

1/25 Lisa McKenzie - Getting By
2/25 Carl Cattermole - HMP: A Survival Guide

Second one is more of a long pamphlet than a book, but it's a good informative read. I've got the hard copy but the PDF is available for free here.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

01. Reflections On The Revolution In France - Edmund Burke
02. On The Genealogy Of Morals - Nietzsche (Re-read)

03. Foucault With Marx - Jacques Bidet

 

[districtline]

Andrew Walker & Gautam Sen – Analyzing the Global Political Economy (1/30)

 

[billy_bob]

1/25 Kevin Barry - Dark Lies the Island (along with George Saunders, definitely the best short story writer I've read in the last 10 years. If I didn't have targets to meet I'd have started again from p. 1 as soon as I finished it)
**2/25 Elvis Costello - Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink

(My target this year includes tackling some of the heavy stuff on my to-read pile, so * = one of the seven named tomes in my 2017 OP, ** = other books of over 600pp)

 

[neonwilderness]

I'm aiming for at least one per month, which will be an improvement on recent years

1. Peter May - The Chess Men

 

[spartacus mills]

01 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Monday Starts On Saturday
02 Jackie Higgins – Why It Does Not Have To Be In Focus, Modern Photography Explained
03 Ed McBain - Fuzz
04 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Netochka Nezvanova
05 James M. McCain - The Postman Always Rings Twice

 

[petee]

i thought 10-19 was low and i didn't make even that last year. going with the manageable 0 - 9. if i finish even one i've met the category requirements

 

[marty21]

1/75 Sanctuary : After it Happened Book 5 - Devon C Ford.
2/75 1916 : The Mornings After - Tim Pat Coogan.
3/75 Last Stand at Saber River - Elmore Leonard.

 

[Pickman's model]

1/75 Sanctuary : After it Happened Book 5 - Devon C Ford.
2/75 1916 : The Mornings After - Tim Pat Coogan.
3/75 Last Stand at Saber River - Elmore Leonard.

please in future post each book in a separate post so each one can receive a like.

 

[marshall]

4/109 - Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad.

 

[Pickman's model]

1/50 david keck, in a time of treason (new york: tor, 2008)

2/50 mark greaney, back blast (new york: berkley, 2016)

 

[pennimania]

2/50 mark greaney, back blast (new york: berkley, 2016)

So we're not doing this Cutter/cuttlefish number thing?

Phew.....

1. King Edward the VIII - Philip Ziegler (please don't ask why I'm reading all those books about the monarchy )