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

[districtline]

Björn Hettne - Thinking About Development (2/30)

 

[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

 

[Beats & Pieces]

04. Stasis (Civil War as a Political Paradigm) - Giorgio Agamben
05. Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics - Jean Grondin
06. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

 

[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
6/50 Alasdair Gray - Lanark

Big thanks to my Glaswegian work mate for not taking piss out of my total mispronunciation of Lanark.

 

[braindancer]

1/20 - The Secret History - Donna Tartt

 

[Pickman's model]

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

3/50 dennis lehane, live by night (new york: william morrow, 2012)

 

[May Kasahara]

1/49 - Dave Eggers - The Circle

2/49 - John Masefield - The Box of Delights. I was enjoying it up to the Dallas ending

 

[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 - my friend's second book. Very good and I recommend if you like urban fantasy.

 

[SpookyFrank]

1/48 Sanjay Chaturvedi and Timothy Doyle Climate Terror: A Critical Geopolitics of Climate Change
2/48 Poul Anderson Tau Zero

 

[ringo]

1/45 And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave

 

[marshall]

5/109 Cathi Unsworth - Without the Moon - bit grim, but absolutely great on period detail (London, WW2, blackout, crime, journalists).

 

[marshall]

3/50 dennis lehane, live by night (new york: william morrow, 2012)

Quite enjoyed that one, but the first in the trilogy, The Given Day, is different class; not being particularly political, there was lots of stuff about Galleanist anarchist activity in Boston circa 1917/18 that I found quite educational.

 

[Pickman's model]

Quite enjoyed that one, but the first in the trilogy, The Given Day, is different class; not being particularly political, there was lots of stuff about Galleanist anarchist activity in Boston circa 1917/18 that I found quite educational.

Yeh I thought about getting it but they didn't have a copy in the bookshop. Will get it soon.

 

[districtline]

Ellen Meiksins Wood - The Origin of Capitalism (3/30)
Peter Ackroyd - London: The Biography (4/30)

 

[Smokeandsteam]

2/25 The Corner Boys - Geoffrey Beattie

 

[polly]

I've finally kicked a pernicious weed habit so can join in. Though I do still fall asleep really quickly so I'm aiming for a low 20-29. I'm also in the middle of a really long book so won't be back for ages.

Threshers_Flail All the Larry McMurtry cowboy books are great My favourite of the series is the next one, Comanche Moon, which is really dark.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Threshers_Flail All the Larry McMurtry cowboy books are great My favourite of the series is the next one, Comanche Moon, which is really dark.

Cheers for the heads up! It's on the list for sure, I didn't want Lonesome Dove to end.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1/45 And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave

Did you like it? I thought it was great.

 

[ringo]

Did you like it? I thought it was great.

I loved it. American southern/gothic literature is my main subject anyway, the language and themes in this was fantastic. Really dark and visceral

 

[Threshers_Flail]

I loved it. American southern/gothic literature is my main subject anyway, the language and themes in this was fantastic. Really dark and visceral

Ah yes I remember now stumbling on your 'writing from the Deep South' thread from ages back.

And yes it's so Biblical and messed up, might re-read it soon.

 

[polly]

Cheers for the heads up! It's on the list for sure, I didn't want Lonesome Dove to end.

I know - they get under your skin. I took up horse riding for a bit

I loved it. American southern/gothic literature is my main subject anyway, the language and themes in this was fantastic. Really dark and visceral

Ooh, me too I'll add this one to my list then.

 

[Dragnet]

3/25 Gilles Dauvé - Fascism/Anti-fascism

 

[Pickman's model]

3/50 dennis lehane, live by night (new york: william morrow, 2012)

4/50 georges simenon, the yellow dog (london: penguin, 2013)

 

[Beats & Pieces]

07. The Philosophical Discourse Of Modernity - Jurgen Habermas

 

[spartacus mills]

4/50 georges simenon, the yellow dog (london: penguin, 2013)

I intend to read some of the Maigret novels this year.

 

[Voley]

1/30 Substance: Inside New Order - Peter Hook
2/30 The Illustrated A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking

 

[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)

 

[Fozzie Bear]

1/25 Malcolm X and Alex Haley - The Autobiography of Malcolm X

 

[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. Cain – The Postman Always Rings Twice
06 Spike Milligan – Open Heart University
07 Tom Callaghan – A Killing Winter

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/25 Ken Follett - World Without End. I thought this would take me months but an unexpected virus has confined me to bed and given me plenty of reading time.

ETA taking the recommendation from upthread and reading Lonesome Dove next.