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

[pennimania]

1. King Edward the VIII - Philip Ziegler
2. Just William (reread) - Richmal Crompton
3. The Philadelphian (reread) Richard Powell
4. A Nun's Story - Sister Agatha

 

[Shirl]

1/25 Dead Tomorrow - Peter James
2/25 August is a wicked Month - Edna O'brien
3/25 Gallows View - Peter Robinson

 

[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

 

[Threshers_Flail]

7/50 Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
8/50 Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed

 

[braindancer]

1/20 - The Secret History - Donna Tartt
2/20 - The Grifters - Jim Thompson

 

[Pickman's model]

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

5/50 georges simenon, the late monsieur gallet (london: penguin, 2013)

 

[D'wards]

1/26 - Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (reread)
2/26 - Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians - Edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains

 

[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

 

[May Kasahara]

1/49 - Dave Eggers - The Circle
2/49 - John Masefield - The Box of Delights

3/49 - Jenny Nimmo - The Rinaldi Ring

 

[Beats & Pieces]

08. Zizek: Beyond Foucault - Fabio Vighi & Heiko Feldner.

 

[yield]

1/10. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

 

[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
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

 

[Plumdaff]

1/25 Junk by Melvin Burgess
2/25 The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
3/25 The White Album by Joan Didion
4/25 Short Cuts by Raymond Carver

Admired the skill, like haikus, more than I actually liked the stories. Maybe I should read more short stories to appreciate the form.

 

[Manter]

1/29 Volker Kutscher Babylon Berlin
2/29 Philip Kerr The other side of silence
3/29 Bill Beverley Dodgers

Group of kids on the bottom rungs of an LA drug gang go on a road trip. Hypnotic- read it in an evening.

 

[ringo]

3/29 Bill Beverley Dodgers
Group of kids on the bottom rungs of an LA drug gang go on a road trip. Hypnotic- read it in an evening.

Looks good, ordered a copy

 

[ringo]

1/45 And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
2/45 Rant - Chuck Palahniuk

 

[Voley]

3/29 Bill Beverley Dodgers

Group of kids on the bottom rungs of an LA drug gang go on a road trip. Hypnotic- read it in an evening.

Looks good, ordered a copy

Heard good things about that, too. Will give it a go, ta. My library's got it.

 

[SpookyFrank]

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

 

[nogojones]

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

3/35 Martin Ford - Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobleess Future
4/35 Franya J. Berkman - Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane
5/35 Anthony Burgess - The Wanting Seed
6/35 Theresa Urbainczyk - Slave Revolts in Antiquity

 

[nogojones]

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

I read that as David Icke and grinned

 

[billy_bob]

1/25 Kevin Barry - Dark Lies the Island
2/25 Elvis Costello - Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink
3/25 George Saunders - The Brain-Dead Megaphone
4/25 George Saunders - Tenth of December

 

[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

 

[Shirl]

1/25 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

 

[Voley]

1/30 Substance: Inside New Order - Peter Hook
2/30 The Illustrated A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking
3/30 A Clash Of Kings - George R.R. Martin
Really enjoyed both of the Game of Thrones books I've read so far. Having watched the telly programme first, these feel like the directors cut. Loads more to them.

 

[Voley]

6/65 - John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat

Good that innit? Cannery Row's my favourite of his in that vein, but Tortilla Flat is similarly riotous at times.

 

[BoatieBird]

Good that innit? Cannery Row's my favourite of his in that vein, but Tortilla Flat is similarly riotous at times.

Excellent. I agree that it's not quite on a par with Cannery Row, but excellent all the same

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "Six Suspects" - Vikas Swarup. Good if a little far fetched at times

 

[Orang Utan]

1/50 Richard Price - The Whites
2/50 Ali Smith - Public Library & Other Stories
3/60 Hannah Eaton - Naming Monsters
4/60 Jeff Vandermeer - Authority

 

[Red Cat]

1. Peter Barham. Schizophrenia and human value.

I'll read a novel next.

 

[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