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

[Biddlybee]

Been having a flick through the thread today. None of the local libraries have got Dodgers! But I've put it on my list.

 

[Voley]

Been having a flick through the thread today. None of the local libraries have got Dodgers! But I've put it on my list.

I was quite surprised I could get it down here in the back of beyond tbh.

 

[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
10/50 Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
11/50 Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
12/50 Martin Ford - Rise of the Robots
13/50 John Steinbeck - Cannery Row

 

[Biddlybee]

I was quite surprised I could get it down here in the back of beyond tbh.

Lots of copies on order in Lambeth, so should be one by the time I've finished these other 4 books

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

1/40 The Changes Everything: Capitalism versus the Climate - Naomi Klein
2/40 Feed - MT Andersen

3/50 Unstoppable - Bill Nye
4/50 Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies - Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith

 

[Pickman's model]

7/50 dennis lehane, world gone by (london: abacus, 2016)

8/50 sax rohmer, the quest of the sacred slipper (new york: pyramid, 1966)

 

[Sea Star]

1. American Gods ~ Neil Gaiman
2. Good Omens ~ Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

 

[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

 

[Voley]

2/109 Joel Selvin - Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day (very interesting, particularly good on the San Francisco counter culture of the late 60s...and Jagger's obsession with starring in his very own west coast Woodstock).

Only a couple of chapters in but enjoying this a lot, marshall , thanks. The Grateful Dead's 'manager' was an interesting fella. Smuggles coke, acid and weed into Britain, gets busted, then raises the solicitors fees by smuggling more acid in. All because he wanted to chat to Keith Richards about doing a free gig.

 

[braindancer]

1/20 - The Secret History - Donna Tartt
2/20 - The Grifters - Jim Thompson
3/20 - His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet

 

[marshall]

8/109 - Ian McGuire, The North Water - 1850s, whaling ship heading to the Arctic Circle, brutal stuff, proper wrong 'un in Drax, a harpooner, very good.

 

[ringo]

8/109 - Ian McGuire, The North Water - 1850s, whaling ship heading to the Arctic Circle, brutal stuff, proper wrong 'un in Drax, a harpooner, very good.

+1, really enjoyed that

 

[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

 

[polly]

1/29 Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
2/29 Raymond Chandler, The High Window

3/29 Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases

 

[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
4/48 Asa Briggs - Victorian Cities
5/48 Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

 

[Threshers_Flail]

13/50 John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
14/50 Franz Kafka - The Trial (re-read)

 

[ringo]

Dodgers - Bill Beverly

Does anyone want my copy before it goes to the charity shop? Biddlybee ?

 

[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
5/60 Simon Garfield - To The Letter - A Celebration Of The Lost Art Of Letter Writing

 

[Biddlybee]

Does anyone want my copy before it goes to the charity shop? Biddlybee ?

ooh, yes please

 

[ringo]

ooh, yes please

PM me your address & I'll stick it in the post

 

[Me76]

ooh, yes please

Can I have it after you Bee?

I'm still stuck in Don Quixote, but three weeks in I can't just drop it, plus it's one of my classics for the year. I have decided I'll allow myself to read something else at the weekend.

 

[Pickman's model]

8/50 sax rohmer, the quest of the sacred slipper (new york: pyramid, 1966)

9/50 georges simenon, the hanged man of saint-pholien (london: penguin, 2014)

 

[Biddlybee]

Can I have it after you Bee?

I'm still stuck in Don Quixote, but three weeks in I can't just drop it, plus it's one of my classics for the year. I have decided I'll allow myself to read something else at the weekend.

Of course lovely.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "Six Suspects" - Vikas Swarup
2. "Rather Be The Devil" - Ian Rankin. His writing makes the books so effortless to read, really enjoyed it

 

[crossthebreeze]

1. Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie
Well that was a bit darker than expected!
2. Nnedi Okorafor - Lagoon
Aliens in Lagos - they come in peace, but humans respond with chaos and violence. Really imaginative.

 

[gawkrodger]

Jumpin in on this

Not in order

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

 

[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

 

[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
4/30 Reelin' In The Years: The Soundtrack Of A Northern Life - Mark Radcliffe
5/30 Look Back In Hunger: The Autobiography - Jo Brand
6/30 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
7/30 Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels And The Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day - Joel Selvin

Had some great recommendations from this thread lately - thanks for mentioning this one marshall. I always thought that the film 'Gimme Shelter' was the definitive story of this grim day but this book goes much deeper. The role of The Grateful Dead was a new one on me - mainly because they (wisely) chose not to play on the day. Mick Jagger doesn't come out of it quite as naïve as he did in the film, either. Good book.

 

[marshall]

9/109 - Thomas Mullen, Darktown - 1948, Atlanta, story involving the city's first black cops, a division of 8 with very limited powers i.e. they can't arrest anyone who's white; excellent crime novel.

10/109 - Alexandra Olivia, The Last One - good concept (reality tv survival show taking place at the same time as a global pandemic sweeps the real world), but I've OD'd on dystopian fiction in the last few years, and although this is an interesting take, I've personally had my fill of End of Days lit, still, entertaining read.

 

[polly]

1/29 Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire
2/29 Raymond Chandler, The High Window
3/29 Nathan Englander, The Ministry of Special Cases

4/29 Dennis Covington, Salvation on Snake Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

Those sound great marshall. Just got a £50 amazon voucher! So will stick those on my big fat greedy list