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

How many books do you anticipate reading in 2017?


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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
8/30 Live At The Brixton Academy: A Riotous Life In The Music Business - Simon Parkes
9/30 Travels With Charley: In Search Of America - John Steinbeck
10/30 A Storm Of Swords Book 1: Steel And Snow - George R.R. Martin
11/30 Girl In A Band - Kim Gordon
12/30 The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
13/30 Hound Dog - Richard Blandford
14/30 American Gods - Neil Gaiman
15/30 Daft Wee Stories - Limmy

Sometimes really funny, this, sometimes totally bizarre, sometimes just daft like it says in the title. He's an odd one, Limmy, but I like him.
 
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
7- Beaumont - Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London
8 - Dunn - Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
9 - Mieville - The City & The City
10 - Benjamin - One-way Street and other writings
11- Schlosser - Gods of Metal
12 - Machiavelli - The Prince
13 - Mieville - Perdido Street Station
14 - Shaw + Graham (eds.) - Our Digital Rights to the City
15 - William Morris - The Pilgrims of Hope
16 - Mieville - The Scar
17 - Mieville - Iron Council
18 - Steinbeck - The Pearl
19 - Mieville - Kraken
20 - Graham - Cities under siege: The new military urbanism
21 - Fisher - Capitalist Realism (re-read for a reading group)
22 - Nagle - Kill All Normies
23 - Pettifor - The Production of Money (meh)
24 - McKinstry - Spitfire
25 - Liz Berry - Black Country
26 - McKinstry - Lancaster
 
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
14/50 Franz Kafka - The Trial (re-read)
15/50 Robert Baxell - Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism
16/50 John Berger - Ways of Seeing
17/50 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
18/50 Susan Sontag - On Photography
19/50 James Baldwin - Another Country
20/50 Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
21/50 Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
22/50 Gunter Grass- The Tin Drum
23/50 Cormac McCarthy - Child of God
24/50 Nathan Hill - The Nix
25/50 Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
26/50 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
27/50 Elena Ferrante - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
28/50 John Dinges - The Condor Years
29/50 Albert Camus - The Fall
30/50 Elena Ferrante - The Story of the Lost Child
31/50 Roberto Bolaño - By Night In Chile
32/50 Junot Diaz- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
33/50 Angela Davis - An Autobiography
34/50 Donna Tartt - The Secret History
35/50 Ali Smith - How to Be Both
36/50 Wallace Stegner - The Spectator Bird
 
what did you think of this?

Worth a read, though not as good as some of the reviews suggest. Great example of right place at the right time!

Strong on the development of the alt-right, manosphere/MRA etc. Less strong on critiques of the 'tumblr/IDPOL etc left
 
1/60 The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America by Naomi Murakawa
2/60 The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by William P. Jones
3/60 The Lost Promise of Civil Rights by Risa L. Goluboff
4/60 Helen Macfarlane: Red Republican: Essays, articles and her translation of the Communist Manifesto edited by David Black
5/60 All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement by Carlotta R. Anderson
6/60 Behind the Crisis: Marx's Dialectics of Value and Knowledge by Guglielmo Carchedi
7/60 The Long Drop by Denise Mina
8/60 From Power to Prejudice: The Rise of Racial Individualism in Midcentury America by Leah N. Gordon
9/60 Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary by Carolyn Ashbaugh
10/60 Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class by Michael A. Lebowitz
11/60 Economics, Politics and the Age of Inflation by Paul Mattick
12/60 Maigret at Picratt's by Georges Simenon
13/60 Spring Sleepers by Kyoko Yoshida
14/60 Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
15/60 Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez
16/60 Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine
17/60 Mikumari by Misumi Kubo
18/60 The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order by Adam Tooze
19/60 The Transparent Labyrinth by Keiichrō Hirano
20/60 American Genius, a Comedy by Lynne Tillman
21/60 Parade by Shuichi Yoshida
22/60 Marxism: Last Refuge of the Bourgeoisie? by Paul Mattick
23/60 The Bees by Laline Paull
24/60 When Mystical Creatures Attack! by Kathleen Founds
25/60 The Girl Who is Getting Married by Aoko Matsuda
26/60 Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
27/60 Everything is Flammable by Gabrielle Bell
28/60 Whigs & Hunters by E.P. Thompson
29/60 Jihad and Death: The Global Appeal of Islamic State by Olivier Roy
30/60 Shotgun Seamstress by Osa Atoe
31/60 Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600 by Martha C. Howell
32/60 The Equestrienne by Uršuľa Kovalyk
33/60 Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992 by Midnight Notes Collective
34/60 Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
35/60 The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror by Arun Kundnani
 
1/30. Owning Up - George Melly.
2/30. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius.
3/30. Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S. Thompson.
4/30. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
5/30. The Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan.
6/30. The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels.
7/30. Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare - Philip Short.
8/30. Orlando: A Biography - Virginia Woolf.
9/30. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway.
10/30. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway.
11/30. Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages - Frances & Joseph Gies.
12/30. Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics - Richard Seymour.
13/30. Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. - Rudolph Grey.
14/30. The History Man - Malcolm Bradbury.
15/30. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen.
16/30. Cambodia: 1975 - 1982 - Michael Vickery.
17/30. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung - Mao Zedong.
18/30. Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler.
19/30. The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler.
20/30. Three Tang Dynasty Poets - Wang Wei (Youcheng), Li Bai and Du Fu.
 
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
5/26 - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
6/26 - Pennine Walkies by Mark Wallington
7/26 - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole age 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend (reread)
8/26 - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
9/26 - 2001 A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke (reread)
10/26 - Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
11/26 - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
12/26 - Dead Funny Encore: More Horror Stories by Comedians - Edited by Robin Ince and Johnny Mains
13/26 - The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (reread)
14/26 - IT by Stephen King
15/26 - What Planet Am I On? by Shaun Ryder
16/26 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
17/26 - The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
18/26 - Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys by Viv Albertine
19/26 - Watership Down by Richard Adams
20/26 - The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole by Sue Townsend (reread)
21/26 - The Martian by Andy Weir
22/40 - Don't You Leave Me Here by Wilko Johnson
23/40 - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend (reread)
24/40 - The Darling Buds of May by H.E. Bates
25/40 - The Son by Philipp Meyer
26/40 - Adrian Mole the Cappuccino Years by Sue Townsend (reread)
27/40 - Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
 
1/60 Richard Price - The Whites
2/60 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
6/60 Claire North - The Sudden Appearance Of Hope
7/60 Dan Lepard - Short & Sweet
8/60 Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm
9/60 George RR Martin - A Feast For Crows
10/60 Haruki Murakami - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
11/60 Adam Roberts - The Thing Itself
12/60 Roger Crowley - Empires Of The Sea The Final Battle For The Mediterranean, 1521-1580
13/60 Philip Hoare - Leviathan, or The Whale
14/60 Johan Hari - Chasing The Scream (don't bother reading this, it's shite)
15/60 George RR Martin - A Dance With Dragons: Dreams & Dust
16/60 George RR - A Dance With Dragons: After The Feast
17/60 Gilbert Shelton - The Freak Brothers Omnibus: Every Freak Brothers Story Rolled Into One Bumper Package
18/60 Jeff Vandermeer - Acceptance
19/60 Dan Rhodes - Little Hands Clapping
20/60 Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens.
21/60 Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project
22/60 Grace Jones - I'll Never Write My Memoirs
23/60 Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
24/60 Bill Beverley - Dodgers
 
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
14/50 Franz Kafka - The Trial (re-read)
15/50 Robert Baxell - Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism
16/50 John Berger - Ways of Seeing
17/50 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
18/50 Susan Sontag - On Photography
19/50 James Baldwin - Another Country
20/50 Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
21/50 Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
22/50 Gunter Grass- The Tin Drum
23/50 Cormac McCarthy - Child of God
24/50 Nathan Hill - The Nix
25/50 Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
26/50 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
27/50 Elena Ferrante - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
28/50 John Dinges - The Condor Years
29/50 Albert Camus - The Fall
30/50 Elena Ferrante - The Story of the Lost Child
31/50 Roberto Bolaño - By Night In Chile
32/50 Junot Diaz- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
33/50 Angela Davis - An Autobiography
34/50 Donna Tartt - The Secret History
35/50 Ali Smith - How to Be Both
36/50 Wallace Stegner - The Spectator Bird
37/50 Paul Lewis and Rob Evans - Undercover - The True Story of Britain's Secret Police
38/50 Jakob Wassermann - My First Wife
 
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