gawkrodger
Well-Known Member
yes. It also provided the name for a hardcore punk band superstar house DJ Steve Aoki was in
back by popular demand it's the 2017 reading challenge thread
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yes. It also provided the name for a hardcore punk band superstar house DJ Steve Aoki was in
gawkrodger
Well-Known Member
ha, yes. I'll rephrase - Steve Aoki, the famous house DJ, was once in a hardcore punk band named after said book
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1/25 Ken Follett - World Without End
2/25 Frances Hardinge - Fly By Night
3/25 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
4/25 Roald Dahl - Madness (short stories)
5/25 Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
6/25 David Rodigan - My Life in Reggae
7/25 Alan Garner - The Owl Service
8/25 William Goldman - The Princess Bride
9/25 George Orwell - Burmese Days
10/25 John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
11/25 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
12/25 Brian Jacques - Redwall
13/25 Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (reread)
14/25 Stephen P Kershaw - A Brief History of the Roman Empire: Rise and Fall
15/25 China Miéville - Perdido Street Station
16/25 Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
17/26 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (reread)
18/26 Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (reread)
19/26 James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes
20/26 Felicia Day - You're Never Weird On The Internet (almost)
21/26 James S A Corey - Caliban's War
2/25 Frances Hardinge - Fly By Night
3/25 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
4/25 Roald Dahl - Madness (short stories)
5/25 Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
6/25 David Rodigan - My Life in Reggae
7/25 Alan Garner - The Owl Service
8/25 William Goldman - The Princess Bride
9/25 George Orwell - Burmese Days
10/25 John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
11/25 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
12/25 Brian Jacques - Redwall
13/25 Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (reread)
14/25 Stephen P Kershaw - A Brief History of the Roman Empire: Rise and Fall
15/25 China Miéville - Perdido Street Station
16/25 Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
17/26 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (reread)
18/26 Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (reread)
19/26 James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes
20/26 Felicia Day - You're Never Weird On The Internet (almost)
21/26 James S A Corey - Caliban's War
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
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
7/45 Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Gutierrez
8/45 Silk - Alessandro Baricco
9/45 Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
10/45 The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
11/45 Rodigan: My Life In Reggae - David Rodigan
12/45 Empire Of The Sun - JG Ballard
13/45 Post Office - Charles Bukowski
14/45 Chronicle Of A Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15/45 The Saga Of Erik The Viking - Terry Jones
16/45 The End Of The Affair - Graham Greene
17/45 The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
18/45 Demon Dentist - David Walliams
19/45 Koko Takes A Holiday - Kieran Shea
20/45 The Son - Phillip Meyer
21/45 Futuristic Violence And Fancy Suits - David Wong
22/45 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
23/45 The Power Of The Dog - Thomas Savage
24/45 Friction - Joe Stretch
25/45 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept - Elizabeth Smart
26/45 Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson
27/45 Niwaki: Pruning, shaping and training trees the Japanese way - Jake Hobson
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
7/45 Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Gutierrez
8/45 Silk - Alessandro Baricco
9/45 Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
10/45 The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
11/45 Rodigan: My Life In Reggae - David Rodigan
12/45 Empire Of The Sun - JG Ballard
13/45 Post Office - Charles Bukowski
14/45 Chronicle Of A Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15/45 The Saga Of Erik The Viking - Terry Jones
16/45 The End Of The Affair - Graham Greene
17/45 The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
18/45 Demon Dentist - David Walliams
19/45 Koko Takes A Holiday - Kieran Shea
20/45 The Son - Phillip Meyer
21/45 Futuristic Violence And Fancy Suits - David Wong
22/45 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
23/45 The Power Of The Dog - Thomas Savage
24/45 Friction - Joe Stretch
25/45 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept - Elizabeth Smart
26/45 Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson
27/45 Niwaki: Pruning, shaping and training trees the Japanese way - Jake Hobson
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
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
25/60 Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap
26/60 Lynley Dodd - Hairy Maclary, Shoo
27/60 David Ellwand - Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes
28/60 Storytime Tales - I Love You, Mummy
29/60 Victoria Tebbs - See & Say: Baby Jesus Story
30/60 Unknown - Play With Peppa: A Puppet Play Book
31/60 Valerie Thomas/Korky Paul - Winnie's Dinosaur Day
32/60 Unknown - Tell Me About The Farm
33/60 Carol Lawson - The Big Wish
34/60 Carol Benoist/Cathy Gilmore - Easter Bunny's Amazing Day
35/60 Frances Barry - Duckie's Ducklings
36/60 Unknown - Thomas & Friends: Edward and the Party
37/60 Janet & Allen Ahlberg - The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters
38/60 Storytime Tales: Excuse Me!
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
25/60 Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap
26/60 Lynley Dodd - Hairy Maclary, Shoo
27/60 David Ellwand - Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes
28/60 Storytime Tales - I Love You, Mummy
29/60 Victoria Tebbs - See & Say: Baby Jesus Story
30/60 Unknown - Play With Peppa: A Puppet Play Book
31/60 Valerie Thomas/Korky Paul - Winnie's Dinosaur Day
32/60 Unknown - Tell Me About The Farm
33/60 Carol Lawson - The Big Wish
34/60 Carol Benoist/Cathy Gilmore - Easter Bunny's Amazing Day
35/60 Frances Barry - Duckie's Ducklings
36/60 Unknown - Thomas & Friends: Edward and the Party
37/60 Janet & Allen Ahlberg - The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters
38/60 Storytime Tales: Excuse Me!
Me76
Not very good lurker
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
6/50 the Husband's Secret, Liane Moriarty
7/50 Sleep Tight, Rachel Abbot
8/50 A Dark Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
9/50 Patchwork Man, DB Martin
10/50 Gone Bad, JB Turner
11/50 The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
12/50 The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald
13/50 While My Eyes Were Closed, Linda Green
14/50 Total Victim Theory, Ian Ballard
15/50 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins
16/50 Dodgers, Bill Beverly
17/50 Tess of the D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
18/50 Secrets of Happiness, Lucy Diamond
19/50 St Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves, Karen Russell
20/50 Love Nina, Nina Stubbs
21/50 Innocence, Dean Koontz
22/50 Diamonds in the Sky, MA Harper
23/50 Son of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses
24/50 Blood of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses.
25/50 When my Ship Comes In, Sue Wilsher
26/50 Fanatic, Jams N Roses
27/50 Brilliant & Forever, Kevin McNeil
28/50 The Girl in the Maze, RK Jackson
29/50 The Martian, Andy Weir
30/50 High Rise, JG Ballard
31/50 Affliction, Laurell K Hamilton
32/50 Slip, David Estes
33/50 Synchronised Breathing, Tara Ellison
34/50 Savage Lane, Jason Starr
35/50 A Smudge of Gray, Jonathan Sturak
36/50 A Family Saga, Patricia Jetson
37/50 High Society, Ben Elton
38/50 The Wonder, Emma Donoghue - so different from Room but amazing in its own way. A bit of a slow start but from half way through on really gripping. And sad.
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
6/50 the Husband's Secret, Liane Moriarty
7/50 Sleep Tight, Rachel Abbot
8/50 A Dark Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
9/50 Patchwork Man, DB Martin
10/50 Gone Bad, JB Turner
11/50 The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
12/50 The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald
13/50 While My Eyes Were Closed, Linda Green
14/50 Total Victim Theory, Ian Ballard
15/50 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins
16/50 Dodgers, Bill Beverly
17/50 Tess of the D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
18/50 Secrets of Happiness, Lucy Diamond
19/50 St Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves, Karen Russell
20/50 Love Nina, Nina Stubbs
21/50 Innocence, Dean Koontz
22/50 Diamonds in the Sky, MA Harper
23/50 Son of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses
24/50 Blood of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses.
25/50 When my Ship Comes In, Sue Wilsher
26/50 Fanatic, Jams N Roses
27/50 Brilliant & Forever, Kevin McNeil
28/50 The Girl in the Maze, RK Jackson
29/50 The Martian, Andy Weir
30/50 High Rise, JG Ballard
31/50 Affliction, Laurell K Hamilton
32/50 Slip, David Estes
33/50 Synchronised Breathing, Tara Ellison
34/50 Savage Lane, Jason Starr
35/50 A Smudge of Gray, Jonathan Sturak
36/50 A Family Saga, Patricia Jetson
37/50 High Society, Ben Elton
38/50 The Wonder, Emma Donoghue - so different from Room but amazing in its own way. A bit of a slow start but from half way through on really gripping. And sad.
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
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
16/30 Don't You Leave Me Here - Wilko Johnson
17/30 What Planet Am I On? - Shaun Ryder
18/30 My Old Man: Tales Of Our Fathers - ed. Ted Kessler
19/30 The Outsider - Albert Camus
20/30 Kill Your Friends - John Niven
Satire on the 90's music industry. Mixed feelings about this. It was funny in places, the main man was truly vile, it was very well-observed but it owed a bit too much to 'Money' by Martin Amis and, even more so, 'American Psycho'. Still, the bits where obscurity-bound indie bands I'd forgotten about are hailed as saviours of rock n roll were funny.
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
16/30 Don't You Leave Me Here - Wilko Johnson
17/30 What Planet Am I On? - Shaun Ryder
18/30 My Old Man: Tales Of Our Fathers - ed. Ted Kessler
19/30 The Outsider - Albert Camus
20/30 Kill Your Friends - John Niven
Satire on the 90's music industry. Mixed feelings about this. It was funny in places, the main man was truly vile, it was very well-observed but it owed a bit too much to 'Money' by Martin Amis and, even more so, 'American Psycho'. Still, the bits where obscurity-bound indie bands I'd forgotten about are hailed as saviours of rock n roll were funny.
Me76
Not very good lurker
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
6/50 the Husband's Secret, Liane Moriarty
7/50 Sleep Tight, Rachel Abbot
8/50 A Dark Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
9/50 Patchwork Man, DB Martin
10/50 Gone Bad, JB Turner
11/50 The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
12/50 The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald
13/50 While My Eyes Were Closed, Linda Green
14/50 Total Victim Theory, Ian Ballard
15/50 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins
16/50 Dodgers, Bill Beverly
17/50 Tess of the D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
18/50 Secrets of Happiness, Lucy Diamond
19/50 St Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves, Karen Russell
20/50 Love Nina, Nina Stubbs
21/50 Innocence, Dean Koontz
22/50 Diamonds in the Sky, MA Harper
23/50 Son of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses
24/50 Blood of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses.
25/50 When my Ship Comes In, Sue Wilsher
26/50 Fanatic, Jams N Roses
27/50 Brilliant & Forever, Kevin McNeil
28/50 The Girl in the Maze, RK Jackson
29/50 The Martian, Andy Weir
30/50 High Rise, JG Ballard
31/50 Affliction, Laurell K Hamilton
32/50 Slip, David Estes
33/50 Synchronised Breathing, Tara Ellison
34/50 Savage Lane, Jason Starr
35/50 A Smudge of Gray, Jonathan Sturak
36/50 A Family Saga, Patricia Jetson
37/50 High Society, Ben Elton
38/50 The Wonder, Emma Donoghue
39/50 Hunter / Prey, Sam Sisavath - good short pap thriller if anyone's interested in one to top up their list. Read in about 5 hours.
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
6/50 the Husband's Secret, Liane Moriarty
7/50 Sleep Tight, Rachel Abbot
8/50 A Dark Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
9/50 Patchwork Man, DB Martin
10/50 Gone Bad, JB Turner
11/50 The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
12/50 The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald
13/50 While My Eyes Were Closed, Linda Green
14/50 Total Victim Theory, Ian Ballard
15/50 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins
16/50 Dodgers, Bill Beverly
17/50 Tess of the D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
18/50 Secrets of Happiness, Lucy Diamond
19/50 St Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves, Karen Russell
20/50 Love Nina, Nina Stubbs
21/50 Innocence, Dean Koontz
22/50 Diamonds in the Sky, MA Harper
23/50 Son of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses
24/50 Blood of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses.
25/50 When my Ship Comes In, Sue Wilsher
26/50 Fanatic, Jams N Roses
27/50 Brilliant & Forever, Kevin McNeil
28/50 The Girl in the Maze, RK Jackson
29/50 The Martian, Andy Weir
30/50 High Rise, JG Ballard
31/50 Affliction, Laurell K Hamilton
32/50 Slip, David Estes
33/50 Synchronised Breathing, Tara Ellison
34/50 Savage Lane, Jason Starr
35/50 A Smudge of Gray, Jonathan Sturak
36/50 A Family Saga, Patricia Jetson
37/50 High Society, Ben Elton
38/50 The Wonder, Emma Donoghue
39/50 Hunter / Prey, Sam Sisavath - good short pap thriller if anyone's interested in one to top up their list. Read in about 5 hours.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
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
28/40 - The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
29/40 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
30/40 - Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians by Sue Townsend
31/40 - Undisclosed by Steve Alten
32/40 - Head On by Julian Cope
33/40 - Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
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
28/40 - The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
29/40 - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
30/40 - Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians by Sue Townsend
31/40 - Undisclosed by Steve Alten
32/40 - Head On by Julian Cope
33/40 - Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
23/25 David Robins and Phil Cohen - Knuckle Sandwich: Growing Up in the Working-Class City
One of those Pelican books with the light blue spines. First bit is a quite good account of a bunch of people who squatted an abandoned pub on an Islington estate in the 70s and tried to put it to good use for tenants, including a kids disco. Sort've Libertarian Socialist but with a slightly pessimistic tone. Lots of accounts of aggro with the tenants association. There is a fair bit of focus on youth and lack of youth provision and what it all means from a class perspective. Gets a bit sociological but worth a go I think - they obviously put the time in actually talking to people about their lives and the lack of optimism is actually quite refreshing.
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
1. "Six Suspects" - Vikas Swarup
2. "Rather Be The Devil" - Ian Rankin
3. "Those We Left Behind" - Stuart Neville
4. "Transition" - Iain Banks
6. "Streets of Darkness" - A.A. Dhand
7. "The Rapture" - Liz Jensen
8. "Collusion" - Stuart Neville
9. "Magpie Murders" - Anthony Horowitz
10."A Dark So Deadly" - Stuart MacBride
11. "Conclave" - Robert Harris
12. "A Time of Torment" - John Connolly
13. "The House of Dolls" - David Hewson
14. "A Game of Ghosts" - John Connolly
15 "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" - Joel Dicker
16. "From the Dead" - Mark Billingham
17. "Black Water Lillies" - Michel Bussi
18 "Written in Bones" - James Oswald. Alright but others in the series have been better
2. "Rather Be The Devil" - Ian Rankin
3. "Those We Left Behind" - Stuart Neville
4. "Transition" - Iain Banks
6. "Streets of Darkness" - A.A. Dhand
7. "The Rapture" - Liz Jensen
8. "Collusion" - Stuart Neville
9. "Magpie Murders" - Anthony Horowitz
10."A Dark So Deadly" - Stuart MacBride
11. "Conclave" - Robert Harris
12. "A Time of Torment" - John Connolly
13. "The House of Dolls" - David Hewson
14. "A Game of Ghosts" - John Connolly
15 "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" - Joel Dicker
16. "From the Dead" - Mark Billingham
17. "Black Water Lillies" - Michel Bussi
18 "Written in Bones" - James Oswald. Alright but others in the series have been better
braindancer
not for long
1/20 - The Secret History - Donna Tartt
2/20 - The Grifters - Jim Thompson
3/20 - His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
4/20 - The Sellout - Paul Beatty
5/20 - The North Water - Ian McGuire
6/20 - The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
7/20 - Black Water Lillies - Michel Bussi
8/20 - The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
9/20 - The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler
10/20 - Girl in a Band - Kim Gordon
11/20 - We are all completely beside ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
12/20 - The Son - Phillip Meyer
13/20 - The Power - Naomi Alderman
14/20 - Another Country - James Baldwin
15/20 - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
(I read something else too I'm sure of it - my memory is shocking!)
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
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
7/65 - Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
8/65 - Tana French - Into The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad 1) (3/10)
9/65 - Larry McMurty - Lonesome Dove (4/10)
10/65 - Denise Mina - The Dead Hour (Paddy Meehan 2)
11/65 - Ian Rankin - The Flood
12/65 - Denise Mina - Slip of the Knife (Paddy Meehan 3)
13/65 - Neil Gaiman - Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
14/65 - Bill Beverly - Dodgers
15/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Face of Trespass
16/65 - John Irving - The World According to Garp (5/10)
17/65 - Val McDermid - Out of Bounds
18/65 - Stuart Maconie - Hope and Glory: A People's History of Modern Britain
19/65 - Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
20/65 - Kate Atkinson - Emotionally Weird
21/65 - Roald Dahl - Madness
22/65 - Tana French - The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad 2) (6/10)
23/65 - Daniel Woodrell - The Maid's Version
24/65 - Laline Paull - The Bees
25/65 - Jonathan Franzen - Freedom (7/10)
26/65 - Nicola Morgan - Blame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed
27/65 - Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
28/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Killing Doll
29/65 - Denise Mina - Sanctum
30/65 - John Williams - Butcher's Crossing
31/65 - Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac
32/65 - Peter James - Need You Dead
33/65 - Stephen King - Carrie
34/65 - Andy Hamilton - The Star Witness
35/65 - Jessie Burton - The Muse
36/65 - Stephen King - Christine (8/10)
37/65 - Belinda Bauer - The Beautiful Dead
38/65 - John Irving - The Cider House Rules (9/10)
39/65 - Ruth Rendell - A New Lease of Death
40/65 - Stephen King - It (10/10)
41/65 - Annie Proulx - Heart Songs
42/65 - Ruth Rendell - Wolf to The Slaughter
43/65 - Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
44/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Best Man To Die
45/65 - Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
46/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Guilty Thing Surprised
47/65 - David Mitchell - number9dream
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
7/65 - Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
8/65 - Tana French - Into The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad 1) (3/10)
9/65 - Larry McMurty - Lonesome Dove (4/10)
10/65 - Denise Mina - The Dead Hour (Paddy Meehan 2)
11/65 - Ian Rankin - The Flood
12/65 - Denise Mina - Slip of the Knife (Paddy Meehan 3)
13/65 - Neil Gaiman - Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
14/65 - Bill Beverly - Dodgers
15/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Face of Trespass
16/65 - John Irving - The World According to Garp (5/10)
17/65 - Val McDermid - Out of Bounds
18/65 - Stuart Maconie - Hope and Glory: A People's History of Modern Britain
19/65 - Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
20/65 - Kate Atkinson - Emotionally Weird
21/65 - Roald Dahl - Madness
22/65 - Tana French - The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad 2) (6/10)
23/65 - Daniel Woodrell - The Maid's Version
24/65 - Laline Paull - The Bees
25/65 - Jonathan Franzen - Freedom (7/10)
26/65 - Nicola Morgan - Blame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed
27/65 - Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
28/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Killing Doll
29/65 - Denise Mina - Sanctum
30/65 - John Williams - Butcher's Crossing
31/65 - Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac
32/65 - Peter James - Need You Dead
33/65 - Stephen King - Carrie
34/65 - Andy Hamilton - The Star Witness
35/65 - Jessie Burton - The Muse
36/65 - Stephen King - Christine (8/10)
37/65 - Belinda Bauer - The Beautiful Dead
38/65 - John Irving - The Cider House Rules (9/10)
39/65 - Ruth Rendell - A New Lease of Death
40/65 - Stephen King - It (10/10)
41/65 - Annie Proulx - Heart Songs
42/65 - Ruth Rendell - Wolf to The Slaughter
43/65 - Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
44/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Best Man To Die
45/65 - Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
46/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Guilty Thing Surprised
47/65 - David Mitchell - number9dream
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
36/60 Karate Chop / Minna Needs Rehearsal Space by Dorthe Nors
37/60 Wartime Strikes: The struggle against the no-strike pledge in the UAW during World War II by Martin Glaberman
38/60 The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game: Foreign Policy under the Assads by Bente Scheller
39/60 At the Edge of the Wood by Masatsugu Ono
40/60 Time Differences by Yoko Tawada
41/60 Mariko/Mariquita by Natsuki Ikezawa
42/60 Friendship for Grown-Ups by Nao-Cola Yamazaki
43/60 Anti-Bolshevik Communism by Paul Mattick
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
36/60 Karate Chop / Minna Needs Rehearsal Space by Dorthe Nors
37/60 Wartime Strikes: The struggle against the no-strike pledge in the UAW during World War II by Martin Glaberman
38/60 The Wisdom of Syria's Waiting Game: Foreign Policy under the Assads by Bente Scheller
39/60 At the Edge of the Wood by Masatsugu Ono
40/60 Time Differences by Yoko Tawada
41/60 Mariko/Mariquita by Natsuki Ikezawa
42/60 Friendship for Grown-Ups by Nao-Cola Yamazaki
43/60 Anti-Bolshevik Communism by Paul Mattick
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
1/75 Sanctuary : After it Happened Book 5 - Devon C Ford
2/75 1916 : The Morning After - Tim Pat Coogan
3/75 Last Stand at Saber River - Elmore Leonard
4/75 After : The Shock - Scott Nicholson
5/75 After : The Echo - Scott Nicholson
6/75 After : Milepost 291 - Scott Nicholson
7/75 After : Whiteout - Scott Nicholson
8/75 After : Red Scare - Scott Nicholson
9/75 Surviving The Evacuation : Ireland - Book 9 -Frank Tayell
10/75 Crisis - Frank Gardner
11/75 Outcast London : A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society - Gareth Stedman Jones
12/75 After : Dying Light - Scott Nicholson
13/75 The Ruins - T W Piperbrook
14/75 Confederates - Thomas Keneally
15/75 Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi
16/75 The Revenge of History - Seumas Milne
17/75 The Great War : The American Front - Harry Turtledove.
18/75 The Wrong Side of Goodbye - Michael Connelly
19/75 Surviving The Evacuation : The Last Candidate - Book 10 . Frank Tayell
20/75 The Gunslinger : The Dark Tower - Stephen King.
21/75 Out of Bounds - Val McDermid
22/75 Hurst - Robin Crumby
23/75 The Great War : Walk In Hell - Harry Turtledove
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes
27/75 Critical Strike - Wearmouth & Barnes
28/75 The Birdwatcher - William Shaw
29/75 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
30/75 Dark Town - Thomas Mullen
31/75 A Hero In France - Alan Furst
32/75 Reelin' in The Years : The Soundtrack of a Northern Life. - Mark Radcliffe
33/75 The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
34/75 Roads :A Millennial Journey Along America''s Great Interstate Highways - Larry McMurtry
35/75 Rebellion: After It Happened Book 6 - Devon C Ford
36/75 Sentinel - Robin Crumby
37/75 The Fire Sermon - Raphael Dogg
38/75 Earth Alone - Daniel Arenson
39/75 Earth Lost - Daniel Arenson
40/75 Earth Rising - Daniel Arenson
41/75 I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
42/75 To Kill The President - Sam Bourne
43/75 The Contours of American History - William Appleman Williams
44/75 The Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Seymour Hersh.
45/75 Nomad - James Swallow
46/75 Surviving The Evacuation: Search and Rescue . Book 11 - Frank Tayell
47/75 The Strength of the Wolf : The Secret History of America's War on Drugs - Douglas Valentine.
48/75 I Am Missing - Tim Weaver.
49/75 Exile - James Swallow
50/75 The Ministry of Nostalgia - Owen Hatherley
*****
51/75 The Age of Jihad - Patrick Cockburn
2/75 1916 : The Morning After - Tim Pat Coogan
3/75 Last Stand at Saber River - Elmore Leonard
4/75 After : The Shock - Scott Nicholson
5/75 After : The Echo - Scott Nicholson
6/75 After : Milepost 291 - Scott Nicholson
7/75 After : Whiteout - Scott Nicholson
8/75 After : Red Scare - Scott Nicholson
9/75 Surviving The Evacuation : Ireland - Book 9 -Frank Tayell
10/75 Crisis - Frank Gardner
11/75 Outcast London : A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society - Gareth Stedman Jones
12/75 After : Dying Light - Scott Nicholson
13/75 The Ruins - T W Piperbrook
14/75 Confederates - Thomas Keneally
15/75 Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi
16/75 The Revenge of History - Seumas Milne
17/75 The Great War : The American Front - Harry Turtledove.
18/75 The Wrong Side of Goodbye - Michael Connelly
19/75 Surviving The Evacuation : The Last Candidate - Book 10 . Frank Tayell
20/75 The Gunslinger : The Dark Tower - Stephen King.
21/75 Out of Bounds - Val McDermid
22/75 Hurst - Robin Crumby
23/75 The Great War : Walk In Hell - Harry Turtledove
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes
27/75 Critical Strike - Wearmouth & Barnes
28/75 The Birdwatcher - William Shaw
29/75 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
30/75 Dark Town - Thomas Mullen
31/75 A Hero In France - Alan Furst
32/75 Reelin' in The Years : The Soundtrack of a Northern Life. - Mark Radcliffe
33/75 The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
34/75 Roads :A Millennial Journey Along America''s Great Interstate Highways - Larry McMurtry
35/75 Rebellion: After It Happened Book 6 - Devon C Ford
36/75 Sentinel - Robin Crumby
37/75 The Fire Sermon - Raphael Dogg
38/75 Earth Alone - Daniel Arenson
39/75 Earth Lost - Daniel Arenson
40/75 Earth Rising - Daniel Arenson
41/75 I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
42/75 To Kill The President - Sam Bourne
43/75 The Contours of American History - William Appleman Williams
44/75 The Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Seymour Hersh.
45/75 Nomad - James Swallow
46/75 Surviving The Evacuation: Search and Rescue . Book 11 - Frank Tayell
47/75 The Strength of the Wolf : The Secret History of America's War on Drugs - Douglas Valentine.
48/75 I Am Missing - Tim Weaver.
49/75 Exile - James Swallow
50/75 The Ministry of Nostalgia - Owen Hatherley
*****
51/75 The Age of Jihad - Patrick Cockburn
Me76
Not very good lurker
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
6/50 the Husband's Secret, Liane Moriarty
7/50 Sleep Tight, Rachel Abbot
8/50 A Dark Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
9/50 Patchwork Man, DB Martin
10/50 Gone Bad, JB Turner
11/50 The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
12/50 The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald
13/50 While My Eyes Were Closed, Linda Green
14/50 Total Victim Theory, Ian Ballard
15/50 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins
16/50 Dodgers, Bill Beverly
17/50 Tess of the D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
18/50 Secrets of Happiness, Lucy Diamond
19/50 St Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves, Karen Russell
20/50 Love Nina, Nina Stubbs
21/50 Innocence, Dean Koontz
22/50 Diamonds in the Sky, MA Harper
23/50 Son of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses
24/50 Blood of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses.
25/50 When my Ship Comes In, Sue Wilsher
26/50 Fanatic, Jams N Roses
27/50 Brilliant & Forever, Kevin McNeil
28/50 The Girl in the Maze, RK Jackson
29/50 The Martian, Andy Weir
30/50 High Rise, JG Ballard
31/50 Affliction, Laurell K Hamilton
32/50 Slip, David Estes
33/50 Synchronised Breathing, Tara Ellison
34/50 Savage Lane, Jason Starr
35/50 A Smudge of Gray, Jonathan Sturak
36/50 A Family Saga, Patricia Jetson
37/50 High Society, Ben Elton
38/50 The Wonder, Emma Donoghue
39/50 Hunter / Prey, Sam
40/50 Taking Flight, Adrian Magnuson. - amazing. Best book I've read this year. Totally character driven and every one written well. Teenager, Alzheimer's, mental health, avoidance, family and hope and loss. I loved it.
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
6/50 the Husband's Secret, Liane Moriarty
7/50 Sleep Tight, Rachel Abbot
8/50 A Dark Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
9/50 Patchwork Man, DB Martin
10/50 Gone Bad, JB Turner
11/50 The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
12/50 The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald
13/50 While My Eyes Were Closed, Linda Green
14/50 Total Victim Theory, Ian Ballard
15/50 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins
16/50 Dodgers, Bill Beverly
17/50 Tess of the D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
18/50 Secrets of Happiness, Lucy Diamond
19/50 St Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves, Karen Russell
20/50 Love Nina, Nina Stubbs
21/50 Innocence, Dean Koontz
22/50 Diamonds in the Sky, MA Harper
23/50 Son of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses
24/50 Blood of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses.
25/50 When my Ship Comes In, Sue Wilsher
26/50 Fanatic, Jams N Roses
27/50 Brilliant & Forever, Kevin McNeil
28/50 The Girl in the Maze, RK Jackson
29/50 The Martian, Andy Weir
30/50 High Rise, JG Ballard
31/50 Affliction, Laurell K Hamilton
32/50 Slip, David Estes
33/50 Synchronised Breathing, Tara Ellison
34/50 Savage Lane, Jason Starr
35/50 A Smudge of Gray, Jonathan Sturak
36/50 A Family Saga, Patricia Jetson
37/50 High Society, Ben Elton
38/50 The Wonder, Emma Donoghue
39/50 Hunter / Prey, Sam
40/50 Taking Flight, Adrian Magnuson. - amazing. Best book I've read this year. Totally character driven and every one written well. Teenager, Alzheimer's, mental health, avoidance, family and hope and loss. I loved it.
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
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
7/65 - Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
8/65 - Tana French - Into The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad 1) (3/10)
9/65 - Larry McMurty - Lonesome Dove (4/10)
10/65 - Denise Mina - The Dead Hour (Paddy Meehan 2)
11/65 - Ian Rankin - The Flood
12/65 - Denise Mina - Slip of the Knife (Paddy Meehan 3)
13/65 - Neil Gaiman - Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
14/65 - Bill Beverly - Dodgers
15/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Face of Trespass
16/65 - John Irving - The World According to Garp (5/10)
17/65 - Val McDermid - Out of Bounds
18/65 - Stuart Maconie - Hope and Glory: A People's History of Modern Britain
19/65 - Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
20/65 - Kate Atkinson - Emotionally Weird
21/65 - Roald Dahl - Madness
22/65 - Tana French - The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad 2) (6/10)
23/65 - Daniel Woodrell - The Maid's Version
24/65 - Laline Paull - The Bees
25/65 - Jonathan Franzen - Freedom (7/10)
26/65 - Nicola Morgan - Blame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed
27/65 - Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
28/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Killing Doll
29/65 - Denise Mina - Sanctum
30/65 - John Williams - Butcher's Crossing
31/65 - Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac
32/65 - Peter James - Need You Dead
33/65 - Stephen King - Carrie
34/65 - Andy Hamilton - The Star Witness
35/65 - Jessie Burton - The Muse
36/65 - Stephen King - Christine (8/10)
37/65 - Belinda Bauer - The Beautiful Dead
38/65 - John Irving - The Cider House Rules (9/10)
39/65 - Ruth Rendell - A New Lease of Death
40/65 - Stephen King - It (10/10)
41/65 - Annie Proulx - Heart Songs
42/65 - Ruth Rendell - Wolf to The Slaughter
43/65 - Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
44/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Best Man To Die
45/65 - Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
46/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Guilty Thing Surprised
47/65 - David Mitchell - number9dream
48/65 - Ruth Rendell - No More Dying Then
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
7/65 - Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
8/65 - Tana French - Into The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad 1) (3/10)
9/65 - Larry McMurty - Lonesome Dove (4/10)
10/65 - Denise Mina - The Dead Hour (Paddy Meehan 2)
11/65 - Ian Rankin - The Flood
12/65 - Denise Mina - Slip of the Knife (Paddy Meehan 3)
13/65 - Neil Gaiman - Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
14/65 - Bill Beverly - Dodgers
15/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Face of Trespass
16/65 - John Irving - The World According to Garp (5/10)
17/65 - Val McDermid - Out of Bounds
18/65 - Stuart Maconie - Hope and Glory: A People's History of Modern Britain
19/65 - Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
20/65 - Kate Atkinson - Emotionally Weird
21/65 - Roald Dahl - Madness
22/65 - Tana French - The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad 2) (6/10)
23/65 - Daniel Woodrell - The Maid's Version
24/65 - Laline Paull - The Bees
25/65 - Jonathan Franzen - Freedom (7/10)
26/65 - Nicola Morgan - Blame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed
27/65 - Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
28/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Killing Doll
29/65 - Denise Mina - Sanctum
30/65 - John Williams - Butcher's Crossing
31/65 - Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac
32/65 - Peter James - Need You Dead
33/65 - Stephen King - Carrie
34/65 - Andy Hamilton - The Star Witness
35/65 - Jessie Burton - The Muse
36/65 - Stephen King - Christine (8/10)
37/65 - Belinda Bauer - The Beautiful Dead
38/65 - John Irving - The Cider House Rules (9/10)
39/65 - Ruth Rendell - A New Lease of Death
40/65 - Stephen King - It (10/10)
41/65 - Annie Proulx - Heart Songs
42/65 - Ruth Rendell - Wolf to The Slaughter
43/65 - Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
44/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Best Man To Die
45/65 - Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
46/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Guilty Thing Surprised
47/65 - David Mitchell - number9dream
48/65 - Ruth Rendell - No More Dying Then
gawkrodger
Well-Known Member
Been a) a bit slack with reading books recently b) have about 5 on the go at the mo
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
24 - McKinstry - Spitfire
25 - Liz Berry - Black Country
26 - McKinstry - Lancaster
27 - Adamczak - Communism for Kids
28 - Southwood - Non-Stop Inertia (re-read for this reading group)
29 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Clandestine in Chile
30 - Durand - Fictious Capital: How finance is appropriating our future
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
24 - McKinstry - Spitfire
25 - Liz Berry - Black Country
26 - McKinstry - Lancaster
27 - Adamczak - Communism for Kids
28 - Southwood - Non-Stop Inertia (re-read for this reading group)
29 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Clandestine in Chile
30 - Durand - Fictious Capital: How finance is appropriating our future
9/10 Trouble in Paradise by Slavoj Zizek
10/10 Red Rosa by Kate Evans
11/10 The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie
53. The Song of Roland. Anon.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Not sad, but it is a bit of a mess.
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
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
16/30 Don't You Leave Me Here - Wilko Johnson
17/30 What Planet Am I On? - Shaun Ryder
18/30 My Old Man: Tales Of Our Fathers - ed. Ted Kessler
19/30 The Outsider - Albert Camus
20/30 Kill Your Friends - John Niven
21/30 The Devil All The Time - Donald Ray Pollock
Another good recommendation from marshall, thanks for that. Really really dark bit of Cormac McCarthy-style twistedness. Barely a single sympathetic character throughout the whole tale, although you do end up rooting for one of them. Genuinely disturbing in places. Dunno if I'd say I 'enjoyed' it but I thought it was very good iykwim. Reminded me of 'Child of God' in places and that's no mean feat.
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
16/30 Don't You Leave Me Here - Wilko Johnson
17/30 What Planet Am I On? - Shaun Ryder
18/30 My Old Man: Tales Of Our Fathers - ed. Ted Kessler
19/30 The Outsider - Albert Camus
20/30 Kill Your Friends - John Niven
21/30 The Devil All The Time - Donald Ray Pollock
Another good recommendation from marshall, thanks for that. Really really dark bit of Cormac McCarthy-style twistedness. Barely a single sympathetic character throughout the whole tale, although you do end up rooting for one of them. Genuinely disturbing in places. Dunno if I'd say I 'enjoyed' it but I thought it was very good iykwim. Reminded me of 'Child of God' in places and that's no mean feat.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Limped over the line, target reached - not been at work enough to keep decent pace up:
72 - Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction - Ivan Ascher
73 - Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-fascism in British Society - Edited by Tony Kushner, Nadia Valman
74 - Revisiting the "Nazi Occult": Histories, Realities, Legacies - Edited by Monica Black , Eric Kurlander
75 - The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation - Stuart Hall
76 - Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism - Steve Wright (fourth or fifth re-read but this is an new updated and expanded edition with extra chapters)
Got a few odds and ends to tidy up then some monsters to deal with.
72 - Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction - Ivan Ascher
73 - Remembering Cable Street: Fascism and Anti-fascism in British Society - Edited by Tony Kushner, Nadia Valman
74 - Revisiting the "Nazi Occult": Histories, Realities, Legacies - Edited by Monica Black , Eric Kurlander
75 - The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation - Stuart Hall
76 - Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism - Steve Wright (fourth or fifth re-read but this is an new updated and expanded edition with extra chapters)
Got a few odds and ends to tidy up then some monsters to deal with.
1/20 My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
2/20 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
3/20 Miss Peregrine's Home for Perculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
4/20 Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Arundhati Roy
5/20 The Private Patient, PD James
6/20 The Outrun, Amy Liptrot
7/20 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
8/20 The Underground Railway, Colson Whitehead
9/20 The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
10/20 White Teeth, Zadie Smith
2/20 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
3/20 Miss Peregrine's Home for Perculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
4/20 Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Arundhati Roy
5/20 The Private Patient, PD James
6/20 The Outrun, Amy Liptrot
7/20 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
8/20 The Underground Railway, Colson Whitehead
9/20 The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
10/20 White Teeth, Zadie Smith
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
1/25 Ken Follett - World Without End
2/25 Frances Hardinge - Fly By Night
3/25 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
4/25 Roald Dahl - Madness (short stories)
5/25 Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
6/25 David Rodigan - My Life in Reggae
7/25 Alan Garner - The Owl Service
8/25 William Goldman - The Princess Bride
9/25 George Orwell - Burmese Days
10/25 John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
11/25 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
12/25 Brian Jacques - Redwall
13/25 Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (reread)
14/25 Stephen P Kershaw - A Brief History of the Roman Empire: Rise and Fall
15/25 China Miéville - Perdido Street Station
16/25 Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
17/26 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (reread)
18/26 Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (reread)
19/26 James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes
20/26 Felicia Day - You're Never Weird On The Internet (almost)
21/26 James S A Corey - Caliban's War
22/26 James S A Corey - Abbadon's Gate
2/25 Frances Hardinge - Fly By Night
3/25 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
4/25 Roald Dahl - Madness (short stories)
5/25 Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
6/25 David Rodigan - My Life in Reggae
7/25 Alan Garner - The Owl Service
8/25 William Goldman - The Princess Bride
9/25 George Orwell - Burmese Days
10/25 John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
11/25 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
12/25 Brian Jacques - Redwall
13/25 Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (reread)
14/25 Stephen P Kershaw - A Brief History of the Roman Empire: Rise and Fall
15/25 China Miéville - Perdido Street Station
16/25 Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
17/26 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (reread)
18/26 Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (reread)
19/26 James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes
20/26 Felicia Day - You're Never Weird On The Internet (almost)
21/26 James S A Corey - Caliban's War
22/26 James S A Corey - Abbadon's Gate
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
1/75 Sanctuary : After it Happened Book 5 - Devon C Ford
2/75 1916 : The Morning After - Tim Pat Coogan
3/75 Last Stand at Saber River - Elmore Leonard
4/75 After : The Shock - Scott Nicholson
5/75 After : The Echo - Scott Nicholson
6/75 After : Milepost 291 - Scott Nicholson
7/75 After : Whiteout - Scott Nicholson
8/75 After : Red Scare - Scott Nicholson
9/75 Surviving The Evacuation : Ireland - Book 9 -Frank Tayell
10/75 Crisis - Frank Gardner
11/75 Outcast London : A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society - Gareth Stedman Jones
12/75 After : Dying Light - Scott Nicholson
13/75 The Ruins - T W Piperbrook
14/75 Confederates - Thomas Keneally
15/75 Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi
16/75 The Revenge of History - Seumas Milne
17/75 The Great War : The American Front - Harry Turtledove.
18/75 The Wrong Side of Goodbye - Michael Connelly
19/75 Surviving The Evacuation : The Last Candidate - Book 10 . Frank Tayell
20/75 The Gunslinger : The Dark Tower - Stephen King.
21/75 Out of Bounds - Val McDermid
22/75 Hurst - Robin Crumby
23/75 The Great War : Walk In Hell - Harry Turtledove
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes
27/75 Critical Strike - Wearmouth & Barnes
28/75 The Birdwatcher - William Shaw
29/75 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
30/75 Dark Town - Thomas Mullen
31/75 A Hero In France - Alan Furst
32/75 Reelin' in The Years : The Soundtrack of a Northern Life. - Mark Radcliffe
33/75 The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
34/75 Roads :A Millennial Journey Along America''s Great Interstate Highways - Larry McMurtry
35/75 Rebellion: After It Happened Book 6 - Devon C Ford
36/75 Sentinel - Robin Crumby
37/75 The Fire Sermon - Raphael Dogg
38/75 Earth Alone - Daniel Arenson
39/75 Earth Lost - Daniel Arenson
40/75 Earth Rising - Daniel Arenson
41/75 I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
42/75 To Kill The President - Sam Bourne
43/75 The Contours of American History - William Appleman Williams
44/75 The Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Seymour Hersh.
45/75 Nomad - James Swallow
46/75 Surviving The Evacuation: Search and Rescue . Book 11 - Frank Tayell
47/75 The Strength of the Wolf : The Secret History of America's War on Drugs - Douglas Valentine.
48/75 I Am Missing - Tim Weaver.
49/75 Exile - James Swallow
50/75 The Ministry of Nostalgia - Owen Hatherley
51/75 The Age of Jihad - Patrick Cockburn
*****
52/75 Holy Island - LJ Ross
2/75 1916 : The Morning After - Tim Pat Coogan
3/75 Last Stand at Saber River - Elmore Leonard
4/75 After : The Shock - Scott Nicholson
5/75 After : The Echo - Scott Nicholson
6/75 After : Milepost 291 - Scott Nicholson
7/75 After : Whiteout - Scott Nicholson
8/75 After : Red Scare - Scott Nicholson
9/75 Surviving The Evacuation : Ireland - Book 9 -Frank Tayell
10/75 Crisis - Frank Gardner
11/75 Outcast London : A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society - Gareth Stedman Jones
12/75 After : Dying Light - Scott Nicholson
13/75 The Ruins - T W Piperbrook
14/75 Confederates - Thomas Keneally
15/75 Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi
16/75 The Revenge of History - Seumas Milne
17/75 The Great War : The American Front - Harry Turtledove.
18/75 The Wrong Side of Goodbye - Michael Connelly
19/75 Surviving The Evacuation : The Last Candidate - Book 10 . Frank Tayell
20/75 The Gunslinger : The Dark Tower - Stephen King.
21/75 Out of Bounds - Val McDermid
22/75 Hurst - Robin Crumby
23/75 The Great War : Walk In Hell - Harry Turtledove
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes
27/75 Critical Strike - Wearmouth & Barnes
28/75 The Birdwatcher - William Shaw
29/75 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
30/75 Dark Town - Thomas Mullen
31/75 A Hero In France - Alan Furst
32/75 Reelin' in The Years : The Soundtrack of a Northern Life. - Mark Radcliffe
33/75 The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
34/75 Roads :A Millennial Journey Along America''s Great Interstate Highways - Larry McMurtry
35/75 Rebellion: After It Happened Book 6 - Devon C Ford
36/75 Sentinel - Robin Crumby
37/75 The Fire Sermon - Raphael Dogg
38/75 Earth Alone - Daniel Arenson
39/75 Earth Lost - Daniel Arenson
40/75 Earth Rising - Daniel Arenson
41/75 I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
42/75 To Kill The President - Sam Bourne
43/75 The Contours of American History - William Appleman Williams
44/75 The Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Seymour Hersh.
45/75 Nomad - James Swallow
46/75 Surviving The Evacuation: Search and Rescue . Book 11 - Frank Tayell
47/75 The Strength of the Wolf : The Secret History of America's War on Drugs - Douglas Valentine.
48/75 I Am Missing - Tim Weaver.
49/75 Exile - James Swallow
50/75 The Ministry of Nostalgia - Owen Hatherley
51/75 The Age of Jihad - Patrick Cockburn
*****
52/75 Holy Island - LJ Ross
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