eyes down for a full house reading challenge thread 2021

[shifting gears]

I'm liking the Kevin Barryness of this list Night Boat is his only one I haven't read yet - it's on the shelf but I'm painfully aware once I've read it I'll have to wait for him to write another.

Night Boat to Tangier is fabulous, you’re in for a treat

I’ve just got Beatlebone and There Are Little Kingdoms left of his to read and also am wary of running out of books from him… really love his work, very evocative and has a real turn of phrase, bigs ups to Barry!

 

[billy_bob]

Night Boat to Tangier is fabulous, you’re in for a treat

I’ve just got Beatlebone and There Are Little Kingdoms left of his to read and also am wary of running out of books from him… really love his work, very evocative and has a real turn of phrase, bigs ups to Barry!

Beatlebone is a strange book. I liked it, but it's possibly not to everyone's taste - heavily towards the magic realist end of what he does, I'd say. His short stories, though, are up there with the best I've ever read (and I've read a LOT - short stories are pretty much my favourite art form).

 

[braindancer]

1/20 - The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
2/20 - The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
3/20 - The Passage - Justin Cronin
4/20 - The Twelve - Justin Cronin
5/20 - The City of Mirrors - Justin Cronin
6/20 - Stalin Ate My Homework - Alexei Sayle
7/20 - Shuggie Bains - Douglas Stuart
8/20 - Call of the Wild - Jack London
9/20 - White Fang - Jack London
10/20 - The Troop - Nick Cutter
11/20 - Migration- Helen Marshall
12/20 - Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith
13/20 - A Voyage for Madmen - Peter Nichols
14/20 - Music for Torching - A.M. Homes

 

[Winot]

1/29 Illness as Metaphor & Aids and its Metaphors - Susan Sontag
2/29 From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism - Paul Turner
3/29 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Douglas Coupland
4/29 London's Pall Mall Clubs - David Palfreyman
5/29 The Century of Revolution - Christopher Hill
6/29 Outline - Rachel Cusk
7/29 Universities and Colleges A Very Short Introduction - Palfreyman and Temple
8/29 Moonraker - Ian Fleming
9/29 Chemistry in 17th-Century New England - Gary Patterson
10/29 A Month in the Country - J.L. Carr
11/29 Fake Accounts - Lauren Oyler
12/29 The Lion and the Unicorn - George Orwell
13/29 The Lesser Bohemians - Eimear McBride
14/29 The Oxford Tutorial - ed. David Palfreyman
15/29 The Investor's Guide to Understanding Accounts - Robert Leach
16/29 A Dream of Wessex - Christopher Priest
17/29 The Invested Investor - Peter Cowley
18/29 The Glade and other stories - Paul Bassett Davies
19/29 The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life - Andy Miller
20/29 Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney
21/29 The Lonely City - Olivia Laing
22/29 Austerlitz - WG Sebald
23/29 Vertigo & Ghost - Fiona Benson
24/29 The Islanders - Christopher Priest
25/29 Four Quartets - TS Eliot

26/29 The English Reformation - Alec Ryrie

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Susan Hill - The Vows of Silence
2/52 - Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age
3/52 - Susan Hill - The Shadows in The Street
4/52 - Lisa McInerney - The Blood Miracles
5/52 - Patrick Gale - Take Nothing With You
6/52 - Susan Hill - The Betrayal of Trust
7/52 - Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch (re-read)
8/52 - Val McDermid - Still Life
9/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Carol
10/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Lake of Darkness
11/52 - Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad
12/52 - Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
13/52 - Stephen King - Later
14/52 - Yazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
15/52 - Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot
16/52 - Robert Galbraith - Troubled Blood
17/52 - Ian McEwan - Nutshell
18/52 - Joe Hill - Full Throttle
19/52 - Barbara Vine - A Dark-Adapted Eye
20/52 - Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon
21/52 - Minette Walters - Chickenfeed
22/52 - Patricia Highsmith - People Who Knock on Doors
23/52 - Minette Walters - The Devil's Feather
24/52 - Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light
25/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller's Wife
26/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Crocodile Bird (re-read)
27/52 - Michael Farris Smith - Blackwood
28/52 - Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
29/52 - Peter James - Left You Dead
30/52 - Robert Webb - How Not To Be a Boy
31/52 - David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (re-read)
32/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Long Call
33/52 - Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
34/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry
35/52 - Belinda Bauer - Exit
36/52 - Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
37/52 - Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone (re-read)
38/52 - Robert Webb - Come Again
39/52 - Stephen King - Billy Summers
40/52 - Émile Zola - Thérèse Raquin
41/52 - Iain Banks - Whit (re-read)
42/52 - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
43/52 - Minette Walters - The Chameleon's Shadow
44/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Water's Lovely (re-read)
45/52 - Louise Newson - Preparing for the perimenopause and menopause
46/52 - William Boyd - Trio
47/52 - Stephen King - Night Shift (re-read)
48/52 - Roddy Doyle - Love
49/52 - Minette Walters - A Dreadful Murder
50/52 - Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

51/52 - Bob Mortimer - And Away

 

[Pickman's model]

1/52 - Susan Hill - The Vows of Silence
2/52 - Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age
3/52 - Susan Hill - The Shadows in The Street
4/52 - Lisa McInerney - The Blood Miracles
5/52 - Patrick Gale - Take Nothing With You
6/52 - Susan Hill - The Betrayal of Trust
7/52 - Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch (re-read)
8/52 - Val McDermid - Still Life
9/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Carol
10/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Lake of Darkness
11/52 - Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad
12/52 - Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
13/52 - Stephen King - Later
14/52 - Yazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
15/52 - Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot
16/52 - Robert Galbraith - Troubled Blood
17/52 - Ian McEwan - Nutshell
18/52 - Joe Hill - Full Throttle
19/52 - Barbara Vine - A Dark-Adapted Eye
20/52 - Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon
21/52 - Minette Walters - Chickenfeed
22/52 - Patricia Highsmith - People Who Knock on Doors
23/52 - Minette Walters - The Devil's Feather
24/52 - Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light
25/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller's Wife
26/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Crocodile Bird (re-read)
27/52 - Michael Farris Smith - Blackwood
28/52 - Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
29/52 - Peter James - Left You Dead
30/52 - Robert Webb - How Not To Be a Boy
31/52 - David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (re-read)
32/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Long Call
33/52 - Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
34/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry
35/52 - Belinda Bauer - Exit
36/52 - Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
37/52 - Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone (re-read)
38/52 - Robert Webb - Come Again
39/52 - Stephen King - Billy Summers
40/52 - Émile Zola - Thérèse Raquin
41/52 - Iain Banks - Whit (re-read)
42/52 - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
43/52 - Minette Walters - The Chameleon's Shadow
44/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Water's Lovely (re-read)
45/52 - Louise Newson - Preparing for the perimenopause and menopause
46/52 - William Boyd - Trio
47/52 - Stephen King - Night Shift (re-read)
48/52 - Roddy Doyle - Love
49/52 - Minette Walters - A Dreadful Murder
50/52 - Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

51/52 - Bob Mortimer - And Away

we'll start the next thread when you've reached this thread's target

 

[Biddlybee]

No pressure.

 

[BoatieBird]

we'll start the next thread when you've reached this thread's target

I'd better make the next book a short one then!

 

[imposs1904]

Beatlebone is a strange book. I liked it, but it's possibly not to everyone's taste - heavily towards the magic realist end of what he does, I'd say. His short stories, though, are up there with the best I've ever read (and I've read a LOT - short stories are pretty much my favourite art form).

One of my favourite short story writers is Bernard MacLaverty. Worth checking him out if you do not know him.

 

[Biddlybee]

I'd better make the next book a short one then!

This is on my list: Territory of Light

 

[billy_bob]

One of my favourite short story writers is Bernard MacLaverty. Worth checking him out if you do not know him.

Oh, thanks - I haven't read anything by him

 

[imposs1904]

1/35 Dancing in the Dark by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2/35 Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan (ReRead)
3/35 Wild Pork and Watercress by Barry Crump
4/35 Who Goes There? by John Wood Campbell Jr.
5/35 Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action by Sean Birchall (ReRead)
6/35 Leighton Rees On Darts edited by Dave Lanning
7/35 The Left Left Behind by Terry Bisson
8/35 Bobby Dazzler: My Story by Bobby George
9/35 A Season in Sinji by J. L. Carr
10/35 A Fatal Glass of Beer by Stuart M. Kaminsky
11/35 The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin
12/35 Bloody January by Alan Parks
13/35 February's Son by Alan Parks
14/35 In the All-Night Café: A Memoir of Belle and Sebastian's Formative Year by Stuart David
15/35 Great Days at Grange Hill by Jan Needle
16/35 Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
17/35 Ten Men Won The League by Stephen Murray
18/35 Slim Jim Baxter: The Definitive Biography by Ken Gallacher
19/35 Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs – and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them by Kevin Day
20/35 The April Dead by Alan Parks
21/35 Like Punk Never Happened: Culture Club and the New Pop by Dave Rimmer
22/35 The Unrepentant Marxist by Harvey Pekar and Louis Proyect (Graphic Novel)
23/35 The Slab Boys Trilogy by John Byrne
24/35 Stones for Bread by Eva Torf Judd
25/35 The Crafty Cockney : the autobiography by Eric Bristow
26/35 I Love Me (Who Do You Love?) by Gordon Legge (ReRead)
27/35 The Glass Cage by Georges Simenon (Reading Challenge)
28/35 The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally (Reading Challenge)
29/35 The Dark Remains by William McIlvanney and Ian Rankin
30/35 Smoothies by Richard Allen (Reading Challenge)
31/35 Dog Day Afternoon by Patrick Mann (Reading Challenge)
32/35 Planet Darts; Booze and Bull's-eyes: Life on the Professional Darts Circuit by Niall Edworthy
33/35 Brothers Keepers by Donald E. Westlake (Reading Challenge)
34/35 The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris
35/35 Do That Again Son, and I'll Break Your Legs: football's hard men by Phil Thompson
36/35 This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes
37/35 No Wonder I Take a Drink by Laura Marney
38/35 Freak Out the Squares: Life in a band called Pulp by Russell Senior
39/35 The Clearance by Joan Lingard
40/35 Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
41/35 The Crafty Cockney by Deryk Brown
42/35 Darts Greatest Games: Fifty Finest Matches from the World of Darts by Matt Bozeat
43/35 A Few Minutes Past Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky
44/35 Hard Crackers Tribute to Noel Ignatiev
45/35 To Catch a Spy by Stuart M. Kaminsky
46/35 Mildred Pierced by Stuart M. Kaminsky
47/35 Now You See It by Stuart M. Kaminsky
48/35 Report for Murder by Val McDermid

49/35 Slinging Arrows by Wayne Mardle

The Darts World Championship starts today, so it's fitting that I finished another darts book.

 

[billy_bob]

1/69 Seishi Yokomizo - The Inugami Curse
2/69 Valeria Luiseldi - Lost Children Archive
3/69 William Faulker - Light in August
4/69 Nancy Jennings - Bats
5/69 Mark Forsyth - The Elements of Eloquence
6/69 Sholem Aleichem - Tevye the Dairyman
7/69 Sholem Aleichem - Motl the Cantor's Son
8/69 Clive Upton, Stewart Sanderson and John Widdowson - Word Maps: A Dialect Atlas of England
9/69 Shaun Bythell - Seven Kinds of People you Find in Bookshops
10/69 Mignon Fogarty - The Grammar Devotional
11/69 Danny Dorling - The Equality Effect
12/69 ZZ Packer - Drinking Coffee Elsewhere
13/69 Deborah Eisenburg - Your Duck Is My Duck
14/69 Michael Rosen - So They Call You Pisher!
15/69 Alison Moore - Missing
16/69 Colum McCann - Zoli
17/69 Felix Weinberg - Boy 30529: A Memoir
18/69 Jon McGregor - This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
19/69 Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys
20/69 Atul Gawande - The Checklist Manifesto
21/69 Jeremy Hardy - Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes
22/69 David Szalay - All That Man Is
23/69 Colum McCann - This Side of Brightness
24/69 Robert Macfarlane - The Wild Places
25/69 Judith Hermann - Alice
26/69 Alice Gregory - Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave
27/69 Deborah Levy - Swimming Home
28/69 Robert Macfarlane - Landmarks
29/69 Steve Hanley - The Big Midweek: Life Inside the Fall
30/69 Kevin Barry - Beatlebone
31/69 Susie Dent - Word Perfect
32/69 Irenosen Okojie - Nudibranch
33/69 Pamela Hurle - Bygone Malvern
34/69 Colum McCann - Apeirogon
35/69 Travis Elborough - Atlas of Improbable Places: A Journey to the World's Most Unusual Corners
36/69 Colum McCann - Fishing the Sloe-Black River
37/69 Kit de Waal - Supporting Cast
38/69 Kerry Hudson - Lowborn
39/69 Rick Zednik - A Country Lost, Then Found: Discovering My Father's Slovakia
40/69 Kevin Barry - That Old Country Music
41/69 Richard Herring - The Problem with Men
42/69 Edward Brooke-Hitching - The Madman's Library
43/69 Angela Saini - Superior
44/69 Terri Givens - Radical Empathy
45/69 Antonio Iturbe - The Librarian of Auschwitz
46/69 Kurt Vonnegut - Welcome to the Monkey House
47/69 Jon McGregor - Lean Fall Stand
48/69 Nathan Filer - The Shock of the Fall
49/69 Elizabeth Hay - Alone in the Classroom
50/69 Kurt Vonnegut - Palm Sunday
51/69 Dr Boule Whytelaw III - Think Like a White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World While Black
52/69 Sarah-Jayne Blakemore - Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain
53/69 Heather Augustyn - Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World's Greatest Trombonist
54/69 Nic Compton - Off the Deep End: A History of Madness at Sea (very good; not a record of the popular ska band attempting to enter the Cowes Regatta)
55/69 Colum McCann - Everything in This Country Must
56/69 Iain Forbes - Whar a Candel Will Not Burn
57/69 Alice Munro - The View from Castle Rock
58/69 Daniel Wakelin - Revolting Remedies from the Middle Ages
59/69 Markus Torgeby - The Runner

60/69 Alan Garner - The Owl Service
61/69 Kevin Barry - Night Boat to Tangier
62/69 Tiffany Francis-Baker - Dark Skies: A Journey into the Wild Night

 

[krtek a houby]

1/19 The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
2/19 Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie
3/19 Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
4/19 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
5/19 Kokoro. Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life - Lafcadio Hearn
6/19 The Algebraist - Iain M Banks
7/19 Escobar - Roberto Escobar
8/19 Rounding the Mark - Andrea Camilleri
9/19 Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland - Ronit Lentin and Robbie McVeigh (re-read)
10/19 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressel
11//19 Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom - Philip Hinchcliffe (reread)
12/19 The Silver Locusts - Ray Bradbury
13/19 A Woman Is No Man - Etaf Rum
14/19 August Heat - Andrea Camilleri
15/19 To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer (reread)
16/19 The Fabulous Riverboat - Philip José Farmer
17/19 Buddy Does Seattle - Peter Bagge (reread)
18/19 Buddy Does Jersey - Peter Bagge (reread)
19/19 The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie

 

[shifting gears]

1/25 - Kevin Barry - Night Boat to Tangier
2/25 - James Rebanks - English Pastoral: An Inheritance
3/25 - Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia
4/25 - Isaac Asimov - Foundation
5/25 - Mick Jackson - The Underground Man
6/25 - Jim Dodge - Not Fade Away
7/25 - Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle
8/25 - Richard Wright - Black Boy (the restored text)
9/25 - Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five
10/25 - Hans Fallada - Alone in Berlin
11/25 - David Keenan - This is Memorial Device
12/25 - J.G. Ballard - Cocaine Nights
13/25 - William McIlvanney - A Gift from Nessus
14/25 - Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
15/25 - The Secret DJ - The Secret DJ
16/25 - William McIlvanney - The Big Man
17/25 - Kevin Barry - City of Bohane
18/25 - Norman Jay MBE with Lloyd Bradley - Mister Good Times
19/25 - Kevin Barry - Dark Lies the Island
20/25 - Jim Dodge - Stone Junction
21/25 - Albert Camus - The Plague
22/25 - William McIlvanney - Laidlaw
23/25 - Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan
24/25 - Kevin Barry - That Old Country Music
25/25 - Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends
26/ Kurt Vonnegut - The Sirens of Titan

27/ Andrew Weatherall - A Jockey Slut Tribute

 

[yield]

1. Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
2. The War of the Poor by Eric Vuillard
3. The Erstwhile by Brian Catling
4. The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie
5. An American Utopia by Frederic Jameson
6. The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace Wells
7. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
8. The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes
9. Circe by Madeline Miller
10. There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm

11. Lockdown Tales by Neal Asher. Collection of sci-fi short stories. Some were good. He writes more like Ian Fleming than Iain M Banks.

12. Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin. Three interconnected novels in the Hainish Series. Comfort rereading, adore everything she wrote.

 

[billy_bob]

Night Boat to Tangier is fabulous, you’re in for a treat

It really was - best of his longer works, I think

 

[StoneRoad]

I've not been keeping track of what, normally, should be an easy total for me to reach.
Just under two books a week should be simple, given the speed of my reading.

However, I haven't been reading anything like as much as I did last year, so my total [bby the end of December is going to be around 70 to 75 books.

Currently, I am re-reading a collection on Para Handy ...

 

[marty21]

1/70 The Bitterroots - C J Box
2/70 Black 13 - Adam Hamdy
3/70 A Dangerous Man - Robert Crais
4/70 City of the Dead - Sara Gran
5/70 Surviving The Evacuation: Book 18 : Rebuilt in One Day - Frank Tayell
6/70 Outback Outbreak - Frank Tayell
7/70 Big Sky - C J Box
8/70 Hungry - Grace Dent
9/70 The Grey Goose of Arnhem- Leo Heaps
10/70 Edge of Collapse - Kyla Stone
11/70 Edge of Madness - Kyla Stone
12/70 Edge of Darkness -Kyla Stone
13/70 Empireland - Sathnam Sanghera
14/70 Phantom Prey - John Sandford
15/70 Anti-Social : The Secret Diary of An Anti-Social Behaviour Officer - Nick Pettigrew
16/70 Red Wolves - Adam Hamdy
17/70 Wicked Prey - John Sandford
18/70 Operation Chaos - The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought The CIA,The Brainwashers, And Themselves- Matthew Sweet
19/70 Dispatches - Michael Herr
20/70 Ramble Book : Musings on Childhood, Friendship,Family and 80s Pop Culture - Adam Buxton
21/70 This Other London : Adventures In The Overlooked City - John Rogers
22/70 A Song For The Dark Times - Ian Rankin
23/70 Pendulum - Adam Hamdy
24/70 Freefall - Adam Hamdy
25/70 Aftershock - Adam Hamdy
26/70 In Search of The Dark Ages - Michael Wood
27/70 Zero Day Code - John Birmingham
28/70 Fail State - John Birmingham
29/70 Edge of Anarchy - Kyla Stone
30/70 Endgame : 1945 - David Stafford
31/70 Free Fall - Robert Crais
32/70 The Promise - Robert Crais
33/70 Indigo Slam - Robert Crais
34/70 L.A. Requiem - Robert Crais
35/70 The Last Detective - Robert Crais
36/70 The Forgotten Man - Robert Crais
37/70 Chasing Darkness - Robert Crais
38/70 The First Rule - Robert Crais
39/70 Taken - Robert Crais
40/70 The Sentry - Robert Crais
41/70 Voodoo River - Robert Crais
42/70 Demolition Angel - Robert Crais

****

43/70 The Book of Trespass : Crossing The Lines That Divide Us - Nick Hayes

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 Roger Steffens - So Much Things To Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
2/45 Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind
3/45 Alan Sillitoe - Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
4/45 Liz Braswell - Unbirthday
5/45 Michael Wood - In Search of the Dark Ages
6/45 Bill Bryson - A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
7/45 Nizrana Farook - The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
8/45 Andrew Chaikin - A Man on the Moon: the Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
9/45 Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals
10/45 Katherine Rundell - Rooftoppers
11/45 Carrie Gibson - Empire's Crossroads: a History of the Carribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
12/45 Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
13/45 Robert Jordan - A Crown of Swords
14/45 Albert Camus - The Stranger
15/45 Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
16/45 Andre Gide - The Vatican Cellars
17/45 Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies
18/45 Robert Jordan - The Path of Daggers
19/45 A N Wilson - After the Victorians: the Decline of Britain in the World
20/45 Ian Thomson - The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica
21/45 Bram Stoker - Dracula
22/45 Neil Gaiman - Fortunately, the Milk
23/45 Laura Spinney - Pale Rider: the Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World
24/45 Carlos Moore - Fela: This Bitch of a Life
25/45 Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
26/45 Robin Hobb - Assassin's Apprentice
27/45 L Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
28/45 L Frank Baum - The Marvelous Land of Oz
29/45 L Frank Baum - Ozma of Oz
30/45 Lisa Jewell - The Family Upstairs
31/45 Linda Woodhead - Christianity: a Very Short Introduction
32/45 Alastair Reynolds - Aurora Rising
33/45 Joe Abercrombie - A Little Hatred
34/45 Don Letts - There and Black Again
35/45 Sathnam Sanghera - Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
36/45 Mike Berners-Lee - There is no Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years
37/45 L Frank Baum - Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
38/45 L Frank Baum - The Road to Oz
39/45 L Frank Baum - The Emerald City of Oz
40/45 James Rebanks - English Pastoral: An Inheritance
41/45 Stephen Fry - Troy
42/45 William Wordsworth - A Guide Through the District of the Lakes in the North of England
43/45 Steve Jones - Lonely Boy
44/45 Robert Jordan - Winter's Heart
45/45 Nick Hayes - The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
46/45 Anonymous - The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
47/45 David Bishop & Karl Stock - Thrill-Power Overload: 2000AD - The First Forty Years
48/45 John Lydon - Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored
49/45 Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
50/45 Alistair Reynolds - Elysium Fire
51/45 Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel: a short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years
52/45 Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny: twenty lessons from the twentieth century
53/45 Anthony Berkeley - The Wintringham Mystery: Cecily Disappears
54/45 Robin Stevens - Arsenic for Tea

55/45 James Felton - 52 Times Britain was a Bellend

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Susan Hill - The Vows of Silence
2/52 - Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age
3/52 - Susan Hill - The Shadows in The Street
4/52 - Lisa McInerney - The Blood Miracles
5/52 - Patrick Gale - Take Nothing With You
6/52 - Susan Hill - The Betrayal of Trust
7/52 - Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch (re-read)
8/52 - Val McDermid - Still Life
9/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Carol
10/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Lake of Darkness
11/52 - Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad
12/52 - Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club
13/52 - Stephen King - Later
14/52 - Yazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
15/52 - Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot
16/52 - Robert Galbraith - Troubled Blood
17/52 - Ian McEwan - Nutshell
18/52 - Joe Hill - Full Throttle
19/52 - Barbara Vine - A Dark-Adapted Eye
20/52 - Alice Sebold - The Almost Moon
21/52 - Minette Walters - Chickenfeed
22/52 - Patricia Highsmith - People Who Knock on Doors
23/52 - Minette Walters - The Devil's Feather
24/52 - Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light
25/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - The Time Traveller's Wife
26/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Crocodile Bird (re-read)
27/52 - Michael Farris Smith - Blackwood
28/52 - Charlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
29/52 - Peter James - Left You Dead
30/52 - Robert Webb - How Not To Be a Boy
31/52 - David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas (re-read)
32/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Long Call
33/52 - Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find
34/52 - Audrey Niffenegger - Her Fearful Symmetry
35/52 - Belinda Bauer - Exit
36/52 - Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis
37/52 - Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone (re-read)
38/52 - Robert Webb - Come Again
39/52 - Stephen King - Billy Summers
40/52 - Émile Zola - Thérèse Raquin
41/52 - Iain Banks - Whit (re-read)
42/52 - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
43/52 - Minette Walters - The Chameleon's Shadow
44/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Water's Lovely (re-read)
45/52 - Louise Newson - Preparing for the perimenopause and menopause
46/52 - William Boyd - Trio
47/52 - Stephen King - Night Shift (re-read)
48/52 - Roddy Doyle - Love
49/52 - Minette Walters - A Dreadful Murder
50/52 - Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere
51/52 - Bob Mortimer - And Away

52/52 - Stephen King - Different Seasons (re-read)

Target reached
Time to start next year's thread Pickman's model!

 

[Pickman's model]

New thread here Never mind the virus here's the 2022 reading challenge thread

 

[Winot]

1/29 Illness as Metaphor & Aids and its Metaphors - Susan Sontag
2/29 From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism - Paul Turner
3/29 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Douglas Coupland
4/29 London's Pall Mall Clubs - David Palfreyman
5/29 The Century of Revolution - Christopher Hill
6/29 Outline - Rachel Cusk
7/29 Universities and Colleges A Very Short Introduction - Palfreyman and Temple
8/29 Moonraker - Ian Fleming
9/29 Chemistry in 17th-Century New England - Gary Patterson
10/29 A Month in the Country - J.L. Carr
11/29 Fake Accounts - Lauren Oyler
12/29 The Lion and the Unicorn - George Orwell
13/29 The Lesser Bohemians - Eimear McBride
14/29 The Oxford Tutorial - ed. David Palfreyman
15/29 The Investor's Guide to Understanding Accounts - Robert Leach
16/29 A Dream of Wessex - Christopher Priest
17/29 The Invested Investor - Peter Cowley
18/29 The Glade and other stories - Paul Bassett Davies
19/29 The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life - Andy Miller
20/29 Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney
21/29 The Lonely City - Olivia Laing
22/29 Austerlitz - WG Sebald
23/29 Vertigo & Ghost - Fiona Benson
24/29 The Islanders - Christopher Priest
25/29 Four Quartets - TS Eliot
26/29 The English Reformation - Alec Ryrie

27/29 Franny & Zooey - JD Salinger

 

[Me76]

1/40 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins
2/40 Focused and Challenged, Lisa M Hawkins
3/40 It Takes Blood and Guts, Skin and Lucy O'brien
4/40 Naturally Gifted, Lisa M Hawkins
5/40 Unearthly Host, Lisa M Hawkins.
6/40 Later, Stephen King
7/40 Mom Boss, Hilary Grossman
8/40 The Silent House, Nell Patterson
9/40 Logging Off, Nick Spalding
10/40 The Woman Who Went to bed for a Year, Sue Townsend
11/40 Each Little Lie, Tom Bale
12/40 We Are Not Ourselves, Matthew Thomas
13/40 The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
14/40 Spare Room, Dreda Say Mitchell
15/40 The Rosie Effect, Graeme Simsion
16/40 My Wife's Husband, EH Davis
17/40 Carpool, Noelle Adams
18/40 Roam, Erik Therme
19/40 the Rosie Result, Graeme Simsion
20/40 The Perfect Family, Jacquie Underwood
21/40 The Price of Time, Tim Tigner
22/40 Rumors, Phil M Williams
23/40 If She Were Blind, Laney Wylde
24/40 Billy Summers, Stephen King
25/40 The Crow Road, Iain Banks
26/40 Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
27/40 The Perfect Wife, Blake Pierce
28/40 The Diary of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell - dl
29/40 You, Caroline Kepnes
30/40 Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor
31/40 Forever, Judy Blume - dl
32/40 Brighton Rock, Graham Greene - dl
33/40 Poison Candy, Elizabeth Parker
34/40 More Than a Woman, Caitlin Moran - dl
35/40 The Girl Who Heard Everything, Jack Lewis
36/40 The Rule of One, Ashley and Leslie Saunders
37/40 Boy Erased, Gerrard Conley
38/40 The Good Daughter, S A McEwan
39/40 Bad Boy, Janet, Elizabeth Henderson
40/40 The Cry of the Lake, Charlie Tyler

 

[Winot]

1/29 Illness as Metaphor & Aids and its Metaphors - Susan Sontag
2/29 From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism - Paul Turner
3/29 Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Douglas Coupland
4/29 London's Pall Mall Clubs - David Palfreyman
5/29 The Century of Revolution - Christopher Hill
6/29 Outline - Rachel Cusk
7/29 Universities and Colleges A Very Short Introduction - Palfreyman and Temple
8/29 Moonraker - Ian Fleming
9/29 Chemistry in 17th-Century New England - Gary Patterson
10/29 A Month in the Country - J.L. Carr
11/29 Fake Accounts - Lauren Oyler
12/29 The Lion and the Unicorn - George Orwell
13/29 The Lesser Bohemians - Eimear McBride
14/29 The Oxford Tutorial - ed. David Palfreyman
15/29 The Investor's Guide to Understanding Accounts - Robert Leach
16/29 A Dream of Wessex - Christopher Priest
17/29 The Invested Investor - Peter Cowley
18/29 The Glade and other stories - Paul Bassett Davies
19/29 The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life - Andy Miller
20/29 Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney
21/29 The Lonely City - Olivia Laing
22/29 Austerlitz - WG Sebald
23/29 Vertigo & Ghost - Fiona Benson
24/29 The Islanders - Christopher Priest
25/29 Four Quartets - TS Eliot
26/29 The English Reformation - Alec Ryrie
27/29 Franny & Zooey - JD Salinger

28/29 The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - M. John Harrison

 

[nogojones]

1/45 Ippolita - In the Facebook Aquarium: The Resistible Rise of Anarcho-Capitalism
2/45 Peter F. Hamilton - Salvation Lost
3/45 Alfred Jarry - The Ubu Plays: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded and Ubu Unchained
4/45 Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
5/45 Phillip Neel - Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict
6/45 Christopher Hill - A Nation of Change and Novelty
7/45 Plato - The Last Days of Scorates
8/45 Peter F. Hamilton - Saints of Salvation
9/45 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
10/45 Londa Schiebinger - Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World
11/45 Philip K. Dick - The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
12/45 Ali Land - Good Me, Bad Me
13/45 Kate Tempest - Brand New Ancients
14/45 Salam Pax - The Baghad Blog
15/45 Silvia Federici - Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
16/45 Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - A Cat, A Man and Two Women
17/45 Philip K. Dick - Valis
18/45 Voltaire - Everyman Selected Writings
19/45 Anne Leckie - Ancillary Justice
20/45 Edward Lucie-Smith - Movements In Art Since 1945
21/45 Jim Thompson - Croppers Cabin
22/45 Willemien Otten and Nienke Vos. Eds. - Demons and the Devil in Ancient and Medieval Christianity
23/45 Philip K. Dick - Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
24/45 Philip K. Dick - Eye in the Sky
25/45 Doug Werner - Backpackers Start-Up
26/45 James Joyce - Dubliners
27/45 Raymond Williams - Communications
28/45 Michel Foucault - The History of Sexuality Vol.1
29/45 Philip K. Dick - The Broken Bubble
30/45 N.K. Jemisin - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
31/45 Tricia Jenkins - The CIA in Hollywood: How the Agency Shapes Film and Television
32/45 Ukrainian National Association (ed.) - Ukraine's Claim to Freedom (1915)
33/45 Philip K. Dick - The Divine Invasion
34/45 Chester Himes - All Shot Up
35/45 Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life
36/45 R. D. Laing - The Facts of life
37/45 Cixin Liu - The Three-Body Problem
38/45 James Ellroy - Widespread Panic
39/45 Philip K. Dick - Galactic Pot Healer
40/45 Margaret Atwood - Year of the Flood
41/45 Ruán O'Donnell - Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 2: 1978-1985
42/45 Donna Tartt - The Secret History
43/45 Margaret Atwood - MaddAddam
44/45 Hunter S. Thompson - The Rum Diary
45/45 Tom Miller - China's Urban Billion
46/45 Bernd Greiner - War Without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam
47/45 Linda Herrera - Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet

48/45 Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This

I think this will probably be my last for the year as everything I'm currently reading I've just started.

 

[krtek a houby]

1/19 The Blade Itself - Joe Abercrombie
2/19 Before They Are Hanged - Joe Abercrombie
3/19 Last Argument of Kings - Joe Abercrombie
4/19 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
5/19 Kokoro. Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life - Lafcadio Hearn
6/19 The Algebraist - Iain M Banks
7/19 Escobar - Roberto Escobar
8/19 Rounding the Mark - Andrea Camilleri
9/19 Racism and Anti-Racism in Ireland - Ronit Lentin and Robbie McVeigh (re-read)
10/19 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressel
11//19 Doctor Who and the Seeds of Doom - Philip Hinchcliffe (reread)
12/19 The Silver Locusts - Ray Bradbury
13/19 A Woman Is No Man - Etaf Rum
14/19 August Heat - Andrea Camilleri
15/19 To Your Scattered Bodies Go - Philip José Farmer (reread)
16/19 The Fabulous Riverboat - Philip José Farmer
17/19 Buddy Does Seattle - Peter Bagge (reread)
18/19 Buddy Does Jersey - Peter Bagge (reread)
19/19 The Heroes - Joe Abercrombie

20/19 The Dark Design - Philip José Farmer

 

[Fozzie Bear]

24/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #59: Post-mortem

Aaron interviews a bunch of people who have been involved with long running counter cultural / community / music business projects and finds out what has worked, what hasn't and what lessons might be learned.

 

[hitmouse]

48/45 Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This

I think this will probably be my last for the year as everything I'm currently reading I've just started.

What did you think of it? I'm a rabid Lockwood fan and will recommend it to people till I'm blue in the face, I appreciate not everyone shares my tastes in this matter though.

 

[nogojones]

What did you think of it? I'm a rabid Lockwood fan and will recommend it to people till I'm blue in the face, I appreciate not everyone shares my tastes in this matter though.

I much preferred Priestdaddy, but No One is Talking is pretty good as well. It did feel slightly self-indulgent at times, but that was immediately forgiven because she has such a lovely way with words.