eyes down for a full house reading challenge thread 2021

[Sweet Meiga]

1/50 Michel Houellebecq - The Map and the Territory
2/50 Adam Stout - Glastonbury Holy Thorn: Story of a Legend
3/50 Michel Houellebecq - Submission
4/50 Michel Houellebecq - H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
5/50 Juri Lotman - Culture and Explosion
6/50 Elena Ferrante - The Days of Abandonment

 

[MBV]

1/12 - Slade House - David Mitchell
2/12 - The Party - Elizabeth Day
3/12 - Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling - Emer McLysaght & Sarah Breen
4/12 - Ghosts - Dolly Alderton

 

[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

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5/70 Surviving The Evacuation : Book 18: Rebuilt in One Day - Frank Tayell.

 

[StoneRoad]

21) The Ionian Mission by P O'Brian (underway 16/2/21) completed 19/2/21

22) Treason's Harbour by P O'Brian (underway 19/2/21)

 

[seventh bullet]

1/30 The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) - Katie Mack

2/30 Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression - Wendy Z. Goldman

3/30 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot

4/30 Failed Fuhrers: A History of Britain's Extreme Right - Graham Macklin

 

[Biddlybee]

1/20 - Foxglove Summer - Ben Aaronovitch
2/20 - The Tiger in the Well - Philip Pullman
3/20 - Love and Obstacles - Aleksandar Hemon

 

[yield]

1. Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

 

[D'wards]

1/24 - The Terror by Dan Simmons
2/24 - London's Fields: An Intimate History of London Football Fandom by Mark Waldon
3/24 - Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

 

[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

 

[hitmouse]

1/30 Jackie Wang - Carceral Capitalism
2/30 Jerold J Kreisman & Hal Straub - I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
3/30 Stuart Turton - The Devil & The Dark Water
4/30 Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
5/30 DD Johnston - Peace, Love and Petrol Bombs
6/30 Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This
7/30 Bertolt Brecht - Threepenny Novel

I feel like this one might be a re-read, but if I have read it, it was ages ago so I don't fully remember it. Anyway, I'm glad London is just a fictional dystopia that Brecht invented for satirical purposes, it would be fucked up if London was real.

 

[butchersapron]

7 - Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson - Ben Burgis, Conrad Hamilton, Matthew McManus, Marion Trejo
8 - Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right - Michael Brooks
9 - Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism - Peter D. Stachura
10 - Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism - Toure F. Reed (Most effin' excellent)
11 - Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class - - Catherine Liu

 

[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

 

[Fozzie Bear]

5/30 Deleuze & Guattari - On The Line

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[hitmouse]

Obligatory "EXPLAIN DELEUZE TO ME RIGHT NOW" etc etc.

 

[Signal 11]

1/10 - Cat Sense - John Bradshaw
2/10 - As Black As Resistance - Zoé Samudzi & William C. Anderson

 

[imposs1904]

7 - Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson - Ben Burgis, Conrad Hamilton, Matthew McManus, Marion Trejo
8 - Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right - Michael Brooks
9 - Gregor Strasser and the Rise of Nazism - Peter D. Stachura
10 - Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism - Toure F. Reed (Most effin' excellent)
11 - Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class - - Catherine Liu

What do you think of the Liu book? I know it got a stinging review over at Libcom.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

1/35 Wayne Hussey - Salad Daze
2/35 Steven Morris - Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume 2
3/35 Paul Gilroy - There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation
4/35 Beatrix Campbell - Goliath: Britain’s Dangerous Places
5/35 Ralph Miliband - Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour
6/35 Adolf Reed Jr - Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
7/35 Adolf Reed Jr - Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-segregation Era

 

[Biddlybee]

1/20 - Foxglove Summer - Ben Aaronovitch
2/20 - The Tiger in the Well - Philip Pullman
3/20 - Love and Obstacles - Aleksandar Hemon
4/20 - The Bees - Laline Paull

 

[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

 

[Pickman's model]

1. Roderick Conway Morris, 'Jem: memoirs of an Ottoman secret agent' (London: Corgi, 1989)
2. Heather Ann Thompson, 'Blood in the water: the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its legacy' (New York: Vintage, 2017)
3. Laird Barron, 'Worse angels' (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2020)
4. Alex Gough, 'Emperor's sword' (Basingstoke: Canelo, 2019)
5. Alex Gough, 'Emperor's knife' (Basingstoke: Canelo, 2020)

6. Alex Gough, Emperor's Axe
7. Alex Gough, Emperor's Spear
8. Barry Sadler, Casca 1: The Eternal Mercenary
9. Barry Sadler, Casca 11: The Legionaire
10. Barry Sadler, Casca 15: The Pirate
11. Alistair MacLean,The Satan Bug

 

[StoneRoad]

22) Treason's Harbour by P O'Brian (underway 19/2/21)

23) Far side of the World by P O'Brian
24) Reverse of the Medal by P O'Brian
25) Letter of Marque by P O'Brian (finished the last of these three on 3rd March 2021
26) Thirteen-gun Salute by P O'Brian (underway 4/3/21)

 

[belboid]

1/30 - Tim Harford - How to Make the World Add Up
2/30 - Andreas Eschbach - The Hair-Carpet Weavers
3/30 - Gabriel Pogrund and Patrick Maguire - Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn
4/30 - Chris Mullin - The Friends of Harry Perkins
5/30 - Antonio Damasio - Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain


6/30 - Sudhir Hazareesingh - Black Spartacus: the Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
7/3- - Carolyn Fick - The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below

 

[Little Piranha]

1/52 Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of Dust
2/52 Natalie Haynes - Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths.
3/52 Philip Kerr - The One From The Other
4/52 Peter Swanson - Rules For Perfect Murders.
5/52 David Mitchell - Slade House
6/52 Stuart J. Ritchie - Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
7/52 David Mitchell - Ghostwritten

 

[butchersapron]

What do you think of the Liu book? I know it got a stinging review over at Libcom.

I thought it was a hilarious polemic - from someone with obv reformist DSA style background. No wonder the pointy heads didn't like it. Wrong church.

edit: and i've just remembered, she defends Nagle. They will hate that for sure.

 

[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

 

[Plumdaff]

I'm going to go for twenty as I'm always setting myself up for failure!

1/20 Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney. Not really a surprise, given how much I enjoyed Normal People, but I really liked this.

Already behind on twenty

2/20 Ways of Seeing - John Berger. Short, engaging introduction to art criticism for the layperson. Recommended
3/20 When was Wales? Gwyn Williams. Not short, dense, introduction to Welsh history from a materialist perspective. Also recommended.

 

[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!

 

[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

 

[hitmouse]

Already behind on twenty

2/20 Ways of Seeing - John Berger. Short, engaging introduction to art criticism for the layperson. Recommended

Proper classic, that. Have you watched the tv series? Think it's all up on youtube.

 

[MsHopper]

1/50 The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
2/50 The museum of broken promises - Elizabeth Buchan
3/50 - Mystery in White - J. Jeffersin Farjeon
4/50 - in the midst of Winter - Isabel Allende
5/50 - a patchwork family - Cathy Bramley

6/60 - Mythos - Stephen Fry