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eyes down for a full house reading challenge thread 2021

How many books do you anticipate reading in 2021?


  • Total voters
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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
5/12 - Come Again - Robert Webb
 
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
 
1. Dark Voyage - Alan Furst
2. The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
3. Milkman - Anna Burns
4. Why I'm no Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
5. The Red - Linda Nagata

Very slow year for reading so far, but a lot going on that has taken up my time.
 
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
4/24 - Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
5/24 - Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
6/24 - 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
 
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
6/50 - Mythos - Stephen Fry

7/50 A girl in exile - Ismail Kadare
8/50 A walkers guide to outdoor clues and signs - Tristan Gooley
9/50 An offer you can't refuse - Jill Mansell
10/50 Hell's Corner - David Baldacci
 
1. "Exile" - James Swallow
2. "Rules For Perfect Murders" - Peter Swanson
3."False Values" -Ben Aaronovitch
4. "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" - Stuart Turton
5. "The Kind Worth Killing For" Peter Swanson
6. "Fellside" - M. R. Carey
7. "The Devil and the Dark Water" - Stuart Turton
8. "In the Dark, Dark Wood" - Ruth Ware

9. "Cry Baby" - Mark Billingham. A bit turgid and I was happy to finish it
 
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: The Story of the Most Amazing Mass Escape of World War Two - Leo Heaps
10/70 Edge of Collapse - Kyla Stone

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11/70 Edge of Madness - Kyla Stone
 
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
 
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

5/30 The Spectre of Babeuf - Ian Birchall

6/30 To Do Something Beautiful - Rohini Hensman

7/30 Rajani Palme Dutt: A Study in British Stalinism - John Callaghan

8/30 The East was Read: Socialist Culture in the Third World - Vijay Prasad (editor)
 
1. Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities
2. Eric Hobsbawm - Primitive Rebels
3. Jackie Wang - Carceral Capitalism
4. Ishay Landa - Fascism and the Masses
5. Virginie Despentes - Vernon Subutex
6. Catherine Liu - Virtue Hoarders
7. Olivia Laing - Funny Weather
8. Hari Kunzru - Red Pill
 
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
 
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
6/50 - Mythos - Stephen Fry
7/50 A girl in exile - Ismail Kadare
8/50 A walkers guide to outdoor clues and signs - Tristan Gooley
9/50 An offer you can't refuse - Jill Mansell
10/50 Hell's Corner - David Baldacci

11/50 The green mile - Stephen King
 
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
 
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
 
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
6/50 - Mythos - Stephen Fry
7/50 A girl in exile - Ismail Kadare
8/50 A walkers guide to outdoor clues and signs - Tristan Gooley
9/50 An offer you can't refuse - Jill Mansell
10/50 Hell's Corner - David Baldacci
11/50 The green mile - Stephen King

12/50 84k - Claire North
 
1. "Exile" - James Swallow
2. "Rules For Perfect Murders" - Peter Swanson
3."False Values" -Ben Aaronovitch
4. "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" - Stuart Turton
5. "The Kind Worth Killing For" Peter Swanson
6. "Fellside" - M. R. Carey
7. "The Devil and the Dark Water" - Stuart Turton
8. "In the Dark, Dark Wood" - Ruth Ware
9."Cry Baby" - Mark Billingham

10. "Little Disasters" - Sarah Vaughan. An interesting study of motherhood,mental health and friendship written almost like a thriller.
 
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
8/30 Doris Lessing - A Proper Marriage
9/30 Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
10/30 Ruth Kinna & Clifford Harper - Great Anarchists
11/30 Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
12/30 Doris Lessing - A Ripple from the Storm

Probably the most Communist-focused of the Martha Quest/Children of Violence books so far, so I guess recommended if you like Sartre/de Beauvoir and other novels about people feeling ambivalent about the CP around the time of WWII? Going to start the Notes from Below book, From the Workplace next.
 
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
4/24 - Mystic River by Dennis Lehane
5/24 - Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
6/24 - 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill
7/24 - Ramble Book by Adam Buxton
 
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
5/12 - Come Again - Robert Webb
6/12 - Fleishman Is In Trouble - Taffy Brodesser-Anker
 
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
 
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

5/30 The Spectre of Babeuf - Ian Birchall

6/30 To Do Something Beautiful - Rohini Hensman

7/30 Rajani Palme Dutt: A Study in British Stalinism - John Callaghan

8/30 The East was Read: Socialist Culture in the Third World - Vijay Prasad (editor)

9/30 The Chaplin Machine: Slapstick, Fordism and the Communist Avant-Garde - Owen Hatherley
 
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
6/50 - Mythos - Stephen Fry
7/50 A girl in exile - Ismail Kadare
8/50 A walkers guide to outdoor clues and signs - Tristan Gooley
9/50 An offer you can't refuse - Jill Mansell
10/50 Hell's Corner - David Baldacci
11/50 The green mile - Stephen King
12/50 84k - Claire North

13/50 - the book of dust - Philip pullman
 
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
5/20 - The Radium Girls - Kate Moore (A)
6/20 - Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall
7/20 - Many Different Kinds of Love - Michael Rosen (A)
 
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: The Story of the Most Amazing Mass Escape of World War Two - Leo Heaps
10/70 Edge of Collapse - Kyla Stone
11/70 Edge of Madness - Kyla Stone


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12/70 Edge of Anarchy - Kyla Stone
 
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
 
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
8/30 Doris Lessing - A Proper Marriage
9/30 Bernardine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other
10/30 Ruth Kinna & Clifford Harper - Great Anarchists
11/30 Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon
12/30 Doris Lessing - A Ripple from the Storm
13/30 Notes From Below - From the Workplace

Like any anthology, the quality of the writing is always going to vary a bit, but definitely worth reading overall. Really liked the pieces about Amazon, sub-editing, and the South London Bartenders Network. Now started (and nearly finished) Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan - Postcolonial Banter.
 
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