eyes down for a full house reading challenge thread 2021

[hitmouse]

34/35 The Dart League King by Keith Lee Morris

Presumably no relation to the Black Flag/Circle Jerks guy?

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
14/30 Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan - Postcolonial Banter
15/30 EM Forster - Collected Short Stories
16/30 Doris Lessing - Landlocked
17/30 Sarah Schulman - Conflict Is Not Abuse
18/30 Katherine Angel - Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
19/30 Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain - Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists
20/30 Doris Lessing - The Four-Gated City
21/30 Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - The First Woman
22/30 Anne Boyer - A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
23/30 Sam McPheeters - Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
24/30 Maggie Nelson - Argonauts
25/30 David Wojnarowicz - Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
26/30 Joey Comeau - Overqualifieder
27/30 James Baldwin - Dark Days
28/30 Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
29/30 Peter Cole - Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
30/30 John Berger - And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
31/30 Jill Sexsmith - Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You
32/30 Hildegard of Bingen and Huw Lemmey (and Bhanu Kapil and Alice Spawls) - Unknown Language
33/30 Richard Seymour - The Twittering Machine

Really liked this one, I got through it pretty quickly when I read it so decided to re-read it to be sure of taking it all in. Then new issues of Viz and Dope arrived while I was re-reading so that sidetracked me a bit as well. It did sometimes make me want to hide/burn his thesaurus, but only at a few points, so that's not bad overall. Also, didn't directly mention the ISN and #sexyracistchairgate, but I did wonder how much that experience might've planted the seeds for this book. Anyway, no James Bridle but still definitely recommended if you fancy reading a book about the internet and all that.
Next up starting Joel Golby - Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, which'll hopefully be a bit lighter.

 

[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

The books I stumble across - and end up reading - on archive.org . It's a guilty pleasure.

 

[Signal 11]

8/10 - Country Joe & Me - Ron Cabral (tried it as there was nothing else but wouldn't recommend)
9/10 - Mikhail Botvinnik: 6th World Chess Champion - Isaak & Vladimir Linder

 

[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

 

[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

 

[kropotkin]

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
6. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet
7. Katherine Carlyle - Rupert Thomson
8. Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
9. Shards of Earth - Adrian Tchaikovsky
10. Remote Control - Nnedi Okorafor
11. Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
12. Spies of the Balkans - Alan Furst
13. The Lesson - Caldwell Turnbull
14. A Little Hatred - Joe Abercrombe
15. The Trouble With Peace - Joe Abercrombe
16. Fugitive Pieces - Ann Michaels
17. Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
18. The Wisdom of Crowds - Joe Abercrombe

 

[Fozzie Bear]

20/30 Rob Ray - A Beautiful Idea: History Of The Freedom Press Anarchists

Enjoyable and seemingly honest and unheroic account of the UK’s longest running anarchist institution.

 

[imposs1904]

20/30 Rob Ray - A Beautiful Idea: History Of The Freedom Press Anarchists

Enjoyable and seemingly honest and unheroic account of the UK’s longest running anarchist institution.

It's on my shelf. I should read it.

 

[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

 

[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

 

[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
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
14/30 Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan - Postcolonial Banter
15/30 EM Forster - Collected Short Stories
16/30 Doris Lessing - Landlocked
17/30 Sarah Schulman - Conflict Is Not Abuse
18/30 Katherine Angel - Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
19/30 Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain - Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists
20/30 Doris Lessing - The Four-Gated City
21/30 Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - The First Woman
22/30 Anne Boyer - A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
23/30 Sam McPheeters - Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
24/30 Maggie Nelson - Argonauts
25/30 David Wojnarowicz - Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
26/30 Joey Comeau - Overqualifieder
27/30 James Baldwin - Dark Days
28/30 Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
29/30 Peter Cole - Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
30/30 John Berger - And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
31/30 Jill Sexsmith - Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You
32/30 Hildegard of Bingen and Huw Lemmey (and Bhanu Kapil and Alice Spawls) - Unknown Language
33/30 Richard Seymour - The Twittering Machine
34/30 Joel Golby - Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant

Went into it being like "ah, this should be a bit of light relief" only to find out the first chapter/essay was about both his parents dying. Although still fairly funny as pieces of writing about your parents dying go? Anyway, I definitely like him more for reading the book and getting to "know" him a bit more, has a great viciously angry bit about landlords, and it covers the great, classic, universal themes that everyone can relate to - being a teenager in the 2000s, nostalgia for the late 2000s and early 2010s when you were in your early twenties, coming to terms with turning thirty in the late 2010s, that sort of thing. Although I am still reeling from a bit right near the end, in the middle of a really good essay about his relationship with alcohol after his dad drank himself to death, where he claims to have drank half a crate of Strongbow Dark Fruits in Bangor in the 2000s, even though everyone knows that back when we were teenagers in the 2000s we had to drink snakebite and black the oldfashioned way because the earth-shaking, epochal moment when Strongbow Dark Fruits arrived and everything changed forever didn't happen until 2013. I can't think why he would offer up such an obvious falsehood in his book but there you go.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

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
11. "A Song for the Dark Times" - Ian Rankin
12. "The Last Thing to Burn" - Will Dean
13. "The Sanatorium" - Sarah Pearse.
14. "Blood Orange" - Harriet Tyce
15: "Recursion" - Blake Crouch
16. "The Woman in Cabin 10"- Ruth Ware.
18. "The Turn of the Key" - Ruth Ware
19. The Passengers" - John Marrs
20. "Anatomy of a Scandal" - Sarah Vaughan
21 ."The Six" - Luca Veste
22. "The Sentence is Death" - Anthony Horowitz
23. "The Silent Patient" - Alex Michaelides
24: Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
25: "Out of the Dark" - Gregg Hurwitz
26. "The Coffinmaker's Garden" - Stuart MacBride
27. "The Nameless Ones" - John Connolley
28. "The Other Mother" - Michel Bussi

29. "Eight Detectives" - Alex Pavesi. An interesting concept, quite Agatha Christie like, very easy to read and rather understated. I enjoyed it!

 

[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

 

[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
7/30 - Carolyn Fick - The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below
8/30 - Willie Vlautin - The Night Always Comes
9/30 - Pat Nevin - The Accidental Footballer
10/30 - Stephen Morris - Fast Forward: Confessions Of A Post-Punk Percussionist – Volume II
11/30 - Edouard Louis - Who Killed My Father?
12/30 - David Mitchell - Utopia Avenue

13/30 - Ignacio Iglesias - The Final Weeks of the Spanish Republic
14/30 - Amia Srinivasan - The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century
15/30 - Ben Teitelbaum - War for Eternity: inside Bannon’s Far Right Circle of Power Brokers
16/30 - Shaun Bythell - Confessions of a Bookseller
17/30 - Daniel Levitin - This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
18/30 - Tamsyn Muir - Gideon the Ninth


19/30 - Nicolas Blincoe - More Noble Than War: the Story of Football in Palestine and Israel
20/30 - F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby


I only finished the Blincoe this morning and in a semi-desperate attempt to make 2/3s of my target by 3/4s of the way through the year, I needed a book I could read in a day. I've never read (or seen) Gatsby so it seemed like a good choice. What a wonderfully written book about utter wankers.

 

[Gin n tonic]

OMG! I'm late in the year, but I do love reading.. Jeez.. Hi all..let's swap books. So many

 

[billy_bob]

What a wonderfully written book about utter wankers.

What a wonderfully written summary of everything that's ever been written about The Great Gatsby

 

[QueenOfGoths]

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
11. "A Song for the Dark Times" - Ian Rankin
12. "The Last Thing to Burn" - Will Dean
13. "The Sanatorium" - Sarah Pearse.
14. "Blood Orange" - Harriet Tyce
15: "Recursion" - Blake Crouch
16. "The Woman in Cabin 10"- Ruth Ware.
18. "The Turn of the Key" - Ruth Ware
19. The Passengers" - John Marrs
20. "Anatomy of a Scandal" - Sarah Vaughan
21 ."The Six" - Luca Veste
22. "The Sentence is Death" - Anthony Horowitz
23. "The Silent Patient" - Alex Michaelides
24: Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
25: "Out of the Dark" - Gregg Hurwitz
26. "The Coffinmaker's Garden" - Stuart MacBride
27. "The Nameless Ones" - John Connolley
28. "The Other Mother" - Michel Bussi
29. "Eight Detectives" - Alex Pavesi

30. "The Appeal" - Janice Hallett. Really, realy enjoyed this. A good story interestingly written in the form of emails and text messages

 

[Threshers_Flail]

21. Olga Ravn - The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

 

[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

 

[D'wards]

1/24 - The Terror by Dan Simmons
2/24 - London's Fields: An Intimate History of London Football Fandom by Mark Waldon (aka Cerberus )
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
8/24 - Volcano Adventure by Willard Price
9/24 - Creepshow by Stephen King
10/24 - Jaws by Peter Benchley (reread)
11/24 - What if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Monroe
12/24 - The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey
13/24 - Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
14/24 - Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
15/24 - Limitless: The Autobiography by Tim Peake
16/24 - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (reread)
17/24 - The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey
18/24 - Oh! To be in England by H.E. Bates
19/24 - The Fall of Koli by M.R. Carey
20/24 - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino

 

[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.

 

[hitmouse]

20/30 - F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby


I only finished the Blincoe this morning and in a semi-desperate attempt to make 2/3s of my target by 3/4s of the way through the year, I needed a book I could read in a day. I've never read (or seen) Gatsby so it seemed like a good choice. What a wonderfully written book about utter wankers.

When I got around to reading it, I was really glad I hadn't had it ruined by having to read it for my GCSEs or anything.

 

[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

 

[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
5/20 - The Radium Girls - Kate Moore (A)
6/20 - Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall
7/20 - Many Different Kinds of Love - Michael Rosen (A)
8/20 - Full Tilt - Dervla Murphy (A)
9/20 - Empire's Endgame: Racism and the British State - Bhattacharyya, Elliott-Cooper, Balani, Nişancıoğlu, Koram, Gebrial, El-Enany, De Noronha
10/20 - The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
11/20 - A Little Devil in America - Hanif Abdurraqib (A)
12/20 - Waiting for Anya - Michael Morpurgo
13/20 - The Ungrateful Refugee - Dina Nayeri (A)
14/20 - The Social Instinct - Nichola Raihani (A)
15/20 - The Book of Trespass - Nick Hayes
16/20 - Acid for the Children - Flea (A)
17/20 - Grimm Tales - Philip Pullman
18/20 - Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari (A)
19/20 - Superior: The Return of Race Science - Angela Saini
20/20 - Everyday Sexism - Laura Bates (A)
21/20 - So They Call You Pisher! - Michael Rosen (A)
22/20 - Speaking in Tongues - Laura Taylor
23/20 - Valkyrie - Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
24/20 - Serpentine - Philip Pullman
25/20 - Written in Bone - Sue Black (A)
26/20 - Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala
27/20 - Stalin Ate My Homework - Alexei Sayle (A)

 

[D'wards]

1/24 - The Terror by Dan Simmons
2/24 - London's Fields: An Intimate History of London Football Fandom by Mark Waldon (aka Cerberus )
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
8/24 - Volcano Adventure by Willard Price
9/24 - Creepshow by Stephen King
10/24 - Jaws by Peter Benchley (reread)
11/24 - What if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Monroe
12/24 - The Book of Koli by M.R. Carey
13/24 - Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
14/24 - Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
15/24 - Limitless: The Autobiography by Tim Peake
16/24 - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (reread)
17/24 - The Trials of Koli by M.R. Carey
18/24 - Oh! To be in England by H.E. Bates
19/24 - The Fall of Koli by M.R. Carey
20/24 - Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino
21/24 - And Away by Bob Mortimer

 

[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
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
14/30 Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan - Postcolonial Banter
15/30 EM Forster - Collected Short Stories
16/30 Doris Lessing - Landlocked
17/30 Sarah Schulman - Conflict Is Not Abuse
18/30 Katherine Angel - Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
19/30 Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain - Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists
20/30 Doris Lessing - The Four-Gated City
21/30 Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - The First Woman
22/30 Anne Boyer - A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
23/30 Sam McPheeters - Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
24/30 Maggie Nelson - Argonauts
25/30 David Wojnarowicz - Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
26/30 Joey Comeau - Overqualifieder
27/30 James Baldwin - Dark Days
28/30 Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
29/30 Peter Cole - Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
30/30 John Berger - And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
31/30 Jill Sexsmith - Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You
32/30 Hildegard of Bingen and Huw Lemmey (and Bhanu Kapil and Alice Spawls) - Unknown Language
33/30 Richard Seymour - The Twittering Machine
34/30 Joel Golby - Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
35/30 Jane McAlevey - No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

Bold of McAlevey to write a whole book about labour organising when, being an American, she can't spell either word correctly. Been out for long enough now that I think it's gone past the original hype stage and is maybe having a bit of a backlash, idk. I can certainly see the logic of some of the critiques of her work that I've seen, and ultimately it does feel a bit more like a (very good) book from a union full-timer's perspective than from a shop stewards. Especially the chapter on Smithfield Foods, I'd love to see a more syndicalist/autonomist analysis of that campaign. But a good and engaging and very worthwhile book overall, I came away sort of thinking "oh, it'd be great to see what she has to say about the West Virginia teachers, or UVW and all the London cleaners stuff, or the Manchester bus strike."
Basically if you're enough of a union nerd to have any interest in this book you've probably already either read it or got it on your to-read list, but if by some chance you're a massive union nerd and that's not the case I'd definitely recommend it.
Next up, starting Michelle Good - Five Little Indians.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

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
11. "A Song for the Dark Times" - Ian Rankin
12. "The Last Thing to Burn" - Will Dean
13. "The Sanatorium" - Sarah Pearse.
14. "Blood Orange" - Harriet Tyce
15: "Recursion" - Blake Crouch
16. "The Woman in Cabin 10"- Ruth Ware.
18. "The Turn of the Key" - Ruth Ware
19. The Passengers" - John Marrs
20. "Anatomy of a Scandal" - Sarah Vaughan
21 ."The Six" - Luca Veste
22. "The Sentence is Death" - Anthony Horowitz
23. "The Silent Patient" - Alex Michaelides
24: Nine Perfect Strangers - Liane Moriarty
25: "Out of the Dark" - Gregg Hurwitz
26. "The Coffinmaker's Garden" - Stuart MacBride
27. "The Nameless Ones" - John Connolley
28. "The Other Mother" - Michel Bussi
29. "Eight Detectives" - Alex Pavesi
30. "The Appeal" - Janice Hallett

31. "Five Minds" - Guy Morpuss. Intriguing premise and easy to read but maybe didn't fulfill its promise

 

[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

 

[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
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
14/30 Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan - Postcolonial Banter
15/30 EM Forster - Collected Short Stories
16/30 Doris Lessing - Landlocked
17/30 Sarah Schulman - Conflict Is Not Abuse
18/30 Katherine Angel - Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
19/30 Dave Smith and Phil Chamberlain - Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists
20/30 Doris Lessing - The Four-Gated City
21/30 Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - The First Woman
22/30 Anne Boyer - A Handbook of Disappointed Fate
23/30 Sam McPheeters - Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk
24/30 Maggie Nelson - Argonauts
25/30 David Wojnarowicz - Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
26/30 Joey Comeau - Overqualifieder
27/30 James Baldwin - Dark Days
28/30 Willa Cather - Death Comes for the Archbishop
29/30 Peter Cole - Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia
30/30 John Berger - And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
31/30 Jill Sexsmith - Somewhere a Long and Happy Life Probably Awaits You
32/30 Hildegard of Bingen and Huw Lemmey (and Bhanu Kapil and Alice Spawls) - Unknown Language
33/30 Richard Seymour - The Twittering Machine
34/30 Joel Golby - Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
35/30 Jane McAlevey - No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
36/30 Michelle Good - Five Little Indians

A story worth telling, but as a novel it didn't really do a tremendous amount for me. But maybe I'm just not the intended audience, and that's fine.

 

[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