Have yourself a merry little readmas 2019 reading challenge thread

[Me76]

1/50 Ray vs the Meaning of Life, Michael F Stewart - L
2/50 When we were Animals, Joshua Gaylord - L
3/50 Elevation, Stephen King
4/50 How to be Good, Nick Hornby
5/50 Alone in Berlin, Hans Fallada
6/50 Me and You, Niccolò Ammaniti - L
7/50 Now You See Her, Heidi Perk
8/50 The Ladykiller, Martina Cole
9/50 The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
10/50 The Power, Naomi Alderman - L
11/50 What Happened at the Lake, Phil M Williams
12/50 Me Before You, Jo Jo Moyes - L
13/50 The Swap, Nancy Boyarsky
14/50 My Sister, the Serial Killer, oyinkan Braithwaite
15/50 Descent, Tim Johnston
16/50 Louis and Louise, Julie Cohen

 

[iona]

1/35 Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
2/35 The Sea and Summer - George Turner
3/35 The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
4/35 The Obelisk Gate - N. K. Jemisin
5/35 The Stone Sky - N. K. Jemisin
6/35 A Blight of Mages - Karen Miller
7/35 The Innocent Mage - Karen Miller
8/35 Macbeth - Jo Nesbo
9/35 The Awakened Mage - Karen Miller
10/35 The Stone Circle - Elly Griffiths
11/35 The Prodigal Mage - Karen Miller

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 Roald Dahl - Matilda
2/45 William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
3/45 N K Jemisin - The Fifth Season
4/45 Michael "Mike D" Diamond & Adam "Ad-Rock" Horowitz - Beastie Boys Book
5/45 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
6/45 Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda
7/45 Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
8/45 William Shakespeare - The Tempest
9/45 Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
10/45 John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
11/45 N K Jemisin - The Obelisk Gate
12/45 JRR Tolkien - The Two Towers
13/45 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
14/45 N K Jemisin - The Stone Sky
15/45 Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
16/45 Andy Weir - The Martian

17/45 Robert Jordan - The Great Hunt

 

[Fozzie Bear]

1/30 Charles Spencer - Killers Of The King: The Men Who Dared To Execute Charles I
2/30 Michel Foucault - Remarks On Marx
3/30 Robert Forbes and Eddie Stampton - The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement UK & USA 1979-1993
4/30 Silvia Federici - Caliban And The Witch: Women, The Body And Primitive Accumulation
5/30 Danny Burns - Poll Tax Rebellion
6/30 bell hooks - Black Looks: Race and Representation
7/30 Kenneth Dead & Brian Masumi - First and Last Emperors: Absolute State and the body of the Despot
8/30 Stewart Home - No Pity
9/30 Eva Dolan - This Is How It Ends

10/30 Simon Morris - Civil War

Acerbic musings on / reviews of every Guns and Roses track, interspersed with letters or emails to a younger woman about their fucked up relationship.

 

[kropotkin]

1. Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
2. The Kaiser goes: the generals remain - Theodor Plivier
3. The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi- David N. Schwartz
4. The Third Policeman - Brian O'Nolan
5. The Book of Hidden Things - Francesco Dimitri
6. The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
7. Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
8. Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed
9. The Golden Transcendence- John C. Wright
10. The Knife Man - Wendy Khadijah Moore
11. Every Human Heart - William Boyd
12. To Kill a Mocking-bird - Harper Lee
13. Poems - Rainer Maria Rilke
14. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - Akala
15. The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey Into the Dark Side of the Brain - James H. Fallon
16. The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell
17. Infinite detail - Tim Maugan
18. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol
19. No Apparent Distress: A Doctor's Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine - Rachel Pearson
20. I Am Watching You - Teresa Driscoll
21. Training and Racing with a Power Meter - Andrew Coggan and Hunter Allen
22. The Wych Elm - Tana French

Read some pap books recently. I think I'll do something more meaty soon

Oh, and Sci fi lovers should check out no. 17 above - debut novel set in Stokes Croft in Bristol where near future hackers steal an nsa e-weapon that essentially crashes capitalism be destroying supply chain algorithms and connected equipment. Before/after style. Really enjoyed it, quite dystopian. A Land Army in Wales of reconstituted class elements that puts the poor to work on farms to feed the cities..

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 Roald Dahl - Matilda
2/45 William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
3/45 N K Jemisin - The Fifth Season
4/45 Michael "Mike D" Diamond & Adam "Ad-Rock" Horowitz - Beastie Boys Book
5/45 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
6/45 Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda
7/45 Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
8/45 William Shakespeare - The Tempest
9/45 Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
10/45 John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
11/45 N K Jemisin - The Obelisk Gate
12/45 JRR Tolkien - The Two Towers
13/45 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
14/45 N K Jemisin - The Stone Sky
15/45 Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
16/45 Andy Weir - The Martian
17/45 Robert Jordan - The Great Hunt

18/45 Richard F Thomas - Why Bob Dylan Matters

 

[marty21]

1/65 The Fire Maker - Peter May
2/65 I'll Keep You Safe - Peter May
3/65 Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945-75 - Max Hastings.
4/65 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 15 : Where's There Hope - Frank Tayell
5/65 Deal Breaker- Harlan Coben
6/65 Seconds Away - Harlan Coben
7/65 Found - Harlan Coben
8/65 Back Spin - Harlan Coben
9/65 One False Move - Harlan Coben
10/65 The Falcon Tattoo - Bill Rogers
11/65 The Tangled Lock - Bill Rogers
12/65 The Blow Out- Bill Rogers
13/65 The Fourth Sacrifice - Peter May
14/65 The Cleansing - Bill Rogers

******

15/65 The Head Case - Bill Rogers

 

[yield]

1. The Stone Sky by Nora K. Jemisin
2. Zenith (collected editions) by Grant Morrison & Steve Yeowell
3. A Sting In The Tale by Dave Goulson
4. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
5. No Straight Lines by Alan Moore

6. The Weather Detective by Peter Wohlleben
7. The Aeneid by Virgil

 

[ringo]

1/30 Travels With Charley - John Steinbeck
2/30 A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush - Eric Newby
3/30 Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
4/30 Wrong About Japan - Peter Carey
5/30 The Lawless Roads - Graham Greene
6/30 The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
7/30 A Short History Of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
8/30 The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton

 

[BoatieBird]

1/70 - Minette Walters - The Ice House
2/70 - Joe Hill - Strange Weather
3/70 - Donna Tartt - The Little Friend (re-read)
4/70 - Joe Hill - 20th Century Ghosts (re-read)
5/70 - P.D.James - Unnatural Causes
6/70 - Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
7/70 - Donald Ray Pollock - The Heavenly Table
8/70 - Minette Walters - The Echo
9/70 - Gavin Extence - The Mirror World of Melody Black
10/70 - Elizabeth Strout - The Burgess Boys
11/70 - P.D. James - Shroud For a Nightingale
12/70 - Carson McCullers - The Member of the Wedding
13/70 - Val McDermid - Broken Ground
14/70 - James M Cain - The Cocktail Waitress
15/70 - Gillian Flynn - The Grownup
16/70 - P.D. James - The Black Tower
17/70 - Dennis Lehane - Mystic River
18/70 - Nevil Shute - A Town Like Alice

19/70 - Adrian R. Magnuson - Taking Flight
20/70 - P.D. James - Death of an Expert Witness (re-read)

 

[ringo]

1/30 Travels With Charley - John Steinbeck
2/30 A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush - Eric Newby
3/30 Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
4/30 Wrong About Japan - Peter Carey
5/30 The Lawless Roads - Graham Greene
6/30 The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
7/30 A Short History Of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
8/30 The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton
9/30 The Art Of Stillness: Adventures In Going Nowhere - Pico Iyer

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "In a House of Lies" - Ian Rankin
2. "The Doubt Factory" - Paolo Bacigalupi
3. "TH1RT3EN" - Steve Cavanagh
4. "Bad Blood" - E P. Chirovici

5. "Yellow Blue Tibia" - Adam Roberts. I enjoyed this when reading it but rarely felt the compulsion to pick it up and read which is why it took me so long to finish

 

[gaijingirl]

1. Terry Hayes - I am Pilgrim
2. Madeline Miller - Circe
3. Maeve Binchy - Echoes
4. Fiona Valpir - The Beekeeper's Promise
5. Catherine Simpson - When I had a little sister
6. Zoe Gilbert - Folk
7. Hilary McKay - The Skylark's War

 

[DotCommunist]

1/25 Legacy of Spies by John Le Carre
2/25 Blackfish City by Sam J Miller
3/25 Shadow of All Night Falling by Glen Cook
4/25 Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
5/25 The Hangman's Daughter by Gavin G Smith
6/25 Artificial Conditions by Martha Wells
7/25 The Emperor's Gift by Aaron-Dembski-Bowden
8/25 Dancer's Lament by Ian C Esslemont
9/25 Deadhouse Landing by Ian C Esslemont
10/25 Kellanved's Reach by Ian C Esslemont
11/25 Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes
12/25 Werewolf and The Wormlord by Hugh Cook
13/25 Permafrost by Alastair Reynolds

 

[Biddlybee]

1/10 Holding - Graham Norton
2/10 The Trouble with Goats and Sheep - Joanna Cannon
3/10 In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin - Lindsey Hilsum
4/10 Last Tango in Aberystwyth - Malcolm Pryce
5/10 If This Is a Man - Primo Levi

 

[billy_bob]

1/50 Mark E. Smith/Austin Collings - Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
2/50 Richard F. Thomas - Why Dylan Matters
3/50 Shaun Bythell - The Diary of a Bookseller
4/50 William Melvin Kelley - A Different Drummer
5/50 Eric Idle - Always Look On the Bright Side of Life
6/50 Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Horror
7/50 Kevin Barry - Dark Lies the Island
8/50 Kevin Barry - There Are Little Kingdoms
9/50 Dean Burnett - The Idiot Brain
10/50 Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States
11/50 A.M. Homes - The Safety of Objects
12/50 Mark Haddon - The Pier Falls
13/50 Rebecca Solnit - Hope in the Darkness

14/50 Annie Proulx - Fine Just the Way It Is
15/60 Carys Davies - West
16/60 Annie Proulx - Bad Dirt
17/60 Annie Proulx - Close Range

 

[neonwilderness]

1/24 War of the Wolf - Bernard Cornwell
2/24 I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
3/24 I’ll Keep You Safe - Peter May
4/24 Unreasonable Behaviour - Don McCullin

 

[Ptolemy]

1/30. The Atheist's Mass - Honoré de Balzac.
2/30. The Labour Party - William Glenvil Hall.
3/30. L'Argent (Money) - Émile Zola.
4/30. Le Rêve (The Dream) - Émile Zola.
5/30. The Conquest of Plassans - Émile Zola.
6/30. Tao Te Ching - Laozi (re-read).
7/30. Four Major Plays - Henrik Ibsen.
8/30. Soul on Ice - Eldridge Cleaver.
9/30. The Lost Gospel Q - Marcus J. Borg.
10/30. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin.
11/30. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy.
12/30. The Diary of Lady Murasaki - Murasaki Shikibu.
13/30. Au Bonheur des Dames (The Ladies' Paradise) - Émile Zola.
14/30. La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret (The Sin of Abbé Mouret) - Émile Zola.
15/30. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley.
16/30. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott.
17/30. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk.
18/30. Une page d'amour (A Love Story) - Émile Zola.
19/30. The Rubaiyyat - Omar Khayaam (translated by Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah)
20/30. Le Ventre de Paris (The Belly of Paris) - Émile Zola.

 

[gawkrodger]

1) Calder - Raw Concrete: The beauty of Brutalism
2) Owen Hatherley - A guide to the new ruins of Great Britain
3) China Mieville - King Rat
4) Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London
5) Ben Aaronovitch - Moon over Soho
6) Ben Aaronovitch - Whispers Underground
7) Ben Aaronovitch - Foxglove Summer
8) Ben Aaronovitch - The Hanging Tree
9) Iain Sinclair - Swimming to Heaven: The lost rivers of London
10) Ben Aaronovitch - The Furthest Station
11) John Berger - Understanding a Photograph
12) Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard
13) Douglas Murphy - Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the end of Architecture

 

[SpookyFrank]

1/44 Benjamin Zephaniah - The Life And Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
2/44 Nnedi Okorafor - Who Fears Death
3/44 Jenny Hval - Paradise Rot
4/44 Thomas Szasz - The Myth of Mental Illness
5/44 Haruki Murakami - Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of The World
6/44 Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
7/44 Charles C. Mann - 1491: The Americas Before Columbus
8/44 Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem
9/44 Bessel van der Kolk - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma
10/44 Cixin Liu - The Dark Forest
11/44 Michio Kaku - Hyperspace
12/44 Halldor Laxness - Fish Can Sing
13/44 Cixin Liu - Death's End
14/44 Carlo Rovelli - The Order of Time
15/44 Usula le Guin - The Dispossessed

16/44 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Double

My task for April is to get through the enormous slab that is TH White's The Once and Future King.

 

[Me76]

1/50 Ray vs the Meaning of Life, Michael F Stewart - L
2/50 When we were Animals, Joshua Gaylord - L
3/50 Elevation, Stephen King
4/50 How to be Good, Nick Hornby
5/50 Alone in Berlin, Hans Fallada
6/50 Me and You, Niccolò Ammaniti - L
7/50 Now You See Her, Heidi Perk
8/50 The Ladykiller, Martina Cole
9/50 The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion
10/50 The Power, Naomi Alderman - L
11/50 What Happened at the Lake, Phil M Williams


12/50 Me Before You, Jo Jo Moyes - L Really liked this and was glad it didn't give a happy ending. Kept it a bit more real. Didn't realise it was a film either but will be looking out for it.

13/50 The Swap, Nancy Boyarsky

14/50 My Sister, the Serial Killer, oyinkan Braithwaite - short and felt like it left a bit out, but very good.

15/50 Descent, Tim Johnston - this has loads of amazing reviews and was written very well, but dragged a bit for me.

16/50 Louis and Louise, Julie Cohen - I thought this was going to be an examination of the difference between the way males and flames are brought up and the effects of that. It wasn't, but still a good story.

17/50 The Night Bird, Brian Freeman - Nice thriller.

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 Roald Dahl - Matilda
2/45 William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
3/45 N K Jemisin - The Fifth Season
4/45 Michael "Mike D" Diamond & Adam "Ad-Rock" Horowitz - Beastie Boys Book
5/45 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
6/45 Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda
7/45 Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
8/45 William Shakespeare - The Tempest
9/45 Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
10/45 John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
11/45 N K Jemisin - The Obelisk Gate
12/45 JRR Tolkien - The Two Towers
13/45 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
14/45 N K Jemisin - The Stone Sky
15/45 Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
16/45 Andy Weir - The Martian
17/45 Robert Jordan - The Great Hunt
18/45 Richard F Thomas - Why Bob Dylan Matters

19/45 Matt Haig - To Be a Cat

 

[BoatieBird]

1/70 - Minette Walters - The Ice House
2/70 - Joe Hill - Strange Weather
3/70 - Donna Tartt - The Little Friend (re-read)
4/70 - Joe Hill - 20th Century Ghosts (re-read)
5/70 - P.D.James - Unnatural Causes
6/70 - Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge
7/70 - Donald Ray Pollock - The Heavenly Table
8/70 - Minette Walters - The Echo
9/70 - Gavin Extence - The Mirror World of Melody Black
10/70 - Elizabeth Strout - The Burgess Boys
11/70 - P.D. James - Shroud For a Nightingale
12/70 - Carson McCullers - The Member of the Wedding
13/70 - Val McDermid - Broken Ground
14/70 - James M Cain - The Cocktail Waitress
15/70 - Gillian Flynn - The Grownup
16/70 - P.D. James - The Black Tower
17/70 - Dennis Lehane - Mystic River
18/70 - Nevil Shute - A Town Like Alice
19/70 - Adrian R. Magnuson - Taking Flight
20/70 - P.D. James - Death of an Expert Witness (re-read)

21/70 - Annie Proulx - Postcards (re-read)

 

[iona]

1/35 Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
2/35 The Sea and Summer - George Turner
3/35 The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
4/35 The Obelisk Gate - N. K. Jemisin
5/35 The Stone Sky - N. K. Jemisin
6/35 A Blight of Mages - Karen Miller
7/35 The Innocent Mage - Karen Miller
8/35 Macbeth - Jo Nesbo
9/35 The Awakened Mage - Karen Miller
10/35 The Stone Circle - Elly Griffiths
11/35 The Prodigal Mage - Karen Miller
12/35 The Reluctant Mage - Karen Miller

 

[colbhoy]

01/20 - The Afghan by Frederick Forsyth
02/20 - Chasing Darkness by Robert Crais
03/20 - Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
04/20 - The Leopard by Jo Nesbo

 

[D'wards]

1/36 - Kill Your Friends by John Niven
2/36 - The Works by Pam Ayres
3/36 - A Breath of French Air by H.E. Bates
4/36 - My Thoughts, Exactly by Lily Allen
5/36 - Line of Fire: A Military Science Fiction Novel (The Last Fleet - Book One) by Malcolm Hughes
6/36 - I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan by Alan Partridge (reread)
7/36 - The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
8/36 - Deadpool: The Compete Collection Volume 1 by Daniel Way
9/36 - The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (reread)
10/36 - Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite: My Story by Roger Daltrey
11/36 - Meg 6: Generations by Steve Alten
12/36 - Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
13/36 - Nomad by Alan Partridge (reread)
14/36 - The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band by Motley Crue
15/36 - Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

 

[Fozzie Bear]

1/30 Charles Spencer - Killers Of The King: The Men Who Dared To Execute Charles I
2/30 Michel Foucault - Remarks On Marx
3/30 Robert Forbes and Eddie Stampton - The White Nationalist Skinhead Movement UK & USA 1979-1993
4/30 Silvia Federici - Caliban And The Witch: Women, The Body And Primitive Accumulation
5/30 Danny Burns - Poll Tax Rebellion
6/30 bell hooks - Black Looks: Race and Representation
7/30 Kenneth Dead & Brian Masumi - First and Last Emperors: Absolute State and the body of the Despot
8/30 Stewart Home - No Pity
9/30 Eva Dolan - This Is How It Ends

10/30 Alex Binnie - Scum

30 odd pages of being told off by a teenage nihilist for your inability to comprehend the pointlessness of existence. Becomes comic genius if you imagine that it's being done as part of a completely inappropriate appraisal at work.

11/30 Abiezer Coppe - Selected Writings

Immense ranterly screeds from just after the English Civil War, some of which were written in prison. "The rust of your silver shall rise up and burn you like fire."

 

[gawkrodger]

1) Calder - Raw Concrete: The beauty of Brutalism
2) Owen Hatherley - A guide to the new ruins of Great Britain
3) China Mieville - King Rat
4) Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London
5) Ben Aaronovitch - Moon over Soho
6) Ben Aaronovitch - Whispers Underground
7) Ben Aaronovitch - Foxglove Summer
8) Ben Aaronovitch - The Hanging Tree
9) Iain Sinclair - Swimming to Heaven: The lost rivers of London
10) Ben Aaronovitch - The Furthest Station
11) John Berger - Understanding a Photograph
12) Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard
13) Douglas Murphy - Last Futures: Nature, Technology and the end of Architecture
14) Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology - great fun. I've never read any of his novels - any recommendations?

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 Roald Dahl - Matilda
2/45 William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night
3/45 N K Jemisin - The Fifth Season
4/45 Michael "Mike D" Diamond & Adam "Ad-Rock" Horowitz - Beastie Boys Book
5/45 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
6/45 Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda
7/45 Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
8/45 William Shakespeare - The Tempest
9/45 Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer
10/45 John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
11/45 N K Jemisin - The Obelisk Gate
12/45 JRR Tolkien - The Two Towers
13/45 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
14/45 N K Jemisin - The Stone Sky
15/45 Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
16/45 Andy Weir - The Martian
17/45 Robert Jordan - The Great Hunt
18/45 Richard F Thomas - Why Bob Dylan Matters
19/45 Matt Haig - To Be a Cat

20/45 James SA Corey - Babylon's Ashes

 

[braindancer]

1/25 - The Children Act - Ian McEwan
2/25 - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
3/25 - A Place Called Winter - Patrick Gale
4/25 - Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
5/25 - How to stop time - Matt Haig
6/25 - The Black Dahlie - James Ellroy