Have yourself a merry little readmas 2019 reading challenge thread

[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
21/45 Akala - Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
22/45 Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
23/45 Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic
24/45 P G Wodehouse - Thank You, Jeeves
25/45 Sophie Anderson - The House with Chicken Legs

26/45 Jenn Ashworth - The Friday Gospels

 

[nogojones]

1/45 Ursula LeGuin - The Left Hand of Darkness
2/45 Edward Bunker - No Beast so Fierce
3/45 Frederick Engels - The Peasant War in Germany
4/45 Stephen King - Nightmares and Dreamscapes
5/45 G.K. Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday
6/45 Tibor Fischer - Good to be God
7/45 Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
8/45 Michio Kaku - Physics of the Future
9/45 Ken MacLeod - Intrusion
10/45 Iain M. Banks - The Algebraist
11/45 Karl Marx - Wage, Labour and Capital
12/45 Martin Sprouse - Sabotage in the American Workplace
13/45 CLR James - World Revolution 1917 - 1936
14/45 PG Wodehouse - Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
15/45 Siliva Federici - Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women
16/45 Cormac McCarthy - The Road
17/45 Jim Thompson - Nothing More Than Murder
18/45 Margret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
19/45 Iain Banks - Stonemouth
20/45 Suzanna Reiss - We Sell Drugs: The Alchemy of US Empire
21/45 Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita
22/45 Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
23/45 Stephen Hawkin - The Universe in a Nutshell
24/45 Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle
25/45 John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
26/45 Roger Faligot - Britain's Military Strategy in Ireland: The Kitson Experiment
27/45 Elmore Leonard - Touch
28/45 N.K. Jemisin - The Fifth Season
29/45 Vladimir Lenin - The State and Revolution
30/45 Christopher Hill - The World Turned Upside Down

31/45 David Graeber - Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
32/45 J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

 

[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
10/30 Golden Hill - Francis Spufford
11/30 Pulp - Charles Bukowski

12/30 Great Expectations - Kathy Acker
13/30 The Keeper Of Lost Things - Ruth Hogan

 

[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
16/65 The Tiger's Cave - Bill Rogers
17/65 The Monkey's Raincoat - Robert Crais

******

18/65 Lullaby Town - Robert Crais

 

[Pickman's model]

14. stephen king, 'the eyes of the dragon'
15. lee child, 'past tense'

16. antony beevor, 'arnhem'

 

[marty21]

16. antony beevor, 'arnhem'

That's on my pile of books to read , how was it ?

 

[Pickman's model]

That's on my pile of books to read , how was it ?

very good. i read his 'stalingrad' years back, and was very impressed and i'm reminded why by this book. i hope i don't give away the end when i say it doesn't end happily!

 

[marty21]

very good. i read his 'stalingrad' years back, and was very impressed and i'm reminded why by this book. i hope i don't give away the end when i say it doesn't end happily!

no spoilers

I watched the film recently, it's the Bridge too far film isn't it?

 

[Pickman's model]

no spoilers

I watched the film recently, it's the Bridge too far film isn't it?

yeh

only that was i believe based on the cornelius ryan book of the same title

 

[pennimania]

Joining this thread very late.

I have decided to log my reads more faithfully and to post more on Urban than I have been doing. Recent sad events have made me realise what a special place this is (and it's 17 years this April since I joined)!

For a start:

1.Sleeping with Cats - Marge Piercy (reread)
2. Letters of Ian Fleming - Ian Fleming
3. Letters of Ann Fleming - Ann Fleming (was having a Bondian spell)
4. The Stand - Stephen King
5. Salem's Lot - Stephen King (read The Stand before but can't imagine how I never read this one till now)

There will be more - need to check my Kindle.

 

[Pickman's model]

Joining this thread very late.

I have decided to log my reads more faithfully and to post more on Urban than I have been doing. Recent sad events have made me realise what a special place this is (and it's 17 years this April since I joined)!

For a start:

1.Sleeping with Cats - Marge Piercy (reread)
2. Letters of Ian Fleming - Ian Fleming
3. Letters of Ann Fleming - Ann Fleming (was having a Bondian spell)
4. The Stand - Stephen King
5. Salem's Lot - Stephen King (read The Stand before but can't imagine how I never read this one till now)

There will be more - need to check my Kindle.

welcome aboard

 

[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
05/20 - The First Rule by Robert Crais

 

[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)
22/70 - Minette Walters - The Breaker
23/70 - Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton
24/70 - Irvine Welsh - Skagboys (re-read)

25/70 - P D James - A Taste for Death

 

[pennimania]

1.Sleeping with Cats - Marge Piercy (reread)
2. Letters of Ian Fleming - Ian Fleming
3. Letters of Ann Fleming - Ann Fleming (was having a Bondian spell)
4. The Stand - Stephen King
5. Salem's Lot - Stephen King (read The Stand before but can't imagine how I never read this one till now)

6. Salar the Salmon - Henry Williamson (utterly brilliant, wish I’d read it before)
7. The White Plague - Frank Herbert
8. Powerless - Tracey Otters
9. The Mandibles - Lionel Shriver
10. The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
11. 17 Carnations - Andrew Morton
12. The Philadelphian - Richard Powell (reread)
13. Tales from the South Pacific - James Michener, just finished this, highly recommend.

 

[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
16/65 The Tiger's Cave - Bill Rogers
17/65 The Monkey's Raincoat - Robert Crais
18/65 Lullaby Town - Robert Crais

*****

19/65 Hard Hit - J.B. Turner

 

[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
23. The Ghost in my Brain - Clark Elliott
24. The Class Struggles in France - Karl Marx
25. Ways of Seeing - John Berger
26. When We Were Animals- Joshua Gaylord
27. Iron gold - Pierce Brown

 

[kropotkin]

Just looked at last year's thread and I'm a month ahead of where I was then (25 books by end of May). I'd decided to read less this year and try and spend more time listening to music. Must try harder.

 

[butchersapron]

Just looked at last year's thread and I'm a month ahead of where I was then (25 books by end of May). I'd decided to read less this year and try and spend more time listening to music. Must try harder.

More, better

 

[kropotkin]

No, because it means less music!

 

[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
16/36 - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre
17/36 - Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog by Emily Dean
18/36 - 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C Clarke (reread)
19/36 - Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (rerereread)

 

[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
10/30 Golden Hill - Francis Spufford
11/30 Pulp - Charles Bukowski

12/30 Great Expectations - Kathy Acker
13/30 The Keeper Of Lost Things - Ruth Hogan
14/30 The Painter Of Signs - R.K. Narayan

 

[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
16/65 The Tiger's Cave - Bill Rogers
17/65 The Monkey's Raincoat - Robert Crais
18/65 Lullaby Town - Robert Crais
19/65 Hard Hit - J.B. Turner

*****
20/65 Limerick Soviet : The Revolt of the Bottom Dog - Dominic Haugh

 

[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)
22/70 - Minette Walters - The Breaker
23/70 - Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton
24/70 - Irvine Welsh - Skagboys (re-read)
25/70 - P D James - A Taste for Death

26/70 - Dennis Lehane - Shutter Island

 

[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
16/36 - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John le Carre
17/36 - Everybody Died, So I Got a Dog by Emily Dean
18/36 - 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C Clarke (reread)
19/36 - Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (rerereread)
20/36 - 2061: Odyssey Three by Arthur C Clarke (reread)

 

[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 Dahlia - James Ellroy
7/25 - The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
8/25 - Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie

 

[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
10/30 Golden Hill - Francis Spufford
11/30 Pulp - Charles Bukowski
12/30 Great Expectations - Kathy Acker
13/30 The Keeper Of Lost Things - Ruth Hogan
14/30 The Painter Of Signs - R.K. Narayan
15/30 Transcription - Kate Atkinson

 

[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
17/50 The Night Bird, Brian Freeman
18/50 Fat Girl, KL Montgomery
19/50 Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue


20/50 The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma - this is absolutely amazing. I would recommend it to all.

 

[pennimania]

1.Sleeping with Cats - Marge Piercy (reread)
2. Letters of Ian Fleming - Ian Fleming
3. Letters of Ann Fleming - Ann Fleming (was having a Bondian spell)
4. The Stand - Stephen King
5. Salem's Lot - Stephen King (read The Stand before but can't imagine how I never read this one till now)
6. Salar the Salmon - Henry Williamson (utterly brilliant, wish I’d read it before)
7. The White Plague - Frank Herbert
8. Powerless - Tracey Otters
9. The Mandibles - Lionel Shriver
10. The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
11. 17 Carnations - Andrew Morton
12. The Philadelphian - Richard Powell (reread)
13. Tales from the South Pacific - James Michener, just finished this, highly recommend.
14. Present Indicative - Noel Coward (reread)


I am hoping Audible books count a bit, I spend many lonely hours in my studio working on multiples ( ceramics). Mostly I listen to the Archers, othertimes it's The Stand or The Fountainhead.

Edited to add : I like to listen to very long books, hence The Fountainhead
!

 

[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)
22/70 - Minette Walters - The Breaker
23/70 - Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton
24/70 - Irvine Welsh - Skagboys (re-read)
25/70 - P D James - A Taste for Death
26/70 - Dennis Lehane - Shutter Island

27/70 - Jon McGregor - Even the Dogs

 

[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
18/60 Michael Mitchell and Susan Wightman - Typographic Style Handbook
19/60 Denis Johnson - Train Dreams

20/60 Harry Ritchie - English for the Natives
21/60 Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
22/60 Victor Klemperer - To the Bitter End: Diaries 1942-45