Have yourself a merry little readmas 2019 reading challenge thread

[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
28. An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon
29. Poverty Safari - Darren McGarvey
30. Normal People - Sally Rooney
31. The Black Jacobins - C. L. R. James
32. The Socialist Manifesto - Bhaskar Sunkara
33. Waste Tide - Chen Qiufan
34. Factfulness - Hans Rosling
35. Silencing the past - Michel-Rolph Trouillot
37. Superior - the Fatal Return of Race Science- Angela Saini

 

[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
9/25 - Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty
10/25 - Streets of Laredo - Larry McMurty - Lonesome Dove was a re-read for at least the 3rd time - but never read any others in the series. While not quite hitting the heights of Lonesome Dove, Streets of Laredo was top stuff too. Gonna read the others next...

 

[seventh bullet]

1. Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism - Edited by Mark Bassin, Sergey Glebov and Marlene Laruelle

2. The Politics of Russian Eurasianism: Identity, Culture and Russian Foreign Policy - Edited by Mark Bassin and Gonzalo Pozo

3. The Best Sons of the Fatherland: Workers in the Vanguard of Soviet Collectivization - Lynn Viola

4. Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945-1959: A New History - Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia

5. Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System after WWII - Donald Filtzer

6. Cultivating the Masses: Modern State Practices and Soviet Socialism, 1924-1939 - David L. Hoffmann

7. Cambodia 1975-1982 - Michael Vickery

8. Origins of the Cold War, 1941-45 - Martin McCauley

9. China Builds the Bomb - John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai

10. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Politburo - Erik van Ree, John Lowenhardt and James R. Ozinga

11. The Communist Party in Post-Soviet Russia - Luke March

 

[Shirl]

1/25 Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz
2/25 Sleepyhead - Mark Billingham
3/25 Polishing and Finishing for Jewellers and Silversmiths - Stephen M Goldsmith
4/25 The Chestnut Man - Soren Sveistrup
5/25 Scaredy Cat - Mark Billingham
6/25 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
7/25 One-hit Wonder - Lisa Jewell
8/25 Portobello - Ruth Rendell
9/25 I Am Watching You - Teresa Driscoll
10/25 The Guilty One - Lisa Ballantyne
11/25 Vince and Joy- Lisa Jewell

 

[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
14/25 Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy
15/25 The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster by Hugh Cook
16/25 Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
17/25 Way of the Shadows by Brent Weeks
18/25 Shadows Edge by Brent Weeks

 

[imposs1904]

1/12 Black Boots and Football Pinks: 50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game by Daniel Gray
2/12 Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon
3/12 Conviction by Denise Mina
4/12 Hinterland by Chris Mullin
5/12 The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
6/12 The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
7/12 The Red Machine: Liverpool in the '80s: The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
8/12 Steak . . . Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody by David McVay (Reread)
9/12 Steak Diana Ross II: Further Diaries of a Football Nobody by David McVay
10/12 In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
11/12 When George Came to Edinburgh: George Best at Hibs by John Neil Munro
12/12 Maigret Returns by Georges Simenon
13/12 Walking Wounded by William McIlvanney (Reread)
14/12 Bullet for a Star by Stuart M. Kaminsky
15/12 Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart M. Kaminsky
16/12 You Bet Your Life by Stuart M. Kaminsky

17/12 The Howard Hughes Affair by Stuart M. Kaminsky

 

[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
5/24 Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - Akala
6/24 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
7/24 Everyday Sexism - Laura Bates

 

[imposs1904]

1/12 Black Boots and Football Pinks: 50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game by Daniel Gray
2/12 Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon
3/12 Conviction by Denise Mina
4/12 Hinterland by Chris Mullin
5/12 The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
6/12 The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
7/12 The Red Machine: Liverpool in the '80s: The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
8/12 Steak . . . Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody by David McVay (Reread)
9/12 Steak Diana Ross II: Further Diaries of a Football Nobody by David McVay
10/12 In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
11/12 When George Came to Edinburgh: George Best at Hibs by John Neil Munro
12/12 Maigret Returns by Georges Simenon
13/12 Walking Wounded by William McIlvanney (Reread)
14/12 Bullet for a Star by Stuart M. Kaminsky
15/12 Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart M. Kaminsky
16/12 You Bet Your Life by Stuart M. Kaminsky
17/12 The Howard Hughes Affair by Stuart M. Kaminsky

18/12 Never Cross a Vampire by Stuart M. Kaminsky

 

[petee]

1/12 Black Boots and Football Pinks: 50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game by Daniel Gray
2/12 Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon
3/12 Conviction by Denise Mina
4/12 Hinterland by Chris Mullin
5/12 The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
6/12 The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
7/12 The Red Machine: Liverpool in the '80s: The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
8/12 Steak . . . Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody by David McVay (Reread)
9/12 Steak Diana Ross II: Further Diaries of a Football Nobody by David McVay
10/12 In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
11/12 When George Came to Edinburgh: George Best at Hibs by John Neil Munro
12/12 Maigret Returns by Georges Simenon
13/12 Walking Wounded by William McIlvanney (Reread)
14/12 Bullet for a Star by Stuart M. Kaminsky
15/12 Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart M. Kaminsky
16/12 You Bet Your Life by Stuart M. Kaminsky
17/12 The Howard Hughes Affair by Stuart M. Kaminsky

18/12 Never Cross a Vampire by Stuart M. Kaminsky

well, you got going

 

[imposs1904]

well, you got going

I know. I can't help myself.

 

[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
21/65 The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye - David Lagercrantz
22/65 Things I'll Never Forget : Memories of a Marine in Vietnam - James M Dixon
23/65 A Fatal Intervention - Bill Rogers
24/65 Crete : The Battle and the Resistance - Anthony Beevor
25/65 The Moor - L J Ross
26/65 The Chosen One - Sam Bourne

*****
27/65 Red War - Kyle Mills

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1. The Gallows Pole - Benjamin Myers
2. Girl in a Band - Kim Gordon
3. Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
4. Revolution in the Air - Max Elbaum
5. Mistaken Identity - Race and Class in the Age of Trump - Asad Haider
6. The Classical World - Robin Lane Fox
7. A History of Contemporary Italy - Paul Ginsborg
8. On Violence - Hannah Arendt
9. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone - James Baldwin

 

[imposs1904]

1/12 Black Boots and Football Pinks: 50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game by Daniel Gray
2/12 Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon
3/12 Conviction by Denise Mina
4/12 Hinterland by Chris Mullin
5/12 The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
6/12 The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
7/12 The Red Machine: Liverpool in the '80s: The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
8/12 Steak . . . Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody by David McVay (Reread)
9/12 Steak Diana Ross II: Further Diaries of a Football Nobody by David McVay
10/12 In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
11/12 When George Came to Edinburgh: George Best at Hibs by John Neil Munro
12/12 Maigret Returns by Georges Simenon
13/12 Walking Wounded by William McIlvanney (Reread)
14/12 Bullet for a Star by Stuart M. Kaminsky
15/12 Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart M. Kaminsky
16/12 You Bet Your Life by Stuart M. Kaminsky
17/12 The Howard Hughes Affair by Stuart M. Kaminsky
18/12 Never Cross a Vampire by Stuart M. Kaminsky

19/12 High Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky

 

[imposs1904]

1/12 Black Boots and Football Pinks: 50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game by Daniel Gray
2/12 Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon
3/12 Conviction by Denise Mina
4/12 Hinterland by Chris Mullin
5/12 The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
6/12 The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
7/12 The Red Machine: Liverpool in the '80s: The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
8/12 Steak . . . Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody by David McVay (Reread)
9/12 Steak Diana Ross II: Further Diaries of a Football Nobody by David McVay
10/12 In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
11/12 When George Came to Edinburgh: George Best at Hibs by John Neil Munro
12/12 Maigret Returns by Georges Simenon
13/12 Walking Wounded by William McIlvanney (Reread)
14/12 Bullet for a Star by Stuart M. Kaminsky
15/12 Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart M. Kaminsky
16/12 You Bet Your Life by Stuart M. Kaminsky
17/12 The Howard Hughes Affair by Stuart M. Kaminsky
18/12 Never Cross a Vampire by Stuart M. Kaminsky
19/12 High Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky

20/12 Catch a Falling Clown by Stuart M. Kaminsky

 

[Pickman's model]

27. mick mercer, "junior manson slags"

28. k.l. parker, "sixteen ways to defend a walled city"

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1. The Gallows Pole - Benjamin Myers
2. Girl in a Band - Kim Gordon
3. Death and the Penguin - Andrey Kurkov
4. Revolution in the Air - Max Elbaum
5. Mistaken Identity - Race and Class in the Age of Trump - Asad Haider
6. The Classical World - Robin Lane Fox
7. A History of Contemporary Italy - Paul Ginsborg
8. On Violence - Hannah Arendt
9. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone - James Baldwin
10. Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

 

[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)
21/36 - The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
22/36 - The Adventurous Young Rascals of Rosignol by Johnny L. Zainul
23/36 - Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
24/36 - Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (reread)

 

[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
28/70 - Stephen King - The Dead Zone
29/70 - P D James - Devices and Desires (re-read)
30/70 - Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
31/70 - Ann Cleeves - A Lesson in Dying
32/70 - C J Tudor - The Chalk Man
33/70 - P D James - Original Sin
34/70 - Joanna Cannon - Three Things About Elsie
35/70 - Sally Rooney - Normal People

36/70 - P D James - A Certain Justice (re-read)

 

[imposs1904]

1/12 Black Boots and Football Pinks: 50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game by Daniel Gray
2/12 Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon
3/12 Conviction by Denise Mina
4/12 Hinterland by Chris Mullin
5/12 The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
6/12 The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
7/12 The Red Machine: Liverpool in the '80s: The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
8/12 Steak . . . Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody by David McVay (Reread)
9/12 Steak Diana Ross II: Further Diaries of a Football Nobody by David McVay
10/12 In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
11/12 When George Came to Edinburgh: George Best at Hibs by John Neil Munro
12/12 Maigret Returns by Georges Simenon
13/12 Walking Wounded by William McIlvanney (Reread)
14/12 Bullet for a Star by Stuart M. Kaminsky
15/12 Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart M. Kaminsky
16/12 You Bet Your Life by Stuart M. Kaminsky
17/12 The Howard Hughes Affair by Stuart M. Kaminsky
18/12 Never Cross a Vampire by Stuart M. Kaminsky
19/12 High Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky
20/12 Catch a Falling Clown by Stuart M. Kaminsky

21/12 I Believe In Miracles: The Remarkable Story of Brian Clough’s European Cup-winning Team by Daniel Taylor

 

[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
06/20 - Jackdaws by Ken Follett
07/20 - Tomorrow's Ghost by Anthony Price

 

[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
33/45 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot
34/45 Ellen Meisksins Wood - The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
35/45 N.K. Jemisin - The Obelisk Gate
36/45 Jean Genet - The Balcony
37/45 Margret Atwood - The Heart Goes Last
38/45 Bill Vaughn - Hawthorn: The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages

39/45 George Orwell - As I Please (The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters 1943-45)
40/45 N.K. Jemisin - The Stone Sky

 

[imposs1904]

1/12 Black Boots and Football Pinks: 50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game by Daniel Gray
2/12 Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon
3/12 Conviction by Denise Mina
4/12 Hinterland by Chris Mullin
5/12 The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
6/12 The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
7/12 The Red Machine: Liverpool in the '80s: The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
8/12 Steak . . . Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody by David McVay (Reread)
9/12 Steak Diana Ross II: Further Diaries of a Football Nobody by David McVay
10/12 In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
11/12 When George Came to Edinburgh: George Best at Hibs by John Neil Munro
12/12 Maigret Returns by Georges Simenon
13/12 Walking Wounded by William McIlvanney (Reread)
14/12 Bullet for a Star by Stuart M. Kaminsky
15/12 Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart M. Kaminsky
16/12 You Bet Your Life by Stuart M. Kaminsky
17/12 The Howard Hughes Affair by Stuart M. Kaminsky
18/12 Never Cross a Vampire by Stuart M. Kaminsky
19/12 High Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky
20/12 Catch a Falling Clown by Stuart M. Kaminsky
21/12 I Believe In Miracles: The Remarkable Story of Brian Clough’s European Cup-winning Team by Daniel Taylor

22/12 Post Office by Charles Bukowski (Reread)

 

[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
21/65 The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye - David Lagercrantz
22/65 Things I'll Never Forget : Memories of a Marine in Vietnam - James M Dixon
23/65 A Fatal Intervention - Bill Rogers
24/65 Crete : The Battle and the Resistance - Anthony Beevor
25/65 The Moor - L J Ross
26/65 The Chosen One - Sam Bourne
27/65 Red War - Kyle Mills

*****

28/65 Ultimatum- Frank Gardner

 

[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)
15. Put Out More Flags - Evelyn Waugh
16. First Term at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton
17. Second Form at Malory Towers - " "
18.Third Year at Malory Towers - " "
19. Upper Fourth at Malory Towers - " "
20. In the Fifth at Malory Towers - " "
21. Last Term at Malory Towers - " " (I know. found the box set in my daughter's room and devoured them in two evenings. My God! I remembered them as being bad,but the casual acceptance of bullying and body shaming! And reading them in one fell swoop made you see how this accelerated over the course of the stories. And yet, Mamzelle and Miss Grayling seemed like quite decent women).
22. Infection - M P MacDonald
23.Wiseacre - Philippa Gregory (feel dirty after reading it but have parts 2 & 3 waiting)
24. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - ed. Helena Whitbread
25. Lady Susan - Jane Austen (reread)
26. Isolation - M P MacDonald
27. Les Choses de la Vie - Paul Guimard
28. Malevil - Robert Merle (reread)
29. The Favoured Child - Philippa Gregory (told ya )
30. Meridon - Philippa Gregory
31. What Happened to the Corbetts - Neville Shute
32. Looking for Love - Joanna Toye
33. Family Ties- Joanna Toyes (both Archer related nonsense)
34. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
35. Brideshead Revisited - " " (again, again and again, one of my utter favourite novels)
36. Landfall - Nevil Shute
37. One Year After - William R Fortschen

 

[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
27/45 Larry McMurtry - Dead Man's Walk
28/45 Terry Pratchett - Equal Rites
29/45 Marion McClintock - Shaping the Future: a history of the University of Lancaster 1961-2011
30/45 JRR Tolkien - The Return of the King
31/45 John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
32/45 James SA Corey - Persepolis Rising
33/45 H G Wells - The War of the Worlds
34/45 Laura Bates - Everyday Sexism

35/45 Ben Goldacre - Bad Science

 

[imposs1904]

1/12 Black Boots and Football Pinks: 50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game by Daniel Gray
2/12 Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon
3/12 Conviction by Denise Mina
4/12 Hinterland by Chris Mullin
5/12 The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
6/12 The Motel Life by Willy Vlautin
7/12 The Red Machine: Liverpool in the '80s: The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
8/12 Steak . . . Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody by David McVay (Reread)
9/12 Steak Diana Ross II: Further Diaries of a Football Nobody by David McVay
10/12 In a House of Lies by Ian Rankin
11/12 When George Came to Edinburgh: George Best at Hibs by John Neil Munro
12/12 Maigret Returns by Georges Simenon
13/12 Walking Wounded by William McIlvanney (Reread)
14/12 Bullet for a Star by Stuart M. Kaminsky
15/12 Murder on the Yellow Brick Road by Stuart M. Kaminsky
16/12 You Bet Your Life by Stuart M. Kaminsky
17/12 The Howard Hughes Affair by Stuart M. Kaminsky
18/12 Never Cross a Vampire by Stuart M. Kaminsky
19/12 High Midnight by Stuart M. Kaminsky
20/12 Catch a Falling Clown by Stuart M. Kaminsky
21/12 I Believe In Miracles: The Remarkable Story of Brian Clough’s European Cup-winning Team by Daniel Taylor
22/12 Post Office by Charles Bukowski (Reread)

23/12 XTC: Chalkhills and Children by Chris Twomey (Reread)

 

[Pickman's model]

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
21/65 The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye - David Lagercrantz
22/65 Things I'll Never Forget : Memories of a Marine in Vietnam - James M Dixon
23/65 A Fatal Intervention - Bill Rogers
24/65 Crete : The Battle and the Resistance - Anthony Beevor
25/65 The Moor - L J Ross
26/65 The Chosen One - Sam Bourne
27/65 Red War - Kyle Mills

*****

28/65 Ultimatum- Frank Gardner

Vietnam - have you read dispatches by Michael herr, matterhorn by Karl marlantes, fire in the streets by Eric hammel or the recent hue 1968 by Mark bowden?

 

[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
28/70 - Stephen King - The Dead Zone
29/70 - P D James - Devices and Desires (re-read)
30/70 - Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
31/70 - Ann Cleeves - A Lesson in Dying
32/70 - C J Tudor - The Chalk Man
33/70 - P D James - Original Sin
34/70 - Joanna Cannon - Three Things About Elsie
35/70 - Sally Rooney - Normal People
36/70 - P D James - A Certain Justice (re-read)

37/70 - Kate Atkinson - Transcription

 

[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
8. Pat Barker - The Silence of the Girls
9. Katherine Arden - The Bear and the Nightingale.
10. Katherine Arden - The Girl in the Tower
11. Katherine Arden - The Winter of the Witch
12: Robert Harris - Pompeii
13: Gianfranco Conti and Steve Smith - The Language Teacher Toolkit
14: Heather Morris - The Tattooer of Auchwitz

 

[gawkrodger]

Haven't been on Urban recently but been reading loads of fiction (as I read relatively little fiction I set myself the target of at 50% fiction books this year)

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?
15) Adam Greenfield - Radical Technologies
16) Keir Milburn - Generation Left
17) Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! - wanted a quick and easy bank holiday read. Have to say, not as good as I remembered from my early teenage years, but then, what is?
18) Wallace-Wells - The Unhabitable Earth: A story of the future - excellent. This century's Silent Spring?
19) Terry Pratchett - Men at Arms
20) Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay
21) Pierce Brown - Red Rising
22) Pierce Brown - Golden Son
23) Pierce Brown - Morning Star
24) Madin - John Madin Architect & Planner: An illustrated record
25) Ken MacLeod - Learning the World