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Have yourself a merry little readmas 2019 reading challenge thread

How many books do you intend to read in 2019?


  • Total voters
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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
11/30 Abiezer Coppe - Selected Writings
12/30 Victor Headley - Excess
13/30 Stevie Chick - Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag
14/30 Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Mumia Abu-Jamal & Assata Shakur - Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the War Against the Black Revolutionaries
15/30 Spitzenprodukte - Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell
16/30 Emma Warren - Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre
17/30 Terry Cooper - Death by Dior
18/30 Trevor Hercules - Rage Within
19/30 Tim Wells - Moonstomp
20/30 Paul Smith (ed) - M.T.V 15.05.1963 - 12.04.2017
21/30 Erje Ayden - Sadness At Leaving

22/30 Jessica Mitford - Hons and Rebels
 
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
26) Pierce Brown - Iron Gold
27) Christian Parenti - Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
 
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
38/70 - Wally Lamb - She's Come Undone
39/70 - Kate Atkinson - Not The End of The World
40/70 - Deborah Levy - Hot Milk
41/70 - Kate Atkinson - Big Sky

42/70 - C J Tudor - The Taking of Annie Thorne
 
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.
21/30. Tarantula - Bob Dylan.
22/30. A Room with a View - E.M. Forster.
23/30. La joie de vivre (The Joy of Living/The Bright Side of Life) - Émile Zola.
24/30. The Last Days of Socrates - Plato.
25/30. L'œuvre (The Masterpiece) - Émile Zola.
 
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
17/44 Dean Buonamano - Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
18/44 T.H. White - The Once And Future King
19/44 Susan Richards - Lost and Found in Russia
20/44 William Gibson - Neuromancer

21/44 Svetlana Alexievitch - Chernobyl Prayer
22/44 Jeff Vandermeer - Borne
 
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
6. "Elysium Heights" - Alastair Reynolds
7. "Don't Let Go" - Michel Bussi
8."Turnstone" - Graham Hurley
9."Foxglove Summer" - Ben Aaranovitch
10. "The Outsider" - Stephen King

11. "The Party" - Elizabeth Day. Excellent exploration of obsession and privilege

 
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
29/65 Dark Sacred Night - Michael Connelly
30/65 To Kill The Truth - Sam Bourne
31/65 Shadow Prey - John Sandford

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32/65 The House by the Lake : Berlin. One House.Five Families. A Hundred Years of History - Thomas Harding
 
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
15. Lisa Taddeo - Three Women
 
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)
25/36 - Move Along, Please: Land's End to John O'Groats by Public Bus by Mark Mason
26/36 - Tenth of December by George Saunders
27/36 - The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
 
1. Pornsak Pichetshote and Aaron Campbell - Infidel
2. ed. Nicholas Royle - Best British Short Stories 2017
3. William Goldman - Which Lie Did I Tell?
4. M R Carey - The Girl With All The Gifts
5. Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
6. Willy Vlautin - Don't Skip Out On Me
7. Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky - Sex Criminals vol.3
8. Karin Tidbeck - Amatka
9. Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived In The Castle
10. ed. Kit de Waal - Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers

11. Helen Dunmore - Girl, Balancing. Posthumously published collection of short stories. The middle section, mostly contemporary-set tales, didn't do much for me but the historical fiction that bookends the book is excellent - definitely her strong point.
 
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
29/65 Dark Sacred Night - Michael Connelly
30/65 To Kill The Truth - Sam Bourne
31/65 Shadow Prey - John Sandford
32/65 The House by the Lake : Berlin. One House.Five Families. A Hundred Years of History - Thomas Harding

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33/65 Secret Prey - John Sandford
 
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
19/25 Infinite Detail by Tim Maughan
20/25 The Warship by Neal Asher
21/25 Red Rising by Pierce Brown
22/25 Golden Son by Pierce Brown
23/25 Reamde by Neal Stephenson
 
Last edited:
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
38. Worth Dying For - the power and politics of flags - Tim Marshall
39. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
 
1/25 Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney
2/25 All the Bright Places - Jennifer Niven
3/25 Irresistible: Why you are addicted to technology and how to set yourself free - Adam Alter
4/25 Rave - Irvin Welsh

5/25 Common People - ed. Kit de Waal
 
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
38. Requiem for a Wren - Nevil Shute (reread)
39. On the Beach - Nevil Shute (reread)
40. Hell's Children - John L Monk
41. The Extinction Files: Pandemic - A G Riddle
 
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)
25/36 - Move Along, Please: Land's End to John O'Groats by Public Bus by Mark Mason
26/36 - Tenth of December by George Saunders
27/36 - The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
28/36 - Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine by Carl Barat
 
L - from library
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 - L
21/50 The Exit, Helen Fitzgerald - L
22/50 The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
23/50 Rules of Prey, John Sandford,
24/50 The Circle, David Eggers - L
25/50 Time's Arrow, Martin Amis
26/50 Adele, Liela Slimani - L
27/50 Day of the Accident, Nuala Ellwood
28/50 Red Ink, Julie Mayhew
29/50 Go On Girl, Hilary Grossman
30/50 Ashley Bell, Dean Koontz - L
31/50 The Girlfriend, Michelle Francis
32/50 Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs - L
33/50 Star-Crossed, Minnie Darke
34/50 Moab is my Wash Pot, Stephen Fry
 
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
38/70 - Wally Lamb - She's Come Undone
39/70 - Kate Atkinson - Not The End of The World
40/70 - Deborah Levy - Hot Milk
41/70 - Kate Atkinson - Big Sky
42/70 - C J Tudor - The Taking of Annie Thorne

43/70 - Peter James - Dead at First Sight
 
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
26) Pierce Brown - Iron Gold
27) Christian Parenti - Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
28) Justin McGuirk - Radical Cities
 
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
36/45 Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
37/45 Terry Pratchett - Mort

38/45 Robert Jordan - The Dragon Reborn
 
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
11/30 Abiezer Coppe - Selected Writings
12/30 Victor Headley - Excess
13/30 Stevie Chick - Spray Paint The Walls: The Story of Black Flag
14/30 Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Mumia Abu-Jamal & Assata Shakur - Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the War Against the Black Revolutionaries
15/30 Spitzenprodukte - Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell
16/30 Emma Warren - Make Some Space: Tuning Into Total Refreshment Centre
17/30 Terry Cooper - Death by Dior
18/30 Trevor Hercules - Rage Within
19/30 Tim Wells - Moonstomp
20/30 Paul Smith (ed) - M.T.V 15.05.1963 - 12.04.2017
21/30 Erje Ayden - Sadness At Leaving
22/30 Jessica Mitford - Hons and Rebels

23/30 Terry Taylor - All Change At Barons Court

Rediscovered mod/beatnik 60s weed dealer pulp classic. With foreword by Stewart Home.
 
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
29/65 Dark Sacred Night - Michael Connelly
30/65 To Kill The Truth - Sam Bourne
31/65 Shadow Prey - John Sandford
32/65 The House by the Lake : Berlin. One House.Five Families. A Hundred Years of History - Thomas Harding
33/65 Secret Prey - John Sandford

*****

34/65 Rules of Prey - John Sandford
 
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
11/25 - Dead Man's Walk - Larry McMurty
12/25 - Comanche Moon - Larry McMurty
 
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
6. "Elysium Heights" - Alastair Reynolds
7. "Don't Let Go" - Michel Bussi
8."Turnstone" - Graham Hurley
9."Foxglove Summer" - Ben Aaranovitch
10. "The Outsider" - Stephen King
11. "The Party" - Elizabeth Day

12. "Mindful Thoughts for Runners" - Tessa Wardley. Interesting and hopefully will add extra impetus to my running
 
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
17/44 Dean Buonamano - Your Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time
18/44 T.H. White - The Once And Future King
19/44 Susan Richards - Lost and Found in Russia
20/44 William Gibson - Neuromancer
21/44 Svetlana Alexievitch - Chernobyl Prayer
22/44 Jeff Vandermeer - Borne

23/44 Pat Barker - The Silence of the Girls
24/44 Samuel Stein - Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
 
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
29/65 Dark Sacred Night - Michael Connelly
30/65 To Kill The Truth - Sam Bourne
31/65 Shadow Prey - John Sandford
32/65 The House by the Lake : Berlin. One House.Five Families. A Hundred Years of History - Thomas Harding
33/65 Secret Prey - John Sandford
34/65 Rules of Prey - John Sandford

******

35/65 Eyes of Prey - John Sandford
 
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
38. Worth Dying For - the power and politics of flags - Tim Marshall
39. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
40. The New Populism - Marco Revelli
41. Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith
 
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
15/50 Carys Davies - West
16/50 Annie Proulx - Bad Dirt
17/50 Annie Proulx - Close Range
18/50 Michael Mitchell and Susan Wightman - Typographic Style Handbook
19/50 Denis Johnson - Train Dreams
20/50 Harry Ritchie - English for the Natives
21/50 Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
22/50 Victor Klemperer - To the Bitter End: Diaries 1942-45
23/50 James Joyce - Dubliners
24/50 Robin Ince - I'm a Joke and So Are You
25/50 David Crystal - Making Sense
26/50 Countess Markievicz - Prison Poetry & Sketches
27/50 Jason Webster - Duende

28/50 Louise Erdrich - LaRose
29/50 Grace Paley - Collected Stories
 
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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)
25/36 - Move Along, Please: Land's End to John O'Groats by Public Bus by Mark Mason
26/36 - Tenth of December by George Saunders
27/36 - The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
28/36 - Threepenny Memoir: The Lives of a Libertine by Carl Barat
29/36 - The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger (reread)
 
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