Have yourself a merry little readmas 2019 reading challenge thread

[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
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
36/75 Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives - Peter Orner
37/75 Buried Prey - John Sandford
38/75 Hidden Prey - John Sandford
39/75 Stolen Prey - John Sandford
40/75 Twisted Prey - John Sandford
41/75 Heat Lightning - John Sandford
42/75 Silken Prey - John Sandford
43/75 Arnhem - Antony Beevor
44/75 Deep Freeze - John Sandford
45/75 Field of Prey - John Sandford
46/75 Naked Prey - John Sandford
47/75 Golden Prey - John Sandford
48/75 Chosen Prey - John Sandford
49/75 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 16 Unwanted Visitors, Unwelcome Guests - Frank Tayell
50/75 American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell US - David Bromwich
51/75 White Hot Silence - Henry Porter

*****

52/75 Open Season - C J Box

 

[yield]

6. The Weather Detective by Peter Wohlleben
7. The Aeneid by Virgil
8. The Vorrh - Brian Catling.
9. Stone Junction by Jim Dodge
10. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (reread)
11. Embers by Sandor Marai

12. Embassytown by China Mieville.
13. The City & the City by China Mieville
14. Against the Grain by James C. Scott

 

[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.
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.
26/30. Autobiography - Morrissey.
27/30. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse.
28/30. The Establishment - Owen Jones.
29/30. Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas (re-read).
30/30. La Terre (The Earth) - Émile Zola.
31/30. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote.
32/30. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House - Audre Lorde.
33/30. The Debacle - Émile Zola.
34/30. Ecclesiastes - Anonymous.
35/30. Bring on the Empty Horses - David Niven.
36/30. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote (re-read).

 

[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
12/25 Big Skye - Kate Atkinson
13/25 The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell
14/25 The word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz
!5/25 The Sentence is Death - Anthony Horowitz
16/25 The Body in the Dales - J R Ellis
17/25 The Burning - Jane Casey
18/25 The Reckoning - Jane Casey
19/25 The Quartet Murders - J R Ellis ( rubbish but an easy distraction that I needed)
20/25 The Crocodile Bird - Ruth Rendell
21/25 Going Wrong - Ruth Rendell
22/25 The Last Girl - Jane Casey

 

[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
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
25/44 Vladimir Nabokov - Despair
26/44 Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
27/44 James Bridle - The New Dark Age
28/44 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
29/44 Stephen Jay Gould - Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes

30/44 Alexander Paterson - Across the Bridges, or Life on the South London Riverside
31/44 Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass
32/44 Oliver Sacks - An Anthropologist on Mars

 

[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
41/45 Liam Cahill - Forgotten Revolution: Limerick Soviet, 1919 : A Threat to British Power in Ireland
42/45 Wilhelm Reich - Listen, Little Man
43/45 Adam Bradley - The Anthology of Rap
44/45 Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex
45/45 Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends
46/45 Giulia Enders - Gut
47/45 Ali Smith - The Accidental
48/45 Philip Larkin - Collected Poems
49/45 Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test
50/45 Andrew Marvell - The Works of
51/45 Jim Thompson - After Dark, My Sweet
52/45 Graham Greene - England Made Me

53/45 Brian Friel - Translations
54/45 Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

 

[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
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
45/70 - Annie Proulx - That Old Ace in The Hole (re-read)
46/70 - Patrick Gale - A Place Called Winter
47/70 - Ruth Rendell - One Across, Two Down (re-read)
48/70 - Tim Winton - Cloud Street
49/70 - P D James - Death in Holy Orders (re-read)
50/70 - Paul Beatty - The Sellout
51/70 - Stephen King - The Institute
52/70 - Malcolm Pryce - Aberystwyth Mon Amour

53/70 - William Boyd - Love is Blind

 

[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)
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)
30/36 - 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
31/36 - A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
32/36 - The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District by James Rebanks
33/36 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy (reread)
34/36 - Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
35/36 - The Wanderers by Richard Price (reread)
36/36 - Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
37/36 - Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch by Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse
38/36 - Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King

 

[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
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
36/75 Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives - Peter Orner
37/75 Buried Prey - John Sandford
38/75 Hidden Prey - John Sandford
39/75 Stolen Prey - John Sandford
40/75 Twisted Prey - John Sandford
41/75 Heat Lightning - John Sandford
42/75 Silken Prey - John Sandford
43/75 Arnhem - Antony Beevor
44/75 Deep Freeze - John Sandford
45/75 Field of Prey - John Sandford
46/75 Naked Prey - John Sandford
47/75 Golden Prey - John Sandford
48/75 Chosen Prey - John Sandford
49/75 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 16 Unwanted Visitors, Unwelcome Guests - Frank Tayell
50/75 American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell US - David Bromwich
51/75 White Hot Silence - Henry Porter
52/75 Open Season - C J Box

******

53/75 Savage Run - C J Box

 

[StanleyBlack]

1/20? Bythell, Shaun (2018). The diary of a bookseller. Paperback edition. London: Profile Books. Finished 8/1/19
2/20? Melville, Herman (2010). Bartleby the scrivener. New York: Melville House. Finished 10/1/19
3/20? Northup, Solomon (2012). Twelve years a slave. Penguin Classics. Kindle edition. New York: Penguin Books. (9781101614679) Finished 26/2/19
4/20? Dickens, Charles (2003). Little Dorrit. Penguin Classics. Kindle edition. London: Penguin Books. (9780141900292) Finished 25/5/19
5/20? Collins, Matthew (2019). Nazi terrorist: the story of National Action. Paperback edition. London: HOPE not Hate. (9781999320522) Finished 8/6/19
6/20? Wells, Tim (2019). Moonstomp. Paperback edition. London: Unbound. (9781789650457) Finished 20/8/19
7/20? Lewis, C. S. (2001). The lion, the witch and the wardrobe. Paperback edition. London: HarperCollins Children’s Books. (000711561X) Finished 12/9/19
8/20? Murray, Douglas (2019). The madness of crowds: gender, race and identity. Hardback edition. London: Bloomsbury Continuum. (9781472959959) Finished 1/10/19

9/20? Dinnerstein, Leonard (c1987) The Leo Frank case. Paperback edition. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press. (0820309656) Finished 14/10/19

Bought on a whim from a charity shop. I'd never heard of this case before but it was huge in the US in the early 20th century. A heady mix of anti-semitism, racism, 'southern' values, anti-urbanisation and corrupt/opportunist politicians that ended with the lynching of man who, if not innocent, at least deserved a fair trial.

 

[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
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
45/70 - Annie Proulx - That Old Ace in The Hole (re-read)
46/70 - Patrick Gale - A Place Called Winter
47/70 - Ruth Rendell - One Across, Two Down (re-read)
48/70 - Tim Winton - Cloud Street
49/70 - P D James - Death in Holy Orders (re-read)
50/70 - Paul Beatty - The Sellout
51/70 - Stephen King - The Institute
52/70 - Malcolm Pryce - Aberystwyth Mon Amour
53/70 - William Boyd - Love is Blind

54/70 - Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister, the Serial Killer

 

[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.
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.
26/30. Autobiography - Morrissey.
27/30. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse.
28/30. The Establishment - Owen Jones.
29/30. Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas (re-read).
30/30. La Terre (The Earth) - Émile Zola.
31/30. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote.
32/30. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House - Audre Lorde.
33/30. The Debacle - Émile Zola.
34/30. Ecclesiastes - Anonymous.
35/30. Bring on the Empty Horses - David Niven.
36/30. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote (re-read).
37/30. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.

 

[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
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
36/75 Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives - Peter Orner
37/75 Buried Prey - John Sandford
38/75 Hidden Prey - John Sandford
39/75 Stolen Prey - John Sandford
40/75 Twisted Prey - John Sandford
41/75 Heat Lightning - John Sandford
42/75 Silken Prey - John Sandford
43/75 Arnhem - Antony Beevor
44/75 Deep Freeze - John Sandford
45/75 Field of Prey - John Sandford
46/75 Naked Prey - John Sandford
47/75 Golden Prey - John Sandford
48/75 Chosen Prey - John Sandford
49/75 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 16 Unwanted Visitors, Unwelcome Guests - Frank Tayell
50/75 American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell US - David Bromwich
51/75 White Hot Silence - Henry Porter
52/75 Open Season - C J Box
53/75 Savage Run - C J Box

*****

54/75 Winterkill - C J Box

 

[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
6/10 Beastie Boys Book Book - Ad-Rock and Mike D
7/10 Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
8/10 The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher
9/10 Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
10/10 Becoming - Michelle Obama
11/10 The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
12/10 The Stopping Places - Damian Le Bas
13/10 Blueprints of the Afterlife - Ryan Boudinot
14/10 The Unbearable Lightness of Being in Aberystwyth - Malcolm Pryce

 

[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
12/25 Big Skye - Kate Atkinson
13/25 The Family Upstairs - Lisa Jewell
14/25 The word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz
!5/25 The Sentence is Death - Anthony Horowitz
16/25 The Body in the Dales - J R Ellis
17/25 The Burning - Jane Casey
18/25 The Reckoning - Jane Casey
19/25 The Quartet Murders - J R Ellis (rubbish but an easy distraction that I needed)
20/25 The Crocodile Bird - Ruth Rendell
21/25 Going Wrong - Ruth Rendell
22/25 The Last Girl - Jane Casey
23/25 Having a Lovely Time - Jenny Eclair

 

[Fozzie Bear]

29/30 Emanuel Litvinoff - Journey Through A Small Planet

Wry observations on 1930s teenage East End Jewish life.

 

[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
11. Mistaken Identity - Asad Haider
12. Revolutionary Yiddishland - Alain Brossat + Sylvia Klinberg
13. Cities of the Plain - Cormac McCarthy
14. The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles - Giorgio Bassani
15. Yukio Mishima - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

 

[Ptolemy]

15. Yukio Mishima - The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Any good? Always been curious about Mishima's work.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Any good? Always been curious about Mishima's work.

Excellent. I randomly picked it up in the library and very glad I did.

 

[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)
24/12 Steaming In: Journal of a Football Fan by Colin Ward (Reread)
25/12 Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good: Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm by Josh Levine
26/12 The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
27/12 With Clough, By Taylor by Peter Taylor
28/12 The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry by Legs McNeil, Jennifer Osborne , Peter Pavia
29/12 Love Me Do!: "Beatles" Progress by Michael Braun
30/12 Loose Connections by Maggie Brooks (Reread)

31/12 Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell

 

[petee]

5. Mistaken Identity - Race and Class in the Age of Trump - Asad Haider

I've started that 2x and can't get past the first chapter.

 

[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
36/45 Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
37/45 Terry Pratchett - Mort
38/45 Robert Jordan - The Dragon Reborn
39/45 A N Wilson - The Victorians
40/45 Terry Pratchett - Sourcery
41/45 Frances Hardinge - A Skinful of Shadows
42/45 Ted Hughes - The Iron Man
43/45 Robert Webb - How Not To Be a Boy
44/45 Marlon James - Black Leopard, Red Wolf
45/45 Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl
46/45 Tade Thompson - Rosewater
47/45 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
48/45 John Cooper Clarke - The Luckiest Guy Alive
49/45 Koshun Takami - Battle Royale

50/45 Frances Hardinge - Verdigris Deep

 

[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.
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.
26/30. Autobiography - Morrissey.
27/30. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse.
28/30. The Establishment - Owen Jones.
29/30. Under Milk Wood - Dylan Thomas (re-read).
30/30. La Terre (The Earth) - Émile Zola.
31/30. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote.
32/30. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House - Audre Lorde.
33/30. The Debacle - Émile Zola.
34/30. Ecclesiastes - Anonymous.
35/30. Bring on the Empty Horses - David Niven.
36/30. Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote (re-read).
37/30. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood.
38/30. The Men Who Would Be King: Suitors to Queen Elizabeth I - Josephine Ross.

A really interesting read on the political courtships of Elizabeth I. Ross does a great job of exploring the psychology of a young princess traumatised by the violent deaths of her mother, stepmother and the dangerous plots which swirled around her as heir to Mary I - and how as Queen of England she cunningly used her single status to keep her enemies at bay.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

30/30 Aaron Bastani - Fully Luxury Automated Communism: A Manifesto

This was always going to be a bit of a hate-read for me but to his credit the author is slightly less annoying in book form than in his media incarnation. Most of the book describes technological developments which are probably going to shake things up in the course of the rest of my time on this shitpit of a planet. I found a lot of this section pretty tedious and it reminded me of the breathless puff pieces you would get in 1990s tech mags like Wired, Boing Boing and Mondo 2000. I don't really give a shit what Bastanti thinks about genetic engineering.

Where those magazines fell down was that their utopianism relied entirely on technology to make our lives better. Which it has in some ways but the fact remains that I now exchange most of my time in a windowless basement frantically answering emails, tinkering with Word documents and trying to understand spreadsheets for the money I need to pay for my mortgage and the Morrisons bill. Oh and for the latest iPhone.

So you'd hope Aaron would get to grips with this what the Communism being in the title and all. As many other reviewers have noted he doesn't do this. The optimism of the book is not tempered with any suggestion that these technological innovations might cause us some problems. For example the prospects for a workless dystopia enforced by robots and genetic engineering. Or even that the technology itself, as developed under the capitalist mode of production might have some horrific knock on effects in the same way that the industrial revolution lead directly to the climate crisis.

He also, weirdly, thinks that, during the twentieth century "Whether you were an employee or an industrialist, it was in your rational interest to protect the system" and "until now, communism was impossible". Which kind of shits on the workers' movement, but whatever. Now that it is possible, how do we get there? Again, as others have pointed out, it's through the ballot box, daddio. Because most people are too knackered by life to get into politics in a sustained way. Which is on the one hand a neat criticism of hyper activists like Extinction Rebellion, but on the other hand flies in the face of the fact that it is "kicking off everywhere" as Bastani's fellow techno-optimist Paul Mason has it. Clearly a lot of people in Hong Kong, Chile, Lebanon etc do have time for this sort of thing. As do the campaigners out to save Latin Village in Seven Sisters just up the road from where I am typing this. (It's also strange that there is no futuristic techno-utopian vision of how political campaigning may change in here but perhaps that is another book).

So in summary - there is a huge change in how we live and work on the horizon. And there is an optimistic vision of how this will make our lives better. But it relies on political specialists in parliament, and technological specialists how are currently developing everything at breakneck speed under the capitalist mode of production. Here comes the new boss.

Also posted this on the FALC thread.

 

[StanleyBlack]

1/20? Bythell, Shaun (2018). The diary of a bookseller. Paperback edition. London: Profile Books. Finished 8/1/19
2/20? Melville, Herman (2010). Bartleby the scrivener. New York: Melville House. Finished 10/1/19
3/20? Northup, Solomon (2012). Twelve years a slave. Penguin Classics. Kindle edition. New York: Penguin Books. (9781101614679) Finished 26/2/19
4/20? Dickens, Charles (2003). Little Dorrit. Penguin Classics. Kindle edition. London: Penguin Books. (9780141900292) Finished 25/5/19
5/20? Collins, Matthew (2019). Nazi terrorist: the story of National Action. Paperback edition. London: HOPE not Hate. (9781999320522) Finished 8/6/19
6/20? Wells, Tim (2019). Moonstomp. Paperback edition. London: Unbound. (9781789650457) Finished 20/8/19
7/20? Lewis, C. S. (2001). The lion, the witch and the wardrobe. Paperback edition. London: HarperCollins Children’s Books. (000711561X) Finished 12/9/19
8/20? Murray, Douglas (2019). The madness of crowds: gender, race and identity. Hardback edition. London: Bloomsbury Continuum. (9781472959959) Finished 1/10/19
9/20? Dinnerstein, Leonard (1987) The Leo Frank case. Paperback edition. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press. (0820309656) Finished 14/10/19

10/20? Brent, Linda (1861) Incidents in the life of a slave girl. From: Louis Gates Jr, Henry, Ed. (1987) The classic slave narratives. Paperback edition. New York: A Mentor Book/New American Library (0451627261) Finished w/b 21/10/19

A bit of a cheat as this is one book from a collection of four but slave narratives aren't the easiest read. The cruelty and brutality of the slave holders and their lackeys is well known but their utter stupidity and rank hypocrisy is something else. The 'owner' of Linda Brent (Harriet Ann Jacobs) is a good example of this and the patience and tenacity which she applied to free herself and her two children from him is an incredible and, to use a hackneyed phrase, life-affirming story.

 

[StanleyBlack]

30/30 Aaron Bastani - Fully Luxury Automated Communism: A Manifesto

"....So in summary - there is a huge change in how we live and work on the horizon. And there is an optimistic vision of how this will make our lives better. But it relies on political specialists in parliament, and technological specialists how are currently developing everything at breakneck speed under the capitalist mode of production. Here comes the new boss."

I'm glad you read this and thanks for the review as I now know I don't need to read it

 

[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
36/45 Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
37/45 Terry Pratchett - Mort
38/45 Robert Jordan - The Dragon Reborn
39/45 A N Wilson - The Victorians
40/45 Terry Pratchett - Sourcery
41/45 Frances Hardinge - A Skinful of Shadows
42/45 Ted Hughes - The Iron Man
43/45 Robert Webb - How Not To Be a Boy
44/45 Marlon James - Black Leopard, Red Wolf
45/45 Eoin Colfer - Artemis Fowl
46/45 Tade Thompson - Rosewater
47/45 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
48/45 John Cooper Clarke - The Luckiest Guy Alive
49/45 Koshun Takami - Battle Royale
50/45 Frances Hardinge - Verdigris Deep

51/45 Robert Jordan - The Shadow Rising

 

[nogojones]

I'm glad you read this and thanks for the review as I now know I don't need to read it

Yeah. Thanks Fozzie Bear. Doing the jobs even robots don't want

 

[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)
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)
30/36 - 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
31/36 - A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
32/36 - The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District by James Rebanks
33/36 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy (reread)
34/36 - Beastie Boys Book by Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
35/36 - The Wanderers by Richard Price (reread)
36/36 - Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
37/36 - Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: Life, Death and the Thrill of the Catch by Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse
38/36 - Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King
39/36 - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

 

[StanleyBlack]

1/20? Bythell, Shaun (2018). The diary of a bookseller. Paperback edition. London: Profile Books. Finished 8/1/19
2/20? Melville, Herman (2010). Bartleby the scrivener. New York: Melville House. Finished 10/1/19
3/20? Northup, Solomon (2012). Twelve years a slave. Penguin Classics. Kindle edition. New York: Penguin Books. (9781101614679) Finished 26/2/19
4/20? Dickens, Charles (2003). Little Dorrit. Penguin Classics. Kindle edition. London: Penguin Books. (9780141900292) Finished 25/5/19
5/20? Collins, Matthew (2019). Nazi terrorist: the story of National Action. Paperback edition. London: HOPE not Hate. (9781999320522) Finished 8/6/19
6/20? Wells, Tim (2019). Moonstomp. Paperback edition. London: Unbound. (9781789650457) Finished 20/8/19
7/20? Lewis, C. S. (2001). The lion, the witch and the wardrobe. Paperback edition. London: HarperCollins Children’s Books. (000711561X) Finished 12/9/19
8/20? Murray, Douglas (2019). The madness of crowds: gender, race and identity. Hardback edition. London: Bloomsbury Continuum. (9781472959959) Finished 1/10/19
9/20? Dinnerstein, Leonard (1987) The Leo Frank case. Paperback edition. Athens, Georgia: The University of Georgia Press. (0820309656) Finished 14/10/19
10/20? Brent, Linda (1861) Incidents in the life of a slave girl. From: Louis Gates Jr, Henry, Ed. (1987) The classic slave narratives. Paperback edition. New York: A Mentor Book/New American Library (0451627261) Finished w/b 21/10/19

11/20? Hayes, Mark (2019) The trouble with National Action. Paperback edition. London: Freedom Press. (9781904491347) Finished 28/10/19

Short book that puts the emergence of National Action in the context of fascism historically and recent/current politics. Interesting but not for those who want all the sensationalist stuff about NA.