Have yourself a merry little readmas 2019 reading challenge thread

[nogojones]

Ooh, that's been on my reading pile for ages. Worth a go?

Pretty good, would recommend. Covers from the foundation up to the second century CE and I like the way that she doesn't speculate where historical evidence is lacking. A good primer for me as my knowledge was pretty patchy for large periods of Rome's existance.

 

[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
55/75 Trophy Hunt - C J Box
56/75 Out of Range - C J Box
57/75 In Plain Sight - C J Box
58/75 Free Fire - C J Box
59/75 Blood Trail - C J Box
60/75 Below Zero - C J Box

*****
61/75 Nowhere to Run - C J Box

 

[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
32/12 He Done Her Wrong by Stuart M. Kaminsky
33/12 A Crafty Cigarette – Tales of a Teenage Mod by Matteo Sedazzari

34/12 The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta (Reread)

 

[braindancer]

1/25 - The Children Act - Ian McEwan
2/25 - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
3/25 - A Place Called Winter - Patrick Gale
4/25 - Sweet Tooth - Ian McEwan
5/25 - How to stop time - Matt Haig
6/25 - The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy
7/25 - The Perfect Spy - John Le Carre
8/25 - Home Fire - Kamila Shamsie
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
13/25 - Leaving Cheyenne - Larry McMurty
14/25 - Horseman Pass By - Larry McMurty
15/25 - The Catcher in The Rye - J.D. Salinger
16/25 - The Shootist - Glendon Swarthout
17/25 - Ready Player One - Eric Cline
18/25 - The Book of Dust - La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
19/25 - Newtons Wake - Ken MacLeod
20/25 - Fire Upon the Deep - Vernor Vinge
21/25 - I am Legend - Richard Matheson
22/25 - Normal People - Sally Rooney

 

[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
55/70 - Michael Farris Smith - Desperation Road
56/70 - P D James - The Murder Room (re-read)
57/70 - James Sallis - Sarah Jane

58/70 - Zadie Smith - Swing Time

 

[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
15/10 The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
16/10 The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
17/10 The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs - Steve Brusatte

 

[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
33/44 Soren Kierkegaard - Repetition
34/44 Tade Thompson - Rosewater

35/44 Ray Bradbury - Zen in the Art of Writing
36/44 Tade Thompson - Rosewater Insurrection
37/44 Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter
38/44 Khalil Gibran - The Prophet

 

[blameless77]

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Must get round to shelving these

 

[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.
39/30. Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson.
40/30. Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata.
41/30. Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata.
42/30. Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse.
43/30. Doctor Pascal - Émile Zola.
44/30. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain.

 

[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
40/36 - Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (reread)
41/36 - Child of God by Cormac McCarthy (reread)
42/36 - If Only They Could Talk by James Herriot
43/36 - The Godfather by Mario Puzo (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)
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
55/70 - Michael Farris Smith - Desperation Road
56/70 - P D James - The Murder Room (re-read)
57/70 - James Sallis - Sarah Jane
58/70 - Zadie Smith - Swing Time

59/70 - Patricia Highsmith - Edith's Diary

 

[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
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
42. A Woman in Berlin: 8 weeks in the conquered city - Anonymous
43. Night Without Stars - Peter F. Hamilton
44. Dark Age - Pierce Brown
45. The Rapture - Liz Jensen
46. Educated: a memoir - Tara Westover
47. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
48. The Twittering Machine - Richard Seymour
49. The Last Sword-Maker - Brian Nelson
50. Open Veins of Latin America, Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent - Eduardo Galeano
51. Amatka - Karin Tidbeck
52. Shibumi - Trevanian
53. La Belle Sauvage - Phillip Pullman
54. The House of Spirits - Isabelle Allende

 

[Pickman's model]

43. steven sidor, 'fury from the tomb'

44. F.S.L. Lyons, 'culture and anarchy in ireland 1890-1939'

 

[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
55/75 Trophy Hunt - C J Box
56/75 Out of Range - C J Box
57/75 In Plain Sight - C J Box
58/75 Free Fire - C J Box
59/75 Blood Trail - C J Box
60/75 Below Zero - C J Box
61/75 Nowhere to Run - C J Box

****

62/75 Cold Wind - C J Box

 

[billy_bob]

1/50 Mark E. Smith/Austin Collings - Renegade: The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith
2/50 Richard F. Thomas - Why Dylan Matters
3/50 Shaun Bythell - The Diary of a Bookseller
4/50 William Melvin Kelley - A Different Drummer
5/50 Eric Idle - Always Look On the Bright Side of Life
6/50 Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Horror
7/50 Kevin Barry - Dark Lies the Island
8/50 Kevin Barry - There Are Little Kingdoms
9/50 Dean Burnett - The Idiot Brain
10/50 Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States
11/50 A.M. Homes - The Safety of Objects
12/50 Mark Haddon - The Pier Falls
13/50 Rebecca Solnit - Hope in the Darkness
14/50 Annie Proulx - Fine Just the Way It Is
15/50 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
30/50 Nikolai Gogol - Petersburg Tales
31/50 Catherine O'Flynn - Mr Lynch's Holiday
32/50 Jason Webster - Andalus
33/50 George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo
34/50 Jim Crace - The Melody
35/50 Will Carruthers - Playing the Bass with Three Left Hands
36/50 Dick Swaab - We Are Our Brains
37/50 Lucy Mangan - Bookworm
38/50 Ali Smith - Winter
39/50 David Lynch and Kristine McKenna - Room to Dream
40/50 Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race
41/50 Allan Ropper - Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain
42/50 Mark Forsyth - The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
43/50 Richard Powers - The Overstory
44/50 Melissa Harrison - All Among the Barley
45/50 John Higgs - Watling Street: Travels through Britain's Ever-Present Past

46/50 Ann Patchett - State of Wonder
47/50 Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
48/50 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife
49/50 Ammon Shea - Reading the OED

 

[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.
39/30. Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson.
40/30. Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata.
41/30. Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata.
42/30. Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse.
43/30. Doctor Pascal - Émile Zola.
44/30. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain.
45/30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (re-read).

 

[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
52/45 Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals
53/45 Brett Anderson - Coal Black Mornings
54/45 Graham Swift - Waterland
55/45 Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters

56/45 James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small

 

[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
55/70 - Michael Farris Smith - Desperation Road
56/70 - P D James - The Murder Room (re-read)
57/70 - James Sallis - Sarah Jane
58/70 - Zadie Smith - Swing Time
59/70 - Patricia Highsmith - Edith's Diary

60/70 - Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games

 

[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
24/25 Skin Deep - Liz Nugent
25/25 Inheritance - Jenny Eclair
26/25 Lullaby - Leila Slimani
27/25 Life, Death and Vanilla Slices - Jenny Eclair
28/25 Lying in Wait - Liz Nugent (this book reminded me so much of Patricia Highsmith's writing. I'm going to read all her books now)
29/25 Moving - Jenny Eclair
30/25 Unravelling Oliver - Liz Nugent
31/25 The Water's Lovely - Ruth Rendell
32/25 Tigerlily's Orchids - Ruth Rendell

 

[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
55/75 Trophy Hunt - C J Box
56/75 Out of Range - C J Box
57/75 In Plain Sight - C J Box
58/75 Free Fire - C J Box
59/75 Blood Trail - C J Box
60/75 Below Zero - C J Box
61/75 Nowhere to Run - C J Box
62/75 Cold Wind - C J Box

****

63/75 Force of Nature - C J Box

 

[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.
39/30. Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson.
40/30. Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata.
41/30. Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata.
42/30. Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse.
43/30. Doctor Pascal - Émile Zola.
44/30. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain.
45/30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (re-read).
46/30. My Childhood - Maxim Gorky.

A shocking and evocative memoir of life as a boy in 19th century Russia - violently, darkly amusing and fascinatingly contradictory, and masterfully written from the perspective of the young Gorky.

 

[Shirl]

59/70 - Patricia Highsmith - Edith's Diary

I thought I'd read all of Patricia Highsmith's books. I've not come across this before though. I just bought it, thanks

 

[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.
39/30. Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson.
40/30. Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata.
41/30. Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata.
42/30. Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse.
43/30. Doctor Pascal - Émile Zola.
44/30. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain.
45/30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (re-read).
46/30. My Childhood - Maxim Gorky.
47/30. Old Man Goriot - Honoré de Balzac.

I've been reading some books concurrently, so this follows very quickly on from my last submission. A great translation of a striking Balzac novel, well worth a read.

 

[nogojones]

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.
39/30. Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson.
40/30. Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata.
41/30. Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata.
42/30. Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse.
43/30. Doctor Pascal - Émile Zola.
44/30. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain.
45/30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (re-read).
46/30. My Childhood - Maxim Gorky.

A shocking and evocative memoir of life as a boy in 19th century Russia - violently, darkly amusing and fascinatingly contradictory, and masterfully written from the perspective of the young Gorky.

I love this, along with My Universities and My Apprenticeship

 

[Ptolemy]

I love this, along with My Universities and My Apprenticeship

They are now on my to-read list!

 

[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
32/12 He Done Her Wrong by Stuart M. Kaminsky
33/12 A Crafty Cigarette – Tales of a Teenage Mod by Matteo Sedazzari
34/12 The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta (Reread)

35/12 The Fala Factor by Stuart M. Kaminsky

 

[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.
39/30. Moominland Midwinter - Tove Jansson.
40/30. Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata.
41/30. Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata.
42/30. Carry On, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse.
43/30. Doctor Pascal - Émile Zola.
44/30. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain.
45/30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (re-read).
46/30. My Childhood - Maxim Gorky.
47/30. Old Man Goriot - Honoré de Balzac.
48/30. Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In - Bernie Sanders.

Got this for Christmas a couple of years ago and has been lingering in the nearly-finished pile for ages. Good, if a bit repetitive and stat-heavy at times.

 

[Me76]

I haven't done a classic this year. I normally set a target to do two but Don Quixote a couple of years ago put me off. I'm feeling an Austen I haven't read maybe, and recommendations? I've done Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.

 

[Ptolemy]

I haven't done a classic this year. I normally set a target to do two but Don Quixote a couple of years ago put me off. I'm feeling and Austen I haven't read maybe, and recommendations? I've done Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.

Persuasion is a lovely book and one I would highly recommend.

Have you read any of the Brontes?

 

[Me76]

Persuasion is a lovely book and one I would highly recommend.

Have you read any of the Brontes?

Thanks.

Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre is all I think I've done with the sisters.