Have yourself a merry little readmas 2019 reading challenge thread

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "In a House of Lies" - Ian Rankin
2. "The Doubt Factory" - Paolo Bacigalupi
3. "TH1RT3EN" - Steve Cavanagh
4. "Bad Blood" - E P. Chirovici
5. "Yellow Blue Tibia" - Adam Roberts
6. "Elysium Heights" - Alastair Reynolds
7. "Don't Let Go" - Michel Bussi
8."Turnstone" - Graham Hurley
9."Foxglove Summer" - Ben Aaranovitch
10. "The Outsider" - Stephen King
11. "The Party" - Elizabeth Day
12. "Mindful Thoughts for Runners" - Tessa Wardley.
13. "The Blood Road" - Stuart MacBride
14. "All That's Dead" - Stuart MacBride
15: "Seeping Beauties" - Stephen and Owen King.
16: "Strange Weather" - Joe Hill. Really, really enjoyed this

17. "A Book of Bones" - John Connolly. I did enjoy this but lost my reading mojo so it took me ages to finish

 

[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
18/10 La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
19/10 Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood - Hollie McNish

 

[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.
49/30. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov.
50/30. De Profundis and Other Writings - Oscar Wilde.
51/30. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair.
52/30. Emma - Jane Austen.
53/30. A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov.
54/30. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks.
55/30. The Code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse.

 

[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
61/70 - Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
62/70 - Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay

63/70 - P D James - The Lighthouse
64/70 - Haruki Murakami - Desire

 

[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.
49/30. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov.
50/30. De Profundis and Other Writings - Oscar Wilde.
51/30. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair.
52/30. Emma - Jane Austen.
53/30. A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov.
54/30. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks.
55/30. The Code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse.
56/30. Right Ho, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse.

 

[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
57/45 Larry McMurtry - Comanche Moon
58/45 Philip Pullman - Lyra's Oxford / Once Upon a Time in the North

59/45 Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

 

[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.
49/30. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov.
50/30. De Profundis and Other Writings - Oscar Wilde.
51/30. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair.
52/30. Emma - Jane Austen.
53/30. A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov.
54/30. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks.
55/30. The Code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse.
56/30. Right Ho, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse.
57/30. Jeeves in the Offing - P.G. Wodehouse.
58/30. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury.

Insomnia isn't my friend, but reading helps!

 

[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
50/50 Eowyn Ivey - The Snow Child
51/50 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend

52/50 Tove Jansson - The Winter Book
53/50 J. Jefferson Farjeon - Mystery in White

 

[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
61/70 - Suzanne Collins - Catching Fire
62/70 - Suzanne Collins - Mockingjay
63/70 - P D James - The Lighthouse (re-read)
64/70 - Haruki Murakami - Desire

65/70 - Julian Barnes - Before She Met Me

 

[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
55/45 Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
56/45 Mary Beard - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
57/45 Yotam Ottolenghi - Plenty
58/45 Irvine Welsh - Skagboys

59/45 Bret Easton Ellis - Lunar Park
60/45 Erika Dyck - Psychedelic Psychiatry: LSD from Clinic to Campus

 

[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
23/25 - Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks
24/25 - The Stars Like Dust - Isaac Asimov - very tedious, not recommended in the slightest - I've since learned that it was Asimov's first novel and he himself doesn't like it either. At least it was short....

 

[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
57/45 Larry McMurtry - Comanche Moon
58/45 Philip Pullman - Lyra's Oxford / Once Upon a Time in the North
59/45 Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

60/45 Alan Garner - The Moon of Gomrath

 

[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)
44/36 - My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
45/36 - Wilt by Tom Sharpe (reread)

 

[marty21]

1/65 The Fire Maker - Peter May
2/65 I'll Keep You Safe - Peter May
3/65 Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945-75 - Max Hastings.
4/65 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 15 : Where's There Hope - Frank Tayell
5/65 Deal Breaker- Harlan Coben
6/65 Seconds Away - Harlan Coben
7/65 Found - Harlan Coben
8/65 Back Spin - Harlan Coben
9/65 One False Move - Harlan Coben
10/65 The Falcon Tattoo - Bill Rogers
11/65 The Tangled Lock - Bill Rogers
12/65 The Blow Out- Bill Rogers
13/65 The Fourth Sacrifice - Peter May
14/65 The Cleansing - Bill Rogers
15/65 The Head Case - Bill Rogers
16/65 The Tiger's Cave - Bill Rogers
17/65 The Monkey's Raincoat - Robert Crais
18/65 Lullaby Town - Robert Crais
19/65 Hard Hit - J.B. Turner
20/65 Limerick Soviet : The Revolt of the Bottom Dog - Dominic Haugh
21/65 The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye - David Lagercrantz
22/65 Things I'll Never Forget : Memories of a Marine in Vietnam - James M Dixon
23/65 A Fatal Intervention - Bill Rogers
24/65 Crete : The Battle and the Resistance - Anthony Beevor
25/65 The Moor - L J Ross
26/65 The Chosen One - Sam Bourne
27/65 Red War - Kyle Mills
28/65 Ultimatum- Frank Gardner
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
64/75 Breaking Point - C J Box
65/75 Stone Cold - C J Box
66/75 Endangered - C J Box
67/75 Off The Grid - C J Box

*****

68/75 Vicious Circle - 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
15. The Cassini Division by Ken MacLeod (reread)

16. The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli. Beautiful, poetic and illuminating. A little too short

 

[Pickman's model]

the new thread is up at the wonderful world of reading 2020 reading challenge thread but please continue to mention books read in 2019 here and use the new thread for books completed after midnight on 31 december 2019 / 1 january 2020

 

[gaijingirl]

1. Terry Hayes - I am Pilgrim
2. Madeline Miller - Circe
3. Maeve Binchy - Echoes
4. Fiona Valpir - The Beekeeper's Promise
5. Catherine Simpson - When I had a little sister
6. Zoe Gilbert - Folk
7. Hilary McKay - The Skylark's War
8. Pat Barker - The Silence of the Girls
9. Katherine Arden - The Bear and the Nightingale.
10. Katherine Arden - The Girl in the Tower
11. Katherine Arden - The Winter of the Witch
12: Robert Harris - Pompeii
13: Gianfranco Conti and Steve Smith - The Language Teacher Toolkit
14: Heather Morris - The Tattooer of Auchwitz
15. Lisa Taddeo - Three Women
16. Christina Dalcher - Vox
17. Stephen Fry - Mythos
18. Stephen Fry- - Heroes

19. Jojo Moyes - Still me

Gonna see if I can fit in number 20 before 31st. Off work now so should be possible. Then to try and beat this next year.

 

[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 - Harperji 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
36. Superior - the Fatal Return of Race Science- Angela Saini
37. Worth Dying For - the power and politics of flags - Tim Marshall
38. Children of Ruin - Adrian Tchaikovsky
39. The New Populism - Marco Revelli
40. Other Minds - Peter Godfrey-Smith
41. A Woman in Berlin: 8 weeks in the conquered city - Anonymous
42. Night Without Stars - Peter F. Hamilton
43. Dark Age - Pierce Brown
44. The Rapture - Liz Jensen
45. Educated: a memoir - Tara Westover
46. The Reader - Bernhard Schlink
47. The Twittering Machine - Richard Seymour
48. The Last Sword-Maker - Brian Nelson
49. Open Veins of Latin America, Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent - Eduardo Galeano
50. Amatka - Karin Tidbeck
51. Shibumi - Trevanian
52. La Belle Sauvage - Phillip Pullman
53. The House of Spirits - Isabelle Allende
54. Suttree - Cormac Mccarthy
55. All You Need Is Kill - Hiroshi Sakurazaka
56. Binti - Nnedi Okorafor
57. Mortality - Christopher Hitchens
58. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen

 

[butchersapron]

Not been a very good year for me - lots of abandons, which i am returning to over weekend and next week as a tidying up exercise. Anyway, latest additions:

43 - Superior: The Return of Race Science - Angela Saini
44 - Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America -Thomas M. Konda
45 - A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy - Nancy L. Rosenblum and Russell Muirhead
46 - One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA - Daniel Finn
47 - The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture within and against Capitalism - Pier Vittorio Aureli
48 - The autonomy of the political: Schmitt, Taubes, Tronti, Cacciari, Negri - ed by Nathaniel Boyd, Michele Filippini
49 - We Fight Fascists_ The 43 Group - Daniel Sonabend
50 - Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate - Alexandra Minna Stern
51 - Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief - Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman, David Miller
52 - British Communism and the Politics of Race - Evan Smith

 

[Pickman's model]

Not been a very good year for me - lots of abandons, which i am returning to over weekend and next week as a tidying up exercise. Anyway, latest additions:


46 - One Man's Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA - Daniel Finn

49 - We Fight Fascists_ The 43 Group - Daniel Sonabend

51 - Bad News for Labour: Antisemitism, the Party and Public Belief - Greg Philo, Mike Berry, Justin Schlosberg, Antony Lerman, David Miller

what did you make of these three?

 

[butchersapron]

The first was great, have been recommending it to people. Jargon free, clear and very focused on telling it's story rather than gaining academic plaudits. The second isn't the book that a lot of us were hoping for i'm afraid. The author doesn't really seem to understand the politics of pre/post war fascism (Moseley being the worlds leading fascist theorist for example in his reading) or that of the left. I think it does what i think it aimed to do, give a general overview but without much depth. The author's tone slips between attempts at objective overview to len then kicked the shit out of him style too often. Many typos, and yiddish words dropped in an not explained (schtarker for example) but i think it could act as a door to other reading or research for people entirely fresh to the subject. Didn't really think much of the third, it's been a long time since i read a Bad News book and i'm sure they never used to be so open about their own views. Anyway, it convincingly did what it set out to do, that is demonstrate the real media bias against labour/corbyn and that it had some effect. Not much more to say on it really.

 

[May Kasahara]

1. Pornsak Pichetshote and Aaron Campbell - Infidel
2. ed. Nicholas Royle - Best British Short Stories 2017
3. William Goldman - Which Lie Did I Tell?
4. M R Carey - The Girl With All The Gifts
5. Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
6. Willy Vlautin - Don't Skip Out On Me
7. Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky - Sex Criminals vol.3
8. Karin Tidbeck - Amatka
9. Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived In The Castle
10. ed. Kit de Waal - Common People: An Anthology of Working Class Writers
11. Helen Dunmore - Girl, Balancing
12. Charlie Brooker - Screen Burn (reread)
13. Tade Thompson - Rosewater
14. Lisa Jewell - I Found You
15. Mick Herron - Slow Horses
16. Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang - Paper Girls vol. 1
17. Adrian Tchaikovsky - Dogs of War
18. Stephen King - The Eyes of the Dragon (reread)
19. Mick Herron - Dead Lions

20. Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Tales omnibus. Quality comic shorts about vampires and slayers through the ages.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

34/30 Simon Morris - Sea Of Love

R.I.P. Simon. Body pulled from River Wyre is missing Poulton man Simon Morris

 

[butchersapron]

RIP indeed.

 

[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.
49/30. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov.
50/30. De Profundis and Other Writings - Oscar Wilde.
51/30. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair.
52/30. Emma - Jane Austen.
53/30. A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov.
54/30. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks.
55/30. The Code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse.
56/30. Right Ho, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse.
57/30. Jeeves in the Offing - P.G. Wodehouse.
58/30. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury.
59/30. The Iliad - Homer (translated by E.V. Rieu).

A really compelling work - including the poetic repetition which dominates much of the text. I knew the story from much-abridged versions when I was a kid, but reading the full-fat version was a lot of fun.

 

[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
12/20? Houellebecq, Michel (2019) Serotonin. Hardback edition. London: William Heinemann. (9781785152238) Finished 9/11/19
13/20? Pullman, Philip (2001) Northern Lights. Paperback Edition. London: Scholastic Press. (0439994128) Finished 1/12/19

14/20? Spark, Muriel (Published 1960, 1970 reprint) The Ballard of Peckham Rye. Hardback edition. London: Macmillan. (No ISBN) Finished 10/12/19
Have never read Spark before and had wanted to read, A far cry from Kensington but the library doesn't hold a copy so I chose this instead. Enjoyable, I liked the sparse(?) writing style and it was funny but the plot trope was a little too familiar. Incidentally, I've only been to Peckham once and it wasn't like this.

15/20? Orwell, George (1989) Nineteen eighty-four. Paperback edition. London: Penguin Books, in association with Martin Secker & Warburg. (014027877X) Finished 19/12/19
I reread this most years and enjoy it every time.

 

[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.
49/30. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov.
50/30. De Profundis and Other Writings - Oscar Wilde.
51/30. The Jungle - Upton Sinclair.
52/30. Emma - Jane Austen.
53/30. A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Lermontov.
54/30. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War - Max Brooks.
55/30. The Code of the Woosters - P.G. Wodehouse.
56/30. Right Ho, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse.
57/30. Jeeves in the Offing - P.G. Wodehouse.
58/30. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury.
59/30. The Iliad - Homer (translated by E.V. Rieu).
60/30. The Theban Plays - Sophocles.

This book contained the Theban trilogy, consisting of Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone.

 

[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
33/25 A Man with One of Those faces - Caimh McDonnell
34/25 Edith's Diary - Patricia Highsmith
35/25 Notes Made at The Time: The Diaries of a Yorkshire Town Bobby - Martin Langan. Only bought and read because he used to be my next door neighbour.

 

[T & P]

This is not related to the subject matter of the thread, but this is still the most appropriate existing thread to put it.

How fucking cool are these? It seems most of them are hand made but if they ever become commercially available I’m bagging myself some

Peek inside the fantastical world of 'book nooks'

 

[belboid]

1/26 John Yorke - Into the Woods: How Stories Work and why We Tell Them
2/26 Lynne Segal – Radical Happiness
3/26 Maurice Druon – The Iron King
4/26 Maurice Druon – The Strangled Queen
5/26 Maurice Druon - The Poisoned Crown
6/26 Maurice Druon – The Royal Succession
7/26 Maurice Druon – The She-Wolf
8/26 Maurice Druon – The Lily & The Lion
9/26 Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri - The Man Who Believed He Was King of France
10/26 Maurice Druon – The King Without A Kingdom
11/26 Ann Cleeves – Raven Black
12/26 Ann Cleeves – White Nights
13/26 Raya Dunayevskaya – Marxism & Freedom
14/26 Lin Anderson (ed)- Bloody Scotland
15/26 Arthur Conan Doyle – The Return of Sherlock Holmes (again)
16/26 Michael Powell - Edge of the World, the making of a film
17/26 David W Earl – Michael Powell’s The Edge of the World
18/26 Noel Fojut – A Guide to Prehistoric and Viking Shetland
19/26 Margaret Atwood - The Testaments
20/26 Mick Houghton - Fried & Justified: Hits Myths, Break Ups and Breakdowns
21/26 Virginie Despentes - Vernon Subutex 1
22/26 Raya Dunayevskaya - Philosophy & Revolution
23/26 Shoshana Zuboff - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
24/26 Norah Carlin - Causes of the English Civil War