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Have yourself a merry little readmas 2019 reading challenge thread

How many books do you intend to read in 2019?


  • Total voters
    57
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

66/70 - P D James - The Private Patient (re-read)
 
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

54/50 M.R. James - Ghosts

I've just started Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White and undoubtedly won't finish it by NYE, so that's my list done for the year :cool:
 
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.
61/30. The Pot of Gold and Other Plays - Plautus.

Farcical comedy from one of the early Roman masters.

Got time off until New Year, so I imagine I'll use it to tackle a few of the books in my pile...
 
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
36/12 Down for the Count by Stuart M. Kaminsky

37/12 The Man Who Shot Lewis Vance by Stuart M. Kaminsky
 
L - from library
Ld - from my sister's library

1/50 Ray vs the Meaning of Life, Michael F Stewart - L
2/50 When we were Animals, Joshua Gaylord - L
3/50 Elevation, Stephen King
4/50 How to be Good, Nick Hornby
5/50 Alone in Berlin, Hans Fallada
6/50 Me and You, Niccolò Ammaniti - L
7/50 Now You See Her, Heidi Perk
8/50 The Ladykiller, Martina Cole
9/50 The Rosie Project, Graeme Simison
10/50 The Power, Naomi Alderman - L
11/50 What Happened at the Lake, Phil M Williams
12/50 Me Before You, Jo Jo Moyes - L
13/50 The Swap, Nancy Boyarsky
14/50 My Sister, the Serial Killer, oyinkan Braithwaite
15/50 Descent, Tim Johnston
16/50 Louis and Louise, Julie Cohen
17/50 The Night Bird, Brian Freeman
18/50 Fat Girl, KL Montgomery
19/50 Slammerkin, Emma Donoghue
20/50 The Fishermen, Chigozie Obioma - L
21/50 The Exit, Helen Fitzgerald - L
22/50 The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
23/50 Rules of Prey, John Sandford,
24/50 The Circle, David Eggers - L
25/50 Time's Arrow, Martin Amis
26/50 Adele, Liela Slimani - L
27/50 Day of the Accident, Nuala Ellwood
28/50 Red Ink, Julie Mayhew
29/50 Go On Girl, Hilary Grossman
30/50 Ashley Bell, Dean Koontz - L
31/50 The Girlfriend, Michelle Francis
32/50 Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs - L
33/50 Star-Crossed, Minnie Darke
34/50 Moab is my Wash Pot, Stephen Fry
35/50 Bad Apple, Zoje Stage
36/50 Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo - L
37/50 My Absolute Darling, Gabriel Talent - L
38/50 Lullaby, Leila Slimani - L
39/50 Never Too Late, Jo Barney
40/50 Vox, Christina Dachler
41/50 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King
42/50 The Institute, Stephen King
43/50 Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham - Ld
44/50 My Name is Leon, Kit de Waal - Ld
45/50 A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihaha - Ld
46/50 The Beach, Alex Garland - Ld
47/50 The Sellout, Paul Beatty - Ld
48/50 On Writing, Stephen King
49/50 Obsession, Amanda Robson
50/50 The Last, Hannah Jameson
51 The Hunting Party, Lucy Foley
52 Born to Run, Christopher McDougall - Ld
53 Reap, Cast L Bond
54 The Sleepwalkers, BB Griffith
55 The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder, Sarah J Harris - Ld
56 Appearances, Sondra Helen
57 The Accident, Natalie Barelli
 
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.
61/30. The Pot of Gold and Other Plays - Plautus.
62/30. The Moon's a Balloon - David Niven.
63/30. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens.
 
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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

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69/75 The Disappeared - C J Box
 
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

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69/75 The Disappeared - C J Box
That's a lot of CJ Box.
 
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
66/70 - P D James - The Private Patient (re-read)

67/70 - Joseph Heller - Work
 
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
39/44 Tade Thompson - Rosewater Redemption
40/44 Zadie Smith - NW

41/44 Philip K Dick - The Man in the High Castle
42/44 Lee-Anne Gray - Educational Trauma
43/44 Elfriede Jelinek - Women as Lovers
 
What did you think? I'm still waiting for Die Kinder der Toten to be translated.

Bleak, but very good. Much of the impact came from the highly ironic use of language so I was impressed that the translation was able to capture that.
 
1.Sleeping with Cats - Marge Piercy (reread)
2. Letters of Ian Fleming - Ian Fleming
3. Letters of Ann Fleming - Ann Fleming (was having a Bondian spell)
4. The Stand - Stephen King
5. Salem's Lot - Stephen King (read The Stand before but can't imagine how I never read this one till now)
6. Salar the Salmon - Henry Williamson (utterly brilliant, wish I’d read it before)
7. The White Plague - Frank Herbert
8. Powerless - Tracey Otters
9. The Mandibles - Lionel Shriver
10. The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
11. 17 Carnations - Andrew Morton
12. The Philadelphian - Richard Powell (reread)
13. Tales from the South Pacific - James Michener, just finished this, highly recommend.
14. Present Indicative - Noel Coward (reread)
15. Put Out More Flags - Evelyn Waugh
16. First Term at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton
17. Second Form at Malory Towers - " "
18.Third Year at Malory Towers - " "
19. Upper Fourth at Malory Towers - " "
20. In the Fifth at Malory Towers - " "
21. Last Term at Malory Towers - " " (I know. :( found the box set in my daughter's room and devoured them in two evenings. My God! I remembered them as being bad,but the casual acceptance of bullying and body shaming! And reading them in one fell swoop made you see how this accelerated over the course of the stories. And yet, Mamzelle and Miss Grayling seemed like quite decent women).
22. Infection - M P MacDonald
23.Wiseacre - Philippa Gregory (feel dirty after reading it but have parts 2 & 3 waiting)
24. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - ed. Helena Whitbread
25. Lady Susan - Jane Austen (reread)
26. Isolation - M P MacDonald
27. Les Choses de la Vie - Paul Guimard
28. Malevil - Robert Merle (reread)
29. The Favoured Child - Philippa Gregory (told ya :( )
30. Meridon - Philippa Gregory:( :(
31. What Happened to the Corbetts - Neville Shute
32. Looking for Love - Joanna Toye
33. Family Ties- Joanna Toyes (both Archer related nonsense)
34. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
35. Brideshead Revisited - " " (again, again and again, one of my utter favourite novels)
36. Landfall - Nevil Shute
37. One Year After - William R Fortschen
38. Requiem for a Wren - Nevil Shute (reread)
39. On the Beach - Nevil Shute (reread)
40. Hell's Children - John L Monk
41. The Extinction Files: Pandemic - A G Riddle
42. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (reread)
43. Hell's Encore - John L Monk
44. Wild Strawberries - Angela Thirkell (reread)
45. Day by Day Armageddon - J L Bourne
46. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens (challenging myself to read them all!)
47. Summer Half - Angela Thirkell (reread)
46. Pomfret Towers - Angela Thirkell (reread)
47. The Uses of Literacy - Richard Hoggart (reread)
48. The Way We Live Now - Richard Hoggart
49. A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones (book 1) too many swords won't be pursuing it further
50. The Terror - Arthur Machen
51. This Life I Live - Rory Feek
52. Summerhills - DE Stevenson
53. Amberwell - DE Stevenson
54. Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
55. Gender, Sex and Gossip in Ambridge - Cara Courage
56. How Far to Bethlehem - Nora Lofts (reread)
57.The Story of a Soul - St Therese of Lisieux
58. Keeping On Keeping On - Alan Bennett
59. Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis
60. The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory
61. The Virgin's Lover - " "
62. I Ordered a Table for Six - Noel Streatfeild
63. The Whicharts - " "
64. Ballet Shoes - " "
65. The Oaken Heart - Margery Allingham
66. The Traveller (book 1) - Tom Abrahams
67. Merchants of Virtue - Paul CB Monk


and now I apologise but....

68. The School at the Chalet - Elinor Brent Dyer
69. Jo of the Chalet School - " " "
70. The Princess of the Chalet School " "
71. The Head Girl of the Chalet School " "
72. The Rivals of the Chalet School
73. Eustacia Goes to the Chalet School
74. The Chalet School and Jo
75. The Chalet Girls in Camp
76. The Exploits of the Chalet Girls
77. The Chalet School and the Lintons
78. The New House at the Chalet School
79. Jo Returns to the Chalet School.
80. The New Chalet School.
81. The Chalet School in Exile
82. The Chalet School Goes to It.
82. The Highland Twins at the Chalet School
83. Lavender Laughs in the Chalet School
84. Gay from China at the Chalet School
85. Jo to the Rescue
86. Three go to the Chalet School.
87. The Chalet School and the Island.
88. Peggy of the Chalet School
89. Carola Storms the Chalet School
90. The Wrong Chalet School
91. Shocks for the Chalet School
92. The Chalet School in the Oberland
93. Bride Leads the Chalet School
94. Changes for the Chalet School
95. Joey Goes to the Oberland.

All rereads, all by Elinor Brent Dyer - there are about another 30. I have them all on my Kindle thanks to Mumsnet (am I allowed to mention it here). I have found them a blissfule escape from the current beastliness.

Still not got to 100 :(
 
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.
61/30. The Pot of Gold and Other Plays - Plautus.
62/30. The Moon's a Balloon - David Niven.
63/30. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens.
64/30. The Odyssey - Homer (translated by E.V. Rieu et al).
 
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

21. ed. Nicholas Royle - Best British Short Stories 2019. Started fairly blah but had a real quality surge in the middle, glad I persevered - some stunners here :)
 
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
69/75 The Disappeared - C J Box

******

70/75 Wolf Pack - C J Box
 
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.
61/30. The Pot of Gold and Other Plays - Plautus.
62/30. The Moon's a Balloon - David Niven.
63/30. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens.
64/30. The Odyssey - Homer (translated by E.V. Rieu et al).
65/30. The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made - Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell.
 
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
20/10 A Cat, a Man, and Two Women - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
 
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
20. Margaret Atwood- Testaments
 
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
20/10 A Cat, a Man, and Two Women - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
How easy I can be swayed just by putting a cat in the title. Just downloaded it purely on the title. I hope its good
 
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
59. The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
 
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
66/70 - P D James - The Private Patient (re-read)
67/70 - Joseph Heller - Work

68/70 - Patricia Highsmith - A Suspension of Mercy
 
1.Sleeping with Cats - Marge Piercy (reread)
2. Letters of Ian Fleming - Ian Fleming
3. Letters of Ann Fleming - Ann Fleming (was having a Bondian spell)
4. The Stand - Stephen King
5. Salem's Lot - Stephen King (read The Stand before but can't imagine how I never read this one till now)
6. Salar the Salmon - Henry Williamson (utterly brilliant, wish I’d read it before)
7. The White Plague - Frank Herbert
8. Powerless - Tracey Otters
9. The Mandibles - Lionel Shriver
10. The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
11. 17 Carnations - Andrew Morton
12. The Philadelphian - Richard Powell (reread)
13. Tales from the South Pacific - James Michener, just finished this, highly recommend.
14. Present Indicative - Noel Coward (reread)
15. Put Out More Flags - Evelyn Waugh
16. First Term at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton
17. Second Form at Malory Towers - " "
18.Third Year at Malory Towers - " "
19. Upper Fourth at Malory Towers - " "
20. In the Fifth at Malory Towers - " "
21. Last Term at Malory Towers - " " (I know. :( found the box set in my daughter's room and devoured them in two evenings. My God! I remembered them as being bad,but the casual acceptance of bullying and body shaming! And reading them in one fell swoop made you see how this accelerated over the course of the stories. And yet, Mamzelle and Miss Grayling seemed like quite decent women).
22. Infection - M P MacDonald
23.Wiseacre - Philippa Gregory (feel dirty after reading it but have parts 2 & 3 waiting)
24. The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - ed. Helena Whitbread
25. Lady Susan - Jane Austen (reread)
26. Isolation - M P MacDonald
27. Les Choses de la Vie - Paul Guimard
28. Malevil - Robert Merle (reread)
29. The Favoured Child - Philippa Gregory (told ya :( )
30. Meridon - Philippa Gregory:( :(
31. What Happened to the Corbetts - Neville Shute
32. Looking for Love - Joanna Toye
33. Family Ties- Joanna Toyes (both Archer related nonsense)
34. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
35. Brideshead Revisited - " " (again, again and again, one of my utter favourite novels)
36. Landfall - Nevil Shute
37. One Year After - William R Fortschen
38. Requiem for a Wren - Nevil Shute (reread)
39. On the Beach - Nevil Shute (reread)
40. Hell's Children - John L Monk
41. The Extinction Files: Pandemic - A G Riddle
42. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith (reread)
43. Hell's Encore - John L Monk
44. Wild Strawberries - Angela Thirkell (reread)
45. Day by Day Armageddon - J L Bourne
46. Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens (challenging myself to read them all!)
47. Summer Half - Angela Thirkell (reread)
46. Pomfret Towers - Angela Thirkell (reread)
47. The Uses of Literacy - Richard Hoggart (reread)
48. The Way We Live Now - Richard Hoggart
49. A Song of Ice and Fire: A Game of Thrones (book 1) too many swords won't be pursuing it further
50. The Terror - Arthur Machen
51. This Life I Live - Rory Feek
52. Summerhills - DE Stevenson
53. Amberwell - DE Stevenson
54. Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
55. Gender, Sex and Gossip in Ambridge - Cara Courage
56. How Far to Bethlehem - Nora Lofts (reread)
57.The Story of a Soul - St Therese of Lisieux
58. Keeping On Keeping On - Alan Bennett
59. Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis
60. The Queen's Fool - Philippa Gregory
61. The Virgin's Lover - " "
62. I Ordered a Table for Six - Noel Streatfeild
63. The Whicharts - " "
64. Ballet Shoes - " "
65. The Oaken Heart - Margery Allingham
66. The Traveller (book 1) - Tom Abrahams
67. Merchants of Virtue - Paul CB Monk


and now I apologise but....

68. The School at the Chalet - Elinor Brent Dyer
69. Jo of the Chalet School - " " "
70. The Princess of the Chalet School " "
71. The Head Girl of the Chalet School " "
72. The Rivals of the Chalet School
73. Eustacia Goes to the Chalet School
74. The Chalet School and Jo
75. The Chalet Girls in Camp
76. The Exploits of the Chalet Girls
77. The Chalet School and the Lintons
78. The New House at the Chalet School
79. Jo Returns to the Chalet School.
80. The New Chalet School.
81. The Chalet School in Exile
82. The Chalet School Goes to It.
82. The Highland Twins at the Chalet School
83. Lavender Laughs in the Chalet School
84. Gay from China at the Chalet School
85. Jo to the Rescue
86. Three go to the Chalet School.
87. The Chalet School and the Island.
88. Peggy of the Chalet School
89. Carola Storms the Chalet School
90. The Wrong Chalet School
91. Shocks for the Chalet School
92. The Chalet School in the Oberland
93. Bride Leads the Chalet School
94. Changes for the Chalet School
95. Joey Goes to the Oberland.

All rereads, all by Elinor Brent Dyer - there are about another 30. I have them all on my Kindle thanks to Mumsnet (am I allowed to mention it here). I have found them a blissfule escape from the current beastliness.

Still not got to 100 :(

96. The Testaments - Margaret Atwell
 
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
66/70 - P D James - The Private Patient (re-read)
67/70 - Joseph Heller - Work
68/70 - Patricia Highsmith - A Suspension of Mercy

69/70 - Sarah Ladipo Manyika - Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to The Sun
 
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
69/75 The Disappeared - C J Box
70/75 Wolf Pack - C J Box

*****

71/75 Penshaw - L J Ross
 
1/10 - A Beautiful Idea: History of the Freedom Press Anarchists - Rob Ray
2/10 - Death's End - Cixin Liu
3/10 - The Imperial Stars - E.E. 'Doc' Smith & Stephen Goldin (re-read)
4/10 - Illusion and Reality - Christopher Caudwell
5/10 - The Killer Dutch - Simon Williams
6/10 - The German Ideology - Karl Marx
7/10 - Everyday Sexism - Laura Bates
8/10 - Storming Heaven - Steve Wright
9/10 - Silman's Complete Endgame Course - Jeremy Silman
10/10 - Ronnie - Ronnie Wood
11/10 - Spaceman - Mike Massimino
12/10 - Beyond the Fragments - Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal & Hilary Wainwright
13/10 - Authentocrats - Joe Kennedy
14/10 - Joe Hill - Franklin Rosemont
 
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