Have yourself a merry little readmas 2019 reading challenge thread

[Fozzie Bear]

1/30 Charles Spencer - Killers Of The King: The Men Who Dared To Execute Charles I

2/30 Michel Foucault - Remarks On Marx

 

[May Kasahara]

I'm gonna fucking do better this year than last year's shit, unfocused showing. Betting on 20-29, aiming for more than that.

1. Pornsak Pichetshote and Aaron Campbell - Infidel. Politically conscious horror comic, artwork is amazing.

 

[Pickman's model]

4. georges simenon, "maigret's secret"

5. brett friedman, "on tactics: a theory of victory in battle"

 

[Pickman's model]

5. brett friedman, "on tactics: a theory of victory in battle"

6. georges simenon, "maigret and the headless corpse"

 

[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.

My first introduction to Ibsen; the four plays were A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder. All really interesting works and I'd like to read others by him now.

 

[iona]

1/35 Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
2/35 The Sea and Summer - George Turner

 

[Pickman's model]

6. georges simenon, "maigret and the headless corpse"

7. georges simenon, "maigret and the minister"

 

[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

 

[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.

 

[Riklet]

I read like 4 books last year. Feel pretty shit and disappointed about it. Lost my passion for reading and the relatively good attention span I used to have. Time to turn off my phone more hours a day I think!

Gonna aim for 10 books this year cos I think that is more realistic. Doesnt help i'm still bogged down finishing Capital vol 1 and Anna Karenina

 

[Riklet]

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[butchersapron]

1 - Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the Twentieth Century - edited by Marlene Laruelle
2 - The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s - Richard Wolin
3 - The Left Case Against the EU - Costas Lapavitsas
4 - Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America - Vegas Tenold
5 - For Another Europe: A Class Analysis of European Economic Integration (a re-read of the most influential marxist book on the EU from early 2000s to see how it holds up today - very well).

Not sure i can bothered to keep a list this year.

 

[Pickman's model]

7. georges simenon, "maigret and the minister"

8. georges simenon, "maigret defends himself"

 

[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

 

[imposs1904]

1 - Entangled Far Rights: A Russian-European Intellectual Romance in the Twentieth Century - edited by Marlene Laruelle
2 - The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s - Richard Wolin
3 - The Left Case Against the EU - Costas Lapavitsas
4 - Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America - Vegas Tenold
5 - For Another Europe: A Class Analysis of European Economic Integration (a re-read of the most influential marxist book on the EU from early 2000s to see how it holds up today - very well).

Not sure i can bothered to keep a list this year.

Go on.

 

[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

 

[braindancer]

1/25 - The Children Act - Ian McEwan
2/25 - Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
3/25 - A Place Called Winter - Patrick Gale

 

[ringo]

1/30 Travels With Charley - John Steinbeck
2/30 A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush - Eric Newby
3/30 Life After Life - Kate Atkinson

 

[Biddlybee]

1/10 Holding - Graham Norton

 

[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

 

[ringo]

1/30 Travels With Charley - John Steinbeck
2/30 A Short Walk In The Hindu Kush - Eric Newby
3/30 Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
4/30 Wrong About Japan - Peter Carey

 

[tim]

1/40 The Intellectuals and the Masses - John Carrey

 

[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.

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4/65 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 15 : Where's There Hope - Frank Tayell

 

[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

 

[May Kasahara]

1. Pornsak Pichetshote and Aaron Campbell - Infidel

2. ed. Nicholas Royle - Best British Short Stories 2017. Mostly excellent, with a couple of genuinely memorable stories in here

 

[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

 

[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

 

[iona]

1/35 Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
2/35 The Sea and Summer - George Turner
3/35 The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin

 

[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.

 

[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