it's the all-singing all-dancing 2018 reading challenge thread

[marty21]

1/76 The Thirst - Jo Nesbo
2/76 Alt-America : The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. David Neiwert
3/76 Pursuit of Honour - Vince Flynn
4/76 American Assassin - Vince Flynn
5/76 Ardennes 1944 - Anthony Beevor
6/76 The Last Nazi - Andrew Turpin
7/76 The Old Bridge - Andrew Turpin
8/76 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 12 Britain's End . - Frank Tayell.
9/76 The Late Show - Michael Connelly
10/76 Kill Shot- Vince Flynn
11/76 The Last Man - Vince Flynn
12/76 Order to Kill - Vince Flynn with Kyle Mills
13/76 Nucleus - Rory Clements
14/76 The Survivor - Vince Flynn with Kyle Mills
15/76 East of Eden - John Steinbeck
16/76 The Adulterants - Joe Dunthorne
17/76 The Playboy of The Western World - JM Synge

***************
18/76 The Darkest Days: The Truth Behind Britain's Rush to War , 1914 - Douglas Newton

 

[iona]

1/25 A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
2/25 A Life for the Stars - James Blish
3/25 The Triumph of Time - James Blish
4/25 A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow - George R. R. Martin
5/25 A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold - George R. R. Martin
6/25 A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
7/25 The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
8/25 The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths
9/25 The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths
10/25 King Rat - China Miéville
11/25 A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust - George R. R. Martin
12/25 A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast - George R. R. Martin
13/25 Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
14/25 Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
15/25 MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood
16/25 The Woman in Blue - Elly Griffiths
17/25 The Chalk Pit - Elly Griffiths
18/25 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin
19/25 In the Cold Dark Ground - Stuart MacBride
20/25 Smoke and Mirrors - Elly Griffiths
21/25 Call for the Dead - John le Carré
22/25 Norstrilia - Cordwainer Smith
23/25 Now We Are Dead - Stuart MacBride
24/25 The Blood Card - Elly Griffiths

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/30 Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2/30 China Miéville - October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
3/30 Michael Wolff - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
4/30 Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines
5/30 David Peace - Red Riding 1974
6/30 William Wordsworth - Selected Poems (ed. Stephen Logan)
7/30 Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
8/30 Frances Hardinge - The Lie Tree
9/30 William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
10/30 William Shakespeare - Macbeth
11/30 George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
12/30 Fiona Staples - Brian K Vaughan - Saga issues 1-50

 

[Beats & Pieces]

54. Barchester Towers - Trollope

 

[Beats & Pieces]

1/40 Mark Greif - Against Everything
2/40 Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
3/40 Michele Wallace - Invisibility Blues
4/40 Connie Willis - Blackout
5/40 Kathleen Taylor - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control
6/40 Margaret Atwood - Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
7/40 Usrula K le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea
8/40 Naomi Alderman - The Power
9/40 R. D. Laing - The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise

10/40 Rebecca Solnit - Wanderlust: A History of Walking
11/40 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition

Still well on track for >50% female writers

Virtue signalling in the highest degree. Pa.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Virtue signalling in the highest degree. Pa.

Classy choice of thread to try and start some bullshit on.

 

[billy_bob]

14/50 Bill Bryson - Troublesome Words
15/50 Vera Brosgol - Anya's Ghost
16/50 Jen Lee - Garbage Night

 

[imposs1904]

1/25 Blood Sympathy by Reginald Hill (Reread)
2/25 Men in White Suits: Liverpool FC in the 1990s - The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes
3/25 The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War by David Lebedoff
4/25 "I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa by Charles Brandt
5/25 Ruth And Martin's Album Club by Martin Fitzgerald
6/25 Murphy's Mob by Michael Saunders
7/25 It's Not a Runner Bean...: Confessions of a Slightly Successful Comedian by Mark Steel (Reread)

8/25 My British Invasion: The Inside Story on The Yardbirds, The Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann, Herman's Hermits, The Hollies, The Troggs, The Kinks, The Zombies, and More by Harold Bronson

 

[iona]

1/25 A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
2/25 A Life for the Stars - James Blish
3/25 The Triumph of Time - James Blish
4/25 A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow - George R. R. Martin
5/25 A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold - George R. R. Martin
6/25 A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
7/25 The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
8/25 The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths
9/25 The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths
10/25 King Rat - China Miéville
11/25 A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust - George R. R. Martin
12/25 A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast - George R. R. Martin
13/25 Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
14/25 Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
15/25 MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood
16/25 The Woman in Blue - Elly Griffiths
17/25 The Chalk Pit - Elly Griffiths
18/25 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin
19/25 In the Cold Dark Ground - Stuart MacBride
20/25 Smoke and Mirrors - Elly Griffiths
21/25 Call for the Dead - John le Carré
22/25 Norstrilia - Cordwainer Smith
23/25 Now We Are Dead - Stuart MacBride
24/25 The Blood Card - Elly Griffiths
25/25 A Murder of Quality - John le Carré

 

[D'wards]

1/26 - Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend (reread)
2/26 - The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (reread)
3/26 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
4/26 - 11.22.63 by Stephen King
5/26 - The Kenneth Williams Diaries edited by Russell Davies
6/26 - Adrian Mole: The Lost Years by Sue Townsend (reread)
7/26 - Books of Blood Volume 4 by Clive Barker
8/26 - Books of Blood Volume 5 by Clive Barker
9/26 - Books of Blood Volume 6 by Clive Barker
10/26 - Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke (reread)

 

[D'wards]

1/26 - Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend (reread)
2/26 - The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (reread)
3/26 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
4/26 - 11.22.63 by Stephen King
5/26 - The Kenneth Williams Diaries edited by Russell Davies
6/26 - Adrian Mole: The Lost Years by Sue Townsend (reread)
7/26 - Books of Blood Volume 4 by Clive Barker
8/26 - Books of Blood Volume 5 by Clive Barker
9/26 - Books of Blood Volume 6 by Clive Barker
10/26 - Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke (reread)
11/26 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

 

[Beats & Pieces]

Classy choice of thread to try and start some bullshit on.

The bullshit began with the attempt at virtue signalling - for what reason I wonder? Setting that aside - fuck off - and start reading.

 

[Orang Utan]

The bullshit began with the attempt at virtue signalling - for what reason I wonder? Setting that aside - fuck off - and start reading.

I really wish you would fuck off instead. What a gaping anus you are.
Frank posted what he read and you tell him to start reading. Get over yourself

 

[BoatieBird]

1/65 - Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
2/65 - Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
3/65 - Ruth Rendell - An Unkindness of Ravens
4/65 - Stephen King - Firestarter (1/10)
5/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Veiled One
6/65 - Joanna Cannon - The Trouble With Goats and Sheep
7/65 - Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
8/65 - Ruth Rendell - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
9/65 - Donna Tartt - The Secret History (2/10)
10/65 - Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13
11/65 - Ruth Rendell - Simisola
12/65 - Jonathan Franzen - Purity (3/10)
13/65 - Judy Blume - Forever
14/65 - Ruth Rendell - Road Rage
15/65 - William Boyd - Armadillo
16/65 - Stephen King and Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box
17/65 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Of Love and Other Demons
18/65 - Patricia Highsmith - This Sweet Sickness
19/65 - Ruth Rendell - Harm Done
20/65 - Willy Vlautin - Don't Skip Out on Me
21/65 - Hector & Malcolm MacLeod - Peter Manuel, Serial Killer
22/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Sight For Sore Eyes
23/65 - Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace

24/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Babes in The Wood

 

[Badgers]

Am almost through Sherlock Holmes (Definitive Collection) on audiobook. Need to work out how many books that is

 

[Nanker Phelge]

1/19 - Mark Kermode - The Good, The Bad and the Multiplex
2/19 - Mark Kermode - It's Only a Movie
3/19 - Mark Kermode - Hatchet Job
4/19 - William Goldman - The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood and Other Essays
5/19 - Jah Wobble - Memoirs of a Geezer
6/19 - Carrie Fisher - Wishing Drinking
7/19 - Alan Bennett - The Lady in the Van
8/19 - John Leguizamo - Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends

A refreshingly frank and funny autobiography that really doesn't pull any punches....a great read.

 

[BoatieBird]

1/65 - Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
2/65 - Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
3/65 - Ruth Rendell - An Unkindness of Ravens
4/65 - Stephen King - Firestarter (1/10)
5/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Veiled One
6/65 - Joanna Cannon - The Trouble With Goats and Sheep
7/65 - Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
8/65 - Ruth Rendell - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
9/65 - Donna Tartt - The Secret History (2/10)
10/65 - Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13
11/65 - Ruth Rendell - Simisola
12/65 - Jonathan Franzen - Purity (3/10)
13/65 - Judy Blume - Forever
14/65 - Ruth Rendell - Road Rage
15/65 - William Boyd - Armadillo
16/65 - Stephen King and Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box
17/65 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Of Love and Other Demons
18/65 - Patricia Highsmith - This Sweet Sickness
19/65 - Ruth Rendell - Harm Done
20/65 - Willy Vlautin - Don't Skip Out on Me
21/65 - Hector & Malcolm MacLeod - Peter Manuel, Serial Killer
22/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Sight For Sore Eyes
23/65 - Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
24/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Babes in The Wood

25/65 - Kazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of Hills

 

[May Kasahara]

1. Tim Ecott - Neutral Buoyancy
2. Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising
3. Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump
4. Jon Ronson - The Men Who Stare At Goats
5. Sarah Perry - After Me Comes The Flood
6. Joss Whedon and lots of others - Buffy the Vampire Slayer S8 omnibus vol.1
7. Sarah Hendrickx - Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder
8. Ellipsis vol.1 (flash fiction lit mag)

9. Clare Bailey and Michael Mosley - The 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet

 

[yield]

1. Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

2. The Power by Naomi Alderman

3. The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners by Seumas Milne

4. The Fireman by Joe Hill (Stephen King's son)

5. Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism by Steven Shaviro

6. Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich (To Hell with Good Intentions)

 

[Beats & Pieces]

55. Dr Thorne - Trollope

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/30 Stieg Larsson - The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2/30 China Miéville - October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
3/30 Michael Wolff - Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
4/30 Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines
5/30 David Peace - Red Riding 1974
6/30 William Wordsworth - Selected Poems (ed. Stephen Logan)
7/30 Brandon Sanderson - Oathbringer
8/30 Frances Hardinge - The Lie Tree
9/30 William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
10/30 William Shakespeare - Macbeth
11/30 George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
12/30 Fiona Staples - Brian K Vaughan - Saga issues 1-50

13/30 Larry McMurtry - Streets of Laredo

 

[Fozzie Bear]

1/30 Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot
2/30 Cyrus Bozorgmehr - Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan's Million Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Enemy No. 1
3/30 Gary Budden - Hollow Shores
4/30 Chris Kraus - After Kathy Acker: A Biography
5/30 Victor Pelevin - Omon Ra
6/30 Stefan Szczelkun - Improvisation Rites: From John Cage's Songbooks to The Scratch Orchestra's Nature Study Notes - collective practises 2011-2017
7/30 Sol Yurick - Metatron
8/30 p.m. - bolo'bolo
9/30 Elizabeth Carola - Hot and other stories
10/30 Jean Richards - I Haven't Had So Much Fun Since My Leg Fell Off: The North London Civil Servants Strike 1987/88
11/30 Emma Goldman - Living My Life

12/30 Rhian E Jones and Eli Davies (eds) - Under My Thumb: Songs That Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them

A mixed bag anthology of women writing about sexist/misogynistic songs. The good stuff is really good. It is a bit hidebound by the age and background of the contributors, so there is a fair bit about Guns and Roses and Eminem.

 

[braindancer]

1/25 This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
2/25 Southern Cross The Dog - Bill Cheng
3/25 - The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
4/24 - Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins

Jeez - I've not read much this year. I've started quite a few books but haven't stuck with anything. My 11 year old daughter bought the Hunger Games trilogy in a charity shop the other day. I stole them to check their appropriateness. I don't think she's ready for them - but they are certainly page-turners.

 

[Me76]

1/50 Naturally Gifted, Lisa M Hawkins
2/50 Cold Lake, Jeff Carson
3/50 Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
4/50 Someone to Save You, Paul Pilkington
5/50 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
6/50 The Godfather, Mario Puzo
7/50 Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
8/50 Lost and Found, Amy Shojai
9/50 The Wall, Jen Minkman
10/50 Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11/50 Crimes Against a Book Club, Kathy Cooperman
12/50 Lessons for a Sunday Father, Claire Calman
13/50 The Disappearance, Annabel Kantaria

 

[Smokeandsteam]

1/39 High/Perchard (Eds) - The Deindustrialized World;
2/39 Jameson, Fredric - Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism;
3/39 Gest, Justin - The new minority: White working class poliics in an age of immigration and inequality;
4/39 Hall, David - Working Lives: the forgotten voices of Britain's post war working class;
5/39 Katznelson, Ira - City Trenches: Urban politics and the patterning of class in the US;
6/39 Goodhart, David - The Road to Somewhere: the New Tribes Shaping British Politics;
7/39 Dudley, Kathryn - The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America;
8/39 Spencer, K (& others) - Crisis in the Industrial Heartland: A Study of the West Midlands
9/39 Hall, Stuart - Cultural Representations and Signifying Practises (Culture, Media and Identity)
10/39 - Strangleman, Tim - Work and Society: Sociological Approaches, Themes and Methods
11/39 - Cowie, Jefferson - Capital Moves: RCA's 70 Year Quest for Cheap Labor
12/39 - Jobson, Richard - Nostalgia and the Post War Labour Party: Prisoners of the Past
13/39 Black/Pemberton/Thane (eds) - Reassessing 1970’s Britain
14/39 May, Todd -The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism

 

[BoatieBird]

1/65 - Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
2/65 - Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
3/65 - Ruth Rendell - An Unkindness of Ravens
4/65 - Stephen King - Firestarter (1/10)
5/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Veiled One
6/65 - Joanna Cannon - The Trouble With Goats and Sheep
7/65 - Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
8/65 - Ruth Rendell - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter
9/65 - Donna Tartt - The Secret History (2/10)
10/65 - Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13
11/65 - Ruth Rendell - Simisola
12/65 - Jonathan Franzen - Purity (3/10)
13/65 - Judy Blume - Forever
14/65 - Ruth Rendell - Road Rage
15/65 - William Boyd - Armadillo
16/65 - Stephen King and Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box
17/65 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Of Love and Other Demons
18/65 - Patricia Highsmith - This Sweet Sickness
19/65 - Ruth Rendell - Harm Done
20/65 - Willy Vlautin - Don't Skip Out on Me
21/65 - Hector & Malcolm MacLeod - Peter Manuel, Serial Killer
22/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Sight For Sore Eyes
23/65 - Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
24/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Babes in The Wood
25/65 - Kazuo Ishiguro - A Pale View of Hills

26/65 - Val McDermid - Insidious Intent (4/10)

 

[Plumdaff]

1/25 A Horse Walks Into A Bar by David Grossman
2/25 Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
3/25 The Queen of the Tambourine by Jane Gardam
4/25 Stop Walking On Eggshells by Paul T Mason and Randi Kreger
5/25 Everywoman by Jess Phillips.
6/25 Montaigne by Stefan Zweig.
7/25 So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

8/25 I'll Be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara. Excellent study of the as yet uncaught Golden State Killer / Original Night Stalker. Recommended for true crime fans.

 

[Shirl]

1/20 The Lake of Darkness - Ruth Rendell
2/20 The Face of Tresspass - Ruth Rendell
3/20 A Demon in my View -Ruth Rendell
4/20 Make Death Love Me -Ruth Rendell
5/20 Dark Corners - Ruth Rendell
6/20 One Across, Two Down - Ruth Rendell
7/20 Then She was Gone - Lisa Jewell
8/20 The Girls- Lisa Jewell

 

[iona]

1/25 A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
2/25 A Life for the Stars - James Blish
3/25 The Triumph of Time - James Blish
4/25 A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow - George R. R. Martin
5/25 A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold - George R. R. Martin
6/25 A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
7/25 The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
8/25 The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths
9/25 The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths
10/25 King Rat - China Miéville
11/25 A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust - George R. R. Martin
12/25 A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast - George R. R. Martin
13/25 Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
14/25 Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
15/25 MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood
16/25 The Woman in Blue - Elly Griffiths
17/25 The Chalk Pit - Elly Griffiths
18/25 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin
19/25 In the Cold Dark Ground - Stuart MacBride
20/25 Smoke and Mirrors - Elly Griffiths
21/25 Call for the Dead - John le Carré
22/25 Norstrilia - Cordwainer Smith
23/25 Now We Are Dead - Stuart MacBride
24/25 The Blood Card - Elly Griffiths
25/25 A Murder of Quality - John le Carré
26/25 The Dark Angel - Elly Griffiths
27/25 The Ghost Fields - Elly Griffiths

 

[ringo]

1/40 Days Without End - Sebastian Barry
2/40 The High Window - Raymond Chandler
3/40 An Artist Of The Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
4/40 The Steel Remains - Richard K Morgan
5/40 Simulacrum - Ken Liu
6/40 Here Comes The Sun - Nicole Dennis-Benn
7/40 Train Dreams - Denis Johnson
8/40 Voyage In The Dark - Jean Rhys
9/40 The Vesuvius Club - Mark Gatiss
10/40 The Red Pony - John Steinbeck
11/40 Nothing But The Night - John Blackburn
12/40 The Motel Life - Willy Vlautin
13/40 The Scar - China Miéville