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

[Ptolemy]

1/25. L'Assommoir - Émile Zola.
2/25. La Bête humaine - Émile Zola.
3/25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.
4/25. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.
5/25. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë.
6/25. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (re-read).
7/25. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli.
8/25. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie - Jean Rhys.
9/25. Days of Hope - Jim Allen.
10/25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
11/25. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville.
12/25. The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Gaskell.
13/25. Military Marxist Regimes in Africa - John Markakis & Michael Waller.
14/25. Beyond the Welfare State? - Christopher Pierson.

 

[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
12/26 - Who on Earth is Tom Baker? by Tom Baker
13/26 - Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh
14/26 - Meg by Steve Alten (reread)
15/26 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
16/26 - Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse
17/26 - Post Office by Charles Bukowski (reread)
18/26 - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
19/26 - The Woman who Went to Bed For a Year by Sue Townsend

 

[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
14/40 Madonna In A Fur Coat - Sabahattin Ali
15/40 Avoidant: How to Love (or Leave) a Dismissive Partner - Jeb Kinnison
16/40 The Missing - Tim Gautreaux
17/40 Rave - Irvine Welsh
18/40 Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
19/40 Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
20/40 The Secret DJ - Anonymous

 

[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
19/76 The Crow Trap - Ann Cleeves
20/76 The Wolf - Alex Grecian
21/76 The Force - Don Winslow
22/76 Hard Road - J B Turner
23/76 Tell No One - Harlan Coben
24/76 Hard Kill - J B Turner
25/76 Hard Wired - J B Turner
26/76 Hard Way - J B Turner
27/76 Hard Fall - J B Turner
28/76 Surviving The Evacuation: Book 13: Future's Beginning - Frank Tayell
29/76 Seven Bridges - LJ Ross
30/76 Please Kill Me : The Uncensored Oral History of Punk - Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain.
31/76 My Father's Wake : How The Irish Teach Us To Live , Love And Die - Kevin Toolis
32/76 The Pick , The Spade and the Crow - Bill Rogers
33/76 Six Years - Harlan Coben
34/76 Canada - Richard Ford
35/76 Toy Soldiers 1 : Apocolypse - Devon C Ford
36/76 Toy Soldiers 2 : Aftermath - Devon C Ford
*********

37/76 Toy Soldiers 3 : Abandoned - Devon C Ford.

 

[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
15/39 Morley, Paul - The North
16/39 High, Steven - Industrial Sunset
17/39 Hill, Archie - A Cage of Shadows
18/39 Boltanski/Chiapello - The New Spirit of Capitalism
19/39 Portelli, Alessandro - They Say in Harlan County
20/39 Portelli, Alessandro - The Battle of Valle Giulia
21/39 Clarke/Critcher/Johnson (eds) - Working Class Culture: Studies in History and Theory
22/39 Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies - Making Histories: Studies in History Writing and Politics
23/39 Hobsbawm, Eric - The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848
24/39 Fielding, Stephen - The Labour Governments 1964-1970: Labour and Cultural Change
25/39 Maconie, Stuart - Long March from Jarrow: A Journey through Britain Now and Then
26/39 Scott, Joan - Gender and the Politics of History
27/39 - Lasch, Christopher - The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
28/39 - Standing, Guy - The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class

 

[8115]

1/25 Walk Through Walls: A Memoir - Marina Abramović
2/25 Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
3/25 Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman
4/25 Untold Stories - Alan Bennett
5/25 The Private Life of Mrs Sharma - Ratika Kapur
6/25 This Book Will Save Your Life - A.M. Homes
7/25 Eat Up! - Ruby Tandoh
8/25 Swing Time - Zadie Smith
9/25 Paula Spencer - Roddy Doyle
10/25 Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell
11/25 The Circle - Dave Eggers
12/25 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors- Roddy Doyle
13/25 We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

 

[colbhoy]

01/10 - Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
02/10 - The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill
03/10 - A Day in the Bleachers by Arnold Hano
04/10 - The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais
05/10 - The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told edited by Jeff Silvermann
06/10 - Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
07/10 - We Are Celtic Supporters by Richard Purden
08/10 - Living On the Black by John Feinstein
09/10 - Capital by John Lanchester

 

[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)
27/65 - Ruth Rendell - End in Tears
28/65 - William Boyd - The New Confessions (5/10)
29/65 - Dan Smith - The Child Thief
30/65 - Clare Bailey & Michael Mosley - The 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet
31/65 - Ruth Rendell - Not in The Flesh
32/65 - James M Cain - Mildred Pierce
33/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Monster in the Box
34/54 - Peter James - Dead if You Don't
35/65 - Stephen King - The Outsider (6/10)
36/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Vault
37/65 - Paula Hawkins - The Girl on The Train
38/65 - Ruth Rendell - No Man's Nightingale
39/65 - James M Cain - Double Indemnity
40/65 - Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

41/65 - Michael Connelly - The Black Echo (7/10)

 

[8115]

1/25 Walk Through Walls: A Memoir - Marina Abramović
2/25 Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
3/25 Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman
4/25 Untold Stories - Alan Bennett
5/25 The Private Life of Mrs Sharma - Ratika Kapur
6/25 This Book Will Save Your Life - A.M. Homes
7/25 Eat Up! - Ruby Tandoh
8/25 Swing Time - Zadie Smith
9/25 Paula Spencer - Roddy Doyle
10/25 Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell
11/25 The Circle - Dave Eggers
12/25 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors- Roddy Doyle
13/25 We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
14/25 Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald

 

[kropotkin]

Slowed down recently- some enormous books took their toll

1. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
2. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
3. The Brothers Ashkenazi - I. J. Singer
4. Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View- Ellen Meiksins Wood
6. ‎ Burial Rights- Hannah Kent
7. ‎ Strike! - Jeremy Brecher
8. ‎ With the End in Mind- Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial - Kathryn Mannix
9. ‎Hillbilly Eligy - J. D. Vance
10. ‎ The Golden Age- John C. Wright
11. ‎ American Pastoral- Philip Roth
12. ‎ Why We Sleep: the New Science of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
13. ‎The Invincible - Stanislaw Lem
14. The Phoenix Exultant - John C. Wright
15. ‎We - Yevgeni Zamyatin
16. ‎Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
17. ‎Commonwealth - Anne Patchett
18. ‎The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
19. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
20. Pachinko - by Min Jin Lee
21. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
22. Artemis - Andy Weir
23. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
24. David Harvey - A Brief History of Neoliberalism
25. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
26. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
27. A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
28. Moonglow - Michael Chabon
29. The Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla
30. Longitude - David Sobel
31. We Are Legion - Dennis E. Taylor

 

[8115]

1/25 Walk Through Walls: A Memoir - Marina Abramović
2/25 Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
3/25 Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman
4/25 Untold Stories - Alan Bennett
5/25 The Private Life of Mrs Sharma - Ratika Kapur
6/25 This Book Will Save Your Life - A.M. Homes
7/25 Eat Up! - Ruby Tandoh
8/25 Swing Time - Zadie Smith
9/25 Paula Spencer - Roddy Doyle
10/25 Eleanor and Park - Rainbow Rowell
11/25 The Circle - Dave Eggers
12/25 The Woman Who Walked Into Doors- Roddy Doyle
13/25 We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
14/25 Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald
15/25 A Hologram for the King - Dave Eggers

 

[Ptolemy]

1/25. L'Assommoir - Émile Zola.
2/25. La Bête humaine - Émile Zola.
3/25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.
4/25. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.
5/25. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë.
6/25. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (re-read).
7/25. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli.
8/25. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie - Jean Rhys.
9/25. Days of Hope - Jim Allen.
10/25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
11/25. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville.
12/25. The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Gaskell.
13/25. Military Marxist Regimes in Africa - John Markakis & Michael Waller.
14/25. Beyond the Welfare State? - Christopher Pierson.
15/25. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.

 

[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
14/50 The Wave at Hanging Rock, Gregg Dunnett
15/50 Friend Request, Laura Marshall
16/50 PS I Love You, Cecila Ahern
17/50 Whatever Love Means, David Baddiel
18/50 Peekaboo, I See You, Willow Rose
19/50 Bed, David Whitehouse
20/50 The Outsider, Stephen King
21/50 Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
22/50 Moxie, Jennifer Mathieu
23/50 The Breakdown, BA Paris

24/50 Jump, Jilly Cooper - read this as a person I know kept telling me that Jilly Cooper books weren't like Barbara Cartland and were actually funny. Also, it was only 99p.

I did enjoy it, although it was bloody long. A posh person taking the piss out of the posh world.

 

[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)
27/65 - Ruth Rendell - End in Tears
28/65 - William Boyd - The New Confessions (5/10)
29/65 - Dan Smith - The Child Thief
30/65 - Clare Bailey & Michael Mosley - The 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet
31/65 - Ruth Rendell - Not in The Flesh
32/65 - James M Cain - Mildred Pierce
33/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Monster in the Box
34/54 - Peter James - Dead if You Don't
35/65 - Stephen King - The Outsider (6/10)
36/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Vault
37/65 - Paula Hawkins - The Girl on The Train
38/65 - Ruth Rendell - No Man's Nightingale
39/65 - James M Cain - Double Indemnity
40/65 - Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
41/65 - Michael Connelly - The Black Echo (7/10)

42/65 - Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of The Day

 

[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
12/26 - Who on Earth is Tom Baker? by Tom Baker
13/26 - Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh
14/26 - Meg by Steve Alten (reread)
15/26 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
16/26 - Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse
17/26 - Post Office by Charles Bukowski (reread)
18/26 - The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
19/26 - The Woman who Went to Bed For a Year by Sue Townsend
20/26 - So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson

 

[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
14/30 Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
15/30 Roald Dahl - The Witches
16/30 Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up!
17/30 Pat Mills - Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave! 2000AD and Judge Dredd: the secret history
18/30 Angela Nagle - Kill All Normies
19/30 Pat Mills - Serial Killer book 1: Read em and weep
20/30 Edward Lear - Complete Nonsense (ed. Holbrook Jackson)
21/30 Roald Dahl - The BFG
22/30 Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time
23/30 James SA Corey - Nemesis Games (The Expanse vol 5)
24/30 Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
25/30 Pat Mills - Joe Colquhoun - Charley's War vols 1-3
26/30 Philip Reeve - Predator's Gold
26/30 John Arden - Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
27/30 Frances Hardinge - Cuckoo Song

28/30 Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "The Last 10 Seconds" - Simon Kernick.
2. "Why Did You Lie" - Yrsa Sigurdardottir
3. "The Collini Case" - Ferdinand Von Schirach
4. "Kill the Father" - Sandrone Dazieri
5. "Revenger" - Alastair Reynolds
6. "Touch" - Claire North
7. "The Word is Murder" - Anthony Horowitz
8. "Good News, Bad News" - David Wolstencroft

9. "The Bone Field" - Simon Kernick. Alright
10. "Disclaimer" - Renee Knight. ingesting and compelling thriller
11 "The Last Days of Jack Sparks" - Jason Arnopp. Very scary and very good!

 

[butchersapron]

41 - Insurgent Supremacists: The U.S. Far Right's Challenge To State And Empire - Lyons, Matthew N.
42 - Indefensible: Democracy, Counter-Revolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism - Rohini Hensman
43 - For a Left Populism - Chantal Mouffe
44 - Waiting for the Revolution - The British Far Left From 1956 - Edited by Evan Smith and Matthew Worley (bit shit apart from chapter from one of our own)

 

[Smokeandsteam]

44 - Waiting for the Revolution - The British Far Left From 1956 - Edited by Evan Smith and Matthew Worley (bit shit apart from chapter from one of our own)

Got an email from MUP today offering 50% of all books. Even with the discount this one is still £45

 

[butchersapron]

Got an email from MUP today offering 50% of all books. Even with the discount this one is still £45

Pm incoming

 

[gawkrodger]

43 - For a Left Populism - Chantal Mouffe

Anything interesting in this? - ie having read On The Political & Agonostics, does this bring anything new?

 

[butchersapron]

Anything interesting in this? - ie having read On The Political & Agonostics, does this bring anything new?

No .Waste of time tbh

 

[braindancer]

1/25 This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
2/25 Southern Cross The Dog - Bill Cheng
3/25 - The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
4/25 - Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
5/25 - Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
6/25 - Web - John Wyndham
7/25 - The Gift of Rain - Tan Twang Eng
8/25 - The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
9/25 - The Postman Always Rings Twice -James M Cain
10/25 - Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis
11/25 - Charles Dickens: A Life - Claire Tomalin

 

[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
14/40 Madonna In A Fur Coat - Sabahattin Ali
15/40 Avoidant: How to Love (or Leave) a Dismissive Partner - Jeb Kinnison
16/40 The Missing - Tim Gautreaux
17/40 Rave - Irvine Welsh
18/40 Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
19/40 Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
20/40 The Secret DJ - Anonymous
21/40 The Devil In Amber - Mark Gatiss

 

[Ptolemy]

1/25. L'Assommoir - Émile Zola.
2/25. La Bête humaine - Émile Zola.
3/25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.
4/25. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.
5/25. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë.
6/25. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (re-read).
7/25. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli.
8/25. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie - Jean Rhys.
9/25. Days of Hope - Jim Allen.
10/25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
11/25. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville.
12/25. The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Gaskell.
13/25. Military Marxist Regimes in Africa - John Markakis & Michael Waller.
14/25. Beyond the Welfare State? - Christopher Pierson.
15/25. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
16/25. Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys.

 

[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
5. Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction About Postmodernism by Steven Shaviro
6. Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
7. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
8. The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie
9. The Broken Kingdoms (Inheritance trilogy book 2) by Nora K. Jemisin

10. The Kingdom Of Gods (Inheritance trilogy book 3) by Nora K. Jemisin
11. Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

 

[petee]

6: mcphee, atchafalaya

7: sciascia, the moro affair

 

[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
9/19 - Viv Albertine - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
10/19 - Roger Ebert - A Kiss is Still a Kiss
11/19 - Suggs - That Close
12/19 - Mark E. Smith - Renegade
13/19 - Alan Bennett - A Life Like Other People's - Bennett's usual blend of touching, poignant, cynical and gently humorous storytelling
14/19 - Charlie Brooker - I Can Make You Hate - like everything Brooker does there are lots of great thoughts and ideas padded out with endless streams of calculated bile and cynicism...

15/19 - Steve Jones - Lonely Boy - As blunt and honest as one would hope, also hilarious, touching and sad, and contains the handsome line “If life’s pissing on you anyway, there’s no point hitting at it with your umbrella.”

 

[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)
27/65 - Ruth Rendell - End in Tears
28/65 - William Boyd - The New Confessions (5/10)
29/65 - Dan Smith - The Child Thief
30/65 - Clare Bailey & Michael Mosley - The 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet
31/65 - Ruth Rendell - Not in The Flesh
32/65 - James M Cain - Mildred Pierce
33/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Monster in the Box
34/54 - Peter James - Dead if You Don't
35/65 - Stephen King - The Outsider (6/10)
36/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Vault
37/65 - Paula Hawkins - The Girl on The Train
38/65 - Ruth Rendell - No Man's Nightingale
39/65 - James M Cain - Double Indemnity
40/65 - Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
41/65 - Michael Connelly - The Black Echo (7/10)
42/65 - Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of The Day

43/65 - Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
44/65 - Ian McEwan - My Purple Scented Novel

 

[kropotkin]

1. The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
2. The Fifth Season - N. K. Jemisin
3. The Brothers Ashkenazi - I. J. Singer
4. Chronicle of a Death Foretold- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
5. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View- Ellen Meiksins Wood
6. ‎ Burial Rights- Hannah Kent
7. ‎ Strike! - Jeremy Brecher
8. ‎ With the End in Mind- Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial - Kathryn Mannix
9. ‎Hillbilly Eligy - J. D. Vance
10. ‎ The Golden Age- John C. Wright
11. ‎ American Pastoral- Philip Roth
12. ‎ Why We Sleep: the New Science of Sleep and Dreams - Matthew Walker
13. ‎The Invincible - Stanislaw Lem
14. The Phoenix Exultant - John C. Wright
15. ‎We - Yevgeni Zamyatin
16. ‎Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders
17. ‎Commonwealth - Anne Patchett
18. ‎The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
19. Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
20. Pachinko - by Min Jin Lee
21. East of Eden - John Steinbeck
22. Artemis - Andy Weir
23. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
24. David Harvey - A Brief History of Neoliberalism
25. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
26. The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
27. A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
28. Moonglow - Michael Chabon
29. The Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla
30. Longitude - David Sobel
31. We Are Legion - Dennis E. Taylor
32. Too Like the Lightning - Ada Palmer
33. A Respectable Trade- Phillipa Gregory