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

[iona]

1/25 A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
2/25 A Life for theStars - 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
28/25 Never Somewhere Else - Alex Gray
29/25 The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye - David Lagercrantz
30/25 Bitter Seeds - Ian Tregillis
31/25 Blood Song - Anthony Ryan
32/25 Tower Lord - Anthony Ryan
33/25 Queen of Fire - Anthony Ryan
34/25 The Humans - Matt Haig
35/25 The Real Cool Killers - Chester Himes

 

[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
9/20 A Judgement in Stone - Ruth Rendell
10/20 The Secret House of Death - Ruth Rendell
11/20 The Keys to the Street - Ruth Rendell
12/20 Live Flesh - Ruth Rendell
13/20 A sight for Sore Eyes - Ruth Rendell
14/20 The Vault - Ruth Rendell
15/20 Watching You - Lisa Jewell
16/20 I found You - Lisa Jewell
17/20 The Making of Us - Lisa Jewell
18/20 The Third Wife - Lisa Jewell

 

[billy_bob]

1/50 Christopher Moore - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
2/50 László Krasznahorkai - Satantango
3/50 Dennis Baron - A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers and the Digital Revolution
4/50 Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5/50 Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
6/50 Matt Sewell - A Charm of Goldfinches
7/50 Melissa Mohr - Holy Shit: A Brief History of Swearing
8/50 George Sanders - Pastoralia
9/50 George Sanders - The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil
10/50 Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad
11/50 Henry Marsh - Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
12/50 Oliver Sachs - Anthropologist on Mars
13/50 Sara Wheeler - Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
14/50 Bill Bryson - Troublesome Words
15/50 Vera Brosgol - Anya's Ghost
16/50 Jen Lee - Garbage Night
17/50 George Sanders - In Persuasion Nation
18/50 Roger Cohen - The Girl from Human Street
19/50 Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend
20/50 Jonathan and Naomi Kuttner - You, Pain Free
21/50 Alan Light - What Happened, Miss Simone?
22/50 Patrick Modiano - The Search Warrant
23/50 Adam Kay - This Is Going to Hurt
24/50 Annie Proulx - Birdcloud
25/50 Sara Wheeler - The Magnetic North
26/50 Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World
27/50 Steven Pinker - The Sense of Style
28/50 Annie Proulx - Heart Songs
29/50 Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
30/50 Philippe Sands - East West Street
31/50 H.G. Wells - The Invisible Man
32/50 Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock
33/50 Carlos Fuentes - The Crystal Frontier
34/50 Morris Gleitzman - Once
35/50 Charlotte Rogan - The Lifeboat
36/50 R.L. Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
37/50 J.G. Ballard - Cocaine Nights

38/50 Donald Barthelme - Sixty Stories

 

[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.
17/25. Livingstone's Labour - Ken Livingstone.
18/25. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank.
19/25. The Epic of Gilgamesh - N.K. Sandars (translation).
20/25. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1892 Edition) - Friedrich Engels.
21/25. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels.
22/25. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon - Karl Marx.
23/25. Eleanor Marx: A Life - Rachel Holmes.
24/25. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
25/25. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol.

Met my target, but still have a few books to finish off, particularly the longer ones I promised to read...

 

[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
29/39 - Priestley, John, B - English Journeys
30/39 Dennis/Henriques/ - Coal is our life: Analysis of a Yorkshire Mining Community
31/39 Varoufakis, Y - Adults in the Room: My Battles with Europe’s Deep Establishment
32/39 Polanyi, Karl - The Great Transformation
33/39 Smith, E., & Worley, M., - Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956

 

[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
45/65 - Laura Taylor - Fault Lines
46/65 - John Irving - A Widow For One Year (8/10)
47/65 - Val McDermid & Peter James - Footloose
48/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Secret House of Death
49/65 - Michael Chabon - Moonglow
50/65 - Gerald Durrell - A Zoo in My Luggage
51/65 - Belinda Bauer - Snap
52/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Tree of Hands
53/65 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus
54/65 - James M Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice
55/65 - Elizabeth Strout - Amy & Isabelle

56/65 - Minette Walters - The Sculptress

 

[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
12/25 - Old Weird Albion - Justin Hopper
13/25 - Go Tell It On the Mountain - James Baldwin
14/25 - Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

 

[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
10/10 - The Watchman by Robert Crais
11/10 - 50th Anniversary of Lisbon by Paul Cuddihy
12/10 - The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship by David Halberstam
13/10 - Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1. Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness
2. Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
3. Olivia Laing - The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
4. Albert Camus - A Happy Death
5. Orlando Figes - A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
6. Larry McMurtry - Comanche Moon
7. Hans Fallada - Alone In Berlin
8. Dannie Abse - Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
9. Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America
10. Lucia Berlin - A Manuel for Cleaning Women
11. E. L. Doctorow - Billy Bathgate
12. Han Kang - The Vegetarian
13. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment
14. Viv Albertine - Clothes...
15. Emile Zola - Thérèse Raquin
16. Greg Jackson - Prodigals

 

[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
16/25 Familiar Things - Hwang Sok-Yong
17/25 The Unnumbered - Sam North
18/25 This is the Life - Alex Shearer
19/25 The Heart Goes Last - Margaret Atwood
20/25 The Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
21/25 Toby's Room - Pat Barker

 

[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: online culture wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right
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
29/30 Neil Gaiman - The Sandman Overture
30/30 Alastair Reynolds - On the Steel Breeze
31/30 Alastair Reynolds - Poseidon's Wake
32/30 Victor Headley - Yardie
33/30 Lloyd Bradley - Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King
34/30 Robert Harris - Imperium (Cicero vol 1)

35/30 Robert Harris - Lustrum (Cicero vol 2)

 

[yield]

13. Fifth Season by Nora K. Jemisin

I thought this was good- did you like it?

Loved it. Amazing worldbuilding. Can see the influences. The Fulcrum by the Bene Gesserit from Dune

Spoiler: stuff

There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it’s almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies. We're shaped by such forces. You can say to yourself, 'Yes, I see how such a thing may be.' But when you look inward and confront the raw force of your own life unshielded, you see your peril. You see that this could overwhelm you. The greatest peril to the Giver is the force that takes. The greatest peril to the Taker is the force that gives. It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking. (And you, my son, are you one who gives or one who takes? I'm the fulcrum. I cannot give without taking and I cannot take without...)

And the Fifth Season from Ursula Le Guin's Hainish Cycle. I'm on the sequel now. Doesn't disappoint.

 

[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.
38/76 The Leah Chronicles : Andorra - Devon C Ford
39/76 A Dark Redemption - Stav Sherez
40/76 Eleven Days - Stav Sherez
41/76 Municipal Dreams : The Rise and Fall of Council Housing - John Boughton
42/76 The Great Cowboy Strike : Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American West - Mark Lause
43/76 The Intrusions - Stav Sherez
44/76 The Black House - Peter May
45/76 Lewis Man - Peter May
46/76 The Chess Men - Peter May
47/76 Rogue - J B Turner
48/76 Insidious Intent - Val McDermid

************
49/76 Surviving The Evacuation : Book 14 : Mort Vivant - Frank Tayell

 

[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.
17/25. Livingstone's Labour - Ken Livingstone.
18/25. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank.
19/25. The Epic of Gilgamesh - N.K. Sandars (translation).
20/25. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1892 Edition) - Friedrich Engels.
21/25. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels.
22/25. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon - Karl Marx.
23/25. Eleanor Marx: A Life - Rachel Holmes.
24/25. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
25/25. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol.
26/25. Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward.

 

[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
13/30 Midnight Notes Collective - Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992
14/30 Hackney Workers' Educational Association - The Threepenny Doctor: Doctor Jelley of Hackney
15/30 Franz Kafka - The Castle
16/30 Dan Hancox - Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime
17/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #56
18/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #57
19/30 Steve Wright - Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism
20/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #52
21/30 Moishe Postone - Anti-Semitism and National Socialism

22/30 Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls

Ptolemy beat me to the finish line by a couple of days.

 

[Ptolemy]

22/30 Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls

Ptolemy beat me to the finish line by a couple of days.

To be fair I cheated as I didn't read the scraps of Volume 2 which were included in my Kindle edition, but they weren't very good and Kindle considered me to have completed the book at the end of Volume 1...

What did you think of it!? Which translation did you read?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

To be fair I cheated as I didn't read the scraps of Volume 2 which were included in my Kindle edition, but they weren't very good and Kindle considered me to have completed the book at the end of Volume 1...

What did you think of it!? Which translation did you read?

Oh I read the Penguin classic one which was translated by (gets book out of bag) Robert Maguire.

I think it’s great, I like the downbeat atmosphere and the sly digs in there. I did get a bit confused about who was who at points.

The intro says part 2 is pants and he burnt it.

What did you think?

 

[Ptolemy]

Oh I read the Penguin classic one which was translated by (gets book out of bag) Robert Maguire.

I think it’s great, I like the downbeat atmosphere and the sly digs in there. I did get a bit confused about who was who at points.

The intro says part 2 is pants and he burnt it.

What did you think?

I read the Guerney version, largely on the strength of the praise given to it by Vladimir Nabakov.

I love the relentless cynicism of the novel - the utter vacuity of the middle class mob, the sociopathy of Chichikov and the paranoia which begins to infect the plot as it hurtles towards its conclusion. I know what you mean about the confusion of characters - though I interpreted that as reflecting the basic emptiness of the social milieu Gogol was painting.

The bits I read of part 2 really weren't inspiring; rumour has it that Gogol initially wanted to do a trilogy; crime, punishment and redemption. Not a bad concept, but the problem is that the text simply wasn't that good. I think it works best just as a quick flash of inspiration bound up in a 250 page story.

 

[neonwilderness]

1/12 - The Chessmen - Peter May
2/12 - The Corbyn Effect - Mark Perryman
3/12 - The Trial - Franz Kafka
4/12 - Renegade - Mark E Smith
5/12 - The Empty Throne - Bernard Cornwell
6/12 - Easily Distracted - Steve Coogan
7/12 - Coffin Road - Peter May
8/12 - Warriers of the Storm - Bernard Cornwell

 

[SpookyFrank]

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
12/40 Barbara & Karen Fields - Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
13/40 Laura James - Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neuroptypical World
14/40 Erik Hazan - First Measures of the Coming Insurrection
15/40 William Gibson - Spook Country
16/40 Carl Sagan - The Demon-Haunted World
17/40 Becky Chambers - A Closed and Common Orbit
18/40 Rebecca Solnit - The Mother of all Questions
19/40 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
20/40 Shulamith Firestone - The Dialectic of Sex
21/40 Arundhati Roy - Capitalism: A Ghost Story
22/40 Eka Kurniawan - Man Tiger
23/40 Carol Hebald - The Heart Too Long Suppressed
24/40 Rachel Armstrong - Origamy

25/40 Stephen Jay Gould - Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
26/40 Iain M Banks - The Player of Games
27/40 Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself
28/40 Marianne Fritz - The Weight of Things

 

[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
13/30 Midnight Notes Collective - Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992
14/30 Hackney Workers' Educational Association - The Threepenny Doctor: Doctor Jelley of Hackney
15/30 Franz Kafka - The Castle
16/30 Dan Hancox - Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime
17/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #56
18/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #57
19/30 Steve Wright - Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism
20/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #52
21/30 Moishe Postone - Anti-Semitism and National Socialism
22/30 Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls

23/30 Ian Bone, Alan Pullen, Tim Scargill (eds) - Class War: A Decade of Disorder

 

[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
21/26 - The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers Omnibus by Gilbert Shelton
22/26 - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
23/26 - Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
24/26 - Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years by Sue Townsend (reread)
25/26 - The Shining by Stephen King (reread)
26/26 - The Moon's A Balloon by David Niven

 

[Voley]

1/30 The Bottom Corner - Nige Tassell
2/30 Long Road From Jarrow - Stuart Maconie
3/30 Withnail And I - Bruce Robinson
4/30 Tschick - Wolfgang Herndorff

5/30 Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol – Steve Jones
6/30 Ruth And Martin's Album Club - Martin Fitzgerald​

7/30 Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide To British Birds.
8/30 The Last Fighting Tommy - Harry Patch
9/30 Holy Shit: A Brief History Of Swearing – Melissa Mohr
10/30 Suspicious Minds - Rob Brotherton
11/30 Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor - Dave Haslam
12/30 The Pearl - John Steinbeck
13/30 Fault Lines - Laura Taylor

Our sojourner's latest call for unity in this fucking shambles of a world we live in. Bloody wonderful and written by a friend of ours.

 

[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
12. Private Island by James Meek
13. Fifth Season by Nora K. Jemisin

14. The Obelisk Gate by Nora K. Jemisin

 

[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
10. Rupert Thomson - This Party's Got To Stop
11. Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
12. Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem
13. Cixin Liu - The Dark Forest
14. Joel Dicker - The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
15. Elly Griffiths - The Dark Angel
16. Paul Cree - The Suburban
17. Simon Kernick - The Bone Field
18. Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (reread)

19. Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Another double plus good reread.

 

[Biddlybee]

1/5 Moxie - Jennifer Mathieu
2/5 Natives - Akala
3/5 Whispers Under Ground - Ben Aaronovitch
4/5 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
5/5 The Great North Wood - Tim Bird

Not many words, but it's going on my list! Lovely book.

 

[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
45/65 - Laura Taylor - Fault Lines
46/65 - John Irving - A Widow For One Year (8/10)
47/65 - Val McDermid & Peter James - Footloose
48/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Secret House of Death
49/65 - Michael Chabon - Moonglow
50/65 - Gerald Durrell - A Zoo in My Luggage
51/65 - Belinda Bauer - Snap
52/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Tree of Hands
53/65 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus
54/65 - James M Cain - The Postman Always Rings Twice
55/65 - Elizabeth Strout - Amy & Isabelle
56/65 - Minette Walters - The Sculptress

57/65 - Ruth Rendell - Live Flesh

 

[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.
38/76 The Leah Chronicles : Andorra - Devon C Ford
39/76 A Dark Redemption - Stav Sherez
40/76 Eleven Days - Stav Sherez
41/76 Municipal Dreams : The Rise and Fall of Council Housing - John Boughton
42/76 The Great Cowboy Strike : Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American West - Mark Lause
43/76 The Intrusions - Stav Sherez
44/76 The Black House - Peter May
45/76 Lewis Man - Peter May
46/76 The Chess Men - Peter May
47/76 Rogue - J B Turner
48/76 Insidious Intent - Val McDermid
49/76 Surviving The Evacuation : Book 14 : Mort Vivant - Frank Tayell

******
50/76 Paris : After The Liberation : 1944-1949 - Anthony Beevor & Artemis Cooper

 

[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
13/30 Midnight Notes Collective - Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992
14/30 Hackney Workers' Educational Association - The Threepenny Doctor: Doctor Jelley of Hackney
15/30 Franz Kafka - The Castle
16/30 Dan Hancox - Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime
17/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #56
18/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #57
19/30 Steve Wright - Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism
20/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #52
21/30 Moishe Postone - Anti-Semitism and National Socialism
22/30 Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
23/30 Ian Bone, Alan Pullen, Tim Scargill (eds) - Class War: A Decade of Disorder

24/30 Daniel Trilling - Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe

He's a mate but this is very good. Puts human faces on the "refugee crisis" without being too worthy, a cracking read.

 

[butchersapron]

51 - Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain - Ronald Hutton
52 - The Conservative Revolution in the Weimar Republic - Roger Woods
53 - Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America - Kathleen Belew
54 - Apocalypse and survival: Reflections on Giorgio Cesarano's book, Critica dell’utopia capitale, and the experience of the radical communist current in Italy - Francesco Santini
55- UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age Millennial Conspiracism - David G. Robertson