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

[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
25/50 The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters
26/50 Scream for Me, Karen Rose
27/50 The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan
28/50 The Improbability of Love, Hannah Rothschild
29/50 I Like it Like That, Claire Calman
30/50 Don't Tell Meg, Paul Teague
31/50 Finding Audrey, Sophie Kinsella
32/50 The Cull - Bloodline, Eric J Gates
33/50 When Good Friends Go Bad, Ellie Campbell
34/50 The Good Samaritan, John Marrs

 

[Pickman's model]

16/50 peter straub, ghost story
17/50 georges simenon, inspector cadaver
18/50 benson bobrick, east of the sun: the conquest and settlement of siberia

19/50 miles cameron, fall of dragons
20/50 r.v. comerford, the fenians in context

 

[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)

36/30 Robert Harris - Dictator (Cicero vol 3)

 

[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
17. Sally Rooney - Normal People

Definitely worth the hype, not been so emotionally involved in the outcome of a novel for years.

 

[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
27/26 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

 

[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
22/40 Lean On Pete - Willy Vlautin
23/40 Harald, Claudia, And Their Son Duncan - Nadine Gordimer
24/40 A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood
25/40 The Discovery Of Heaven - Harry Mulisch

 

[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
27/26 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
28/26 - Intro to Alien Invasion by Owen King and Mark Jude Poirier

 

[nogojones]

1/40 - Catherynne Valente - Deathless
2/40 - Robert Louis Wilken - The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity
3/40 - Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem
4/40 - Zadie Smith - White Teeth
5/40 - Geronimo - Fire & Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement
6/40 - Barbara Bloomfield, Raphael Samuel - The Enemy Within: Pit villages & the miners strike of 84/5
7/40 - Jonathan Crary - 24/7: Late capitalism & the end of sleep
8/40 - Kuwasi Balagoon - A Soldiers Story
9/40 - Albert Camus - The Fall
10/40 - Iain M. Banks - Transition
11/40 - Andri Snær Magnason - Bonus Poetry
12/40 - Karl Marx - The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
13/40 - Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
14/40 - Ian McEwan - Black Dogs
15/40 - Ben Goldacre - Bad Science
16/40 - Jules Archer - The Plot to Seize the White House
17/40 - Carl A. Trocki - Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy
18/40 - Victor Serge - Revolution in Danger
19/40 - Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
20/40 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Innocent Erendira
21/40 - Jim Thompson - Bad Boy
22/40 - E.T.A. Hoffman - The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr
23/40 - Raymond Postgate - 1848, The Story of a Year
24/40 - Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
25/40 - John Dale - Dark Angel
26/40 - R.H. Tawney - Religon and the Rise of Capitalism
27/40 - Christian Ratsch - The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants
28/40 Harlan Ellison - Dangerous Visions 2
29/40 Kurt Vonnegut - Jailbird
30/40 Angela Davis - If They Come in the Morning
31/40 Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing - The Mushroom at the End of the World

32/40 Jean Paul Satre - Words
33/40 Arundhati Roy - The God of Small 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
24/30 Daniel Trilling - Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe

25/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #58

Fictionalised account of the author's attempts to ingratiate himself with the characterful old biffers who hang out in a San Francisco diner.

26/30 Viv Albertine - To Throw Away Unopened

An account of her mother's death overlayed with brutally honest thoughts on family life and getting old. Not as much fun as her first book, because of the subject matter.

 

[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

*******

51/76 A walk Through Paris : A Radical Exploration - Eric Hazan

 

[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
19/20 The Brimstone Wedding - Barbara Vine
20/20 The House of Stairs - Barbara Vive
21/20 The Child's Child - Barbara Vine
22/The Best Man to Die - Ruth Rendell

 

[Dragnet]

6/25 - Identity and Violence - Amartya Sen
7/25 - This Is Memorial Device - David Keenan
8/25 - Class Notes - Adolph Reed Jr.
9/25 - The Most Radical Gesture - Sadie Plant

10/25 - Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump - Asad Haider
11/25 - Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King - Lloyd Bradley
12/25 - From Fatwa to Jihad - Kenan Malik
13/25 - How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman
14/25 - I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels - Albert Meltzer

 

[Pickman's model]

19/50 miles cameron, fall of dragons
20/50 r.v. comerford, the fenians in context

21/50 richard o'rawe, northern heist

 

[Pickman's model]

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

*******

51/76 A walk Through Paris : A Radical Exploration - Eric Hazan

You'd like northern heist

 

[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
34. Nekropolis - Maureen F McHugh
35. Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
36. The Census-taker - China Mieville
37. The Fight - Norman Mailer
38. Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel
39. Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune - Kristin Ross
40. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
41. Obelisk Gate - N. K. Jemisin
42. Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology - Joyce Kornbluh
43. Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
44. Lightyears - James Salter
45. For We Are Many - Dennis E. Taylor
46. All These Worlds - Dennis E. Taylor
47. Dictator -Robert Harris

 

[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)
36/30 Robert Harris - Dictator (Cicero vol 3)

37/30 Bob Woodward - Fear: Trump in the White House

 

[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
10. "Disclaimer - Renee Knight
11. "The Last Days Of Jack Sparks" - Jason Arnopp
12. "A Traitor in the Family"- Nicholas Searle
13. "Holy Ceremony" - Harri Nykanen
14. "After the Crash" - Michael Bussi

15. "The Dry" - Jane Harper. Very good thriller with an excellent sense of place.

 

[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

58/65 - Zadie Smith - White Teeth (9/10)

 

[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)
36/30 Robert Harris - Dictator (Cicero vol 3)
37/30 Bob Woodward - Fear: Trump in the White House

38/30 Bob Dylan - Chronicles volume 1

 

[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
34. Nekropolis - Maureen F McHugh
35. Little Fires Everywhere - Celeste Ng
36. The Census-taker - China Mieville
37. The Fight - Norman Mailer
38. Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel
39. Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune - Kristin Ross
40. Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
41. Obelisk Gate - N. K. Jemisin
42. Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology - Joyce Kornbluh
43. Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
44. Lightyears - James Salter
45. For We Are Many - Dennis E. Taylor
46. All These Worlds - Dennis E. Taylor
47. Dictator -Robert Harris
48. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemmingway

 

[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
51/76 A walk Through Paris : A Radical Exploration - Eric Hazan

********

52/76 You Soldiers 4 : Adversity - Devon C Ford.

 

[ska invita]

20/40 The Secret DJ - Anonymous

This looks like fun...any good?

25/30 Aaron Cometbus - Cometbus #58

Did you pick that up in the UK? If so where?
I read one of those once and really enjoyed it. Found it second hand though. Never seen it before or since

 

[ringo]

This looks like fun...any good?

It's alright. Probably much more enjoyable if you're into the whole house/Ibiza/mainstream dance culture thing. Or if i'd actually heard of the protagonist.

But a lot of it rings true and there are the usual entertaining tales of excess and bizarre behaviour you can only encounter in the rarified, detached, unworldy sphere where cool kids, superclubs, wealth, wasters and escapism meet. Fun until it very dramatically stops being fun. A fairly standard 'what goes up must come down' cautionary tale.

 

[ska invita]

Or if i'd actually heard of the protagonist.

Is their identity out now?

Thanks. From the outside it looks like a pretty horrible world. My friend was saying the Avicci documentary (leads up to his death) is well worth a watch

 

[ringo]

Is their identity out now?

Thanks. From the outside it looks like a pretty horrible world. My friend was saying the Avicci documentary (leads up to his death) is well worth a watch

It's meant to be kept secret but I'll PM you.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Did you pick that up in the UK? If so where?
I read one of those once and really enjoyed it. Found it second hand though. Never seen it before or since

His European distribution sucks but I found a couple of copies at this place in Hull (mailorder).
Home

It looks like AK US have them. I really like his stuff - not read anything by him until this year and then got a bit obsessed.

 

[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

15. Brass Sun: The Wheel of Worlds by Ian Edginton & I.N.J. Culbard
16. The Last Capitalist by Steve Cullen

 

[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
22/40 Lean On Pete - Willy Vlautin
23/40 Harald, Claudia, And Their Son Duncan - Nadine Gordimer
24/40 A Single Man - Christopher Isherwood
25/40 The Discovery Of Heaven - Harry Mulisch
26/40 Siegfried's Murder (The Nibelungenlied) - Unknown
27/40 A Whole Life - Robert Seethaler

 

[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
17. Sally Rooney - Normal People
18. Olivia Laing - Crudo
19. Dan Hancox - Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

 

[ringo]

19. Dan Hancox - Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

Any good? I see from Amazon he did a similar one focussing on Dizzee Rascal in 2013.