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

[Threshers_Flail]

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

I liked it. Think it covered the hyper localism of the early days well and how DIY and wide-eyed the whole thing was. Also good on Form 696 and police suppression of the genre which is definitely something that people should be more aware of. One critique is that you can clearly tell that Dan is a massive fan of Grime and a champion of the genre itself, maybe could have done with being a bit more distant and critical. Could be me just being too harsh as usual though!

 

[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
15/25 - Neon Rain - James Lee Burke

 

[butchersapron]

56 - Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic - Nevill Drury
57 - Identity and Capitalism : A Cultural-Materialist History - Marie Moran
58 - Heidegger's Crisis. Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany - Hans Sluga
59 - Karl Polanyi in Dialogue: A Socialist Thinker for our Times - Michael Brie/Nancy Fraser/Polanyi
60 - Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women – Silvia Federici

 

[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
14/19 - Charlie Brooker - I Can Make You Hate
15/19 - Steve Jones - Lonely Boy
16/19 - Danny Baker - Going to Sea in a Sieve

17/19 - Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - damning, inciteful, insightful, straightforward; an important book everyone should read
18/19 - Danny Baker - Going off Alarming - not quite as charming or funny as his first, but still plenty of joyful tales to make me chuckle on the train to work

 

[ringo]

I liked it. Think it covered the hyper localism of the early days well and how DIY and wide-eyed the whole thing was. Also good on Form 696 and police suppression of the genre which is definitely something that people should be more aware of. One critique is that you can clearly tell that Dan is a massive fan of Grime and a champion of the genre itself, maybe could have done with being a bit more distant and critical. Could be me just being too harsh as usual though!

Not sure I've ever read a book on a music genre that wasn't written by a massive fan. Artists maybe, not a genre. Still a decent point though, because objectivity is lost, even if replaced by enthusiasm.

 

[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
28/40 Blood Relatives - Stevan Alcock

Great read - coming of age story of a teenager in Leeds in 1977 during the search for the Yorkshire Ripper and coming to terms with being gay, punk and skint in Thatcher's Britain.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Not sure I've ever read a book on a music genre that wasn't written by a massive fan. Artists maybe, not a genre. Still a decent point though, because objectivity is lost, even if replaced by enthusiasm.

Yeah I know he just seemed a bit too in awe of the bigger names at times, didn't take any enjoyment away from the book just wore a bit thin, especially when trying to justify Bonkers/Holiday era Dizzee. Defo worth a read though!

 

[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
26/30 Viv Albertine - To Throw Away Unopened

27/30 Anandi Ramamurthy - Black Star: Britain's Asian Youth Movements

 

[butchersapron]

27/30 Anandi Ramamurthy - Black Star: Britain's Asian Youth Movements

I copied whole chunks out of that to quote. Interesting that the rarely remarked on stalinist underpinnings of a lot of the early stuff isn't avoided.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I copied whole chunks out of that to quote. Interesting that the rarely remarked on stalinist underpinnings of a lot of the early stuff isn't avoided.

Yeah I really liked it - very good on the shift towards national and religious identities in the 1990s.

A posh lawyer round here endeared herself to me when she revealed that she'd studied law after getting involved with the Bradford 12 campaign as a youth...

 

[butchersapron]

Yeah I really liked it - very good on the shift towards national and religious identities in the 1990s.

A posh lawyer round here endeared herself to me when she revealed that she'd studied law after getting involved with the Bradford 12 campaign as a youth...

Yes, there's all sorts of interesting paths leading off from that.

 

[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
29/26 - The Good Life by Martina Cole

 

[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

14/30 The Classic Horror Stories - HP Lovecraft

Never read any Lovecraft before so was looking forward to this. All yer Cthulhu mythos faves in this one so lots of ‘nameless loathsomeness from beyond that my mind shrinks to conceive!’ and so on. I liked all that bit but then he gets on to race and oh shit this is difficult to read. So mixed feelings at best in the end. Call of Cthulhu was great though and I liked seeing how he'd obviously influenced Stephen King, 'The Thing,' etc.

 

[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)

59/65 - Minette Walters - The Dark Room

 

[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
15/25 - Neon Rain - James Lee Burke
16/25 - Feral - George Monbiot

 

[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
35/50 Before You Go, Claire Swatman
36/50 Closed Doors, Lisa O'Donnell
37/50 Friends Like These, Sarah Alderson

 

[petee]

7: sciascia, the moro affair

8: haider, mistaken identity
9: mourad, the mosaic of islam

 

[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.
27/25. Pot-Bouille - Émile Zola.

 

[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
49. Axiomatic - Greg Egan
50. Sand- Hugh Howey

 

[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
9/12 - Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher - Richard Feynman
10/12 - The Flame Bearer - Bernard Cornwell

Never read any Lovecraft before so was looking forward to this. All yer Cthulhu mythos faves in this one so lots of ‘nameless loathsomeness from beyond that my mind shrinks to conceive!’ and so on. I liked all that bit but then he gets on to race and oh shit this is difficult to read. So mixed feelings at best in the end. Call of Cthulhu was great though and I liked seeing how he'd obviously influenced Stephen King, 'The Thing,' etc.

Yep, great horror writer but some of his views are very I seem to remember his views on women being a bit too

 

[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
28/40 Blood Relatives - Stevan Alcock
29/40 Tsotsi - Athol Fugard

 

[kropotkin]

9/12 - Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher - Richard Feynman

How was this? I love Feynman, but have never got round to reading it

 

[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)
59/65 - Minette Walters - The Dark Room

60/65 - Donald Ray Pollock - The Devil All The Time

 

[neonwilderness]

How was this? I love Feynman, but have never got round to reading it

Pretty good if you are interested in Feynman/physics. I had to re-read a few bits to fully understand it, but it's not a difficult read.

I might give Six Not-So-Easy Pieces a go at some point.

 

[kropotkin]

Cheers. I've forgotten most of the physics I knew. I did a Masters in theoretical physics 15 years ago and have forgotten everything. I have a memory of a-level physics only!

 

[neonwilderness]

Cheers. I've forgotten most of the physics I knew. I did a Masters in theoretical physics 15 years ago and have forgotten everything. I have a memory of a-level physics only!

You probably know more than me then and I found it easy enough to follow

My knowledge is mainly school stuff with a bit of the maths side at A level and a bit of reading round the subject.

 

[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
14/30 The Classic Horror Stories - HP Lovecraft
15/30 Get Some Chalk On Your Boots! The Sounding Cultures Of Football - ed Paul Whitty

A fella I know has a chapter in this; an anthology about the sound of football. If an in-depth discussion of the first time 'Man On!' was shouted to a passionate Italian Ultra's views on how stadium construction should amplify chanting and expression is your thing, this book's for you. Fairly niche, obviously, but I thought it was great. Four lines of a poem devoted to the sound a goal net makes when its being put up and taken down? Oh yes. Contains this glorious sentence: "The home fans were simply chanting 'Fuck Off." Recommended. There was an exhibition that accompanied it that I'd like to have attended.

 

[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
29/26 - The Good Life by Martina Cole
30/26 - The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum

 

[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.

*******
53/76 Enemy of the State - Kyle Mills

 

[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
35/50 Before You Go, Claire Swatman
36/50 Closed Doors, Lisa O'Donnell
37/50 Friends Like These, Sarah Alderson
38/50 Gwendy's Button Box, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
39/50 Nina is Not OK, Shappi Khorsandi
Excellent book this.