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

[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
51. Mythos - Stephen Fry
52. When Gravity Fails - George Alec Effinger

 

[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

61/65 - P.D. James - Cover her Face

 

[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
17/25 - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner - bought for my daughter, but she wasn't keen - so I read it myself. Very enjoyable!

 

[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

*******
54/76 Inside Story : Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit - Philip Webster

 

[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

34/40 Erich Wollenberg - The Red Army
35/40 Primo Levi - Moments of Reprieve

 

[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
61/65 - P.D. James - Cover her Face

62/65 - Ian McEwan - Black Dogs

 

[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
14/10 - Gray Mountain by John Grisham

 

[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
18/19 - Danny Baker - Going off Alarming

19/19 - Roger Huddle, Red Saunders - Reminiscences of RAR - I love the subject and movement, but there are over 60 contributors all giving their own version of the same small window of events , so it is repetitive, and that resulted in me taking much longer to read it as I kept putting it down....but I enjoyed much of it, and glad I endure with it.

So that's my target achieved....after couple of (3) years of not reading books because I had got myself in a bad place being upset by my failing eyesight, I returned to books and have really enjoyed them. I didn't tax myself too much (as you will see from my list) because I really want to just get back in the habit and feel confident reading again, and get beyond that panic and fear that comes with our aged diminishing faculties.

I'll keep adding....but I got there...so I am very happy with that.

 

[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
34/40 Erich Wollenberg - The Red Army
35/40 Primo Levi - Moments of Reprieve

36/40 Christopher Hitchens - God is not Great
37/40 Alexander Cockburn - Whiteout - Really good roundup of the CIA's involvement in the drug trade and associated terrorism

 

[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
16/30 The Diary Of A Bookseller - Shaun Bythell

Part lament for the slow Amazon-induced death of the book industry, part vehicle for Bythell's fantastically withering assessments of his customers. Really funny. One for anyone that's ever worked with the public. Genuinely laugh out loud funny at times.

 

[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
61/65 - P.D. James - Cover Her Face
62/65 - Ian McEwan - Black Dogs

63/65 - Ruth Rendell - Going Wrong

 

[kropotkin]

34/40 Erich Wollenberg - The Red Army

Is this worth reading? A quick look on Marxists.org suggests it will be very pro-Trotsky. Is it, or is it even handed?

 

[nogojones]

Is this worth reading? A quick look on Marxists.org suggests it will be very pro-Trotsky. Is it, or is it even handed?

It's OK. It feels more of a military history than a political history - sort of which general covered which front.

Yes, its pro Trotsky in so much that its anti-Stalin and that Trotsky played such a leading role in the formation of the Red Army and victory in the Civil war and it was written at a time when Stalin was trying to say that Trotsky was anti revoultion and in the pockets of western imperalists and during all the show trials. So it was just putting history straight in that and maybe labouring on some of the big fuck ups Stalin was involved with in the civil war.

I don't think Wollenberg was a robo-trot in any way and had some big disagreements with Trotsky over the class nature of the USSR.

I found it good in the history of political commissars role, the use of old tzarist officers and the use of terror to keep them in line and also the invasion of Poland which was best described as misjudged (and to Trotskys credit on this one, he was the only leading figure to council against it)

Personally I'd have liked to see a bit more about the Red Army's role in Ukraine and how they worked with and against the Makhnovists, but all in all not a bad introduction to the civil war period and the chalenges the revolution faced

 

[kropotkin]

Thanks. I'll add it to the list.

 

[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
20. Cormac McCarthy - The Crossing

 

[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

39/30 Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time vol 1)

 

[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

39/50 Hugh Brogan - The Penguin History of the USA
40/50 Kory Stamper - Word by Word

Terrible reading fail since early September, mainly because 39 took so damned long (partly because of the small point size). I also feel I need to reread Howard Zinn as a palate cleanser after all the White Men Achieving Important Stuff.

 

[butchersapron]

61 - The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles/Pagan Britain - Ronald Hutton (the latter is a much expanded and revised version of the former so i'll count it as one).
62 - Heidegger and the Ideology of War: Community, Death and the West - Domenico Lusordo
63 - Sacrifice: My Life in a Fascist Militia - Alessandro Orsini
64 - Memoirs of an Italian Terrorist - Giorgio
65 - Revolution In The Air: Sixties Radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che - Max Elbaum (quick re-read as it's just been re-published and i think is going to be part of a lot of discussions over next few months)

 

[PursuedByBears]

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

39/50 Hugh Brogan - The Penguin History of the USA
40/50 Kory Stamper - Word by Word

Terrible reading fail since early September, mainly because 39 took so damned long (partly because of the small point size). I also feel I need to reread Howard Zinn as a palate cleanser after all the White Men Achieving Important Stuff.

I got stuck halfway through the Hugh Brogan book, really need to try it again.

 

[billy_bob]

I got stuck halfway through the Hugh Brogan book, really need to try it again.

It's a good book of it's kind and I learnt plenty from it. But I have very little tolerance for war history that goes 'and then General Whatnot did this, and then Colonel Thingy moved X thousand troops over here, and then back over there again, and then the Secretary for Self-Important Pronouncements issued the following document, number 37d (subsection 425) from which I will now quote at stupifying length, and then....' - so there were some large chunks of it that I found it very hard to get through.

 

[D'wards]

Does Lord of the Rings count as one or three books?

 

[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
40/50 The Stranger Upstairs, Melanie Raabe
41/50 The Chronicles of Narmo, Caitlin Moran

 

[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
31/26 - Rude Kids: The Viz Story by Chris Donald

 

[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
17/25 - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen - Alan Garner
18/25 - The Moon of Gomrath - Alan Garner

 

[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

28/30 Francis Wheen - Karl Marx

 

[billy_bob]

41/50 Yevgeny Zamyatin - We

This crops up most years in someone's list (kropotkin this year). I can't believe I've never got round to it before: knew of it as an influence on 1984, but I hadn't quite realised just how indebted to it Orwell was. And I think it might be better than its more famous offspring, too.

 

[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
11/12 - Fault Lines - Laura Taylor
12/12 - Happy Days - Jason Williamson

 

[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
39/30 Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time vol 1)

40/30 Larry McMurtry - The Last Picture Show

 

[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
54/76 Inside Story : Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit - Philip Webster

********
55/76 Firefly - Henry Porter.

 

[kropotkin]

41/50 Yevgeny Zamyatin - We

This crops up most years in someone's list (kropotkin this year). I can't believe I've never got round to it before: knew of it as an influence on 1984, but I hadn't quite realised just how indebted to it Orwell was. And I think it might be better than its more famous offspring, too.

It was quite a suprise to me too!
Glad you enjoyed it. I've found lots of great books through this thread over the years.