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

[butchersapron]

71 - Alt-Right: From 4chan to the White House - Mike Wendling
72 - The Marxists and the Jewish Question: The History of Debate 1843-1943 - Enzo Traverso (re-read of an expanded and updated version in the Historical Materialism series)
73 - How the World Swung to the Right: Fifty Years of Counterrevolutions - François Cusset
74 - In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism: The San Francisco Lectures - John Holloway
75 - Heidegger and the Jews: The Black Notebooks - Donatella Di Cesare (best book i've read this year so far)

 

[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
32/26 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33/26 - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

 

[gawkrodger]

53 - Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America - Kathleen Belew

I found her Jacobin The Dig podcast episode pretty interesting. Book decent?

 

[gawkrodger]

Been really poor with reading as been so busy with work

1) Wolff - Fire and Fury
2) Feigenbaum - Tear Gas - pleasently surprised. Very much enjoyed
3) Mark Fisher - The Weird and the Eerie
4) Kilcullen - Blood Year: Islamic State and the failures of the war on terror
5) JG Ballard - The Drowned World
6) Geoff Manaugh - A Burglar's Guide to the City
7) Graham - Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers - Really excellent. His Cities under Siege book is probably the best thing I've read on the 'militarisation' of cities. This is as good. He also has the comedy distinction of being arreseted vandalising cars with polite graffiti whilst in his pants
Jesmond professor Stephen Graham shamed by conviction
8) Lefebvre - Rhythmanalysis (re-read)
9) Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
10) Zizek - First as tragedy, then as farce
11) Deutsch/Kuhn - Antifascism, Sports, Sobriety: Forging a militant working-class culture: Selected writings by Julius Deutsch
12) Dyer-Witheford - Cyber-Proletariat - this is really excellent. Will have to go back and re-read CyberMarx I enjoyed this so much. Chapter 2 has some of the best short explanation of key marxist ideas I think I've ever read
13) Hobsbawm & Rudé - Captain Swing
14) Bradley L. Garrett - Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City - Really enjoyable book about urbex. Tempts me to go clambering into empty buildings again
15) Kristin Ross - Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune - really highlighted how comparitevly little I know of the Paris Commune. Must read some more around it
16) Lefebvre - Marxist Thought and the City - one for Lefebvre completists only
17) Mailer - The Fight - with the exception of a few dodgy passages, hugely enjoyed this
18) Mieville - This Census-Taker - brilliant
19) Calvino - Invisible Cities - nb: I haven't actually quite finished this. I have about 20 pages left but I have put it down somewhere and can't find where I've put it!
20) Michael Roberts- The Long Depression
21) Mieville - Un Lun Dun
22) Davis - Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory
23) Frank Herbert - Dune
24) JG Ballard - Concrete Island
25) Achebe - Things Fall Apart
26) Easterling - Extrastatecraft: The power of infrastructure space
27) Herbert - Dune: Messiah
28) Haider - Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the age of Trump - excellent
29) Herbert - Children of Dune
30) Neel - Hinterland: America's new landscape of class and conflict

 

[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
29/30 Benjamin Zephaniah - The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
30/30 Jean Baudrillard - Simulations
31/30 Walter Southgate - That's The Way It Was: A working class autobiography 1890-1950

32/30 Ida Mett - The Kronstadt Uprising

 

[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

17. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett (reread)
18. Mort by Terry Pratchett (reread)
19. The Peripheral by William Gibson

 

[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
42/50 Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan
43/50 Who is Tom Ditto, Danny Wallace
44/50 The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
45/50 Cross my Heart and Hope to Die, Claire Calman
46/50 PS From Paris, Marc Levy
47/50 The Price of Everything, Giles Ward

 

[ManchesterBeth]

1/20 söner çağaptay The New Sultan: Erdogan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey. (total waste of time.)
2/20 Orhan Pamuk - A strangeness in my mind.
3/20 Daphne Du Maurior - Rebecca.
4/20 Zadie Smith - White Teath.
5/20 Stuart Hall and Bell Hooks - Uncut funk a contemplative dialogue.
6/20 Raphael Schlembach - Against old Europe: Critical Theory and Alter Globalization movements.
7/20 Leila Aboulella - the kindness of enemies. liked the historical backdrop to the novel but the time jump to 2010 was really new agey sufi shite.
8/20 Communist Workers Organisation/Onorato Damen - Bordiga Beyond the myth.
9/20 Nawal El-Sadawwi - Woman at Point Zero.

Really need to sort my game out. 11 books in a month. not sure if i can do it.


Up next is Tamir Bar-on - Where have all the fascists gone?

 

[Signal 11]

8/10 - Capital vol. 3 - Karl Marx

 

[billy_bob]

42/50 Henry Marsh - Admissions
43/50 Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13

 

[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
41/30 Marlon James - John Crow's Devil
42/30 Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
43/30 JRR Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring

44/30 Henry David Thoreau - Walden or Life in the Woods

 

[ManchesterBeth]

10/20 Philip K Dick - Ubik (quick re-read as it got mentioned on another forum re psychedelia and avant-garde.)

 

[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
38/40 George Orwell - Collected Essays, Journalism and letters of Vol.1: An Age Like This. 1920-40
39/40 George Orwell - Inside the Whale
40/40 - Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood (re-read)
41/40 - Helios Prieto - Chile: The Gorillas are Amongst Us
42/40 - Graham Greene - The Power and The Glory
43/40 - George Orwell - The Lion & The Unicorn
44/40 - Tore Petersen - The Military Conquest of the Prairie

45/40 - Iain M. Banks - Against a Dark Background
46/40 - Paul Avrich - Kronsadt

 

[ManchesterBeth]

Up next is Tamir Bar-on - Where have all the fascists gone?

book is here

Few brief Excerpts:

Stressing the ENR’s heterogeneity, Pierre-Andreé Taguieff has listed three ideological traditions within GRECE (i.e., traditional counter-revolutionaries, Europeanist conservative revolutionaries and neo-conservatives of a neo-liberal orientation), each of which, in turn, are divided into “schools of thought” or intellectual orientations, and four doctrinal phases taking the organization from a focus on “difference” between races in the 1960s to biology in the 1970s, and finally culture in the 1980s and 1990s (Taguieff 1993-4a, 99-125). However, two recurring ENR themes, metapolitical struggle and the idea that cultural “difference” enhances the richness, diversity and beauty of the world, continue to structure the ENR’s worldview in the new millennium. In fact, these two ENR constants are inextricably linked because, as the ENR contends, cultural metapolitics acts as the principal form of political action in order to displace liberal democracy and restore cultural diversity and pluralism to the world.

.The ENR’s stance in the post-communist era was to support all sorts of pro-Third World and anti-American alliances, including flirtations with Islamic traditionalists and the Russian New Right. In 2006, de Benoist gave two interviews to Radio Tehran in Iran, an Islamic republic that challenged the United States, the West and Israel by seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. In 2005, de Benoist insisted that what key political authorities in Washington feared most was a Paris-Berlin-Moscow alliance. For the ENR, the ultimate goal of these informal alliances was to restore plurality to world politics through reviving a plethora of world cultural communities adamantly opposed to liberal capitalism and the United States.

In a similar vein, Michael Walker, the editor of the English ENR journal The Scorpion, made this scathing indictment of the Old Right:

The baggage of the old right, were it the nationalist right, the Nazi right, the Christian right, the imperialist right, the liberal right, with its simplistic slick solutions to the issues of the day, left young people profoundly unsatisfied. The far right, shrill, monotonous and wholly predictable was an insult to the intelligence. (Walker 1986b, 8)

The “open” nature of liberal democratic societies, argued de Benoist, would even lead to the system’s self-inflicted demise. This openness makes liberal democratic societies especially vulnerable to the process of transforming mentalities in which the ENR specialized. In an “open,” liberal and pluralist order, even the subversive counter-hegemonic ideology of the ENR cannot be eliminated since the system runs the risk of becoming tyrannical and contradicting its most sacred principles of free expression. The problem is that this pluralism of liberal democracies, claims de Benoist, is beneficial only when there is consensus of the majority of the masses. However, liberal democratic societies create a weak consensus because of the pluralism of political actors, institutions and values and the liberty of intellectuals to exercise their critical function. Thus, de Benoist argued that liberal democratic societies are highly vulnerable to a metapolitical project founded on a cohesive, alternative view of the world. The ENR’s ultimate hope was for the gradual erosion of the social consensus and subsequent demand for new elites and intellectuals to fill the vacuum with a new sensibility and social order. For the ENR, it was only through the attainment of cultural power that they would achieve the reversal of the dominant, liberal-left ideological majority. GRECE and other ENR think tanks saw themselves as the new Leninist intellectual vanguard, but now the “war” was conducted on the cultural and mental landscapes rather than the physical battlefront with revolutionary soldiers.

Note the emphasis on culture as a substitution of both classic blood and soil racism and biological justifications. the racism still remains but they can champion themselves as upholders of difference. Right wing anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism.

 

[iona]

Also, not technically within the remit of the thread but another reading goal is to read at least one article from my "to read" bookmarks each month.

January: Some Thoughts on Language in Science Fiction - David I. Masson

February: How to Build a Better Future Through Sci-Fi

March: LRB · Jackson Lears · What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Russian Hacking: #Russiagate

November: Highway of riches, road to ruin: Inside the Amazon's deforestation crisis

Got a bit of backdated reading to do to catch up

 

[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
29/30 Benjamin Zephaniah - The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah
30/30 Jean Baudrillard - Simulations
31/30 Walter Southgate - That's The Way It Was: A working class autobiography 1890-1950
32/30 Ida Mett - The Kronstadt Uprising

33/30 Bob Darke - The Communist Technique in Britain

A pretty good "dear John" letter to the CP by a Hackney bus conductor in the 1950s.

 

[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
41/30 Marlon James - John Crow's Devil
42/30 Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
43/30 JRR Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring
44/30 Henry David Thoreau - Walden or Life in the Woods

45/30 Seamus Heaney - Beowulf

 

[imposs1904]

33/30 Bob Darke - The Communist Technique in Britain

A pretty good "dear John" letter to the CP by a Hackney bus conductor in the 1950s.

The other "dear John" letter to the CP from that era is Douglas Hyde's 'I Believed'. I'm guessing both books sold in their tens of thousands because I remember always seeing both books in secondhand bookshops in the 1980s and 1990s.

 

[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
32/26 - One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33/26 - The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
34/26 - The Prison Diaries 2: Purgatory by Jeffery Archer

 

[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.
56/76 The Hermitage - LJ Ross
57/76 Hombre- Elmore Leonard
58/76 Fire and Blood : The European Civil War 1914-1945 - Enzo Traverso

*****

59/76 Miami Requiem - J B Turner

 

[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
42/50 Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan
43/50 Who is Tom Ditto, Danny Wallace
44/50 The Buried Giant, Kazuo Ishiguro
45/50 Cross my Heart and Hope to Die, Claire Calman
46/50 PS From Paris, Marc Levy
47/50 The Price of Everything, Giles Ward
48/50 Normal People, Sally Rooney

I really enjoyed these last two.

 

[SpookyFrank]

1/40 Mark Greif - Against Everything
2/40 Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon
3/40 Michele Wallace - Invisibility Blues
4/40 Connie Willis - Blackout
5/40 Kathleen Taylor - Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control
6/40 Margaret Atwood - Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
7/40 Usrula K le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea
8/40 Naomi Alderman - The Power
9/40 R. D. Laing - The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise
10/40 Rebecca Solnit - Wanderlust: A History of Walking
11/40 William Gibson - Pattern Recognition
12/40 Barbara & Karen Fields - Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
13/40 Laura James - Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neuroptypical World
14/40 Erik Hazan - First Measures of the Coming Insurrection
15/40 William Gibson - Spook Country
16/40 Carl Sagan - The Demon-Haunted World
17/40 Becky Chambers - A Closed and Common Orbit
18/40 Rebecca Solnit - The Mother of all Questions
19/40 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day
20/40 Shulamith Firestone - The Dialectic of Sex
21/40 Arundhati Roy - Capitalism: A Ghost Story
22/40 Eka Kurniawan - Man Tiger
23/40 Carol Hebald - The Heart Too Long Suppressed
24/40 Rachel Armstrong - Origamy
25/40 Stephen Jay Gould - Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
26/40 Iain M Banks - The Player of Games
27/40 Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself
28/40 Marianne Fritz - The Weight of Things
29/40 Jonathon Gornall - How to Build a Boat
30/40 Joe Abercrombie - Before They Are Hanged
31/40 Kathleen Taylor - The Brain Supremacy: Notes From the Frontiers of Neuroscience
32/40 Joe Abercrombie - The Last Argument of Kings

33/40 Nancy McLean - Democracy in Chains
34/40 Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin

 

[Smokeandsteam]

1/39 High/Perchard (Eds) - The Deindustrialized World
2/39 Jameson, Fredric - Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism
3/39 Gest, Justin - The new minority: White working class poliics in an age of immigration and inequality
4/39 Hall, David - Working Lives: the forgotten voices of Britain's post war working class
5/39 Katznelson, Ira - City Trenches: Urban politics and the patterning of class in the US
6/39 Goodhart, David - The Road to Somewhere: the New Tribes Shaping British Politics
7/39 Dudley, Kathryn - The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America
8/39 Spencer, K (& others) - Crisis in the Industrial Heartland: A Study of the West Midlands
9/39 Hall, Stuart - Cultural Representations and Signifying Practises (Culture, Media and Identity)
10/39 Strangleman, Tim - Work and Society: Sociological Approaches, Themes and Methods
11/39 Cowie, Jefferson - Capital Moves: RCA's 70 Year Quest for Cheap Labor
12/39 -Jobson, Richard - Nostalgia and the Post War Labour Party: Prisoners of the Past
13/39 Black/Pemberton/Thane (eds) - Reassessing 1970’s Britain
14/39 May, Todd -The Moral Theory of Poststructuralism
15/39 Morley, Paul - The North
16/39 High, Steven - Industrial Sunset
17/39 Hill, Archie - A Cage of Shadows
18/39 Boltanski/Chiapello - The New Spirit of Capitalism
19/39 Portelli, Alessandro - They Say in Harlan County
20/39 Portelli, Alessandro - The Battle of Valle Giulia
21/39 Clarke/Critcher/Johnson (eds) - Working Class Culture: Studies in History and Theory
22/39 Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies - Making Histories: Studies in History Writing and Politics
23/39 Hobsbawm, Eric - The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848
24/39 Fielding, Stephen - The Labour Governments 1964-1970: Labour and Cultural Change
25/39 Maconie, Stuart - Long March from Jarrow: A Journey through Britain Now and Then
26/39 Scott, Joan - Gender and the Politics of History
27/39 - Lasch, Christopher - The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
28/39 - Standing, Guy - The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
29/39 - Priestley, John, B - English Journeys
30/39 Dennis/Henriques/ - Coal is our life: Analysis of a Yorkshire Mining Community
31/39 Varoufakis, Y - Adults in the Room: My Battles with Europe’s Deep Establishment
32/39 Polanyi, Karl - The Great Transformation
33/39 Smith, E., & Worley, M., - Waiting for the Revolution: The British Far Left from 1956
34/39 Various - The Book of Birmingham
35/39 Williams, R., - Towards 2000
36/39 Williams, R., - Culture and Marxism
37/39 Linkon, S., - The Half Life of Deindustrialisation
38/39 Williams, T., - Nutcase
39/39 Hanley, S., & Piekaraki - The Big Midweek: Life Inside The Fall
40/39 - Bonnett, A., - Left in the Past: Radicalism and the Poltics of Nostalgia
41/39 - The Subculture Network - Youth Culture and Social Change: Making a Difference by Making a Noise
42/39 - Thompson, P., - The Voice of the Past

 

[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.
56/76 The Hermitage - LJ Ross
57/76 Hombre- Elmore Leonard
58/76 Fire and Blood : The European Civil War 1914-1945 - Enzo Traverso
59/76 Miami Requiem - J B Turner

*****
60/76 The Watchman - Robert Crais

 

[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
64/65 - Elizabeth Strout - Abide With Me
65/65 - Robert Galbraith - Lethal White (10/10)
66/65 - Jennifer Mathieu - Moxie

67/65 - The Stand - Stephen King (11/10)

 

[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
39/30 Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time vol 1)
40/30 Larry McMurtry - The Last Picture Show
41/30 Marlon James - John Crow's Devil
42/30 Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
43/30 JRR Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring
44/30 Henry David Thoreau - Walden or Life in the Woods
45/30 Seamus Heaney - Beowulf

46/30 Robert Jordan - New Spring

 

[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.
56/76 The Hermitage - LJ Ross
57/76 Hombre- Elmore Leonard
58/76 Fire and Blood : The European Civil War 1914-1945 - Enzo Traverso
59/76 Miami Requiem - J B Turner
60/76 The Watchman - Robert Crais

**********

61/76 Caught - Harlan Coben
,

 

[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
41/30 Marlon James - John Crow's Devil
42/30 Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
43/30 JRR Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring
44/30 Henry David Thoreau - Walden or Life in the Woods
45/30 Seamus Heaney - Beowulf
46/30 Robert Jordan - New Spring

47/30 Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator

 

[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
22/20 The Best Man to Die - Ruth Rendell
23/20 Tree of Hands - Ruth Rendell
24/20 Master of the Moor - Ruth Rendell
25/ . The Bridesmaid - Ruth Rendell
26/ The House We Grew Up In Lisa Jewell

 

[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
38/40 George Orwell - Collected Essays, Journalism and letters of Vol.1: An Age Like This. 1920-40
39/40 George Orwell - Inside the Whale
40/40 - Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood (re-read)
41/40 - Helios Prieto - Chile: The Gorillas are Amongst Us
42/40 - Graham Greene - The Power and The Glory
43/40 - George Orwell - The Lion & The Unicorn
44/40 - Tore Petersen - The Military Conquest of the Prairie
45/40 - Iain M. Banks - Against a Dark Background
46/40 - Paul Avrich - Kronsadt

47/40 - William Burroughs - The Soft Machine
48/40 - Sally Rooney - Normal People - I guess I must have seen it recomended on here somewhere, but yeah, really good book