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

[Me76]

1/50 Naturally Gifted, Lisa M Hawkins
2/50 Cold Lake, Jeff Carson
3/50 Twilight, Stephenie Meyer
4/50 Someone to Save You, Paul Pilkington
5/50 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
6/50 The Godfather, Mario Puzo
7/50 Freedom, Jonathan Franzen
8/50 Lost and Found, Amy Shojai
9/50 The Wall, Jen Minkman
10/50 Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11/50 Crimes Against a Book Club, Kathy Cooperman
12/50 Lessons for a Sunday Father, Claire Calman
13/50 The Disappearance, Annabel Kantaria
14/50 The Wave at Hanging Rock, Gregg Dunnett
15/50 Friend Request, Laura Marshall
16/50 PS I Love You, Cecila Ahern
17/50 Whatever Love Means, David Baddiel
18/50 Peekaboo, I See You, Willow Rose
19/50 Bed, David Whitehouse
20/50 The Outsider, Stephen King
21/50 Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking
22/50 Moxie, Jennifer Mathieu
23/50 The Breakdown, BA Paris
24/50 Jump, Jilly Cooper
25/50 The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters
26/50 Scream for Me, Karen Rose
27/50 The Keeper of Lost Things, Ruth Hogan
28/50 The Improbability of Love, Hannah Rothschild
29/50 I Like it Like That, Claire Calman
30/50 Don't Tell Meg, Paul Teague
31/50 Finding Audrey, Sophie Kinsella
32/50 The Cull - Bloodline, Eric J Gates
33/50 When Good Friends Go Bad, Ellie Campbell
34/50 The Good Samaritan, John Marrs
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

49/50 The Mandibles, Lionel Shriver - really enjoyed this one.

I have one other book I have almost finished so I should make my target this year, which surprises me, as I've been working compressed hours and have my lunchtime reading time halved.

Quite chuffed really.

 

[Ptolemy]

1/25. L'Assommoir - Émile Zola.
2/25. La Bête humaine - Émile Zola.
3/25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.
4/25. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.
5/25. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë.
6/25. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (re-read).
7/25. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli.
8/25. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie - Jean Rhys.
9/25. Days of Hope - Jim Allen.
10/25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
11/25. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville.
12/25. The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Gaskell.
13/25. Military Marxist Regimes in Africa - John Markakis & Michael Waller.
14/25. Beyond the Welfare State? - Christopher Pierson.
15/25. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
16/25. Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys.
17/25. Livingstone's Labour - Ken Livingstone.
18/25. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank.
19/25. The Epic of Gilgamesh - N.K. Sandars (translation).
20/25. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1892 Edition) - Friedrich Engels.
21/25. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels.
22/25. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon - Karl Marx.
23/25. Eleanor Marx: A Life - Rachel Holmes.
24/25. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
25/25. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol.
26/25. Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward.
27/25. Pot-Bouille - Émile Zola.
28/25. The Fortune of the Rougons - Émile Zola.
29/25. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (re-read).
30/25. The Little Sister - Raymond Chandler.
31/25. News from Nowhere - William Morris.

 

[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
35/26 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

 

[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
49/50 The Mandibles, Lionel Shriver

50/50 The Empire Girls, Sue Wilsher - target met. This is a book that's written by the wife of one of my colleagues. I've read another one of hers before They're alright.

 

[May Kasahara]

1. Tim Ecott - Neutral Buoyancy
2. Susan Cooper - The Dark Is Rising
3. Naoki Higashida - The Reason I Jump
4. Jon Ronson - The Men Who Stare At Goats
5. Sarah Perry - After Me Comes The Flood
6. Joss Whedon and lots of others - Buffy the Vampire Slayer S8 omnibus vol.1
7. Sarah Hendrickx - Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder
8. Ellipsis vol.1 (flash fiction lit mag)
9. Clare Bailey and Michael Mosley - The 8 Week Blood Sugar Diet
10. Rupert Thomson - This Party's Got To Stop
11. Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
12. Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem
13. Cixin Liu - The Dark Forest
14. Joel Dicker - The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
15. Elly Griffiths - The Dark Angel
16. Paul Cree - The Suburban
17. Simon Kernick - The Bone Field
18. Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (reread)
19. Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (reread)
20. Cixin Liu - The Wandering Earth

21. Emma Donoghue - The Wonder. Excellent close-focus study of tightly wound people under duress. Her writing is always satisfying.

 

[Ptolemy]

1/25. L'Assommoir - Émile Zola.
2/25. La Bête humaine - Émile Zola.
3/25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.
4/25. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.
5/25. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë.
6/25. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (re-read).
7/25. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli.
8/25. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie - Jean Rhys.
9/25. Days of Hope - Jim Allen.
10/25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
11/25. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville.
12/25. The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Gaskell.
13/25. Military Marxist Regimes in Africa - John Markakis & Michael Waller.
14/25. Beyond the Welfare State? - Christopher Pierson.
15/25. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
16/25. Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys.
17/25. Livingstone's Labour - Ken Livingstone.
18/25. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank.
19/25. The Epic of Gilgamesh - N.K. Sandars (translation).
20/25. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1892 Edition) - Friedrich Engels.
21/25. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels.
22/25. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon - Karl Marx.
23/25. Eleanor Marx: A Life - Rachel Holmes.
24/25. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
25/25. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol.
26/25. Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward.
27/25. Pot-Bouille - Émile Zola.
28/25. The Fortune of the Rougons - Émile Zola.
29/25. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (re-read).
30/25. The Little Sister - Raymond Chandler.
31/25. News from Nowhere - William Morris.
32/25. Michael Foot - Mervyn Jones.

A biography of the late Labour leader going up to 1993. Quite interesting.

 

[gawkrodger]

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
31) C.L.R. James - The Black Jacobins - Why have I only read this now. It's brilliant
32) Mark Fisher - Ghosts of my Life
33) Sukhdev Sandhu - Night Haunts: A journey through the London night - to be honest, a bit meh
34) Badiou - Philosophy for Militants

 

[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)
68/65 - P.D. James - A Mind to Murder

69/65 - John Irving - The Fourth Hand

 

[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
53.The Red Army - Erich Wollenberg
54. The Midwich Cukoos - John Wyndham
55. Thin Air - Richard K. Morgan
56. The Stone Sky - N. K. Jemesin
59. Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement - Ralf Hoffrogge
60. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 - Orlando Figes
61. This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay
62. Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton
63. Essays in love - Allain de Botton
64. The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris

 

[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
49/40 - Ursula LeGuin - The Lathe of Heaven
50/40 - Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine - Last Chance to See
51/40 - Heather Dunphey - The Secret Language of Cats: The Body Language of Feline Bodies
52/40 - Margret Atwood - The Handmaids Tale

53/40 - Margret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
54/40 - Silvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch

 

[Pickman's model]

New thread up Have yourself a merry little readmas 2019 reading challenge thread

But for books read until the end of 2018 please continue to use this thread

 

[Ptolemy]

1/25. L'Assommoir - Émile Zola.
2/25. La Bête humaine - Émile Zola.
3/25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.
4/25. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.
5/25. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë.
6/25. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (re-read).
7/25. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli.
8/25. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie - Jean Rhys.
9/25. Days of Hope - Jim Allen.
10/25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
11/25. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville.
12/25. The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Gaskell.
13/25. Military Marxist Regimes in Africa - John Markakis & Michael Waller.
14/25. Beyond the Welfare State? - Christopher Pierson.
15/25. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
16/25. Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys.
17/25. Livingstone's Labour - Ken Livingstone.
18/25. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank.
19/25. The Epic of Gilgamesh - N.K. Sandars (translation).
20/25. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1892 Edition) - Friedrich Engels.
21/25. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels.
22/25. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon - Karl Marx.
23/25. Eleanor Marx: A Life - Rachel Holmes.
24/25. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
25/25. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol.
26/25. Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward.
27/25. Pot-Bouille - Émile Zola.
28/25. The Fortune of the Rougons - Émile Zola.
29/25. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (re-read).
30/25. The Little Sister - Raymond Chandler.
31/25. News from Nowhere - William Morris.
32/25. Michael Foot - Mervyn Jones.
33/25. His Excellency Eugène Rougon - Émile Zola.

 

[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
62/76 Dark Waters - J B Turner
63/76 Longstone - L J Ross

*******
64/76 Stalking The Angel - Robert Crais

 

[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
35/40 Rebecca Solnit - Hope in the Dark
36/40 Ursula le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan

37/40 Tony Judt - Ill Fares the Land
38/40 Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
39/40 Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract
40/40 Ali Smith - Autumn

 

[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

20 - Ben Judah - This is London - Not a happy go lucky read, but very powerful. Very few happy endings to be found among the many subjects whose stories are told throughout.

21 - Robert Sellers - Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O'Toole and Reed - Stupid book, I had to put it down. This just catalogues a load of cunty behaviour by some very talented and toxic men who treated everyone like shit. Not recommended unless you still leaf through old copies of Loaded and feel nostalgic for that sort of crass nonsense.

 

[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
53.The Red Army - Erich Wollenberg
54. The Midwich Cukoos - John Wyndham
55. Thin Air - Richard K. Morgan
56. The Stone Sky - N. K. Jemesin
59. Working-Class Politics in the German Revolution: Richard Müller, the Revolutionary Shop Stewards and the Origins of the Council Movement - Ralf Hoffrogge
60. A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 - Orlando Figes
61. This is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay
62. Salvation - Peter F. Hamilton
63. Essays in love - Allain de Botton
64. The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris
65. Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

 

[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)
68/65 - P.D. James - A Mind to Murder
69/65 - John Irving - The Fourth Hand

70/65 - Various - Murder Under the Christmas Tree

 

[Me76]

Snuck another one in

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
49/50 The Mandibles, Lionel Shriver
50/50 The Empire Girls, Sue Wilsher
51/50 Good Samaritans, Will Carver

 

[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
48/30 Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
49/30 William Blake - Selected Poems (ed. Peter Butter)
50/30 Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach
51/30 Rudyard Kipling - Kim

52/30 M R James - Ghost Stories

and I think that's it for me this year

 

[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
62/76 Dark Waters - J B Turner
63/76 Longstone - L J Ross
64/76 Stalking The Angel - Robert Crais

*****

65/76 Alt Right : From 4chan to the Whitehouse - Mike Wendling

 

[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
35/26 - A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
36/26 - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "The Last 10 Seconds" - Simon Kernick.
2. "Why Did You Lie" - Yrsa Sigurdardottir
3. "The Collini Case" - Ferdinand Von Schirach
4. "Kill the Father" - Sandrone Dazieri
5. "Revenger" - Alastair Reynolds
6. "Touch" - Claire North
7. "The Word is Murder" - Anthony Horowitz
8. "Good News, Bad News" - David Wolstencroft
9. "The Bone Field" - Simon Kernick
10. "Disclaimer - Renee Knight
11. "The Last Days Of Jack Sparks" - Jason Arnopp
12. "A Traitor in the Family"- Nicholas Searle
13. "Holy Ceremony" - Harri Nykanen
14. "After the Crash" - Michael Bussi
15. "The Dry" - Jane Harper

16. "The Abomination" - Jonathan Holt. Slightly far fetched conspiracy theory thriller but made me want to visit Venice

 

[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
41/50 Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
42/50 Henry Marsh - Admissions
43/50 Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13
44/50 Michelle Paver - Dark Matter
45/50 Hannah Kent - Burial Rites
46/50 M.R. James - Ghosts
47/50 Robert Webb - How Not To Be a Boy
48/50 David Park - Travelling in a Strange Land
49--51/50 Philip Pullman - Northern Lights/The Subtle Knife/The Amber Spyglass

Phew - close call

 

[Ptolemy]

1/25. L'Assommoir - Émile Zola.
2/25. La Bête humaine - Émile Zola.
3/25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.
4/25. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.
5/25. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë.
6/25. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (re-read).
7/25. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli.
8/25. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie - Jean Rhys.
9/25. Days of Hope - Jim Allen.
10/25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
11/25. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville.
12/25. The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Gaskell.
13/25. Military Marxist Regimes in Africa - John Markakis & Michael Waller.
14/25. Beyond the Welfare State? - Christopher Pierson.
15/25. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
16/25. Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys.
17/25. Livingstone's Labour - Ken Livingstone.
18/25. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank.
19/25. The Epic of Gilgamesh - N.K. Sandars (translation).
20/25. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1892 Edition) - Friedrich Engels.
21/25. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels.
22/25. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon - Karl Marx.
23/25. Eleanor Marx: A Life - Rachel Holmes.
24/25. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
25/25. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol.
26/25. Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward.
27/25. Pot-Bouille - Émile Zola.
28/25. The Fortune of the Rougons - Émile Zola.
29/25. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (re-read).
30/25. The Little Sister - Raymond Chandler.
31/25. News from Nowhere - William Morris.
32/25. Michael Foot - Mervyn Jones.
33/25. His Excellency Eugène Rougon - Émile Zola.
34/25. La Curée (The Kill) - Émile Zola.

Another bitter, cynical installment of Les Rougon-Macquart which I enjoyed reading, even if Zola spent too many pages at a time describing bedrooms and greenhouses (I never want to read three pages devoted to the different kinds of plants in a hothouse ever again). Some great and very funny party scenes as to be expected from a Zola novel.

Looks very likely to be my last novel for this year; roll on 2019!

 

[gawkrodger]

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
31) C.L.R. James - The Black Jacobins - Why have I only read this now. It's brilliant
32) Mark Fisher - Ghosts of my Life
33) Sukhdev Sandhu - Night Haunts: A journey through the London night - to be honest, a bit meh
34) Badiou - Philosophy for Militants
35) Max Aub - Field of Honour - really enjoyed this novel on the run up to the Spanish revolution/civil war. Slightly bittersweet as the other 5 novels in 'The magic labyrinth' series have not been translated into English

My target was 30 for the year so I surpassed that.

I came down in two sub targets - I claimed I was going to read Vol.1 of Capital in its entirety and have a third of the books I read being fiction. Failed on both of those

 

[Ptolemy]

1/25. L'Assommoir - Émile Zola.
2/25. La Bête humaine - Émile Zola.
3/25. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert.
4/25. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë.
5/25. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Brontë.
6/25. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (re-read).
7/25. The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli.
8/25. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie - Jean Rhys.
9/25. Days of Hope - Jim Allen.
10/25. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
11/25. Moby-Dick - Herman Melville.
12/25. The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Elizabeth Gaskell.
13/25. Military Marxist Regimes in Africa - John Markakis & Michael Waller.
14/25. Beyond the Welfare State? - Christopher Pierson.
15/25. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne.
16/25. Good Morning, Midnight - Jean Rhys.
17/25. Livingstone's Labour - Ken Livingstone.
18/25. The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank.
19/25. The Epic of Gilgamesh - N.K. Sandars (translation).
20/25. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1892 Edition) - Friedrich Engels.
21/25. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels.
22/25. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon - Karl Marx.
23/25. Eleanor Marx: A Life - Rachel Holmes.
24/25. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky.
25/25. Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol.
26/25. Fear: Trump in the White House - Bob Woodward.
27/25. Pot-Bouille - Émile Zola.
28/25. The Fortune of the Rougons - Émile Zola.
29/25. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (re-read).
30/25. The Little Sister - Raymond Chandler.
31/25. News from Nowhere - William Morris.
32/25. Michael Foot - Mervyn Jones.
33/25. His Excellency Eugène Rougon - Émile Zola.
34/25. La Curée (The Kill) - Émile Zola.
35/25. Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center - bell hooks.

I managed to finish off one last book after all; a really great, heartening and liberating read from a socialist feminist who was recommended to me by a good friend.

 

[Ptolemy]

I came down in two sub targets - I claimed I was going to read Vol.1 of Capital in its entirety and have a third of the books I read being fiction. Failed on both of those

Not that it's much consolation, but I had the same sub-target with Capital... I failed too. Next year, hopefully!

 

[Signal 11]

1/10 - Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol - Steve Jones
2/10 - The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity and Love - Bell Hooks
3/10 - Capital vol. 2 - Karl Marx
4/10 - Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Adults - Dr Luke Beardon
5/10 - Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace and Second Chances - Leland Melvin
6/10 - The Communist Manifesto - Marx & Engels (re-read)
7/10 - British Socialists and the Politics of Popular Culture 1884-1914 - Chris Waters
8/10 - Capital vol. 3 - Karl Marx
9/10 - The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu
10/10 - Ballymurphy And The Irish War - Ciaran De Baroid
11/10 - The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu

 

[Shirl]

I'm hoping to have read 30 by the end of NYE but anyway, this is the most books I've ever read in a year. I'll be hoping for a few different authors next year

Well less than an hour to the year end and I'm still reading my 29th book. My challenge at the start of the year had been to read twenty so I did ok but thirty would have been nice.

 

[Biddlybee]

1/5 Moxie - Jennifer Mathieu
2/5 Natives - Akala
3/5 Whispers Under Ground - Ben Aaronovitch
4/5 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
5/5 The Great North Wood - Tim Bird
6/5 Less - Andrew Sean Greer
7/5 Fault Lines - Laura Taylor