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

[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

 

[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.

 

[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
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)

 

[yield]

How was that? I really enjoyed the first one

Edit: ah sorry! The broken earth trilogy is the one I've started. Wrong one

I'm going to start the Broken Earth trilogy when I've finished the Inheritance series. Heard good things about it.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

74. Ghosts - Ibsen
75. An Enemy Of The People - Ibsen

 

[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 - he's really back on form here.

 

[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. Excellent.

 

[iona]

1/25 A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
2/25 A Life for theStars - James Blish
3/25 The Triumph of Time - James Blish
4/25 A Storm of Swords: Steel and Snow - George R. R. Martin
5/25 A Storm of Swords: Blood and Gold - George R. R. Martin
6/25 A Feast for Crows - George R. R. Martin
7/25 The Crossing Places - Elly Griffiths
8/25 The Janus Stone - Elly Griffiths
9/25 The House at Sea's End - Elly Griffiths
10/25 King Rat - China Miéville
11/25 A Dance with Dragons: Dreams and Dust - George R. R. Martin
12/25 A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast - George R. R. Martin
13/25 Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
14/25 Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
15/25 MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood
16/25 The Woman in Blue - Elly Griffiths
17/25 The Chalk Pit - Elly Griffiths
18/25 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin
19/25 In the Cold Dark Ground - Stuart MacBride
20/25 Smoke and Mirrors - Elly Griffiths
21/25 Call for the Dead - John le Carré
22/25 Norstrilia - Cordwainer Smith
23/25 Now We Are Dead - Stuart MacBride
24/25 The Blood Card - Elly Griffiths
25/25 A Murder of Quality - John le Carré
26/25 The Dark Angel - Elly Griffiths
27/25 The Ghost Fields - Elly Griffiths
28/25 Never Somewhere Else - Alex Gray
29/25 The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye - David Lagercrantz
30/25 Bitter Seeds - Ian Tregillis
31/25 Blood Song - Anthony Ryan
32/25 Tower Lord - Anthony Ryan
33/25 Queen of Fire - Anthony Ryan
34/25 The Humans - Matt Haig

 

[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

 

[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

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1. Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness
2. Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
3. Olivia Laing - The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
4. Albert Camus - A Happy Death
5. Orlando Figes - A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
6. Larry McMurtry - Comanche Moon
7. Hans Fallada - Alone In Berlin
8. Dannie Abse - Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
9. Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America
10. Lucia Berlin - A Manuel for Cleaning Women
11. E. L. Doctorow - Billy Bathgate

Last two were both brilliant.

 

[braindancer]

1/25 This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
2/25 Southern Cross The Dog - Bill Cheng
3/25 - The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
4/25 - Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
5/25 - Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
6/25 - Web - John Wyndham
7/25 - The Gift of Rain - Tan Twang Eng
8/25 - The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester

 

[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
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

 

[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 - recommended as a great, quick read for towards the end of the year if anyone needs to meet their numbers.

 

[braindancer]

1/25 This Perfect Day - Ira Levin
2/25 Southern Cross The Dog - Bill Cheng
3/25 - The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
4/25 - Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
5/25 - Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
6/25 - Web - John Wyndham
7/25 - The Gift of Rain - Tan Twang Eng
8/25 - The Stars My Destination - Alfred Bester
9/25 - The Postman Always Rings Twice -James M Cain

 

[Beats & Pieces]

76. Wrong Doing, Truth Telling: The Function of Avowal In Justice - Foucault

Edit to add: if you are interested in Foucault's thought then the interviews included in this publication from 1981 may well be of interest, touching upon the issue of power, activism, the role of the intellectual, subjectivity, and Governmentality.

 

[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. Fantastic, page-turning, accessibly mind-blowing bonkers sci fi. Looking forward to reading the next two.

 

[nogojones]

1/40 - Catherynne Valente - Deathlesshttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
2/40 - Robert Louis Wilken - The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianityhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
3/40 - Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlemhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
4/40 - Zadie Smith - White Teethhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
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 84/5https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
7/40 - Jonathan Crary - 24/7: Late capitalism & the end of sleephttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
8/40 - Kuwasi Balagoon - A Soldiers Storyhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
9/40 - Albert Camus - The Fallhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
10/40 - Iain M. Banks - Transitionhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
11/40 - Andri Snær Magnason - Bonus Poetryhttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
12/40 - Karl Marx - The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonapartehttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
13/40 - Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Taleshttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
14/40 - Ian McEwan - Black Dogshttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
15/40 - Ben Goldacre - Bad Sciencehttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1938.Friedrich_Nietzsche
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

 

[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

 

[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)

I agree Me76, a definite return to form

 

[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. I really like Antony Horowitz's writing but this was self indulgent and contained such a massive timeline error, which I just can't believe was not picked up in proof reading or editing, that it kind of ruined what I did enjoy of the book

 

[Voley]

1/30 The Bottom Corner - Nige Tassell
2/30 Long Road From Jarrow - Stuart Maconie
3/30 Withnail And I - Bruce Robinson
4/30 Tschick - Wolfgang Herndorff

5/30 Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol – Steve Jones
6/30 Ruth And Martin's Album Club - Martin Fitzgerald​

7/30 Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide To British Birds.
8/30 The Last Fighting Tommy - Harry Patch
9/30 Holy Shit: A Brief History Of Swearing – Melissa Mohr
10/30 Suspicious Minds - Rob Brotherton

A good look at why people believe conspiracy theories. Some stuff I knew already and a lot I didn't. Very good at explaining why people believe the utterly fantastical rather than just dismissing people as crackpots. Worth reading, made me look at it all a bit differently.

Going to struggle to get to 30 this year, I think. I've been a bit busier with other stuff this time around.

 

[Orang Utan]

1/30 The Bottom Corner - Nige Tassell
2/30 Long Road From Jarrow - Stuart Maconie
3/30 Withnail And I - Bruce Robinson
4/30 Tschick - Wolfgang Herndorff

5/30 Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol – Steve Jones
6/30 Ruth And Martin's Album Club - Martin Fitzgerald​

7/30 Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide To British Birds.
8/30 The Last Fighting Tommy - Harry Patch
9/30 Holy Shit: A Brief History Of Swearing – Melissa Mohr
10/30 Suspicious Minds - Rob Brotherton

A good look at why people believe conspiracy theories. Some stuff I knew already and a lot I didn't. Very good at explaining why people believe the utterly fantastical rather than just dismissing people as crackpots. Worth reading, made me look at it all a bit differently.

Going to struggle to get to 30 this year, I think. I've been a bit busier with other stuff this time around.

Voley have you read Will Storr's The Heretics - it's about CTers, pseudioscience bullshit n that
The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr – review

 

[Voley]

Voley have you read Will Storr's The Heretics - it's about CTers, pseudioscience bullshit n that
The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr – review

No I haven't but that looks good, too, ta.

 

[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.

Really enjoyed this , basically a collection of interviews , quotes from notable punks in New York in the 70s , New York Dolls, The Stooges, Television , Blondie, Patti Smith , plus many others.

 

[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 - excellent excellent book. A must read for all young women . And old ones too!!

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1. Radclyffe Hall - The Well of Loneliness
2. Carson McCullers - The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
3. Olivia Laing - The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
4. Albert Camus - A Happy Death
5. Orlando Figes - A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
6. Larry McMurtry - Comanche Moon
7. Hans Fallada - Alone In Berlin
8. Dannie Abse - Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve
9. Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America
10. Lucia Berlin - A Manuel for Cleaning Women
11. E. L. Doctorow - Billy Bathgate
12. Han Kang - The Vegetarian

 

[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

Coming from an Irish family , this is all very familiar

 

[butchersapron]

26 - Contemporary Trotskyism: Parties, Sects and Social Movements in Britain - John Kelly
27 - Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right - Ronald Beiner
28 - No Future: Punk, Politics and British Youth Culture, 1976–1984 - Matthew Worley
29 - Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies - David Bentley Hart
30 - Against the grain: The British far left from 1956 - edited by Evan Smith and Matthew Worley
31 - Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump - Asad Haider
32 - The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss - David Bentley Hart
33 - Hate: My Life in the British Far Right - Matthew Collins (thought i'd read this, but hadn't)
34 - Anti-Nietzsche - Malcolm Bull
35 - Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War - Steven R. Cureton
36 - The Walls Have the Floor: Mural Journal, May '68 - Various
37 - Europe’s Fault Lines: Racism and the Rise of the Right - Liz Fekete
38 - British National Party: Contemporary Perspectives - Edited by Nigel Copsey and Graham Macklin
39 - Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain's Far Right - Daniel Trilling

 

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01/10 - Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
02/10 - The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill
03/10 - A Day in the Bleachers by Arnold Hano
04/10 - The Forgotten Man by Robert Crais
05/10 - The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told edited by Jeff Silvermann
06/10 - Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
07/10 - We Are Celtic Supporters by Richard Purden
08/10 - Living On the Black by John Feinstein