Never mind the virus here's the 2022 reading challenge thread

[petee]

5/52 My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell

how'd you like it?

 

[Me76]

1/52 - Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
2/52 - Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
3/52 - Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
4/52 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
5/52 - Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
6/52 - Patricia Highsmith - A Dog's Ransom
7/52 - Claire Douglas - The Couple at No. 9
8/52 - Daniel Mason - The Piano Tuner
9/52 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty
10/52 - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box (reread)
11/52 - Minette Walters - The Cellar
12/52 - Barbara Vine - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (reread)
13/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
14/52 - Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
15/52 - Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
16/52 - Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?
17/52 - Toni Morrison - Beloved
18/52 - Denise Mina - The Less Dead
19/52 - Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Magic Feather
20/52 - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
21/52 - Chibundu Onuzo - Sankofa
22/52 - Stephen King and Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Final Task
23/52 - A A Milne - The Red House Mystery
24/52 - A M Homes - May We Be Forgiven
25/52 - Andrew Michael Hurley - Devil's Day
26/52 - Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons
27/52 - Stephen King - Skeleton Crew
28/52 - Ruth Rendell - Portobello (reread)
29/52 - Willy Valutin - The Night Always Comes
30/52 - Stephen King - The Langoliers (reread)
31/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places
32/53 - Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden
33/52 - Elizabeth Strout - Oh William!
34/52 - Annie Proulx - Wyoming Stories (reread)
35/52 - Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley (reread)
36/52 - Peter Swanson - Nine Lives
37/52 - Johnathan Franzen - Crossroads
38/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Bridesmaid
39/52 - Joanna Cannon - A Tidy Ending
40/52 - Catriona Ward - The Last House on Needless Street
41/52 - Lisa McInerney - The Rules of Revelation
42/52 - Val McDermid - 1979
43/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
44/52 - Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
45/52 - Maggie Shipstead - Seating Arrangements
46/52 - Joe R. Lansdale - Savage Season: Hap and Leonard Book 1
47/52 - Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women
48/52 - Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You

49/52 - Paula Hawkins - A Slow Fire Burning

Interesting that I recently read that Paula Hawkins but can't really remember it. I know I like it but have no memory of the story.

 

[Me76]

1/40 Just Like You, Nick Hornby - dl
2/40 A Place Called Winter, Patrick Gale
3/40 Blood Men, Paul Cleave,
4/40 The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg- dl
5/40 the Midnight Library, Matt Haig
6/40 Born Lippy, Jo Brand
7/40 All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr- dl
8/40 The Secretary, Zoe Lea
9/40 The Flatshare, Beth O'Leary
10/40 Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
11/40 Gwendy's Button Box, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
12/40 Gwendy's Magic Feather, Richard Chizmar
13/40 Gwendy's Final Task, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
14/40, Find the Girl, Nic Roberts
15/40, Queenie, Candice Carty Williams
16/40 The Madness of Grief, Panayotis, Cacoyannis
17/40 The Advocate's Labyrinth, Tessa Burell
18/40 Solomon Vs Lord, Paul Levine
19/40 Tuesday's Child, Anya Mora
20/40 Sleep Donation, Karen Russell
21/40 All Grown Up, Jami Attenberg
22/40 More Than This, Patrick Ness
23/40 The Deep Blue Alibi, Paul Levine
24/40 The Man by the Sea, Jack Benton
25/40 Should We Stay or Should We Go, Lionel Shriver
26/40 Two Steps Forward, Graeme Simison and Anne Buist
27/40 Fanny Bower Puts Herself Out There, Julia Ariss
28/40 Cold Bath Lane, Lorna Dounaeva
29/40 Spin, KJ Farnham
30/40 The Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin
31/40 The Silent Ones, Linda Coles
32/40 The World Beneath, Rebecca Cantrell
33/40 Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg
34/40 Bad Blood, John Carreyrou
35/40 All That Was Left Unsaid, Jacquie Underdone
36/40 left for Dead, Paul J Teague
37/40 The Roadrunner Cafe, Jamie Zerndt
38/40 Blindness, José Saramago
39/40 A History of Loneliness, John Boyne
40/40 12, Nolon King, David Wright
41 Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stewart
42 Contacts, Mark Watson
43 Lauren from Last Night, Heather Grace Stewart
44 Slow Fires Burning, Paula Hawkins
45 The Memory of Love, Aminatta Forna
46 Counterfeit, Kirsten Chen
47 Time and Time Again, Ben Elton
48 Abigail's Shop, Rachal Herron
49 The Last Teacher, Alan Lee


50 The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams - this is a slow one but really quite lovely.

 

[marty21]

1/75. The Story of England - Michael Wood .
2/75 Broken Rails : How Privitisation Wrecked Britain's Railways - Christian Wolmar .
3/75 Black and British : A Forgotten History - David Olusoga.
4/75 Shackleton: A Biography - Ranulph Fiennes
5/75 The Secret Barrister: Stories of the law and how its broken - The Secret Barrister
6/75 The Nanny State Made Me : The Story of Britain & How to Save it. - Stuart Maconie
7/75 Conquistadors - Michael Wood.
8/75 Shadows Reel - CJ Box
9/75 Hope & Glory - Stuart Maconie
10/75 Killing Floor - Lee Child
11/75 Die Trying - Lee Child
12/75 Tripwire - Lee Child
13/75 The Visitor - Lee Child
14/75 Echo Burning - Lee Child
15/75 Without Fail - Lee Child
16/75 Persuader - Lee Child
17/75 The Enemy - Lee Child
18/75 One Shot - Lee Child
19/75 The Hard Way - Lee Child
20/75 Sing Backwards and Weep - Mark Lanegan
21/75 Bad Luck and Trouble - Lee Child
22/75 Nothing to Lose - Lee Child
23/75 Gone Tomorrow - Lee Child
24/75 61 Hours - Lee Child
25/75 Worth Dying For - Lee Child
26/75 The Affair - Lee Child
27/75 The Plantagenets : The Kings Who Made England - Dan Jones
28/75 A Wanted Man - Lee Child
29/75 Never Go Back - Lee Child
30/75 Look Here : On The Pleasures of Observing The City - Ana Kinsella.
31/75 Personal - Lee Child
32/75 The Vietnam War : An Initmate History - Geoffrey C Ward & Ken Burns.
33/75 Make Me - Lee Child
34/75 Night School - Lee Child
35/75 The Midnight Line - Lee Child
36/75 Past Tense - Lee Child.
37/75 Blue Moon - Lee Child
38/75 Raven : Blood Eye - Giles Kristian
39/75 The Sentinel - Lee Child & Andrew Child
40/75 Better Off Dead - Lee Child & Andrew Child
41/75 Surviving The Ecacuation : Book 19 : Welcome To The End Of The World - Frank Tayell
42/75 Martin Martin & The Death Express - Sebastian Sullivan (an Urban75 author)
43/75 Shadow Man - Alan Drew
44/75 The Recruit - Alan Drew
45/75 Return To My Trees : Notes from the Welsh Woodlands- Matthew Yeomans

Very enjoyable , basically walking through the proposed National Forest of Wales , and weaving in Welsh folklore, history, and trees.

 

[imposs1904]

1/52 In and Out by Mat Coward
2/52 And Away . . . by Bob Mortimer
3/52 In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan
4/52 Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe
5/52 My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell
6/52 One Step Ahead by Duncan McKenzie
7/52 May God Forgive by Alan Parks
8/52 1982 Brazil: The Glorious Failure by Stuart Horsfield
9/52 Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta
10/52 Scully by Alan Bleasdale (ReRead)
11/52 Fierce Genius: Cruyff’s Year at Feyenoord by Andy Bollen
12/52 The Pressures of Life: Four Television Plays edited by Michael Marland
13/52 A Man’s Head by Georges Simenon (ReRead)
14/52 Scully and Mooey by Alan Bleasdale (ReRead)
15/52 Cecile is Dead by Georges Simenon
16/52 Turbulent Priests by Colin Bateman
17/52 Shooting Sean by Colin Bateman
18/52 The Horse with My Name by Colin Bateman
19/52 Driving Big Davie by Colin Bateman (ReRead)
20/52 Belfast Confidential by Colin Bateman
21/52 Nine Inches by Colin Bateman
22/52 Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?: An Indie Odyssey by Nige Tassell
23/52 The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
24/52 Fire and Brimstone by Colin Bateman
25/52 The Guts by Roddy Doyle (ReRead)
26/52 Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle
27/52 Mystery Man by Colin Bateman (ReRead)
28/52 The Day of the Jack Russell by Bateman (ReRead)
29/52 Dr. Yes by Colin Bateman (ReRead)
30/52 A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin

31/52 Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
2/52 - Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
3/52 - Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
4/52 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
5/52 - Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
6/52 - Patricia Highsmith - A Dog's Ransom
7/52 - Claire Douglas - The Couple at No. 9
8/52 - Daniel Mason - The Piano Tuner
9/52 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty
10/52 - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box (reread)
11/52 - Minette Walters - The Cellar
12/52 - Barbara Vine - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (reread)
13/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
14/52 - Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
15/52 - Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
16/52 - Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?
17/52 - Toni Morrison - Beloved
18/52 - Denise Mina - The Less Dead
19/52 - Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Magic Feather
20/52 - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
21/52 - Chibundu Onuzo - Sankofa
22/52 - Stephen King and Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Final Task
23/52 - A A Milne - The Red House Mystery
24/52 - A M Homes - May We Be Forgiven
25/52 - Andrew Michael Hurley - Devil's Day
26/52 - Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons
27/52 - Stephen King - Skeleton Crew
28/52 - Ruth Rendell - Portobello (reread)
29/52 - Willy Valutin - The Night Always Comes
30/52 - Stephen King - The Langoliers (reread)
31/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places
32/53 - Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden
33/52 - Elizabeth Strout - Oh William!
34/52 - Annie Proulx - Wyoming Stories (reread)
35/52 - Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley (reread)
36/52 - Peter Swanson - Nine Lives
37/52 - Johnathan Franzen - Crossroads
38/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Bridesmaid
39/52 - Joanna Cannon - A Tidy Ending
40/52 - Catriona Ward - The Last House on Needless Street
41/52 - Lisa McInerney - The Rules of Revelation
42/52 - Val McDermid - 1979
43/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
44/52 - Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
45/52 - Maggie Shipstead - Seating Arrangements
46/52 - Joe R. Lansdale - Savage Season: Hap and Leonard Book 1
47/52 - Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women
48/52 - Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You
49/52 - Paula Hawkins - A Slow Fire Burning
50/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Janus Stone

51/52 - Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
52/52 - Frank Bill - Crimes in Southern Indiana

<awaits book token >

 

[May Kasahara]

1. Glen Duncan - I, Lucifer
2. Bolu Babalola - Love In Colour
3. ed. Dan Coxon - Tales from the Shadow Booth vol.4.
4. Kerry Hadley-Pryce - The Black Country
5. S. A. Cosby - Blacktop Wasteland
6. Catriona Ward - The Last House on Needless Street
7. Peter Godfrey-Smith - Other Minds
8. Laini Taylor - Daughter of Smoke and Bone
9. Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister, the Serial Killer
10. Andrew Michael Hurley - Starve Acre
11. Belinda Bauer - Snap
12. Joe R Lansdale - Honky Tonk Samurai
13. Coogan and co - Alan Partridge: Nomad
14. Ann Patchett - Commonwealth
15. Joe R Lansdale - Vanilla Ride
16. Stephen Graham Jones - My Heart is a Chainsaw
17. Susanna Clarke - Piranesi

18. Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Adults - Dr Luke Beardon. A useful little primer.

 

[yield]

1/10 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
2/10. The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1) by Steven Erikson
3/10. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
4/10. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.
5/10. Strumpet City by James Plunkett.
6/10 The Shadow of the Torturer The Book of the New Sun Volume 1 by Gene Wolfe
7/10 The Claw of the Conciliator The Book of the New Sun Volume 2 by Gene Wolfe

8/10 Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese.

Naive/shamelessly utopian project. That central planning can be managed with the use of linear programming. Otto Neurath of isotype signage fame is fascinating.

Game here Half-Earth Socialism: The Game Could it work? Veganism for all!? Jeff Robinson

9/10 Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga.

An antidote to the airbrushing of history. The rape room at Bunce Island! Morant Bay rebellion. Heart breaking.

 

[seventh bullet]

1. A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism - Victoria Smolkin

2. The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History - Monica Kim

3. Target: The World; Communist Propaganda Activities in 1955 - Evron Maurice Kirkpatrick (Ed.)

4. Red Blueprint for the Conquest of America - Joseph H. Wherry

5. Masters of Deceit: The Story of Communism in America and How to Fight It - J. Edgar Hoover

6. The Coming Defeat of Communism - James Burnham

7. A Cold War State of Mind: Brainwashing and Postwar American Society - Matthew W. Dunne

8. The Landscape of Stalinism: The Art and Ideology of Soviet Space - Evgeny Dobrenko & Eric Naiman

9. Revolutionary Acts: Amateur Theater and the Soviet State, 1917-1938 - Lynn Mally

10. Mao's Cultural Army: Drama Troupes in China's Rural Revolution - Brian James DeMare

11. Communism in India: Events, Processes and Ideologies - Bidyut Chakrabarty

12. Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics - Evgeny Dobrenko

13. How Life Writes the Book: Real Socialism and Socialist Realism in Stalin's Russia - Thomas Lahusen

14. Lysenko's Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia - Loren Graham

15. Epic Revisionism: Russian History and Literature as Stalinist Propaganda - Kevin M.F. Platt and David Brandenberger

16. Geopolitical Imagination: Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia - Mikhail Suslov

 

[nogojones]

1/45 Maya Angelou - Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
2/45 Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
3/45 Julia Buxton - The Political Economy of Narcotics
4/45 Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You
5/45 Becky Chambers - Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
6/45 Cindy Milstein - Taking Sides
7/45 Phillip K. Dick - The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
8/45 Jim Thompson - Recoil
9/45 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
10/45 Ellen Meisksins Wood - Empire of Capital
11/45 Bernard Schweizer - Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism
12/45 Donna Tartt - The Little Friend
13/45 Arkady Martine - A Memory Called Empire
14/45 Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
15/45 Tayyib Salih - Season of Migration to the North
16/45 Arkady Martine - A Desolation Called Peace
17/45 Stacey M. Floyd (Ed.) - Liberation Theologies in the United States
18/45 Hew Lemmey - Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell
19/45 Roldolfo Walsh - Operation Massacre
20/45 Joan Didion - The White Album
21/45 Brian Manning - Aristocrats, Plebeians and Revolution in England 1640-1660
22/45 Noel Ignatiev - Acceptable Men
23/45 Toni Morrison - Home
24/45 Yuliya Yurchenko - Ukraine and the Empire of Capital
25/45 Philip K. Dick - Ubik
26/45 Joan Didion - Salvador
27/45 Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
28/45 Hermann Hess - Siddhartha
29/45 Var eds. - The Ukrainian Review, II 1984
30/45 Gordon DeMarco - Frisco Blues
31/45 Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
32/45 Joan Didion - Miami

33/45 Polymnia Athanassiadi - Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity

A series of essays around quite a diverse range of monotheistic "pagan" beliefs competing with and sometimes inspiring early Christianity. Very good and recommended if that's your thing.

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 David Katz - People Funny Boy: the genius of Lee Scratch Perry
2/45 Onjali Q Rauf - The Star Outside My Window
3/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Trouble with Peace
4/45 P G Wodehouse - Something New
5/45 Thomas Harding - White Debt: the Demerara Uprising and Britain's legacy of slavery
6/45 Terry Pratchett - Men At Arms
7/45 Art Spiegelman - Maus
8/45 Andrea Levy - Small Island
9/45 Bex Hogan - Viper
10/45 Robert Jordan - Crossroads of Twilight
11/45 Katherine Applegate -The One and Only Ivan
12/45 Andrew Marr - A History of Modern Britain
13/45 Alan Moore & David Lloyd - V for Vendetta
14/45 Evan Ross Katz - Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born: how Buffy staked our hearts
15/45 Pete Brown - Man Walks into a Pub: a sociable history of beer
16/45 Brian Groom - Northerners: a history, from the ice age to the present day
17/45 Ellis Peters - A Morbid Taste for Bones (Cadfael #1)
18/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Wisdom of Crowds
19/45 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie
20/45 Laurie Lee - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
21/45 Laurie Lee - A Moment of War
22/45 Laurie Lee - A Rose for Winter
23/45 Mark Lawrence - Prince of Thorns
24/45 Mark Lawrence - King of Thorns
25/45 T C Eglington & Simon Davis - Thistlebone
26/45 JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit
27/45 Andrew Marr - A History of the World
28/45 Edgar Mittelholzer - My Bones and My Flute
29/45 Richard Atkinson - Mr Atkinson's Rum Contract: the story of a tangled inheritance
30/45 Amos Tutuola - The Palm-Wine Drinkard
31/45 E R Braithwaite - To Sir, With Love
32/45 Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock
33/45 Ian Serraillier - The Silver Sword
34/45 Gerald Durrell - Birds, Beasts and Relatives
35/45 Sam Selvon - The Lonely Londoners
36/45 Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man
37/45 David Olusoga - Black and British: A Forgotten History
38/45 Michelle Paver - Dark Matter: a ghost story
39/45 Allan Ginsberg - Howl, Kaddish and other poems

40/45 Alan Garner - Elidor

I definitely read this as a pre-teen boy but all I remembered on reading it again was "is there light in Gorias?"

A lovely, haunting book. On a par with Alan Garner's better-known works.

 

[imposs1904]

1/52 In and Out by Mat Coward
2/52 And Away . . . by Bob Mortimer
3/52 In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan
4/52 Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe
5/52 My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell
6/52 One Step Ahead by Duncan McKenzie
7/52 May God Forgive by Alan Parks
8/52 1982 Brazil: The Glorious Failure by Stuart Horsfield
9/52 Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta
10/52 Scully by Alan Bleasdale (ReRead)
11/52 Fierce Genius: Cruyff’s Year at Feyenoord by Andy Bollen
12/52 The Pressures of Life: Four Television Plays edited by Michael Marland
13/52 A Man’s Head by Georges Simenon (ReRead)
14/52 Scully and Mooey by Alan Bleasdale (ReRead)
15/52 Cecile is Dead by Georges Simenon
16/52 Turbulent Priests by Colin Bateman
17/52 Shooting Sean by Colin Bateman
18/52 The Horse with My Name by Colin Bateman
19/52 Driving Big Davie by Colin Bateman (ReRead)
20/52 Belfast Confidential by Colin Bateman
21/52 Nine Inches by Colin Bateman
22/52 Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?: An Indie Odyssey by Nige Tassell
23/52 The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
24/52 Fire and Brimstone by Colin Bateman
25/52 The Guts by Roddy Doyle (ReRead)
26/52 Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle
27/52 Mystery Man by Colin Bateman (ReRead)
28/52 The Day of the Jack Russell by Bateman (ReRead)
29/52 Dr. Yes by Colin Bateman (ReRead)
30/52 A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin
31/52 Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell

32/52 Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story by Richard Balls

 

[inva]

1/20 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
2/20 Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis
3/20 The Colonel's Wife by Rosa Liksom
4/20 Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
5/20 Socialism and the Intelligentsia 1880-1914 edited by Carl Levy
6/20 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
7/20 Rizzio by Denise Mina
8/20 Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky
9/20 Marx on Money by Suzanne de Brunhoff
10/20 Real World by Natsuo Kirino
11/20 For Another Europe: A Class Analysis of European Economic Integration by Guglielmo Carchedi
12/20 The Attempt by Magdaléna Platzová
13/20 Theories of Surplus Value Part 1 by Karl Marx (reread)
14/20 The Blue Lenses and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
15/20 Theories of Surplus Value Part 2 by Karl Marx
16/20 Theories of Surplus Value Part 3 by Karl Marx
17/20 Skein Island by Aliya Whiteley
18/20 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
19/20 Marie by Madeleine Bourdouxhe
20/20 Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics by Cedric Johnson
21/20 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
22/20 Japanese Capitalism Since 1945 edited by T. Morris-Suzuki and T. Seiyama
I must have seen this book cited somewhere because I made a note of it and picked it up at some point, and from memory it was cited in a critical way and I can definitely see why. Some interesting stuff here and there and it's a subject I don't know much about at all, but despite Morris-Suzuki's introduction saying how Japanese economists are (or were, this was published in 1989 so pretty out of date) very influenced by Marxism I didn't think there was much evidence of it in this collection of essays, it was very top-down economistic on the whole and the only essay placing the Japanese working class more centrally was probably the most bizarre and disappointing of the lot. Glad I read it to at least provide a starting point, very limited though.

 

[hitmouse]

32/52 Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story by Richard Balls

I'm sorry, I absolutely fucking refuse to believe there's a book about Stiff Records written by a man called Dick Balls.

1/30 Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
2/30 Joan Didion - The White Album (re-read)
3/30 Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
4/30 Joan Didion - After Henry (another re-read, first published in UK as Sentimental Journeys)
5/30 Flannery O'Connor - The Violent Bear It Away
6/30 Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays (re-read)
7/30 Iris Murdoch - Under the Net (re-read)
8/30 Joan Didion - South and West
9/30 Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
10/30 Koshka Duff (ed) - Abolishing the Police
11/30 Jane Holgate - Arise
12/30 F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (re-read)
13/30 12 Rules for What/Sam Moore and Alex Roberts - Post-Internet Far Right
14/30 Brad Logan & John Gentile - Architects of Self-Destruction: The Oral History of Leftover Crack
15/30 Emily Nagoski - Come As You Are
16/30 Barney Farmer - Park by the River
17/30 Nina Power - What Do Men Want?
18/30 Jean-Paul Sartre - Intimacy (re-read)
19/30 Agustín Guillamón - Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937
20/30 Shirley Jackson - The Bird's Nest
21/30 James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
22/30 Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
23/30 HP Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories (re-read)
24/30 Chris Whitaker - Tall Oaks
25/30 Jen Calleja - I'm Afraid That's All We've Got Time For
26/30 Hanif Abdurraqib - They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
27/30 Joe Burns - Class Struggle Unionism
28/30 Colson Whitehead - Apex Hides The Hurt
29/30 Sheila Rowbotham - Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s
30/30 Adam Zmith - Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures
31/30 Raymond Williams - Keywords
32/30 Tyneside Anarchist Archive - Anarchism in North East England 1882-1992
33/30 Lauren Oyler - Fake Accounts
34/30 Thomas Ligotti - Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (two books collected in one volume)
35/30 Jean-Patrick Manchette - Three to Kill
36/30 Yassin al-Haj Saleh - The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy
37/30 Joan Didion - Democracy
38/30 Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
39/30 Ian Allinson - Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work
40/30 Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry
41/30 Mark Fisher - Ghosts of my Life (re-read)

42/30 Nick Heath - The Idea

Well, I think I think about anarchist communism and probably also about history differently to how Nick Heath thinks about them, but a useful way of sharpening my mind and thinking on the subject anyway. If anything I think I came away from the book less inclined to platformism than when I started it, which may not have been the intention.

Now starting

43/30 Matthew Collins - The Walk In

 

[Me76]

1/40 Just Like You, Nick Hornby - dl
2/40 A Place Called Winter, Patrick Gale
3/40 Blood Men, Paul Cleave,
4/40 The Middlesteins, Jami Attenberg- dl
5/40 the Midnight Library, Matt Haig
6/40 Born Lippy, Jo Brand
7/40 All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr- dl
8/40 The Secretary, Zoe Lea
9/40 The Flatshare, Beth O'Leary
10/40 Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
11/40 Gwendy's Button Box, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
12/40 Gwendy's Magic Feather, Richard Chizmar
13/40 Gwendy's Final Task, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar
14/40, Find the Girl, Nic Roberts
15/40, Queenie, Candice Carty Williams
16/40 The Madness of Grief, Panayotis, Cacoyannis
17/40 The Advocate's Labyrinth, Tessa Burell
18/40 Solomon Vs Lord, Paul Levine
19/40 Tuesday's Child, Anya Mora
20/40 Sleep Donation, Karen Russell
21/40 All Grown Up, Jami Attenberg
22/40 More Than This, Patrick Ness
23/40 The Deep Blue Alibi, Paul Levine
24/40 The Man by the Sea, Jack Benton
25/40 Should We Stay or Should We Go, Lionel Shriver
26/40 Two Steps Forward, Graeme Simison and Anne Buist
27/40 Fanny Bower Puts Herself Out There, Julia Ariss
28/40 Cold Bath Lane, Lorna Dounaeva
29/40 Spin, KJ Farnham
30/40 The Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin
31/40 The Silent Ones, Linda Coles
32/40 The World Beneath, Rebecca Cantrell
33/40 Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg
34/40 Bad Blood, John Carreyrou
35/40 All That Was Left Unsaid, Jacquie Underdone
36/40 left for Dead, Paul J Teague
37/40 The Roadrunner Cafe, Jamie Zerndt
38/40 Blindness, José Saramago
39/40 A History of Loneliness, John Boyne
40/40 12, Nolon King, David Wright
41 Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stewart
42 Contacts, Mark Watson
43 Lauren from Last Night, Heather Grace Stewart
44 Slow Fires Burning, Paula Hawkins
45 The Memory of Love, Aminatta Forna
46 Counterfeit, Kirsten Chen
47 Time and Time Again, Ben Elton
48 Abigail's Shop, Rachal Herron
49 The Last Teacher, Alan Lee
50 The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams

51 Fairy Tale, Stephen King - love him and this is a classic with no flaws

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
2/52 - Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
3/52 - Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
4/52 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
5/52 - Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
6/52 - Patricia Highsmith - A Dog's Ransom
7/52 - Claire Douglas - The Couple at No. 9
8/52 - Daniel Mason - The Piano Tuner
9/52 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty
10/52 - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box (reread)
11/52 - Minette Walters - The Cellar
12/52 - Barbara Vine - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (reread)
13/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
14/52 - Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
15/52 - Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
16/52 - Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?
17/52 - Toni Morrison - Beloved
18/52 - Denise Mina - The Less Dead
19/52 - Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Magic Feather
20/52 - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
21/52 - Chibundu Onuzo - Sankofa
22/52 - Stephen King and Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Final Task
23/52 - A A Milne - The Red House Mystery
24/52 - A M Homes - May We Be Forgiven
25/52 - Andrew Michael Hurley - Devil's Day
26/52 - Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons
27/52 - Stephen King - Skeleton Crew
28/52 - Ruth Rendell - Portobello (reread)
29/52 - Willy Valutin - The Night Always Comes
30/52 - Stephen King - The Langoliers (reread)
31/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places
32/53 - Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden
33/52 - Elizabeth Strout - Oh William!
34/52 - Annie Proulx - Wyoming Stories (reread)
35/52 - Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley (reread)
36/52 - Peter Swanson - Nine Lives
37/52 - Johnathan Franzen - Crossroads
38/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Bridesmaid
39/52 - Joanna Cannon - A Tidy Ending
40/52 - Catriona Ward - The Last House on Needless Street
41/52 - Lisa McInerney - The Rules of Revelation
42/52 - Val McDermid - 1979
43/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
44/52 - Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
45/52 - Maggie Shipstead - Seating Arrangements
46/52 - Joe R. Lansdale - Savage Season: Hap and Leonard Book 1
47/52 - Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women
48/52 - Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You
49/52 - Paula Hawkins - A Slow Fire Burning
50/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Janus Stone
51/52 - Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
52/52 - Frank Bill - Crimes in Southern Indiana

53 - Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn

 

[marty21]

1/75. The Story of England - Michael Wood .
2/75 Broken Rails : How Privitisation Wrecked Britain's Railways - Christian Wolmar .
3/75 Black and British : A Forgotten History - David Olusoga.
4/75 Shackleton: A Biography - Ranulph Fiennes
5/75 The Secret Barrister: Stories of the law and how its broken - The Secret Barrister
6/75 The Nanny State Made Me : The Story of Britain & How to Save it. - Stuart Maconie
7/75 Conquistadors - Michael Wood.
8/75 Shadows Reel - CJ Box
9/75 Hope & Glory - Stuart Maconie
10/75 Killing Floor - Lee Child
11/75 Die Trying - Lee Child
12/75 Tripwire - Lee Child
13/75 The Visitor - Lee Child
14/75 Echo Burning - Lee Child
15/75 Without Fail - Lee Child
16/75 Persuader - Lee Child
17/75 The Enemy - Lee Child
18/75 One Shot - Lee Child
19/75 The Hard Way - Lee Child
20/75 Sing Backwards and Weep - Mark Lanegan
21/75 Bad Luck and Trouble - Lee Child
22/75 Nothing to Lose - Lee Child
23/75 Gone Tomorrow - Lee Child
24/75 61 Hours - Lee Child
25/75 Worth Dying For - Lee Child
26/75 The Affair - Lee Child
27/75 The Plantagenets : The Kings Who Made England - Dan Jones
28/75 A Wanted Man - Lee Child
29/75 Never Go Back - Lee Child
30/75 Look Here : On The Pleasures of Observing The City - Ana Kinsella.
31/75 Personal - Lee Child
32/75 The Vietnam War : An Initmate History - Geoffrey C Ward & Ken Burns.
33/75 Make Me - Lee Child
34/75 Night School - Lee Child
35/75 The Midnight Line - Lee Child
36/75 Past Tense - Lee Child.
37/75 Blue Moon - Lee Child
38/75 Raven : Blood Eye - Giles Kristian
39/75 The Sentinel - Lee Child & Andrew Child
40/75 Better Off Dead - Lee Child & Andrew Child
41/75 Surviving The Ecacuation : Book 19 : Welcome To The End Of The World - Frank Tayell
42/75 Martin Martin & The Death Express - Sebastian Sullivan (an Urban75 author)
43/75 Shadow Man - Alan Drew
44/75 The Recruit - Alan Drew
45/75 Return To My Trees : Notes from the Welsh Woodlands- Matthew Yeomans
46/75 An American Outlaw- John Stonehouse

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
2/52 - Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
3/52 - Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
4/52 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
5/52 - Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
6/52 - Patricia Highsmith - A Dog's Ransom
7/52 - Claire Douglas - The Couple at No. 9
8/52 - Daniel Mason - The Piano Tuner
9/52 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty
10/52 - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box (reread)
11/52 - Minette Walters - The Cellar
12/52 - Barbara Vine - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (reread)
13/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
14/52 - Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
15/52 - Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
16/52 - Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?
17/52 - Toni Morrison - Beloved
18/52 - Denise Mina - The Less Dead
19/52 - Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Magic Feather
20/52 - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
21/52 - Chibundu Onuzo - Sankofa
22/52 - Stephen King and Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Final Task
23/52 - A A Milne - The Red House Mystery
24/52 - A M Homes - May We Be Forgiven
25/52 - Andrew Michael Hurley - Devil's Day
26/52 - Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons
27/52 - Stephen King - Skeleton Crew
28/52 - Ruth Rendell - Portobello (reread)
29/52 - Willy Valutin - The Night Always Comes
30/52 - Stephen King - The Langoliers (reread)
31/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places
32/53 - Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden
33/52 - Elizabeth Strout - Oh William!
34/52 - Annie Proulx - Wyoming Stories (reread)
35/52 - Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley (reread)
36/52 - Peter Swanson - Nine Lives
37/52 - Johnathan Franzen - Crossroads
38/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Bridesmaid
39/52 - Joanna Cannon - A Tidy Ending
40/52 - Catriona Ward - The Last House on Needless Street
41/52 - Lisa McInerney - The Rules of Revelation
42/52 - Val McDermid - 1979
43/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
44/52 - Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
45/52 - Maggie Shipstead - Seating Arrangements
46/52 - Joe R. Lansdale - Savage Season: Hap and Leonard Book 1
47/52 - Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women
48/52 - Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You
49/52 - Paula Hawkins - A Slow Fire Burning
50/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Janus Stone
51/52 - Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
52/52 - Frank Bill - Crimes in Southern Indiana
53 - Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn

54 - Anne Tyler - Clock Dance

 

[shifting gears]

1/26 - Michael Moorcock - The Whispering Swarm
2/26 - Albert Camus - The Outsider
3/26 - Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain
4/26 - Edna O’Brien - Girl
5/26 - The Secret DJ - Book Two
6/26 - David Keenan - Xstabeth
7/26 - Wendy Erskine - Sweet Home
8/26 - Walter Greenwood - Love on the Dole
9/26 - Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
10/26 - Edna O’Brien - Saints and Sinners
11/26 - William McIlvanney - The Papers of Tony Veitch
12/26 - Wendy Erskine - Dance Move
13/26 - Kevin Barry - Beatlebone
14/26 - DBC Pierre - Breakfast with the Borgias
15/26 - William McIlvanney - Strange Loyalties
16/26 - Edna O’Brien - The Little Red Chairs
17/26 - Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
18/26 - Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others
19/26 - Kevin Barry - There are Little Kingdoms
20/26 - Wu Ming - 54
21/26 - Jim Dodge - Fup

22/26 - John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men
23/26 - William McIlvanney - Docherty

 

[nogojones]

1/45 Maya Angelou - Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
2/45 Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
3/45 Julia Buxton - The Political Economy of Narcotics
4/45 Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You
5/45 Becky Chambers - Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
6/45 Cindy Milstein - Taking Sides
7/45 Phillip K. Dick - The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
8/45 Jim Thompson - Recoil
9/45 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
10/45 Ellen Meisksins Wood - Empire of Capital
11/45 Bernard Schweizer - Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism
12/45 Donna Tartt - The Little Friend
13/45 Arkady Martine - A Memory Called Empire
14/45 Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
15/45 Tayyib Salih - Season of Migration to the North
16/45 Arkady Martine - A Desolation Called Peace
17/45 Stacey M. Floyd (Ed.) - Liberation Theologies in the United States
18/45 Hew Lemmey - Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell
19/45 Roldolfo Walsh - Operation Massacre
20/45 Joan Didion - The White Album
21/45 Brian Manning - Aristocrats, Plebeians and Revolution in England 1640-1660
22/45 Noel Ignatiev - Acceptable Men
23/45 Toni Morrison - Home
24/45 Yuliya Yurchenko - Ukraine and the Empire of Capital
25/45 Philip K. Dick - Ubik
26/45 Joan Didion - Salvador
27/45 Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
28/45 Hermann Hess - Siddhartha
29/45 Var eds. - The Ukrainian Review, II 1984
30/45 Gordon DeMarco - Frisco Blues
31/45 Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
32/45 Joan Didion - Miami
33/45 Polymnia Athanassiadi - Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity

34/45 Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars

 

[Smokeandsteam]

1/39 - Mark Andrews: Paint My Name in Black and Gold
2/39 - Allan Glenn: Stuart Adamson: Through a Big Country
3/39 - Len McCluskey: Why You Should be a Trade Unionist
4/39 - Dick Hebidge: Subculture: The meaning of style
5/39 - Walter Benjamin: Illuminations
6/39 - Jeremy Seabrook: What Went Wrong
7/39 - Raymond Williams: People of the Black Mountains
8/39 - Michael Lind - The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite
9/39 - McKenzie Wark - Capital is Dead: Is this something worse?
10/39 - Raymond Williams - Second Generation
11/39 - Joel Kotkin: The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
12/39 - Paolo Gerbaudo: The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic
13/39 - Tom Nairn: The Left Against Europe

Fallen down an economics black hole. Really struggled to wage through these but am glad I have.

14/39 - Geoff Mann: In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution
15/39 - Thomas Frank: One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracy
16/39 - Mark Blyth - Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century
17/39 - Ha-Joon Chang: Globalization, Economic Development and the Role of the State

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[Fozzie Bear]

19/29 Michael Richmond & Alex Charnley - Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics

A useful corrective to anti-ID-pol. The position is that the working class has always been divided (fractured) and there are some very readable historical examples of times when a mythological united working class has obscured some horrific incidents. For example the ”red summer” of 1919 in America which saw countless strikes and Union militancy. But also lynchings and Union leaders decrying black workers for depressing wages. There is a lot of good material about the experience and ongoing useful contribution of black feminists. And a few sideswipes at arseholes like Paul Embery too.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "The Thursday Murder Club" - Richard Osman.
2. "The Woman in the Window" - A. J. Finn.
3. "Snow" by John Banville
4. "The Lies You Told" - Harriet Tyce
5. "A Gift for the Dying" - MJ Arlidge
6. "One by One" - Ruth Ware
7. "The Platform Edge: Uncanny Tales of the Railways" - a British Library publication edited by Mike Ashley.
8. "The House of Ashes" - Stuart Neville
9. "Lies" - TM Logan.
10. "The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill" - C. S. Robertson.
11. "I See You" - Clare Mackintosh
12. "The Seance" - John Harwood
13. "The Couple Next Door" - Shari Lapena
14. "American Dirt" -Jeanine Cummins
15. "Their Little Secret" - Mark Billingham
16. "The Murder List" - Jackie Kabler
17. "Twelve Secrets" - Robert Gold
18. "It Ends at Midnight" - Harriet Tyce
19. "Thirteen Storeys - Jonathan Sims
20. "The Twyford Code" - Janice Hallett
21. "The Stranger Diaries" - Elly Griffiths
22. "People Like Her" - Ellery Lloyd
23. " The Island" - Adrian McKinty
24. "Amok" - Sebastian Fitzek
25: 'Amongst Our Weapons" - Ben Aaronovitch
26: "Those People" - Louise Candlish

27: "A Fatal Crossing" - Tom Hindle. Excellent classic era style Murder mystery. Really enjoyed this.

 

[nogojones]

1/45 Maya Angelou - Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
2/45 Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
3/45 Julia Buxton - The Political Economy of Narcotics
4/45 Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You
5/45 Becky Chambers - Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
6/45 Cindy Milstein - Taking Sides
7/45 Phillip K. Dick - The Transmigration of Timothy Archer
8/45 Jim Thompson - Recoil
9/45 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
10/45 Ellen Meisksins Wood - Empire of Capital
11/45 Bernard Schweizer - Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism
12/45 Donna Tartt - The Little Friend
13/45 Arkady Martine - A Memory Called Empire
14/45 Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
15/45 Tayyib Salih - Season of Migration to the North
16/45 Arkady Martine - A Desolation Called Peace
17/45 Stacey M. Floyd (Ed.) - Liberation Theologies in the United States
18/45 Hew Lemmey - Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell
19/45 Roldolfo Walsh - Operation Massacre
20/45 Joan Didion - The White Album
21/45 Brian Manning - Aristocrats, Plebeians and Revolution in England 1640-1660
22/45 Noel Ignatiev - Acceptable Men
23/45 Toni Morrison - Home
24/45 Yuliya Yurchenko - Ukraine and the Empire of Capital
25/45 Philip K. Dick - Ubik
26/45 Joan Didion - Salvador
27/45 Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
28/45 Hermann Hess - Siddhartha
29/45 Var eds. - The Ukrainian Review, II 1984
30/45 Gordon DeMarco - Frisco Blues
31/45 Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
32/45 Joan Didion - Miami
33/45 Polymnia Athanassiadi - Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity
34/45 Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars

35/45 Elizabeth Bowen - The Death of the Heart

I have no idea where I heard about this book. I thought it must have been from someone on here, did a search to thank whoever it was and came up blank - but that might just be the shite search function here. An orphaned teenager is sent to live with her much older half brother, wife and associates. All the most awful, soulless, spiteful, upper middle class people I can think of. Set post WWI, the writing is incredible. Not that much happens, but you're drawn in to the lives of these shallow misanthropes and social inadequates by the sheer force of Bowens writing and observations.

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[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
2/52 - Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
3/52 - Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
4/52 - Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's
5/52 - Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
6/52 - Patricia Highsmith - A Dog's Ransom
7/52 - Claire Douglas - The Couple at No. 9
8/52 - Daniel Mason - The Piano Tuner
9/52 - Zadie Smith - On Beauty
10/52 - Stephen King & Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box (reread)
11/52 - Minette Walters - The Cellar
12/52 - Barbara Vine - The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (reread)
13/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Edible Woman
14/52 - Peter Swanson - Rules for Perfect Murders
15/52 - Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This
16/52 - Sally Rooney - Beautiful World, Where Are You?
17/52 - Toni Morrison - Beloved
18/52 - Denise Mina - The Less Dead
19/52 - Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Magic Feather
20/52 - Sarah Waters - The Night Watch
21/52 - Chibundu Onuzo - Sankofa
22/52 - Stephen King and Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Final Task
23/52 - A A Milne - The Red House Mystery
24/52 - A M Homes - May We Be Forgiven
25/52 - Andrew Michael Hurley - Devil's Day
26/52 - Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons
27/52 - Stephen King - Skeleton Crew
28/52 - Ruth Rendell - Portobello (reread)
29/52 - Willy Valutin - The Night Always Comes
30/52 - Stephen King - The Langoliers (reread)
31/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Crossing Places
32/53 - Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden
33/52 - Elizabeth Strout - Oh William!
34/52 - Annie Proulx - Wyoming Stories (reread)
35/52 - Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley (reread)
36/52 - Peter Swanson - Nine Lives
37/52 - Johnathan Franzen - Crossroads
38/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Bridesmaid
39/52 - Joanna Cannon - A Tidy Ending
40/52 - Catriona Ward - The Last House on Needless Street
41/52 - Lisa McInerney - The Rules of Revelation
42/52 - Val McDermid - 1979
43/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
44/52 - Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
45/52 - Maggie Shipstead - Seating Arrangements
46/52 - Joe R. Lansdale - Savage Season: Hap and Leonard Book 1
47/52 - Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women
48/52 - Celeste Ng - Everything I Never Told You
49/52 - Paula Hawkins - A Slow Fire Burning
50/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Janus Stone
51/52 - Ian McEwan - Amsterdam
52/52 - Frank Bill - Crimes in Southern Indiana
53 - Daphne du Maurier - Jamaica Inn
54 - Anne Tyler - Clock Dance

55 - Graham Greene - The End of The Affair

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 David Katz - People Funny Boy: the genius of Lee Scratch Perry
2/45 Onjali Q Rauf - The Star Outside My Window
3/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Trouble with Peace
4/45 P G Wodehouse - Something New
5/45 Thomas Harding - White Debt: the Demerara Uprising and Britain's legacy of slavery
6/45 Terry Pratchett - Men At Arms
7/45 Art Spiegelman - Maus
8/45 Andrea Levy - Small Island
9/45 Bex Hogan - Viper
10/45 Robert Jordan - Crossroads of Twilight
11/45 Katherine Applegate -The One and Only Ivan
12/45 Andrew Marr - A History of Modern Britain
13/45 Alan Moore & David Lloyd - V for Vendetta
14/45 Evan Ross Katz - Into Every Generation a Slayer is Born: how Buffy staked our hearts
15/45 Pete Brown - Man Walks into a Pub: a sociable history of beer
16/45 Brian Groom - Northerners: a history, from the ice age to the present day
17/45 Ellis Peters - A Morbid Taste for Bones (Cadfael #1)
18/45 Joe Abercrombie - The Wisdom of Crowds
19/45 Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie
20/45 Laurie Lee - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
21/45 Laurie Lee - A Moment of War
22/45 Laurie Lee - A Rose for Winter
23/45 Mark Lawrence - Prince of Thorns
24/45 Mark Lawrence - King of Thorns
25/45 T C Eglington & Simon Davis - Thistlebone
26/45 JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit
27/45 Andrew Marr - A History of the World
28/45 Edgar Mittelholzer - My Bones and My Flute
29/45 Richard Atkinson - Mr Atkinson's Rum Contract: the story of a tangled inheritance
30/45 Amos Tutuola - The Palm-Wine Drinkard
31/45 E R Braithwaite - To Sir, With Love
32/45 Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock
33/45 Ian Serraillier - The Silver Sword
34/45 Gerald Durrell - Birds, Beasts and Relatives
35/45 Sam Selvon - The Lonely Londoners
36/45 Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man
37/45 David Olusoga - Black and British: A Forgotten History
38/45 Michelle Paver - Dark Matter: a ghost story
39/45 Allan Ginsberg - Howl, Kaddish and other poems
40/45 Alan Garner - Elidor

41/45 Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary

 

[imposs1904]

1/52 In and Out by Mat Coward
2/52 And Away . . . by Bob Mortimer
3/52 In the Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan
4/52 Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile by Adelle Stripe
5/52 My Ears Are Bent by Joseph Mitchell
6/52 One Step Ahead by Duncan McKenzie
7/52 May God Forgive by Alan Parks
8/52 1982 Brazil: The Glorious Failure by Stuart Horsfield
9/52 Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta
10/52 Scully by Alan Bleasdale (ReRead)
11/52 Fierce Genius: Cruyff’s Year at Feyenoord by Andy Bollen
12/52 The Pressures of Life: Four Television Plays edited by Michael Marland
13/52 A Man’s Head by Georges Simenon (ReRead)
14/52 Scully and Mooey by Alan Bleasdale (ReRead)
15/52 Cecile is Dead by Georges Simenon
16/52 Turbulent Priests by Colin Bateman
17/52 Shooting Sean by Colin Bateman
18/52 The Horse with My Name by Colin Bateman
19/52 Driving Big Davie by Colin Bateman (ReRead)
20/52 Belfast Confidential by Colin Bateman
21/52 Nine Inches by Colin Bateman
22/52 Whatever Happened to the C86 Kids?: An Indie Odyssey by Nige Tassell
23/52 The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
24/52 Fire and Brimstone by Colin Bateman
25/52 The Guts by Roddy Doyle (ReRead)
26/52 Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle
27/52 Mystery Man by Colin Bateman (ReRead)
28/52 The Day of the Jack Russell by Bateman (ReRead)
29/52 Dr. Yes by Colin Bateman (ReRead)
30/52 A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin
31/52 Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell
32/52 Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story by Richard Balls

33/52 Hooked: Addiction and the Long Road to Recovery by Paul Merson with Rob Bagchi

 

[hitmouse]

1/30 Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
2/30 Joan Didion - The White Album (re-read)
3/30 Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
4/30 Joan Didion - After Henry (another re-read, first published in UK as Sentimental Journeys)
5/30 Flannery O'Connor - The Violent Bear It Away
6/30 Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays (re-read)
7/30 Iris Murdoch - Under the Net (re-read)
8/30 Joan Didion - South and West
9/30 Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
10/30 Koshka Duff (ed) - Abolishing the Police
11/30 Jane Holgate - Arise
12/30 F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (re-read)
13/30 12 Rules for What/Sam Moore and Alex Roberts - Post-Internet Far Right
14/30 Brad Logan & John Gentile - Architects of Self-Destruction: The Oral History of Leftover Crack
15/30 Emily Nagoski - Come As You Are
16/30 Barney Farmer - Park by the River
17/30 Nina Power - What Do Men Want?
18/30 Jean-Paul Sartre - Intimacy (re-read)
19/30 Agustín Guillamón - Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937
20/30 Shirley Jackson - The Bird's Nest
21/30 James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
22/30 Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
23/30 HP Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories (re-read)
24/30 Chris Whitaker - Tall Oaks
25/30 Jen Calleja - I'm Afraid That's All We've Got Time For
26/30 Hanif Abdurraqib - They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
27/30 Joe Burns - Class Struggle Unionism
28/30 Colson Whitehead - Apex Hides The Hurt
29/30 Sheila Rowbotham - Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s
30/30 Adam Zmith - Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures
31/30 Raymond Williams - Keywords
32/30 Tyneside Anarchist Archive - Anarchism in North East England 1882-1992
33/30 Lauren Oyler - Fake Accounts
34/30 Thomas Ligotti - Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (two books collected in one volume)
35/30 Jean-Patrick Manchette - Three to Kill
36/30 Yassin al-Haj Saleh - The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy
37/30 Joan Didion - Democracy
38/30 Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
39/30 Ian Allinson - Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work
40/30 Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry
41/30 Mark Fisher - Ghosts of my Life (re-read)
42/30 Nick Heath - The Idea

43/30 Matthew Collins - The Walk In

I suppose perhaps one to file alongside No Retreat as antifascist books to take with a larger pinch of salt than usual? Could do with a bit more editing, but does at least have an index. Turns into a bit of an overview of recent far-right trials and informers at the end, with Britain First and so on making guest appearances alongside the NA lot.
Now reading:
44/30 Kristian Williams - Gang Politics
Which is really good imo. Did also start on a re-read of City of Quartz but had to take a break after realising/remembering that it's really not a particularly easy book.

 

[hitmouse]

1/30 Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
2/30 Joan Didion - The White Album (re-read)
3/30 Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
4/30 Joan Didion - After Henry (another re-read, first published in UK as Sentimental Journeys)
5/30 Flannery O'Connor - The Violent Bear It Away
6/30 Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays (re-read)
7/30 Iris Murdoch - Under the Net (re-read)
8/30 Joan Didion - South and West
9/30 Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing
10/30 Koshka Duff (ed) - Abolishing the Police
11/30 Jane Holgate - Arise
12/30 F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby (re-read)
13/30 12 Rules for What/Sam Moore and Alex Roberts - Post-Internet Far Right
14/30 Brad Logan & John Gentile - Architects of Self-Destruction: The Oral History of Leftover Crack
15/30 Emily Nagoski - Come As You Are
16/30 Barney Farmer - Park by the River
17/30 Nina Power - What Do Men Want?
18/30 Jean-Paul Sartre - Intimacy (re-read)
19/30 Agustín Guillamón - Insurrection: The Bloody Events of May 1937
20/30 Shirley Jackson - The Bird's Nest
21/30 James Baldwin - Giovanni's Room
22/30 Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
23/30 HP Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories (re-read)
24/30 Chris Whitaker - Tall Oaks
25/30 Jen Calleja - I'm Afraid That's All We've Got Time For
26/30 Hanif Abdurraqib - They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
27/30 Joe Burns - Class Struggle Unionism
28/30 Colson Whitehead - Apex Hides The Hurt
29/30 Sheila Rowbotham - Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s
30/30 Adam Zmith - Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures
31/30 Raymond Williams - Keywords
32/30 Tyneside Anarchist Archive - Anarchism in North East England 1882-1992
33/30 Lauren Oyler - Fake Accounts
34/30 Thomas Ligotti - Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (two books collected in one volume)
35/30 Jean-Patrick Manchette - Three to Kill
36/30 Yassin al-Haj Saleh - The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy
37/30 Joan Didion - Democracy
38/30 Nathanael West - The Day of the Locust
39/30 Ian Allinson - Workers Can Win: A Guide to Organising at Work
40/30 Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry
41/30 Mark Fisher - Ghosts of my Life (re-read)
42/30 Nick Heath - The Idea
43/30 Matthew Collins - The Walk In

44/30 Kristian Williams - Gang Politics

Read most of this one on a long coach journey this weekend, I didn't just get through it in the last hour! Definitely recommended, has three main essays, one which I'd read before about counterinsurgency and community policing, one looking at gang politicisation and the ways that political organisations can degenerate into gangs, and then the standout for me was the third one, looking at the Proud Boys and antifa and tracing the trajectory from 80s skinhead gangs like the Baldies to ARA to contemporary antifa. A really interesting read on anarchist/antifascist ethics and violence. Now going back to

45/30 Mike Davis - City of Quartz (re-read)

A re-read partially prompted by trying to describe it to someone and realising that I have absolutely no memory of why it's called that. Does Los Angeles have a lot of quartz? Is it some kind of a metaphor? No idea.

 

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1/20 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
2/20 Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis
3/20 The Colonel's Wife by Rosa Liksom
4/20 Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
5/20 Socialism and the Intelligentsia 1880-1914 edited by Carl Levy
6/20 Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
7/20 Rizzio by Denise Mina
8/20 Naming Names by Victor S. Navasky
9/20 Marx on Money by Suzanne de Brunhoff
10/20 Real World by Natsuo Kirino
11/20 For Another Europe: A Class Analysis of European Economic Integration by Guglielmo Carchedi
12/20 The Attempt by Magdaléna Platzová
13/20 Theories of Surplus Value Part 1 by Karl Marx (reread)
14/20 The Blue Lenses and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier
15/20 Theories of Surplus Value Part 2 by Karl Marx
16/20 Theories of Surplus Value Part 3 by Karl Marx
17/20 Skein Island by Aliya Whiteley
18/20 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
19/20 Marie by Madeleine Bourdouxhe
20/20 Revolutionaries to Race Leaders: Black Power and the Making of African American Politics by Cedric Johnson
21/20 Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
22/20 Japanese Capitalism Since 1945 edited by T. Morris-Suzuki and T. Seiyama
23/20 Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory by Penny Lewis
Another from the Adolph Reed orbit, I thought this one would be interesting and it was. While I don't know a huge amount about the Vietnam War and even less about the antiwar movement, this was very accessible and with Lewis' particular focus on both the class makeup of the antiwar movement and how it was related to by the broader working class it was pretty familiar ground examining the narrative of reactionary workers v liberal elites for example. I have some disagreements with Reed and co when it comes to practical politics so found the conclusion a bit weak but overall well worth reading.