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

I expect to read this many books in 2022

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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

42/45 P Djeli Clark - Ring Shout: or Hunting Ku Kluxes in the End Times
 
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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 by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese.
9/10 Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga.
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10/10 The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro.

A post-Arthurian fable of memory, love and loss. And how countries are founded on blood.
 
1/29 Bright Travellers - Fiona Benson
2/29 The Emigrants - WG Sebald
3/29 Inside Story - Martin Amis
4/29 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction - JD Salinger (reread)
5/29 Art Can Help - Robert Adams
6/29 The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivasan
7/29 Boyle: Between God and Science - Michael Hunter
8/29 Autumn - Ali Smith
9/29 The Latecomers - Anita Brookner
10/29 Manhattan 45 - Jan Morris
11/29 Olives - AE Stallings
12/29 Why Believe? - John Cottingham
13/29 Hapax- AE Stallings
14/29 Acts of Service - Lillian Fishman
15/29 The Odyssey - Homer (tr. Emily Wilson)

16/29 Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey

Took me forever to finish this (started as a result of a reading/walking group walk around Bloomsbury). Entertaining and well-written but blimey he does go on. And on.
 
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
52 The Dinner Guest, B P Walters


53 Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin - found this hard going, bit too much church and preaching

54 The Library, Bella Osborne
Easy, feel good read.
 
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

36/45 Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
 
ska invita said:
how was this?
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This was my original quick review....

Possibly the greatest novel of the 21st century. May be a little lacking in plot, but with prose like this you don't need plot...

"looking up at the framed picture of Liz Kendle that hung over his bed.... She was a magnificent spectacle of patriotic British womanhood. Legs wide apart as she stood on the front of a chieftain tank"
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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
36/45 Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

37/45 Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama

Not read any ACC since I was a kid and couldn't remember what his writing was like. A story well told, all well researched in terms of the science, but underneath that I have this uncomfortable feeling that he held some pretty shitty views.
 
nogojones said:
37/45 Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama

Not read any ACC since I was a kid and couldn't remember what his writing was like. A story well told, all well researched in terms of the science, but underneath that I have this uncomfortable feeling that he held some pretty shitty views.
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Arthur C Clarke was cleared of allegations of child abuse.
 
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
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
18/39 - Paul Baran - The Economic Theory of Growth

Brilliant Marxist analysis of the social, cultural and economic processes that produce development and under-developnent in the capitalist economy.
 
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

24/26 - Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
 
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
36/45 Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
37/45 Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama

38/45 Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman

Sweet tale of a very neurodivergent woman who finds a place in the world working in a convenience store, whilst dealing with a awful incel she adopts in the hope of being judged "normal".

Picked up on inva's recommendation and I'd second it.
 
nogojones said:
38/45 Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman

Sweet tale of a very neurodivergent woman who finds a place in the world working in a convenience store, whilst dealing with a awful incel she adopts in the hope of being judged "normal".

Picked up on inva's recommendation and I'd second it.
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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
24/20 Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
Didn't realise this was part of a trilogy when I started reading it, and also didn't realise it was technically fictional until right near the end when I realised huh someone called him George. I enjoyed Pat Barker's Regeneration a lot when I read it for my GCSE English coursework and as well as being interesting in itself this made me want to re-read that, maybe one for next year's challenge.
 
1/9 - Phantom by Jo Nesbo
2/9 - Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
3/9 - Cold Killing by Luke Delaney
4/9 - A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
5/9 - Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci
 
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
36/45 Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
37/45 Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
38/45 Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman

39/45 Sheila Rowbotham - Hidden From History

Snapshots of womens place in British society from a class perspective. Pretty good.

I'm on jury service for a couple of weeks so hopefully catching up on my target a bit.
 
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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
42/45 P Djeli Clark - Ring Shout

43/45 Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four
 
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 Colin 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

34/52 The Prisoner of Brenda by Colin Bateman (ReRead)
 
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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
42/45 P Djeli Clark - Ring Shout
43/45 Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four

44/45 Frances Hardinge - Unraveller
45/45 Raymond Briggs - When the Wind Blows
 
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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
52 The Dinner Guest, B P Walters
53 Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
54 The Library, Bella Osborne
55 The Queen of Bloody Everything, Joanna Nadin
 
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 Colin 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
34/52 The Prisoner of Brenda by Colin Bateman (ReRead)

35/52 The Fugitive Pigeon by Donald E. Westlake
 
1/29 Bright Travellers - Fiona Benson
2/29 The Emigrants - WG Sebald
3/29 Inside Story - Martin Amis
4/29 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction - JD Salinger (reread)
5/29 Art Can Help - Robert Adams
6/29 The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivasan
7/29 Boyle: Between God and Science - Michael Hunter
8/29 Autumn - Ali Smith
9/29 The Latecomers - Anita Brookner
10/29 Manhattan 45 - Jan Morris
11/29 Olives - AE Stallings
12/29 Why Believe? - John Cottingham
13/29 Hapax- AE Stallings
14/29 Acts of Service - Lillian Fishman
15/29 The Odyssey - Homer (tr. Emily Wilson)
16/29 Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey

17/29 The Bloomsbury Group - Frances Spalding

Nicely illustrated potted bios of the main players.
 
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
47/75 One Man's Terrorist : A Political History Of The IRA - Daniel Finn
 
1/29 Bright Travellers - Fiona Benson
2/29 The Emigrants - WG Sebald
3/29 Inside Story - Martin Amis
4/29 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour - an Introduction - JD Salinger (reread)
5/29 Art Can Help - Robert Adams
6/29 The Right to Sex - Amia Srinivasan
7/29 Boyle: Between God and Science - Michael Hunter
8/29 Autumn - Ali Smith
9/29 The Latecomers - Anita Brookner
10/29 Manhattan 45 - Jan Morris
11/29 Olives - AE Stallings
12/29 Why Believe? - John Cottingham
13/29 Hapax- AE Stallings
14/29 Acts of Service - Lillian Fishman
15/29 The Odyssey - Homer (tr. Emily Wilson)
16/29 Eminent Victorians - Lytton Strachey
17/29 The Bloomsbury Group - Frances Spalding

18/29 Philip Larkin: Art, Life and Love - James Booth

Larkin biography from a member of the English department at Hull. Seeks to redress the balance following the earlier Andrew Motion work which was considered by some to be too negative in relation to the poet’s personality. Slightly staid with a bit too much English literature analysis of the poems, but worth a read if you’re a Larkin lover.
 
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
24/26 - Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

25/26 - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
 
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
42/45 P Djeli Clark - Ring Shout
43/45 Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four
44/45 Frances Hardinge - Unraveller
45/45 Raymond Briggs - When the Wind Blows

46/45 Catriona Ward - The Last House on Needless Street

Amazing book, couldn't put it down and read it in two days.
 
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