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

[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

56 - Stephen King - Fairy Tale

 

[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
47/75 One Man's Terrorist : A Political History Of The IRA - Daniel Finn
48/75 Raven : Sons Of Thunder - Giles Kristian

 

[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 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

36/52 Bank Shot by Donald E. Westlake

 

[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
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

40/45 Bert Random - Spannered

One night in a squat party in Bristol. Great fun, just drugs and dancing. The literary version of One Night in Hackney. Cheers ska invita

41/45 Joan Didion - After Henry
42/45 Albert Camus - Happy Death

 

[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 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
36/52 Bank Shot by Donald E. Westlake

37/52 Jimmy the Kid by Donald E. Westlake

 

[petee]

8/9 Hoffman, The Billion Dollar Spy

9/9 I FINALLY DID IT!!!!! Savo, I Bow To The Stones. a memoir from around 1900 of life in what I thought was going to be my neighborhood but it isn't, it's from the next neighborhood north and then they move to the countryside (= the south bronx). still, evocative enough.

 

[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

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

My enthusiasm for this one wavered a bit because I found the second chapter on power structures pretty hard going, but after that it picked up again, or I was more in the headspace for it or something. Definitely one of the greats, I managed to get to the end while still having no idea what quartz has to do with it though.

Now re-reading Fake Accounts by Lauren Oyler, which I don't think counts as an extra one cos it's only been a few months. I wouldn't normally re-read the same book this quickly unless I really really loved it, but I was going to Berlin and reading a book about dead-eyed milennials being pointless in Berlin while actually being a pointless dead-eyed milennial in Berlin seemed too appropriate to pass up. But then I didn't actually get around to reading that much of it in Berlin anyway. First time round I really liked it at first then found it dragged a bit, this time round I think the charm maybe holds up for a bit longer, or perhaps it's just more exciting if read in/in proximity to Berlin?
Either way, I think her great achievement is to have created a narrator who's a bit objectionable in many of the same ways that I am, which is surely one of the highest goals of literature.

 

[ska invita]

I’ve been tempted to read this, it’s a fascinating approach to the history of the English working class. Would you recommend it?

on youtube

 

[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
24/26 - Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
25/26 - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

26/26 - David Keenan - The Towers The Fields The Transmitters

 

[Biddlybee]

1/24 - Hope Not Fear - Hassan Akkad
2/24 - Revenge - Yoko Ogawa
3/24 - Men Who Hate Women - Laura Bates
4/24 - The Mad Women's Ball - Victoria Mas
5/24 - Open Water - Caleb Azumah Nelson
6/24 - The Shortest History of Germany - James Hawes
7/24 - Panenka - Rónán Hession
8/24 - What We’re Told Not to Talk About - Nimko Ali
9/24 - Piranesi - Susanna Clarke
10/24 - West with Giraffes - Lynda Rutledge
11/24 - The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker

In with a chance of getting halfway with 12.

 

[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
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
40/45 Bert Random - Spannered
41/45 Joan Didion - After Henry
42/45 Albert Camus - Happy Death

43/45 Natasha Brown - Assembly

Quite a short book and devoured in a couple of sittings

 

[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
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

47/45 Yeva Skalietska - You Don't Know What War Is: the diary of a young girl from Ukraine

 

[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
56 - Stephen King - Fairy Tale

57 - Frankie Boyle - Meantime

 

[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
24/26 - Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
25/26 - F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
26/26 - David Keenan - The Towers The Fields The Transmitters

27- Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

 

[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 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
36/52 Bank Shot by Donald E. Westlake
37/52 Jimmy the Kid by Donald E. Westlake

38/52 Nobody’s Perfect by Donald E. Westlake

 

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

Finished my re-read of Fake Accounts, think I enjoyed it more the second time around. Now moving on to start:

46/30 EP Thompson - The Making of the English Working Class

This one might take me a while, it's literally been sitting in my to-read pile for probably over five years now cos I kept getting daunted by how massive the bloody thing is.

 

[petee]

This one might take me a while, it's literally been sitting in my to-read pile for probably over five years now cos I kept getting daunted by how massive the bloody thing is.

I had Moby Dick on my shelf for a good 15 years, I'd say, before I tackled it. (I was underwhelmed tbh.)

 

[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 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
36/52 Bank Shot by Donald E. Westlake
37/52 Jimmy the Kid by Donald E. Westlake
38/52 Nobody’s Perfect by Donald E. Westlake

39/52 Why Me? by Donald E. Westlake

 

[imposs1904]

57 - Frankie Boyle - Meantime

Would you recommend it?

 

[BoatieBird]

Would you recommend it?

It's very Frankie Boyle!
if you like him, you'll probably enjoy it.

 

[Signal 11]

14/10 - Abolish the Family - Sophie Lewis

 

[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
56 - Stephen King - Fairy Tale
57 - Frankie Boyle - Meantime

58 - Richard Osman - The Bullet That Missed

 

[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
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
25/20 The Leopard by Tomasi di Lampedusa
Reflections on a decaying aristocracy and rising middle class from the last in a line of Italian princes during and after the Italian unification. Quite liked it, although it's oddly structured and just sort of fizzles out. Pretty much everyone and every thing is described as voluptuous. I'd like to see the Visconti film of this, have a feeling it might be better than the book.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

25/12 Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

I struggled to get into that, and then then it clicked...I remember Dostoevsky being like that. Time for a John le Carre, I think.

24/12 An Honest Man - Ben Fergusson
23/12 Journal of a voyage to Brazil and residence there during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823. - Maria Graham
22/12 Jonny Appleseed – Joshua Whitehead
21/12 The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
20/12 Murphy - Samuel Beckett
19/12 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
18/12 You Made a Fool of Death with you Beauty - Akwaeke Emezi
17/12 Under the Net - Iris Murdoch.
16/12 The White Album - Joan Didion
15/12 Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl - Andrea Lawlor
14/12 Nothing but the Truth - The Secret Barrister
13/12 Under Western Eyes - Joseph Conrad
12/12 The fake Up - Justin Myers
11/12 The Magician - Colm Toiban
10/12 The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
9/12 The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
8/12 Harsh Times - Mario Vargas Llosa
7/12 Talking at the Gates, a Life of James Baldwin - James Campbell
6/12 Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
5/12 A Dutiful Boy: A memoir of secrets, lies and family love - Mohsin Zaidi
4/12 To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde - Rupert Everett
3/12 White on Black on White - Coleman Dowell
2/12 The Charterhouse of Parma - Stendhal
1/12 The Shortest History of Germany - James Hawes

 

[RedRedRose]

Aim: 100

1. John Breuilly – Austria, Prussia and the making of Germany, 1806-1871
2. John Breuilly – The Formation of the First German Nation-State, 1800-1871
3. Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
4. EP Thompson – The Making of the English Working Class
5. Stephen D Brookfield – Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
6. Sam Wineburg – Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
7. Richard J Evans – The Coming of the Third Reich
8. Richard J Evans – The Third Reich in Power
9. Peter Waldron – The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917
10. John Reed – Ten Days that Shook the Earth
11. EH Carr - The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin, 1917-1929
12. Leon Trotsky – The Revolution Betrayed
13. Christopher Duggan – The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy since 1796
14. H James Burgwyn – Mussolini and the Salo Republic, 1943-1945
15. Primo Levi – The Periodic Table
16. Enzo Traverso – Fire and Blood: The European Civil War
17. David M. Glantz - When Titans Clash
18. Robyn R Jackson – Never Work Harder Than Your Students
19. Paul S Boyer – By the Bombs Early Light
20. David Holloway – Stalin and Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
21. Peter Kropotkin – The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793
22. Jeremy D Popkin – A New World Begins
23. Alexander Rabinowitch - The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd
24. Paul Le Blanc – October Song
25. Friedrich Engels - Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
26. Piers Brendon - The Dark Valley
27. Anatole France - The Gods Are Athirst
28. Maria Sophia Quine - Population Politics in Twentieth-Century Europe
29. George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying
30. Rebecca West – Return of the Soldier
31. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
32. James C Welsh - The Underworld
33. Dmitri Volkogonov – Autopsy of an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime
34. Vladislav M Zubok - Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
35. JR McNeill – Something New Under the Sun
36. Vaclav Smil – Energy and Civilization: A History
37. William McDonough and Michael Braungart - Cradle to Cradle
38. Volker Quaschning - Renewable Energy and Climate Change
39. Mark Sagoff - The Economy of the Earth
40. Tim Flannery - Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet
41. Carl A. Zimring - Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
42. Callum Roberts - The Unnatural History of the Sea
43. Charles Loch Mowat - Britain between the Wars, 1918-40
44. Roy Hattersley - Borrowed Time: The Story of Britain Between the Wars

 

[RedRedRose]

Aim: 100

1. John Breuilly – Austria, Prussia and the making of Germany, 1806-1871
2. John Breuilly – The Formation of the First German Nation-State, 1800-1871
3. Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
4. EP Thompson – The Making of the English Working Class
5. Stephen D Brookfield – Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
6. Sam Wineburg – Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
7. Richard J Evans – The Coming of the Third Reich
8. Richard J Evans – The Third Reich in Power
9. Peter Waldron – The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917
10. John Reed – Ten Days that Shook the Earth
11. EH Carr - The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin, 1917-1929
12. Leon Trotsky – The Revolution Betrayed
13. Christopher Duggan – The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy since 1796
14. H James Burgwyn – Mussolini and the Salo Republic, 1943-1945
15. Primo Levi – The Periodic Table
16. Enzo Traverso – Fire and Blood: The European Civil War
17. David M. Glantz - When Titans Clash
18. Robyn R Jackson – Never Work Harder Than Your Students
19. Paul S Boyer – By the Bombs Early Light
20. David Holloway – Stalin and Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
21. Peter Kropotkin – The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793
22. Jeremy D Popkin – A New World Begins
23. Alexander Rabinowitch - The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd
24. Paul Le Blanc – October Song
25. Friedrich Engels - Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
26. Piers Brendon - The Dark Valley
27. Anatole France - The Gods Are Athirst
28. Maria Sophia Quine - Population Politics in Twentieth-Century Europe
29. George Orwell Keep the Aspidistra Flying
30. Rebecca West – Return of the Soldier
31. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
32. James C Welsh - The Underworld
33. Dmitri Volkogonov – Autopsy of an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime
34. Vladislav M Zubok - Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
35. JR McNeill – Something New Under the Sun
36. Vaclav Smil – Energy and Civilization: A History
37. William McDonough and Michael Braungart - Cradle to Cradle
38. Volker Quaschning - Renewable Energy and Climate Change
39. Mark Sagoff - The Economy of the Earth
40. Tim Flannery - Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet
41. Carl A. Zimring - Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
42. Callum Roberts - The Unnatural History of the Sea
43. Charles Loch Mowat - Britain between the Wars, 1918-40
44. Roy Hattersley - Borrowed Time: The Story of Britain Between the Wars

45. Stuart Maconie - Long Road from Jarrow: A Journey Through Britain, Then and Now

 

[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
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
47/45 Yeva Skalietska - You Don't Know What War Is: the diary of a young girl from Ukraine

48/45 David Nutt - Drink? The new science of alcohol and your health

 

[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
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
25/20 The Leopard by Tomasi di Lampedusa
26/20 The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard
Pulpy space fantasy Sherlock Holmes kind of thing, fortunately not too Holmesy. Have to say I liked it better than I was expecting, probably helped being very short and focused.
27/20 Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada
Series of interconnected scenes in the lives of a few characters mostly revolving around either having children or wanting to have children. Well written and creates a very effective strange and slightly dreamlike atmosphere with a lot of subtlety but I didn't really get it. Tropical fish seemed to be significant.

 

[RedRedRose]

Aim: 100

1. John Breuilly – Austria, Prussia and the making of Germany, 1806-1871
2. John Breuilly – The Formation of the First German Nation-State, 1800-1871
3. Mike Davis – Late Victorian Holocausts
4. EP Thompson – The Making of the English Working Class
5. Stephen D Brookfield – Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
6. Sam Wineburg – Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
7. Richard J Evans – The Coming of the Third Reich
8. Richard J Evans – The Third Reich in Power
9. Peter Waldron – The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917
10. John Reed – Ten Days that Shook the Earth
11. EH Carr - The Russian Revolution from Lenin to Stalin, 1917-1929
12. Leon Trotsky – The Revolution Betrayed
13. Christopher Duggan – The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy since 1796
14. H James Burgwyn – Mussolini and the Salo Republic, 1943-1945
15. Primo Levi – The Periodic Table
16. Enzo Traverso – Fire and Blood: The European Civil War
17. David M. Glantz - When Titans Clash
18. Robyn R Jackson – Never Work Harder Than Your Students
19. Paul S Boyer – By the Bombs Early Light
20. David Holloway – Stalin and Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956
21. Peter Kropotkin – The Great French Revolution, 1789-1793
22. Jeremy D Popkin – A New World Begins
23. Alexander Rabinowitch - The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd
24. Paul Le Blanc – October Song
25. Friedrich Engels - Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany
26. Piers Brendon - The Dark Valley
27. Anatole France - The Gods Are Athirst
28. Maria Sophia Quine - Population Politics in Twentieth-Century Europe
29. George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying
30. Rebecca West – Return of the Soldier
31. Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
32. James C Welsh - The Underworld
33. Dmitri Volkogonov – Autopsy of an Empire: The Seven Leaders Who Built the Soviet Regime
34. Vladislav M Zubok - Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
35. JR McNeill – Something New Under the Sun
36. Vaclav Smil – Energy and Civilization: A History
37. William McDonough and Michael Braungart - Cradle to Cradle
38. Volker Quaschning - Renewable Energy and Climate Change
39. Mark Sagoff - The Economy of the Earth
40. Tim Flannery - Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet
41. Carl A. Zimring - Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
42. Callum Roberts - The Unnatural History of the Sea
43. Charles Loch Mowat - Britain between the Wars, 1918-40
44. Roy Hattersley - Borrowed Time: The Story of Britain Between the Wars
45. Stuart Maconie - Long Road from Jarrow: A Journey Through Britain, Then and Now
46. Oliver Goldsmith - The Deserted Village

I had heard this was good for social commentary on Georgian Britain. I thought it was going to be a short novel, but it turns out its a 40 or so page poem about rural de-population caused by the enclosure movement and the industrial revolution. Interesting read.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I am extraordinarily bored at work....

By my count we have read a total of 734 different books this year between the 32 people that contributed. (I've excluded Ska Invita as I don't believe they read every Mr. Man book under the sun in only one year)

Petee, yield, smudge and Chilli.s apear to have landed exactly on their targets.

The most popular author is the prolific Lee Child, and this is thanks entirely to Marty21's efforts reading 26 of his books. RIP Joan Didion who died last Christmas.



The most read book was Shuggie Bain, the Booker winner, with 5 readers.

The House and Needless Street managed 3 readers,

33 books managed 2 readers. The rest, only one each.

A lot of people read very serious tomes.

Hopefully I will be too occupied to update this over the next 3 weeks, I'm just glad we don't have to produce a shortlist of Urban's favourite books of the year.