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

[Pickman's model]

I'm posting the new thread soon. Usual rules, all books completed before 23:59 on 31 Dec 2022 please count on this thread, any finished after 00:00 on 1 Jan 2023 on the next thread and please don't be inconvenient and finish a book in the final 60 seconds of the year

 

[pseudonarcissus]

26/12 Silverview - John le Carre

not one of the best, but the last.

25/12 Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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

 

[Winot]

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

19/29 Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Have been meaning to read this for years but was a bit disappointed in the end. Didn't really like the style in which it was written.

 

[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

40/52 Fingers Crossed : How Music Saved Me from Success by Miki Berenyi

 

[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

44/45 David Graeber - The Utopia of Rules

 

[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
27/20 Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada
28/20 The Civil War in France by Karl Marx

 

[Winot]

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
19/29 Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

20/29 Winter - Ali Smith

Very good. Even better than Autumn. Looking forward to Spring.

 

[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

59 - Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

 

[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
27/20 Weasels in the Attic by Hiroko Oyamada
28/20 The Civil War in France by Karl Marx
29/20 Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan
Still not sure what to make of this, it's based on interviews with a former horse trainer who has had an interesting and at times harrowing life (there was a lot of very bluntly described cruelty towards both people and animals). Didn't really read like a novel and I'm not sure how fictionalised it is - I found myself wondering if it would be much different (or even better) to read the woman's actual words. That being said it did grow on me, I think I'd call it an interesting read rather than a great one.

 

[hitmouse]

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

If I'd read Moby Dick myself, I might be able to make some kind of a joke here about some kind of a great and lengthy pursuit of an elusive goal that doesn't end that well, or something. But as it is, I've never actually tried reading it, and so I'm woefully underqualified to make that joke.

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.

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I feel like a solid amount of Didion's showing there must be either my doing, or else the rest of my #viral #influencer #marketing on her behalf.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

If I'd read Moby Dick myself, I might be able to make some kind of a joke here about some kind of a great and lengthy pursuit of an elusive goal that doesn't end that well, or something. But as it is, I've never actually tried reading it, and so I'm woefully underqualified to make that joke.

I feel like a solid amount of Didion's showing there must be either my doing, or else the rest of my #viral #influencer #marketing on her behalf.

I read Moby Dick soon after we got our first VCR. I recorded it off the TV and set the stop time in accordance with the Radio Times, or whatever, and an extended news caused me to miss the last 15 minutes...I had to read the book to see how it ended.

(I definitely watched the English version, though)

Post #85 seems to confirm I started Didion at your recommendation. Thank you. Who's your author of 2023 going to be, I wonder? I guess we find out in a couple of weeks.

 

[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

28. "Divided House" - JM Dalgleish. Terrible. Not sure why I persisted with it really.

 

[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

49/45 Terry Pratchett - Soul Music

 

[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
40/52 Fingers Crossed : How Music Saved Me from Success by Miki Berenyi

41/52 Fergie Rises: How Britain's Greatest Football Manager Was Made At Aberdeen by Michael Grant

 

[Fozzie Bear]

20/29 Joe Thomas - White Riot

A crime novel set in Hackney from 1978-1983. The crime is primarily committed by the police.

This is excellent and I have been sent a copy before it's published because a bunch of things I have written about Hackney were used by the author. Which is a bit humbling. It's a gripping read and he does an incredible job of bringing the various strands and events to life - The Rock Against Racism carnival in Victoria Park, the NF HQ in Hoxton, the death of Colin Roach, the drugs trade and cops, old pubs of Hackney, music, it's all kicking off. First of a trilogy apparently. Top stuff.

 

[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
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
56 The Madonna of Bolton, Matt Cain
57 My Husband's Fiancé, Wendy Owens
58 A Ladder to the Sky, John Boyne

 

[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
44/45 David Graeber - The Utopia of Rules

45/45 Cixen Liu - The Wandering Earth

A short novella, but I was starting to get worried I wasn't gonna hit 45.

46/45 Blindboy Boatclub - The Gosple According to Blindboy

Wonderful, dark, humorous short stories. I never knew the sacrifice de Valera made for the revolution.

 

[Pickman's model]

the new thread now live at the strictly come reading 2023 reading challenge thread. but pls continue to post books finished this year here

 

[pseudonarcissus]

27/12 Gather together in my name. -Maya Angelou

my goodness, what a life...and I've got another 5 volumes of autobiography to go!

26/12 Silverview - John le Carre
25/12 Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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

 

[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.

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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.

we are up to 754 books, our top 9 authors are now:

 

[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

19. Mieko Kawakami - Breasts and Eggs. It's taken me ages to read this book, and I'm not sure it was worth it.

 

[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
28. "Divided House" - JM Dalgleish

29. "No less the Devil" - Stuart MacBride. Thought this was going to be an entertaining but fairly predictable police procedural thriller. It kind of was but also took quite a different direction

 

[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
49/75 Slow Horses - Mick Herron

 

[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
59 - Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

60 - Denise Mina - Confidence

 

[Fozzie Bear]

21/29 Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller - Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

The book of the excellent podcast. Each chapter is about one or two Bad Gays from history. There's quite a bit of "what being gay meant at this point" if it was even a thing. The most enjoyable chapters for me were Yukio Mishima, Lawrence of Arabia, The Bad Gays of Weimar Berlin and Ronnie Kray. The concluding chapter about Pym Fortune is a well written but a difficult read as it raises all sorts of difficult questions about far right / neoliberal white gay men, their opposition to Muslims and the upholding of the increasgingly terrifying status quo of the 2020s.

 

[Riklet]

I havent finished a single book this year although ive read bits and bobs. Shocking stuff. Is it too late for one?!

 

[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
40/52 Fingers Crossed : How Music Saved Me from Success by Miki Berenyi
41/52 Fergie Rises: How Britain's Greatest Football Manager Was Made At Aberdeen by Michael Grant

42/52 On Days Like These: My Life in Football by Martin O'Neill

 

[Fozzie Bear]

22/29 Edmund Davie - Lights

 

[marty21]

20/29 Joe Thomas - White Riot

A crime novel set in Hackney from 1978-1983. The crime is primarily committed by the police.

This is excellent and I have been sent a copy before it's published because a bunch of things I have written about Hackney were used by the author. Which is a bit humbling. It's a gripping read and he does an incredible job of bringing the various strands and events to life - The Rock Against Racism carnival in Victoria Park, the NF HQ in Hoxton, the death of Colin Roach, the drugs trade and cops, old pubs of Hackney, music, it's all kicking off. First of a trilogy apparently. Top stuff.

I like the sound of this!

 

[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
49/45 Terry Pratchett - Soul Music

50/45 Amanda Montell - Cultish: the language of fanaticism