Once more unto the book dear friends: 2024 reading challenge thread

[Fozzie Bear]

21/24 See Red Press - Taking Sides, Taking Risks: Jean Genet and the Red Army Faction

Beautifully produced pamphlet about the French writer's support for the RAF (and his politics generally). Also a useful history of the group, which is more positive than is usually the case (and certainly more positive than I am about them). At one point the wider periphery of RAF supporters who might give them shelter are referred to as the "armchair left", which is bollocks really as it seems highly likely that a number of these people were activists involved with things less exciting, but far more useful, than blowing things up and assassinating former nazis. Genet's 1977 "Violence and Brutality" article from Le Monde is reproduced in full and is an interesting probing of what constitutes violence as well as being in solidarity with the RAF prisoners, many of who would end up dead in questionable circumstances shortly afterwards. There are also some interesting threads in here about Genet's and the RAF's connections with Palestinians struggles - and Genet's links with the Black Panthers.

 

[nottsgirl]

Recently read Strong Female Character by Fern Brady. Devoured it in a weekend. I’m guessing it was about book number 5 this year. There’s always a temptation to think that autism isn’t really “real” but she explains her experience so well it took that way for me.

 

[rubbershoes]

1/30 The Damned Utd by David Peace
2/30 I, Partridge We need to talk about Alan by Alan Partridge
3/30 No Way Down by Graham Bowley.
4/30 Kennedy 35 by Charles Cumming
5/30 Every second counts by Lance Armstrong
6/30 The Dead House by Harry Bingham
7/30 Underground Airline by Ben Winters
8/30 Who they was by Gabriel Krause
9/30 The Last - Hanna Jameson
10/30 The Night Visitors by Carol Goodman.
11/30 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
12/30 The Unfolding by AM Homes
13/30 Clothes, music, boys by Viv Albertine
14/30 Misery by Stephen King
15/30 The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
16/30 Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
17/30 Down River by John Hart
18/30 Magic Seeds by VS Naipaul
19/30 In our mad and furious city by Guy Gunaratne
20/30 The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
21/30 The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957 by Frank Dikötter
22/30 The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez
23/30 The Ticket Collector from Belarus by Mike Anderson & Neil Hanson
24/30 Countdown City by Ben Winters
25/30 The Seventh Victim by Michael Wood
26/30 A death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger
27/30 Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel
28/30 Spies by Michael Frayn.
29/30 All quiet on the Western front by Erich Maria Remarque
30/30 When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
31/30 The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (and other stories) by Alan Sillitoe
32/30 Alone on the Ice by David Robert
33/30 The only story by Julian Barnes
34/30 An experiment in love by Hilary Mantel
35/30 Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
36/30 Exit by Belinda Bauer
37/30 I, Partridge: We need to talk about Alan by Alan Partridge (again). I read the book and/or listen to the audiobook a couple of times a year
38/30 History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
39/30 Jeeves and the feudal spirit by PG Wodehouse
40/30 On The Road Bike: The Search For A Nation’s Cycling Soul by Ned Boulting
41/30 The Crow Road by Iain Banks
42/30 The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch
43/30 The last days of Mussolini by FW Deakin
44/30 Travels with my aunt by Graham Greene
45/30 Promise me by Harlan Coben
46/30 Tree of Hands by Ruth Rendell
47/30 Snowblind by Robert Sabbag
48/30 They Will Have to Die Now – Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate by James Verini.

49/30 Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind by Colin Renfrew A dense, scholarly work on how archaeologists have discovered/guessed how human society developed. It was interesting to read but I can't remember much about it, other than that before about 1850 it was believed that we would never have any idea about human society from before the written word

 

[Hollis]

1. High Rise - JG Ballard
2. Notes to Self - Emilie Pine
3. Things can only get bitter: the lost generation of 1992 - Alwyn Turner.
4. The Economic Consequences of Mr Churchill - JM Keynes.
5. Churchill: Walking with Destiny - Andrew Roberts

 

[CNT36]

1/19 Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism?
2/19 Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
3/19 Gary Russell - Doctor Who: The Star Beast
4/19 Maz Evans - Oh Maya God's.
5/19 Storm Dunlop and Will Tirion - Night Sky Almanac: A stargazers guide to 2024
6/19 Thomas S Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
7/19 Isaac Asimov - Foundation
8/19 Robert Dallek - Nixon and Kissinger
9/19 Tristan Gooley - How to read water.
10/19 Sybille Steinbacher - Auschwitz: A history
11/19 Hannah Arendt- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the Banality of Evil
12/19 George Mann - Doctor Who: Engines of War
13/19 David Graeber - Pirate Enlightenment, or the real Libertalia
14/19 Dale Smith - Doctor Who: The Many Hands
15/19 Chris van Tulleken - Ultra Processsed People: Why do we all eat stuff that isn't food... and why can't we stop?
16/19 Paul Cornell - Doctor Who: Goth Opera
17/19 Jon Shonk - Introducing Meterology: A guide to weather
18/19 M Testa - Militant Anti-Facism: A hundred years of resistance.
19/19 Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Empire
20/19 Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story
21/19 Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Company
22/19 Isaac Asimov- Second Foundation
23/19 Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud - Pegasus: The inside story of the world's most dangerous spy software
24/19 Ginny Smith - Overloaded: How every aspect of your life is influenced by your brain chemicals

The role chemicals, particularly neurotransmitters, play on our lives. It is broken up into chapters about everyday experiences such as sleep, hunger, addiction and attachment and which chemicals have a role to play. It is not a one chemical one result with an array of chemicals involved in any behaviour or feelings and each can have multiple, even contradictory, roles depending on how they interact with each other, various receptors and neural networks.

 

[CNT36]

1/19 Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism: What killed capitalism?
2/19 Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
3/19 Gary Russell - Doctor Who: The Star Beast
4/19 Maz Evans - Oh Maya God's.
5/19 Storm Dunlop and Will Tirion - Night Sky Almanac: A stargazers guide to 2024
6/19 Thomas S Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
7/19 Isaac Asimov - Foundation
8/19 Robert Dallek - Nixon and Kissinger
9/19 Tristan Gooley - How to read water.
10/19 Sybille Steinbacher - Auschwitz: A history
11/19 Hannah Arendt- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the Banality of Evil
12/19 George Mann - Doctor Who: Engines of War
13/19 David Graeber - Pirate Enlightenment, or the real Libertalia
14/19 Dale Smith - Doctor Who: The Many Hands
15/19 Chris van Tulleken - Ultra Processsed People: Why do we all eat stuff that isn't food... and why can't we stop?
16/19 Paul Cornell - Doctor Who: Goth Opera
17/19 Jon Shonk - Introducing Meterology: A guide to weather
18/19 M Testa - Militant Anti-Facism: A hundred years of resistance.
19/19 Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Empire
20/19 Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story
21/19 Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Company
22/19 Isaac Asimov- Second Foundation
23/19 Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud - Pegasus: The inside story of the world's most dangerous spy software
24/19 Ginny Smith - Overloaded: How every aspect of your life is influenced by your brain chemicals
25/19 Aaron Y. Zelin - The age of political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

2022 book about the Jihadist group that has just played a major role in the fall of Assad. Obviously a little out of date given recent events. Suggests HTS in practice have become more like other authoritarian regimes in the region and less like traditional Jihadist groups. They have not gone full Taliban in areas they have been ruling but there have been a litany of abuses in the areas they have "liberated" including torture. These abuses have been directed against civilians, other Jihadists and those involved in the Syrian revolution. Framed as an assessment of whether to remove the HTS' Foriegn terrorist organisation designation the book lists a number of things it should do to achieve this. Imo some of these would be good for those in the, vastly increased, area it controls. HTS are currently at least paying lip service to some such as an electoral process, protections for minorities and a larger role for women in society. It also talks about how HTS like IMO other Jihadist groups has a range of opinions inside it. As ever the challenge is to boost the relatively forward looking (the books words) elements at the expense of others. Views on which way is forward may differ.

 

[PursuedByBears]

1. Karl Stock - Comic Book Punks: How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture
2. John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3. Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4. Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5. Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6. Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7. Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8. Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9. Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10. Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12. Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13. Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14. David Lodge - Changing Places
15. Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16. CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17. David Lodge - Small World
18. David Lodge - Nice Work
19. Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20. Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21. Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22. Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23. Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24. Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25. Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
26. Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
27. Ian Mortimer - Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
28. John Tomlinson, Simon Jacob - Armoured Gideon
29. Robin Hardy, Anthony Shaffer - The Wicker Man
30. Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram - Head North: a Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain
31. Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six
32. Dan Abnett, Phil Winslade - Lawless: Breaking Badrock
33. Terry Pratchett - Jingo
34. Huey Morgan - Rebel Heroes: The Renegades of Music and Why We Still Need Them (audiobook)
35. Andrew White - Lancaster: a history
36. Ian Edgington, D'Israeli - Scarlet Traces vol 2
37. Mark Millar, Richard Eldon, Al Ewing, Chris Weston - The Best of Tharg's Terror Tales
38. Katja Hoyer - Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990
39. Randall Munro [xkcd comics] - What If? 2: Additional Serious Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
40. Alan Grant, Emma Beeby, Maura McHugh - Anderson, Psi-Division: NWO
41. Guy Adams, Jimmy Broxton - Hope
42. Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
43. Robert Morrison - The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World
44. John Wagner, David Hine, Nick Percival - Dominion
45. David Mitchell - Unruly: a History of England's Kings and Queens [audiobook]
46. David Hine, Nick Percival - The Dark Judges: Deliverance
47. Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent
48. Bernard Cornwell - The Winter King
49. Pat Mills, Patrick Goddard - Savage: The Marze Murderer
50. Arthur Wyatt, Jake Lynch - Judge Dredd: The Red Queen Saga
51. Tom Tully, Vanyo - The Mind of Wolfie Smith
52. Maurice LeBlanc - The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
53. Everett True - Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones
54. Stuart Maconie - The Full English: a Journey in Search of a Country and its People [audiobook]
55. Chris Lowder, Gerry Finley Day, Dave Gibbons - Dan Dare: The 2000AD Years - vol 2
56. H G Wells - The Island of Doctor Moreau
57. Dan Abnett, Mark Harrison - The Out
58. Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum
59. T C Eglington, Simon Davis - Thistlebone
60. David Katz - Solid Foundation: an Oral History of Reggae
61. Torsten Bell - Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back [audiobook]
62. Michael Morpurgo - War Horse
63. P G Wodehouse - School Stories
64. Michael Fleisher, Steve Dillon - The New Harlem Heroes vol 1
65. David Barnett - Withered Hill
66. John Wagner, Alan Grant, Carlos Ezquerra - Strontium Dog: the Starlord Years
67. Stuart Maconie - The Pie at Night: In Search of the North at Play
68. Michael Fleischer, Ron Smith - Rogue Trooper: Friday vol 1
69. HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness
70. Varaidzo - Manny and the Baby
71. Dan Abnett, Richard Elson - Feral and Foe
72. Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything [audiobook]
73. Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant
74. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith - A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
75. Pat Mills - M.A.C.H.-1 vol 1
76. Natalie Whittle - Crunch: an Ode to Crisps
77. Samantha Harvey - Orbital [audiobook]
78. Mark Millar, Chris Weston - Canon Fodder
79. Mark Steel - The Mark Steel Lectures [audiobook]

80. James Peaty, Paul Marshall, Colin MacNeil - Skip Tracer vol 1

 

[rich!]

139,140. Charlie Jane Anders, Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak (reread), Promises Stronger than Darkness. Volumes 2 and 3 resp. The space romp continues, more evil happens by genocidal maniacs who can't stand people being different, the found family becomes stronger despite tragedies, and everything wraps up to a satisfying conclusion.

141. Len Deighton, Blood, Tears and Folly. Len sets out to settle scores with almost everyone above the rank of Corporal who was involved in the Second World War. To justify his scores he provides a magisterial historical perspective on various aspects of the war, which is useful and makes the historical vindication clearly so much sweeter. Annoyingly, it stops about 1942, so I'm not 100% sure that the Allies won in his particular history. (eta: it's non-fiction)

 

[pseudonarcissus]

32/29 Change - Édouard Louis

31/29 A Visit to Don Otavio - A Mexican Odyssey – Sybille Bedford
30/29 Grow Where They Fall – Michael Donkor
29/29 A Song Flung up to Heaven – Maya Angelou
28/29 Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
27/29 The Housing Lark – Sam Selvon
26/29 Boys Alive - Pier Paolo Pasolini
25/29 Stubborn Archivist – Yara Rodrigues Fowler
24/29 Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse – Brontez Purnell
23/29 The Festival of Insignificance – Milan Kundera
22/29 Ways of Sunlight – Sam Selvon
21/29 Blessings - Chukwuebuka Ibeh
20/29 All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes – Maya Angelou
19/29 Leading Man – Justin Myers
18/29 Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus – Mary Shelley
17/29 100 Boyfriends - Brontez Purnell
16/29 Helena – Evelyn Waugh
15/29 Homo Deus – A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
14/29 My Father and Myself – J. R. Ackerley
13/29 Family Meal – Bryan Washington
12/29 Mona of the Manor – Armistead Maupin
11/29 The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon (reread)
10/29 Hard Rain Falling – Don Carpenter
9/29 Possession – AS Byatt
8/29 User - Bruce Benderson
7/29 Crush – Richard Siken
6/29 And Then He Sang a Lullaby – Ani Kayode Somtochukwu
5/29 Iracema – José de Alencar
4/29 The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
3/29 Where I Was From – Joan Didion
2/29 The Whale Tattoo – Jon Ransom
1/29 There Are More Things – Yara Rodrigues Fowler

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

1/19 Paul Murray - Skippy Dies
2/19 Charlie Allison - No Harmless Power
3/19 Andrew Kurkov - Grey Bees
4/19 Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
5/19 Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent - A Short Ride in the Jungle
6/19 David Graeber - Pirate Enlightenment, or the real Libertalia
7/19 Barney Campbell - Rain
8/19 Sandra Newman - Julia
9/19 Ian Black - Enemies and Neighbours. Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel 1917-2017
10/19 Stephen Oppenheimer - The Origins of the British
11/19 Joanna Cannon - The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
12/19 Laurie Lee - As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

 

[marty21]

1/60 Silent Prey - John Sandford.
2/60 Sudden Prey - John Sandford
3/60 Easy Prey - John Sandford
4/60 Wolves of Winter - Dan Jones
5/60 Normandy '44 : D-Day And The Battle For France - James Holland
6/60 Bad Actors - Mick Herron
7/60 The Wings of Pegasus - The Story of The Glider Pilot Regiment - George Chatterton (audio book)
8/60 This is Memorial Device - David Keenan
9/60 Sicily '43 : The First Assault on Fortress Europe - James Holland.
10/60 Salt Lane - William Shaw
11/60 Deadland - William Shaw
12/60 Under Occupation - Alan Furst
13/60 A Hero in France - Alan Furst
14/60 Grave's End - William Shaw
15/60 The Trawlerman - William Shaw
16/60 To War With The Walkers : One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War - Annabel Venning
17/60 The Wild Swimmers - William Shaw
18/60 Beyond the Wall :East Germany 1949-1990 - Katia Hoyer
19/60 Empireworld - Sathnam Sanghera
20/60 Anything For Her - Jack Jordan
21/60 One Man's Window - Denis Barnham (audio book)
22/60 Dixie City Jam - James Lee Burke
23/60 Heaven's Prisoners - James Lee Burke
24/60 Word of Honour -Nelson Demille
25/60 Black Cherry Blues - James Lee Burke
26/50 Akenfield - Ronald Blythe
27/50 The Lost Paths : A History of How We Walk from Here to There - Jack Cornish
28/50 National Treasures : Saving The Nation's Art in World War II - Caroline Shenton

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Liz Nugent - Strange Sally Diamond
2/52 - Zadie Smith - NW
3/52 - Val McDermid - Past Lying
4/52 - S.A. Cosby - Blacktop Wasteland
5/52 - Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
6/52 - Elly Griffiths - A Room Full of Bones
7/52 - Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
8/52 - Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt (BC)
9/52 - Graham Norton - Holding
10/52 - Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
11/52 - Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
12/52 - Ann Patchett - Tom Lake
13/52 - Elly Griffiths - A Dying Fall
14/52 - Iain Banks - Stonemouth (re-read)
15/52 - Doris Lessing - A Perfect Marriage (Martha Quest 2)
16/52 - Clare Chambers - In a Good Light
17/52 - Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis (re-read)
18/52 - Doug Johnstone - A Dark Matter
19/52 - Stephen King - Insomnia
20/52 - Doug Johnstone - The Big Chill
21/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Robber Bride
22/52 - Peter James - Stop Them Dead
23/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Secret House of Death
24/52 - Ann Patchett - The Dutch House
25/52 - Richard Chizmar - The Long Way Home
26/52 - Doug Johnstone - The Great Silence
27/52 - Maggie Shipstead - Great Circle
28/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Raging Storm
29/52 - Patricia Highsmith - The Tremor of Forgery
30/52 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
31/52 - Doug Johnstone - Black Hearts
32/52 - Zadie Smith - The Fraud
33/52 - Claire Keegan - So Late in the Day
34/52 - Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry
35/52 - John Irving - The Last Chairlift
36/52 - Doug Johnstone - The Opposite of Lonely
37/52 - Clare Chambers - The Editor's Wife
38/52 - Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer
39/52 - Peter James - They Thought I Was Dead
40/52 - Jacqueline O'Mahony - Sing, Wild Bird, Sing (BC)
41/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Outcast Dead
42/52 - Charles Dickens - David Copperfield (BC)
43/52 - Iain Banks - The Steep Approach to Garbadale (re-read)
44/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Ghost Fields
45/52 - James M Cain - The Embezzler
46/52 - Clare Chambers - Shy Creatures
47/52 - Stephen King - Everything's Eventual
48/52 - Doug Johnstone - Living is a Problem
49/52 - Irvine Welsh - Resolution
50/52 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - That Thing Around Your Neck
51/52 - Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye
52/52 - Roddy Doyle - The Woman Behind The Door
53/52 - Jo Walton - Farthing
54/52 - Maggie O'Farrell - I Am, I Am, I Am
55/52 - David Nicholls - Us
56/52 Stephen King - Rose Madder (re-read)

 

[Me76]

hc - hard copy
dl - dens library
k - kindle
g - google

1/50 Face, Benjamin Zephaniah- hc
2/50 My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh - dl
3/50 Tin Toys Trilogy, Ursula Holden - g
4/50 Famished, Meghan O'Flynn - g
5/50 Mystery Girl, Kenneth Rosenberg - k
6/50 The Last Single Girl, Bria Quinlan - k
7/50 White Fang, Jack London - dl
8/50 One Last Step, Sarah Sutton- k
9/50 The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa
10/50 The Humans, Matt Haig - dl
11/50 Luckiest Girl Alive, Jessica Knoll- dl
12/50 See Jane Run, Joy Fielding - dl
13/50 Panic, Jeff Abbot - hc
14/50 Anatomy of a Soldier, Harry Parker - g
15/50 Serena, Ron Rash - dl
16/50 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid - dl
17/50 See Her Run, Rylie Dark - k
18/50 Brick Lane, Monica Ali - k
19/50 You Like It Darker, Stephen King - g
20/50 Damaged, Martina Cole - g
21/50 The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue - g
22/50 Chocolat, Joanne Harris - hc
23/50 The Silence Project, Carole Hailey - dl
24/50 The Cows, Dawn O'Porter - g
25/50 Blood Relatives, Stevan, Alcock - g
26/50 The Innocents, Francesca Segal - g
27/50 Once Upon a Crime, Nolon King - k
28/50 The Escape Room, L D Smithson - g
29/50 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Elif Shafak - g
30/50 Stag Party, Ben Rehder - k
31/50 Water, John Boyne - g
32/50 Untouched, Robert J Crane - k
33/50 Duma Key, Stephen King - hc
34/50 Learned by Heart, Emma Donahue - g
35/50 Soulless, Robert J Crane - k
36/50 The Silent Boy, Cheryl Bradshaw - g
37/50 All the Broken Places, John Boyne - g
38/50 Smoke, Dan Vyleta - g
39/50 Rule number One, Katherine Hastings - k
40/50 Farthing, Jo Walton - g
41/50 Lessons, Ian McEwan - g
42/50 She Had to Kill Him, Aviva
Gat - k
43/50 Bad Parents, SL Harker - k

It's been slow going this year. I have two on the go that I will probably finish before the new year but I reckon that will be it.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "Wrong Place Wrong Time" - Gillian McAllister.
2. "The Scarlet Papers" - Matthew Richardson
3. "The Year of the Locust" - Terry Hayes
4. "Kill for Me: Kill for You" - Steve Cavanagh
5"The One" - John Marrs
6. "Her Last Move" - John Marrs
7. "Rock, Paper, Scissors" -Alice Fenney
8. "Anna O" - Matthew Blake
9. 'My Name Is Nobody" - Matthew Richardson
10. "The Drift" - CJ Tudor
11. "The Other People" - C.J. Tudor
12. "The Marriage Act" - John Marrs
13. "Strung" - Per Jacobson
14. "Conviction" - Jack Jordan
15. "No One Saw A Thing" - Andrea Marr
16. "Before the Fall" - Noah Hawley
17. "Extinction" - Douglas Preston
18. "A Lesson in Cruelty" - Harriet Tyce
19. "All Her Fault" - Andrea Marr
20. "The Kaiju Preservation Society" - John Scalzi
21. "Three Assassins" - Kotato Isaka
22. "The Chamber" - Will Dean
23. The Hiding Place - Simon Lelic
24. "The Fury" - Alex Michaelides
25. "VOX" - Christina Dalcher
26. "The Last Day" - Andrew Hunter Murray
27. "In the Blink of an Eye" - Jo Callaghan.l
28. "None of this Is True" - Lisa Jewell

29. "The Dream Home" - T.M. Logan. Sometimes chilling but sadly also rather long minded thriller

 

[Fozzie Bear]

22/24 Sheila Rowbotham - Daring To Hope: My life in the 1970s

Not quite as enjoyable as her 1960s autobiography which I read earlier this year. This is partly because this covers a period when she has become more established as a feminist writer, so there is a great deal of information about working on books which I haven't read, or speaking at meetings. There are still some nice accounts of life in a communal house in Dalston and the complications of her relationships with lovers. She is also alarmed by the sudden arrival of feminist separatism and I liked her gradual rejection of vanguardism/Leninism - leading up to the "Beyond The Fragments" book. There are some nice sections about juggling motherhood with other aspects of her life. And a foregrounding of the horrors of Thatcherism which I guess is one of the next installment.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

23/24 Tim Wells - Crown & Anchor

A collection of horror short stories, with a common theme being objects purchased at the car boot sale at Princess May School on the border of Stoke Newington and Dalston. Wells is a poet (of the non-pretentious, working class sort), so there are some lovely turns of phrase alongside the hauntings and commentary on the changing face of Hackney. The horror is primarily light hearted and psychological rather than bloody. Good fun.

 

[hitmouse]

22/24 Sheila Rowbotham - Daring To Hope: My life in the 1970s

Not quite as enjoyable as her 1960s autobiography which I read earlier this year. This is partly because this covers a period when she has become more established as a feminist writer, so there is a great deal of information about working on books which I haven't read, or speaking at meetings. There are still some nice accounts of life in a communal house in Dalston and the complications of her relationships with lovers. She is also alarmed by the sudden arrival of feminist separatism and I liked her gradual rejection of vanguardism/Leninism - leading up to the "Beyond The Fragments" book. There are some nice sections about juggling motherhood with other aspects of her life. And a foregrounding of the horrors of Thatcherism which I guess is one of the next installment.

Think she's doing a few speaking dates in the new year, just had a look and she's speaking at Housmans in January if that's of any interest:

BOOK TALK: Reasons to Rebel by Sheila Rowbotham

Please join us for a evening with celebrated socialist-feminist Sheila Rowbotham We are thrilled to welcome Sheila Rowbotham back to Housmans and to celebrate the latest volume of her memoirs, Reas…

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1/45 John Fowles - The Collector
2/3 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (Marx, Labour-Power, Working Class)
2/45 Claire Dederer - Monsters
3/3-3/45 Mario Tronti - Workers and Capital (Postscript and Appendix)
4/45 Josh Davidson and Eric King (eds) - Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners
5/45 Charlie Squire - Slouching: A Field Guide to Art and (Un-) Belonging in Europe
6/45 Alasdair Gray - 1982, Janine
7/45 Isaac Rose - The Rentier City
8/45 Gemma Fairclough - Bear Season
9/45 PG Wodehouse - Carry On, Jeeves
10/45 Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
11/45 Willa Cather - My Antonia
12/45 Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women
13/45 Richard Wright - Native Son
14/45 Saul Bellow - Humboldt's Gift
15/45 John Berger and Jean Mohr - Another Way of Telling
16/45 Tao Lin - Leave Society
17/45 Miranda July - All Fours
18/45 Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss
19/45 Hilary White - Holes
20/45 Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies
21/45 Jane Huffman - Public Abstract
22/45 Alexander Billet - Shake the City
23/45 Patricia Lockwood - Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
24/45 George Katsiaficas - The Subversion of Politics
25/45 Torrey Peters - Detransition, Baby
26/45 Joan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I Mean
27/45 James Ellroy - Perfidia
28/45 Don DeLillo - White Noise
29/45 Colson Whitehead - Zone One
30/45 Dickhead Bidge - Bakunin Brand Vodka: Anarchism in Early Punk, 1976-1980
31/45 Thomas M Disch - Camp Concentration
32/45 RF Kuang - Babel
33/45 Jen Calleja - Goblinhood
34/45 Albert Meltzer - I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels
35/45 Nell Osborne - Thank You For Everything
36/45 Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project
37/45 Katherine Angel - Daddy Issues

38/45 Iris Murdoch - The Nice and the Good

Really enjoyed this, although real Murdoch heads will have spotted that in my previous post I made the embarrassing mistake of referring to Mingo as Theodore's brother when Mingo is in fact, of course, Theodore's dog. Just an immensely fun and interesting read, I had heard that it had a happy ending and found this somewhat hard to imagine, but in fact it did end up having a full Shakespeare-comedy-style ending where everyone gets paired up with everyone else except for one character who goes off to a Buddhist monastery. Been too long since I read any Murdoch, definitely want to read more soon. May well be my last full read of the year but maybe not, now starting Julia Armfield - Our Wives Under the Sea. Think this is gonna be good.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

As always seems to happen at this time of year, I am working offshore and have time on my hands. I've started compiling the 2024 most read list....so far our most popular books are:



feel free to update your lists

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Liz Nugent - Strange Sally Diamond
2/52 - Zadie Smith - NW
3/52 - Val McDermid - Past Lying
4/52 - S.A. Cosby - Blacktop Wasteland
5/52 - Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
6/52 - Elly Griffiths - A Room Full of Bones
7/52 - Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
8/52 - Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt (BC)
9/52 - Graham Norton - Holding
10/52 - Taylor Jenkins Reid - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
11/52 - Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
12/52 - Ann Patchett - Tom Lake
13/52 - Elly Griffiths - A Dying Fall
14/52 - Iain Banks - Stonemouth (re-read)
15/52 - Doris Lessing - A Perfect Marriage (Martha Quest 2)
16/52 - Clare Chambers - In a Good Light
17/52 - Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis (re-read)
18/52 - Doug Johnstone - A Dark Matter
19/52 - Stephen King - Insomnia
20/52 - Doug Johnstone - The Big Chill
21/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Robber Bride
22/52 - Peter James - Stop Them Dead
23/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Secret House of Death
24/52 - Ann Patchett - The Dutch House
25/52 - Richard Chizmar - The Long Way Home
26/52 - Doug Johnstone - The Great Silence
27/52 - Maggie Shipstead - Great Circle
28/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Raging Storm
29/52 - Patricia Highsmith - The Tremor of Forgery
30/52 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold
31/52 - Doug Johnstone - Black Hearts
32/52 - Zadie Smith - The Fraud
33/52 - Claire Keegan - So Late in the Day
34/52 - Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry
35/52 - John Irving - The Last Chairlift
36/52 - Doug Johnstone - The Opposite of Lonely
37/52 - Clare Chambers - The Editor's Wife
38/52 - Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer
39/52 - Peter James - They Thought I Was Dead
40/52 - Jacqueline O'Mahony - Sing, Wild Bird, Sing (BC)
41/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Outcast Dead
42/52 - Charles Dickens - David Copperfield (BC)
43/52 - Iain Banks - The Steep Approach to Garbadale (re-read)
44/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Ghost Fields
45/52 - James M Cain - The Embezzler
46/52 - Clare Chambers - Shy Creatures
47/52 - Stephen King - Everything's Eventual
48/52 - Doug Johnstone - Living is a Problem
49/52 - Irvine Welsh - Resolution
50/52 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - That Thing Around Your Neck
51/52 - Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye
52/52 - Roddy Doyle - The Woman Behind The Door
53/52 - Jo Walton - Farthing
54/52 - Maggie O'Farrell - I Am, I Am, I Am
55/52 - David Nicholls - Us
56/52 - Stephen King - Rose Madder (re-read)

57/52 - Elly Griffiths - The Woman in Blue

 

[pseudonarcissus]

we seem to have read a lot, collectively, this year...I'm on 580 books after 2 pages.
There will be an intermission; my job finished early and a helicopter is on its way...I will be home for Christmas, barring accidents.

 

[zedr]

1/24 Radicalized - Cory Doctorow
2/24 The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe (audio book)
3/24 Ray Bradbury - We'll Always Have Paris (audio book)
4/24 The Three Body Problem - Liu Cixin (reread, audio book)
5/24 Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
6/24 Destination Unknown - Agatha Christie (audio book)
7/24 Dogs of War - Adrian Tchaikovsky (audiobook)
8/24 Less is More, How Degrowth Will Save the World - Jason Hickel
9/24 The Last Days of New Paris - China Miéville
10/24 Watchmen - Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons (reread)
11/24 For Those Who Are About To - Joanna Russ
12/24 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
13/24 Shadow of the Sun - Ryszard Kapuscinski
14/24 Ammonite - Nicola Griffith
15/24 Sea of Tranquility - Emily St John Mandel
16/24 The Lion Will Slaughter The Lamb - Margret Killjoy
17/24 Galatea - Madeline Miller
18/24 The Drowned World - JG Ballard
19/24 Babel - RF Kuang
20/24 Post Internet Far Right - Sam Moore & Alex Roberts
21/24 Agency - William Gibson
22/24 The Employees - Olga Ravn

23/24 The Warren - Brian Evenson
Post apocalyptic exploration of what it means to be a human. Reminded me of Gene Wolf's Book of the New Sun in how the narrator is describing a very specific, well trodden sci fi setting from a totally different perspective. Loved it.

Now just got to finish that Angry Workers book before new year.

 

[PursuedByBears]

1. Karl Stock - Comic Book Punks: How a Generation of Brits Reinvented Pop Culture
2. John Wagner, Alan Grant - Judge Dredd: the Complete Case Files vol 07
3. Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
4. Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory (reread)
5. Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby - Survival Geeks
6. Paul Baker - Fabulousa!: the Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language
7. Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
8. Louisa May Alcott - Little Women
9. Neil Gaiman - Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
10. Pat Mills, Gerry Finley-Day - Dan Dare: the 2000AD Years - vol 1
11. Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
12. Ian Edginton, Leigh Gallagher - Kingmaker
13. Iain Banks - Walking on Glass
14. David Lodge - Changing Places
15. Gerry Finley-Day, Alan Davis - Harry 20 on the High Rock
16. CLR James, Nik Watts, Sakina Karimjee - Toussaint Louverture: the Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
17. David Lodge - Small World
18. David Lodge - Nice Work
19. Jah Wobble - Dark Luminosity: Memoirs of a Geezer, the expanded edition
20. Alan McKenzie, John Ridgway - The Journal of Luke Kirby
21. Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
22. Helene Lee - The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism
23. Ryszard Kapuscinski - The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat [Haile Selassie I]
24. Alec Worsley, Ben Willsher - Durham Red: Born Bad
25. Edwin A Abbott - Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
26. Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
27. Ian Mortimer - Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
28. John Tomlinson, Simon Jacob - Armoured Gideon
29. Robin Hardy, Anthony Shaffer - The Wicker Man
30. Andy Burnham, Steve Rotheram - Head North: a Rallying Cry for a More Equal Britain
31. Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six
32. Dan Abnett, Phil Winslade - Lawless: Breaking Badrock
33. Terry Pratchett - Jingo
34. Huey Morgan - Rebel Heroes: The Renegades of Music and Why We Still Need Them (audiobook)
35. Andrew White - Lancaster: a history
36. Ian Edgington, D'Israeli - Scarlet Traces vol 2
37. Mark Millar, Richard Eldon, Al Ewing, Chris Weston - The Best of Tharg's Terror Tales
38. Katja Hoyer - Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990
39. Randall Munro [xkcd comics] - What If? 2: Additional Serious Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
40. Alan Grant, Emma Beeby, Maura McHugh - Anderson, Psi-Division: NWO
41. Guy Adams, Jimmy Broxton - Hope
42. Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
43. Robert Morrison - The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron and the Making of the Modern World
44. John Wagner, David Hine, Nick Percival - Dominion
45. David Mitchell - Unruly: a History of England's Kings and Queens [audiobook]
46. David Hine, Nick Percival - The Dark Judges: Deliverance
47. Terry Pratchett - The Last Continent
48. Bernard Cornwell - The Winter King
49. Pat Mills, Patrick Goddard - Savage: The Marze Murderer
50. Arthur Wyatt, Jake Lynch - Judge Dredd: The Red Queen Saga
51. Tom Tully, Vanyo - The Mind of Wolfie Smith
52. Maurice LeBlanc - The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
53. Everett True - Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones
54. Stuart Maconie - The Full English: a Journey in Search of a Country and its People [audiobook]
55. Chris Lowder, Gerry Finley Day, Dave Gibbons - Dan Dare: The 2000AD Years - vol 2
56. H G Wells - The Island of Doctor Moreau
57. Dan Abnett, Mark Harrison - The Out
58. Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum
59. T C Eglington, Simon Davis - Thistlebone
60. David Katz - Solid Foundation: an Oral History of Reggae
61. Torsten Bell - Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back [audiobook]
62. Michael Morpurgo - War Horse
63. P G Wodehouse - School Stories
64. Michael Fleisher, Steve Dillon - The New Harlem Heroes vol 1
65. David Barnett - Withered Hill
66. John Wagner, Alan Grant, Carlos Ezquerra - Strontium Dog: the Starlord Years
67. Stuart Maconie - The Pie at Night: In Search of the North at Play
68. Michael Fleischer, Ron Smith - Rogue Trooper: Friday vol 1
69. HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness
70. Varaidzo - Manny and the Baby
71. Dan Abnett, Richard Elson - Feral and Foe
72. Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything [audiobook]
73. Terry Pratchett - The Fifth Elephant
74. Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith - A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
75. Pat Mills - M.A.C.H.-1 vol 1
76. Natalie Whittle - Crunch: an Ode to Crisps
77. Samantha Harvey - Orbital [audiobook]
78. Mark Millar, Chris Weston - Canon Fodder
79. Mark Steel - The Mark Steel Lectures [audiobook]
80. James Peaty, Paul Marshall, Colin MacNeil - Skip Tracer vol 1

81. Paul Cornell, D'Isreali - XTNCT
82. James Joyce - The Dubliners - really didn't like this at all, a disconnected exercise in miserablism which leaned heavily into the Pour Paddy trope
83. Jay Kristoff - Empire of the Vampire - this on the other hand is highly entertaining. Vampires in a grimdark fantasy setting, what's not to like?

And I think that's me for 2024.

 

[nogojones]

I'm halfway through six books at the moment and I'm going to be quite busy over the next week or so. So I suspect I might not finish any more. I should really just focus on one book, but I just don't seem to have the attention span. I just rotate through a chapter each

 

[marty21]

1/60 Silent Prey - John Sandford.
2/60 Sudden Prey - John Sandford
3/60 Easy Prey - John Sandford
4/60 Wolves of Winter - Dan Jones
5/60 Normandy '44 : D-Day And The Battle For France - James Holland
6/60 Bad Actors - Mick Herron
7/60 The Wings of Pegasus - The Story of The Glider Pilot Regiment - George Chatterton (audio book)
8/60 This is Memorial Device - David Keenan
9/60 Sicily '43 : The First Assault on Fortress Europe - James Holland.
10/60 Salt Lane - William Shaw
11/60 Deadland - William Shaw
12/60 Under Occupation - Alan Furst
13/60 A Hero in France - Alan Furst
14/60 Grave's End - William Shaw
15/60 The Trawlerman - William Shaw
16/60 To War With The Walkers : One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War - Annabel Venning
17/60 The Wild Swimmers - William Shaw
18/60 Beyond the Wall :East Germany 1949-1990 - Katia Hoyer
19/60 Empireworld - Sathnam Sanghera
20/60 Anything For Her - Jack Jordan
21/60 One Man's Window - Denis Barnham (audio book)
22/60 Dixie City Jam - James Lee Burke
23/60 Heaven's Prisoners - James Lee Burke
24/60 Word of Honour -Nelson Demille
25/60 Black Cherry Blues - James Lee Burke
26/50 Akenfield - Ronald Blythe
27/50 The Lost Paths : A History of How We Walk from Here to There - Jack Cornish
28/50 National Treasures : Saving The Nation's Art in World War II - Caroline Shenton
29/50 Dead Lions - Mick Herron

 

[hitmouse]

As always seems to happen at this time of year, I am working offshore and have time on my hands. I've started compiling the 2024 most read list....so far our most popular books are:

View attachment 456195

feel free to update your lists

This adds a bit more tension to whether I'll finish Our Wives... before the year is out, since I think May also read it this year so it'll also qualify for the prestigious list of books that more than one urb has read. If I finish it by the 31st, which I may or may not do. Sure Julia Armfield will be on the edge of her seat for this one.

 

[inva]

1/50 The State of Capitalism by Costas Lapavitsas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective
2/50 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
3/50 The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson
4/50 Army of Lovers by K.M. Soehnlein
5/50 Cold Nights of Childhood by Tezer Özlü
6/50 Sanditon by Jane Austen
7/50 Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake
8/50 Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman
9/50 A Long Time Dead by Samara Berger
10/50 Asia’s Unknown Uprisings Volume 1: South Korean Social Movements in the 20th Century by George Katsiaficas
11/50 Maigret at Picratt’s by Georges Simenon
12/50 Matrix by Lauren Groff
13/50 Persuasion by Jane Austen
14/50 The Glass Pearls by Emeric Pressburger
15/50 Hôtel Splendid by Marie Redonnet
16/50 Dandelions by Yasunari Kawabata
17/50 The Slave Ship: A Human History by Marcus Rediker
18/50 Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight by Aliette de Bodard
19/50 The Cracked Looking Glass by Katherine Anne Porter
20/50 Film Making in 1930s Britain by Rachael Low
21/50 Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
22/50 After the New Economy by Doug Henwood
23/50 The Teachers’ Room by Lydia Stryk
24/50 The Small Back Room by Nigel Balchin
25/50 Dragon Palace by Hiromi Kawakami
26/50 In the Long Run We Are All Dead by Geoff Mann
27/50 Madame de by Louise de Vilmorin
28/50 Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form by Anna Kornbluh
29/50 We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
30/50 Falling Hour by Geoffrey D. Morrison
31/50 BFFs by Anahit Behrooz
32/50 My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen
33/50 Go Back at Once by Robert Aickman
34/50 The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
35/50 The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor
36/50 All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
37/50 Chuǎng 1: Dead Generations by Chuǎng
38/50 Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
39/50 The World Turned Upside Down by Christopher Hill
40/50 The Covert Captain by Jeanelle M. Ferreria
41/50 Orbital by Samantha Harvey
42/50 The Scandalous Letters of V and J by Felicia Davin
43/50 Child of Fortune by Yūko Tsushima
44/50 Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach
45/50 The Tell Tale by Clare Ashton
46/50 My Mortal Enemy by Willa Cather
47/50 The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
48/50 Britain in Revolution by Austin Woolrych
49/50 Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
50/50 Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
51/50 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
52/50 The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy
53/50 Second Chances in New Port Stephen by TJ Alexander
54/50 Stick Together by Sophie Hénaff
55/50 1649: The Crisis of the English Revolution by Brian Manning
56/50 Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
57/50 Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Queer horror comedy? Something like that, seems to have been written in response to the 2023 writers guild strike and also refers to a media trope of making LGBT characters pay for their sexuality or gender expression often by killing them off. Not one I'm very familiar with, though I've heard of it and when I looked it up I hadn't seen most of the stuff referenced so maybe not surprising. Chuck Tingle seems like he might be quite annoying if I knew more about him but luckily I don't.

Anyway this wasn't as funny as it tried to be, and was a bit over earnest, not too bad though and the horror element playing off AI script writing was quite good if heavy handed.

 

[Biddlybee]

1/60 Silent Prey - John Sandford.
2/60 Sudden Prey - John Sandford
3/60 Easy Prey - John Sandford
4/60 Wolves of Winter - Dan Jones
5/60 Normandy '44 : D-Day And The Battle For France - James Holland
6/60 Bad Actors - Mick Herron
7/60 The Wings of Pegasus - The Story of The Glider Pilot Regiment - George Chatterton (audio book)
8/60 This is Memorial Device - David Keenan
9/60 Sicily '43 : The First Assault on Fortress Europe - James Holland.
10/60 Salt Lane - William Shaw
11/60 Deadland - William Shaw
12/60 Under Occupation - Alan Furst
13/60 A Hero in France - Alan Furst
14/60 Grave's End - William Shaw
15/60 The Trawlerman - William Shaw
16/60 To War With The Walkers : One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War - Annabel Venning
17/60 The Wild Swimmers - William Shaw
18/60 Beyond the Wall :East Germany 1949-1990 - Katia Hoyer
19/60 Empireworld - Sathnam Sanghera
20/60 Anything For Her - Jack Jordan
21/60 One Man's Window - Denis Barnham (audio book)
22/60 Dixie City Jam - James Lee Burke
23/60 Heaven's Prisoners - James Lee Burke
24/60 Word of Honour -Nelson Demille
25/60 Black Cherry Blues - James Lee Burke
26/50 Akenfield - Ronald Blythe
27/50 The Lost Paths : A History of How We Walk from Here to There - Jack Cornish
28/50 National Treasures : Saving The Nation's Art in World War II - Caroline Shenton
29/50 Dead Lions - Mick Herron

I've just started that. Reading it alongside Farthing

 

[petee]

1/9 Mr Arkadin
the book comes with the criterion video.
so this year i'll at least have fallen within range, last year it was zero.
and there should be a poll option for zero.

 

[furluxor]

1/15 - The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
2/15 - Uprooted by Naomi Novik
3/15 - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
4/15 - Circe by Madeline Miller
5/15 - The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle (reread)
6/15 - The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben
7/15 - The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
8/15 - Complete Land Law: Text, Cases, and Materials by Roger Sexton, Barbara Bogusz
9/15 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
10/15 - Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
11/15 - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
12/15 - Vilnius. Wilno. Vilna. Three Short Stories by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė
13/15 - Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince
14/15 - The Official DVSA Theory Test for Car Drivers by DVSA
15/15 - The Official Highway Code by DVSA
16/15 - Autumn Chills by Agatha Christie
17/15 - Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
18/15 - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
19/15 - Granta 168: Significant Other
20/15 - Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

21/15 - Recursion by Blake Crouch. A time-travel sci-fi thriller using memory as a medium. Mid. The topic of relationship over time, and loss, always makes me feel a lot of feelings and some of those parts were good. Some were cheesy. Bizarrely, this is the 2018 in which Glenn Greenwald is still a "Guardian journalist" (it's a minor moment but I did groan). When the author's voice comes through in the characters, it's not likeable.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

1/60 Silent Prey - John Sandford.
2/60 Sudden Prey - John Sandford
3/60 Easy Prey - John Sandford
4/60 Wolves of Winter - Dan Jones
5/60 Normandy '44 : D-Day And The Battle For France - James Holland
6/60 Bad Actors - Mick Herron
7/60 The Wings of Pegasus - The Story of The Glider Pilot Regiment - George Chatterton (audio book)
8/60 This is Memorial Device - David Keenan
9/60 Sicily '43 : The First Assault on Fortress Europe - James Holland.
10/60 Salt Lane - William Shaw
11/60 Deadland - William Shaw
12/60 Under Occupation - Alan Furst
13/60 A Hero in France - Alan Furst
14/60 Grave's End - William Shaw
15/60 The Trawlerman - William Shaw
16/60 To War With The Walkers : One Family's Extraordinary Story of the Second World War - Annabel Venning
17/60 The Wild Swimmers - William Shaw
18/60 Beyond the Wall :East Germany 1949-1990 - Katia Hoyer
19/60 Empireworld - Sathnam Sanghera
20/60 Anything For Her - Jack Jordan
21/60 One Man's Window - Denis Barnham (audio book)
22/60 Dixie City Jam - James Lee Burke
23/60 Heaven's Prisoners - James Lee Burke
24/60 Word of Honour -Nelson Demille
25/60 Black Cherry Blues - James Lee Burke
26/50 Akenfield - Ronald Blythe
27/50 The Lost Paths : A History of How We Walk from Here to There - Jack Cornish
28/50 National Treasures : Saving The Nation's Art in World War II - Caroline Shenton
29/50 Dead Lions - Mick Herron

Can I say, posters that add to the full list each time are very helpful, however, posters with names ending in a number are problematic if I just drag the name down on the spreadsheet. Thanks Marty50