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

How many books do you anticipate reading in 2024?

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I started out on the thread but was finishing books at night so didn't want to update it at the time and then realised I was getting anxious that I hadn't updated it so binned the idea off in my mind.

However I plan to post a screenshot of my kindle reading stats and if I can get the actual books out easily might update the list!
 
1/30 - Philip K. Dick - Valis
2/30 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
3/30 - Franz Kafka - The Trial
4/30 - Dan Charnas - Dilla Time
The Life and Afterlife of the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
5/30 - Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
6/30 - Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
7/30 - William S. Burroughs - Junky
8/30 - Louise Welsh - The Cutting Room
9/30 - J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
10/30 - Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
11/30 - Percival Everett - James
12/30 - Frank Herbert - Dune
13/30 - Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
14/30 - Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
15/30 - William Gibson - Count Zero
16/30 - James Kelman - How Late It Was, How Late
17/30 - Laurie Gunst - Born Fi’ Dead
18/30 - John Niven - O Brother
19/30 - Mel Cheren - My Life and the Paradise Garage
20/30 - William S. Burroughs - Queer
21/30 - Edna O’Brien - Lantern Slides
22/30 - Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
23/30 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
24/30 - Toni Morrison - Jazz
25/30 - Ed Gillett - Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain
26/30 - John Williams - Stoner
27/30 - Colette - Gigi

28/30 - Russell Hoban - Fremder
 
PursuedByBears said:
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.
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I reckon you could knock a few minutes off your rides through the forest if you put the books down.
 
rich! said:
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)
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142. Michael Moorcock, The Wandering Swarm. There's a lot of Moorcock that basically goes "We had the best time in the 60s, so much better than anyone has ever had before, and there is no way anyone will ever have a time as good as that again." This does that as semi-autobiography with a portal fantasy blended in where he ends up in his own pulps. Sort of entertaining as a Moorcock completist, and interesting to get the views on other writers of the time...
 
pseudonarcissus said:
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
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my list is too long to post as a post :) and won't attach for some reason!
 
1/30 - Philip K. Dick - Valis
2/30 - Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
3/30 - Franz Kafka - The Trial
4/30 - Dan Charnas - Dilla Time
The Life and Afterlife of the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
5/30 - Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
6/30 - Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars
7/30 - William S. Burroughs - Junky
8/30 - Louise Welsh - The Cutting Room
9/30 - J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye
10/30 - Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness
11/30 - Percival Everett - James
12/30 - Frank Herbert - Dune
13/30 - Iain Banks - The Wasp Factory
14/30 - Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
15/30 - William Gibson - Count Zero
16/30 - James Kelman - How Late It Was, How Late
17/30 - Laurie Gunst - Born Fi’ Dead
18/30 - John Niven - O Brother
19/30 - Mel Cheren - My Life and the Paradise Garage
20/30 - William S. Burroughs - Queer
21/30 - Edna O’Brien - Lantern Slides
22/30 - Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions
23/30 - Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
24/30 - Toni Morrison - Jazz
25/30 - Ed Gillett - Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain
26/30 - John Williams - Stoner
27/30 - Colette - Gigi
28/30 - Russell Hoban - Fremder

29/30 - Vladimir Nabokov - Invitation to a Beheading
 
rich! said:
142. Michael Moorcock, The Wandering Swarm. There's a lot of Moorcock that basically goes "We had the best time in the 60s, so much better than anyone has ever had before, and there is no way anyone will ever have a time as good as that again." This does that as semi-autobiography with a portal fantasy blended in where he ends up in his own pulps. Sort of entertaining as a Moorcock completist, and interesting to get the views on other writers of the time...
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143-145. More Grimes - #22, The Anarch Lords, #23, The Last Amazon, #24, The Wild Ones
 
rich! said:
142. Michael Moorcock, The Wandering Swarm. There's a lot of Moorcock that basically goes "We had the best time in the 60s, so much better than anyone has ever had before, and there is no way anyone will ever have a time as good as that again." This does that as semi-autobiography with a portal fantasy blended in where he ends up in his own pulps. Sort of entertaining as a Moorcock completist, and interesting to get the views on other writers of the time...
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Read The Whispering Swarm a couple of years back and really enjoyed it, also prompted me to go and check out the Inner Temple area of London on which Alsacia seemed to be based
 
1/19 The Dream of the Celt - Mario Vargas Llosa
2/19 The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
3/19 Celtic Gold, A Voyage Around Ireland - Peter Marshall
4/19 The Great Game (Nikolai Dante) - Robbie Morrison
5/19 Snow - Orhan Pamuk
6/19 Blaming the Victims - Said & Hitchens
7/19 The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickens
8/19 God Emperor of Dune - Frank Herbert
9/19 Drood - Dan Simmons
10/19 Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm... Sci-fi classic on the end of the world eco disaster survival thing
11/19 - That Neutral Island - Clair Wills... incredible and eye opener on Ireland during WW2, imperialists, spies, migrants, secret service, fear, fash, loathing and defiance
12/19 Don't Fall off the Mountain - Shirley MacLaine ... fascinating memoir of the 50s and 60s
13/19 You Can Get There from Here - Shirley MacLaine... almost as good as the previous book, especially when she goes to China
14/19 The Searcher - Tana French... the usual page turner you'd expect from French. Not overly enamoured with it being written in the present tense, though

15/19 11-22-63 - Stephen King... not bad, but not as amazing as had been led to believe. Sometimes his main male characters annoy me.
16/19 This Champagne Mojito Is the Last Thing I Own - Ross O'Carroll Kelly... guilty pleasure. If you've read any of them, you know the score, roysh
17/19 A Rumor of War - Philip Caputo... I'd say this rivals Diapatches. Visceral, horrific Nam true experience.
18/19 The Opium War - Brian Inglis. India exploited mercilessly and China addicted. All the time the politicians and EIC and other pushers lie, profit and shit all over their prey.
 
1. A Memory of Light (Book 14 Wheel of Time) Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson
2. Rebel (Book 1 The Starbuck Chronicles) Bernard Cornwell
3. Copperhead (Book 2 The Starbuck Chronicles) Bernard Cornwell
4. Battle Flag (Book 3 The Starbuck Chronicles) Bernard Cornwell
5. The Bloody Ground (Book 4 The Starbuck Chronicles) Bernard Cornwell
6. To the Drouro (Book 1 Wellington's Dragoon) David J Blackmore
7. Secret Lines (Book 2 Wellington's Dragoon) David J Blackmore
8. Behind the Lines (Book 3 Wellington's Dragoon) David J Blackmore
9. A Different Kind of War(Book 4 Wellington's Dragoon) David J Blackmore
10. Yankee Mission (Book 25 Thomas Kydd) Julian Stockwin
11. Blood & Courage (Book 11 Craven's War) Nick S. Thomas
12. The Final Chance (Book 12 Craven's War) Nick S. Thomas
13. Blood & Courage (Book 13 Craven's War) Nick S. Thomas
14. Blood & Courage (Book 14 Craven's War) Nick S. Thomas
15. Housecarl (Book 1 Aelfraed) Griff Hosker
16. Outlaw (Book 2 Aelfraed) Griff Hosker
17. Varangian (Book 3 Aelfraed) Griff Hosker
18. Alchemy (Book 7 Giordano Bruno) S.J.Parris
19. The Captain's Nephew (Book 1 Alexander Clay) Phillip K Allen
20. A Sloop of War (Book 2 Alexander Clay) Phillip K Allen
21. On the Lee Shore (Book 3 Alexander Clay) Phillip K Allen
22. A Man of No Country (Book 4 Alexander Clay) Phillip K Allen
23. The Distant Ocean (Book 5 Alexander Clay) Phillip K Allen
24. The Turn of the Tide (Book 6 Alexander Clay) Phillip K Allen
25. In Northern Seas (Book 7 Alexander Clay) Phillip K Allen
26. Larcum Mudge (Book 8 Alexander Clay) Phillip K Allen
27. Upon the Malabar Coast (Book 9 Alexander Clay) Phillip K Allen
28. Clay & the Imortal Memory (Book 10 Alexander Clay) Phillip K Allen
29. A Talent for Trouble (Book 1 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
30. The Special Operations Flotilla (Book 2 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
33. Agent Provocateur (Book 3 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
33. In Dangerous Company (Book 4 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
34. The Tempest (Book 5 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
35. Vendetta (Book 6 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
36. The Trojan Horse (Book 7 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
37. La Licorne (Book 8 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
38. Raider (Book 9 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
39. Silverthorn (Book 10 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
40. Exile (Book 11 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
41. Dynasty (Book 12 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
42. Empire (Book 13 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
43. Revolution (Book 14 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
44. Burma (Book 15 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
45. Independence (Book 16 The Dorset Boy) Christopher C Tubbs
46. Wharton (Book 1 The Wharton Series) George Edwardson
47. Majestic (Book 2 The Wharton Series) George Edwardson
48. Ajax (Book 3 The Wharton Series) George Edwardson
49. Goliath (Book 4 The Wharton Series) George Edwardson
50. Leopard (Book 5 The Wharton Series) George Edwardson
51. Warlord (Book 6 The Wharton Series) George Edwardson
52. Kemp: The Road to Crecy (Book 1 Arrows of Albion Series) Jonathan Lunn
53. Kemp: Passage at Arms (Book 2 Arrows of Albion Series) Jonathan Lunn
54. Kemp: The Castle in the Marsh (Book 3 Arrows of Albion Series) Jonathan Lunn
55. Kemp: Riders of Fury (Book 4 Arrows of Albion Series) Jonathan Lunn
56. Kemp: An Arrow for the Crown (Book 5 Arrows of Albion Series) Jonathan Lunn
57. Kemp: The Warriors in the Snow (Book 6 Arrows of Albion Series) Jonathan Lunn
58. Kemp: The Flames of Heresy (Book 7 Arrows of Albion Series) Jonathan Lunn
59. Kemp: The Road to Poitiers (Book 8 Arrows of Albion Series) Jonathan Lunn
60. Crusader (Book 1 Crusader) Paul Bannister
61. Treason (Book 2 Crusader) Paul Bannister
62. Templar (Book 3 Crusader) Paul Bannister
63. Siege (Book 4 Crusader) Paul Bannister
64. Kingmaker (Book 5 Crusader) Paul Bannister
65. Lord Edward's Archer (Book 1 Lord Edward's Archer) Griff Hosker
66. King in Waiting (Book 2 Lord Edward's Archer) Griff Hosker
67. An Archer's Crusade (Book 3 Lord Edward's Archer) Griff Hosker
68. Targets of Treachery (Book 4 Lord Edward's Archer) Griff Hosker
69. Arthur Britannicus (Book 1 Forgotten Emperor) Paul Bannister
70. Arthur Imperator (Book 2 Forgotten Emperor) Paul Bannister
71. Arthur Invictus (Book 3 Forgotten Emperor) Paul Bannister
72. The King's Cavalry (Book 4 Forgotten Emperor) Paul Bannister
73. A Fragile Peace (Book 5 Forgotten Emperor) Paul Bannister
74. Arthur: War's End (Book 6 Forgotten Emperor) Paul Bannister
75. Sharpe's Command (Book 14 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
Inspired by this am now Re-reading the Sharpe Series
76. Sharpe's Tiger (Book 1 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
77. Sharpe's Triumph (Book 2 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
78. Sharpe's Fortress (Book 3 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
79. Sharpe's Trafalgar (Book 4 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
80. Sharpe's Prey (Book 5 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
81. Sharpe's Rifles (Book 6 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
82. Sharpe's Havoc (Book 7 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
83. Sharpe's Eagle (Book 8 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
84. Sharpe's Gold (Book 9 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
85. Sharpe's Escape (Book 10 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
86. Sharpe's Fury (Book 11 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
87. Sharpe's Battle (Book 12 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
88. Sharpe's Company (Book 13 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
89. Sharpe's Sword (Book 15 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
90. Sharpe's Enemy (Book 16 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
91. Sharpe's Honour (Book 17 Sharpe Series) Bernard Cornwell
 
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rich! said:
143-145. More Grimes - #22, The Anarch Lords, #23, The Last Amazon, #24, The Wild Ones
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146. Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer. Three Vietnamese guys make a pact as teenagers and keep it after the fall of Saigon. People keep referring to this as "darkly comic" which I found odd - it was compelling and horrifying but apart from the revisiting of the making of a famous war film, I didn't notice a lot of comedy. That might have been my mood, mind.
 
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

50/30 Enigma, The Battle for the Code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore. A comprehensive account of the allied efforts to break the enigma machine. It gives all due credit to the Poles who did a lot of work in the 1930s. I didn't realise that it didn't have to be broken just once. The Germans repeatedly changed their system and each time the cryptographers had to work it out. The book also discusses the question of why the Germans didn't realise it had been broken - it seems that the British obsession about keeping the knowledge quiet, and not acting too specifically in what they knew kept the cat in the bag.
 
Summary of the year.

Top 5 ( not in any order)
  • The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
  • Who they was by Gabriel Krause
  • The only story by Julian Barnes
  • An experiment in love by Hilary Mantel
  • Clothes, music, boys by Viv Albertine
and the shit list

  • Promise me by Harlan Coben
  • The Devil's Playground by Stav Sherez
  • Every second counts by Lance Armstrong
  • Snowblind by Robert Sabbag
  • The last days of Mussolini by FW Deakin
 
1/36 Diaries 1980–1988: Halfway to Hollywood – The Film Years by Michael Palin
2/36 The Bingo Hall Detectives by Jonathan Whitelaw
3/36 Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars by David Hepworth (Audiobook)
4/36 Heart of Dart-ness: Bullseyes, Boozers and Modern Britain by Ned Boulting
5/36 Pulp’s This is Hardcore by Jane Savidge
6/36 Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
7/36 Keeffe Plays: 1: Gimme Shelter (Gem, Gotcha, Getaway), Barbarians (Killing Time, Abide with Me, in the City) by Barrie Keefe
8/36 Steak . . . Diana Ross: Diary of a Football Nobody by David McVay (ReRead)
9/36 Murder on the Darts Board by Justin Irwin
10/36 Savage Season by Joe R. Lansdale
11/36 Mucho Mojo by Joe R. Lansdale
12/36 A Summer in the Park: A Journal of Speakers’ Corner by Tony Allen
13/36 The Two-Bear Mambo by Joe R. Lansdale
14/36 Bad Chili by Joe R. Lansdale
15/36 The Ballad of Boaby Souness: A Twitter Odyssey curated by David F. Ross

16/36 Midnight and Blue by Ian Rankin

My worse year for reading books for many a year. A combination of playing too much darts - which ate into my free time - and falling out of love with reading books on my phone. If I'm going to get my reading mojo back, I'll have to get back to reading actual physical books.
 
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