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the grand 2015 reading challenge thread

how many books do you anticipate reading in 2015?


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1. Kyme & Priestley, ed. - Tales Of Heresy
2. Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - Out Of The Pit
3. Mike Lee - Fallen Angels
4. Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain
5. Stella Gibbons - Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm
6. Anne Lecki - Ancillary Justice
7. Rick Pristley - Slaves To Darkness
8. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron
9. Luke Haines - Bad Vibes: Britpop And My Part In its Downfall
10. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron V.2
11. Marc Gascoigne - The Trolltooth Wars
12. Ian Watson - Chaos Child
13. John French - Ahriman Sorcerer
14. Chiang Yee - The Silent Traveller In London
15. Graham McNeill - A Thousand Sons
16. Richard Saunders - If A Pirate I Must Be - The Story Of Bartholomew Roberts, King Of The Caribbean
17. Steve jackson - Citadel Of Chaos
18. Ian Livingstone - Forest Of Doom
19. Alan Grant & John Wagner - Doomlord: The Deathlords Of Nox
20. Andrew Ward - Football's Strangest Matches
21. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron V.3
22. Aaron Dembski Bowden - The First Heretic
23. Ian Livingstone - City Of Thieves
24. Kent Greenfield - The Myth Of Choice
25. Dan Abnett - Prospero Burns
26. Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
27. Marianne Grabucker - There's A Good Girl: Gender Stereotyping In The First Three Years, A Diary
28. Christian Dunn - Age Of Darkness
29. Ian Livingstone - Deathtrap Dungeon
30. Richard Halliwell - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Rulebook
31. Steve Jackson - Scorpion Swamp
32. Alan Bligh - Imperial Armour Volume Nine: The Badab War Part One
33. Alan Bligh - Imperial Armour Volume Ten: The Badab War Part Two
34. Alisdair Alpin MacGregor - The Ghost Book: Strange Hauntings In Britain
35. Ian Livingstone - Caverns Of The Snow Witch
36. Ian Livingstone - Temple Of Terror
 
1/30 Inferno by Dan Brown
2/30 Saga by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples
3/30 Tales of the city by Armistead Maupin
4/30 Rapture by Jd Robb
5/30 Saga Vol 2 by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples
6/30 Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory
7/30 Kick-ass by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr
8/30 The Godfather by Mario Puzo
9/30 The Sicilian by Mario Puzo
10/30 The Last Don by Mario Puzo
 
1/52 The In Between Time by Alexander Baron
2/52 King Mob : A Critical Hidden History by David Wise with Stuart Wise & Nick Brandt
3/52 Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
4/52 The Beiderbecke Affair by Alan Plater (Reread)
5/52 The Hour of the Innocents by Robert Paston
6/52 The Beiderbecke Tapes by Alan Plater (Reread)
7/52 Bellies and Bullseyes: The Outrageous True Story of Darts by Sid Waddell
8/52 In The Thirties by Edward Upward
9/52 Bright Summer, Dark Autumn by Robert Barltrop (Reread)

10/52 Journey Through a Small Planet by Emanuel Litvinoff (Reread)

I may have to christen this literary year 'The Year of the ReRead', but I can't help myself. An absolutely wonderful memoir of growing up in Jewish London in the interwar years. A must reread.
 
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1/60 - 'Til Death - Ed McBain
2/60 - How to Connect with Nature - Tristan Gooley
3/60 - The Dead Women of Juarez - Sam Hawken
4/60 - Jericho: Season 3 Civil War - Dan Shotz,Robert Levine,Jason Burns (Graphic Novel)
5/60 - jericho: Season 4 - Kalinda Vazquez (Graphic Novel)
6/60 - The Black Echo- Michael Connelly
7/60 - The Black Ice - Michael Connelly
8/60 - Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly
9/60 - The Last Coyote - Michael Connelly
10/60 - Trunk Music - Michael Connelly

Loving the Bosch series of novels , TV adaptation on Amazon is a pretty good too.
 
1/30 Inferno by Dan Brown
2/30 Saga by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples
3/30 Tales of the city by Armistead Maupin
4/30 Rapture by Jd Robb
5/30 Saga Vol 2 by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples
6/30 Chew by John Layman and Rob Guillory
7/30 Kick-ass by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr
8/30 The Godfather by Mario Puzo
9/30 The Sicilian by Mario Puzo
10/30 The Last Don by Mario Puzo
11/30 Saga Vol 3 by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples
 
1. Leaving Berlin, Joseph Kanon.
2. The child thief, Dan Smith.
3. Foxglove summer, Ben Aaronovich.
4. The beating of his wings, Paul Hoffman.
5. The cheapside corpse, Susanna Gregory.
6. Il metodo del coccodrillo- Maurizio de Giovanni.
7. The sin-eater's daughter- Melinda Salisbury.
8. Half the world- Joe Abercrombie
9. Tatiana- Martin cruz Smith
10. The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared- jonas jonasson.
11. The undertaking- Audrey Macgee
12. The book of life- Deborah Harkness.
13. Norwegian by Night- Derek Miller. Brilliant- another book about a curmudgeonly old man in Scandinavia, lost in his past and on the run.... But this guy is an American Jew, and he has rescued a young boy from his mother's killers. Amazingly written, incredibly subtle, at times very funny, but also emotional and tense. I think it may be the best read so far this year..... Though god knows how I will sleep tonight!
 
1/45 Head On - Julian Cope
2/45 Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff
3/45 The Ladies Of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke
4/45 Bring Up The Bodies - Hilary Mantel
5/45 The Blacker The Berry - Wallace Thurman
6/45 Once You Break A Knuckle - D W Wilson
7/45 The Child Thief - Dan Smith
8/45 The Epicure's Lament - Kate Christensen
9/45 East Of Eden - John Steinbeck

Loved it. I'd still put it as his third best, after The Grapes Of Wrath and Of Mice And Men, but a real treat to read an epic from him.
 
1. Kyme & Priestley, ed. - Tales Of Heresy
2. Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - Out Of The Pit
3. Mike Lee - Fallen Angels
4. Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain
5. Stella Gibbons - Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm
6. Anne Lecki - Ancillary Justice
7. Rick Pristley - Slaves To Darkness
8. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron
9. Luke Haines - Bad Vibes: Britpop And My Part In its Downfall
10. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron V.2
11. Marc Gascoigne - The Trolltooth Wars
12. Ian Watson - Chaos Child
13. John French - Ahriman Sorcerer
14. Chiang Yee - The Silent Traveller In London
15. Graham McNeill - A Thousand Sons
16. Richard Saunders - If A Pirate I Must Be - The Story Of Bartholomew Roberts, King Of The Caribbean
17. Steve jackson - Citadel Of Chaos
18. Ian Livingstone - Forest Of Doom
19. Alan Grant & John Wagner - Doomlord: The Deathlords Of Nox
20. Andrew Ward - Football's Strangest Matches
21. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron V.3
22. Aaron Dembski Bowden - The First Heretic
23. Ian Livingstone - City Of Thieves
24. Kent Greenfield - The Myth Of Choice
25. Dan Abnett - Prospero Burns
26. Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
27. Marianne Grabucker - There's A Good Girl: Gender Stereotyping In The First Three Years, A Diary
28. Christian Dunn - Age Of Darkness
29. Ian Livingstone - Deathtrap Dungeon
30. Richard Halliwell - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Rulebook
31. Steve Jackson - Scorpion Swamp
32. Alan Bligh - Imperial Armour Volume Nine: The Badab War Part One
33. Alan Bligh - Imperial Armour Volume Ten: The Badab War Part Two
34. Alisdair Alpin MacGregor - The Ghost Book: Strange Hauntings In Britain
35. Ian Livingstone - Caverns Of The Snow Witch
36. Ian Livingstone - Temple Of Terror
37. Anthony Beevor - Stalingrad
 
1/27 The Universe in a Single Atom -- The Dalai Lama
2/27 The Last President -- John Barnes
3/27 Walden -- Henry David Thoreau
4/27 Walden on Wheels -- Ken Ilgunas
5/27 Walk to the End of the Word -- Suzy Charnas
6/27 Leading the Way: Asian American Artists of the Older Generation -- Paul Karstrom, et al.

7/27 Vacant - Alex Hughes
8/27 Earthbound - Joe Haldeman
9/27 Insurgent - Veronica Roth (yeh, I know. :oops:)

10/27 The Visitors - Clifford D. Simak

I think I might have underestimated my yearly total.
 
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1/51 - The Flemish House by Georges Simenon
2/15 - In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
3/51 - The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham
4/51 - Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate by Kenan Malik
5/51 - The Pursued by C.S. Forester
6/51 - The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
7/51 - The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon
 
1. Leaving Berlin, Joseph Kanon.
2. The child thief, Dan Smith.
3. Foxglove summer, Ben Aaronovich.
4. The beating of his wings, Paul Hoffman.
5. The cheapside corpse, Susanna Gregory.
6. Il metodo del coccodrillo- Maurizio de Giovanni.
7. The sin-eater's daughter- Melinda Salisbury.
8. Half the world- Joe Abercrombie
9. Tatiana- Martin cruz Smith
10. The 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared- jonas jonasson.
11. The undertaking- Audrey Macgee
12. The book of life- Deborah Harkness.
13. Norwegian by Night- Derek Miller.
14. The luminous heart of Jonah s- Gina Nahai. She's an American-Iranian Jew and writes magical-realism based around the Jewish community in pre-revolutionary Iran and the American diaspora. Very difficult to describe her books- alternately gritty and historical and full of interesting information (there is a genetics disease that only affects Iranian Jews, for example) and dreamy, mystical and surreal. She's virtually unheard of outside the US which is odd as her books are fascinating
 
1/50 Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
2/50 The Child Thief, Dan Smith
3/50 Wanted, Nick Stephenson
4/50 The Graft, Martina Cole
5/50 Stardust, Neil Gaiman
6/50 Alys, Always, Harriet Lane
7/50 Bad Things Happen, K Leitch
8/50 Post Human Book 1, David Simpson
9/50 Bolthole, AJ Oates
10/50 Post Human book 2, David Simpson
11/50 The Bees, Laline Paull
12/50 Barracuda, Christos Tsiolkas - another best book for ages. A young boy who is going for gold in swimming, but something happened that stopped it. Told in time pockets that are all mixed up. Incredibly insightful, touching and emotional looking at failure and dreams gone sour. Really really good.
 
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1/60 - 'Til Death - Ed McBain
2/60 - How to Connect with Nature - Tristan Gooley
3/60 - The Dead Women of Juarez - Sam Hawken
4/60 - Jericho: Season 3 Civil War - Dan Shotz,Robert Levine,Jason Burns (Graphic Novel)
5/60 - jericho: Season 4 - Kalinda Vazquez (Graphic Novel)
6/60 - The Black Echo- Michael Connelly
7/60 - The Black Ice - Michael Connelly
8/60 - Concrete Blonde - Michael Connelly
9/60 - The Last Coyote - Michael Connelly
10/60 - Trunk Music - Michael Connelly
11/60 - The Enemy Within - Seumas Milne
 
1. Kyme & Priestley, ed. - Tales Of Heresy
2. Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - Out Of The Pit
3. Mike Lee - Fallen Angels
4. Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain
5. Stella Gibbons - Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm
6. Anne Lecki - Ancillary Justice
7. Rick Pristley - Slaves To Darkness
8. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron
9. Luke Haines - Bad Vibes: Britpop And My Part In its Downfall
10. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron V.2
11. Marc Gascoigne - The Trolltooth Wars
12. Ian Watson - Chaos Child
13. John French - Ahriman Sorcerer
14. Chiang Yee - The Silent Traveller In London
15. Graham McNeill - A Thousand Sons
16. Richard Saunders - If A Pirate I Must Be - The Story Of Bartholomew Roberts, King Of The Caribbean
17. Steve jackson - Citadel Of Chaos
18. Ian Livingstone - Forest Of Doom
19. Alan Grant & John Wagner - Doomlord: The Deathlords Of Nox
20. Andrew Ward - Football's Strangest Matches
21. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron V.3
22. Aaron Dembski Bowden - The First Heretic
23. Ian Livingstone - City Of Thieves
24. Kent Greenfield - The Myth Of Choice
25. Dan Abnett - Prospero Burns
26. Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
27. Marianne Grabucker - There's A Good Girl: Gender Stereotyping In The First Three Years, A Diary
28. Christian Dunn - Age Of Darkness
29. Ian Livingstone - Deathtrap Dungeon
30. Richard Halliwell - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Rulebook
31. Steve Jackson - Scorpion Swamp
32. Alan Bligh - Imperial Armour Volume Nine: The Badab War Part One
33. Alan Bligh - Imperial Armour Volume Ten: The Badab War Part Two
34. Alisdair Alpin MacGregor - The Ghost Book: Strange Hauntings In Britain
35. Ian Livingstone - Caverns Of The Snow Witch
36. Ian Livingstone - Temple Of Terror
37. Anthony Beevor - Stalingrad
38. Christian Dunn - The Best of hammer And Bolter Volume Two
 
1/60 - JM Barrie - Peter Pan*
2/60 - Joe Hill - NOS4R2
3/60 - Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons*
4/60 - Belinda Bauer - Rubbernecker
5/60 - Roddy Doyle - The Guts
6/60 - Phillipa Pearce - Tom's Midnight Garden*
7/60 - Mildred D Taylor - Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry*
8/60 - Denise Mina - Exile
9/60 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
10/60 - Jon Ronson - Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries
11/60 - Iain McEwan - The Children Act
12/60 - Denise Mina - Resolution
13/60 - Neil Gaiman - Stardust
14/60 - Karen Joy Fowler - We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves

15/60 - Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

First time I've read anything by Shirley Jackson, it won't be the last.
Weird mid 20th century American gothic darkness.
I think this would be right up your street ringo
 
1. Kyme & Priestley, ed. - Tales Of Heresy
2. Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - Out Of The Pit
3. Mike Lee - Fallen Angels
4. Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain
5. Stella Gibbons - Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm
6. Anne Lecki - Ancillary Justice
7. Rick Pristley - Slaves To Darkness
8. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron
9. Luke Haines - Bad Vibes: Britpop And My Part In its Downfall
10. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron V.2
11. Marc Gascoigne - The Trolltooth Wars
12. Ian Watson - Chaos Child
13. John French - Ahriman Sorcerer
14. Chiang Yee - The Silent Traveller In London
15. Graham McNeill - A Thousand Sons
16. Richard Saunders - If A Pirate I Must Be - The Story Of Bartholomew Roberts, King Of The Caribbean
17. Steve jackson - Citadel Of Chaos
18. Ian Livingstone - Forest Of Doom
19. Alan Grant & John Wagner - Doomlord: The Deathlords Of Nox
20. Andrew Ward - Football's Strangest Matches
21. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron V.3
22. Aaron Dembski Bowden - The First Heretic
23. Ian Livingstone - City Of Thieves
24. Kent Greenfield - The Myth Of Choice
25. Dan Abnett - Prospero Burns
26. Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
27. Marianne Grabucker - There's A Good Girl: Gender Stereotyping In The First Three Years, A Diary
28. Christian Dunn - Age Of Darkness
29. Ian Livingstone - Deathtrap Dungeon
30. Richard Halliwell - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Rulebook
31. Steve Jackson - Scorpion Swamp
32. Alan Bligh - Imperial Armour Volume Nine: The Badab War Part One
33. Alan Bligh - Imperial Armour Volume Ten: The Badab War Part Two
34. Alisdair Alpin MacGregor - The Ghost Book: Strange Hauntings In Britain
35. Ian Livingstone - Caverns Of The Snow Witch
36. Ian Livingstone - Temple Of Terror
37. Anthony Beevor - Stalingrad
38. Christian Dunn - The Best of hammer And Bolter Volume Two
39. Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
40. Mark Smith & Jamie Thompson - Sword Of The Samurai
 
01/25 Echopraxia - Peter Watts
02/25 Beyond Lies the Wub - Philip K Dick
03/25 The Gun - Philip K Dick
04/25 Axiomatic - Greg Egan
05/25 Hells Angel - Hunter S Thomson
 
1/50 Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations - Jules Evans
2/50 Sponge, X and Y - Harry Barton
3/50 The Watcher in the Shadows - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4/50 The Disaster Artist - Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell. Fantastic book :D
5/50 How to Build a Girl - Caitlin Moran
6/50 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century - Alan Moore etc.

7/50 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay - Michael Chabon
 
1. The Girl With All The Gifts - M. R. Carey
2. Mark Z. Danielewski's House Of Leaves
3. The Millionaire's Death Club - Mike Hockney
4. The Child Thief - Dan Smith
5. Midwinter Sacrifice - Mons Kallentoft
6. Lean On Pete - Willy Vlautin
7. Motel Life - Willy Vlautin
8. Dolly: A Ghost Story - Susan Hill
9. The Beacon - Susan Hill
10. The Bear - Claire Cameron
11. Cell - Stephen King
12. Knots & Crosses - Ian Rankin
13. The Black Book - Ian Rankin
14. Revival - Stephen King
15. Phantom - Jo Nesbo
16. Frost At Christmas - R. D. Wingfield
 
1/45 Head On - Julian Cope
2/45 Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff
3/45 The Ladies Of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke
4/45 Bring Up The Bodies - Hilary Mantel
5/45 The Blacker The Berry - Wallace Thurman
6/45 Once You Break A Knuckle - D W Wilson
7/45 The Child Thief - Dan Smith
8/45 The Epicure's Lament - Kate Christensen
9/45 East Of Eden - John Steinbeck
10/45 We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler

Viewing it purely as a novel I think the end was slightly ruined by the endless listing of data and proselytising. I'm torn because it contained a lot of important points I agreed with, and it was interesting to see that in a bestseller which is being so widely read, but the end of the story got lost in it. Reading through the book club question suggestions at the end I couldn't help thinking that if I was in a book club I'd be talking about that, not some of the finer points of story and morality the book raised.
 
1. Mist over Pendle, Robert Neil
2. Hild, Nicola Griffiths
3. The Magicians, Lev Grossman
4. The Iron King, Maurice Dunon
5. Among Others, Jo Walton

6. The Magician King, Lev Grossman
7. Farthing, Jo Walton
8. My Real Children, Jo Walton
 
insomnia continues apace. i've read in under 3 months what i read in over 6 last year.

1. Kyme & Priestley, ed. - Tales Of Heresy
2. Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - Out Of The Pit
3. Mike Lee - Fallen Angels
4. Steve Jackson & Ian Livingstone - The Warlock Of Firetop Mountain
5. Stella Gibbons - Christmas At Cold Comfort Farm
6. Anne Lecki - Ancillary Justice
7. Rick Pristley - Slaves To Darkness
8. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron
9. Luke Haines - Bad Vibes: Britpop And My Part In its Downfall
10. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron V.2
11. Marc Gascoigne - The Trolltooth Wars
12. Ian Watson - Chaos Child
13. John French - Ahriman Sorcerer
14. Chiang Yee - The Silent Traveller In London
15. Graham McNeill - A Thousand Sons
16. Richard Saunders - If A Pirate I Must Be - The Story Of Bartholomew Roberts, King Of The Caribbean
17. Steve jackson - Citadel Of Chaos
18. Ian Livingstone - Forest Of Doom
19. Alan Grant & John Wagner - Doomlord: The Deathlords Of Nox
20. Andrew Ward - Football's Strangest Matches
21. Shane McCarthy - All Hail Megatron V.3
22. Aaron Dembski Bowden - The First Heretic
23. Ian Livingstone - City Of Thieves
24. Kent Greenfield - The Myth Of Choice
25. Dan Abnett - Prospero Burns
26. Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
27. Marianne Grabucker - There's A Good Girl: Gender Stereotyping In The First Three Years, A Diary
28. Christian Dunn - Age Of Darkness
29. Ian Livingstone - Deathtrap Dungeon
30. Richard Halliwell - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Rulebook
31. Steve Jackson - Scorpion Swamp
32. Alan Bligh - Imperial Armour Volume Nine: The Badab War Part One
33. Alan Bligh - Imperial Armour Volume Ten: The Badab War Part Two
34. Alisdair Alpin MacGregor - The Ghost Book: Strange Hauntings In Britain
35. Ian Livingstone - Caverns Of The Snow Witch
36. Ian Livingstone - Temple Of Terror
37. Anthony Beevor - Stalingrad
38. Christian Dunn - The Best of hammer And Bolter Volume Two
39. Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
40. Mark Smith & Jamie Thompson - Sword Of The Samurai
41. Orlando Figes - Just Send The Word
42. Mark Thompson - Seas Of Blood
 
1/52 The In Between Time by Alexander Baron
2/52 King Mob : A Critical Hidden History by David Wise with Stuart Wise & Nick Brandt
3/52 Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West
4/52 The Beiderbecke Affair by Alan Plater (Reread)
5/52 The Hour of the Innocents by Robert Paston
6/52 The Beiderbecke Tapes by Alan Plater (Reread)
7/52 Bellies and Bullseyes: The Outrageous True Story of Darts by Sid Waddell
8/52 In The Thirties by Edward Upward
9/52 Bright Summer, Dark Autumn by Robert Barltrop (Reread)
10/52 Journey Through a Small Planet by Emanuel Litvinoff (Reread)

11/52 The Child Thief by Dan Smith
 
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