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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
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
43. Ursula Le Guin - The Birthday Of the World
 
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
12/60 - Private Island:Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else - James Meek

depressing book (although that is for the subject matter not the writing style - privatisation - the railways, utilities, social housing, etc)
 
seventh bullet said:
1. Soviet Cinema: Politics and Persuasion under Stalin - Jamie Miller

2. Stalin's Industrial Revolution: Politics and Workers, 1928-1932 - Hiroaki Kuromiya

3. Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941 - Katerina Clark
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4. Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union - Galina M. Yemelianova

5. Peasants, Rebels, Women and Outcastes: The Underside of Modern Japan - Mikiso Hane

6. Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation - David F. Noble
 
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
12/60 - Private Island:Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else - James Meek
13/60 - Angels Flight - Michael Connelly
 
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
43. Ursula Le Guin - The Birthday Of the World
44. Graham McNeill - The Outcast Dead
 
44. Paragon Lost, Dave Duncan.
45. Meditations in Green, Stephen Wright
46. Dwarves, book 1, Markus Heitz.
 
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.
15. Holy spy-Rory Clements another series of historical murder-mysteries, but grittier than most. Lots of castration and torture.... Set around the Babbington plot that eventually did for Mary Queen of Scots.
 
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
43. Ursula Le Guin - The Birthday Of the World
44. Graham McNeill - The Outcast Dead.
45. Steve Jackson - Demons Of The Deep
 
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

16/60 - Ian Rankin - The Complaints
 
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
13/50 The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld - murder mystery set in 1909 when Freud visits New York. Was good until the conclusion.
 
Me76 said:
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
13/50 The Interpretation of Murder, Jed Rubenfeld - murder mystery set in 1909 when Freud visits New York. Was good until the conclusion.
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I read that last year and agree. It's a very odd ending
 
1/30 Roger Hewitt - White Talk Black Talk: Inter-racial friendship and communication amongst adolescents
2/30 Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
3/30 Ambalavaner Sivanandan - Catching History on the Wing: Race, Culture and Globalisation
4/30 Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber
5/30 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels - The German Ideology (students edition)
 
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
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

8/50 Stone Spring - Stephen Baxter. A good read, looking forward to getting the next two out of the library and ploughing through those. Not too demanding in terms of plot/characters, but full of fascinating detail about Mesolithic life.
 
]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.
15. Holy spy-Rory Clements
16. The Angelic Darkness- Richard Zimmler.

Um.

Usually love him- he's a Jewish American immigrant to Lisbon, writes books that are partly historical about the Jewish community in Portugal, partly about Kabbala, and partly mysteries.

This one is about a journalist is San Fran who falls in love with his androgyne lodger and is just very, very odd.
 
yield said:
1. The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan. Lightweight fantasy novel could do better.
2. Our Final Century by Martin Rees. Depressing look at how not much has changed in the last decade.
3. Lexicon by Max Barry. A strangely compelling thriller and love story. What if there was a secret cabal who knew how to make NLP work.
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4. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Surprisingly satisfying fantasy tale about con artists. Very good laugh out loud funny story in places
 
1/31 - 23 Shades of Black - Ken Wishnia
2/31 - Richard Ayoade - Ayoade On Ayoade: a cinematic odyssey
3/31 - Iain Banks - The Quarry
4/31 - Raymond Chandler - The High Window
5/31 - Raymond Chandler - The Lady in the Lake
6/31 - Ric Rawlins - Rise of the Super Furry Animals
7/31 - Heiner Flassbeck & Costas Lapavitsas - Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone

8/31 - Kim Gordon - Girl In A Band. Disappointingly dull.
9/31 - Henry James - Washington Square. Okay, but not really a 'classic' in my book.
 
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
10/27 The Visitors - Clifford D. Simak

Added two and started a third over the weekend. My car broke down and scuttled my plans so I stayed home and read. I had planned on going to Omaha to gallery hop and shop at their thrift stores. :(

11/27 Tale of the Body Thief - Anne Rice
12/27 Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins
 
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idumea said:
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
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9. The Golem and the Djinn, Helene Wecker
10. Jack Glass, Adam Roberts
11. Ha'penny, Jo Walton
12. Nation, Terry Pratchett
 
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
43. Ursula Le Guin - The Birthday Of the World
44. Graham McNeill - The Outcast Dead.
45. Steve Jackson - Demons Of The Deep
46. Antony Beevor - Berlin The Downfall 1945
 
idumea said:
9. The Golem and the Djinn, Helene Wecker
10. Jack Glass, Adam Roberts
11. Ha'penny, Jo Walton
12. Nation, Terry Pratchett
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have you got Jack Glass on electronic form m8s

I've been scouring the seven seas in my pirate boat and not finding it. Reviews suggest its Adam Roberts on his quest to set a sci fi story in every genre he can think of lol
 
DotCommunist said:
have you got Jack Glass on electronic form m8s

I've been scouring the seven seas in my pirate boat and not finding it. Reviews suggest its Adam Roberts on his quest to set a sci fi story in every genre he can think of lol
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Nope but if you PM me your address I'll post you my copy from work.
 
15/50
Ali Smith - How to be Both

Not sure about the formal experimentation - there seemed to be two stories each moving and interesting enough to have their own novel, but instead linked for reasons only partially explored.

16/50
Karen Joy Fowler - We are all Completely Beside Ourselves

Really excellent - recommend.
 
tufty79 said:
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
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17.The Rule Of Four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
 
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
11/45 The Prison House - John King
 
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