the grand 2015 reading challenge thread

[imposs1904]

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
12/52 Books: a memoir by Larry McMurtry
13/52 Since the Layoffs by Iain Levison (Reread)

14/52 Where's My Money? by Mike Manson

 

[billy_bob]

26/50: Colm Toibin - The Testament of Mary
27/50: Norman Mailer - The Gospel According to the Son
28/50: Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

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

11/27 Tale of the Body Thief - Anne Rice
12/27 Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins
13/27 Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling Our Modern Plagues - Martin J. Blaser, MD
14/27 Star Trek: To Rule in Hell - Greg Cox
15/27 To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design - Henry Petroski
16/27 Allegiant - Veronica Roth

17/27 Imago - Octavia E. Butler
18/27 Parable of the Sower - Octavia E. Butler
19/27 How the Rich are Destroying the Earth - Herve Kempf
20/27 The Parable of the Talents - Octavia E. Butler
21/27 The Pluto Files - Neil deGrasse Tyson
22/27 The Big Short - Michael Lewis
23/27 Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right - Thomas Frank
24/27 Villiage Japan: Everyday life in Rural Japan - Malcolm Ritchie.

25/27 Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food - Gene Baur

One of the better arguments for veganism I've seen. Some of the things he describes can only be described as obscene. Regardless if we continue eating meat, the industrial meat production model has to go.

 

[ringo]

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
12/45 First Love - Ivan Turgenev
13/45 The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
14/45 Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
15/45 Ridley Walker - Russell Hoban
16/45 We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
17/45 My Outdoors Life - Ray Mears
18/45 What We Talk About When We Talk About Love - Raymond Carver

Very talented writer, but obviously battling a monstrous drink problem and failing to recover from divorce when he wrote this lot. I want to read more, but hope some of it was written from a better place.

 

[braindancer]

1/30 - I know why the caged bird sings - Maya Angelou
2/30 - Unknown pleasures - Peter Hook
3/30 - The Free - Willy Vlautin
4/30 - Under the Skin - Michael Faber
5/30 - The Child Thief - Dan Smith
6/30 - Where late the sweet birds sang - Kate Wilhelm
7/30 - O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
8/30 - Clothes Music Boys - Viv Alpertine
9/30 - Landed - Tim Pears

 

[BoatieBird]

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
17/60 - Annie Proulx - Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and other stories
18/60 - Willy Vlautin - Lean on Pete
19/60 - Stephen King - Cell
20/60 - Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines*
21/60 - William McIlvanney - Laidlaw
22/60 - Melvin Burgess - Junk*
23/60 - Val McDermid - The Skeleton Road
24/60 - Heather Montgomery & Nicola J Watson (eds.) - Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends
25/60 - Janet Maybin & Nicola J Watson (eds.) - Children's Literature: Approaches and Territories
26/60 - Children's Literature Study Guide
27/60 - Gavin Extence - The Universe Versus Alex Woods
28/60 - Kevin Brooks - The Bunker Diary*

29/60 - James Sallis - Cypress Grove (A Turner Novel)

 

[Kidda]

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
12/30 Omerta by Mario Puzo
13/30 Saga Vol 4 by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples
14/30 Fools Die by Mario Puzo
15/30 Sex Criminals Vol 1 by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
16/30 COWL Vol 1 by Kyle Higgins et al
17/30 Chew Vol 2 by John Layman and Rob Guillory
18/30 Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis et al
19/30 A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin

 

[Belushi]

'Mirror to Damascus' Colin Thubron (1/24)
'The Death and Life of Great American Cities' Jane Jacobs (2/24)
'The Story of the Victoria Line' John R. Day (3/24)
'Wolf Hall' Hilary Mantel (4/24)
'Hold Your Own' Kate Tempest (5/24)

 

[idumea]

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
9. The Golem and the Djinn, Helene Wecker
10. Jack Glass, Adam Roberts
11. Ha'penny, Jo Walton
12. Nation, Terry Pratchett
11. Ha'penny, Jo Walton
14. The Magic Land, Lev Grossman
15. The Carhullan Army, Sarah Hall
16. The Crane Wife, Patrick Ness
17. Burial Rights, Hannah Kent
18. Touching the Void, Joe Simpson
19. Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovitch
20. So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson
21. Whit, Iain Banks
22. The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling
23. The Testament of Jesse Lamb, Jane Rogers
24. Broken Harbour, Tana French

25. The Cutting Room, Louise Welsh
26. The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science, Natalie Angier
27. Haweswater, Sarah Hall

 

[machine cat]

1. Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
2. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
3. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
4. The Orchard Keeper - Cormack McCarthy
5. I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels - Albert Meltzer

6. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said - Philip K Dick

 

[marty21]

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
14/60 - City of Bones - Michael Connelly
15/60 - A Darkness More Than Light - Michael Connelly.
16/60 - Lost Light - Michael Connelly
17/60 - The Narrows - Michael Connelly
18/60 - The Closers - Michael Connelly
19/60 - Echo Park - Michael Connelly

 

[May Kasahara]

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
9/50 Bronze Summer - Stephen Baxter
10/50 Iron Winter - Stephen Baxter
11/50 H is for Hawk - Helen Macdonald
12/50 Revival - Stephen King
13/50 Notes On A Scandal - Zoe Heller

14/50 NOS4R2 - Joe Hill

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "A Colder War" - Charles Cumming
2. "Sleepyhead" - Mark Billingham
3. "Lamentation"- CJ Samson
4. " The Child Thief " - Dan Smith
5. "The Murder Bag" - Tony Parsons
6. "Stolen Souls" - Stuart Neville
7. "NOS 4R2" - Joe Hill
8. "Storm Front" - Jim Butcher
9. "Scaredy Cat" - Mark Billingham
10' "Rush of Blood" - Mark Billingham
11. "A Place of Strangers" - Geoffrey Seed
12. "Prayer for the Dead"- James Oswald

13. " Ostland" - David Thomas. Very good, very interesting but not an easy read given the subject matter of Nazi atrocities in Russia during WWII

 

[Cerberus]

Reckon i'll do 31-40

1.Jonathan Letham - Motherless Brooklyn
2.Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
3.Toni Morrison - Paradise
4.Lorrie Moore - A Gate at the Stairs
5.Don DeLillo - Falling Man
6.Cormac McCarthy - The Road (re-read)
7.Thomas Pynchon - Bleeding Edge
8.David Foster Wallace - Oblivion
9.Jennifer Egan - A Visit From the Goon Squad
10.Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You
11.Don DeLillo - Point Omega
12.Don DeLillo - Cosmopolis
13.Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch
14.John Brannigan - Orwell to the Present: Literature in England 1945-2000
15.Jonathan Franzen - Freedom
16.Timur Vermes - Look Who's Back

 

[Manter]

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.
17. Ghostman - Roger Hobbs
18. The whispering city- Sara Moliner.
19. The Mirrored World- Debra Dean
20. The silkworm- Robert Galbraith (or J K Rowling)
21. Getting by- Lisa Mckenzie.
22. All who go do not return- shulem Deen.
23. The Yellow Birds- Kevin Powers.
24. The skull throne- book 4 of the demon cycle- Peter Brett
25. The lady from Zagreb- Phillip Kerr.
26. What she left behind- Ellen Marie Wiseman.
27. In the wolf's mouth- Adam Foulds
28. All that is solid melts into air- Darragh McKeon

My holiday reading! Bit heavy..... 27 is set in Africa and Sicily during WWII, 28 in Chernobyl and Moscow just after the reactor fire. Both very, very good. If not exactly cheerful!

 

[Me76]

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
14/50 Her, Harriet Lane

15/50 Mobile Library, David Whitehouse

16/50 Salvage The Bones, Jesmyn, Ward
17/50 Some Kind of Fairy Tale, Graham Joyce
18/50 The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

 

[colbhoy]

1/20 - Strange Loyalties by William McIlvanney
2/20 - Calico Joe by John Grisham
3/20 - Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
4/20 - Band of Brothers by Stephen E Ambrose
5/20 - Joyland by Stephen King
6/20 - 1356 by Bernard Cornwell
7/20 - Indigo Slam by Robert Crais
8/20 - The Forgotten by David Baldacci

 

[etnea]

1. Haruki Murakami - What I Talk about when I Talk about Running
2. Alexander McColl Smith - Bertie Plays the Blues
3. A. L. Kennedy - The Blue Book
4. The Hong Kong writers' circle - Hong Kong gothic
5. Armistead Maupin - Tales of the city

 

[BoatieBird]

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
17/60 - Annie Proulx - Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and other stories
18/60 - Willy Vlautin - Lean on Pete
19/60 - Stephen King - Cell
20/60 - Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines*
21/60 - William McIlvanney - Laidlaw
22/60 - Melvin Burgess - Junk*
23/60 - Val McDermid - The Skeleton Road
24/60 - Heather Montgomery & Nicola J Watson (eds.) - Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends
25/60 - Janet Maybin & Nicola J Watson (eds.) - Children's Literature: Approaches and Territories
26/60 - Children's Literature Study Guide
27/60 - Gavin Extence - The Universe Versus Alex Woods
28/60 - Kevin Brooks - The Bunker Diary*
29/60 - James Sallis - Cypress Grove (A Turner Novel)

30/60 - James Sallis - Cripple Creek (Turner Vol. 2)

 

[rich!]

1. Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion.
2. Kameron Hurley, The Mirror Empire
3. Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Djinni
4. GRR Martin & Gardner Dozois eds, Dangerous Women, Part 1.
5. End of the Road, ed Jonathan Oliver.
6. A Natural History of Dragons, a Memoir by Lady Trent, Marie Brennan
7. Discount Armageddon, Seanan McGuire
8. Queen Victoria's Book of Spells, ed Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling
9. GRR Martin & Gardner Dozois eds, Dangerous Women, Part 3.
10. Midnight Blue-Light Special, Seanan McGuire
11. The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Laird Barron
12. GRR Martin & Gardner Dozois eds, Dangerous Women, Part 2.
13. City of Bones, Cassandra Clare
14. Midnight at the Well of Souls, Jack Chalker
15. Exiles at the Well of Souls, Jack Chalker
16. Never Alone, Never Again, Bored Beyond Belief (f/f)
17. Quest for the Well of Souls, Jack Chalker.
18. Sigrid Ellis & Michael Damien Thomas eds, Queers Dig Time Lords
19. Andrew Roberts ed, Great Commanders of the Medieval World
20. Nathan Ballingrud, North American Lake Monsters.
21. Inside the House of Money, Steven Drobny.
22. Sea of Ghosts, Alan Campbell.
23. Lafayette O'Leary The Time Bender, Keith Laumer
24. Art of Hunting, Alan Campbell
25. Descent, Ken Macleod.
26. Lafayette O'Leary The World Shuffler, Keith Laumer
27. Lafayette O'Leary The Shape Changer, Keith Laumer
28. Kings Blades 1 The Gilded Chain, Dave Duncan
29. Kings Blades 2 Lord of the Fire Lands
30. Kings Blades 3 Sky of Swords
31. Zero to One, Peter Thiel & Blake Masters
32. Kings Blades 4 Impossible Odds (which might be #5)
33. Kings Blades 5 Jaguar Knights
34. The Tropic of Serpents, Marie Brennan (sequel to A Natural History of Dragons, and equally excellent)
35. Half a King, Joe Abercrombie.
36. Best of British Fantasy 2013, ed Steve Haynes
37. Another HP fanfic.
38. Another HP fanfic.
39 Mintzberg on Management, Henry Mintzberg.
40. A Delicate Truth, John le Carre
41. The Eighth Court, Mike Shevdon.
42. Flashman and the Angel of the Lord, George Macdonald Fraser
43. Half-Off Ragnarok, Seanan McGuire
44. The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy, ed Mike Ashley
45. Paragon Lost, Dave Duncan.
46. Meditations in Green, Stephen Wright
47. Dwarves, book 1, Markus Heitz.
48. Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy, ed Mike Ashley
49. Dwarves book 2
50. Dwarves book 3.
51. Dark Elf Trilogy 1 - Homeland, R.A.Salvatore
52. Dark Elf Trilogy 2 - Exile, R.A.Salvatore
53. Dark Elf Trilogy 3 - Sojourn, R.A.Salvatore
54. Icewind Dale 1 - The Crystal Shard, R.A.Salvatore
55. Fate's Gambit - robst (F/F)
56. Retief! Perfect - Keith Laumer
57. The Truth - Terry Pratchett (reread)
58. A Calculated Life, Anne Charnock.
59. Military Mavericks, David Rooney.
60. Teatro Grottesco, Thomas Ligotti.
61. Learning from the Secret Past, ed Dover, Goodman
62. Icewind Dale 2 - Streams of Silver, R.A. Salvatore
63. Icewind Dale 3 - The Halfling's Gem, R.A. Salvatore

 

[chainsawjob]

13/50 Notes On A Scandal - Zoe Heller.

Really enjoyed that book, I thought the film didn't do justice to it's subtlety at all.

1. In the Midst of Life - Jennifer Worth
2. The Eye of the Leopard - Henning Mankell
3. A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
5. The Drama of the Gifted Child: the search for the true self – Alice Miller
6. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
7. Audacity to Believe: An Autobiography – Shela Cassidy
8. At Break of Day – Elizabeth Speller

9. In the Shadow of the DreamChild: the Myth and Reality of Lewis Carroll – Karoline Leach

 

[May Kasahara]

Really enjoyed that book, I thought the film didn't do justice to it's subtlety at all.

Haven't seen the film but I too thought the book was really excellent, not a wasted word there.

 

[chainsawjob]

1. In the Midst of Life - Jennifer Worth
2. The Eye of the Leopard - Henning Mankell
3. A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
4. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet – David Mitchell
5. The Drama of the Gifted Child: the search for the true self – Alice Miller
6. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
7. Audacity to Believe: An Autobiography – Shela Cassidy
8. At Break of Day – Elizabeth Speller
9. In the Shadow of the DreamChild: the Myth and Reality of Lewis Carroll – Karoline Leach. Very thorough, well considered, bit repetitive (but then biographies often are), yeah interesting.

10. The Bonds of Earth – E.V. Thompson Romance and history ( 19th century Cornish mining/farming) by numbers, with everything spelled out, and very clunky dialogue, bit Enid Blyton-ish, all ends very happily ever after.

 

[billy_bob]

29/50: Joshua Ferris - To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
30/50: Nigel Slater - Toast

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "A Colder War" - Charles Cumming
2. "Sleepyhead" - Mark Billingham
3. "Lamentation"- CJ Samson
4. " The Child Thief " - Dan Smith
5. "The Murder Bag" - Tony Parsons
6. "Stolen Souls" - Stuart Neville
7. "NOS 4R2" - Joe Hill
8. "Storm Front" - Jim Butcher
9. "Scaredy Cat" - Mark Billingham
10' "Rush of Blood" - Mark Billingham
11. "A Place of Strangers" - Geoffrey Seed
12. "Prayer for the Dead"- James Oswald
13. " Ostland" - David Thomas1

14. "Lazybones" - Mark Billigham. Another police procedural thriller but I do like them and the Tom Thorne series is a good example of them

 

[BoatieBird]

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
17/60 - Annie Proulx - Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and other stories
18/60 - Willy Vlautin - Lean on Pete
19/60 - Stephen King - Cell
20/60 - Philip Reeve - Mortal Engines*
21/60 - William McIlvanney - Laidlaw
22/60 - Melvin Burgess - Junk*
23/60 - Val McDermid - The Skeleton Road
24/60 - Heather Montgomery & Nicola J Watson (eds.) - Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends
25/60 - Janet Maybin & Nicola J Watson (eds.) - Children's Literature: Approaches and Territories
26/60 - Children's Literature Study Guide
27/60 - Gavin Extence - The Universe Versus Alex Woods
28/60 - Kevin Brooks - The Bunker Diary*
29/60 - James Sallis - Cypress Grove (A Turner Novel)
30/60 - James Sallis - Cripple Creek (Turner Vol. 2)

31/60 - Jake Arnott - Johnny Come Home

 

[Manter]

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.
17. Ghostman - Roger Hobbs
18. The whispering city- Sara Moliner.
19. The Mirrored World- Debra Dean
20. The silkworm- Robert Galbraith (or J K Rowling)
21. Getting by- Lisa Mckenzie.
22. All who go do not return- shulem Deen.
23. The Yellow Birds- Kevin Powers.
24. The skull throne- book 4 of the demon cycle- Peter Brett
25. The lady from Zagreb- Phillip Kerr.
26. What she left behind- Ellen Marie Wiseman.
27. In the wolf's mouth- Adam Foulds
28. All that is solid melts into air- Darragh McKeon
29. The Vagrant- Peter Newman. Fantasy, never read him before. Style a bit like the Left Hand of God- bleak, post-plague world, bit difficult to work out what is going on, slightly odd protagonist.

 

[imposs1904]

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
12/52 Books: a memoir by Larry McMurtry
13/52 Since the Layoffs by Iain Levison (Reread)
14/52 Where's My Money? by Mike Manson

15/52 The People of Providence: A Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants by Tony Parker (Reread)
An absolutely beautiful book, but also incredibly sad in places. It really was a different world.[/QUOTE]

 

[Belushi]

'Mirror to Damascus' Colin Thubron (1/24)
'The Death and Life of Great American Cities' Jane Jacobs (2/24)
'The Story of the Victoria Line' John R. Day (3/24)
'Wolf Hall' Hilary Mantel (4/24)
'Hold Your Own' Kate Tempest (5/24)
'Persian Fire' Tom Holland (6/24)

 

[Manter]

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.
17. Ghostman - Roger Hobbs
18. The whispering city- Sara Moliner.
19. The Mirrored World- Debra Dean
20. The silkworm- Robert Galbraith (or J K Rowling)
21. Getting by- Lisa Mckenzie.
22. All who go do not return- shulem Deen.
23. The Yellow Birds- Kevin Powers.
24. The skull throne- book 4 of the demon cycle- Peter Brett
25. The lady from Zagreb- Phillip Kerr.
26. What she left behind- Ellen Marie Wiseman.
27. In the wolf's mouth- Adam Foulds
28. All that is solid melts into air- Darragh McKeon
29. The Vagrant- Peter Newman
30. Traitor's blade- Sebastian de Castell. Fantasy binge continues.