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the grand 2015 reading challenge thread

how many books do you anticipate reading in 2015?


  • Total voters
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1/60 The Cowboy and the Cossack - Clair Huffaker
2/60 Briefe aus dem Gefängnis - Rosa Luxemburg
3/60 Chita: a memory of Last Island - Lafadio Hearn
4/60 Zla miłość - Aleksander Sowa
5/60 Frog Żaba - Colin Hann, Ryszard Bart and Pedro Páramo
6/60 Amexica: War along the borderline - Ed Vulliamy
7/60 Good mother, bad daughter? - Martha Penn
8/60 Czy wiesz, co widzę? - Richárde
9/60 Glaslügen - Nicholas Vega
10/60 Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics - Starhawk
11/60 Plötzlich Callgirl - Portia da Costa (one of the least clunky translations I've come across)
12/60 99% Darkness - Jacob Stringer
13/60 Stoner - John Williams
14/60 Auf der anderen Seite is das Gras viel grüner - Kerstin Gier.
15/60 Vollidiot - Tommy Jaud
16/60 Wicked Appetite - Janet Evanovich
17/60 Wicked Business - Janet Evanovich
18/60 Momo - Michael Ende
19/60 Momo - Michael Ende (1984 translation, not the 1970s one)
20/60 The Awakening - Kate Chopin

Momo was one of my fav books years ago. Thanks for reminding me of its existence!
 
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)
16/52 A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember by Iain Levison (Reread)
17/52 The Beiderbecke Connection by Alan Plater (Reread)
18/52 While My Guitar Gently Weeps by Paul Breeze
19/52 Shoestring's Finest Hour by Paul Ableman
20/52 The Rules of the Game by Georges Simenon
21/52 The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford
22/52 Blue Moon: Down Among the Dead Men with Manchester City by Mark Hodkinson

23/52 The 10 Football Matches That Changed The World ... and the One That Didn't by Jim Murphy
 
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
15/50 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald.

16/50 When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
 
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)
16/52 A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember by Iain Levison (Reread)
17/52 The Beiderbecke Connection by Alan Plater (Reread)
18/52 While My Guitar Gently Weeps by Paul Breeze
19/52 Shoestring's Finest Hour by Paul Ableman
20/52 The Rules of the Game by Georges Simenon
21/52 The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford
22/52 Blue Moon: Down Among the Dead Men with Manchester City by Mark Hodkinson
23/52 The 10 Football Matches That Changed The World ... and the One That Didn't by Jim Murphy

24/52 The Hedge Knight by George R. R. Martin
 
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
8/51 - Critical Mass by Sara Paretsky
9/51 - A Lovely Way to Burn by Louise Welsh
10/51 - The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler
11/51 - Like Birds in the Wilderness by Agnes Owens
12/51 - Berlin Noir: March Violets, The Pale Criminal, A German Requiem by Philip Kerr
13/51 - The Wages of Destruction: The Making & Breaking of the Nazi Economy by Adam Tooze
14/51 - Mr Lynch's Holiday by Catherine O'Flynn
15/51 - Still Midnight by Denise Mina
16/51 - The Misty Harbour by Georges Simenon
17/51 - The Liberty Bar by Georges Simenon
18/51 - The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States by Ellen Meiksins Wood
19/51 - Captain Swing by E.J. Hobsbawm & George Rudé
20/51 - The Dead Mountaineer's Inn by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
21/51 - Lock No 1 by Georges Simenon
22/51 - The Papers of Tony Veitch by William McIlvanney
23/51 - No Good From a Corpse by Leigh Brackett
 
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
64. Mathias Thulmann 1 C. L. Werner
65. Mathias Thulmann 2 C. L. Werner
66. Mathias Thulmann 3 C. L. Werner
67. Lockwood & Co 1 - The Screaming Staircase, Jonathon Stroud
68. Charlie Wilson's War, George Crile
69. Konrad 1 David Ferring
70. The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison
71. The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu
72. The Dark Between The Stars, Kevin J Anderson
73. Design as Art, Bruno Munari
74. Konrad 2.
75-79. Monarchies of God 1-5 Paul Kearney
80. Terry Pratchett reread.
81. Another Harry Potter ff.
82. Voyage of the Basilisk, Marie Brennan
 
'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)
'Me Talk Pretty One Day' David Sedaris (7/24)
'The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs' Roberta Brandes Gratz (8/24)
'Among the Hoods' Harriet Sergeant (9/24)
'Carny: Americana on the Midway' Virginia Lee Hunter (10/24)
'Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City' Geert Mak (11/24)
'Prador Moon' Neal Asher (12/24)
 
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
64. Mathias Thulmann 1 C. L. Werner
65. Mathias Thulmann 2 C. L. Werner
66. Mathias Thulmann 3 C. L. Werner
67. Lockwood & Co 1 - The Screaming Staircase, Jonathon Stroud
68. Charlie Wilson's War, George Crile
69. Konrad 1 David Ferring
70. The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison
71. The Three Body Problem, Cixin Liu
72. The Dark Between The Stars, Kevin J Anderson
73. Design as Art, Bruno Munari
74. Konrad 2.
75-79. Monarchies of God 1-5 Paul Kearney
80. Terry Pratchett reread.
81. Another Harry Potter ff.
82. Voyage of the Basilisk, Marie Brennan

what's the salvatore stuff like? someone tried to convince me to read some a few years back and i never got round to it.
 
what's the salvatore stuff like? someone tried to convince me to read some a few years back and i never got round to it.
If you read them in world chronology you can see he ended up a quite good writer. But the first ones he wrote were a bit pants. Enjoyed them, though.
 
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
19/50 Geek Love, Katherine Dunn
20/50 The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
21/50 Us, David Nicholls

22/50 Finders, Keepers , Stephen King
 
01 Nikola Mihov: Forget Your Past: Communist-Era Monuments in Bulgaria
02 Bohumil Hrabal: Closely Observed Trains
03 Joe R Lansdale: Mucho Mojo
04 Andrew Lanyon: Circular Walks Around Rowley Hall
05 Ismail Kadare: The File on H
06 Slavoj Zizek: Trouble in Paradise – From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
07 Iceberg Slim: Pimp
08 John Grindrod: Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
09 T R Pearson: Cry Me a River
10 J G Ballard: Concrete Island
11 Charles White: The Life and Times of Little Richard, the Quasar of Rock
12 Elmore Leonard: Get Shorty
13 Mikhail Bulgakov: Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories
14 Ismail Kadare: The Fall of the Stone City
15 Michael Howard: Children of Cain – A Study of Modern Traditional Witchcraft
16 Victor Sebestyen: Twelve Days – The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
17 Bryan Cartledge: The Will to Survive – A History of Hungary
18 Kenneth Grant: Convulvulus and Other Poems
19 Gyula Krudy: Life Is A Dream
20 Gaito Gazdanov: The Spectre of Alexander Wolf
21 Gyorgy Faludy: My Happy Days in Hell
22 Tibor Cseres: Cold Days
 
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. Half a Crown, 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
28. Mutant Message Down Under
29. Fieldnotes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
30. The Persian Boy, Mary Renault
31. Funeral Games, Mary Renault
32. The Islanders, Christopher Priest
33. Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
34. The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall
35. Europe in Autumn, Dave Hutchinson

36. Truth and Fear, Peter Higgins
 
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
14. "Lazybones" - Mark Billingham
15. "The Burning Girl" - Mark Billingham
16."A Song for the Dying" - Stuart MacBride
17. "The Twelve" - Stuart Neville

18. Kolymsky Heights - Lionel Davidson. I did enjoy this but at times it was like reading a book that had been translated, slightly stilted. He really did lead you into a the world of Siberia though
 
1/60 The Cowboy and the Cossack - Clair Huffaker
2/60 Briefe aus dem Gefängnis - Rosa Luxemburg
3/60 Chita: a memory of Last Island - Lafadio Hearn
4/60 Zla miłość - Aleksander Sowa
5/60 Frog Żaba - Colin Hann, Ryszard Bart and Pedro Páramo
6/60 Amexica: War along the borderline - Ed Vulliamy
7/60 Good mother, bad daughter? - Martha Penn
8/60 Czy wiesz, co widzę? - Richárde
9/60 Glaslügen - Nicholas Vega
10/60 Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics - Starhawk
11/60 Plötzlich Callgirl - Portia da Costa (one of the least clunky translations I've come across)
12/60 99% Darkness - Jacob Stringer
13/60 Stoner - John Williams
14/60 Auf der anderen Seite is das Gras viel grüner - Kerstin Gier.
15/60 Vollidiot - Tommy Jaud
16/60 Wicked Appetite - Janet Evanovich
17/60 Wicked Business - Janet Evanovich
18/60 Momo - Michael Ende
19/60 Momo - Michael Ende (1984 translation, not the 1970s one)
20/60 The Awakening - Kate Chopin
21/60 Deaf Sentence - David Lodge
22/60 The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
 
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 – Sheila Cassidy
8. At Break of Day – Elizabeth Speller
9. In the Shadow of the DreamChild: the Myth and Reality of Lewis Carroll – Karoline Leach
10. The Bonds of Earth – E.V. Thompson
11.Pigeon English – Stephen Kelman
12. Farewell to the East End – Jennifer Worth
13. Shadows of the Workhouse – Jennifer Worth

14. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

Brilliant, just brilliant. Jennifer Worth also very enjoyable, if harrowing at times.
 
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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 Village Japan: Everyday life in Rural Japan - Malcolm Ritchie.

25/27 Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food - Gene Baur
26/27 Folks This Ain't Normal - Joel Salatin
27/27 Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
28 The Unnatural Inquirer - Simon R. Green
29 Article 5 - Kristen Simmons
30 Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America's Health, Economy, Politics, and Environment - Denis Hayes and Gail Boyer Hayes

31 The Unincorporationed Man - Dani Killin and Eytan Killin -- Further proof that Libertarians with a political agenda should not be writing Science Fiction. Wasn't Ayn Rand proof enough? It has the required billionaire hero and spends more than the required time extolling the virtues of Libertarianism. In this particular case, a society where a person is incorporated at birth and their shares sold off to investors, who fund their education in exchange for dividends. Its has the flimsiest of plots, held together with cardboard cutout characters. These two couldn't write a female character if you shoved an entire box of tampons up their ass. I'd like to kill the authors in the face for ripping me off for $7.99.
 
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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. Half a Crown, 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
28. Mutant Message Down Under
29. Fieldnotes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
30. The Persian Boy, Mary Renault
31. Funeral Games, Mary Renault
32. The Islanders, Christopher Priest
33. Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
34. The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall
35. Europe in Autumn, Dave Hutchinson
36. Truth and Fear, Peter Higgins

37. Wolves, Simon Ings
 
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
10/30 - Red Winter - Dan Smith
11/30 - On the yard - Malcom Braly
 
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. Half a Crown, 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
28. Mutant Message Down Under
29. Fieldnotes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
30. The Persian Boy, Mary Renault
31. Funeral Games, Mary Renault
32. The Islanders, Christopher Priest
33. Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
34. The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall
35. Europe in Autumn, Dave Hutchinson
36. Truth and Fear, Peter Higgins
37. Wolves, Simon Ings

38. Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer
 
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
32/60 - James Sallis - Salt River (Turner Vol. 3)
33/60 - Belinda Bauer - Blacklands
34/60 - Iain Banks - Transition
35/60 - Irvine Welsh - The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins

36/60 - Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Wonderful. The sort of book that stays with you for a long time.
 
'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)
'Me Talk Pretty One Day' David Sedaris (7/24)
'The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs' Roberta Brandes Gratz (8/24)
'Among the Hoods' Harriet Sergeant (9/24)
'Carny: Americana on the Midway' Virginia Lee Hunter (10/24)
'Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City' Geert Mak (11/24)
'Prador Moon' Neal Asher (12/24)
'Our Man in Havana' Graham Greene (13/24)
 
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
14. "Lazybones" - Mark Billingham
15. "The Burning Girl" - Mark Billingham
16."A Song for the Dying" - Stuart MacBride
17. "The Twelve" - Stuart Neville
18. Kolymsky Heights - Lionel Davidson

19: "The Girl with all the Gifts" - M.R. Carey. Excellent, a zombie thriller but much more!
 
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. Half a Crown, 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
28. Mutant Message Down Under
29. Fieldnotes From a Catastrophe: Man, Nature and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert
30. The Persian Boy, Mary Renault
31. Funeral Games, Mary Renault
32. The Islanders, Christopher Priest
33. Tooth and Claw, Jo Walton
34. The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall
35. Europe in Autumn, Dave Hutchinson
36. Truth and Fear, Peter Higgins
37. Wolves, Simon Ings
38. Annihilation, Jeff Vandermeer

39. Bête, Adam Roberts
 
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
20/60 - The Overlook - Michael Connelly
21/60 - When Village Bells Were Silent - Fred Archer
22/60 - Nine Dragons - Michael Connelly
23/60 - The Drop - Michael Connelly
24/60 - The Black Box - Michael Connelly
25/60 - The Brass Verdict - Michael Connelly
26/60 - The Burning Room - Michael Connelly
27/60 - The Martian - Andy Weir
28/60 - The Empty Throne - Bernard Cornwell
29/60 - Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
 
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)
16/52 A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir of Thirty Jobs I Quit, Nine That Fired Me, and Three I Can't Remember by Iain Levison (Reread)
17/52 The Beiderbecke Connection by Alan Plater (Reread)
18/52 While My Guitar Gently Weeps by Paul Breeze
19/52 Shoestring's Finest Hour by Paul Ableman
20/52 The Rules of the Game by Georges Simenon
21/52 The Way We Die Now by Charles Willeford
22/52 Blue Moon: Down Among the Dead Men with Manchester City by Mark Hodkinson
23/52 The 10 Football Matches That Changed The World ... and the One That Didn't by Jim Murphy
24/52 The Hedge Knight by George R. R. Martin

25/52 Comrade O Comrade, or, Low-down on the Left by Ethel Mannin
 
'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)
'Me Talk Pretty One Day' David Sedaris (7/24)
'The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs' Roberta Brandes Gratz (8/24)
'Among the Hoods' Harriet Sergeant (9/24)
'Carny: Americana on the Midway' Virginia Lee Hunter (10/24)
'Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City' Geert Mak (11/24)
'Prador Moon' Neal Asher (12/24)
'Our Man in Havana' Graham Greene (13/24)
'Seeing Voices' Oliver Sacks (14/24)
 
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