the grand 2015 reading challenge thread

[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
20/30 A Storm of Swords 1 by George R.R. Martin
21/30 A Storm of Swords 2 by George R.R. Martin
22/30 Satan's Choice by Lorne Campbell and Peter Edwards
23/30 A Feast for Crows by George R.R. Martin
24/30 Saga Vol 5 by Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples

 

[Signal 11]

7/15 - The Meaning Of Freedom - Angela Y. Davis

 

[hipipol]

dipping into lots of poetry - Fleur Adcock is superb - eg Knife-play - rather keen on James Elroy Flecker this week - To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence a bit clunky to modern ears, but he used to live in Lewisham so can be forgiven for many things

 

[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
15/50 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald.
16/50 When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
17/50 A Dance With Dragons - George R R Martin

18/50 The Queen's Gambit - Walter Tevis. What a great book, never heard of it or him before but it was gripping and absorbing. Recommended to anyone else who doesn't really understand chess.

 

[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
19/45 The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell
20/45 The Half That's Never Been Told: The Real Life Reggae Adventures Of Dr Dread - Dr Dread
21/45 The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins - Irvine Welsh
22/45 The Pale Horseman - Bernard Cornwell
23/45 Original Rude Boy: From Borstal To The Specials - Neville Staple with Tony McMahon
24/45 Fine Just The Way It Is - Annie Proulx
25/45 Satantango - Laszlo Krasznahorkai
26/45 Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City - Geert Mak

Thanks for the heads up Belushi , a great read but absolutely heart breaking. Ever since I did my family tree and found out that my family lived in Amsterdam for 300 years up until the end of the 19th century working in the traditional Jewish trade of diamond cutters, I've been labouring under the delusion that they were wealthy diamond traders living a very comfortable life. I wondered why my great great grandfather would have left that to live in Spitalfields working in the cigar rolling factory for the Rothschilds and living in their tenement building in dire poverty.

It seems though that having fled various oppressive pogroms the Ashkenazi Jews settled in Amsterdam because it was the only place they were not actively targeted, but even there were still banned from holding any normal job or from joining a guild, so had to work for a barely survivable pittance as cutters without having access to the great wealth they saw at close hand.

In my family tree I have the dates and place of murder, mostly Auschwitz, of virtually my entire family during the Holocaust, including little girls the same age as my daughters. To read the details of how they struggled to survive for so long and were then beaten and brutally oppressed by the Nazis before being shipped off to their deaths was devastating. Makes me even more proud of my Great grandfather for fighting the fascists at Cable Street.

Planning a trip to Amsterdam now, I have to go and see where they lived now that I have a few addresses.

 

[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
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
37/60 - Hilary Mantel - Every Day is Mother's Day
38/60 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Sunset Song*
39/60 - Ruth Rendell - The Girl Next Door
40/60 - Willy Vlautin - The Free
41/60 - Frank Skinner - Frank Skinner
42/60 - Anton Chekhov - The Cherry Orchard*

43/60 - Belinda Bauer - Darkside

 

[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. 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
40. Authority, Jeff Vandermeer
41. Season to Taste: Or How To Eat Your Husband, Natalie Young

42. Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. Armand Leroi.

 

[billy_bob]

1. Eleanor Catton - The Luminaries
2. Ian Fleming - You Only Live Twice
3. Ian Fleming - The Man With the Golden Gun
4. Ian Fleming - Octopussy and the Living Daylights
5. Lucia Berlin - Where I Live Now: Stories 1993-1998
6. Grace McCleen - The Offering
7. Joe Sacco - Bumf
8. Ernest Hemingway - Green Hills of Africa
9. Chuck Thompson - Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession
10. NoViolet Bulawayo - We Need New Names
11. Charles Dickens: Tale of Two Cities
12. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.
13. Roald Dahl, Collected Stories Vol. 1
14. Roald Dahl, Collected Stories Vol. 2
15. Ali Smith - How to be Both
16. Karen Joy Fowler - We are all Completely Beside Ourselves
17. Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island
18. Stewart Lee - The 'If you would prefer a milder comedian, please ask for one' EP
19. Ernest Hemingway - The Snows of Kilimanjaro[
20. Gillian Slovo - Ice Road.
21. Hilary Mantel - Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
22. Lorrie Moore - Bark
23. Graham Swift - Last Orders
24. Richard Flanagan - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
25. Giles Milton - Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan
26. Colm Toibin - The Testament of Mary
27. Norman Mailer - The Gospel According to the Son
28. Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
29. Joshua Ferris - To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
30. Nigel Slater - Toast
31. Howard Jacobson - J
32. John Waters - Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across Americaft and diverting
33. Jonas Jonasson - The 100 year old man who climbed out of a window and disappeared
34. Rebecca Hunt - Everland

35. Charles Dickens - The Old Curiosity Shop
[Oscar Wilde: 'One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing']

 

[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
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
30/60 - A Colossal Wreck : A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture - Alexander Cockburn.
31/60 - Rebel Cities :From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution - David Harvey.
32/60 - The Poet - Michael Connelly.
33/60 - The Neon Rain - James Lee Burke

 

[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
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 Windup Girl" - Paolo Bacigalupi
20. "Lifeless" - Mark Billingham

21. "A Song of Shadows" - John Connolly. Not as compelling as some of his other books but still good

 

[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
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
23/50 The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton

24/50 Upstairs at the Party, Linda Grant

 

[QueenOfGoths]

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[inva]

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
24/51 - Maigret by Georges Simenon
25/51 - Laura by Vera Caspary
26/51 - A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism 1509-1688 by Ellen Meiksins Wood & Neal Wood
27/51 - Cécile is Dead by Georges Simenon
28/51 - The Tall Dark Man by Anne Chamberlain
29/51 - This Is Not It by Lynne Tillman

 

[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 – 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
15. The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins

16. Bad Blood: A Memoir – Lorna Sage

 

[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
9/20 - One Summer, America 1927 by Bill Bryson
10/20 - Cockroaches by Jo Nesbo

 

[Pickman's model]

26. sting of the drone

27. the magicians of the golden dawn: a documentary history of a magical order, 1887-1923

 

[spartacus mills]

25/45 Satantango - Laszlo Krasznahorkai

Incredible. Dark, twisting and paranoid, a brilliant writer.

Superb! I've got 'Seibo Down Below' and 'War and War' in the 'to read' pile.

 

[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
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
37/60 - Hilary Mantel - Every Day is Mother's Day
38/60 - Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Sunset Song*
39/60 - Ruth Rendell - The Girl Next Door
40/60 - Willy Vlautin - The Free
41/60 - Frank Skinner - Frank Skinner
42/60 - Anton Chekhov - The Cherry Orchard*
43/60 - Belinda Bauer - Darkside

44/60 - Virginia Woolf - Orlando*

 

[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
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
23/50 The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton
24/50 Upstairs at the Party, Linda Grant
25/50 Elizabeth is Missing, Emma Healy - really well written about a woman suffering from dementia and a mystery from her past. Sad but good.

 

[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 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

32 The Painter - Peter Heller
33 Weedless Gardening - Lee Reich
34 Etiquette and Espionage - Gail Carriger
35 The Witching Hour - Anne Rice

Got bogged down on this last Anne Rice book. Essentially she spent more than a thousand pages of 7 pt type just to leave the ending off for the next wordy, thousand page doorstop. At least she stopped writing Angel books.

 

[Pickman's model]

27. the magicians of the golden dawn: a documentary history of a magical order, 1887-1923

28. half a war

 

[belboid]

1/31 - Ken Wishnia - 23 Shades of Black
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.
9/31 - Henry James - Washington Square.
10/31 - Tim McLoughlin (Ed) - Brooklyn Noir
11/31 - David Stubbs - Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany
12/31 - Caroline Lucas - Honourable Friends: Parliament and the Fight for Change

13/31 - Raymond Chandler - The Little Sister
14/31 - Raymond Chandler - The Simple Art of Murder
15/31 - Sarah ward - In Bitter Chill
16/31 - Harper Lee - Go Set A Watchman

 

[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
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
30/60 - A Colossal Wreck : A Road Trip Through Political Scandal, Corruption and American Culture - Alexander Cockburn.
31/60 - Rebel Cities :From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution - David Harvey.
32/60 - The Poet - Michael Connelly.
33/60 - The Neon Rain - James Lee Burke.
34/60 - Blacklisted : The Secret War Between Big Business And Union Activists - Dave Smith & Phil Chamberlain.

 

[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
10/30 - Red Winter - Dan Smith
11/30 - On the yard - Malcom Braly
12/30 - The Goldfinch - Donna Tarrt

Well off track with my reading this year - I suspect I'll be falling somewhat short of my target. Not unrelated to the fact that I am firmly on track for my ambitious cycling target... you can't win 'em all.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

16/31 - Harper Lee - Go Set A Watchman

Is it a patch on To Kill a Mockingbird?

 

[belboid]

Is it a patch on To Kill a Mockingbird?

a somewhat grubby, poorly stitched patch....

It's more interesting than good, as an insight into how the novel was developed. Atticus is, arguably, a more complex character here, but we're told that rather than shown it, iyswim. It's not brilliantly structured, and can get rather preachy, but it does have some excellent sections, and really nice turns of phrase. As a first draft, it has definite potential!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

a somewhat grubby, poorly stitched patch....

It's more interesting than good, as an insight into how the novel was developed. Atticus is, arguably, a more complex character here, but we're told that rather than shown it, iyswim. It's not brilliantly structured, and can get rather preachy, but it does have some excellent sections, and really nice turns of phrase. As a first draft, it has definite potential!

I've had my doubts that Harper Lee really wanted this released. There's a lot of people who accuse her caregivers of exploiting her. After selling a million copies, its certainly put some money in someone's pockets.

 

[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)
'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)
'In Cold Blood' Truman Capote (15/24)
'In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century' Geert Mak (16/24)

 

[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 – 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
15. The Girl on the Train – Paula Hawkins
16. Bad Blood: A Memoir – Lorna Sage

17. The Eye of Love – Margery Sharp

 

[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 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
32 The Painter - Peter Heller

33 Weedless Gardening - Lee Reich
34 Etiquette and Espionage - Gail Carriger
35 The Witching Hour - Anne Rice

36 Damage Control - J.A. Jance