the grand 2015 reading challenge thread

[spartacus mills]

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
23 Dambudzo Marechera: Black Sunlight
24 Jose Saramago: Blindness
25 Owen Hatherley: Landscapes of Communism – A History Through Buildings
26 Endre Prakfalvi: Architecture of Dictatorship: The Architecture of Budapest Between 1945 And 1959

 

[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
31. Knight's Shadow- Sebastian de Castell.
32. Fireblood- Jeff Wheeler
33. Dryadborn- Jeff Wheeler
34. PoisonWell- Jeff Wheeler
35. The wretched of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
36. The blight of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
37. The scourge of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
38. God in Ruins- Kate Atkinson.
39. The Riot- Laura Wilson
40. Half a war- Joe Abercrombie.
41. A brief stop in the road from Auschwitz- Goran Rosenberg.
42. Elantris- Brandon Sanderson
43, 44, 45. Steelheart, firefight, mitosis- all Brandon Sanderson. Bit of a fantasy binge.
46. Do no harm- Henry Marsh.
47. Faces of Angels- Lucretia Grindle.
48. Human Cargo- Caroline Moorhead.
49. The night watchman- Richard Zimmler.
50. The red Eagles- David Downing. Entertaining puff about Russians trying to steal atomic materials from the Americans during ww2. Pretty short, but quite well written escapism, with the requisite twist

 

[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
31. Knight's Shadow- Sebastian de Castell.
32. Fireblood- Jeff Wheeler
33. Dryadborn- Jeff Wheeler
34. PoisonWell- Jeff Wheeler
35. The wretched of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
36. The blight of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
37. The scourge of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
38. God in Ruins- Kate Atkinson.
39. The Riot- Laura Wilson
40. Half a war- Joe Abercrombie.
41. A brief stop in the road from Auschwitz- Goran Rosenberg.
42. Elantris- Brandon Sanderson
43, 44, 45. Steelheart, firefight, mitosis- all Brandon Sanderson. Bit of a fantasy binge.
46. Do no harm- Henry Marsh.
47. Faces of Angels- Lucretia Grindle.
48. Human Cargo- Caroline Moorhead.
49. The night watchman- Richard Zimmler.
50. The red Eagles- David Downing.
51. Rasputin's Shadow- Raymond Khoudry. Sub Dan Brown twaddle

 

[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
27/45 The Peripheral - William Gibson ~ I think this is on a par with Neuromancer; a clever, insightful and visionary guess at our development and use of near future technologies combined with a great story.
28/45 One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson ~ Perfect holiday reading, managing to be both well written and funny as well as a page turning thriller. Will be reading more of her work. Have you read this one BoatieBird? - might be up your street.

 

[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
17/31 - Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo - Roseanna
18/31 - Philip Kerr - March Violets

19/31 - Stephen Witt- How Music Got Free
20/31 - Bridget Christie - A Book for Her

 

[Manter]

ringo I think Kate Atkinson is a complete genius. Her two most recent books are very different to the Jackson Brodie books, but are outstanding.

 

[ringo]

ringo I think Kate Atkinson is a complete genius. Her two most recent books are very different to the Jackson Brodie books, but are outstanding.

I'd been meaning to read her before but hadn't got round to it, will be getting more. I don't usually go for crime/thrillers but it seemed like a good bet for 20p for holiday reading. Her non Brodie books look a bit more high brow, hope they have the same sense of humour.

 

[Manter]

I'd been meaning to read her before but hadn't got round to it, will be getting more. I don't usually go for crime/thrillers but it seemed like a good bet for 20p for holiday reading. Her non Brodie books look a bit more high brow, hope they have the same sense of humour.

Yes- they are very sly.... She says deadpan things which are just brilliant

 

[Fozzie Bear]

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)
6/30 Roger Mais - The Hills Were Joyful Together
7/30 Isaac Julien - Riot
8/30 Michael Morpurgo - Kaspar: Prince of Cats*
9/30 E.P. Thompson - The Making Of The English Working Class

 

[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.
35/60 - Gods and Generals - Jeff Shaara.
36/60 - Killer Angels - Michael Shaara

 

[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
31. Knight's Shadow- Sebastian de Castell.
32. Fireblood- Jeff Wheeler
33. Dryadborn- Jeff Wheeler
34. PoisonWell- Jeff Wheeler
35. The wretched of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
36. The blight of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
37. The scourge of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
38. God in Ruins- Kate Atkinson.
39. The Riot- Laura Wilson
40. Half a war- Joe Abercrombie.
41. A brief stop in the road from Auschwitz- Goran Rosenberg.
42. Elantris- Brandon Sanderson
43, 44, 45. Steelheart, firefight, mitosis- all Brandon Sanderson. Bit of a fantasy binge.
46. Do no harm- Henry Marsh.
47. Faces of Angels- Lucretia Grindle.
48. Human Cargo- Caroline Moorhead.
49. The night watchman- Richard Zimmler.
50. The red Eagles- David Downing.
51. Rasputin's Shadow- Raymond Khoudry.
52. We are all completely beside ourselves- Karen Joy Fowler. Nearly didn't read it as read a review on Amazon and their was a spoiler about her sister and I thought it sounded utterly ridiculous. But someone in this thread liked it, so I did- and it's good! Funny, wry, interesting, the slightly bizarre stuff is lightly written so you don't spend loads of time distracted by it. Really good.

 

[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

7. Perdido Street Station - China Miéville (Re-read)
8. The State of the Art - Iain M Banks (Re-read)
9. Don Camillo and the Devil - Giovanni Guareschi
10. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
11. Post Office - Charles Bukowski
12. Hear the Wind Sing - Haruki Murakami
13. Pinball - Haruki Murakami

 

[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
25/30 Wannabe in my gang? by Bernard O'Mahoney
26/30 Dead man running by Martin McGartland

 

[toggle]

1. Mike Cronin - The failure of British fascism
2. Raymond E Feist - Rides a Dread legion
3. Robin Hobb - Dragon keeper
4. Terry Pratchet - Unseen Academicals
5. Campagna and Campiglio - What are we fighting for?
6. Dunleavy et al. - Voices of the people
7. Conan Doyle - A study in Scarlet
8. Stuart Bell - The conservative party and british politics
9. Robin Hobb - Dragon haven
10. William Morris - News from Nowehere
11. Philippa Gregory - The white Queen
12. Raymond E Feist - Exile's return
13. Catherine Hall - White, male and middle class
14. D. H. lawrence - lady Chatterley's lover
15. Raymond E Feist - Flight of the nighthawks
16. jack London - call of the wild
17. jack london - white fang
18. H Rider haggard - King Solomon's mines
19. Neil gaimin - American gods
20. Rodney Bolt - the impossible life of Mary Benson
21. Gorden marsden - Victorian values
22. Phillipa Gregory - The other Boleyn girl
23. mark Guy pearse - the pretty ways o providence
24. Raymond E Feist - into a dark realm
25. bernard Cornwell - harlquin
26. Bernard Cornwell - vagabond
27. Phillipa Gregory - the boleyn inheritance
28. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's honour
29. bernard Cornwell - sharpe's fury
30. sue townsend - adrian mole, minor to major
31. sue townsend - weapons of mass destruction
32. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's escape
33. Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's triumph
34. Phillipa Gregory - lady of the rivers
35. Phillipa Gregory - The kingmaker's daughter
36. naomi Novik - temeraire
37. naomi novik -throne of jade
38. naomi novik - black powder
39. naomi novik - empire of ivory
40. naomi novik - victory of eagles
41. naomi novik - tongues of serpents
42. naomi novik - crucible of gold
43. naomi novik - blood of tyrants
44. joe abercrombie - the blade itself
45. joe abercrombie - before they are hanged
46. joe abercrombie - last argument of kings
47. robin hobb - city of dragons
48. robin hobb - blood of dragons
49. robin hobb - fool's assassin
50. Raymond e feist - wrath of a mad god
51. raymond e feist - at the gates of darkness
52. raymond e feist - a kingdom besieged
53. raymond e feist - a crown imperiled
54. raymond e feist - magician's end
55. Phyliss Schafly - the flipside of feminism.
56-71. robret jordan - the wheel of time series.
72 - 77. GRR Gartin - Game of thrones series.
78. CJ Cherryh - Cyteen
79. Terry pratchett - Thud
80. Terry pratchett - Jingo
81. Terry pratchett - The last hero
82. Terry pratchett - snuff
83. Terry pratchett - Eric
84. Terry pratchett - hatfull of sky
85. Terry pratchett - wintersmith
86. Terry pratchett - Guards, Guards
87- 89 - Peter F hamilton - Night Dawn triolgy
90. Peter F hamilton - second chance at eden
91. Terry pratchett - making money
92. Grr Martin - tales of dunk and egg
93. grr martin - wild cards
94. bernard Cornwell - sharpe's tiger
95 - 97. Lm Mongomery - Emily of new moon series
98-102 - LM montgomery - 1st 4 of the Anne series
103. Terry pratchett - The long earth
104. John Angarrack - Scart l'errups
105. Cj Cherryh - 40,000 in Gehenna
106. GRR martin - the ice dragon
107. Virginia Blum - flesh wounds
108. David Evans - How to writ a better thesis
109. GRR martin - windhaven
110. Thornhill and Palmer - a natural history of rape
111. John Cleland - Fanny Hill
112. Daniel Defoe - Moll flanders
113. waltr jon williams - voice of the whirlwind
114. melissa gira grant - playing the whore
115. megan tyler - selling sex short
116. iain banks - player of games
117. pratchett - lords and ladies
118. pratchett - feet of clay
119. pratchett - hogfather
120. pratchett - raising steam
121. pratchett - dodger
122. pratchett - last continent
123. pratchett - reaper man
124. pratchett - strata
125. pratchett - dark side of the sun
126. pratchett - men at arms
127. mackintosh/barrett - the anti social family
128 RA salvatore - homeland
129 RA salvatore - exile
130. RA salvatore - sojourn
131. grr martin - world of ice and fire
132. paul de silva - how to write a lot
133. pratchett - carpe ugulum
134. pratchett - maurice
135. pratchett - pyramids
136. pratchett - soul music
137. pratchett - world of poo
138. Piper Kerman - orange is the new black
140. Iain banks - consider phlaebus
141. pratchett - fifth elephant
142. pratchett - wyrd systers
143. Mel starr - unquiet bones
144. mel starr corpse in st andrews chappel
145. obrian, hayes, carpenter - the politics of sex trafficing

146. rebecca solint - men explain thigns to me
147. julie otsuka - when the emperor was devine
148. mel starr - trail of ink
149. pratchett - small gods
150. mel starr - tainted coin
151. mel starr - the abbots agreement
152. amy tan - the joy-luck club
153. mel starr - unhallowed ground
154. pratchett - theif of time
155. pratchett - fifth elephant
156. pratchett - witches abroad
157. pratchett - monstrous regiment
158. valerie frankel - winter is coming
159. cherie matrix - the female expereince of pornography
160. pratchett - johnny and the bomb
161. pratchett - johnny and the dead
162. pratchett - only you can save mankind

 

[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
22. "Buried" - Mark Billingham

23. "The Martian" - Andy Weir. I enjoyed it but didn't find it compelling

 

[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)
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
26/52 The Last Days of Disco by David F. Ross

27/52 Flawed Genius: Scottish Football's Self-Destructive Mavericks by Stephen McGowan

 

[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

18. Charles Chaplin: An Autobiography

Lovely book, very interesting and impressive man, modest and human, good at self-analysis. Especially enjoyed his early life (poverty, Kennington, workhouse, getting into show-biz, family circumstances), and the time around the second world war, when he became seen as unpatriotic and a communist sypmathiser (in the US).

 

[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
27/45 The Peripheral - William Gibson
28/45 One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
29/45 Life Drawing - Robin Black

 

[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
37 Getting Off - Lawrence Block
38 Assholes: A Theory - Aaron James

39 Prudence: Gail Carriger

40 Animal Liberation - Peter Singer (A supposed classic on the topic of animal rights, but I found it a lessor work than a number of other, less well-known books.)
41 Iron Cage - Andre Norton

 

[marty21]

23. "The Martian" - Andy Weir. I enjoyed it but didn't find it compelling

I enjoyed that a lot ! Looking forward to the movie !

 

[Pickman's model]

28. half a war

29. aha!

 

[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
31. Knight's Shadow- Sebastian de Castell.
32. Fireblood- Jeff Wheeler
33. Dryadborn- Jeff Wheeler
34. PoisonWell- Jeff Wheeler
35. The wretched of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
36. The blight of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
37. The scourge of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
38. God in Ruins- Kate Atkinson.
39. The Riot- Laura Wilson
40. Half a war- Joe Abercrombie.
41. A brief stop in the road from Auschwitz- Goran Rosenberg.
42. Elantris- Brandon Sanderson
43, 44, 45. Steelheart, firefight, mitosis- all Brandon Sanderson. Bit of a fantasy binge.
46. Do no harm- Henry Marsh.
47. Faces of Angels- Lucretia Grindle.
48. Human Cargo- Caroline Moorhead.
49. The night watchman- Richard Zimmler.
50. The red Eagles- David Downing.
51. Rasputin's Shadow- Raymond Khoudry.
52. We are all completely beside ourselves- Karen Joy Fowler.
53. Whispering shadows- Jan-Philip Sendker. Atmospheric, set in Hong Kong and Shenzen. There is a murder but it's incidental.... It's mostly social commentary. Really enjoyed it (though every character seemed remarkably damaged...)

 

[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*
45/60 - Jessie Burton - The Miniaturist
46/60 - Philip K Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?*
47/60 - Belinda Bauer - Finders Keepers

48/60 - Peter James - You Are Dead
49/60 - Laurie Lee - Cider with Rosie

 

[BoatieBird]

28/45 One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson ~ Perfect holiday reading, managing to be both well written and funny as well as a page turning thriller. Will be reading more of her work. Have you read this one BoatieBird? - might be up your street.

No, I haven't read any of her stuff but I keep meaning to.
I might start with this one, thanks for the recommendation

 

[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
31. Knight's Shadow- Sebastian de Castell.
32. Fireblood- Jeff Wheeler
33. Dryadborn- Jeff Wheeler
34. PoisonWell- Jeff Wheeler
35. The wretched of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
36. The blight of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
37. The scourge of Muirwood- Jeff Wheeler
38. God in Ruins- Kate Atkinson.
39. The Riot- Laura Wilson
40. Half a war- Joe Abercrombie.
41. A brief stop in the road from Auschwitz- Goran Rosenberg.
42. Elantris- Brandon Sanderson
43, 44, 45. Steelheart, firefight, mitosis- all Brandon Sanderson. Bit of a fantasy binge.
46. Do no harm- Henry Marsh.
47. Faces of Angels- Lucretia Grindle.
48. Human Cargo- Caroline Moorhead.
49. The night watchman- Richard Zimmler.
50. The red Eagles- David Downing.
51. Rasputin's Shadow- Raymond Khoudry.
52. We are all completely beside ourselves- Karen Joy Fowler.
53. Whispering shadows- Jan-Philip Sendker.
54. Poisoned ground- Barbara Nadel
55. Enough Rope- Barbara Nadel
Her new series set in east London. Mysteries, with PIs as central characters, but mostly interesting about gentrification and the tension of the communities living together. I'm enjoying them.

 

[ringo]

No, I haven't read any of her stuff but I keep meaning to.
I might start with this one, thanks for the recommendation

I'd send you mine but whoever had it before it went to the charity shop I got it from bent the spine back and it fell apart as I was reading it. Spent the last 200 pages holding it together hoping not to lose any pages. Crimes against books

 

[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
27/45 The Peripheral - William Gibson
28/45 One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson
29/45 Life Drawing - Robin Black
30/45 A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle. Don't know why I stopped reading Doyle after Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha but at least now I have some to catch up on. Didn't realise quite what this was when I started it, but enjoyed the charge through the Irish struggle, even when it was tough reading.

 

[iona]

1/20 Proxima - Stephen Baxter
2/20 Glasgow Kiss - Alex Gray
3/20 Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
4/20 Matter - Iain M Banks
5/20 Crime - Irvine Welsh
6/20 Ultima - Stephen Baxter
7/20 The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi
8/20 The Son - Jo Nesbo
9/20 The Bone Collector - Jeffery Deaver

 

[billy_bob]

20/31 - Bridget Christie - A Book for Her

Is it good? I think she's brilliant, but I often find comedians' books don't live up to their performed material.

 

[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
26/50 Revenge, Martina Cole
27/50 The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins
28/50 The Shock of the Fall, Nathan Filer
29/50 The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman - beautiful!