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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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1/50 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
19/50 Carbonel - Barbara Sleigh
20/50 London Orbital - Iain Sinclair

21/50 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making - Catherynne Valente
22/50 Borderline - Lawrence Block
 
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
13/30 - The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
14/30 - Rooftoppers - Katherine Rundell
 
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
37/60 - Half the World (Shattered Sea Book 2) - Joe Abercrombie.
38/60 - The Tent, the Bucket and Me - Emma Kennedy.
39/60 - Ice - Ed McBain
40/60 - Canada - Richard Ford
41/60 - Ghosts - Ed McBain
42/60 -Eight Black Horses - Ed McBain
43/60 - Savage Continent : Europe In The Aftermath of World War 2. - Keith Lowe
44/60 - Plainsong - Kent Haruf

I loved this book , slice of small town America , a woman at work recommended it , said it reminded her of the Willy Vlautin books, they are similar , I can see me hoovering up a lot more of these :cool:
 
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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 - thief 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 experience of pornography
160. pratchett - johnny and the bomb
161. pratchett - johnny and the dead
162. pratchett - only you can save mankind
163. joe abercrombie - half the world
164. peter f hamilton - judas unchained
165. peter f hamilton - pandoras star
166. Iain banks - use of weapons
167. Iain banks - against a dark background
168. bernard cornwell - sharpe's havoc
169. pratchett - guards, guards
170. rachael moran - paid for
171.pratchett - nights watch
172. bernard Cornwell - sharpe's fortress
173. Joe Abercrombie - half a man
174. jessica valenti- full frontal feminism
175. Bernard Cornwell - sharpe's prey
176. octavia butler - wild seed
177. owen jones - chavs
178. cj cherryh - downbelow station
179. susan faludi- backlash
180. Amy Tan - saving fish from drowning
181. bernard cornwell - sharpe's trafalgur
182. bernard cornwell - sharpe's rifles
183. Sarah song - justice, gender and the politics of multiculturalism

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184-189. elizabeth moon - vatta's war series
190. Chimamanda Ngozi adiche - americanah
191. mal star - rest not in peace
192. richard morgan - altered carbon
193. Inga Muscio - cunt
 
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"
24. "The Great Zoo of China" - Matthew Reilly
25. "Cold Granite" - Stuart MacBride
26 "Dying Light" - Stuart MacBride

27. "The Fear Index" - Robert Harris. Okay but I felt rather distanced from it
 
'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)
'The Summer Book' Tove Jansson (17/24)
'Ionia: A Quest' Freya Stark (18/24)
'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow' Peter Hoeg (19/24)
'The House of Sleep' Jonathan Coe (20/24)
 
marty21 said:
I'm intrigued by 193 :D novel or history?
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feminism. - it' your cunt, get to know it and remember you are and should remain in charge of it. talks about stuff like the history of women freindly toy shops, abortion rights, attitudes towards periods- when women's natural body processes do and don't need medicalising and how society teaches that bleeding from your cunt is dirty, our attitudes towards sexually active women, and body image
 
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
37/60 - Half the World (Shattered Sea Book 2) - Joe Abercrombie.
38/60 - The Tent, the Bucket and Me - Emma Kennedy.
39/60 - Ice - Ed McBain
40/60 - Canada - Richard Ford
41/60 - Ghosts - Ed McBain
42/60 -Eight Black Horses - Ed McBain
43/60 - Savage Continent : Europe In The Aftermath of World War 2. - Keith Lowe
44/60 - Plainsong - Kent Haruf
45/60 - Eventide - Kent Haruf
 
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
31/45 Breakfast At Tiffany's - Truman Capote
32/45 Benediction - Kent Haruf
33/45 Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee
34/45 The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
35/45 American Rust - Phillip Meyer
36/45 What You Want Is in the Limo: On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born - Michael Walker
37/45 Reheated Cabbage - Irvine Welsh
38/45 Generation X - Douglas Coupland
 
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
27 Katalin Kiss: Industrial Monuments of Budapest
28 Jonathan Meades: Pompey
29 Leon Bloy – Disagreeable Tales
 
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
28/52 Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick by Gary Roth
29/52 Blood, Salt, Water by Denise Mina

30/52 The Kindest Thing by Cath Staincliffe
 
'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)
'The Summer Book' Tove Jansson (17/24)
'Ionia: A Quest' Freya Stark (18/24)
'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow' Peter Hoeg (19/24)
'The House of Sleep' Jonathan Coe (20/24)
'84 Charing Cross Road' Helene Hanff (21/24)
 
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
21/31 - Paul Mason - Postcapitalism
22/31 - David Lagercrantz - The Girl In The Spiders Web
23/31 - Laura Lippman - After I'm Gone
24/31 - Sunjeev Sahota - The Year of the Runaways

25/31 - Michael Moorcock - The Whispering Swarm
 
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
19/50 Carbonel - Barbara Sleigh
20/50 London Orbital - Iain Sinclair
21/50 The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making - Catherynne Valente
22/50 Borderline - Lawrence Block

23/50 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - J K Rowling
 
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
30/50 Caller 107, Matthew S Cox
31/50 The Commitments, Roddy Doyle
32/50 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
33/50 Loaded, Christos Tsiolkas
34/50 Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn
35/50 Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, JK Rowling
36/50 Moranthology, Caitlin Moran
37/50 Between a Smile and a Tear, Robert Bucchianeri
 
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
37/60 - Half the World (Shattered Sea Book 2) - Joe Abercrombie.
38/60 - The Tent, the Bucket and Me - Emma Kennedy.
39/60 - Ice - Ed McBain
40/60 - Canada - Richard Ford
41/60 - Ghosts - Ed McBain
42/60 -Eight Black Horses - Ed McBain
43/60 - Savage Continent : Europe In The Aftermath of World War 2. - Keith Lowe
44/60 - Plainsong - Kent Haruf
45/60 - Eventide - Kent Haruf
46/60 - Benediction - Kent Haruf.
 
'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)
'The Summer Book' Tove Jansson (17/24)
'Ionia: A Quest' Freya Stark (18/24)
'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow' Peter Hoeg (19/24)
'The House of Sleep' Jonathan Coe (20/24)
'84 Charing Cross Road' Helene Hanff (21/24)
'Dissolution' CJ Sansom (22/24)
 
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
50/60 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
51/60 - Manuel Puig - Kiss of the Spider Woman*
52/60 - Abdulrazak Gurnah - Paradise*
53/60 - Pat Barker - The Ghost Road*
54/60 - Nathan Filer - The Shock of the Fall
55/60 - Caitlin Moran - How to be a Woman

56/60 - David Mitchell - The Bone Clocks
57/60 - Kate Tempest - Hold your Own
 
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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"
24. "The Great Zoo of China" - Matthew Reilly
25. "Cold Granite" - Stuart MacBride
26 "Dying Light" - Stuart MacBride
27. "The Fear Index"

28. "The Farm" - Tom Rob Smith. Very good,says it is a thriller but, well, it really isn't or not what I would term a thriller.It's more that that I feel
 
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
50/60 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
51/60 - Manuel Puig - Kiss of the Spider Woman*
52/60 - Abdulrazak Gurnah - Paradise*
53/60 - Pat Barker - The Ghost Road*
54/60 - Nathan Filer - The Shock of the Fall
55/60 - Caitlin Moran - How to be a Woman
56/60 - David Mitchell - The Bone Clocks
57/60 - Kate Tempest - Hold your Own

58/60 - Minette Walters - The Tinder Box
 
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
31/45 Breakfast At Tiffany's - Truman Capote
32/45 Benediction - Kent Haruf
33/45 Go Set A Watchman - Harper Lee
34/45 The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
35/45 American Rust - Phillip Meyer
36/45 What You Want Is in the Limo: On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and the Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star Was Born - Michael Walker
37/45 Reheated Cabbage - Irvine Welsh
38/45 Generation X - Douglas Coupland
39/45 A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James ~ The story of the assassination attempt on Marley, the political violence of the Jamaican elections in the 70's and early 80's and the rise of the cocaine trade via Pablo Escobar and Jamaican dealers in America has been well documented before, but never by a Jamaican who can write with such power and skill. Crucially the nuances of language, culture and the world view particular to Jamaicans is captured perfectly.
 
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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
28/52 Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick by Gary Roth
29/52 Blood, Salt, Water by Denise Mina
30/52 The Kindest Thing by Cath Staincliffe

31/52 The House of Twenty Thousand Books by Sasha Abramsky
 
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