the grand 2015 reading challenge thread

[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
30/51 - The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka
31/51 - The Great Recession: Profit cycles, economic crisis - a Marxist view by Michael Roberts
32/51 - The Failure of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession by Andrew Kliman
33/51 - The Galton Case by Ross MacDonald
34/51 - The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
35/51 - Without the Moon by Cathi Unsworth
36/51 - Murder Fantastical by Patricia Moyes
37/51 - I Hear You Knockin': The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues by Jeff Hannusch
38/51 - The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
39/51 - The Cellars of the Majestic by Georges Simenon
40/51 - Dr. Johnson's London by Liza Picard
41/51 - The Judge's House by Georges Simenon
42/51 - Signed, Picpus by Georges Simenon
43/51 - The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being: Evolution and the Making of Us by Alice Roberts
44/51 - Inspector Cadaver by Georges Simenon

 

[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
10/30 Angela Carter - Black Venus
11/30 John Boler, Ken Worpole - Hackney Half Term Adventure
12/30 Stephen Witt - How Music Got Free
13/30 John Quail - The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists
14/30 Ashton Gibson with Charles Lewis - A Light In The Dark Tunnel
15/30 Tim Wells - Everything Crash
16/30 David S Wills - Scientologist! William S Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult'
17/30 Dick Hobbs - Doing The Business: Entrepreneurship, the Working Class, and Detectives in the East End of London
18/30 Alexander Trocchi - Young Adam
19/30 Ben Watson - Adorno For Revolutionaries
20/30 GX Jupitter-Larsen - Empty Holes, Empty Homes
21/30 Angela Carter - Nights At The Circus

22/30 Geronimo - Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement

 

[Patteran]

I'd forgotten about this thread.

7) Communal Luxury, Kristin Ross
8) Racecraft, Karen & Barbara Fields
9) Buying Time, Wolfgang Streeck
10) Unforgiving Years, Victor Serge
11) The Communist Hypothesis, Alain Badiou

12) Love's Work, Gillian Rose
13) Ethics, Alain Badiou
14) Polemics, Alain Badiou
15) The Liberal Virus, Samir Amin
16) Mayakovsky, Poems
17) Nancy Fraser, Fortunes of Feminism
18) Steve Jones, Gramsci

Well short of the arbitrary target, unless I include the other dozen I've started but not finished. I'm not the first person to realise that raising a toddler is terrific, and tiring. List looks more clever clogs than I feel, & misses the thousands of trite Facebook posts & daft tweets & football forum threads I've also read. And doesn't include the one book I really wanted to read this year - Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life. Next year.

 

[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
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
59/60 - Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend in a Coma
60/60 - Zoe Heller - Everything you Know
61/60 - Hilary Mantel - The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
62/60 - Robert Galbraith - Career of Evil
63/60 - Kent Haruf - Plainsong
64/60 - Kate Atkinson - Life after Life
65/60 - Kent Haruf - Eventide
66/60 - Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
67/60 - Stuart Macbride - Cold Granite
68/60 - Kent Haruf - Benediction
69/60 - David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
70/60 - Stuart MacBride - Dying Light

71/60 - Stephen King - 11.22.63

 

[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
19. The Long Firm – Jake Arnott
20. Before I go to Sleep – S J Watson
21. Slumdog Millionaire – Vikas Swarup
22. Waterland – Graham Swift
23. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt

24. The Dressmaker – Beryl Bainbridge
25. Singularity – Charlotte Grimshaw
26. Life Class – Pat Barker

 

[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
10/30 Angela Carter - Black Venus
11/30 John Boler, Ken Worpole - Hackney Half Term Adventure
12/30 Stephen Witt - How Music Got Free
13/30 John Quail - The Slow Burning Fuse: The Lost History of the British Anarchists
14/30 Ashton Gibson with Charles Lewis - A Light In The Dark Tunnel
15/30 Tim Wells - Everything Crash
16/30 David S Wills - Scientologist! William S Burroughs and the 'Weird Cult'
17/30 Dick Hobbs - Doing The Business: Entrepreneurship, the Working Class, and Detectives in the East End of London
18/30 Alexander Trocchi - Young Adam
19/30 Ben Watson - Adorno For Revolutionaries
20/30 GX Jupitter-Larsen - Empty Holes, Empty Homes
21/30 Angela Carter - Nights At The Circus
22/30 Geronimo - Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement

23/30 Anon(s) - We Want to Riot, Not To Work: The 1981 Brixton Riots

 

[yield]

1. The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan. Lightweight fantasy novel could do better.
2. Our Final Century by Martin Rees. Depressing look at how not much has changed in the last decade.
3. Lexicon by Max Barry. A strangely compelling thriller and love story. What if there was a secret cabal who knew how to make NLP work.
4. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. Surprisingly satisfying fantasy tale about con artists. Very good laugh out loud funny story in places
5. The Lost Tomb by Kent Weeks. An interesting mix of Archaeology and Anthropology. KV5 and its exploration. The first found Egyptian family mausoleum.
6. Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang. A good introduction to the main schools of economics by the Oxford Korean economist. Learnt a lot.
7. Altai by Wu Ming. Sequel to Q. Inspirational but too short by far. If only my history lessons at school had been this good.

8. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood.

 

[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
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
59/60 - Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend in a Coma
60/60 - Zoe Heller - Everything you Know
61/60 - Hilary Mantel - The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
62/60 - Robert Galbraith - Career of Evil
63/60 - Kent Haruf - Plainsong
64/60 - Kate Atkinson - Life after Life
65/60 - Kent Haruf - Eventide
66/60 - Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
67/60 - Stuart Macbride - Cold Granite
68/60 - Kent Haruf - Benediction
69/60 - David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
70/60 - Stuart MacBride - Dying Light
71/60 - Stephen King - 11.22.63

72/60 - John Lanchester - Mr Phillips

 

[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
19. The Long Firm – Jake Arnott
20. Before I go to Sleep – S J Watson
21. Slumdog Millionaire – Vikas Swarup
22. Waterland – Graham Swift
23. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil – John Berendt
24. The Dressmaker – Beryl Bainbridge
25. Singularity – Charlotette Grimshaw
26. Life Class – Pat Barker

27/20 The Cellist of Sarajevo – Stephen Galloway

 

[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
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
59/60 - Douglas Coupland - Girlfriend in a Coma
60/60 - Zoe Heller - Everything you Know
61/60 - Hilary Mantel - The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
62/60 - Robert Galbraith - Career of Evil
63/60 - Kent Haruf - Plainsong
64/60 - Kate Atkinson - Life after Life
65/60 - Kent Haruf - Eventide
66/60 - Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
67/60 - Stuart Macbride - Cold Granite
68/60 - Kent Haruf - Benediction
69/60 - David Mitchell - Black Swan Green
70/60 - Stuart MacBride - Dying Light
71/60 - Stephen King - 11.22.63
72/60 - John Lanchester - Mr Phillips

73/60 - David Peace - 1974

 

[Greebo]

1/60 The Cowboy and the Cossack - Clair Huffaker
2/60 Briefe aus dem Gefängnis - Rosa Luxemburg
3/60 Chita: a memory of Last Island - Lafadio Hearn
4/60 Zla miłość - Aleksander Sowa
5/60 Frog Żaba - Colin Hann, Ryszard Bart and Pedro Páramo
6/60 Amexica: War along the borderline - Ed Vulliamy
7/60 Good mother, bad daughter? - Martha Penn
8/60 Czy wiesz, co widzę? - Richárde
9/60 Glaslügen - Nicholas Vega
10/60 Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics - Starhawk
11/60 Plötzlich Callgirl - Portia da Costa (one of the least clunky translations I've come across)
12/60 99% Darkness - Jacob Stringer
13/60 Stoner - John Williams
14/60 Auf der anderen Seite is das Gras viel grüner - Kerstin Gier.
15/60 Vollidiot - Tommy Jaud
16/60 Wicked Appetite - Janet Evanovich
17/60 Wicked Business - Janet Evanovich
18/60 Momo - Michael Ende
19/60 Momo - Michael Ende (1984 translation, not the 1970s one)
20/60 The Awakening - Kate Chopin
21/60 Deaf Sentence - David Lodge
22/60 The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
23/60 Bodies - Jed Mercurio
24/60 Rest Urlaub - Tommy Jaud
25/60 Oma Krause: Oder Der Untergang Preussens in Anekdoten - Georg Lentz
26/60 Snuff - Terry Pratchett
27/60 Das tapfere Aufschneiderlein - Bernd Eilert
28/60 Hans mein Igel und der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren - Bernd Eilert
29/60 Der falsche Froschkoenig - Emanuel Bergmann
30/60 Haensel und Gretel XXL - Arne Nannestad
31/60 Max und Isabelle - Daniel Bielenstein
32/60 Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
33/60 Zimtzucker - Hannah Kaiser
34/60 The last relic of Roswell - Mr Janus
35/60 Stigma - Erving Goffman
36/60 The Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens

 

[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
56. Fool's quest- Robin Hobb.
57. Thief's magic- Trudi Canavan.
58. The house of hidden mothers- Meera Syal.
59. The banished of muirwood- Jeff wheeler.
60. In the light of morning- Tim Pears.
61. The nightspinners- Lucretia Griddle.
62. The alibi- Joseph Kanon.
63. Icarus- Deon Meyer.
64. The man from Berlin- Luke McCallin.
65. The bamboo stalk- Saud Alsanousi
66. The Pale House- Luke McCallin.
67. The ciphers of muirwood- Jeff wheeler.
68. The Warsaw Anagrams- Richard Zimmler.
69. The miniaturist- Jessie Burton.
70. The Cairo Affair- Olen Steinhauer.
71. The incarnations- Susan Barker.
72. Career of Evil- Robert Galbraith (j k Rowling).
73. Angel of storms- Trudi Canavan. Book 2 in her latest series. Title bears no relationship to book. Good, but not as good as her usual.

 

[Greebo]

1/60 The Cowboy and the Cossack - Clair Huffaker
2/60 Briefe aus dem Gefängnis - Rosa Luxemburg
3/60 Chita: a memory of Last Island - Lafadio Hearn
4/60 Zla miłość - Aleksander Sowa
5/60 Frog Żaba - Colin Hann, Ryszard Bart and Pedro Páramo
6/60 Amexica: War along the borderline - Ed Vulliamy
7/60 Good mother, bad daughter? - Martha Penn
8/60 Czy wiesz, co widzę? - Richárde
9/60 Glaslügen - Nicholas Vega
10/60 Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics - Starhawk
11/60 Plötzlich Callgirl - Portia da Costa (one of the least clunky translations I've come across)
12/60 99% Darkness - Jacob Stringer
13/60 Stoner - John Williams
14/60 Auf der anderen Seite is das Gras viel grüner - Kerstin Gier.
15/60 Vollidiot - Tommy Jaud
16/60 Wicked Appetite - Janet Evanovich
17/60 Wicked Business - Janet Evanovich
18/60 Momo - Michael Ende
19/60 Momo - Michael Ende (1984 translation, not the 1970s one)
20/60 The Awakening - Kate Chopin
21/60 Deaf Sentence - David Lodge
22/60 The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
23/60 Bodies - Jed Mercurio
24/60 Rest Urlaub - Tommy Jaud
25/60 Oma Krause: Oder Der Untergang Preussens in Anekdoten - Georg Lentz
26/60 Snuff - Terry Pratchett
27/60 Das tapfere Aufschneiderlein - Bernd Eilert
28/60 Hans mein Igel und der Teufel mit den drei goldenen Haaren - Bernd Eilert
29/60 Der falsche Froschkoenig - Emanuel Bergmann
30/60 Haensel und Gretel XXL - Arne Nannestad
31/60 Max und Isabelle - Daniel Bielenstein
32/60 Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
33/60 Zimtzucker - Hannah Kaiser
34/60 The last relic of Roswell - Mr Janus
35/60 Stigma - Erving Goffman
36/60 The Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens
37/60 Mayflower: The Voyage from Hell - Kevin Jackson

 

[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
27 Katalin Kiss: Industrial Monuments of Budapest
28 Jonathan Meades: Pompey
29 Leon Bloy – Disagreeable Tales
30 Ismail Kadare – The Accident
31 Tom Grill and Mark Scanlon: Photographic Composition
32 D M Thomas – The White Hotel
33 Wassily Kandinsky – Concerning the Spiritual in Art
34 Tom Pritchard, Jack Evans, Sydney Johnson – The Old Gunpowder Factory at Glynneath
35 Thomas Ligotti – Songs of a Dead Dreamer
35 Geoffrey Robertson QC – An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?
36 Ismail Kadare – Broken April
37 Rick Moody – Purple America
38 Kenneth Grant and Steffi Grant – Hidden Lore: Hermetic Glyphs
39 Alain Robbe-Grillet – A Sentimental Novel

 

[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)
'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)
'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim' David Sedaris (23/24)
'Dark Fire' CJ Sansom (24/24)
'The Gangs of New York' Herbert Asbury (25/24)
'Bring Up The Bodies' Hilary Mantel (26/24)
'1968' Mark Kurlansky (27/24)

 

[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
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
38/50 The Understudy, David Nicholls
39/50 Embryo, JA Schneider
40/50 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
41/50 Forever Fredless, Suzy Turner
42/50 Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Stepehn King
43/50 The Submission, Amy Waldman
44/50 The Fugitive, John Day
45/50 A Spell for Chameleon, Piers Anthony
46/50 Source of Magic, Piers Anthony

I think that may be it for this year as I'm back at work tomorrow so reading time reduced. Although I am at the end of the fourth Harry Potter. Might be able to sneak that through at lunch times.

 

[pennimania]

13/50 The King Must Die - Mary Renault (reread)
14/50 The Wide, Wide World - Susan Warner
15/50 The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison
16/50 Live and Let Die - Ian Fleming (there is an Ouroboros connection here, which I'm interested in, but it's so stylishly written ANYWAY)
17/50 The Rider of the White Horse - Rosemary Sutcliff
18/50 Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
19/50 A Game of Thrones - George R R Martin

I must update quickly!

20/50 I Take This Land - Richard Powell
21/50 The Source - James Michener
22/50 Hawaii - J Michener
23/50 The Glory Cloak - Patricia O'Brien

 

[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
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
38/50 The Understudy, David Nicholls
39/50 Embryo, JA Schneider
40/50 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
41/50 Forever Fredless, Suzy Turner
42/50 Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Stepehn King
43/50 The Submission, Amy Waldman
44/50 The Fugitive, John Day
45/50 A Spell for Chameleon, Piers Anthony
46/50 Source of Magic, Piers Anthony
47/50 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling - snuck it in

A good year for books this year too. I really enjoyed the majority of those.

 

[xenon]

hm must read more next year. (Yeah I know the K Dick ones are short stories but they were individual ebooks, not from an anthology.)

01/25 Echopraxia - Peter Watts
02/25 Beyond Lies the Wub - Philip K Dick
03/25 The Gun - Philip K Dick
04/25 Axiomatic - Greg Egan
05/25 Hells Angel - Hunter S Thomson
06/25 A World of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Elio M. García Jr, Linda Antonsson
07/25 Louder Than hell - Jon Wiederhorn, - Katherine Turman
08/25 The Annihilation Score - Charles Stross
09/25 TO Say Nothing of the Dog - Connie Willis
10/25 pfSense Cookbook - Matt Williamson
11/25 The Business - Iain Banks
12/25 Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks
13/25 Beowulf
14/25 The Manuscript Found in Saragossa - Jan Potocki
15/25 The Painted Man. Demon Cycle Book 1. Peter V. Brett
16/25 Black Flags - Joby Warrick
17/25 Inside Isis - Benjamin Hall
18/25 Network and System Security - John R. Vacca
19/25 Slow Bullets - Alastair Reynolds
20/25 On - Adam Roberts
21/25 Roadside Picnic - Arkedy and Boris Strugatsky
22/25 Hard to BE a God - Arkedy and Boris Strugatsky

 

[spartacus mills]

After a great start I faded and missed my target...

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
30 Ismail Kadare – The Accident
31 Tom Grill and Mark Scanlon: Photographic Composition
32 D M Thomas – The White Hotel
33 Wassily Kandinsky – Concerning the Spiritual in Art
34 Tom Pritchard, Jack Evans, Sydney Johnson – The Old Gunpowder Factory at Glynneath
35 Thomas Ligotti – Songs of a Dead Dreamer
35 Geoffrey Robertson QC – An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?
36 Ismail Kadare – Broken April
37 Rick Moody – Purple America
38 Kenneth Grant and Steffi Grant – Hidden Lore: Hermetic Glyphs
39 Alain Robbe-Grillet – A Sentimental Novel
40 Lajos Csernus-Lukacs, Viktor Triff, Janos Zsigmond – The Cemeteries of Budapest
41 Albert W. Clarke – A Miner’s Memories: Crumlin and the Navigation Colliery
42 Vilmos Toth – Funereal Art (Budapest)

 

[pennimania]

I must update quickly!

20/50 I Take This Land - Richard Powell
21/50 The Source - James Michener
22/50 Hawaii - J Michener
23/50 The Glory Cloak - Patricia O'Brien

24/50 Bloom - Kelle Hampton
25/50 The Handfasted Wife - Carol McGrath
26/50 The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle
27/50 Father of the Bride Edward Streeter
28/50 Music in the Hills - DE Stevenson
29/50 Best Friends - Mary Bard
30/50 Amberwell - DE Stevenson
31/50 The Lady in the Van - -Alan Bennett
32/50 365 Days With Rumi - Ergin Ergul
33/50 Whom the Gods would Destroy - Richard Powell
34/50 A Bunch of Cherries L T Meade
36/50 A Room with a View E M Forster

 

[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 America
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
36. Andrea Levy - Fruit of the Lemon
37. Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
38. Andrea Levy - Never Far From Nowhere
39. Simon Donald - Him off the Viz
40. Chris Donald - Rude kids: the Inside Story of Viz
41. John Lloyd and Jon Canter - Afterliff
42. Ernest Hemingway - Fiesta: the Sun Also Rises
43. Jenny Erpenbeck - End of Days
44. David Crystal - Words in Time and Space
45. Hilary Mantel - Bring Up the Bodies
46. Barney Hoskyns - Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
47. Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast
48. Miranda July - The First Bad Man
49. David Crystal - Spell It Out: the Singular Story of English Spelling
50/50. Marilynne Robinson - Lila
51/50. Susan Cooper - Over Sea, Under Stnoe
52/50. Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising
53/50. Susan Cooper - Greenwitch
54/50. Susan Cooper - The Grey King
55/50. Susan Cooper - Silver on the Tree

56/50 J. Jefferson Farjeon - A Mystery in White
57/50 Helen Macdonald - H is for Hawk

Sorry to resurrect last year's thread. The completist in me couldn't leave the last two off