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the great urban75 2016 reading challenge thread

how many books do you anticipate reading in 2016?


  • Total voters
    79
1/10 Stoner - John Williams
2/10 Moon over Soho - Ben Aaronovitch
3/10 Aberystwyth Mon Amour - Malcolm Price
4/10 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
5/10 Brixton Rock - Alex Wheatle
 
1/52 Autobiography by Mother Jones
2/52 Maigret and the Loner by Georges Simenon
3/52 How To Rob An Armored Car by Iain Levison (Reread)
4/52 Do I Love You? by Paul McDonald
5/52 Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds
6/52 The Chinese Detective by Michael Hardwick
7/52 Surviving Sting by Paul McDonald
8/52 Dangerous in Love by Leslie Thomas (Reread)
9/52 Dead To Me by Cath Staincliffe
10/52 Bleed Like Me by Cath Staincliffe
11/52 Ruthless by Cath Staincliffe
12/52 The Speakers by Heathcote Williams

13/52 Repossessed by Julian Cope
 
1/15 Foundation - Isaac Asimov
2/15 Edge of Infinity - ed. Jonathan Strahan
3/15 The Suicide Club - Robert Louis Stevenson
4/15 The Lurking Fear - H. P. Lovecraft
5/15 The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack - various
6/15 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
7/15 Midnight Sun - Jo Nesbo
8/15 20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill
9/15 The First Science Fiction Megapack - various
10/15 The Death of Grass - John Christopher
11/15 Descent - Ken MacLeod
12/15 Butch is a Noun - S. Bear Bergman
13/15 Wolf - Mo Hayder
14/15 The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz
15/15 Becoming a Visible Man - Jamison Green
16/15 Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan
17/15 The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You - S. Bear Bergman
18/15 Reheated Cabbage - Irvine Welsh
19/15 Divergent - Veronica Roth
20/15 War Dogs - Greg Bear
21/15 Killing Titan - Greg Bear
22/15 Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity - ed. Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore
23/15 Unquenchable Fire - Rachel Pollack
24/15 Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
25/15 The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
26/15 The Thief - Fuminori Nakamura
27/15 Time's Eye - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
28/15 The Long War - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
29/15 Goodhouse - Peyton Marshall
30/15 Iceman - Chuck Liddell
31/15 The Best of All Possible Worlds - Karen Lord
 
1/31 Wie man Deutscher wird in 50 einfachen Schritten - Adam Fletcher
2/31 Goblin Fruit - Laini Taylor
3/31 Just Kids - Patti Smith
4/31 Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling - Abrahm Lustgarten
5/31 The Cleaner - Mark Dawson
6/31 Saint Death - Mark Dawson
7/31 The Warrior Princess Submissive - Michael Makai
8/31 Unfinished Business - The Politics of Class War - Class War
9/31 How to Build the Perfect Rake - Kate Harper
10/31 The Driver - Mark Dawson
11/31 UR - Stephen King
12/31 Ghosts - Mark Dawson
13/31 The Sword of God - Mark Dawson
14/31 Salvation Row - Mark Dawson
15/31 The Loney - Andrew Michael Hurley
16/31 1,000 yards - Mark Dawson
17/31 Tarantula - Mark Dawson
18/31 Explaining the Explicit - Julian Barnes
19/31 The Princess Bride - William Goldman
20/31 Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness
21/31 The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
22/31 Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
23/31 The Migraine Mafia - Maia Sepp
24/31 Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more) - Hadley Freeman
25/31 A Pair of Jeans and other stories - Asira Shahraz
26/31 The Marriage Bureau for Rich People - Farhad Zama
27/31 Exponential Apocalypse - Eirik Gumeny
28/31 Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads - S R Mallery
29/31 Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
30/31 Gone to ground - Marie Jalowicz Simon
31/31 What would Satan do? - Anthony Miller
32/31 Red Love - the story of an East German Family - Maxim Leo
33/31 Duden Allgemeinbildung - Eselsbrücken: Die schönsten Merksätze und ihre Bedeutung
34/31 Work: A Story of Experience - Louisa May Alcott
35/31 Undone - Kristina Lloyd
36/31 My Grammar and I (or should that be "me"?) - Caroline Taggart & J A Wines
37/31 So... That's why I'm bonkers! : A girl's guide to surviving the menopause - Sheila Wenbourne
38/31 The Dispossessed - Ursula le Guin
39/31 Bavarian Beauty - August MacGregor
40/31 Susannah and the Spy - Anna Elliot
41/31 Stopp! Küssen verboten, Mister Wolf! - Melanie Frey
42/31 The Red Quest: Travels through 22 former Soviet Republics - Jason Smart
 
1/60 The Lost Starship - Vaughn Heppner.
2/60 The Lost Command - Vaughn Heppner
3/60 The Lost Destroyer - Vaughn Heppner
4/60 The Lost Colony - Vaughan Heppner
5/60 Why it is still Kicking Off Everywhere - Paul Mason
6/60 The Lady From Zagreb - Philip Kerr
7/60 Anzio - Wynford Vaughan Thomas
8/60 Extinction Point : Genesis - Paul Antony Jones
9/60 Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
10/60 Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
11/60 Blood Relatives - Ed McBain
12/60 Blood on Snow - Jo Nesbo
13/60 Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
14/60 White Nights - Ann Cleeves
15/60 Even Dogs In The Wild - Ian Rankin
16/60 Bryant & May : The Burning Man - Christopher Fowler.
17/60 Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
18/60 Blue Lightning - Ann Cleeves
19/60 Dead Water - Ann Cleeves
20/60 Thin Air - Ann Cleeves
21/60 Radical Cities : Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture - Justin McGuirk.
22/60 Deep South - Paul Theroux.
23/60 Constitution - Nick Webb.
24/60 Then We Take Berlin -John Lawton
25/60 The Cold Dish - Craig Johnson
26/60 Chavs - Owen Jones
27/60 Gathering Prey - John Sandford
28/60 Chasing the Dead - Tim Weaver
29/60 The Dead Tracks - Tim Weaver
30/60 Serious Crimes (Strike a Match Book 1) Frank Tayell .
 
1/20 - Peter Straub - Ghost Story
2/20 - Duncan Falcolner - First Into Action
3/20 - William Gibson - Neuromancer
4/20 - Paul Trynka - Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography
5/20 - Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers
6/20 - Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers
7/20 - Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters
8/20 - Carl Sagan - Contact
9/20 - Irvine Welsh - The Blade Artist
10/20 - Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures with Extremists
11/20 - Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
12/20 - Steve Alten - Vostok
13/20 - Susan Hill - The Woman in Black
 
1/50 A Heat of the Moment Thing, Maggie Le Page
2/50 How to Build a Girl, Caitlin Moran
3/50 The Guest Cat, Takashi Hiraide
4/50 The Fire, John A Heldt
5/50 The Worst Day of my Life, So Far, MA Harper
6/50 Alive and Killing, Jeff Carson
7/50 Persuasion, Jane Austen
8/50 The Corrections, Jonathan Franzen
9/50 The Rowan Tree, Robert W Fuller
10/50 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, JK Rowling
11/50 Love Handles, Gretchen Galway
12/50 The Sisters, Claire Douglas
13/50 Fire Country, David Estes
14/50 New Year Island, Paul Draker
15/50 Sleep With Me, Joanna Briscoe
16/50 More Fool Me, Stephen Fry
17/50 Swimming Home, Ruth Mancini
18/50 Ransom Dreams, Robert Bucchianeri
19/50 Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, JK Rowling
20/50 Preschooled, Anna Lefler
21/50 Finders, Keepers, Sean Costello
22/50 End of Watch, Stephen King
23/50 A Chance of Sunny Skies, Eryn Scott
24/50 Eleven, Twelve, Dig and Delve, Willow Rose
25/50 My Tomorrow, Your Yesterday, Jason Ayres
26/50 Killing me Softly, Bianca Sloane - reasonable thriller.


And three short books in a row have put me on target for the year.
 
1/20 - The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
2/20 - The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins
3/20 - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
4/20 - Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane
5/20 - Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh
6/20 - The Last Detective by Robert Crais
7/20 - The 100 Most Pointless Arguments in the World Solved by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman
8/20 - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
9/20 - 11.22.63 by Stephen King
 
1/15 Foundation - Isaac Asimov
2/15 Edge of Infinity - ed. Jonathan Strahan
3/15 The Suicide Club - Robert Louis Stevenson
4/15 The Lurking Fear - H. P. Lovecraft
5/15 The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack - various
6/15 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
7/15 Midnight Sun - Jo Nesbo
8/15 20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill
9/15 The First Science Fiction Megapack - various
10/15 The Death of Grass - John Christopher
11/15 Descent - Ken MacLeod
12/15 Butch is a Noun - S. Bear Bergman
13/15 Wolf - Mo Hayder
14/15 The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz
15/15 Becoming a Visible Man - Jamison Green
16/15 Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan
17/15 The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You - S. Bear Bergman
18/15 Reheated Cabbage - Irvine Welsh
19/15 Divergent - Veronica Roth
20/15 War Dogs - Greg Bear
21/15 Killing Titan - Greg Bear
22/15 Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity - ed. Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore
23/15 Unquenchable Fire - Rachel Pollack
24/15 Small Gods - Terry Pratchett
25/15 The Long Earth - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
26/15 The Thief - Fuminori Nakamura
27/15 Time's Eye - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
28/15 The Long War - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
29/15 Goodhouse - Peyton Marshall
30/15 Iceman - Chuck Liddell
31/15 The Best of All Possible Worlds - Karen Lord
32/15 Bedlam - Christopher Brookmyre
 
Would people count graphic novels, if they are large and important ones like Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns?
 
1/51 - Multiculturalism and Its Discontents by Kenan Malik
2/51 - Slade House by David Mitchell
3/51 - The True History of Merlin the Magician by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
4/51 - SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
5/51 - Double Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights by Meredith Tax
6/51 - The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
7/51 - The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned and Constance Sublette
8/51 - Félicie by Georges Simenon
9/51 - Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė by Julija Šukys
10/51 - What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? by Katherine Verdery
11/51 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
12/51 - Maigret Gets Angry by Georges Simenon
13/51 - Deer Hunting With Jesus: Guns, Votes, Debt and Delusion in Redneck America by Joe Bageant
14/51 - The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
15/51 - Blood Salt Water by Denise Mina
16/51 - Mouse in Eternity by Nedra Tyre
17/51 - Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon
18/51 - Late Marx and the Russian Road: Marx and 'the Peripheries of Capitalism' edited by Teodor Shanin
19/51 - Maigret's Holiday by Georges Simenon
20/51 - Maigret's Dead Man by Georges Simenon
21/51 - Maigret's First Case by Georges Simenon
22/51 - Rednecks, Queers & Country Music by Nadine Hubbs
23/51 - New Hope for the Dead by Charles Willeford
24/51 - The 39 Steps by John Buchan
25/51 - What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
26/51 - Light Reading by Aliya Whiteley
27/51 - The Goodbye Look by Ross MacDonald
28/51 - The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne
29/51 - Spin Cycle by Zoë Strachan
30/51 - Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
31/51 - Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
32/51 - The Last One Left by John D. MacDonald
33/51 - Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War by Jerry White
34/51 - Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
35/51 - In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism by George Caffentzis
36/51 - Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
37/51 - The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell
38/51 - Shadows On Our Skin by Jennifer Johnston
39/51 - The Free by Willy Vlautin
40/51 - Yuki Chan in Brontë Country by Mick Jackson
41/51 - Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire by Katherine Connelly
42/51 - Fatale by Jean-Patrick Manchette
43/51 - Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi
44/51 - The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism by Rodney Hilton etc
45/51 - Nothing is Heavy by Vicki Jarrett
46/51 - The Quiet American by Graham Greene
47/51 - The Vegetarian by Han Kang
48/51 - Border Country by Raymond Williams
 
1/60 The Lost Starship - Vaughn Heppner.
2/60 The Lost Command - Vaughn Heppner
3/60 The Lost Destroyer - Vaughn Heppner
4/60 The Lost Colony - Vaughan Heppner
5/60 Why it is still Kicking Off Everywhere - Paul Mason
6/60 The Lady From Zagreb - Philip Kerr
7/60 Anzio - Wynford Vaughan Thomas
8/60 Extinction Point : Genesis - Paul Antony Jones
9/60 Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
10/60 Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
11/60 Blood Relatives - Ed McBain
12/60 Blood on Snow - Jo Nesbo
13/60 Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
14/60 White Nights - Ann Cleeves
15/60 Even Dogs In The Wild - Ian Rankin
16/60 Bryant & May : The Burning Man - Christopher Fowler.
17/60 Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
18/60 Blue Lightning - Ann Cleeves
19/60 Dead Water - Ann Cleeves
20/60 Thin Air - Ann Cleeves
21/60 Radical Cities : Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture - Justin McGuirk.
22/60 Deep South - Paul Theroux.
23/60 Constitution - Nick Webb.
24/60 Then We Take Berlin -John Lawton
25/60 The Cold Dish - Craig Johnson
26/60 Chavs - Owen Jones
27/60 Gathering Prey - John Sandford
28/60 Chasing the Dead - Tim Weaver
29/60 The Dead Tracks - Tim Weaver
30/60 Serious Crimes (Strike a Match Book 1) Frank Tayell
31/60 Counterfeit Conspiracy (Strike a Match 2) Frank Tayell
 
1/20 - Peter Straub - Ghost Story
2/20 - Duncan Falcolner - First Into Action
3/20 - William Gibson - Neuromancer
4/20 - Paul Trynka - Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography
5/20 - Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers
6/20 - Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers
7/20 - Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters
8/20 - Carl Sagan - Contact
9/20 - Irvine Welsh - The Blade Artist
10/20 - Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures with Extremists
11/20 - Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
12/20 - Steve Alten - Vostok
13/20 - Susan Hill - The Woman in Black
14/20 - Alan Moore, Brian Bolland, Tim Sale - Batman: The Killing Joke
 
1/32 - Arnaldur Indriðason - Tainted Blood (aka Jar City)
2/32 - Timur Vermes - Look Who's Back
3/32 - Kevin Barry - Beatlebone
4/32 - Tim Tate - Girls With Balls, the Secret History of Women's Football
5/32 - Paul Auster - The Book of Illusions
6/32 - Peter May - Coffin Road
7/32 - Tom Rob Smith - Child 44
8/32 - Tom Rob Smith - The Secret Speech
9/32 - Tom Rob Smith - Agent 6
10/32 - Kamel Daoud - The Meursault Investigation
11/32 - Stewart Lee - How I Escaped My Certain Fate
12/32 - Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took My Dog

13/32 - Maj Swojall & Per Wahloo - The Man Who Went Up In Smoke
14/32 - Yanis Varoufakis - And the Weak Suffer What They Must
 
1/20 - Peter Straub - Ghost Story
2/20 - Duncan Falcolner - First Into Action
3/20 - William Gibson - Neuromancer
4/20 - Paul Trynka - Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography
5/20 - Robert A. Heinlein - Starship Troopers
6/20 - Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers
7/20 - Terry Pratchett - Wyrd Sisters
8/20 - Carl Sagan - Contact
9/20 - Irvine Welsh - The Blade Artist
10/20 - Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures with Extremists
11/20 - Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
12/20 - Steve Alten - Vostok
13/20 - Susan Hill - The Woman in Black
14/20 - Alan Moore, Brian Bolland, Tim Sale - Batman: The Killing Joke
15/20 - Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
 
1/50 The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence -- Martin Gayford
2/50 The Boxcar Children -- Gertrude Warner
3/50 The Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and their Food -- John Dickie
4/50 Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X -- Deborah Davis.
5/50 White Trash Zombie Gone Wild - Diana Rowland
6/50 Dead to Me - Anton Strout
7/50 Deader Still- Anton Strout
8/50 Dead Matter - Anton Strout
9/50 American Gothic: The Life of America's Most Famous Painting - Steven Biel
10/50 Impulse - Steven Gould
11/50 My life as a White Trash Zombie - Diana Rowland
12/50 Silent Spring - Rachael Carson
13/50 Koko Takes a Holiday - Kieran Shea
14/50 Blue Zones - Dan Buettner
15/50 100 Millions Years of Food - Steven Ye
16/50 The Sea of Trolls -- Nancy Farmer
17/50 The Land of the Silver Apples -- Nancy Farmer
18/50 The Island of the Blessed -- Nancy Farmer
19/50 7th Sigma - Steven Gould
20/50 Radio Free Albumuth - Phillip K. Dick
21/50 Black Spring - Christina Henry
22/50 Exo - Steven Gould
23/50 The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick
24/50 The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert
25/50 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
26/50 See You in 100 Years - Logan Ward
27/50 Ubik - Phillip K. Dick

28/50 Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Raj Patel


Best book I've read this year.
 
1/60 The Lost Starship - Vaughn Heppner.
2/60 The Lost Command - Vaughn Heppner
3/60 The Lost Destroyer - Vaughn Heppner
4/60 The Lost Colony - Vaughan Heppner
5/60 Why it is still Kicking Off Everywhere - Paul Mason
6/60 The Lady From Zagreb - Philip Kerr
7/60 Anzio - Wynford Vaughan Thomas
8/60 Extinction Point : Genesis - Paul Antony Jones
9/60 Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
10/60 Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
11/60 Blood Relatives - Ed McBain
12/60 Blood on Snow - Jo Nesbo
13/60 Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
14/60 White Nights - Ann Cleeves
15/60 Even Dogs In The Wild - Ian Rankin
16/60 Bryant & May : The Burning Man - Christopher Fowler.
17/60 Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
18/60 Blue Lightning - Ann Cleeves
19/60 Dead Water - Ann Cleeves
20/60 Thin Air - Ann Cleeves
21/60 Radical Cities : Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture - Justin McGuirk.
22/60 Deep South - Paul Theroux.
23/60 Constitution - Nick Webb.
24/60 Then We Take Berlin -John Lawton
25/60 The Cold Dish - Craig Johnson
26/60 Chavs - Owen Jones
27/60 Gathering Prey - John Sandford
28/60 Chasing the Dead - Tim Weaver
29/60 The Dead Tracks - Tim Weaver
30/60 Serious Crimes (Strike a Match Book 1) Frank Tayell
31/60 Counterfeit Conspiracy (Strike a Match 2) Frank Tayell
Vaughn Heppner must be very absent minded....
 
1/40 My Story - Steven Gerrard
2/40 Ancient Sites In West Penwith - Cheryl Straffon
3/40 Execution Sites Of Devon And Cornwall - Richard Peirce
4/40 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights - Salman Rushdie
5/40 Pegasus Descending - James Lee Burke
6/40 The Story Of Kullervo - J.R.R. Tolkein
7/40 Walking The Himalayas - Levison Wood
8/40 Narcopolis - Jeet Thayil
9/40 The Doors Of Perception - Aldous Huxley
10/40 Doctor Sleep - Stephen King
11/40 Autobiography - Morrissey
12/40 I Swear I Was There: The Gig That Changed The World - David Nolan
13/40 Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense Of The Twentieth Century - John Higgs
14/40 So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
15/40 The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson
16/40 Raw Spirit - Iain Banks
17/40 Them: Adventures With Extremists - Jon Ronson
18/40 A Decent Ride - Irvine Welsh
19/40 The Road To Little Dribbling: More Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
20/40 A Game Of Thrones - George R.R. Martin
21/40 The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson
22/40 Kaleidoscope - Laura Taylor
23/40 Work! Consume! Die! - Frankie Boyle
24/40 Chavs: The Demonization Of The Working Class - Owen Jones
 
1/50 Special Deluxe - Neil Young
2/50 The Edible woman - Margaret Atwood
3/50 The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
4/50 Sacrilege - S.J. Parris
5/50 Easily Distracted - Steve Coogan
6/50 Autobiography - Morrissey
7/50 The Ice Owl - Carolyn Ives Gilman
8/50 Angel of Europa - Allen M. Steele
9/50 The Ants of Flanders - by Robert Reed
10/50 The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary - by Ken Liu
11/50 Kiss Me Twice - by Mary Robinette Kowal
12/50 The Bell Jar - by Sylvia Plath
13/50 Downbelow Station - by C.J. Cherryh
14/50 Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
15/50 Just Kids - Patti smith
16/50 Letting Go - Philip Roth
 
1/31 Wie man Deutscher wird in 50 einfachen Schritten - Adam Fletcher
2/31 Goblin Fruit - Laini Taylor
3/31 Just Kids - Patti Smith
4/31 Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlash Against Natural Gas Drilling - Abrahm Lustgarten
5/31 The Cleaner - Mark Dawson
6/31 Saint Death - Mark Dawson
7/31 The Warrior Princess Submissive - Michael Makai
8/31 Unfinished Business - The Politics of Class War - Class War
9/31 How to Build the Perfect Rake - Kate Harper
10/31 The Driver - Mark Dawson
11/31 UR - Stephen King
12/31 Ghosts - Mark Dawson
13/31 The Sword of God - Mark Dawson
14/31 Salvation Row - Mark Dawson
15/31 The Loney - Andrew Michael Hurley
16/31 1,000 yards - Mark Dawson
17/31 Tarantula - Mark Dawson
18/31 Explaining the Explicit - Julian Barnes
19/31 The Princess Bride - William Goldman
20/31 Shadow of Night - Deborah Harkness
21/31 The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
22/31 Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose
23/31 The Migraine Mafia - Maia Sepp
24/31 Life Moves Pretty Fast: The lessons we learned from eighties movies (and why we don't learn them from movies any more) - Hadley Freeman
25/31 A Pair of Jeans and other stories - Asira Shahraz
26/31 The Marriage Bureau for Rich People - Farhad Zama
27/31 Exponential Apocalypse - Eirik Gumeny
28/31 Sewing Can Be Dangerous and Other Small Threads - S R Mallery
29/31 Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
30/31 Gone to ground - Marie Jalowicz Simon
31/31 What would Satan do? - Anthony Miller
32/31 Red Love - the story of an East German Family - Maxim Leo
33/31 Duden Allgemeinbildung - Eselsbrücken: Die schönsten Merksätze und ihre Bedeutung
34/31 Work: A Story of Experience - Louisa May Alcott
35/31 Undone - Kristina Lloyd
36/31 My Grammar and I (or should that be "me"?) - Caroline Taggart & J A Wines
37/31 So... That's why I'm bonkers! : A girl's guide to surviving the menopause - Sheila Wenbourne
38/31 The Dispossessed - Ursula le Guin
39/31 Bavarian Beauty - August MacGregor
40/31 Susannah and the Spy - Anna Elliot
41/31 Stopp! Küssen verboten, Mister Wolf! - Melanie Frey
42/31 The Red Quest: Travels through 22 former Soviet Republics - Jason Smart
43/31 The Crimson Petal and the White - Michel Faber
 
1/45 An American Outlaw - John Stonehouse
2/45 George's Marvellous Medicine - Roald Dahl
3/45 Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
4/45 Killer In The Rain - Raymond Chandler
5/45 Case Histories - Kate Atkinson
6/45 Woken Furies - Richard K Morgan
7/45 The Wall Jumper - Peter Schneider
8/45 Care of the Soul - Thomas Moore
9/45 The Mosquito Coast - Paul Theroux
10/45 Motley Crue: The Dirt. Confessions of the world's most notorious rock band
11/45 Englishman - Toby Broom aka Mister Swing Easy
12/45 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
13/45 Comanche Moon - Larry McMurtry
14/45 The Blade Artist - Irvine Welsh
15/45 Traction Man Is Here - Mini Grey
16/45 Farmer Duck - Martin Waddell
17/45 A Lion In The Meadow - Margaret Mahy
18/45 Perdido Street Station - China Mieville
19/45 Kaleidoscope - Laura Taylor
 
1/10. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
2/10. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
3/10. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
4/10. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
5/10. Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
 
what did you think of that?
It makes a good read - tho, god, that man has an ego. Thinks he's JM Keynes. A brilliant account of how and why the EU, and Euro especially, is corrupt and unaccountable, and just how they fucked Greece (and will probably fuck Italy). I'm rather more dubious about how his 'surplus recycling mechanism' would actually work in a time of crisis, or prevent another one from happening. And the 'modest proposal' at the end is possibly brilliant, but possibly complete bollocks, I've no idea.
 
It makes a good read - tho, god, that man has an ego. Thinks he's JM Keynes. A brilliant account of how and why the EU, and Euro especially, is corrupt and unaccountable, and just how they fucked Greece (and will probably fuck Italy). I'm rather more dubious about how his 'surplus recycling mechanism' would actually work in a time of crisis, or prevent another one from happening. And the 'modest proposal' at the end is possibly brilliant, but possibly complete bollocks, I've no idea.
cheers for that. I might give it a read myself then at some point.
 
1. "11.22.63" - Stephen King
2. "Blind Eye" - Stuart MacBride
3. "The Inspector and Silence" - Hakan Nesser
4. "Dark Blood" - Stuart MacBride
5. "Old Man's War" - John Scalzi
6. "Night Music (Nocturnes 2)" - John Connolly
7. "Bloodline" - Mark Billingham.
8. "Shatter the Bones" - Stuart MacBride
9. "Apple Tree Yard" - Louise Doughty
10. "Close to the Bone" - Stuart MacBride
11. "Empire State" - Henry Porter
12. "Foxglove Summer" - Ben Aaronovitch

13. "The Missing and The Dead" - Stuart MacBride. Enjoyably familiar
 
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