the great urban75 2016 reading challenge thread

[crossthebreeze]

1/12 - The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
2/12 - Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
3/12 - Eric by Shaun Tan
4/12 - Orange is the new Black by Piper Kerman
5/12 - The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
6/12 - The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn
7/12 - Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
8/12 - Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution by Michael Denning
9/12 - The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
10/12 - Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
11/12 - The Accidental by Ali Smith
12/12 - The Hedgerow Handbook: Recipes, Remedies and Rituals by Adele Nozedar
13 - Benefits by Zoe Fairbairns
14 - Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism After The War On Terror by Christine Delphy
15 - And The Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future by Yanis Varoufakis
16 - Pennance by Clare Ashton

17 - Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
Very enjoyable suspense novel set in the stifling heat and smallpox epidemic of summer 1876 in San Francisco. The novel is based around the real-life mystery of the murder of the rebellious menswear-wearer and frog-catcher (for the French and Chinese restaurant trade) Jenny Bonnet, and the events before and after her death involving her friend, French immigrant and sex worker Blanche Beunon. Really enjoyable and I developed a real affection for the main characters: I have to admit that the afterword, where Donoghue outlines the historical facts about their lives, made me a bit teary.

 

[BoatieBird]

1/75 - Belinda Bauer - The Facts of Life and Death
2/75 - Stuart MacBride - Broken Skin
3/75 - David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
4/75 - Daniel Woodrell - Winter's Bone
5/75 - Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
6/75 - Margaret Atwood - Lady Oracle
7/75 - Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
8/75 - Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
9/75 - Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
10/75 - Iain Banks - Espedair Street
11/75 - John Steinbeck - East of Eden
12/75 - Ruth Rendell - Make Death Love Me
13/75 - Stephen King - The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
14/75 - Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar
15/75 - Kate Atkinson - When Will There be Good News?
16/75 - Stephen King - Finders Keeper
17/75 - Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections
18/75 - Wendy Cope - Family Values
19/75 - Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took my Dog
20/75 - David Mitchell - Ghostwritten
21/75 - Kent Haruf - The Tie that Binds
22/75 - Val McDermid - Splinter the Silence
23/75 - Anthony Doerr - About Grace
24/75 - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should all be Feminists
25/75 - Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending
26/75 - Iain Banks - Canal Dreams
27/75 - Belinda Bauer - The Shut Eye
28/75 - Margaret Atwood - The Heart Goes Last
29/75 - Mario Puzo - The Godfather
30/75 - Annie Proulx - Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3
31/75 - Ruth Rendell - From Doon With Death
32/75 - Kate Atkinson - A God in Ruins
33/75 - Joe Hill - The Fireman
34/75 - Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
35/75 - Bill Bryson - The Road to Little Dribbling
36/75 - Denise Mina - Still Midnight
37/75 - Kent Haruf - Where You Once Belonged
38/75 - Philippa Gregory - The Constant Princess
39/75 - Peter James - The House on Cold Hill
40/75 - Laura Taylor - Kaleidoscope
41/75 - Cynthia Bond - Ruby
42/75 - C J Sansom - Dissolution

43/75 - Shirley Jackson - The Lottery and other stories

 

[nogojones]

1/25 Paul Routledge - Public Servant, Secret Agent: The elusive life and violent Death of Airey Neave
2/25 Maxim Gorky - A Sky Blue Life & Selected Stories
3/25 Ben Hamper - Rivethead
4/25 Spore Liberation Front - Radical Mycology
5/25 William Burroughs - Exterminator
6/25 Jim Thompson - A Hell Of a Woman
7/25 NTA - Routes To Recovery Part 4
8/25 Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo - The Future of Religion
9/25 Marek Edelman - The Ghetto Fights
10/25 Tariq Ali & Susan Watson - 1968 Marching In The Streets
11/25 Iain M Banks - Player of Games
12/25 Jeff Vandermeer - Annihilation
13/25 Iain M Banks - Look To Windward
14/25 Harlan Elison ed. - Again Dangerous Visions
15/25 G.E.M De Ste Croix - The Class Struggle In The Ancient Greek World
16/25 Peter Hook - The Hacienda - How Not To Run A Club

17/25 Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls
18/25 Dorothy Parker - Enough Rope
19/25 Iain M Banks - Consider Phlebas
20/25 Peter Arshinov - History of the Makhnovist Movement 1918-1921
21/25 Victor Serge - Repression
22/25 Sheila Rowbotham - Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
23/25 Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep

 

[May Kasahara]

1/50 Jeff Vandermeer - Annihilation
2/50 Justin Cronin - The Twelve
3/50 Neil Oliver - A History of Ancient Britain
4/50 Jeff Vandermeer - Authority
5/50 Jeff Vandermeer - Acceptance
6/50 Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere
7/50 Svetlana Alexievich - Zinky Boys
8/50 Lisa Tuttle - The Mysteries
9/50 A M Homes - This Book Could Save Your Life
10/50 Allan Ahlberg - My Brother's Ghost
11/50 Margaret Elphinstone - The Gathering Night
12/50 Lauren Beukes - The Shining Girls.
13/50 Sarah Hall - The Carhullan Army
14/50 Tove Jansson - Moominvalley Midwinter
15/50 Ursula le Guin - a Wizard of Earthsea
16/50 Ursula le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan
17/50 Ursula le Guin - The Farthest Shore
18/50 Ursula le Guin - Tehanu
19/50 Tim Moore - I Believe In Yesterday
20/50 Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls
21/50 Andrew T Chamberlain & Mike Parker Pearson - Earthly Remains
22/50 Laura Taylor - Kaleidoscope
23/50 Emily Halban - Perfect: Anorexia and Me
24/50 Paula Hawkins - The Girl On The Train

25/50 Diana Wynne Jones - Charmed Life

 

[Greebo]

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
44/31 The Time Machine - H G Wells
45/31 The Road Less Gravelled - Wendy Laird
46/31 Betty Zane - Zane Grey
47/31 A Glitch in Time - April Hill
48/31 A Murder in Auschwitz - J C Stephenson Highly recommended in spite of typos and mentioning the Mauerpark (it didn't exist in Weimar era Berlin). Not a comfortable read at times, because there's a lot of detail about life in the death camp, but the murder/mystery bit of it has several twists in the tale and IMHO the ending is a satisfying one. The main character dies but he ends up taking a couple of people with him who deserve to die far more than he does. BTW that's not a spoiler as I haven't said who did the murder, or how and why it was solved.

 

[D'wards]

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
16/20 - Frank Miller - The Dark Knight Returns
17/20 - Michel Houellebecq - The Possibility of an Island

 

[marty21]

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
32/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Here We Stand (Book 1 : Infected ) Frank Tayell
33/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Wasteland (Book 2) Frank Tayell.
34/60 Surviving the Ecacuation : Family (Book 3) Frank Tayell.
35/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 4 : Unsafe Haven - Frank Tayell
36/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 5 Reunion - Frank Tayell
37/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 6 Harvest - Frank Tayell
38/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 7 Home. - Frank Tayell
39/60 Vanished - Tim Weaver
40/60 Never Coming Back - Tim Weaver

 

[Sea Star]

I chose a really bad year to do this challenge. I'll be lucky to get to 25 tbh....

am reading about half a dozen books now but the ones i carry around with me every where are bolded below:

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 Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
16/50 Just Kids - Patti smith
17/50 Letting Go - Philip Roth
18/50 David Bowie: Starman - Paul Trynka

 

[inva]

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
49/51 - The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
50/51 - Campbell Bunk: The Worst Street in North London between the Wars by Jerry White
51/51 - Family, Welfare, and the State: Between Progressivism and the New Deal by Mariarosa Dalla Costa
52/51 - Marxism for Our Times: C.L.R. James on Revolutionary Organization edited by Martin Glaberman
53/51 - What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth W. Warren
54/51 - Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain by Lisa McKenzie
55/51 - Uprising in East Germany June 17, 1953 by Arnulf M. Baring

 

[billy_bob]

33/50: Myla Goldberg - Bee Season
34/50: Colum McCann - This Side of Brightness
35/50: Cormac James - The Surfacing

 

[Me76]

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
27/50 Fatal Flowers, Enes Smith
28/50 Secondhand Smoke, Patty Friedmann
29/50 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling
30/50 The Game, Terry Schott
31/50 20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill - I really enjoyed this although it took me a while to get into his style. Reminds me of Gaiman crossed with King. Looking forward to reading a novel. Thanks BoatieBird

 

[marty21]

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
32/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Here We Stand (Book 1 : Infected ) Frank Tayell
33/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Wasteland (Book 2) Frank Tayell.
34/60 Surviving the Ecacuation : Family (Book 3) Frank Tayell.
35/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 4 : Unsafe Haven - Frank Tayell
36/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 5 Reunion - Frank Tayell
37/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 6 Harvest - Frank Tayell
38/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 7 Home. - Frank Tayell
39/60 Vanished - Tim Weaver
40/60 Never Coming Back - Tim Weaver
41/60 Fall from Grace - Tim Weaver

 

[D'wards]

Did we establish whether audiobooks count?

 

[Orang Utan]

Did we establish whether audiobooks count?

I say no as listening is not reading

 

[ringo]

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
20/45 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
21/45 The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald
22/45 The Ponder Heart - Eudora Welty
23/45 The BFG - Roald Dahl

 

[marty21]

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
32/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Here We Stand (Book 1 : Infected ) Frank Tayell
33/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Wasteland (Book 2) Frank Tayell.
34/60 Surviving the Ecacuation : Family (Book 3) Frank Tayell.
35/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 4 : Unsafe Haven - Frank Tayell
36/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 5 Reunion - Frank Tayell
37/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 6 Harvest - Frank Tayell
38/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 7 Home. - Frank Tayell
39/60 Vanished - Tim Weaver
40/60 Never Coming Back - Tim Weaver
41/60 Fall from Grace - Tim Weaver
42/60 What Remains - Tim Weaver

 

[crossthebreeze]

1/12 - The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
2/12 - Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
3/12 - Eric by Shaun Tan
4/12 - Orange is the new Black by Piper Kerman
5/12 - The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
6/12 - The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn
7/12 - Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
8/12 - Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution by Michael Denning
9/12 - The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
10/12 - Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
11/12 - The Accidental by Ali Smith
12/12 - The Hedgerow Handbook: Recipes, Remedies and Rituals by Adele Nozedar
13 - Benefits by Zoe Fairbairns
14 - Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism After The War On Terror by Christine Delphy
15 - And The Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future by Yanis Varoufakis
16 - Pennance by Clare Ashton
17 - Frog Music by Emma Donoghue

18 - The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Not the kind of thing I'd usually read, as its a historical novel about kings and queens and that, but I got into it in the end, and at least it was from a woman's perspective.

 

[MrSki]

The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
Not the kind of thing I'd usually read, as its a historical novel about kings and queens and that, but I got into it in the end, and at least it was from a woman's perspective.

When is it set? I like historical fiction? Learn stuff that really happened amongst the story.

 

[Orang Utan]

When is it set? I like historical fiction? Learn stuff that really happened amongst the story.

she was edward iv's missus, so 15th century

 

[crossthebreeze]

When is it set? I like historical fiction? Learn stuff that really happened amongst the story.

1464-1485, during the War of the Roses. Its about Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of Edward IV, and the mother of the "princes in the tower". Its the first in a series about important women during that time. Lots of history in there, with obvious bits of speculation and imagination (and there's an afterword at the end that makes it clear).

 

[MrSki]

1464-1485, during the War of the Roses. Its about Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of Edward IV, and the mother of the "princes in the tower". Its the first in a series about important women during that time. Lots of history in there, with obvious bits of speculation and imagination (and there's an afterword at the end that makes it clear).

Thanks. I always like it when authors tell you what is fact & where the fiction is.

 

[iona]

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
33/15 Speak - Louisa Hall
34/15 The Galaxy Game - Karen Lord
35/15 Europe at Midnight - Dave Hutchinson
36/15 Dragonfish - Vu Tran
37/15 Paths of the Dead - Lin Anderson
38/15 Kaleidoscope - Laura Taylor

 

[QueenOfGoths]

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
14. "The Fireman" - Joe Hill

15. "The Yard" - Alex Grecian. Enjoyable Victorian set murder mystery

 

[colbhoy]

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
10/20 - The Final Judgement by Richard North Patterson
11/20 - The Mating Season by P G Wodehouse

 

[imposs1904]

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
14/52 The Rocky Road by Eamon Dunphy

15/52 Only A Game? by Eamon Dunphy (Reread)

 

[braindancer]

1/30 - In the Shadow of Crows - David Charles Manners
2/30 - The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K Le Guin
3/30 - The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K Le Guin
4/30 - The Wind Up Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
5/30 - Plainsong - Kent Haruf
6/30 - Eventide - Kent Haruf
7/30 - Benedicton - Kent Haruf
8/30 - A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James
9/30 - Someone else's skin - Sarah Hilary
10/30 - Where once you belonged - Kent Haruf
11/30 - The Ties that Bind Us - Kent Haruf
12/30 - Cry The Beloved Country - Alan Paton
13/30 - Oracle Night - Paul Auster
14/30 - Solar - Iain Mcewan

 

[Me76]

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
27/50 Fatal Flowers, Enes Smith
28/50 Secondhand Smoke, Patty Friedmann
29/50 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, JK Rowling
30/50 The Game, Terry Schott
31/50 20th Century Ghosts, Joe Hill
32/50 The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton - My second classic of the year. Wasn't that impressed tbh. A story about a bloke who married someone when he was in love with someone else. Woo!

 

[marty21]

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
32/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Here We Stand (Book 1 : Infected ) Frank Tayell
33/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Wasteland (Book 2) Frank Tayell.
34/60 Surviving the Ecacuation : Family (Book 3) Frank Tayell.
35/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 4 : Unsafe Haven - Frank Tayell
36/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 5 Reunion - Frank Tayell
37/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 6 Harvest - Frank Tayell
38/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 7 Home. - Frank Tayell
39/60 Vanished - Tim Weaver
40/60 Never Coming Back - Tim Weaver
41/60 Fall from Grace - Tim Weaver
42/60 What Remains - Tim Weaver
43/60 Broken Heart- Tim Weaver

 

[Sea Star]

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 Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
16/50 Just Kids - Patti smith
17/50 Letting Go - Philip Roth
18/50 David Bowie: Starman - Paul Trynka
19/50 dirty Blvd: The Life and Music of Lou Reed - Aiden Levy
20/50 Bowie & Hutch - John Hutchinson

Just finished Philip Roth. Didn;t know what to expect and I found it fairly entertaining but a bit more stressful than I expected as people died, including a parent, just as I was coping with bereavement myself. Could have done with something a bit more escapist tbh.
About 3/4 the way through it became a depressing slog and i just wanted to finish.
The subjects of the other books I'm reading are all interacting with each other and some people like Warhol & Lou Reed appear in all 4 books.

I'm not going to get through 50 books this year but I've already read more books this year than I had in the previous 5 years put together!

The Bowie and Hutch book is the most misogynistic and openly homophobic book I've read in years, maybe ever, and is really badly wiritten. but I perisst because I'm such a Bowie fan. Also all these four books constantly erase bisexual people and refer to trans women as drag queens in a few places too. I'm just turning a blind eye to all that crap as I'm interested in the subject matter of all those books.

 

[marty21]

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
32/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Here We Stand (Book 1 : Infected ) Frank Tayell
33/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Wasteland (Book 2) Frank Tayell.
34/60 Surviving the Ecacuation : Family (Book 3) Frank Tayell.
35/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 4 : Unsafe Haven - Frank Tayell
36/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 5 Reunion - Frank Tayell
37/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 6 Harvest - Frank Tayell
38/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 7 Home. - Frank Tayell
39/60 Vanished - Tim Weaver
40/60 Never Coming Back - Tim Weaver
41/60 Fall from Grace - Tim Weaver
42/60 What Remains - Tim Weaver
43/60 Broken Heart- Tim Weaver
44/60 Nightwalking : A Nocturnal History of London. Chaucer to Dickens - Matthew Beaumont.