I enjoyed reading it well enough but tbh I can read any old crap and often not notice the difference between shit & decent writing. I preferred 20th Century Ghosts if that's any help?
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I enjoyed reading it well enough but tbh I can read any old crap and often not notice the difference between shit & decent writing. I preferred 20th Century Ghosts if that's any help?
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
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
18/20 - Steve Alten - Meg 5: Nightstalkers
19/20 - Mark Wallington - 500 Mile Walkies
20/20 - House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
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
18/20 - Steve Alten - Meg 5: Nightstalkers
19/20 - Mark Wallington - 500 Mile Walkies
20/20 - House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
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Macaroni cheese controller
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
24/45 The Life & Lines Of Brandon Block - Matt Trollope
25/45 The Quiet American - Graham Greene
26/45 The Football Factory - John King
27/45 When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
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
24/45 The Life & Lines Of Brandon Block - Matt Trollope
25/45 The Quiet American - Graham Greene
26/45 The Football Factory - John King
27/45 When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
spartacus mills
let's wee on each other
01 Deidre Holding – Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh
02 Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
03 Michelle Higgs – Christmas Cards from the 1840s to 1940s
04 Peter Hames (editor) – The Cinema of Central Europe
05 Arkady and Boris Strugatsky – Hard To Be a God
06 Ismael Kadare – A Girl in Exile
07 Eugene Ionesco – Plays Vol 6: A Stroll in the Air / Frenzy for Two
08 Simon Morris – Consumer Guide
09 John Blackburn – Children of the Night
10 Kenneth Grant – Beyond the Mauve Zone
11 Andras Ferkai – Lakotelepek – Housing Estates of Budapest
12 Chinua Achebe – No Longer At Ease
13 Sara Pascoe – Animal
14 Philip Marsden – The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
15 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
16 William S. Burroughs – The Soft Machine
17 Szilvia Andrea Hollo – Budapest’s Public Works
18 Chinua Achebe – Girls at War and Other Stories
19 Gyula Krudy – Ladies Day
20 Joseph Conrad – Youth, Heart of Darkness, End of the Tether
21 Iain Sinclair – London Overground. A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line
22 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo - Roseanna
23 Philip Marsden – The Spirit Wrestlers
24 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo – The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
25 Iain Sinclair – Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire. A Confidential Report.
26 Stefan Grabinski – The Dark Domain
02 Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
03 Michelle Higgs – Christmas Cards from the 1840s to 1940s
04 Peter Hames (editor) – The Cinema of Central Europe
05 Arkady and Boris Strugatsky – Hard To Be a God
06 Ismael Kadare – A Girl in Exile
07 Eugene Ionesco – Plays Vol 6: A Stroll in the Air / Frenzy for Two
08 Simon Morris – Consumer Guide
09 John Blackburn – Children of the Night
10 Kenneth Grant – Beyond the Mauve Zone
11 Andras Ferkai – Lakotelepek – Housing Estates of Budapest
12 Chinua Achebe – No Longer At Ease
13 Sara Pascoe – Animal
14 Philip Marsden – The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
15 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
16 William S. Burroughs – The Soft Machine
17 Szilvia Andrea Hollo – Budapest’s Public Works
18 Chinua Achebe – Girls at War and Other Stories
19 Gyula Krudy – Ladies Day
20 Joseph Conrad – Youth, Heart of Darkness, End of the Tether
21 Iain Sinclair – London Overground. A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line
22 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo - Roseanna
23 Philip Marsden – The Spirit Wrestlers
24 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo – The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
25 Iain Sinclair – Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire. A Confidential Report.
26 Stefan Grabinski – The Dark Domain
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
56/51 - Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami
57/51 - The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
58/51 - Maigret at the Coroner's by Georges Simenon
59/51 - The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine di Giovanni
60/51 - Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation by Gerald Horne
61/51 - Bark by Lorrie Moore
62/51 - The Finno-Ugrian Vampire by Noémi Szécsi
not the kind of thing I'd normally read, but it was sort of ok
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
56/51 - Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami
57/51 - The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
58/51 - Maigret at the Coroner's by Georges Simenon
59/51 - The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria by Janine di Giovanni
60/51 - Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation by Gerald Horne
61/51 - Bark by Lorrie Moore
62/51 - The Finno-Ugrian Vampire by Noémi Szécsi
not the kind of thing I'd normally read, but it was sort of ok
Threshers_Flail
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Bit of a late start on the thread but this year so far...
01. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
02. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
03. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
04. 1Q84 - Haruki Marukami
05. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X
06. Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
07. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
08. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
09. In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck
10. Revolutionary Mexico - John Mason Hart
11. My Beautiful Friend - Elena Ferrante
12. All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
13. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
14. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
15. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
16. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
17. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
18. Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes
19. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
20. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
21. Crash - J.G Ballard
22. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (how did I wait until my 26th year of life to read this??)
23. Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith
24. Stoner - John Williams
Next up As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner.
01. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
02. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
03. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
04. 1Q84 - Haruki Marukami
05. The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X
06. Days of Abandonment - Elena Ferrante
07. Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow
08. Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
09. In Dubious Battle - John Steinbeck
10. Revolutionary Mexico - John Mason Hart
11. My Beautiful Friend - Elena Ferrante
12. All The Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
13. The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
14. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
15. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
16. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
17. Hunger - Knut Hamsun
18. Death of Artemio Cruz - Carlos Fuentes
19. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
20. Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
21. Crash - J.G Ballard
22. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov (how did I wait until my 26th year of life to read this??)
23. Girl Meets Boy - Ali Smith
24. Stoner - John Williams
Next up As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner.
BoatieBird
Well-Known Member
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
44/75 - Mo Hayder - Pig Island
45/75 - Denise Mina - The End of the Wasp Season
46/75 - Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
47/75 - David Mitchell - Slade House
48/75 - Stephen King - End of Watch
49/75 - Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies
50/75 - Kent Haruf - Our Souls at Night
51/75 - Kate Atkinson - Behind The Scenes at The Museum
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
44/75 - Mo Hayder - Pig Island
45/75 - Denise Mina - The End of the Wasp Season
46/75 - Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
47/75 - David Mitchell - Slade House
48/75 - Stephen King - End of Watch
49/75 - Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies
50/75 - Kent Haruf - Our Souls at Night
51/75 - Kate Atkinson - Behind The Scenes at The Museum
Voley
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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 More Fool Me - Stephen Fry
25/40 Chavs: The Demonization Of The Working Class - Owen Jones
26/40 Alcoholics Anonymous - (aka 'The Big Book') Bill W et al.
27/40 Clothes Music Boys - Viv Albertine
28/40 Empowering Your Sober Self - Martin Nicolaus
29/40 Lost At Sea - Jon Ronson
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 More Fool Me - Stephen Fry
25/40 Chavs: The Demonization Of The Working Class - Owen Jones
26/40 Alcoholics Anonymous - (aka 'The Big Book') Bill W et al.
27/40 Clothes Music Boys - Viv Albertine
28/40 Empowering Your Sober Self - Martin Nicolaus
29/40 Lost At Sea - Jon Ronson
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
15/21 Various - Is Space The Place? Yes/No (turns out about a quarter of this book is stuff I wrote in the 1990s
).
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
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.
45/60 The Revenant - Michael Punke
46/60 The Lost Patrol - Vaughn Heppner
47/60 Walking Man : The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher - Robert Wehrman.
I'd never heard of Colin Fletcher , he was a walking guru in the 70s/80s , a Welsh bloke who served in special forces in WW2 , lived all over the place before settling in the states . Walked fucking miles
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.
45/60 The Revenant - Michael Punke
46/60 The Lost Patrol - Vaughn Heppner
47/60 Walking Man : The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher - Robert Wehrman.
I'd never heard of Colin Fletcher , he was a walking guru in the 70s/80s , a Welsh bloke who served in special forces in WW2 , lived all over the place before settling in the states . Walked fucking miles
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Any good marty? I enjoyed the film.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Excellent , I haven't seen the film , saw it going for 99p on Kindle so had it ! I want to see the film now !
Voley
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Ta, just ordered it from the library. I've had some great recommendations from this thread. Really glad I did this properly this year.
Voley
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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 More Fool Me - Stephen Fry
25/40 Chavs: The Demonization Of The Working Class - Owen Jones
26/40 Alcoholics Anonymous - (aka 'The Big Book') Bill W et al.
27/40 Clothes Music Boys - Viv Albertine
28/40 Empowering Your Sober Self - Martin Nicolaus
29/40 Lost At Sea - Jon Ronson
30/40 Hiroshima - John Hersey
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 More Fool Me - Stephen Fry
25/40 Chavs: The Demonization Of The Working Class - Owen Jones
26/40 Alcoholics Anonymous - (aka 'The Big Book') Bill W et al.
27/40 Clothes Music Boys - Viv Albertine
28/40 Empowering Your Sober Self - Martin Nicolaus
29/40 Lost At Sea - Jon Ronson
30/40 Hiroshima - John Hersey
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
39/15 Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair Reynolds
40/15 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
41/15 The Long Mars - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
42/15 Islands in the Sky - Arthur C. Clarke
43/15 Fen - Daisy Johnson
44/15 The Violent Century - Lavie Tidhar
45/15 Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
46/15 The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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
39/15 Blue Remembered Earth - Alastair Reynolds
40/15 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
41/15 The Long Mars - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
42/15 Islands in the Sky - Arthur C. Clarke
43/15 Fen - Daisy Johnson
44/15 The Violent Century - Lavie Tidhar
45/15 Heart-Shaped Box - Joe Hill
46/15 The First Circle - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
34/60 Carl Neville - Resolution Way
Voley
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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 More Fool Me - Stephen Fry
25/40 Chavs: The Demonization Of The Working Class - Owen Jones
26/40 Alcoholics Anonymous - (aka 'The Big Book') Bill W et al.
27/40 Clothes Music Boys - Viv Albertine
28/40 Empowering Your Sober Self - Martin Nicolaus
29/40 Lost At Sea - Jon Ronson
30/40 Hiroshima - John Hersey
31/40 Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down - Georgia W
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 More Fool Me - Stephen Fry
25/40 Chavs: The Demonization Of The Working Class - Owen Jones
26/40 Alcoholics Anonymous - (aka 'The Big Book') Bill W et al.
27/40 Clothes Music Boys - Viv Albertine
28/40 Empowering Your Sober Self - Martin Nicolaus
29/40 Lost At Sea - Jon Ronson
30/40 Hiroshima - John Hersey
31/40 Don't Let The Bastards Grind You Down - Georgia W
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
30/50 a.j. smith, 'the world raven'
spartacus mills
let's wee on each other
01 Deidre Holding – Armenia with Nagorno Karabagh
02 Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
03 Michelle Higgs – Christmas Cards from the 1840s to 1940s
04 Peter Hames (editor) – The Cinema of Central Europe
05 Arkady and Boris Strugatsky – Hard To Be a God
06 Ismael Kadare – A Girl in Exile
07 Eugene Ionesco – Plays Vol 6: A Stroll in the Air / Frenzy for Two
08 Simon Morris – Consumer Guide
09 John Blackburn – Children of the Night
10 Kenneth Grant – Beyond the Mauve Zone
11 Andras Ferkai – Lakotelepek – Housing Estates of Budapest
12 Chinua Achebe – No Longer At Ease
13 Sara Pascoe – Animal
14 Philip Marsden – The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
15 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
16 William S. Burroughs – The Soft Machine
17 Szilvia Andrea Hollo – Budapest’s Public Works
18 Chinua Achebe – Girls at War and Other Stories
19 Gyula Krudy – Ladies Day
20 Joseph Conrad – Youth, Heart of Darkness, End of the Tether
21 Iain Sinclair – London Overground. A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line
22 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo - Roseanna
23 Philip Marsden – The Spirit Wrestlers
24 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo – The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
25 Iain Sinclair – Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire. A Confidential Report.
26 Stefan Grabinski – The Dark Domain
27 Bill Drummond – 45
02 Laszlo Krasznahorkai – Seiobo There Below
03 Michelle Higgs – Christmas Cards from the 1840s to 1940s
04 Peter Hames (editor) – The Cinema of Central Europe
05 Arkady and Boris Strugatsky – Hard To Be a God
06 Ismael Kadare – A Girl in Exile
07 Eugene Ionesco – Plays Vol 6: A Stroll in the Air / Frenzy for Two
08 Simon Morris – Consumer Guide
09 John Blackburn – Children of the Night
10 Kenneth Grant – Beyond the Mauve Zone
11 Andras Ferkai – Lakotelepek – Housing Estates of Budapest
12 Chinua Achebe – No Longer At Ease
13 Sara Pascoe – Animal
14 Philip Marsden – The Crossing Place: A Journey Among the Armenians
15 Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
16 William S. Burroughs – The Soft Machine
17 Szilvia Andrea Hollo – Budapest’s Public Works
18 Chinua Achebe – Girls at War and Other Stories
19 Gyula Krudy – Ladies Day
20 Joseph Conrad – Youth, Heart of Darkness, End of the Tether
21 Iain Sinclair – London Overground. A Day’s Walk Around the Ginger Line
22 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo - Roseanna
23 Philip Marsden – The Spirit Wrestlers
24 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo – The Man Who Went Up in Smoke
25 Iain Sinclair – Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire. A Confidential Report.
26 Stefan Grabinski – The Dark Domain
27 Bill Drummond – 45
chainsawjob
Kipping in the dunes
1/35 Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healy
2/35 Demetia Essentials – Jan Hall
3/35 The Moonlit Garden – Corina Bomann
4/35 The Selfish Pig's Guide to Caring - Hugh Marriot
5/35 Underground London: Travels beneath the city streets - Stephen Smith
6/35 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
7/35 In the Winter Dark - Tim Winton
8/35 Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
9/35 The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
10/35 The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
11/35 Contented Dementia - Oliver James
12/35 A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
13/35 The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
2/35 Demetia Essentials – Jan Hall
3/35 The Moonlit Garden – Corina Bomann
4/35 The Selfish Pig's Guide to Caring - Hugh Marriot
5/35 Underground London: Travels beneath the city streets - Stephen Smith
6/35 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
7/35 In the Winter Dark - Tim Winton
8/35 Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
9/35 The Paying Guests - Sarah Waters
10/35 The Invention of Wings - Sue Monk Kidd
11/35 Contented Dementia - Oliver James
12/35 A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
13/35 The Memory Keeper's Daughter - Kim Edwards
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
16/21 Tim Wells - If You Can Read This You're Too Close
Fozzie Bear
Well-Known Member
I thought this was really good - especially the first bit. What did you reckon?
(I really wish he would write more - maybe he will now the band is winding down...)
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
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.
45/60 The Revenant - Michael Punke
46/60 The Lost Patrol - Vaughn Heppner
47/60 Walking Man : The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher - Robert Wehrman.
48/60 Snow Blind - Ragnar Jonasson
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.
45/60 The Revenant - Michael Punke
46/60 The Lost Patrol - Vaughn Heppner
47/60 Walking Man : The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher - Robert Wehrman.
48/60 Snow Blind - Ragnar Jonasson
spartacus mills
let's wee on each other
I enjoyed it as well. I wish the memoir section was longer but the reviews were interesting and some were laugh-out-loud funny.
Fozzie Bear
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Yeah same - and great to see reviews of mainstream stuff brushing up against crazy underground shit.
ringo
Macaroni cheese controller
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
24/45 The Life & Lines Of Brandon Block - Matt Trollope
25/45 The Quiet American - Graham Greene
26/45 The Football Factory - John King
27/45 When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
28/45 The North Water - Ian McGuire
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
24/45 The Life & Lines Of Brandon Block - Matt Trollope
25/45 The Quiet American - Graham Greene
26/45 The Football Factory - John King
27/45 When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson
28/45 The North Water - Ian McGuire
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31/50 michael connelly, 'the closers'
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