the great urban75 2016 reading challenge thread

[Manter]

Unemployed & homeless, there's not really much else I can do to kill time. I was working and living inside back when I set that target & based it on how I'd managed with the previous year's under similar circumstances.

Sorry to read that Iona hope it's sorted out soon

 

[pennimania]

1 Room at the Top - John Braine
2 Life at the Top - "
3 Esther - Norah Lofts
4-The Inimitable Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
5 - Just Kids - Patti Smith
6- A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
7 - A Sense of Guilt - Andrea Newman
8 - White Teeth - Sadie Smith
9 - The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds - John Higgs
10 - The Hacienda - how not to run a club - Peter Hook
11 - The Fancy - Monica Dickens
12 - One Pair of Feet - Monica Dickens
13 - My Turn to Make the Tea - Monica Dickens
14 - Cromartie v The God Shiva - Rumer Godden
15 Dragon Seed - Pearl S Buck
16 Mash - Richard Hooker
17 The Sylvac Story - Susan Jean Verbeek
18 The Sylvac Companion - " "
19 How Much is Enough? - Alan Durning
20 Consumer Culture - Roberta Sassatelli
21 Land Snails - Kermey & Cameron

 

[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
24/25 W. J. Stokoe - The Observer Book of Trees
25/25 Eric H. Cline - 1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed
26/25 Irving Welsh - Porno
27/25 Alan Mitchell - The Pocket Guide To Trees of Britain and Northern Europe
28/25 Philip K. Dick - A Scanner Darkly
29/25 Iain M. Banks - Use Of Weapons
30/25 Jean Jaures - Socialist History of the French Revolution
31/25 Anthony Burgess - The Doctor Is Sick

32/25 James Kelman - Mo Said She Was Quirky
33/25 Henry Reynolds - The Other Side of The Frontier
34/25 Iain M. Banks - The State of The Art
35/25 Michael Herr - Dispatches
36/25 Iain M. Banks - Excession
37/25 Rob Evans/ Paul Lewis - Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police

 

[Fozzie Bear]

1/21 Scott A Wilson (ed) - Music At The Extremes: Essays on Sounds Outside the Mainstream
2/21 Dawn Foster - Lean Out
3/21 Albert Meltzer - The Anarchists In London 1935-55
4/21 Simon Morris - Consumer Guide
5/21 David Keenan - Furfur: Sideways Into England's Hidden Reverse
6/21 Pete Coward - Vessel Without A Soul
7/21 Selma James - Sex, Race and Class - the Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952–2011
8/21 David Keenan - England's Hidden Reverse
9/21 Karl Marx - Capital volume 2
10/21 Susie Daniel, Pete McGuire and various skinheads - The Paint House: Words From an East End Gang
11/21 Toby Broom - Englishman: Adventures in Music
12/21 Phil Mailer - Portugal, The Impossible Revolution?
13/21 George F - Total Shambles
14/21 Asher Senator - Smiley And Me
15/21 Kate Evans - Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
16/21 Various - Is Space The Place? Yes/No
17/21 Tim Wells - If You Can Read This You're Too Close
18/21 Mikhail Bakunin - God and the State
19/21 Charlotte Mosley (ed) - The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
20/21 Jamie Potter - Secret Secret: An Oral History of Pirate Radio in Hull 1993-2005
21/21 Geoffrey Bell - Hesitant Comrades: The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement
22/21 Katrina Hazzard-Gordon - Jookin':The Rise of Social Dance Formations In African-American Culture

23/21 Kathy Acker - Blood and Guts in High School

 

[Pickman's model]

23/21 Kathy Acker - Blood and Guts in High School

ooh! what was it like?

 

[Pickman's model]

35/25 Michael Herr - Dispatches

first read that round 1988, cracking read what did you think of it?

 

[nogojones]

first read that round 1988, cracking read what did you think of it?

OK, easy to read and I ploughed through it. I picked it up from the Vietnam war thread on here somewhere. It's very much from the perspective of the Americans on the ground and the bias that your average grunt I imagine had. So I'll be starting Kill Everything That Moves next (also recommended on that thread) for a bit of balance.

 

[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
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
47/15 The Gulag Archipelago (vol.1) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
48/15 The Haunted Woman - Melissa Napier
49/15 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
50/15 The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin
51/15 Fountainville - Tishani Doshi
52/15 Queer - William S. Burroughs
53/15 A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
54/15 The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
55/15 Pig Island - Mo Hayder
56/15 Socrates' Defence - Plato
57/15 Earth Abides - George R. Stewart
58/15 On the Steel Breeze - Alastair Reynolds
59/15 Poseidon's Wake - Alastair Reynolds
60/15 Sunstorm - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
61/15 The Long Utopia - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
62/15 The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
63/15 The Long Cosmos - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
64/15 Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
65/15 The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin
66/15 Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
67/15 Firstborn - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
68/15 The Murder of Halland - Pia Juul
69/15 Armada - Ernest Cline
70/15 The Immoralist - André Gide
71/15 The Wild Boys - William S. Burroughs
72/15 Quicksand - Nella Larsen
73/15 Passing - Nella Larsen
74/15 The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe - Arthur Koestler
75/15 In the House of the Interpreter - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
76/15 The Sands of Mars - Arthur C. Clarke
77/15 Nobody Knows My Name - James Baldwin
78/15 The Unreal & the Real, vol. 1: Where on Earth - Ursula K. Le Guin
79/15 The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke
80/15 The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
81/15 Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
82/15 Arslan - M. J. Engh
83/15 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
84/15 The Demon - Hubert Selby Jr.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

ooh! what was it like?

It's...ok. I think I would have enjoyed it a lot when I was in my 20s. It's very obviously inspired by Burroughs and a bit mad.

There's a lot of stuff in there about women enjoying fucked up sex, including the main character who is aged about 13.

 

[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.
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
49/60 Warriors of the Storm - Bernard Cornwell
50/60 The Fireman - Joe Hill
51/60 The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz
52/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 8 Angelsey - Frank Tayell.
53/60 After it Happened : Book 1 Survival - Devon C Ford
54/60 After it Happened : Book 2 Humanity - Devon C Ford
55/60 After it Happened : Book 3 . Society - Devon C Ford
56/60 After it Happened : Book 4. Hope - Devon C Ford .
57/60 The Last Survivors - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
58/60 The Last Escape - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
59/60 The Last Humanity - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
60/60 The Last Command - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
61/60 The Last Refuge - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
62/60 The Last Conquest - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
63/60 Kill Anything that Moves : The Real American War in Vietnam - Nick Turse
64/60 Black Virus - Bobby Adair
65/60 Next: Afterburn - Scott Nicholson
66/60 Next: Earth Zero - Scott Nicholson

 

[Signal 11]

12/15 - The Enemy Within: The Secret War Against the Miners - Seumas Milne
13/15 - Assata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur
14/15 - Albert Angelo - B. S. Johnson
15/15 - Rather Die Fighting - Frank Blaichman

 

[gawkrodger]

6/50 david kilcullen, 'blood year'

bumping an old post - what did you think of this?

 

[Pickman's model]

bumping an old post - what did you think of this?

Very good

 

[gawkrodger]

cool. I've got his book on the urbanisation of future conflict but have yet to read it - the talks I've listened to by him on this are good (even if his urban theory is a little iffy at times). Will have to pick Blood Year up as well

 

[Biddlybee]

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
6/10 Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh
7/10 Kaleidoscope - Laura Taylor
8/10 We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9/10 The Bricks that Built the Houses - Kate Tempest

 

[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
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
29/45 52 Pick Up - Elmore Leonard
30/45 The Fishermen - Chigozie Obioma
31/45 You Don't Love Me Yet - Jonathan Lethem
32/45 The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe And Other Stories - Carson McCullers
33/45 The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
34/45 Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
35/45 Repossessed - Julian Cope
36/45 Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
37/45 Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
38/45 The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner
39/45 The Clearing - Tim Gautreaux

 

[pennimania]

1 Room at the Top - John Braine
2 Life at the Top - "
3 Esther - Norah Lofts
4-The Inimitable Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
5 - Just Kids - Patti Smith
6- A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
7 - A Sense of Guilt - Andrea Newman
8 - White Teeth - Sadie Smith
9 - The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds - John Higgs
10 - The Hacienda - how not to run a club - Peter Hook
11 - The Fancy - Monica Dickens
12 - One Pair of Feet - Monica Dickens
13 - My Turn to Make the Tea - Monica Dickens
14 - Cromartie v The God Shiva - Rumer Godden
15 Dragon Seed - Pearl S Buck
16 Mash - Richard Hooker
17 The Sylvac Story - Susan Jean Verbeek
18 The Sylvac Companion - " "
19 How Much is Enough? - Alan Durning
20 Consumer Culture - Roberta Sassatelli
21 Land Snails - Kermey & Cameron
22 The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
23 King's Counsellor: Abdication and War - Tommy Lascelles
24 The Marriage of Hermione - Richmal Crompton
25 The Johnson Project - Maggie Spence (just don't)
26 The Food of Love - Prue Leith
27 Wool (book 1) Hugh Howey
28 The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
29 Mrs Miniver (again) - Jan Struther

 

[ringo]

The Food of Love - Prue Leith

Any good? I like her cookery writing, never read any of her fiction.

 

[pennimania]

Any good? I like her cookery writing, never read any of her fiction.

Not really - apart from food descriptions!

I read it because I liked her style on My Kitchen Rules and I used to enjoy her articles in Vogue.

 

[ringo]

Not really - apart from food descriptions!

I read it because I liked her style on My Kitchen Rules and I used to enjoy her articles in Vogue.

Cheers, I won't bother then

 

[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
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
47/15 The Gulag Archipelago (vol.1) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
48/15 The Haunted Woman - Melissa Napier
49/15 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
50/15 The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin
51/15 Fountainville - Tishani Doshi
52/15 Queer - William S. Burroughs
53/15 A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
54/15 The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
55/15 Pig Island - Mo Hayder
56/15 Socrates' Defence - Plato
57/15 Earth Abides - George R. Stewart
58/15 On the Steel Breeze - Alastair Reynolds
59/15 Poseidon's Wake - Alastair Reynolds
60/15 Sunstorm - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
61/15 The Long Utopia - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
62/15 The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
63/15 The Long Cosmos - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
64/15 Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
65/15 The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin
66/15 Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
67/15 Firstborn - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
68/15 The Murder of Halland - Pia Juul
69/15 Armada - Ernest Cline
70/15 The Immoralist - André Gide
71/15 The Wild Boys - William S. Burroughs
72/15 Quicksand - Nella Larsen
73/15 Passing - Nella Larsen
74/15 The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe - Arthur Koestler
75/15 In the House of the Interpreter - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
76/15 The Sands of Mars - Arthur C. Clarke
77/15 Nobody Knows My Name - James Baldwin
78/15 The Unreal & the Real, vol. 1: Where on Earth - Ursula K. Le Guin
79/15 The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke
80/15 The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
81/15 Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
82/15 Arslan - M. J. Engh
83/15 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
84/15 The Demon - Hubert Selby Jr.
85/15 Chocky - John Wyndham

 

[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.
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
49/60 Warriors of the Storm - Bernard Cornwell
50/60 The Fireman - Joe Hill
51/60 The Girl in the Spider's Web - David Lagercrantz
52/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 8 Angelsey - Frank Tayell.
53/60 After it Happened : Book 1 Survival - Devon C Ford
54/60 After it Happened : Book 2 Humanity - Devon C Ford
55/60 After it Happened : Book 3 . Society - Devon C Ford
56/60 After it Happened : Book 4. Hope - Devon C Ford .
57/60 The Last Survivors - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
58/60 The Last Escape - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
59/60 The Last Humanity - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
60/60 The Last Command - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
61/60 The Last Refuge - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
62/60 The Last Conquest - T W Piperbrook & Bobby Adair
63/60 Kill Anything that Moves : The Real American War in Vietnam - Nick Turse
64/60 Black Virus - Bobby Adair
65/60 Next: Afterburn - Scott Nicholson
66/60 Next: Earth Zero - Scott Nicholson
67/60 Next: Radiophobia - Scott Nicholson

 

[Pickman's model]

49/50 Steve Jones, 'lonely boy: tales from a sex pistol'

50/50 p.g. wodehouse, 'jeeves in the offing'

 

[Pickman's model]

1/50 a.j. smith, 'the black guard'
2/50 a.j. smith, 'the dark blood'
3/50 a.j. smith, 'the red prince'
4/50 giles milton, 'russian roulette'
5/50 jo nesbo, 'blood on the snow'
6/50 david kilcullen, 'blood year'
7/50 tim powers, 'medusa's web'
8/50 jean lartéguy, 'the centurions'
9/50 rudyard kipling, 'puck of pook's hill'
10/50 lon milo duquette, 'low magick'
11/50 ira levin, 'the boys from brazil'
12/50 john le carré, 'the night manager'
13/50 lee child, 'make me'
14/50 p.g. wodehouse, 'the inimitable jeeves'
15/50 marco pasi, 'aleister crowley and the temptation of politics'
16/50 sax rohmer, 'the trail of fu-manchu'
17/50 frances yates, 'the occult philosophy in the elizabethan age'
18/50 ed moloney, 'a secret history of the ira'
19/50 Bryan Burroughs, 'Days of rage'
20/50 ursula le guin, 'a wizard of earthsea'
21/50 ursula le guin, 'the tombs of atuan'
22/50 ursula le guin, 'the farthest shore'
23/50 ursula le guin, 'tehanu'
24/50 hesketh pearson, 'the hero of delhi'
25/50 heathcote williams, 'boris johnson: the beast of brexit: a study in depravity'
26/50 robert holdstock, 'mythago wood'
27/50 arnaldur indridason, 'hypothermia'
28/50 ray russell, 'the case against satan'
29/50 lucius shepard, 'the dragon griaule'
30/50 a.j. smith, 'the world raven'
31/50 michael connelly, 'the closers'
32/50 michael connelly, 'the concrete blonde'
33/50 michael connelly, 'the crossing'
34/50 Jean Larteguy, 'the praetorians'
35/50 umberto eco, 'the Prague cemetery'
36/50 miles cameron, 'the dread wyrm'
37/50 michael connelly, 'the black echo'
38/50 michael connelly, 'the last coyote'
39/50 georges simenon, 'pietr the latvian'
40/50 michael connelly, 'trunk music'
41/50 michael connelly, 'angels flight'
42/50 michael connelly, 'a darkness more than night'
43/50 ray russell, 'haunted castles: the complete gothic stories'
44/50 hugh mcneile and rob black, 'the history of the league of empire loyalists and candour'
45/50 michael connelly, 'city of bones'
46/50 michael connelly, 'lost light'
47/50 michael connelly, 'the poet'
48/50 caitlín r. kiernan, 'low red moon'
49/50 Steve Jones, 'lonely boy: tales from a sex pistol'
50/50 p.g. wodehouse, 'jeeves in the offing'

 

[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
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
47/15 The Gulag Archipelago (vol.1) - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
48/15 The Haunted Woman - Melissa Napier
49/15 Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said - Philip K. Dick
50/15 The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. Le Guin
51/15 Fountainville - Tishani Doshi
52/15 Queer - William S. Burroughs
53/15 A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
54/15 The Cyberiad - Stanislaw Lem
55/15 Pig Island - Mo Hayder
56/15 Socrates' Defence - Plato
57/15 Earth Abides - George R. Stewart
58/15 On the Steel Breeze - Alastair Reynolds
59/15 Poseidon's Wake - Alastair Reynolds
60/15 Sunstorm - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
61/15 The Long Utopia - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
62/15 The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
63/15 The Long Cosmos - Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter
64/15 Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
65/15 The Dispossessed - Ursula Le Guin
66/15 Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
67/15 Firstborn - Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
68/15 The Murder of Halland - Pia Juul
69/15 Armada - Ernest Cline
70/15 The Immoralist - André Gide
71/15 The Wild Boys - William S. Burroughs
72/15 Quicksand - Nella Larsen
73/15 Passing - Nella Larsen
74/15 The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe - Arthur Koestler
75/15 In the House of the Interpreter - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
76/15 The Sands of Mars - Arthur C. Clarke
77/15 Nobody Knows My Name - James Baldwin
78/15 The Unreal & the Real, vol. 1: Where on Earth - Ursula K. Le Guin
79/15 The City and the Stars - Arthur C. Clarke
80/15 The Demolished Man - Alfred Bester
81/15 Fictions - Jorge Luis Borges
82/15 Arslan - M. J. Engh
83/15 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin
84/15 The Demon - Hubert Selby Jr.
85/15 Chocky - John Wyndham
86/15 Summer Crossing - Truman Capote

 

[Pickman's model]

Four week warning till next thread opens:

 

[spartacus mills]

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: and Other Survivors of the Russian Century
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
28 Ed McBain – Blood Relatives
29 Alexandra Kollontai – A Great Love
30 James Dyer – Hillforts of England and Wales
31 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo – The Man on the Balcony
32 Ismail Kadare – Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
33 Ed McBain - Jigsaw
34 Will Self – Umbrella
35 Fyodor Dostoyevsky – The House of the Dead
36 Laurie Dahlberg – Larry Fink
37 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo – The Laughing Policeman
38 Sebastien Japrisot – One Deadly Summer
39 Arthur Machen – The Hill of Dreams
40 Ed McBain – Killer’s Wedge
41 W.G. Hoskins – The Making of the English Landscape
42 Rene Maran - Batouala

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1/10 Stoner - John Williams

What did you think of it?

 

[petee]

6. private eye, the first 50 years; macqueen
7. derek bailey; watson.

 

[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
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
52/75 - Reginald Hill - A Clubbable Woman (Dalziel & Pascoe 1)
53/75 - Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
54/75 - Denise Mina - Gods and Beasts
55/75 - Ruth Rendell - The Thief
56/75 - Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
57/75 - Kate Tempest - The Bricks That Built the Houses
58/75 - Roddy Doyle - A Star Called Henry
59/75 - Denise Mina - The Red Road
60/75 - A.M.Homes - This Book Will Save Your Life
61/75 - Annie Proulx - Barkskins
62/75 - Denise Mina - Blood, Salt, Water
63/75 - George Orwell - Animal Farm
64/75 - Peter James - Love you Dead
65/75 - Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter
66/75 - Kate Atkinson - Human Croquet
67/75 - Ruth Rendell - Dark Corners

68/75 - Iain Banks - Dead Air