the great urban75 2016 reading challenge thread

[Orang Utan]

1/60: Misha Glenny - McMafia
2/60: Chris Hadfield - An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth
3/60 Peter Goes - Timeline
4/60 Jeff Vandermeer - Annihilation
5/60 Ben Crystal - Shakespeare On Toast
6/60 Claire North - The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August
7/60 Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publically Shamed
8/60 Martin Jenkins & Satoshi Kitamura - The Story Of Money
9/60 Kristjana S Williams & Jenny Broom - The Wonder Garden
10/60 Gary Crew & Shaun Tan - The Viewer
11/60 Viv Albertine - Clothes Music Boys
12/60 Shaun Tan - The Lost Thing
13/60 Shaun Tan - The Red Tree
14/60 Shaun Tan and John Marsden - The Rabbits (brilliant!)
15/60 Shaun Tan - The Arrival (also brilliant)
16/60 Louise O'Neill - Only Ever Yours
17/60 Naoki Higoshida - The Reason I Jump
18/60 Bill Bryson - The Road To Little Dribbling
19/60 Shaun Tan - Tales From Outer Suburbia
20/60 William Grill - Shackleton's Journey
21/60 John Agard - Book
22/60 Kester Aspden - The Hounding Of David Oluwale
23/60 Chris Beckett - The Holy Machine
24/60 Neil Gaiman - Coraline
25/60 Francis Hardinge - The Lie Tree
26/60 Dan Rhodes - The Professor Who Got Stuck In The Snow
27/60 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant
28/60 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should All Be Feminists
29/60 Matt Haig - Reasons To Stay Alive
30/60 China Mieville - The Scar
31/60 Paula Hawkins - The Girl On The Train.
32/60 Sara Pascoe - Animal - The Autobiography Of A Female Body
33/60 Atul Gawande - Being Mortal
34/60 Carl Neville - Resolution Way
35/60 Neurotribes: The Legacy Of Autism & The Future of Neurodiversity
36/60 Natasha Pulley - The Watchmaker Of Filligree Street
37/60 MR Carey - The Girl With All the Gifts
38/60 Charles Burns - The Hive
39/60 David Lagercrantz - The Girl In The Spider's Web
40/60 Seamus Heaney - Beowulf
41/60 CS Lewis - Surprised By Joy
42/60 Chris Beckett - Mother Of Eden
43/60 CS Lewis - Mere Christianity
44/60 ed Anthony & Ben Holden - Poems To Make Grown Men Cry
45/60 ed Deborah Alma -
The Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology
46/60 ed Andrew Motion - Poetry By Heart: Poems for Learning & Reciting
47/60 ed Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes - The Rattle Bag
48/60 ed Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes - The School Bag
49/60 Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers
50/60 Max Decharne - Vulgar Tongues - An Alternative History Of English Slang

 

[Orang Utan]

1/60: Misha Glenny - McMafia
2/60: Chris Hadfield - An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth
3/60 Peter Goes - Timeline
4/60 Jeff Vandermeer - Annihilation
5/60 Ben Crystal - Shakespeare On Toast
6/60 Claire North - The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August
7/60 Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publically Shamed
8/60 Martin Jenkins & Satoshi Kitamura - The Story Of Money
9/60 Kristjana S Williams & Jenny Broom - The Wonder Garden
10/60 Gary Crew & Shaun Tan - The Viewer
11/60 Viv Albertine - Clothes Music Boys
12/60 Shaun Tan - The Lost Thing
13/60 Shaun Tan - The Red Tree
14/60 Shaun Tan and John Marsden - The Rabbits (brilliant!)
15/60 Shaun Tan - The Arrival (also brilliant)
16/60 Louise O'Neill - Only Ever Yours
17/60 Naoki Higoshida - The Reason I Jump
18/60 Bill Bryson - The Road To Little Dribbling
19/60 Shaun Tan - Tales From Outer Suburbia
20/60 William Grill - Shackleton's Journey
21/60 John Agard - Book
22/60 Kester Aspden - The Hounding Of David Oluwale
23/60 Chris Beckett - The Holy Machine
24/60 Neil Gaiman - Coraline
25/60 Francis Hardinge - The Lie Tree
26/60 Dan Rhodes - The Professor Who Got Stuck In The Snow
27/60 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant
28/60 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should All Be Feminists
29/60 Matt Haig - Reasons To Stay Alive
30/60 China Mieville - The Scar
31/60 Paula Hawkins - The Girl On The Train.
32/60 Sara Pascoe - Animal - The Autobiography Of A Female Body
33/60 Atul Gawande - Being Mortal
34/60 Carl Neville - Resolution Way
35/60 Neurotribes: The Legacy Of Autism & The Future of Neurodiversity
36/60 Natasha Pulley - The Watchmaker Of Filligree Street
37/60 MR Carey - The Girl With All the Gifts
38/60 Charles Burns - The Hive
39/60 David Lagercrantz - The Girl In The Spider's Web
40/60 Seamus Heaney - Beowulf
41/60 CS Lewis - Surprised By Joy
42/60 Chris Beckett - Mother Of Eden
43/60 CS Lewis - Mere Christianity
44/60 ed Anthony & Ben Holden - Poems To Make Grown Men Cry
45/60 ed Deborah Alma -
The Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology
46/60 ed Andrew Motion - Poetry By Heart: Poems for Learning & Reciting
47/60 ed Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes - The Rattle Bag
48/60 ed Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes - The School Bag
49/60 Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers
50/60 Max Decharne - Vulgar Tongues - An Alternative History Of English Slang
51/60 Daniel Clowes - Wilson

 

[Sea Star]

i've given up. Looking forward to next year's challenge now. Maybe with less stress to hinder me!

 

[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
16. "In the Cold Dark Ground" - Stuart MacBride
17. "Victim Without a Face" - Stefano Anhem
18. "The Damage Done" - James Oswald
19. "The Necropolis Railway" -Andrew Martin
20. "The Widow" - Fiona Barton
21. "The Hanging Club" - Tony Parsons

22. Black Mail" - Bill Daly. Formulaic writing which made it rather dull

 

[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
18/20 - Steve Alten - Meg 5: Nightstalkers
19/20 - Mark Wallington - 500 Mile Walkies
20/20 - Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves
21/20 - Vincent Bugliosi - Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
22/20 - Alan Partridge- I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan
23/20 - Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
24/20 - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time
25/20 - Alan Partridge - Nomad
26/20 - Mark Wallington - Boogie up the River
27/20 - Marlon James - A Brief History of Seven Killings

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

1/50 The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Provence -- Martin Gayford
2/50 The Boxcar Children -- Gertrude Warner
3/50 The Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and their Food -- John Dickie
4/50 Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X -- Deborah Davis.
5/50 White Trash Zombie Gone Wild - Diana Rowland
6/50 Dead to Me - Anton Strout
7/50 Deader Still- Anton Strout
8/50 Dead Matter - Anton Strout
9/50 American Gothic: The Life of America's Most Famous Painting - Steven Biel
10/50 Impulse - Steven Gould
11/50 My life as a White Trash Zombie - Diana Rowland
12/50 Silent Spring - Rachael Carson
13/50 Koko Takes a Holiday - Kieran Shea
14/50 Blue Zones - Dan Buettner
15/50 100 Millions Years of Food - Steven Ye
16/50 The Sea of Trolls -- Nancy Farmer
17/50 The Land of the Silver Apples -- Nancy Farmer
18/50 The Island of the Blessed -- Nancy Farmer
19/50 7th Sigma - Steven Gould
20/50 Radio Free Albumuth - Phillip K. Dick
21/50 Black Spring - Christina Henry
22/50 Exo - Steven Gould
23/50 The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick
24/50 The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert
25/50 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs
26/50 See You in 100 Years - Logan Ward
27/50 Ubik - Phillip K. Dick
28/50 Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System - Raj Patel
29/50 The Intrepid Woman's Guide to Van Dwelling - Jess Wade
30/50 Play Dead -John Levitt
31/50 Any Road USA: Living a Life of Freedom on the Road - Bob Davidson
32/50 The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. LeGuin
33/50 Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textiles - Claire Wellesley-Smith
34/50 The Best of All Possible Worlds - Karen Lord
35/50 Blue Highways: A Journey into America - William Least Heat-Moon.

36/50 Half Earth - Edward O. Wilson
37/50 Matched - Ally Condie
38/50 Crossed - Ally Condie
39/50 Reached - Ally Condie
40/50 Imprudence - Gail Carriger

Gonna fall short of the goal this year. I got stuck a couple of months ago and just never got back on track.

 

[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
69/75 - Maggie James - Blackwater Lake
70/75 - Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
71/75 - Derek B Miller - Norwegian by Night
72/75 - Kira Cochrane - All the Rebel Women
73/75 - Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

74/75 - Denise Mina - The Field of Blood (Paddy Meehan 1)

I really enjoyed this imposs1904 & inva.
Loved the character of Paddy (Patricia),looking forward to reading 2 & 3

 

[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
33/50 The Advocate, Teresa Burrell
34/50 Dark Places, Gillian Flynn
35/50 The Advocate's Betrayal, Teresa Burrell
36/50 Magickal Beginnings, Lisa M Hawkins
37/50 The Advocate's Conviction, Teresa Burrell
38/50 Lie in Wait, Eric Rickstad
39/50 The 53rd Parallell, Carl Nordgren
40/50 Frankenstein: Dead Town, Dean Koontz
41/50 Norwegian by Night, Derek B Miller
42/50 The Cement Garden, Ian McEwan
43/50 To Kill For, AJ Carella
44/50 Spectacles, Sue Perkins
45/50 How to be Both, Ali Smith
46/50 Swimming Home, Deborah Levy
47/50 Do You Remember the First Time, Jenny Colgan
48/50 Storm of the Century, Stephen King
49/50 White Teeth, Zadie Smith
50/50 The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo, Amy Schumer
51/50 Get Even, Martina Cole
52/50 Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
53/50 Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences, Catherine Pelonero
54/50 The Advocate's Dilemma, Teresa Burrell
55/50 Second Life, SJ Watson
56/50 Behind Closed Doors, B A Paris

 

[Pickman's model]

attention attention

this is a reader announcement

the next thread will be posted on monday, by when you should all have at least one new book to read.

 

[inva]

74/75 - Denise Mina - The Field of Blood (Paddy Meehan 1)

I really enjoyed this imposs1904 & inva.
Loved the character of Paddy (Patricia),looking forward to reading 2 & 3

great that's one I've got to look forward to for next year then

 

[Orang Utan]

1/60: Misha Glenny - McMafia
2/60: Chris Hadfield - An Astronaut's Guide To Life On Earth
3/60 Peter Goes - Timeline
4/60 Jeff Vandermeer - Annihilation
5/60 Ben Crystal - Shakespeare On Toast
6/60 Claire North - The First Fifteen Lives Of Harry August
7/60 Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publically Shamed
8/60 Martin Jenkins & Satoshi Kitamura - The Story Of Money
9/60 Kristjana S Williams & Jenny Broom - The Wonder Garden
10/60 Gary Crew & Shaun Tan - The Viewer
11/60 Viv Albertine - Clothes Music Boys
12/60 Shaun Tan - The Lost Thing
13/60 Shaun Tan - The Red Tree
14/60 Shaun Tan and John Marsden - The Rabbits (brilliant!)
15/60 Shaun Tan - The Arrival (also brilliant)
16/60 Louise O'Neill - Only Ever Yours
17/60 Naoki Higoshida - The Reason I Jump
18/60 Bill Bryson - The Road To Little Dribbling
19/60 Shaun Tan - Tales From Outer Suburbia
20/60 William Grill - Shackleton's Journey
21/60 John Agard - Book
22/60 Kester Aspden - The Hounding Of David Oluwale
23/60 Chris Beckett - The Holy Machine
24/60 Neil Gaiman - Coraline
25/60 Francis Hardinge - The Lie Tree
26/60 Dan Rhodes - The Professor Who Got Stuck In The Snow
27/60 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant
28/60 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - We Should All Be Feminists
29/60 Matt Haig - Reasons To Stay Alive
30/60 China Mieville - The Scar
31/60 Paula Hawkins - The Girl On The Train.
32/60 Sara Pascoe - Animal - The Autobiography Of A Female Body
33/60 Atul Gawande - Being Mortal
34/60 Carl Neville - Resolution Way
35/60 Neurotribes: The Legacy Of Autism & The Future of Neurodiversity
36/60 Natasha Pulley - The Watchmaker Of Filligree Street
37/60 MR Carey - The Girl With All the Gifts
38/60 Charles Burns - The Hive
39/60 David Lagercrantz - The Girl In The Spider's Web
40/60 Seamus Heaney - Beowulf
41/60 CS Lewis - Surprised By Joy
42/60 Chris Beckett - Mother Of Eden
43/60 CS Lewis - Mere Christianity
44/60 ed Anthony & Ben Holden - Poems To Make Grown Men Cry
45/60 ed Deborah Alma -
The Emergency Poet: An Anti-Stress Poetry Anthology
46/60 ed Andrew Motion - Poetry By Heart: Poems for Learning & Reciting
47/60 ed Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes - The Rattle Bag
48/60 ed Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes - The School Bag
49/60 Patrick DeWitt - The Sisters Brothers
50/60 Max Decharne - Vulgar Tongues - An Alternative History Of English Slang
51/60 Daniel Clowes - Wilson
52/60 Jared Diamond - The World Until Yesterday

 

[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
69/75 - Maggie James - Blackwater Lake
70/75 - Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
71/75 - Derek B Miller - Norwegian by Night
72/75 - Kira Cochrane - All the Rebel Women
73/75 - Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
74/75 - Denise Mina - The Field of Blood (Paddy Meehan 1)

75/75 - Bohumil Hrabal - Closely Watched Trains

Target met

 

[Me76]

Can someone send me Fahrenheit 451 so I have it when needed for next year please?

 

[ringo]

Can someone send me Fahrenheit 451 so I have it when needed for next year please?

Yes but about to go away until new year. Give me a shout if you haven't got it by then

 

[ringo]

Can someone send me Fahrenheit 451 so I have it when needed for next year please?

Just remembered it's in my work email from when I sent it to boatie. Pm me your email address and I'll chuck it over

 

[Pickman's model]

I said 20 last year and only managed 13, so aiming for 15 this year.

Done well then this year

 

[Pickman's model]

new thread up and can be found here back by popular demand it's the 2017 reading challenge thread

 

[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
87/15 The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
88/15 The Mark-2 Wife - William Trevor
89/15 The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
90/15 The Black Lake - Hella S. Haasse
91/15 The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
92/15 The Sandman - E.T.A. Hoffmann
93/15 Europe in Autumn - Dave Hutchinson
94/15 Non-Stop - Brian Aldiss
95/15 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
96/15 The Fall - Albert Camus
97/15 Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

[Signal 11]

1/15 - Strong Men Keep Coming: The Book of African American Men - Tonya Bolden
2/15 - Teach Yourself Geology - David Rothery
3/15 - Poseidon's Wake - Alastair Reynolds
4/15 - The Unfortunates - B. S. Johnson
5/15 - Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain - Lisa McKenzie
6/15 - Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson - Jonathan Coe
7/15 - Mississippi to Madrid: Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade - James Yates
8/15 - Images of Sport: Leicestershire County Cricket Club - Dennis Lambert
9/15 - Geology of the Jurassic Coast: The Isle of Purbeck - Weymouth to Studland - Paul Ensom & Malcolm Turnbull
10/15 - Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music - Derek Bailey
11/15 - Armies and the Art of Revolution - K. C. Chorley
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
16,17,18/15 - 1Q84: The Complete Trilogy - Haruki Murakami
19/15 - Winning Chess Tactics - Yasser Seirawan w/ Jeremy Silman

 

[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
26/50 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Buried Giant
27/50 Clark Ashton Smith - The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies
28/50 Rupert Thomson - Secrecy
29/50 Will Carruthers - Playing The Bass With Three Left Hands
30/50 Stephen King - Mr Mercedes
31/50 Amy Liptrot - The Outrun

32/50 I know I read something else here but can't remember what it was
33/50 Luke Jackson - Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome

 

[Voley]

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
32/40 The Sick Bag Song - Nick Cave
33/40 Inferno - Dante
34/40 Skagboys - Irvine Welsh

I think that's my lot for this year as I've just given up on 'The Zone of Interest' by Martin Amis. Given some more err interesting books for Xmas so that can go back to the library.

Pleased with 34 though. Original target of 10 so not bad at all.

 

[Voley]

What were your favourite books you read this year then? I'd have to go for 'Clothes Music Boys' by Viv Albertine. She's had a really interesting life, writes really well and was thoroughly likeable. Great autobiography. I like her writing even more than her music which isn't my usual experience of music biographies.

 

[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
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
63/51 - The Hunter by Asa Nonami
64/51 - My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon
65/51 - Theories of Surplus Value Part 1 by Karl Marx
66/51 - Maigret and the Old Lady by Georges Simenon
67/51 - Marx and Keynes: The Limits of the Mixed Economy by Paul Mattick
68/51 - Khiyana: Daesh, The Left & The Unmaking of the Syrian Revolution edited by Jules Alford and Andy Wilson
69/51 - The Incomplete Marx by Felton C. Shortall
70/51 - Slavery Hinterland: Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850 edited by Felix Brahm and Eve Rosenhaft
71/51 - Strangers by Taichi Yamada
72/51 - Madame Maigret's Friend by Georges Simenon
73/51 - I Want to Kick You in the Back by Risa Wataya
74/51 - A History of Economic Thought by Isaac Ilych Rubin
75/51 - Rage by Lorenza Mazzetti
76/51 - Reading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver
77/51 - The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria by Samar Yazbek
78/51 - Strike! The True History of Mass Insurgence in America from 1877 to the Present by Jeremy Brecher
79/51 - Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics by Leon Fink
80/51 - Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon

 

[May Kasahara]

What were your favourite books you read this year then? I'd have to go for 'Clothes Music Boys' by Viv Albertine. She's had a really interesting life, writes really well and was thoroughly likeable. Great autobiography. I like her writing even more than her music which isn't my usual experience of music biographies.

The Jeff Vandermeer trilogy I read was undoubtedly the best - Mr K and I have both bought copies for various friends since. It was a great way to kick off the reading year

Aside from that, I think The Gathering Night is the one that lingered longest in my memory. Very evocative and has actually left quite a mark on my thinking.

 

[BoatieBird]

What were your favourite books you read this year then? I'd have to go for 'Clothes Music Boys' by Viv Albertine. She's had a really interesting life, writes really well and was thoroughly likeable. Great autobiography. I like her writing even more than her music which isn't my usual experience of music biographies.

Kate Tempest's The Bricks That Built the Houses was a highlight for me.
Also finally getting round to reading some Margaret Atwood and discovering I love her, after previously dismissing her as 'probably a bit too sci-fiy' for my taste. I'm looking forward to reading more of her next year.

 

[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
16. "In the Cold Dark Ground" - Stuart MacBride
17. "Victim Without a Face" - Stefano Anhem
18. "The Damage Done" - James Oswald
19. "The Necropolis Railway" -Andrew Martin
20. "The Widow" - Fiona Barton
21. "The Hanging Club" - Tony Parsons

22. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" - Stuart MacBride. Very disappointing

 

[nogojones]

What were your favourite books you read this year then? I'd have to go for 'Clothes Music Boys' by Viv Albertine. She's had a really interesting life, writes really well and was thoroughly likeable. Great autobiography. I like her writing even more than her music which isn't my usual experience of music biographies.

I'd not read any si-fi since I was a kid and read a load of Iain M. Banks Culture novels, on the recomendation of a mate this year and really enjoyed them.

 

[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

38/25 Michel Buead - A History Of Capitalism
39/25 Iain M. Banks - Inversions
40/25 P.G. Wodehouse - My Man Geeves
41/25 P.G. Wodehouse - A Man Of Means
42/25 Nick Turse - Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

Not quite done for the year and will try and squeeze another one or two in, but generally pleased. This thread has either focused my reading, or I'd forgotton how much I was reading in previous years as I never bothered to note it down

 

[Manter]

Well I bombed at this, this year....

 

[billy_bob]

1/50 Sarah Perry - After Me Comes the Flood
2/50 Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit
3/50 David Sedaris - Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
4/50 Jenny Offill - Dept. of Speculation
5/50 Dan Rhodes - Anthology and a Hundred Other Stories
6/50 Jeffrey Brown - Kids are Weird
7/50 David Marsh - For Who the Bell Tolls
8/50 Eimear McBride - A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
9/50 Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
10/50 Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze
11/50 Steve Aylett - Lint
12/50 George Saunders - Tenth of December
13/50 Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
14/50 Susan Perabo - Explaining Death to the Dog
15/50 Paul Torday - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
16/50 Alison Moore - He Wants
17/50 David Crystal - A Little Book of Language
18/50 Owen Jones - The Establishment
19/50 Emma Healy - Elizabeth is Missing
20/50 Aimee Bender - The Color Master
21/50 Aimee Bender - Willful Creatures
22/50 Will Self - Umbrella
23/50 David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster
24/50 Bridget Christie - A Book for Her
25/50 Jeffrey Brown - Darth Vadar and Son
26/50 Etgar Keret - The Nimrod Flip-Out
27/50 Alexei Sayle - Stalin Ate My Homework
28/50 Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos
29/50 Terry Coleman - The Railway Navvies
30/50 Maud Casey - The Man Who Walked Away
31/50 Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping
32/50 Charles Dickens - Martin Chuzzlewit
33/50 Myla Goldberg - Bee Season
34/50 Colum McCann - This Side of Brightness
35/50 Cormac James - The Surfacing
36/50 Alison Macleod - Unexploded
37/50 Philip Ridley - Flamingos in Orbit
38/50 Patrick McGrath - Ghost Town
39/50 Philip K. Dick - Minority Report
40/50 Woody Guthrie - Bound for Glory
41/50 Oliver Kamm - Accidence will Happen: The Non-Pedantic Guide to English
42/50 Philip K. Dick - Minority Report and Other Stories [different collection to 39/50)
43/50 Kevin Barry - There Are Little Kingdoms
44/50 Peter Hook - Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
45/50 Stewart Lee - Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces 2011-2016
46/50 David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
47/50 Lorna Sage - Bad Blood
48/50 Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously
49/50 Emma Jones - Literary Pocket Companion
50/50 Neil Mukherjee - The Lives of Others
51/50: David Crystal - The Story of English in 100 Words
52/50: Alexei Sayle - Thatcher Stole My Trousers
53/50: Walter Kempowski - All for Nothing
54/50: Thomas Burke - The English and Their Country, for Overseas Forces
55/50: Ali Shaw - The Trees

I won't finish anything else before NYE so that's my final list for this thread

e2a Highlights: short story collections by Kevin Barry (no. 43) and especially George Saunders (no. 12); re-reading Philip K Dick as ever (no.s 39 and 42); and my long-overdue first, and certainly not last, encounters with Vonnegut (nos. 9 and 28).