the great urban75 2016 reading challenge thread

[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

Oh dear, nearly the end of the year and I haven't been keeping up to date.

30 Bloom - Kelle Hampton
31 UK Dark - Chris Harris
32 - Princess Margaret - Theo Aronson
33 Life in a Cold Climate Laura Thompson
34 Scent of Cloves - Nora Lofts
35 The Accursed Share (again) Georges Bataille
36 A Very Private Diary: a Nurse in Wartime - Mary Morris
37 Jassy - Nora Lofts
38 How I Live Now (reread) Meg Rosoff
39 The Last Man - Mary Shelley
40 Puck of Pooks Hill Rudyard Kipling
41 Crash - Michael Robertson
42 The Devil in Clevely Nora Lofts
43 The Handfasted Wife - Carol McGrath
44 Thinking through Art - Macleod & Holdridge
45 The Comfort of Things Daniel Miller
46 Stuff ( reread) Daniel Miller
47 Mount! - Jilly Cooper
48 Practice through Research - Barratt & Bolt
49 The King's Curse - Philippa Gregory
50 Son of Rosemary ( reread) Ira Levin
51 Rosemary's Baby (reread) Ira Levin

there's more but I can't keep track of them. I have been working my way through Nora Lofts and DE Stevenson because I can get them free on kindle unlimited. My reading has deteriorated because since I've been back in academia I have developed a ghastly habit of skim reading texts to find tasty bits to fillet out. I now have to force myself to read carefully.

I'm still addicted to apocalyptica and Jilly Cooper.

 

[pennimania]

If I had to pick one it would be Mrs Miniver for the quality of the writing.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

The highlights of the year for me are,

Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
The Goldfinch - Donna Tart

And of course, Anna Karenina - Tolstoy.

Post up yours!

 

[Sea Star]

For me it was discovering CJ Cherryh. Got through 5 of her books this year. I'll try for a few more next year.

 

[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
98/15 The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

 

[xenon]

hm, not finished many books this year.

01/25. In the Name of the Rose. - Umberto Eco
02/25. The Prague Cemetery. Umberto Eco.
03/25. Foucault's Pendulum. - Umberto Eco.
04/25. High Rise. - J. G. Ballard.
05/25. Narcoland - Anabel Hernandez.
06/25. Ubuntu Server Essentials - Abdelmonam Kouka
07/25. The Nightmare Stacks - Charlie Stross
08/25. Dead Air - Iain Banks.
09/25. Lite - M John Harrison
10/25. Nova Swing - M John Harrison
11/25. The Thing Itself - Adam Roberts
12/25. Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Pact Publishing
13/25. The City - Clifford D. Simack.
14/25. The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire - Julian Assange
15/25. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
16/25. Empty Space - M John Harrison

 

[Pickman's model]

hm, not finished many books this year.

01/25. In the Name of the Rose. - Umberto Eco
02/25. The Prague Cemetery. Umberto Eco.
03/25. Foucault's Pendulum. - Umberto Eco.
04/25. High Rise. - J. G. Ballard.
05/25. Narcoland - Anabel Hernandez.
06/25. Ubuntu Server Essentials - Abdelmonam Kouka
07/25. The Nightmare Stacks - Charlie Stross
08/25. Dead Air - Iain Banks.
09/25. Lite - M John Harrison
10/25. Nova Swing - M John Harrison
11/25. The Thing Itself - Adam Roberts
12/25. Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Pact Publishing
13/25. The City - Clifford D. Simack.
14/25. The Wikileaks Files: The World According to US Empire - Julian Assange
15/25. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
16/25. Empty Space - M John Harrison

Come on, you've two days left to hit your target

 

[xenon]

ha. I'm still actually reading Empty Space but I think it will be done by tomorrow night.

 

[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
98/15 The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
99/15 To-morrow - Joseph Conrad
100/15 The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows - Rudyard Kipling
101/15 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Oscar Wilde
102/15 The Beautifull Cassandra - Jane Austen

 

[crossthebreeze]

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

23 - Federico García Lorca - Sketches of Spain (trans. by Peter Bush)
I read this after going to andalucia and finding plaques to and quotes from Lorca everywhere. He wrote this when he was a student. Some of the essays give a really interesting impression of what spain was like in the late 1910s, and there are a some really beautiful passages, but there are other places where he comes across as an annoying, whiny middle class student and a nasty disgust of the poor and a startling misogyny comes out.

 

[crossthebreeze]

I'll hopefully finish a long book i've been reading today too.

 

[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
98/15 The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
99/15 To-morrow - Joseph Conrad
100/15 The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows - Rudyard Kipling
101/15 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Oscar Wilde
102/15 The Beautifull Cassandra - Jane Austen
103/15 The Nose - Nikolai Gogol

Taking advantage of the end-of-shelf display of "quick reads" in one of the libraries I use, mostly this series and occasionally some other short books.

 

[marty21]

1/60 The Lost Starship - Vaughn Heppner.
2/60 The Lost Command - Vaughn Heppner
3/60 The Lost Destroyer - Vaughn Heppner
4/60 The Lost Colony - Vaughan Heppner
5/60 Why it is still Kicking Off Everywhere - Paul Mason
6/60 The Lady From Zagreb - Philip Kerr
7/60 Anzio - Wynford Vaughan Thomas
8/60 Extinction Point : Genesis - Paul Antony Jones
9/60 Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel
10/60 Lucifer's Hammer - Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
11/60 Blood Relatives - Ed McBain
12/60 Blood on Snow - Jo Nesbo
13/60 Raven Black - Ann Cleeves
14/60 White Nights - Ann Cleeves
15/60 Even Dogs In The Wild - Ian Rankin
16/60 Bryant & May : The Burning Man - Christopher Fowler.
17/60 Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
18/60 Blue Lightning - Ann Cleeves
19/60 Dead Water - Ann Cleeves
20/60 Thin Air - Ann Cleeves
21/60 Radical Cities : Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture - Justin McGuirk.
22/60 Deep South - Paul Theroux.
23/60 Constitution - Nick Webb.
24/60 Then We Take Berlin -John Lawton
25/60 The Cold Dish - Craig Johnson
26/60 Chavs - Owen Jones
27/60 Gathering Prey - John Sandford
28/60 Chasing the Dead - Tim Weaver
29/60 The Dead Tracks - Tim Weaver
30/60 Serious Crimes (Strike a Match Book 1) Frank Tayell
31/60 Counterfeit Conspiracy (Strike a Match 2) Frank Tayell
32/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Here We Stand (Book 1 : Infected ) Frank Tayell
33/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Wasteland (Book 2) Frank Tayell.
34/60 Surviving the Ecacuation : Family (Book 3) Frank Tayell.
35/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 4 : Unsafe Haven - Frank Tayell
36/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 5 Reunion - Frank Tayell
37/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 6 Harvest - Frank Tayell
38/60 Surviving the Evacuation : Book 7 Home. - Frank Tayell
39/60 Vanished - Tim Weaver
40/60 Never Coming Back - Tim Weaver
41/60 Fall from Grace - Tim Weaver
42/60 What Remains - Tim Weaver
43/60 Broken Heart- Tim Weaver
44/60 Nightwalking : A Nocturnal History of London. Chaucer to Dickens - Matthew Beaumont.
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
68/60 Next : Directive 17 - Scott Nicholson
69/60 Next : Crucible - Scott Nicholson
70/60 The Ruins - T W Piperbrook.

 

[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'


51/50 Richard Sherriff, 'war with russia'
52/50 david keck, 'in the eye of heaven'
53/50 grant allen, 'the african millionaire'

 

[colbhoy]

1/20 - The Secret Speech by Tom Rob Smith
2/20 - The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V Higgins
3/20 - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
4/20 - Prayers for Rain by Dennis Lehane
5/20 - Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh
6/20 - The Last Detective by Robert Crais
7/20 - The 100 Most Pointless Arguments in the World Solved by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman
8/20 - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
9/20 - 11.22.63 by Stephen King
10/20 - The Final Judgement by Richard North Patterson
11/20 - The Mating Season by P G Wodehouse
12/20 - Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
13/20 - Stick by Elmore Leonard
14/20 - Finders Keepers by Stephen King

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Estimated 31-40, actually managed 25, mostly due to picking up some enormous books this year (2666, Alan Moore's Jerusalem). No list as I'm on mobile. Planning to manage more in 2017.

 

[crossthebreeze]

1/12 - The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco
2/12 - Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
3/12 - Eric by Shaun Tan
4/12 - Orange is the new Black by Piper Kerman
5/12 - The Book of Phoenix by Nnedi Okorafor
6/12 - The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn
7/12 - Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
8/12 - Noise Uprising: The Audiopolitics of a World Musical Revolution by Michael Denning
9/12 - The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
10/12 - Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
11/12 - The Accidental by Ali Smith
12/12 - The Hedgerow Handbook: Recipes, Remedies and Rituals by Adele Nozedar
13 - Benefits by Zoe Fairbairns
14 - Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism After The War On Terror by Christine Delphy
15 - And The Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future by Yanis Varoufakis
16 - Pennance by Clare Ashton
17 - Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
18 - The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
19 - Kaleidoscope by Laura Taylor
20 - The Return by Victoria Hislop
21 - Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia by Chris Stewart
22 - Beyond the Pale - White Women, Racism, and History by Vron Ware
23 - Sketches of Spain by Federico Garcia Lorca (trans. by Peter Bush)

24 - The Hand of Fatima by Ildefonso Falcones (trans. by Nick Caistor)
Epic and lengthy historical novel about the treatment of Morisco people in Spain in the 16th century. The first part of the book is a grisly depiction of uprising and revenge which i found hard to get through. In general i learnt a lot from reading this, but i occasionally found some of the plotting unlikely.

 

[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
98/15 The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
99/15 To-morrow - Joseph Conrad
100/15 The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows - Rudyard Kipling
101/15 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Oscar Wilde
102/15 The Beautifull Cassandra - Jane Austen
103/15 The Nose - Nikolai Gogol
104/15 The Queen's Necklace - Italo Calvino
105/15 Red Rose, White Rose - Eileen Chang

Nearly finished something else, but it's gone midnight now so looks like that's me done for 2016.

 

[marty21]

Read a lot of space marine , zombie, post apocalyptic stuff this year , the quality varied the stand out book was The Revenant - Michael Punke . Still haven't got around to watching the film.

 

[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
43 Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch – Venus in Furs
44 Ed McBain – Killer’s Choice
45 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo – The Fire Engine That Disappeared
46 Christopher Robbins – In Search of Kazakhstan, the Land That Disappeared
47 James Thompson – Snow Angels
48 Hamid Ismailov – The Dead Lake
49 Atiq Rahimi – The Patience Stone
50 Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo – Murder at the Savoy

 

[yield]

1/10. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
2/10. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
3/10. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
4/10. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
5/10. Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
6/10. Intrusion by Ken MacLeod
7/10. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

8/10. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli

Started a lot of books I never finished. Going for ten again this year.

 

[Me76]

Read a lot of space marine , zombie, post apocalyptic stuff this year , the quality varied the stand out book was The Revenant - Michael Punke . Still haven't got around to watching the film.

I fell asleep twice through the first 45 minutes and switched it off after an hour. The cinematography was beautiful but I found it quite dull. I might the book though.

 

[Me76]

I don't think I've really had a stand out book in 2016. Lots of titles I look back on and can't really remember what they were about. White Teeth and the Advocate series probably the best. Not counting re reading the Harry Potters.

 

[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

41/50 Half Earth - Edward O. Wilson
42/50 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World - Andrea Wolf.
43/50 The God Delusion -- Richard Dawkins

Gee, I wonder what Dawkins really thinks about religion. LOL.

 

[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
40/45 The Ballad Of Lee Cotton - Christopher Wilson
41/45 The Zone Of Interest - Martin Amis
42/45 Closely Observed Trains - Bohumil Hrabal
43/45 Started Early, Took My Dog - Kate Atkinson

Thought I was going to hit my target, but life got in the way. Not bad though.

 

[kalidarkone]

1/50 A


55/50 Second Life, SJ Watson - I was really enjoying this, on the edge of my seat to the stage that on Saturday night in the pub I had to force myself to put it down! Then I finished it off and the ending is rubbish!!!! Really rubbish, makes the whole rest of the book implausible. Disappointed.

Totally agree!! Also I spent half the book shouting at the main character because she was sooo stupid!