the great urban75 2016 reading challenge thread

[Fozzie Bear]

1/21 Scott A Wilson (ed) - Music At The Extremes: Essays on Sounds Outside the Mainstream

2/21 Dawn Foster - Lean Out

 

[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/QUOTE]

Dickens slowed me down in January, but the last three took two days so I'm making up for lost time...

 

[Manter]

1. The shadows of self- Brendan Sanderson
2. Angel of storms- Trudi Canavan
3. The innocent Mage- Karen Miller
4. The awakened Mage- Karen Miller
5. A blight of mages- Karen Miller
6. Sweet Caress- William Boyd
7. The taming of the queen- Philipa Gregory entertaining diversion.

 

[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

 

[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

 

[sparkybird]

1/35 Wanting - Richard Flanagan

2/35 Just Kids - Patti Smith

3/35 Granta issue 133 What have we done - Sigrid Rausing

4/35 The Autobiography of an ex-coloured man - James Weldon Johnson

 

[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

 

[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 - I'd forgotten how good Austen is

 

[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

 

[Manter]

1. The shadows of self- Brendan Sanderson
2. Angel of storms- Trudi Canavan
3. The innocent Mage- Karen Miller
4. The awakened Mage- Karen Miller
5. A blight of mages- Karen Miller
6. Sweet Caress- William Boyd
7. The taming of the queen- Philipa Gregory
8. A dance of cloaks- David Dalglish. Not exactly great literature but more good escapism

 

[toggle]

5 books I've owned more than 3 years -8 - 9 - 10 -15 - 23 - 24-
5 books i buy during the year -17 -29 -
5 books that are 2 inch thick hardbacks that challenge me to look at them -
5 local history books -13 -
5 local fiction books -
5 fiction books not set within anglo/anglicised culture -
5 books that are about teaching myself new skills -
5 biogs/autobiogs - 25 -
5 translated fiction books -
5 of himself's books -12 -
10 pre 20th century fiction books -16 -20 - 28 -
10 books I'd need for the lit review when i get off my arse and pick the bloody project -21 - 32 - 38 -
5 books for the other thing I've got planned -14 - 26 - 27 -
10 books that i got the idea to read on this thread (or last years) -4 - 5- 18 -
5 non fiction books that aren't history - 1- 2
10 audio-books -3 - 11 - 43

1. Lynne Truss - eats shoots and leaves.
2. tansy Hoskins - stitched up
3. marie kondo- the magic art of tidying up
4. marie brennan - a natural history of dragons
5. joe abercrombie - half a war
6. octavia butler - parable of the sower
7. octavia butler - parable of the talents
8. cj cherryh - merchanters luck
9. cj cherryh - rimrunners
10. cj cherryh - cuckoo's egg
11. neal stevenson - cryptonomicon
12. paul wady - guerilla aspies
13. atkinson - mining sites in cornwall
14. margaret fuller - women in the 19th century
15. peter f hamilton - fallen dragon
16. harriet beecher stowe - uncle toms cabin
17. alice walker - the colour purple
18. marie brennan - the tropic of serpents
19. gail dines - pornland
20. jane austen - pride and prejudice
21. jeffrey klaehn - filtering the news
22. tyler stoddard smith - whore stories
23. robin hobb -sharman's crossing
24. robin hobb - forrest mage
25. amy poehlr - yes please
26. selma james - strangers and sisters
27. edmond and flemming - all work and no pay
28. nathaniel hawthorne - the scarlet letter
29. robin hobb - renegade's magic
30. helen rogers - green gone wrong
31.james meek - private island
32. daniel trilling - bloody nasty people
33. will bunch - the backlash
34. juliet jaques - trans
35. ian banks - canal dreams
36. ian banks - song of stone
37. terry pratchett - the carpet people
38. nancy matthews - confronting rape
39. gareth pierce - dispa5tches from the dark side
40. peter and mari jo buhle - it started in wisconsin
41. peter cann - adoption
42. robert weitzer - sex for sale
43. virginia woolf - orlando

 

[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

 

[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

 

[toggle]

2/21 Dawn Foster - Lean Out

any good?

she was talking about this when i met her at penzance litfest. described it as a criticism of 1% feminism.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

any good?

she was talking about this when i met her at penzance litfest. described it as a criticism of 1% feminism.

It is basically that and is very readable. I like her.

It's quite short though. (I can post you my copy if you like?)

 

[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

One of those stories that I knew from numerous different tellings, but I realised that I'd never read the original text.

 

[belboid]

1/32 - Arnaldur Indriðason - Tainted Blood (aka Jar City)
2/32 - Timur Vermes - Look Who's Back

3/32 - Kevin Barry - Beatlebone

 

[Voley]

1/10 My Story - Steven Gerrard
2/10 Ancient Sites In West Penwith -Cheryl Straffon
3/10 Execution Sites Of Devon And Cornwall - Richard Peirce
4/10 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights - Salman Rushdie
5/10 Pegasus Descending - James Lee Burke

 

[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

 

[Voley]

1/10 My Story - Steven Gerrard
2/10 Ancient Sites In West Penwith -Cheryl Straffon
3/10 Execution Sites Of Devon And Cornwall - Richard Peirce
4/10 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights - Salman Rushdie
5/10 Pegasus Descending - James Lee Burke
6/10 The Story Of Kullervo - J.R.R. Tolkein

 

[idumea]

1/52 Winter's Bone, Daniel Woodrell
2/52 Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

3/52, The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt

 

[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 (you will note that a) the last two were presents and b) I have finished my masters and can read tripe for a while

 

[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

 

[Sea Star]

I was doing so well, and now I've hit a brick wall. I blame the stress I've been under - its really hard to concentrate when you're that anxious.

I'll see if I can push things forward this week with the Mozza autobiography

 

[billy_bob]

9/50 Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
10/50 Adam Foulds - The Quickening Maze

Vonnegut's one of those authors I'm slightly ashamed to admit I've never read anything by till now. Glad I finally put that right. Would be happy to hear Urbz' recommendations from among his more SF-ey stuff...

 

[Greebo]

1/31 Wie man Deutscher wird in 50 einfachen Schritten - Adam Fletcher
2/31 Goblin Fruit - Laini Taylor
3/31 Just Kids - Patti Smith
4/31 Hydrofracked? One Man's Mystery Leads to a Backlask Against Natural Gas Drilling - Abrahm Lustgarten
5/31 The Cleaner - Mark Dawson
6/31 Saint Death - Mark Dawson
7/31 The Warrior Princess Submissive - Michael Makai
8/31 Unfinished Business - The Politics of Class War - Class War
9/31 How to Build the Perfect Rake - Kate Harper
10/31 The Driver - Mark Dawson

 

[braindancer]

1/30 - In the Shadow of Crows - David Charles Manners
2/30 - The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K Le Guin
3/30 - The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K Le Guin
4/30 - The Wind Up Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi

 

[bimble]

9/50 Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5

Best book ever written ever.

 

[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

 

[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