the strictly come reading 2023 reading challenge thread

[marty21]

1/59 The Rooster Bar - John Grisham
2/59 The White Album - Joan Didion
3/59 Storm Watch - CJ Box
4/59 Oath of Loyalty - Kyle Mills
5/59 SAS : Rogue Heroes - Ben Macintyre
6/59 The Odin Mission - James Holland
7/59 Darkest Hour - James Holland
8/59 Blood of Honour - James Holland
9/59 Hellfire - James Holland
10/59 English Journey - J.B. Priestley
11/59 Outbreak - Frank Gardner
12/59 Desert Star - Michael Connelly
13/59 On The Run - Kerry J Donovan
14/59 Righteous Prey - John Sandford
15/59 Extreme Prey - John Sandford
16/59 Field of Prey - John Sandford
17/59 Invisible Prey- John Sandford
18/59 The Devil's Pact - James Holland
19/59 Slow Horses - Mich Herron
20/60 Nicholas Nickelby - Charles Dickens
21/60 Get Carter - Ted Lewis
22/60 Essex Dogs - Dan Jones
23/60 The Full English - Stuart Maconie

 

[imposs1904]

1/36 Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go by George P. Pelecanos
2/36 Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook
3/36 How To Rob An Armored Car by Iain Levison (ReRead)
4/36 The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook
5/36 The Arsenal Stadium Mystery by Leonard Gribble
6/36 No. 17 by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
7/36 My Rock 'n' Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
8/36 The Man Who Came Uptown by George P. Pelecanos
9/36 Good Behavior by Donald E. Westlake
10/36 The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake
11/36 Drowned Hopes by Donald E. Westlake
12/36 Quick Change by Jay Cronley
13/36 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Inside Story of the Legendary 1970 World Cup by Andrew Downie
14/36 Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr
15/36 Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle
16/36 Fletch by Gregory McDonald
17/36 Fletch Won by Gregory McDonald
18/36 120, rue de la Gare by Léo Malet
19/36 Bellies and Bullseyes: The Outrageous True Story of Darts by Sid Waddell (ReRead)
20/36 Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused by Melissa Maerz
21/36 For the Love of Willie by Agnes Owens
22/36 Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa (Reread)
23/36 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
24/36 Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party by Michael Cragg
25/36 Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
26/36 Maigret Sets a Trap by Georges Simenon
27/36 One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
28/36 Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories by Allan Jones
29/36 A Prefect's Uncle by P. G. Wodehouse
30/36 Raymond Carver : an oral biography by Sam Halpert
31/36 Never Stop: How Ange Postecoglou Brought the Fire Back to Celtic by Hamish Carton
32/36 Psychocandy by Paula Mejia
33/36 Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
34/36 Unhappy-Go-Lucky by Ian Pattison
35/36 The Shoe by Gordon Legge (Reread)
36/36 The Storytellers One by Roger Mansfield
37/36 Norwood by Charles Portis
38/36 Born to struggle by May Hobbs
39/36 Brian Eno’s Another Green World by Geeta Dayal
40/36 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Reread)
41/36 To Die in June by Alan Parks
42/36 Wire’s Pink Flag by Wilson Neate

43/36 Bloody January by Alan Parks (Audiobook)

Finally got round to listening to an audiobook. Admittedly, it was a book I'd read previously. Now I've got past my longstanding prejudice against audiobooks, I'm all ears.

 

[Biddlybee]

1/15 - We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
2/15 - The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yōko Ogawa
3/15 - Slug - Hollie McNish
4/15 - Someday, Maybe - Onyi Nwabineli
5/15 - Tyger - SF Said
6/15 - Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood
7/15 - The Things I Would Tell You - ed. Sabrina Mahfouz
8/15 - The World's Wife - Carol Ann Duffy
9/15 - A Night Divided - Jennifer A Nielsen
10/15 - Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart
11/15 - Lyrics Alley - Leila Aboulela
12/15 - Strange Flowers - Donal Ryan
13/15 - Guards! Guards! - Terry Pratchett
14/15 - The Truce - Primo Levi
15/15 - Small Pleasures - Clare Chambers
16/15 - River Spirit - Leila Abulela
17/15 - Strong Female Character - Fern Brady
18/15 - Kindred - Octavia Butler
19/15 - The Lost Girls of Ireland - Susanne O'Leary
20/15 - The Guilty Feminist - Deborah Frances-White
21/15 - Factfulness - Hans Rosling
22/15 - 1979 - Val McDermid
23/15 - The Furthest Station - Ben Aaronovitch
24/15 - The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin
25/15 - The Island of Missing Trees - Elif Shafak
26/15 - Lessons in Chemistry - Bonnie Garmus
27/15 - Soul Tourists - Bernadine Evaristo
28/15 - Foster - Claire Keegan
29/15 - Buried - Alice Roberts
30/15 - Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
31/15 - The Dance Tree - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
32/15 - Critical - Matt Morgan
33/15 - Space Dogs - Martin Parr
34/15 - 1989 - Val McDermid

 

[nogojones]

1/45 Ken MacLeod - The Human Front
2/45 Edward Bunker - Death Row Breakout
3/45 Ian Bone - Bash the Rich
4/45 Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking
5/45 Julia Nicholls - Revolutionary Thought After the Paris Commune, 1871-1885
6/45 Sarah Jaffe - Work Won't Love You Back
7/45 Ann Leckie - Ancillary Sword
8/45 David Graeber & David Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything
9/45 Ellen Meiksins Wood - Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy
10/45 Hunter S. Thompson - The Rum Diary
11/45 Ann Leckie - Ancillary Mercy
12/45 David Graeber - Debt: The First 5,000 Years
13/45 Russell Hoban -Riddley Walker
14/45 The Invisible Committee - The Coming Insurrection
15/45 Assata Shakur - Assata: An Autobiography
16/45 Dan Evans - A Nation of Shopkeepers
17/45 Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
18/45 Nicola Griffith - Ammonite
19/45 Kim Stanley Robinson - New York 2140
20/45 Ali Smith - Autumn
21/45 David Harvey - A Brief History of Neoliberalism
22/45 Homer (Trans E.V. Rieu) - The Odyssey
23/45 Maxim Gorky - Creatures That Once Were Men
24/45 Jasmin Herstov - Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism
25/45 Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun
26/45 Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle
27/45 Anne Fine - Diary of a Killer Cat
28/45 Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
29/45 A. M. Gittlitz - I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism
30/45 Sheila Rowbotham & Jeffrey Weeks - Socialism and the New Life: The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis
31/45 Ann Leckie - Provenance
32/45 Vicky Osterweil - In Defense of Looting: A Riotous History of Uncivil Action
33/45 Joan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I Mean
34/45 Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban
35/45 Voltaire - Selected works of [Thinkers Library -1935]
36/45 Catherine Nixey - The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
37/45 John Fante - Ask the Dust
38/45 K.J. Parker - Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City
39/45 Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States
40/45 Margaret Atwood - The Testaments

41/45 Joan Didion - Blue Nights
Not sure what I think about this one. It's about the death of her daughter and the writing is very good, but it's interspersed with what I find quite funny vignettes of her lovey lifestyle. Parties with directors, Patty Smith singing songs for her, holidays in San Tropez and the greatest of all of all her bestie, comrade Dame Vanessa Redgrave, not only sharing holidays, but playing her in her Broadway play about the death of her husband!

 

[imposs1904]

1/36 Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go by George P. Pelecanos
2/36 Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook
3/36 How To Rob An Armored Car by Iain Levison (ReRead)
4/36 The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook
5/36 The Arsenal Stadium Mystery by Leonard Gribble
6/36 No. 17 by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
7/36 My Rock 'n' Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
8/36 The Man Who Came Uptown by George P. Pelecanos
9/36 Good Behavior by Donald E. Westlake
10/36 The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake
11/36 Drowned Hopes by Donald E. Westlake
12/36 Quick Change by Jay Cronley
13/36 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Inside Story of the Legendary 1970 World Cup by Andrew Downie
14/36 Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr
15/36 Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle
16/36 Fletch by Gregory McDonald
17/36 Fletch Won by Gregory McDonald
18/36 120, rue de la Gare by Léo Malet
19/36 Bellies and Bullseyes: The Outrageous True Story of Darts by Sid Waddell (ReRead)
20/36 Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused by Melissa Maerz
21/36 For the Love of Willie by Agnes Owens
22/36 Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa (Reread)
23/36 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
24/36 Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party by Michael Cragg
25/36 Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
26/36 Maigret Sets a Trap by Georges Simenon
27/36 One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
28/36 Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories by Allan Jones
29/36 A Prefect's Uncle by P. G. Wodehouse
30/36 Raymond Carver : an oral biography by Sam Halpert
31/36 Never Stop: How Ange Postecoglou Brought the Fire Back to Celtic by Hamish Carton
32/36 Psychocandy by Paula Mejia
33/36 Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
34/36 Unhappy-Go-Lucky by Ian Pattison
35/36 The Shoe by Gordon Legge (Reread)
36/36 The Storytellers One by Roger Mansfield
37/36 Norwood by Charles Portis
38/36 Born to struggle by May Hobbs
39/36 Brian Eno’s Another Green World by Geeta Dayal
40/36 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Reread)
41/36 To Die in June by Alan Parks
42/36 Wire’s Pink Flag by Wilson Neate
43/36 Bloody January by Alan Parks (Audiobook)

44/36 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa: Script (and Scrapped) by Steve Coogan, Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons, Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham

 

[hitmouse]

1/45 - Katherine Angel - Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again (re-read)
2/45 - Martin Lux - Anti-Fascist (re-read)
3/45 - Hannah Kent - Burial Rites
4/45 - Margaret Atwood - The Robber Bride (re-read)
5/45 EP Thompson - The Making of the English Working Class
6/45 Henry James - The Princess Casamassima
7/45 Nigel Flanagan - Our Trade Unions: What comes next after the summer of 2022?
8/45 Katy Hays - The Cloisters
9/45 John Darnielle - Devil House
10/45 JoAnn Wypijewski - What We Don't Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life
11/45 Jen Calleja - Vehicle
12/45 Cedric Robinson - Black Marxism
13/45 John Darnielle - Universal Harvester (re-read)
14/45 Simon Reynolds - Rip It Up and Start Again (re-read)
15/45 Anonymous - Appel/Call plus a critique
16/45 Emily St. John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility
17/45 DD Johnston - Disnaeland
18/45 Milan Kundera - Laughable Loves (re-read)
19/45 WEB DuBois - Darkwater
20/45 George Saunders - Liberation Day
21/45 Sheila Rowbotham - Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties
22/45 Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller - Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
23/45 Ralph Edney - The Adventures of Lazarus Lamb
24/45 Ralph Edney - Lazarus Lamb and the Riddle of the Sphincter
25/45 Anonymous - Total Liberation
26/45 adrienne maree brown - We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
27/45 David Peace - Tokyo Year Zero
28/45 Jamie Stewart - Anything That Moves
29/45 Pear Nuallak - Pearls From Their Mouth
30/45 Emma Warren - Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through The Dancefloor
31/45 Katherine Angel - Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell
32/45 Hao Ren, Zhongjin Li, and Eli Friedman (eds) - China on Strike
33/45 Kai Cheng Thom - I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
34/45 Richard Fariña - Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

35/45 Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford - Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South

This one is really really good. One of the best anarchist books I've read in a while. I quite like insurrectionist stuff when it's intelligent and ambitious, which sadly doesn't always describe a lot of insurrectionary anarchist writing, but this really fits the bill. There's a chapter on North Carolina's Lowry gang which feels a bit like a swashbuckling cowboy adventure (or whatever cowboys did instead of swashbuckling, rooting tooting or whatever) but not problematic; the chapter on on miners' rebellions against the convict lease system in Tennessee is just great; the chapter on women striking in the Southern textile industry applies a proper ultraleft critique of unions to a bit of history I'd never read about before; the chapter on urban rebellions of the 60s is really interesting in challenging the traditional "peaceful civil rights movement in the South, then violent riots and black power in the cities later on" narrative, and is even bold enough to have a critique of the BPP, and so on... just a great practical history book. Full marks for their choice of epigrams as well, possibly the only book to have chapter-opening quotes from both Flannery O'Connor and Dead Prez, as well as plenty of Walter Benjamin.

36/45 Amor Towles - Rules of Civility (re-read)

A better read the second time round, I thought. A little bit lightweight but not too lightweight. People trying to make it in New York high society in the 1930s, it's no F. Scott Fitzgerald but it's also not dumb enough that I feel insulted on Fitzgerald's behalf for Towles stepping on his terrain.

Probably going to read Rosa Luxemburg on the mass strike next.

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Ruth Rendell - Tigerlilly's Orchids (re-read)
2/52 - Shehan Karunatilaka - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
3/52 - Val McDermid - 1989
4/52 - Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land
5/52 - Ann Patchett - Commonwealth
6/52 - Peter James - Picture You Dead
7/52 - Donal Ryan - From a Low and Quiet Sea
8/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Deep Water
9/52 - Ian McEwan - Lessons
10/52 - Robert Galbraith - The Ink Back Heart
11/52 - Kent Haruf - The Tie That Binds (re-read)
12/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Sleeping and The Dead
13/52 - Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures
14/52 - Liu Cixin - The Three-Body Problem
15/52 - Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
16/52 - Delia Owens - Where the Crawdads Sing
17/52 - Paula Hawkins - Into the Water
18/52 - William Boyd - The Romantic
19/52 - Doris Lessing - The Fifth Child
20/52 - Katy Hays - The Cloisters
21/52 - Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist
22/52 - Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne (re-read)
23/52 - Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
24/52 - Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet
25/52 - Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety
26/52 - Denise Mina - Rizzio
27/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
28/52 - Elly Griffiths - The House at Sea's End
29/52 - Stephen King - Nightmares and Dreamscapes
30/52 - Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
31/52 - Clare Chambers - Learning to Swim
32/52 - Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses
33/52 - Candice Carty-Williams - People Person
34/52 - Donal Ryan - The Queen of Dirt Island
35/52 - Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
36/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Heron's Cry
37/52 - Claire Keegan - Foster
38/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Fever Tree and other stories
39/52 - Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
40/52 - Clare Chambers - A Dry Spell
41/52 - Dennis Lehane - Small Mercies
42/52 - Sarah Waters - The Paying Guests
43/52 - Celeste Ng - Our Missing Hearts
44/52 - Sebastian Barry - Old God's Time

45/52 - Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
46/52 - Margaret Atwood - My Evil Mother

 

[belboid]

1 - Noviolet Bulawayo - Glory
2 - Alan Garner - Treacle Walker
3 - Joe Thomas - White Riot (Book 1 of the United Kingdom trilogy)
4 - Robert Edric - My Own Worst Enemy
5 - Cynthia Cruz - The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
6 - David Graeber & David Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
7 - Joe Thomas - Bent
8 - Harry Harrison - Dreaming in Yellow the story of the DiY sound system
9 - Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman's Union
10 - Bob Dylan - The Philosophy of Modern Song
11 - Gary Younge - Who Are We? How identity politics took over the world.
12 Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
13 Virginia Woolf - A Rooms of One's Own
14 - Iain Reid - We Spread
15 - Pat Nevin - Football and How to Survive It
16 - Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads: a New History of the World
17 - Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
18 - Hamid Ismailov - The Devil's Dance
19 - Karin Smirnoff - The Girl in the Eagle’s Talon
20 - Gary Younge - Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
21 - Christopher Marlowe - Tamburlaine the Great, parts I & II

22/30 - Muriel Spark - The Public Image

The book from which the band took their name. A cracker.

23/30 - James Morrison - The Left Behind

An in-depth, academic, analysis of the history and use of the term. Very interesting and useful, if excessively academic. I don't really need telling that a reference to 'Ken Loach's films' was an 'inter-textual reference to the films of Ken Loach.'

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Ruth Rendell - Tigerlilly's Orchids (re-read)
2/52 - Shehan Karunatilaka - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
3/52 - Val McDermid - 1989
4/52 - Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land
5/52 - Ann Patchett - Commonwealth
6/52 - Peter James - Picture You Dead
7/52 - Donal Ryan - From a Low and Quiet Sea
8/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Deep Water
9/52 - Ian McEwan - Lessons
10/52 - Robert Galbraith - The Ink Back Heart
11/52 - Kent Haruf - The Tie That Binds (re-read)
12/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Sleeping and The Dead
13/52 - Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures
14/52 - Liu Cixin - The Three-Body Problem
15/52 - Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
16/52 - Delia Owens - Where the Crawdads Sing
17/52 - Paula Hawkins - Into the Water
18/52 - William Boyd - The Romantic
19/52 - Doris Lessing - The Fifth Child
20/52 - Katy Hays - The Cloisters
21/52 - Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist
22/52 - Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne (re-read)
23/52 - Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
24/52 - Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet
25/52 - Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety
26/52 - Denise Mina - Rizzio
27/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
28/52 - Elly Griffiths - The House at Sea's End
29/52 - Stephen King - Nightmares and Dreamscapes
30/52 - Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
31/52 - Clare Chambers - Learning to Swim
32/52 - Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses
33/52 - Candice Carty-Williams - People Person
34/52 - Donal Ryan - The Queen of Dirt Island
35/52 - Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
36/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Heron's Cry
37/52 - Claire Keegan - Foster
38/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Fever Tree and other stories
39/52 - Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
40/52 - Clare Chambers - A Dry Spell
41/52 - Dennis Lehane - Small Mercies
42/52 - Sarah Waters - The Paying Guests
43/52 - Celeste Ng - Our Missing Hearts
44/52 - Sebastian Barry - Old God's Time
45/52 - Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
46/52 - Margaret Atwood - My Evil Mother

47/52 - Barbara Vine - No Night is Too Long (re-read)

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. 'The Death of Mrs. Westaway" - Ruth Ware
2. "The Paris Apartment" - Lucy Foley
3. "Force of Nature" - Jane Harper
4. "Eight Ghosts: The English Herirage Book of New Ghost Stories"
5. "The Decagon House Murders" - Yukito Ayatsuji.
6. "The Four Legendary Kingdoms" - Matthew Reilly
7. "Girl A" - Abigail Dean
8. "What Lies Between Us" - John Marrs
9 "The Three Secret Cities" - Matthew Reilly
10. "Quantam Radio" - A.J. Riddle
11. "All That Lives" - James Oswald
12. "A Heart Full of Headstones" - Ian Rankin
13. "Keep It In The Family" - John Marrs
14. "The Last Passenger" - Will Dean
15. "Dark Matter" - Blake Crouch
16. "The Perfect Wife" - J.P. Delaney
17. "Cold People" - Tom Rob Smith
18. "Daggers Drawn" ed. by Maxim Jakubowski - compilation of short stories by various crime writers.
19. "A Litter of Bones" - JD Kirk
20. "Thicker than Water" JD Kirk
21. "The Furies" - John Connolly
22."Bloody January" - Alan Parks

23. "Deep Storm" - Lincoln Childs. Turgid and a bit dull

 

[colbhoy]

1/9 - The Outsider, A History of the Goalkeeper by Jonathan Wilson
2/9 - In the Middle of Middle America by David B Lyons
3/9 - The Promise by Robert Crais
4/9 - Down River by John Hart
5/9 - A Shilling for Candles by Josephine Tay
6/9 - Uniquely Celtic, the Soul and the Spirit by Frank Rafters
7/9 - The Wanted by Robert Crais
8/9 - Tripwire by Lee Child
9/9 - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
10/9 - Police by Jo Nesbo

 

[newme]

1 Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
2 Paddle your own Canoe - Nick Offerman
3 Where the Deer and Antelope Play - Nick Offerman
4 The Greatest Love Story Ever Told - Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally

have to start backfilling this properly

 

[Me76]

hc - hard copy
dl - dens library
k - kindle
g - google

1/50 Saturday, Ian McEwan - hc
2/50 East of Eden, John Steinbeck - dl
3/50 Sweet Sorrow, David Nicholls - k
4/50 Game of Thrones, George RR Martin - k
5/50 The Black Kids, Christina Hammonds Reed - k
6/50 A Clash of Kings, George RR Martin - g
7/50 My Wife's Secrets, Wendy Owens - k
8/50 Wahala, Nikki May - k
9/50 A Storm of Swords part 1, George RR Martin - k
10/50 Girl in Trouble, Stacey Claflin - k
11/50 Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
12/50 A Storm of Swords part 2, George RR Martin - k
13/50 This Book Belongs To, Nick Levy - k
14/50 Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney - dl
15/50 Valentine, Elizabeth Wetmore - dl
16/50 Alone, Robert J Crane - k
17/50 To Speak for the , Paul Levine - k
18/50 Good Girl Bad, S A McEwan- k
19/50 In Every Mirror She's Black, Lola Alinmade Akerstrom - k
20/50 What Happens in New York, Kristin Adams - k
21/50 Other Parents, Sarah Stovell - k
22/50 Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin - dl
23/50 Throne of Deceit, Richard Fierce and pdmac - k
24/50 Under the Dome, Stephen King - hc
25/50 The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates - dl
26/50 Holly, Stephen King - g
27/50 The Truth About Her, Annie Taylor - k
28/50 How I Magically Messed Up my Life in Four Freaking Days, Megan O'Russell - g
29/50 Dig Two Graves, Keith Nixon - k
30/50 The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barker - dl
31/50 The Amazing Grace Adams, Fran Littlewood - dl

 

[Fozzie Bear]

15/29 Jack Common - Revolt Against An 'Age of Plenty'

Sharp working class writing and observation from the 1930s.

 

[newme]

1 A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2 The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5 The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6 The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7 The Valley of Fear - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8 His Last Bow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
11 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
12 Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
13 The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams and others
14 Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
15 Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
16 Paddle your own Canoe - Nick Offerman
17 Where the Deer and Antelope Play - Nick Offerman
18 The Greatest Love Story Ever Told - Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
19 Mort - Terry Pratchett

 

[pseudonarcissus]

22/27 The Story of the Night – Colm Tóibin

It’s a long time since I read an AIDS novel…but felt a bit unconvincing. I also have the distinct impression Mr. Tóibin has never been to Buenos Aires, where the book is set. It feels a bit disloyal saying this about such an esteemed gay author.

21/27 A Problem in Greek Ethics - John Addington Symonds
20/27 The Double – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
19/27 In Youth is Pleasure – Denton Welch
18/27 Candide - Voltaire
17/27 The New Life – Tom Crewe
16/27 The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi (re-read)
15/27 Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
14/27 Jane Ayre - Charlotte Bronte
13/27 The Tiergarten Tales - Paolo G Grossi
12/27 My Ear to his Heart - Hanif Kureisi
11/27 Voyage in the Dark - Jean Rhys
10/27 God's Children Are Little Broken Things - Arinze Ifeakandu
9/27 Cox's Navy: Salvaging the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow 1924-1931 - Tony Booth
8/27 The Go Between - L. P Hartley
7/27 Sucking Feijoas - Jeffrey Buchanan
6/27 Singin' and Swingin' & Getting Merry like Christmas - Maya Angelou
5/27 The Rings of Saturn - W G Sebald
4/27 Maurice - E M Forster (re-read)
3/27 The Last Word - Hanif Kureishi
2/27 Alec - William di Canzio
1/27 Quichotte - Salman Rushdie

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. 'The Death of Mrs. Westaway" - Ruth Ware
2. "The Paris Apartment" - Lucy Foley
3. "Force of Nature" - Jane Harper
4. "Eight Ghosts: The English Herirage Book of New Ghost Stories"
5. "The Decagon House Murders" - Yukito Ayatsuji.
6. "The Four Legendary Kingdoms" - Matthew Reilly
7. "Girl A" - Abigail Dean
8. "What Lies Between Us" - John Marrs
9 "The Three Secret Cities" - Matthew Reilly
10. "Quantam Radio" - A.J. Riddle
11. "All That Lives" - James Oswald
12. "A Heart Full of Headstones" - Ian Rankin
13. "Keep It In The Family" - John Marrs
14. "The Last Passenger" - Will Dean
15. "Dark Matter" - Blake Crouch
16. "The Perfect Wife" - J.P. Delaney
17. "Cold People" - Tom Rob Smith
18. "Daggers Drawn" ed. by Maxim Jakubowski - compilation of short stories by various crime writers.
19. "A Litter of Bones" - JD Kirk
20. "Thicker than Water" JD Kirk
21. "The Furies" - John Connolly
22."Bloody January" - Alan Parks
23. "Deep Storm" - Lincoln Childs

24. "The Pact" - Sharon Bolton. Devoured this and really enjoyed it!

 

[hitmouse]

15/29 Jack Common - Revolt Against An 'Age of Plenty'

Sharp working class writing and observation from the 1930s.

Ah, so that's where that name comes from!

1/45 - Katherine Angel - Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again (re-read)
2/45 - Martin Lux - Anti-Fascist (re-read)
3/45 - Hannah Kent - Burial Rites
4/45 - Margaret Atwood - The Robber Bride (re-read)
5/45 EP Thompson - The Making of the English Working Class
6/45 Henry James - The Princess Casamassima
7/45 Nigel Flanagan - Our Trade Unions: What comes next after the summer of 2022?
8/45 Katy Hays - The Cloisters
9/45 John Darnielle - Devil House
10/45 JoAnn Wypijewski - What We Don't Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life
11/45 Jen Calleja - Vehicle
12/45 Cedric Robinson - Black Marxism
13/45 John Darnielle - Universal Harvester (re-read)
14/45 Simon Reynolds - Rip It Up and Start Again (re-read)
15/45 Anonymous - Appel/Call plus a critique
16/45 Emily St. John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility
17/45 DD Johnston - Disnaeland
18/45 Milan Kundera - Laughable Loves (re-read)
19/45 WEB DuBois - Darkwater
20/45 George Saunders - Liberation Day
21/45 Sheila Rowbotham - Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties
22/45 Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller - Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
23/45 Ralph Edney - The Adventures of Lazarus Lamb
24/45 Ralph Edney - Lazarus Lamb and the Riddle of the Sphincter
25/45 Anonymous - Total Liberation
26/45 adrienne maree brown - We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
27/45 David Peace - Tokyo Year Zero
28/45 Jamie Stewart - Anything That Moves
29/45 Pear Nuallak - Pearls From Their Mouth
30/45 Emma Warren - Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through The Dancefloor
31/45 Katherine Angel - Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell
32/45 Hao Ren, Zhongjin Li, and Eli Friedman (eds) - China on Strike
33/45 Kai Cheng Thom - I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
34/45 Richard Fariña - Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
35/45 Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford - Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
36/45 Amor Towles - Rules of Civility (re-read)

37/45 Rosa Luxemburg - The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions

It's very 1906. Now working my way through Milan Kundera - Life is Elswhere (re-read). Another re-read prompted by someone else I know reading it, which led to me digging out my copy.

 

[shifting gears]

1/30 - Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker
2/30 - Philip K. Dick - A Maze of Death
3/30 - William McIlvanney & Ian Rankin - The Dark Remains
4/30 - David Keenan - For the Good Times
5/30 - George Orwell - Animal Farm
6/30 - Michael Smith - The Giro Playboy
7/30 - Cosey Fanni Tutti - Re-Sisters
8/30 - Andrew Holleran - Dancer from the Dance
9/30 - Stanislaw Lem - Solaris
10/30 - Trevor Horn - Adventures in Modern Recording
11/30 - David Keenan - This is Memorial Device (audiobook)
12/30 - Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
13/30 - Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
14/30 - William Gibson - Neuromancer
15/30 - John Steinbeck - The Moon is Down
16/30 - James Joyce - Dubliners
17/30 - Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
18/30 - Michael Moorcock - Behold the Man
19/30 - Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake
20/30 - Louise Kennedy - Trespasses

21/30 - Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
22/30 - William Gibson - Virtual Light

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 Joe Abercrombie - Half a King
2/45 Joe Abercrombie - Half the World
3/45 - George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
4/45 Jack London - The Call of the Wild
5/45 Joe Abercrombie - Half a War
6/45 Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
7/45 Mark Cooper - Later... with Jools Holland: 30 years of music, magic and mayhem
8/45 Michael Molcher - I Am the Law: how Judge Dredd predicted our future
9/45 Sarah J Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses
10/45 David Graeber - The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
11/45 Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
12/45 Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Poirot #1)
13/45 Mark Galeotti - A Short History of Russia: how the world's largest country invented itself, from the pagans to Putin
14/45 Anne Applebaum - Twilight of Democracy: the seductive lure of authoritarianism
15/45 Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
16/45 Daniel Gordis - Israel: a concise history of a nation reborn
17/45 Alan Garner - The Stone Book Quartet
18/45 E M Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread
19/45 Kate DiCamillo - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
20/45 Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times
21/45 A A Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh
22/45 Marcus Baram - Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man
23/45 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
24/45 Gil Scott-Heron - The Vulture
25/45 Adrian Tchaikovsky - Dogs of War
26/45 Andy Beckett - When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
27/45 J G Ballard - High-Rise
28/45 Randall Munroe (xkcd comics) - What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
29/45 Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
30/45 H C McNeile ("Sapper") - Bulldog Drummond
31/45 Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
32/45 Karen Lloyd - The Gathering Tide: a Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay
33/45 Malcolm Bradbury - The History Man
34/45 Alex Garland - The Beach
35/45 Sarah Tolmie - All the Horses of Iceland
36/45 J G Ballard - The Drowned World
37/45 Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay
38/45 Larry McMurtry - Sin Killer
39/45 Ariel Anderssen - Playing to Lose: How A Jehovah's Witness Became a Submissive BDSM Model
40/45 Terry Pratchett - Maskerade
41/45 J B Priestley - An Inspector Calls
42/45 Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess
43/45 P G Wodehouse - Psmith in the City

44/45 Carlie Sorosiak - My Life as a Cat

 

[imposs1904]

1/36 Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go by George P. Pelecanos
2/36 Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Hook
3/36 How To Rob An Armored Car by Iain Levison (ReRead)
4/36 The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Hook
5/36 The Arsenal Stadium Mystery by Leonard Gribble
6/36 No. 17 by Joseph Jefferson Farjeon
7/36 My Rock 'n' Roll Friend by Tracey Thorn
8/36 The Man Who Came Uptown by George P. Pelecanos
9/36 Good Behavior by Donald E. Westlake
10/36 The Hot Rock by Donald E. Westlake
11/36 Drowned Hopes by Donald E. Westlake
12/36 Quick Change by Jay Cronley
13/36 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Inside Story of the Legendary 1970 World Cup by Andrew Downie
14/36 Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton by John Lahr
15/36 Thatcher Stole My Trousers by Alexei Sayle
16/36 Fletch by Gregory McDonald
17/36 Fletch Won by Gregory McDonald
18/36 120, rue de la Gare by Léo Malet
19/36 Bellies and Bullseyes: The Outrageous True Story of Darts by Sid Waddell (ReRead)
20/36 Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused by Melissa Maerz
21/36 For the Love of Willie by Agnes Owens
22/36 Who Killed Palomino Molero? by Mario Vargas Llosa (Reread)
23/36 Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
24/36 Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party by Michael Cragg
25/36 Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa
26/36 Maigret Sets a Trap by Georges Simenon
27/36 One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters
28/36 Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories by Allan Jones
29/36 A Prefect's Uncle by P. G. Wodehouse
30/36 Raymond Carver : an oral biography by Sam Halpert
31/36 Never Stop: How Ange Postecoglou Brought the Fire Back to Celtic by Hamish Carton
32/36 Psychocandy by Paula Mejia
33/36 Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver
34/36 Unhappy-Go-Lucky by Ian Pattison
35/36 The Shoe by Gordon Legge (Reread)
36/36 The Storytellers One by Roger Mansfield
37/36 Norwood by Charles Portis
38/36 Born to struggle by May Hobbs
39/36 Brian Eno’s Another Green World by Geeta Dayal
40/36 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Reread)
41/36 To Die in June by Alan Parks
42/36 Wire’s Pink Flag by Wilson Neate
43/36 Bloody January by Alan Parks (Audiobook)
44/36 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa: Script (and Scrapped) by Steve Coogan, Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons, Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham

45/36 The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (Audiobook)

 

[Me76]

hc - hard copy
dl - dens library
k - kindle
g - google

1/50 Saturday, Ian McEwan - hc
2/50 East of Eden, John Steinbeck - dl
3/50 Sweet Sorrow, David Nicholls - k
4/50 Game of Thrones, George RR Martin - k
5/50 The Black Kids, Christina Hammonds Reed - k
6/50 A Clash of Kings, George RR Martin - g
7/50 My Wife's Secrets, Wendy Owens - k
8/50 Wahala, Nikki May - k
9/50 A Storm of Swords part 1, George RR Martin - k
10/50 Girl in Trouble, Stacey Claflin - k
11/50 Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
12/50 A Storm of Swords part 2, George RR Martin - k
13/50 This Book Belongs To, Nick Levy - k
14/50 Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney - dl
15/50 Valentine, Elizabeth Wetmore - dl
16/50 Alone, Robert J Crane - k
17/50 To Speak for the , Paul Levine - k
18/50 Good Girl Bad, S A McEwan- k
19/50 In Every Mirror She's Black, Lola Alinmade Akerstrom - k
20/50 What Happens in New York, Kristin Adams - k
21/50 Other Parents, Sarah Stovell - k
22/50 Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin - dl
23/50 Throne of Deceit, Richard Fierce and pdmac - k
24/50 Under the Dome, Stephen King - hc
25/50 The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates - dl
26/50 Holly, Stephen King - g
27/50 The Truth About Her, Annie Taylor - k
28/50 How I Magically Messed Up my Life in Four Freaking Days, Megan O'Russell - g
29/50 Dig Two Graves, Keith Nixon - k
30/50 The Hellbound Heart, Clive Barker - dl
31/50 The Amazing Grace Adams, Fran Littlewood - dl
31/50 Game Over, Adele Parks - hc
32/50 Junk, Melvin Burgess- dl
32/50 Time of my Life, Mary Frame - k

 

[Winot]

1/29 The London Problem - Jack Brown
2/29 Ephemeron - Fiona Benson
3/29 NW - Zadie Smith
4/29 Spring - Ali Smith
5/29 A History of the Bible - John Barton
6/29 Falconer - John Cheever
7/29 Diary of an MP’s Wife - Sasha Swire
8/29 Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban (reread)
9/29 Purity and Danger - Mary Douglas
10/29 Einstein’s Monsters - Martin Amis
11/29 Greenvoe - George Mackay Brown
12/29 Material World - Ed Conway
13/29 Journey by Moonlight - Antal Szerb
14/29 Reginald McKenna: Statesman among Financiers, 1916-1943 - Martin Farr
15/29 The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before its Triumph - Albert O. Hirschman
16/29 Milkman - Anna Burns
17/29 The Ballard of Peckham Rye - Muriel Spark
18/29 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
19/29 The Kids - Hannah Lowe

20/29 Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life - Emily A. Austin

Short readable practical guide to Epicurus by a professor of philosophy.

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/45 Joe Abercrombie - Half a King
2/45 Joe Abercrombie - Half the World
3/45 - George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
4/45 Jack London - The Call of the Wild
5/45 Joe Abercrombie - Half a War
6/45 Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
7/45 Mark Cooper - Later... with Jools Holland: 30 years of music, magic and mayhem
8/45 Michael Molcher - I Am the Law: how Judge Dredd predicted our future
9/45 Sarah J Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses
10/45 David Graeber - The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
11/45 Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
12/45 Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Poirot #1)
13/45 Mark Galeotti - A Short History of Russia: how the world's largest country invented itself, from the pagans to Putin
14/45 Anne Applebaum - Twilight of Democracy: the seductive lure of authoritarianism
15/45 Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
16/45 Daniel Gordis - Israel: a concise history of a nation reborn
17/45 Alan Garner - The Stone Book Quartet
18/45 E M Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread
19/45 Kate DiCamillo - The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
20/45 Terry Pratchett - Interesting Times
21/45 A A Milne - Winnie-the-Pooh
22/45 Marcus Baram - Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man
23/45 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
24/45 Gil Scott-Heron - The Vulture
25/45 Adrian Tchaikovsky - Dogs of War
26/45 Andy Beckett - When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
27/45 J G Ballard - High-Rise
28/45 Randall Munroe (xkcd comics) - What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
29/45 Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
30/45 H C McNeile ("Sapper") - Bulldog Drummond
31/45 Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success
32/45 Karen Lloyd - The Gathering Tide: a Journey Around the Edgelands of Morecambe Bay
33/45 Malcolm Bradbury - The History Man
34/45 Alex Garland - The Beach
35/45 Sarah Tolmie - All the Horses of Iceland
36/45 J G Ballard - The Drowned World
37/45 Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay
38/45 Larry McMurtry - Sin Killer
39/45 Ariel Anderssen - Playing to Lose: How A Jehovah's Witness Became a Submissive BDSM Model
40/45 Terry Pratchett - Maskerade
41/45 J B Priestley - An Inspector Calls
42/45 Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess
43/45 P G Wodehouse - Psmith in the City
44/45 Carlie Sorosiak - My Life as a Cat

45/45 Neil Carter - Cycling and the British: a Modern History

 

[hitmouse]

1/45 - Katherine Angel - Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again (re-read)
2/45 - Martin Lux - Anti-Fascist (re-read)
3/45 - Hannah Kent - Burial Rites
4/45 - Margaret Atwood - The Robber Bride (re-read)
5/45 EP Thompson - The Making of the English Working Class
6/45 Henry James - The Princess Casamassima
7/45 Nigel Flanagan - Our Trade Unions: What comes next after the summer of 2022?
8/45 Katy Hays - The Cloisters
9/45 John Darnielle - Devil House
10/45 JoAnn Wypijewski - What We Don't Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life
11/45 Jen Calleja - Vehicle
12/45 Cedric Robinson - Black Marxism
13/45 John Darnielle - Universal Harvester (re-read)
14/45 Simon Reynolds - Rip It Up and Start Again (re-read)
15/45 Anonymous - Appel/Call plus a critique
16/45 Emily St. John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility
17/45 DD Johnston - Disnaeland
18/45 Milan Kundera - Laughable Loves (re-read)
19/45 WEB DuBois - Darkwater
20/45 George Saunders - Liberation Day
21/45 Sheila Rowbotham - Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties
22/45 Huw Lemmey & Ben Miller - Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
23/45 Ralph Edney - The Adventures of Lazarus Lamb
24/45 Ralph Edney - Lazarus Lamb and the Riddle of the Sphincter
25/45 Anonymous - Total Liberation
26/45 adrienne maree brown - We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice
27/45 David Peace - Tokyo Year Zero
28/45 Jamie Stewart - Anything That Moves
29/45 Pear Nuallak - Pearls From Their Mouth
30/45 Emma Warren - Dance Your Way Home: A Journey Through The Dancefloor
31/45 Katherine Angel - Unmastered: A Book on Desire, Most Difficult to Tell
32/45 Hao Ren, Zhongjin Li, and Eli Friedman (eds) - China on Strike
33/45 Kai Cheng Thom - I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
34/45 Richard Fariña - Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
35/45 Neal Shirley and Saralee Stafford - Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Insurrection in the American South
36/45 Amor Towles - Rules of Civility (re-read)
37/45 Rosa Luxemburg - The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions

38/45 Milan Kundera - Life is Elswhere (re-read)

Turns out Czech existentialism holds up pretty well on second reading, at least imo. A lot about 1968 and so on that I'd completely forgotten, and interesting about poetry. Now reading Colson Whitehead - Sag Harbor. It's a bit more straightforward than I'd expect from him, but it's very good.

 

[BoatieBird]

1/52 - Ruth Rendell - Tigerlilly's Orchids (re-read)
2/52 - Shehan Karunatilaka - The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
3/52 - Val McDermid - 1989
4/52 - Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land
5/52 - Ann Patchett - Commonwealth
6/52 - Peter James - Picture You Dead
7/52 - Donal Ryan - From a Low and Quiet Sea
8/52 - Patricia Highsmith - Deep Water
9/52 - Ian McEwan - Lessons
10/52 - Robert Galbraith - The Ink Back Heart
11/52 - Kent Haruf - The Tie That Binds (re-read)
12/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Sleeping and The Dead
13/52 - Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures
14/52 - Liu Cixin - The Three-Body Problem
15/52 - Lionel Shriver - We Need to Talk About Kevin
16/52 - Delia Owens - Where the Crawdads Sing
17/52 - Paula Hawkins - Into the Water
18/52 - William Boyd - The Romantic
19/52 - Doris Lessing - The Fifth Child
20/52 - Katy Hays - The Cloisters
21/52 - Doris Lessing - The Good Terrorist
22/52 - Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne (re-read)
23/52 - Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows
24/52 - Barbara Vine - King Solomon's Carpet
25/52 - Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety
26/52 - Denise Mina - Rizzio
27/52 - Margaret Atwood - The Blind Assassin
28/52 - Elly Griffiths - The House at Sea's End
29/52 - Stephen King - Nightmares and Dreamscapes
30/52 - Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five
31/52 - Clare Chambers - Learning to Swim
32/52 - Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses
33/52 - Candice Carty-Williams - People Person
34/52 - Donal Ryan - The Queen of Dirt Island
35/52 - Ann Patchett - Bel Canto
36/52 - Ann Cleeves - The Heron's Cry
37/52 - Claire Keegan - Foster
38/52 - Ruth Rendell - The Fever Tree and other stories
39/52 - Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
40/52 - Clare Chambers - A Dry Spell
41/52 - Dennis Lehane - Small Mercies
42/52 - Sarah Waters - The Paying Guests
43/52 - Celeste Ng - Our Missing Hearts
44/52 - Sebastian Barry - Old God's Time
45/52 - Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
46/52 - Margaret Atwood - My Evil Mother
47/52 - Barbara Vine - No Night is Too Long (re-read)

48/52 - Bob Mortimer - The Satsuma Complex
49/52 - Stephen King - Holly

 

[krtek a houby]

1/19 The Danger Tree... Olivia Manning
2/19 The Battle Lost and Won... Olivia Manning
3/19 The Sum of Things... Olivia Manning
4/19 Darth Plagueis... James Luceno
5/19 Slaine Warrior's Dawn... Pat Mills
6/19 Slaine Time Killer... Pat Mills
7/19 Slaine The King... Pat Mills
8/19 Slaine The Horned God... Pat Mills
9/19 Slaine Demon Killer... Pat Mills
10/19 Slaine Lord of Misrule... Pat Mills
11/19 Cyclops... Clive Cussler
12/19 Dune... Frank Herbert
13/19 The Valparaiso Voyage... Dermot Bolger
14/19 Slaine The Treasures of Britain... Pat Mills
15/19 Diamonds Are Forever... Ian Fleming
16/19 Dune Messiah... Frank Herbert
17/19 Killers of the Flower Moon... David Grann

18/19 Children of Dune ... Frank Herbert
19/19 Slaine The Grail War ... Pat Mills
20/19 The Rose Rent ... Ellis Peters
21/19 The Night Land ... William Hope Hodgson
22/19 Valerian and Laureline - The City of Shifting Waters ... Mezieres and Christin
23/19 Slaine Lord of the Beasts - Pat Mills

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. 'The Death of Mrs. Westaway" - Ruth Ware
2. "The Paris Apartment" - Lucy Foley
3. "Force of Nature" - Jane Harper
4. "Eight Ghosts: The English Herirage Book of New Ghost Stories"
5. "The Decagon House Murders" - Yukito Ayatsuji.
6. "The Four Legendary Kingdoms" - Matthew Reilly
7. "Girl A" - Abigail Dean
8. "What Lies Between Us" - John Marrs
9 "The Three Secret Cities" - Matthew Reilly
10. "Quantam Radio" - A.J. Riddle
11. "All That Lives" - James Oswald
12. "A Heart Full of Headstones" - Ian Rankin
13. "Keep It In The Family" - John Marrs
14. "The Last Passenger" - Will Dean
15. "Dark Matter" - Blake Crouch
16. "The Perfect Wife" - J.P. Delaney
17. "Cold People" - Tom Rob Smith
18. "Daggers Drawn" ed. by Maxim Jakubowski - compilation of short stories by various crime writers.
19. "A Litter of Bones" - JD Kirk
20. "Thicker than Water" JD Kirk
21. "The Furies" - John Connolly
22."Bloody January" - Alan Parks
23. "Deep Storm" - Lincoln Childs
24. "The Pact" - Sharon Bolton

25."The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels" - Janice Hallett. Excellent, I realy enjoy her books

 

[newme]

1 A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
2 The Sign of Four - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
3 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
4 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
5 The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
6 The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
7 The Valley of Fear - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8 His Last Bow - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9 The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
10 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
11 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
12 Long Dark Teatime of the Soul - Douglas Adams
13 The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams and others
14 Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
15 Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
16 Paddle your own Canoe - Nick Offerman
17 Where the Deer and Antelope Play - Nick Offerman
18 The Greatest Love Story Ever Told - Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally
19 Mort - Terry Pratchett
20 Every Tool's a Hammer - Adam Savage
21 The Ickabog - JK Rowling

 

[belboid]

1 - Noviolet Bulawayo - Glory
2 - Alan Garner - Treacle Walker
3 - Joe Thomas - White Riot (Book 1 of the United Kingdom trilogy)
4 - Robert Edric - My Own Worst Enemy
5 - Cynthia Cruz - The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
6 - David Graeber & David Wengrow - The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
7 - Joe Thomas - Bent
8 - Harry Harrison - Dreaming in Yellow the story of the DiY sound system
9 - Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policeman's Union
10 - Bob Dylan - The Philosophy of Modern Song
11 - Gary Younge - Who Are We? How identity politics took over the world.
12 Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
13 Virginia Woolf - A Rooms of One's Own
14 - Iain Reid - We Spread
15 - Pat Nevin - Football and How to Survive It
16 - Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads: a New History of the World
17 - Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
18 - Hamid Ismailov - The Devil's Dance
19 - Karin Smirnoff - The Girl in the Eagle’s Talon
20 - Gary Younge - Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
21 - Christopher Marlowe - Tamburlaine the Great, parts I & II
22 - Muriel Spark - The Public Image
23 - James Morrison - The Left Behind

24/30 - Virginia Woolf - Death of the Moth & other essays regarding authors and how to write mostly. Illuminating even when I didn't know who she was talking about.

25/30 - Gary Shteyngart - Absurdistan picked up for a £1 and read alternately with essays from the above, which was great but very dry so needed something light in-between. This is light and a perfectly fine satire about how fucked ex-soviet Asia is, as well as sex and gangsterism. Didn't set the world alight.

5/6ths of the way through my target 5/6ths of the way through the year. I should make it.