the strictly come reading 2023 reading challenge thread

[pseudonarcissus]

27/30 - Yara Rodrigues Fowler - There Are More Things

Superb novel regarding family, sisterhood, queerness and radical politics in London and Brazil. Deffo one of my books of the year (even if it came out last year).

On the basis is this, and the following Amazon review, I’ve just bought the kindle edition

 

[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)
46/36 Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (Audiobook)

47/36 1-2-3-4: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown

 

[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
23/30 - Michael Bracewell - Unfinished Business

24/30 - Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman

 

[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)
46/36 Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (Audiobook)
47/36 1-2-3-4: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown

48/36 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend (Reread)

 

[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
35/15 - The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
36/15 - The Queen of Dirt Island - Donal Ryan

 

[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)
46/36 Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (Audiobook)
47/36 1-2-3-4: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
48/36 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend (Reread)

49/36 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (Reread)

 

[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
33/50The Serial Killer's Wife, Alice Hunter - k


34/50 The Pisces, Melissa Broder - dl
This was recommended.its a bit weird


35/50 The Couple Upstairs, Anne Girdharry - k

36/50 All Among The Barley, Melissa Harrison - dl
Lots of reviews say this is about the fact that fascism existed in the UK in the 30s. And yes, but I saw it as the story of a teenage girl with issues. I find the ending really sad.

 

[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
24/60 The Secret - Lee Child & Andrew Child
25/60 On The Rocks - Kerry J Donovan
26/60 Welcome to New London : Journeys and Encounters in the Post Olympic City - John Rogers
27/60 Vanished City : London's Lost Neighbourhoods - Tom Bolton

 

[May Kasahara]

1. Melissa Harrison - All Among The Barley.
2. Armand Marie Leroi - Mutants.
3. Karen Joy Fowler - We are all completely beside ourselves.
4. Jing-Jing Lee - How We Disappeared.
5. Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety.
6. Anita Shreve - A Wedding in December.
7. Sophie Anderson - The Thief who Sang Storms.
8. Ann Patchett - The Dutch House.
9. My Pen is the Wing of a Bird: New fiction from Afghan women.
10. Sarah Allen - What stars are made of.
11. Sarah Sands - The interior silence.
12. Steve Silberman - Neurotribes.
13. Joe R Lansdale - Rusty Puppy.
14. Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Velvet was the Night.
15. Tim Moore - Vuelta Skelter.
16. Christopher Priest - An American Story.
17. John Connelly - Every Dead Thing.

18. Caroline Criado Perez - Invisible Women.

 

[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)
46/36 Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (Audiobook)
47/36 1-2-3-4: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
48/36 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend (Reread)
49/36 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (Reread)

50/36 The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend by Sue Townsend (Reread)

I think I see a pattern developing.

 

[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)
46/36 Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (Audiobook)
47/36 1-2-3-4: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
48/36 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend (Reread)
49/36 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (Reread)
50/36 The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend by Sue Townsend (Reread)

51/36 Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians by Sue Townsend

 

[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

26: "Upgrade" - Blake Crouch. Alright, big ideas but a little cold

 

[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)
46/36 Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (Audiobook)
47/36 1-2-3-4: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
48/36 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend (Reread)
49/36 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (Reread)
50/36 The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend by Sue Townsend (Reread)
51/36 Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians by Sue Townsend

52/36 Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend (Reread)

 

[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
42/45 Tom O'Neill - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
43/45 Gywn A. Williams - When was Wales
44/45 Maureen F. McHugh - China Mountain Zhang

45/45 Kim Stanley Robinson - Ministry for the Future

 

[Signal 11]

14/10 - An Introduction to Astrobiology - (eds) Rothery, Gilmour & Sephton

 

[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 - Virginia Woolf - Death of the Moth & other essays
25 - Gary Shteyngart - Absurdistan
26 - Nick Cave - Stranger Than Kindness
27 - Yara Rodrigues Fowler - There Are More Things

28/30 - Pamela Hutchinson - The Red Shoes

BFI classic about the film of the same name. Fascinating read about the greatest film ever made.

29/30 - Nathalie Morris & Claire Smith (Eds) - The Cinema of Powell & Pressburger

A selection of essays from filmy people and associated craftsfolk about the masters.

 

[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
46/45 Paterson Joseph - The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

47/45 Francis La Flesche - The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe

 

[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
50/52 - Tim Spector - The Diet Myth
51/52 - Minette Walters - The Swift and the Harrier
52/52 - Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of The Owl

53/52 - Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

 

[iona]

1/5 Cixin Liu - Hold Up the Sky
2/5 N. K. Jemisin - The Killing Moon
3/5 Youngman: Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan (ed. Ellis Martin & Zach Ozma)
4/5 Pat Cadigan - Synners
5/5 Joseph Jenkins - The Humanure Handbook
6/5 Rosamund Young - The Secret Life of Cows
7/5 N. K. Jemisin - The City We Became

 

[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
23/30 - Michael Bracewell - Unfinished Business
24/30 - Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman

25/30 - Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

29. Classical Mythology - Elizabeth Vandiver

30. Hamburger America- George Motz

Rather like Hamburgers themselves each little story about a burger joint is delightful but after you have read 10 or 20 you want to take a long break. Good toilet book. Read a entry or two each time you poo.

 

[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
33/50The Serial Killer's Wife, Alice Hunter - k
34/50 The Pisces, Melissa Broder - dl
35/50 The Couple Upstairs, Anne Girdharry - k

36/50 All Among The Barley, Melissa Harrison - dl
Liked this. Although I disagree with what all the reviews say its about.

37/50 Someday, Maybe, Onyi Nwabineli - dl
This is amazing. It's about someone who has lost her husband to suicide so be careful if you might be triggered, but it is heartwarming, funny, sad, and all the things. All about the importance of friends and family but also of being your own person too. Very recommended.

 

[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
46/45 Paterson Joseph - The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
47/45 Francis La Flesche - The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe

48/45 James O'Brien - How They Broke Britain

 

[Fozzie Bear]

17/29 Adam Theron-Lee Rensch - No Home for You Here: A Memoir of Class and Culture

Another book in the same series* as "Hinterland" by Phil Neel which was a favourite of mine over the last few years. This is a bit more melancholic but still bang on - the author tries in vain to escape his trailer park upbringing to become middle class. Around him small town America and a lot of the people in it decay. He is defiantly class first and anti-identity politics (but not aggressively). It's really well written - like Hinterland it reads more like a novel or travelogue in places.

*"Field Notes" edited by Paul Mattick and published by Brooklyn Rail / Reaktion.

 

[yield]

1. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow.
2. Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. Starts off in London during the V-2 bombings
3. Ammonite by Nicola Griffith. nogojones read it, thought it looking interesting.
4. Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie.

5. A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor. A catalogue of looting.

6. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Funny biting satire.

7. The Forager's Calendar by John Wright. Useful and well illustrated, loves seaweed.

8. Dune by Frank Herbert. Reread in anticipation of the second part of the film. Lots of nuance got lost in the script.

 

[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
42/45 Tom O'Neill - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
43/45 Gywn A. Williams - When was Wales
44/45 Maureen F. McHugh - China Mountain Zhang
45/45 Kim Stanley Robinson - Ministry for the Future

46/45 Margaret Atwood - In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

 

[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)
46/36 Confessions of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell (Audiobook)
47/36 1-2-3-4: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
48/36 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend (Reread)
49/36 The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend (Reread)
50/36 The True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole, Margaret Hilda Roberts and Susan Lilian Townsend by Sue Townsend (Reread)
51/36 Adrian Mole and the Small Amphibians by Sue Townsend
52/36 Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years by Sue Townsend (Reread)

53/36 Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley

 

[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
46/45 Paterson Joseph - The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho
47/45 Francis La Flesche - The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe
48/45 James O'Brien - How They Broke Britain

49/45 Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

 

[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
24/60 The Secret - Lee Child & Andrew Child
25/60 On The Rocks - Kerry J Donovan
26/60 Welcome to New London : Journeys and Encounters in the Post Olympic City - John Rogers
27/60 Vanished City : London's Lost Neighbourhoods - Tom Bolton
28/60 The Cauldron - Zeno

First audio book ! Listened via a pod cast . The book is out of print & £100+ second hand . Enjoyed it.

 

[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
50/52 - Tim Spector - The Diet Myth
51/52 - Minette Walters - The Swift and the Harrier
52/52 - Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of The Owl
53/52 - Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

54/52 - Richard Osman - The Last Devil to Die