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
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
29/60 Burma '44 - James Holland
30/60 The Investigator - John Sandford
31/60 Dark Angel - John Sandford

 

[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
37/50 Someday, Maybe, Onyi Nwabineli - dl
38/50 Tomorrow and Tomorrow And Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin - dl
39/50 The Know, Martina Cole - g
40/50 Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng - g

 

[inva]

1/35 Middlemarch by George Eliot
2/35 Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century: Through the Prism of Value by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts
3/35 The Temple House Vanishing by Rachel Donohue
4/35 The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction edited by Michael Emmerich, Jim Hinks & Masashi Matsuie
5/35 Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government: John Locke's Philosophy of Money by George Caffentzis
6/35 Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
7/35 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
8/35 Civilizing Money: Hume, his Monetary Project and the Scottish Enlightenment by George Caffentzis
9/35 An Untouched House by Willem Frederik Hermans
10/35 Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
11/35 Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris
12/35 Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
13/35 Exiles from European Revolutions: Refugees in Mid-Victorian England edited by Sabina Freitag
14/35 The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P by Rieko Matsuura
15/35 A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance by Claudio Pavone
16/35 Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls
17/35 Dracula by Bram Stoker
18/35 The Silent Dead by Tetsuya Honda
19/35 Lady Susan by Jane Austen
20/35 Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century by Giovanni Arrighi
21/35 This Should be Written in the Present Tense by Helle Helle
22/35 The Citadel of Weeping Pearls by Aliette de Bodard
23/35 The Invention of Art: A Cultural History by Larry Shiner
24/35 Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
25/35 The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
26/35 Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo
27/35 Carol by Patricia Highsmith
28/35 Victorian Women Writers and the Woman Question edited by Nicola Diane Thompson
29/35 Some Recent Attacks: Essays Cultural & Political by James Kelman
30/35 Mem by Bethany C. Morrow
31/35 Russia Under Yeltsin and Putin by Boris Kagarlitsky
32/35 Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
33/35 The History of the British Film 1918-1929 by Rachael Low
34/35 The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System by Henryk Grossman
35/35 Mayhem & Death by Helen McClory
36/35 White by Marie Darrieussecq
37/35 Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine
38/35 The Vanishers' Palace by Aliette de Bodard
39/35 Maigret Takes a Room by Georges Simenon
40/35 The Lodger, That Summer by Levi Huxton
41/35 Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner
42/35 Grundrisse by Karl Marx
43/35 A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
Neil Gaiman-ish fantasy set in the 20s or something which I didn't like much, to be fair I'm not a Gaiman fan either.
44/35 Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Saw this on a few end of year lists in 2022 and I like the cover so picked it up a little while back and now I got round to reading it. It's probably the last book I'll finish this year and it's nice to end with a good one. Took me a little while to get into it but the layers of longing and loss build up subtly and it ended up being really effective. Very flat tone which suits it, I liked it a lot.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

19/29 Dan McQuillan - Resisting AI: An anti-fascist approach to artificial intelligence

Packs a lot into 150 pages. AI threats are counterposed with commoning, feminism and workers councils.

 

[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
8/5 The Orkneyinga Saga
9/5 Andrea Stewart - The Bone Shard Daughter
10/5 Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea (re-read)
11/5 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Tombs of Atuan
12/5 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Farthest Shore
13/5 RHS - The Fruit Garden Displayed
14/5 Ursula K. Le Guin - Tehanu
15/5 Andrea Stewart - The Bone Shard Emperor

 

[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

37/50 Someday, Maybe, Onyi Nwabineli - dl

38/50 Tomorrow and Tomorrow And Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin - dl

39/50 The Know, Martina Cole - g

40/50 Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng - g

41/50 The Children Act, Ian McEwan- hc

42/50 The Day the Screens Went Blank, Danny Wallace - g

 

[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.

19. Ann Patchett - Bel Canto.

 

[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

21/29 Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 - Ian Black

Detailed account of the '100 years war' by former Middle East editor of the Guardian.

 

[Chilli.s]

51 Wayfaring Stranger : James Lee Burke
52 Dead in the Water : Chellel,Campbell
53 The Course of Honour : Lindsey Davis
54 Neanderthals Rediscovered : Papagianni/Morse
55 Swift Boats : Gugliotta/Yeoman/Sullaway
56 The Man Who Smiled : Henning Mankell
57 Mexico Set : Len Deighton
58 The Nix : Nathan Hill
59 The Concrete Blonde : Michael Connelly
60 Billy the Kid : Michael Wallis
61 The Sisters Brothers : Patrick deWitt
62 Fingers in the Sparkle Jar : Chris Packham
62 Vineland : Thomas Pynchon
63 Voyage to the North Star : Peter Nichols
64 Operation Mincemeat : Ben Macintyre
65 The Saboteur of Auschwitz : Colin Rushton

 

[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
26/30 - Jim Carroll - The Basketball Diaries
27/30 - Tony Pike with Matt Trollope - Mr Pikes: The Story Behind the Ibiza Legend

28/30 - Bob Mortimer - The Satsuma Complex

 

[Fozzie Bear]

20/29 Jaroslav Hasek - The Good Soldier Svejk

Brilliant First World War satire. Way too long though.

 

[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

27. "The Last Dance" - Mark Billingham. Not bad, start of a new series and it'll be interesting to see how it develops.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'll be posting the 2024 thread shortly. But as usual pls post all books finished between now and 23:59:59 on 31.12.23 here.

 

[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
21/29 Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 - Ian Black

22/29 Crush - Richard Siken

2005 poetry collection influenced by the death of his boyfriend.

 

[Pickman's model]

2024 thread here Once more unto the book dear friends: 2024 reading challenge thread

 

[brogdale]

I'm a slow reader so no PBs here, but a word for Lady Brogdale...she's on book 63 of 2023 and she's just shown me her wonderful photo gallery of all 63 front covers. She's a serious reader!

 

[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.
19. Ann Patchett - Bel Canto.

20. Mick Herron - Spook Street. Best Jackson Lamb novel yet!

 

[Fozzie Bear]

21/29 Adele Oliver - Deeping It: Colonialism, culture and criminalisation of UK Drill

A short book on this much maligned black music. Broadly great but I would have liked more on the music and less of the sociologese of “what is crime?”. Much to think about and it did make me want to check out the artists mentioned. Also: fuck the police.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

22/29 William Davis - The Happiness Industry: How the government and big business sold us well-being

Another one from the pile of cheap Verso e-books. Good overview of the history of the measurement of happiness (by psychologists, corporations etc). I was especially taken with the account of people in Sweden who physically attacked the people carrying out the first door to door surveys about how they felt. Deals with the dystopian possibilities of social media misery quite well and sensibly suggests a redeployment of resources to tackle the root issues of alienation rather than just measuring stuff.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Yes, I am on a long train ride.

 

[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
55/52 - Kent Haruf - Where You Once Belonged (re-read)
56/52 - Grace Dent - Hungry
57/52 - Elizabeth Strout - Lucy by the Sea
58/52 - Peter Swanson - The Christmas Guest

59/52 - P D James - Innocent Blood

 

[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
21/29 Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 - Ian Black
22/29 Crush - Richard Siken

23/29 We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

Very very odd American Gothic tale recounted in a matter of fact way. Reminded me of The Wasp Factory.

 

[PursuedByBears]

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
21/29 Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 - Ian Black
22/29 Crush - Richard Siken

23/29 We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

Very very odd American Gothic tale recounted in a matter of fact way. Reminded me of The Wasp Factory.

I read it earlier this month and enjoyed it; it's inspired me to reread The Wasp Factory

 

[pseudonarcissus]

28/27 Oh Miriam! – Miriam Margolyes
Her second memoire. She write like my father did, great stores but the writing isn’t great.

27/27 The Late Americans – Brandon Taylor
26/27 The Slum (O Cortiço) - Aluísio Azevedo
25/27 Filthy Animals – Brandon Taylor
24/27 The Harness Room – L. P. Hartley
23/27 Tiepolo Blue – James Cahill
22/27 The Story of the Night – Colm Tóibin
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

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I'm a slow reader so no PBs here, but a word for Lady Brogdale...she's on book 63 of 2023 and she's just shown me her wonderful photo gallery of all 63 front covers. She's a serious reader!

I think the idea is to set a target..the absolute number of books is irrelevant. There's no need top try and set a record.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Yes, I am on a long train ride.

Magic Mountain, then..the only naval architect in literature, as far as I'm aware.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I'll be posting the 2024 thread shortly. But as usual pls post all books finished between now and 23:59:59 on 31.12.23 here.

I'm going offshore own Monday, I will try and provide a final summary during the week.

 

[brogdale]

I think the idea is to set a target..the absolute number of books is irrelevant. There's no need top try and set a record.

Oh OK, I only came in here to post about how pleased LB was with her reading this year. Maybe this isn't the thread for me; apologies if I got the wrong end of the stick.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Oh OK, I only came in here to post about how pleased LB was with her reading this year. Maybe this isn't the thread for me; apologies if I got the wrong end of the stick.

Of course you’re welcome here..I was trying to say it’s not a competition to see who can read the most. 6 or 60, it doesn’t matter. I’ve just started a book recommended here..it’s wonderful. I’d never of heard of it otherwise.
The annual review just shows what an eclectic (and esoteric?) collection of books folk read. Since the preliminary summary, I see Sue Townsend has come from nowhere an may be the most read author. Adrian Mole would have loved this shit.

 

[brogdale]

Of course you’re welcome here..I was trying to say it’s not a competition to see who can read the most. 6 or 60, it doesn’t matter. I’ve just started a book recommended here..it’s wonderful. I’d never of heard of it otherwise.
The annual review just shows what an eclectic (and esoteric?) collection of books folk read. Since the preliminary summary, I see Sue Townsend has come from nowhere an may be the most read author. Adrian Mole would have loved this shit.

Nah, you're alright; think I'll stick to P&P where it's a bit friendlier and supportive.