the strictly come reading 2023 reading challenge thread

[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

24/19 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
25/19 Harpo Speaks! - Harpo Marx (re-read)
26/19 The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
27/19 The Punishment of Gaza - Gideon Levy
28/19 The Time Machine - HG Wells
29/19 Doctor Who and the Daleks - David Whitaker (re-read)

 

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1/39 - All About Me! - Mel Brooks
2/39 - In The City: A Celebration of London Music - Paul Du Noyer
3/39 - Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell
4/39 - Room to Dream - David Lynch & Kristine McKenna
5/39 - Let's Do It - The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood - Jasper Rees
6/39 - Faith, Hope and Carnage - Nick Cave & Sean O'Hagan
7/39 - Inside The Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York's Legendary Hotel - Sherill Tippins
8/39 - Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978 - 1984 - Simon Reynolds
9/39 - Mordew - Alex Pheby
10/39 - Angels with Dirty Faces: The Footballing History of Argentina - Jonathan Wilson
11/39 - Raymond Chandler: A Biography - Tom Hiney **
12/39 - Charles Bukowski - Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life - Howard Sounes **
13/39 - The Captain Is Out To Lunch And The Sailors Have Taken Over The Ship - Charles Bukowski / Robert Crum **
14/39 - Hollywood - Charles Bukowski **
15/39 - Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski **
16/39 - The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the many lives of Slaughter House - Five - Tom Roston
17/39 - Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense - Jenny Uglow
18/39 - The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando - William J. Mann
19/39 - Testament of Youth - Vera Brittain
20/39 - Song Noir : Tom Waits and the Spirit of Los Angeles - Alex Harvey
21/39 - A Life of my Own - Claire Tomalin
22/39 - George Best: Immortal - Duncan Hamilton
23/39 - Romantic Outlaws - The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley - Charlotte Gordon
24/39 - Good Pop Bad Pop - Jarvis Cocker
25/39 - The Yellow House - Van Gogh, Gaugin and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles - Martin Gayford
26/39 - Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut **
27/39 - Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut**
28/39 - Warhol - A Life as Art - Blake Gopnik

** Re- Read

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Here's the 2023 summary:

775 books read (754 in 2022)
30 people contributed to the thread

by author by number of books:

by book:


Again, it's an eclectic mix. It's good to see some new young writers in the list this year with William Shakespeare and Voltaire, as well as books from the Marx brothers, Karl and Groucho. A good sprint finish from Sue Townsend with some Adrain Mole books I'd never heard of. Onwards to 2024!

Thanks to everyone who contributed. I've bought a few books based on this thread.

 

[krtek a houby]

Here's the 2023 summary:

775 books read (754 in 2022)
30 people contributed to the thread

by author by number of books:
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by book:
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Again, it's an eclectic mix. It's good to see some new young writers in the list this year with William Shakespeare and Voltaire, as well as books from the Marx brothers, Karl and Groucho.

And Harpo!

 

[Chilli.s]

pseudonarcissus Thanks for the breakdown.

Unfortunately I also read Down and out in Paris and London, but as it was a reread I forgot to add it to my list, it would have given it a joint first and Orwell would be so chuffed

 

[pseudonarcissus]

pseudonarcissus Thanks for the breakdown.

Unfortunately I also read Down and out in Paris and London, but as it was a reread I forgot to add it to my list, it would have given it a joint first and Orwell would be so chuffed

all joint 1st place books are equal, but some are more equal than others

 

[hitmouse]

all joint 1st place books are equal, but some are more equal than others

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If you're still taking requests, would also be (mildly) interested to see the "author" table by total number of reads, rather than unique books, so presumably the likes of Graeber, Hoban and Jackson would score a fair bit higher than they do currently. But only if you feel like it, not if it's going to be a pain.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

If you're still taking requests, would also be (mildly) interested to see the "author" table by total number of reads, rather than unique books, so presumably the likes of Graeber, Hoban and Jackson would score a fair bit higher than they do currently. But only if you feel like it, not if it's going to be a pain.

does this link work?

 

[PTK]

I have just finished
The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow.

A novel about how a Green New Deal may be implemented in the USA in the near future. Worth a read.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I should say, the information is shared in good faith and I do not warrant that it is correct and accept no liability for inaccuracies in the data

 

[pseudonarcissus]

I have just finished
The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow.

A novel about how a Green New Deal may be implemented in the USA in the near future. Worth a read.

stick it on the '24 thread!

 

[xenon]

01/25: The Hollow Crown - Dan jones
02/25: The Plantagenets - Dan Jones
03/25: The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
04/25: Meantime - Frankie Boyl
05/25: House of Suns - Alastair Reynolds
06/25: The Storm is Upon us - Mike Rothschild
07/25: Mixing Heavy Music - Jordan Baleriote
08/25: Light Bringer - Pierce Brown
09/25: Permutation City - Greg Egan
10/25: Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
11/25: Gangster Warlords - Yoan Grillo
12/25: Your Mind is a Terrible Thing - Hailey Piper

Quite down on previous years. Probably listening to podcasts when I would otherwise be reading. I'm not gonna set a target for 2024 but currently reading A quantum of Nightmares by Charlie Stross, which I'm very much enjoying...

 

[Signal 11]

does this link work?

It does, thanks.

337 [...] Signal 12

 

[pseudonarcissus]

It does, thanks.

ah...yes...you and your siblings, Signal 12, Signal 13....etc. Have you met Martys 21, 22, 23 etc?

sorry, Excel was trying to be too damned clever, or me too damned stupid

 

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

I don't know if it's her first or second but I've just started one of them. It's a laugh out loud book and clearly written by her. Very blunt, basic and matter of fact.
She mentions her first orgasm while walking along the street when she was 8 or 9 years old

 

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It's This Much Is True I'm reading. She says she has approx 11,800 names in her address book