the wonderful world of reading 2020 reading challenge thread

[neonwilderness]

1/24 The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
2/24 Excalibur - Bernard Cornwell
3/24 Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident - Donnie Eichar
4/24 Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch
5/24 The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
6/24 The Man With No Face - Peter May
7/24 The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell

 

[billy_bob]

*1/40 Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
2/40 Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
3/40 Hans Rosling - Factfulness
4/40 Alastair Bonnett - Off the Map
5/40 Anna Burns - The Milkman
6/40 Charles Fernyhough - Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory
7/40 Julia Leigh - The Hunter
8/40 John Higgs - William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever
9/40 Ammon Shea - Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
10/40 Donald D. Cohen - Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
*11/40 Daniel Rachel - Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge
12/40 Shalom Auslander - Hope: A Tragedy
13/40 Reinhard Kleist - Nick Cave: Mercy on Me
* 14/40 James Joyce - Ulysses
15/40 Shirley Jackson - Dark Tales
16/40 Charles Fernyhough, ed. - Others
17/40 Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends

18/40 Hannah Fry - Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine

Insomnia does wonders for getting through my 'unread' pile...


* my target this year is to read more long books. * = 500+ pages.

 

[StanleyBlack]

1/20? Dickens, Charles (2004) David Copperfield. Revised/Penguin Classics edition. Paperback edition. London: Penguin Books. (0140439447) Finished 12/4/20

Four months in and I've managed one! Admittedly it is quite long but it's not that long. I started off the year reading, Heinz Rein's Berlin finale, but after seeing the new film adaptation of David Copperfield I decided to give it a go and well... it took me nearly three months to read it.

 

[nogojones]

1/50 Paul Lafargue - The Evolution of Property
2/50 Michio Kaku - Physics of the Impossible
3/50 Issac Asimov - Foundation
4/50 Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Life and Others
5/50 Philip K. Dick - Martian Time-Slip
6/50 Margret Atwood - The Penelopiad
7/50 Emma Goldman - Living My Life Vol.2
8/50 Jeremy Varon - Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, The Red Army Faction and Revolutionary Violence in the 60's and 70s
9/50 Lina Dencik, Oliver Leistert (Eds.) - Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Control and Emancipation
10/50 Chester Himes - Blind Man With a Pistol
11/50 Takashi Hiraide - The Guest Cat
12/50 Alice Goffman - On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
13/50 Neal Stephenson - Zodiac
14/50 Will Self - My Idea of Fun

15/50 Yottam Ottolenghi - Plenty More
16/50 Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures With Extremists

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/50 Hilary Hinds - A Cultural History of Twin Beds
2/50 Alan Garner - Boneland
3/50 James Herriot - All Things Bright and Beautiful
4/50 Philip Pullman - The Secret Commonwealth
5/50 Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Terror
6/50 China Mieville - Kraken
7/50 Terry Pratchett - Pyramids
8/50 Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!
9/50 Adam Kay - This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
10/50 Alastair Reynolds - Revenger
11/50 Brett Anderson - Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn
12/50 Andrzej Sapkowski - The Last Wish
13/50 James Herriot - All Things Wise and Wonderful
14/50 Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
15/50 Dodie Smith - The Hundred and One Dalmatians

16/50 Frances Hardinge - Twilight Robbery

 

[Shirl]

1/40 50 Ways to Wear a Scarf - Lauren Friedman. Yes I know, but it's a hard back book and I read it cover to cover.
2/40 The house on the Strand - Daphne Du Maurier
3/40 Afternoon of a Good Woman - Nina Bawden
4/40 Familia Passions - Nina Bawden
5/40 Spiderweb - Penelope Lively - 5 books in 10 days is a lot for me but I've spent an awful lot of time hanging around in hospitals + nothing much on the telly.
6/40 A Little Love, A Little Learning - Nina Bawden
7/40 The Day That Never Comes - Caimh McDonnell
8/40 In Search of the Rainbow's End: Inside the White House Farm Murders - Colin Caffell
9/40 A Woman of My Age - Nina Bawden
10/40 Let's Kill Uncle - Rohan O'Grady
11/40 The Wych Elm - Tana French
12/40 An English Murder - Cyril Hare
13/40 Transcription - Kate Atkinson
14/40 Christine Falls - Benjamin Black
15/40 The Silver Swan - Benjamin Black
16/40 The Secret Guests - Benjamin Black
17/40 The Book of Evidence - John Banville
18/40 Disclaimer - Renee Knight
19/40 The Secretary - Renee Knight
20/40 The Rumour - Lesley Kara. A bit rubbish tbh.
21/40 Ralph's Party - Lisa Jewell
22/40 The Good, The Bad and the Little Bit Stupid. - Marina Lewycka. I enjoyed the The Short History of Tractors... and thought I'd enjoy this but it didn't do anything for me, too much farce.
23/40 Our Little Cruelties - Liz Nugent
24/40 Slow Horses: Jackson Lamb - Mick Herron
25/40 The Stranger You Know - Jane Casey

 

[May Kasahara]

1. ed. Dan Coxon - Tales from the Shadow Booth vol.3.
2. The Lonely Crowd issue 9
3. Ted Chiang - Stories of Your Lives and Others
4. Tade Thompson - The Rosewater Insurrection

5. Tade Thompson - The Rosewater Redemption. A thrilling and suitably wonky conclusion to the trilogy, most enjoyable all round.

 

[BoatieBird]

1/70 - Shirley Jackson - The Bird's Nest
2/70 - Annie Proulx - Accordion Crimes (re-read)
3/70 - Liz Nugent - Unravelling Oliver
4/70 - Elizabeth Strout - Anything is Possible
5/70 - Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones
6/70 - Ruth Rendell - Make Death Love Me (re-read)
7/70 - Michael Farris Smith - Rivers
8/70 - Malcolm Pryce - Last Tango in Aberystwyth
9/70 - Stephen King - Elevation
10/70 - Liz Nugent - Lying in Wait
11/70 - Donald Ray Pollock - Knockemstiff
12/70 - John Irving - Avenue of Mysteries
13/70 - Liz Nugent - Skin Deep
14/70 - Annie Proulx - The Shipping News (re-read)
15/70 - Val McDermid - How The Dead Speak
16/70 - Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley
17/70 - Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends
18/70 - John Green - An Abundance of Katherines
19/70 - Minette Walters - The Shape of Snakes
20/70 - Kazuo Ishiguro - Nocturnes
21/70 - Stephen King - Under The Dome (re-read)

22/70 - Denise Mina - Conviction

 

[kropotkin]

1. Suttree - Cormac Mccarthy
2. The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
3. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
4. Exhalation - Ted Chiang
5. The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
6. Birds Without Wings - Louis de Berniere
7. The Peripheral - William Gibson
8. Proxima Rising - Brandon Q. Morris
9. She Came to Slay: the Life and Times of Harriet Tubman - Erica Armstrong Dunbar
10. Radicalized - Corey Doctorow
11. American Dirt - Janine Cummins
12. Energy and Civilisation--a History - Vaclav Smil
13. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
15. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - Hilary Mantel
16. Lampedusa - Steven Price

 

[chilango]

1/100: We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us - Hadas Weiss
2/100: Derrida on Deconstruction - Barry Stocker
3/100: Derrida - Julian Wolfreys
4/100: Event - Slavoj Zizek
5/100: The Social Photo - Nathan Jorgensen
6/100: The Emancipated Spectator - Jacques Ranciere
7/100: Deleuze and Guattari, Politics and Education - Matthew Carlin & Jason Wallin (ed.)
8/100: Free Exchange - Pierre Bourdieu & Hans Haacke
9/100: Is Equality Fair? - (Edited by) Tom Hampson & Jemima Olchawski
10/100: We are the crisis of capital - John Holloway.
11/100: For a critique of the political economy of the sign - Jean Baudrillard.
12/100:A Bear Grylls Adventure 5: The River Challenge - Bear Grylls
13/100: Thomas Picketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction - Stephan Kaufmann & Ingo Stutzle.
14/100: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
15/100: The State Nobility - Pierre Bourdieu
16/100: Language & Symbolic Power - Pierre Bourdieu
17/100: Weight of the World - Pierre Bourdieu
18/100: Class Choreographies - Kenway
19/100: Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities - Cucchiara
20/100: The Misinterpellated Subject - JR Martel
21/100: School Choice - JR Garcia
22/100: A brief history of neoliberalism - David Harvey
23/100: the new spirit of capitalism - Luc boltanski
24/100- Station 11 - Emily St. John Mandel.
25/100: Randomize - Andy Weir
26/100: Fragments - Jean Baudrillard
27/100: Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture - Pierre Bourdieu
28/100: The Field of Cultural Production - Pierre Bourdieu
29/100: The Consumer Society - Jean Baudrillard
30/100: Distinctions in the Flesh, Social Class and the Embodiment of Inequality - Dieter Vanderbroeck
31/100: Miseducation. inequality, Education and the Working Class - Dianne Reay
32/100: Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/50 Hilary Hinds - A Cultural History of Twin Beds
2/50 Alan Garner - Boneland
3/50 James Herriot - All Things Bright and Beautiful
4/50 Philip Pullman - The Secret Commonwealth
5/50 Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Terror
6/50 China Mieville - Kraken
7/50 Terry Pratchett - Pyramids
8/50 Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!
9/50 Adam Kay - This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
10/50 Alastair Reynolds - Revenger
11/50 Brett Anderson - Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn
12/50 Andrzej Sapkowski - The Last Wish
13/50 James Herriot - All Things Wise and Wonderful
14/50 Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
15/50 Dodie Smith - The Hundred and One Dalmatians
16/50 Frances Hardinge - Twilight Robbery

17/50 Terry Pratchett - Eric

 

[Winot]

1/19 Normal People - Sally Rooney
2/19 Prospero's America: John Winthrop, Jr., Alchemy, and the Creation of New England Culture, 1606-1676 - Walter Woodward
3/19 Colonial America (A Very Short Introduction) - Alan Taylor
4/19 Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney
5/19 The Reformation (The Penguin History of the Church 3) - Owen Chadwick
6/19 The Countenance Divine - Michael Hughes

 

[marty21]

1/75 The Girl Who Lived Twice - David Lagercrantz
2/75 Sweet Sorrow - David Nicholls
3/75 Mortal Prey - John Sandford
4/75 The Night Fire - Michael Connelly
5/75 Borderlands - L J Ross
6/75 Three Weeks to say goodbye - C J Box
7/75 Blue Heaven - C J Box
8/75 Hard Shot - J B Turner
9/75 Surviving The Evacuation: There We Stood - Frank Tayell
10/75 Back of Beyond - C J Box
11/75 The Secret War : Spies,Codes & Guerrillas 1939-45 . Max Hastings
12/75 Sunset Express - Robert Crais
13/75 Requiem - J B Turner
*****

14/75 Reckoning - J B Turner

 

[D'wards]

1/36 - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
2/36 - Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (reread)
3/36 - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
4/36 - Me by Elton John
5/36 - Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
6/36 - Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
7/36 - Amazon Adventure by Willard Price
8/36 - Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
9/36 - Gotta get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television by Louis Theroux
10/36 - South Sea Adventure by Willard Price (reread)
11/36 - Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
12/36 - Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy
13/36 - When the Green Woods Laugh by H.E. Bates

 

[billy_bob]

*1/40 Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
2/40 Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
3/40 Hans Rosling - Factfulness
4/40 Alastair Bonnett - Off the Map
5/40 Anna Burns - The Milkman
6/40 Charles Fernyhough - Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory
7/40 Julia Leigh - The Hunter
8/40 John Higgs - William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever
9/40 Ammon Shea - Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
10/40 Donald D. Cohen - Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
*11/40 Daniel Rachel - Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge
12/40 Shalom Auslander - Hope: A Tragedy
13/40 Reinhard Kleist - Nick Cave: Mercy on Me
* 14/40 James Joyce - Ulysses
15/40 Shirley Jackson - Dark Tales
16/40 Charles Fernyhough, ed. - Others
17/40 Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends
18/40 Hannah Fry - Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine

19/20 Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends

What is it everyone's seeing in this? I mean, it wasn't badly written. I just thought it was meh, full of characters who were boring at best. Seems to belong to that tradition of novels by people like Roth, Updike, Kureishi etc. which people describe as 'searingly honest' just because they go on and on about the characters' tedious, bourgeois extramarital affairs - the only variation being that it's told from the woman's perspective. I'm buggered if I'm reading the more recent one on the strength of that.

Sorry, rant over

 

[Winot]

*1/40 Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
2/40 Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
3/40 Hans Rosling - Factfulness
4/40 Alastair Bonnett - Off the Map
5/40 Anna Burns - The Milkman
6/40 Charles Fernyhough - Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory
7/40 Julia Leigh - The Hunter
8/40 John Higgs - William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever
9/40 Ammon Shea - Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
10/40 Donald D. Cohen - Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
*11/40 Daniel Rachel - Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge
12/40 Shalom Auslander - Hope: A Tragedy
13/40 Reinhard Kleist - Nick Cave: Mercy on Me
* 14/40 James Joyce - Ulysses
15/40 Shirley Jackson - Dark Tales
16/40 Charles Fernyhough, ed. - Others
17/40 Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends
18/40 Hannah Fry - Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine

19/20 Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends

What is it everyone's seeing in this? I mean, it wasn't badly written. I just thought it was meh, full of characters who were boring at best. Seems to belong to that tradition of novels by people like Roth, Updike, Kureishi etc. which people describe as 'searingly honest' just because they go on and on about the characters' tedious, bourgeois extramarital affairs - the only variation being that it's told from the woman's perspective. I'm buggered if I'm reading the more recent one on the strength of that.

Sorry, rant over

I read the second one first and it’s much better than the first imo. However if you hated the first don’t bother with the second.

For me it’s all about the writing style. There’s a knockout metaphor on every page. And a lucent honesty about the nuance of character motivation.

 

[nogojones]

19/20 Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends

What is it everyone's seeing in this? I mean, it wasn't badly written. I just thought it was meh, full of characters who were boring at best. Seems to belong to that tradition of novels by people like Roth, Updike, Kureishi etc. which people describe as 'searingly honest' just because they go on and on about the characters' tedious, bourgeois extramarital affairs - the only variation being that it's told from the woman's perspective. I'm buggered if I'm reading the more recent one on the strength of that.

Funny you should say this. I really enjoyed the book, but I honestly can't say why. The characters were pretty boring, nothing much happened, but at the same time I was gripped by it and only wanted the best for them.

 

[chilango]

1/100: We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us - Hadas Weiss
2/100: Derrida on Deconstruction - Barry Stocker
3/100: Derrida - Julian Wolfreys
4/100: Event - Slavoj Zizek
5/100: The Social Photo - Nathan Jorgensen
6/100: The Emancipated Spectator - Jacques Ranciere
7/100: Deleuze and Guattari, Politics and Education - Matthew Carlin & Jason Wallin (ed.)
8/100: Free Exchange - Pierre Bourdieu & Hans Haacke
9/100: Is Equality Fair? - (Edited by) Tom Hampson & Jemima Olchawski
10/100: We are the crisis of capital - John Holloway.
11/100: For a critique of the political economy of the sign - Jean Baudrillard.
12/100:A Bear Grylls Adventure 5: The River Challenge - Bear Grylls
13/100: Thomas Picketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction - Stephan Kaufmann & Ingo Stutzle.
14/100: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
15/100: The State Nobility - Pierre Bourdieu
16/100: Language & Symbolic Power - Pierre Bourdieu
17/100: Weight of the World - Pierre Bourdieu
18/100: Class Choreographies - Kenway
19/100: Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities - Cucchiara
20/100: The Misinterpellated Subject - JR Martel
21/100: School Choice - JR Garcia
22/100: A brief history of neoliberalism - David Harvey
23/100: the new spirit of capitalism - Luc boltanski
24/100- Station 11 - Emily St. John Mandel.
25/100: Randomize - Andy Weir
26/100: Fragments - Jean Baudrillard
27/100: Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture - Pierre Bourdieu
28/100: The Field of Cultural Production - Pierre Bourdieu
29/100: The Consumer Society - Jean Baudrillard
30/100: Distinctions in the Flesh, Social Class and the Embodiment of Inequality - Dieter Vanderbroeck
31/100: Miseducation. inequality, Education and the Working Class - Dianne Reay
32/100: Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
33/100: Distinction - Pierre Bourdieu

Phew. Obviously it's his key work. Chock full of good stuff. But goodness it's dense. Anyway, I'm done with Bourdieu now for a while I hope!

 

[billy_bob]

I read the second one first and it’s much better than the first imo. However if you hated the first don’t bother with the second.

For me it’s all about the writing style. There’s a knockout metaphor on every page. And a lucent honesty about the nuance of character motivation.

Funny you should say this. I really enjoyed the book, but I honestly can't say why. The characters were pretty boring, nothing much happened, but at the same time I was gripped by it and only wanted the best for them.

Thanks for replying. Normally I'm fine with not much plot going on, but in its place I need some depth and intensity of language, setting or character, and this one just didn't deliver any of that for me. Never mind!

 

[gaijingirl]

1. Jo Nesbo: Knife
2. Bernadine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other
3. Bernadine Evaristo: Mr Loverman
4. Jeanine Cummins: American Dirt
5. Sayaka Murata: Convenience Store Woman
6. Candice Carty-Williams: Queenie
7. Hanya Yanagihara: A Little Life

 

[chilango]

1/100: We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us - Hadas Weiss
2/100: Derrida on Deconstruction - Barry Stocker
3/100: Derrida - Julian Wolfreys
4/100: Event - Slavoj Zizek
5/100: The Social Photo - Nathan Jorgensen
6/100: The Emancipated Spectator - Jacques Ranciere
7/100: Deleuze and Guattari, Politics and Education - Matthew Carlin & Jason Wallin (ed.)
8/100: Free Exchange - Pierre Bourdieu & Hans Haacke
9/100: Is Equality Fair? - (Edited by) Tom Hampson & Jemima Olchawski
10/100: We are the crisis of capital - John Holloway.
11/100: For a critique of the political economy of the sign - Jean Baudrillard.
12/100:A Bear Grylls Adventure 5: The River Challenge - Bear Grylls
13/100: Thomas Picketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction - Stephan Kaufmann & Ingo Stutzle.
14/100: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
15/100: The State Nobility - Pierre Bourdieu
16/100: Language & Symbolic Power - Pierre Bourdieu
17/100: Weight of the World - Pierre Bourdieu
18/100: Class Choreographies - Kenway
19/100: Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities - Cucchiara
20/100: The Misinterpellated Subject - JR Martel
21/100: School Choice - JR Garcia
22/100: A brief history of neoliberalism - David Harvey
23/100: the new spirit of capitalism - Luc boltanski
24/100- Station 11 - Emily St. John Mandel.
25/100: Randomize - Andy Weir
26/100: Fragments - Jean Baudrillard
27/100: Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture - Pierre Bourdieu
28/100: The Field of Cultural Production - Pierre Bourdieu
29/100: The Consumer Society - Jean Baudrillard
30/100: Distinctions in the Flesh, Social Class and the Embodiment of Inequality - Dieter Vanderbroeck
31/100: Miseducation. inequality, Education and the Working Class - Dianne Reay
32/100: Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
33/100: Distinction - Pierre Bourdieu
34/100: Introducing Fascism. A Graphic Guide - Stuart Hood

 

[Hollis]

1/24 A Thousand Spendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
2/24 Coming Up for Air - George Orwell
3/24 Burma '44: The Battle That Turned Britain's War in the East- James Holland

 

[MsHopper]

1/50 Bloody Brilliant Women - Cathy Newman
2/50 A Perfectly Good Man - Patrick Gale
3/50 All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
4/50 I Invited her in - Adele Parks
5/50 Wakenhyrst - Michelle Pave
6/50 NW - Zadie Smith
7/50 Conversations with friends - Sally Rooney
8/50 Digging to America - Anne Tyler

9/50 Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood

 

[Shirl]

1/40 50 Ways to Wear a Scarf - Lauren Friedman. Yes I know, but it's a hard back book and I read it cover to cover.
2/40 The house on the Strand - Daphne Du Maurier
3/40 Afternoon of a Good Woman - Nina Bawden
4/40 Familia Passions - Nina Bawden
5/40 Spiderweb - Penelope Lively - 5 books in 10 days is a lot for me but I've spent an awful lot of time hanging around in hospitals + nothing much on the telly.
6/40 A Little Love, A Little Learning - Nina Bawden
7/40 The Day That Never Comes - Caimh McDonnell
8/40 In Search of the Rainbow's End: Inside the White House Farm Murders - Colin Caffell
9/40 A Woman of My Age - Nina Bawden
10/40 Let's Kill Uncle - Rohan O'Grady
11/40 The Wych Elm - Tana French
12/40 An English Murder - Cyril Hare
13/40 Transcription - Kate Atkinson
14/40 Christine Falls - Benjamin Black
15/40 The Silver Swan - Benjamin Black
16/40 The Secret Guests - Benjamin Black
17/40 The Book of Evidence - John Banville
18/40 Disclaimer - Renee Knight
19/40 The Secretary - Renee Knight
20/40 The Rumour - Lesley Kara. A bit rubbish tbh.
21/40 Ralph's Party - Lisa Jewell
22/40 The Good, The Bad and the Little Bit Stupid. - Marina Lewycka. I enjoyed the The Short History of Tractors... and thought I'd enjoy this but it didn't do anything for me, too much farce.
23/40 Our Little Cruelties - Liz Nugent
24/40 Slow Horses: Jackson Lamb - Mick Herron
25/40 The Stranger You Know - Jane Casey
26/40 Down Cemetery Road - Mick Herron

 

[Me76]

L - library
Ld - my sister's library

1/50 The Gallows Pole, Benjamin Myers - Ld
2/50 You, Caroline Kepnes - Ld
3/50 Women Within, Anne Leigh Parrish
4/50 Life After Life, Kate Atkinson - Ld
5/50 Creed, Celina Grace
6/50 The Dilemma, B A Paris
7/50 Drive, James Sallis - L
8/50 Waking Lions, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen - Ld
9/50 The Surrogate, Louise Jensen
10/50 The Note, Zoe Folbigg
11/50 Divergent, Veronica Roth - L
12/50 In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware - ld
13/50 Our Stop, Laura Jane Williams
14/50 Dangerous Lady, Martina Cole
15/50 The Babysitter, Sheryl Browne

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/50 Hilary Hinds - A Cultural History of Twin Beds
2/50 Alan Garner - Boneland
3/50 James Herriot - All Things Bright and Beautiful
4/50 Philip Pullman - The Secret Commonwealth
5/50 Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Terror
6/50 China Mieville - Kraken
7/50 Terry Pratchett - Pyramids
8/50 Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards!
9/50 Adam Kay - This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
10/50 Alastair Reynolds - Revenger
11/50 Brett Anderson - Afternoons With the Blinds Drawn
12/50 Andrzej Sapkowski - The Last Wish
13/50 James Herriot - All Things Wise and Wonderful
14/50 Anna Sewell - Black Beauty
15/50 Dodie Smith - The Hundred and One Dalmatians
16/50 Frances Hardinge - Twilight Robbery
17/50 Terry Pratchett - Eric

18/50 Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows

 

[Shirl]

1/40 50 Ways to Wear a Scarf - Lauren Friedman. Yes I know, but it's a hard back book and I read it cover to cover.
2/40 The house on the Strand - Daphne Du Maurier
3/40 Afternoon of a Good Woman - Nina Bawden
4/40 Familia Passions - Nina Bawden
5/40 Spiderweb - Penelope Lively - 5 books in 10 days is a lot for me but I've spent an awful lot of time hanging around in hospitals + nothing much on the telly.
6/40 A Little Love, A Little Learning - Nina Bawden
7/40 The Day That Never Comes - Caimh McDonnell
8/40 In Search of the Rainbow's End: Inside the White House Farm Murders - Colin Caffell
9/40 A Woman of My Age - Nina Bawden
10/40 Let's Kill Uncle - Rohan O'Grady
11/40 The Wych Elm - Tana French
12/40 An English Murder - Cyril Hare
13/40 Transcription - Kate Atkinson
14/40 Christine Falls - Benjamin Black
15/40 The Silver Swan - Benjamin Black
16/40 The Secret Guests - Benjamin Black
17/40 The Book of Evidence - John Banville
18/40 Disclaimer - Renee Knight
19/40 The Secretary - Renee Knight
20/40 The Rumour - Lesley Kara. A bit rubbish tbh.
21/40 Ralph's Party - Lisa Jewell
22/40 The Good, The Bad and the Little Bit Stupid. - Marina Lewycka. I enjoyed the The Short History of Tractors... and thought I'd enjoy this but it didn't do anything for me, too much farce.
23/40 Our Little Cruelties - Liz Nugent
24/40 Slow Horses: Jackson Lamb - Mick Herron
25/40 The Stranger You Know - Jane Casey
26/40 Down Cemetery Road - Mick Herron
27/40 The Other Wife - Claire McGowan

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[billy_bob]

*1/40 Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
2/40 Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Scarlet Letter
3/40 Hans Rosling - Factfulness
4/40 Alastair Bonnett - Off the Map
5/40 Anna Burns - The Milkman
6/40 Charles Fernyhough - Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory
7/40 Julia Leigh - The Hunter
8/40 John Higgs - William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever
9/40 Ammon Shea - Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation
10/40 Donald D. Cohen - Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America
*11/40 Daniel Rachel - Walls Come Tumbling Down: The Music and Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge
12/40 Shalom Auslander - Hope: A Tragedy
13/40 Reinhard Kleist - Nick Cave: Mercy on Me
* 14/40 James Joyce - Ulysses
15/40 Shirley Jackson - Dark Tales
16/40 Charles Fernyhough, ed. - Others
17/40 Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends
18/40 Hannah Fry - Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the Machine
19/40 Sally Rooney - Conversations with Friends

20/40 Holly Muller - My Own Dear Brother

* = 500+ pages (my target this year was to read more longer books - width over quantity : )

 

[kropotkin]

1. Suttree - Cormac Mccarthy
2. The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
3. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
4. Exhalation - Ted Chiang
5. The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
6. Birds Without Wings - Louis de Berniere
7. The Peripheral - William Gibson
8. Proxima Rising - Brandon Q. Morris
9. She Came to Slay: the Life and Times of Harriet Tubman - Erica Armstrong Dunbar
10. Radicalized - Corey Doctorow
11. American Dirt - Janine Cummins
12. Energy and Civilisation--a History - Vaclav Smil
13. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
15. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - Hilary Mantel
16. Lampedusa - Steven Price
17. I am Legend - Richard Matheson
18. Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff

 

[chilango]

1/100: We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us - Hadas Weiss
2/100: Derrida on Deconstruction - Barry Stocker
3/100: Derrida - Julian Wolfreys
4/100: Event - Slavoj Zizek
5/100: The Social Photo - Nathan Jorgensen
6/100: The Emancipated Spectator - Jacques Ranciere
7/100: Deleuze and Guattari, Politics and Education - Matthew Carlin & Jason Wallin (ed.)
8/100: Free Exchange - Pierre Bourdieu & Hans Haacke
9/100: Is Equality Fair? - (Edited by) Tom Hampson & Jemima Olchawski
10/100: We are the crisis of capital - John Holloway.
11/100: For a critique of the political economy of the sign - Jean Baudrillard.
12/100:A Bear Grylls Adventure 5: The River Challenge - Bear Grylls
13/100: Thomas Picketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction - Stephan Kaufmann & Ingo Stutzle.
14/100: Comments on the Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
15/100: The State Nobility - Pierre Bourdieu
16/100: Language & Symbolic Power - Pierre Bourdieu
17/100: Weight of the World - Pierre Bourdieu
18/100: Class Choreographies - Kenway
19/100: Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities - Cucchiara
20/100: The Misinterpellated Subject - JR Martel
21/100: School Choice - JR Garcia
22/100: A brief history of neoliberalism - David Harvey
23/100: the new spirit of capitalism - Luc boltanski
24/100- Station 11 - Emily St. John Mandel.
25/100: Randomize - Andy Weir
26/100: Fragments - Jean Baudrillard
27/100: Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture - Pierre Bourdieu
28/100: The Field of Cultural Production - Pierre Bourdieu
29/100: The Consumer Society - Jean Baudrillard
30/100: Distinctions in the Flesh, Social Class and the Embodiment of Inequality - Dieter Vanderbroeck
31/100: Miseducation. inequality, Education and the Working Class - Dianne Reay
32/100: Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
33/100: Distinction - Pierre Bourdieu
34/100: Introducing Fascism. A Graphic Guide - Stuart Hood
35/ 100: Image Music Text - Roland Barthes