the wonderful world of reading 2020 reading challenge thread

[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
23/70 - William Boyd - Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay
24/70 - Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) - The Long Walk (re-read)
25/70 - Michael Morpurgo - Born to Run
26/70 - Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) - Roadwork
27/70 - William Boyd - The Vanishing Game
28/70 - Anthony Doerr - All The Light we Cannot See
29/70 - Stephen King - If It Bleeds
30/70 - Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Under Ground
31/70 - Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) - The Running Man (re-read)
32/70 - Minette Walters - Acid Row
33/70 - Liz Nugent - Our Little Cruelties
34/70 - Anne Tyler - A Spool of Blue Thread
35/70 - Stephen King - Dreamcatcher
36/70 - Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and The Six
37/70 - Ruth Rendell - Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (re-read)

38/70 - Harlan Coben - Run Away

 

[Bwark]

Correct, unfortunately my phone decided it wasn't

 

[Bwark]

And posts twice for me!!

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (reread)
2. The Unwomanly Face of War - Svetlana Alexievich
3. The Troubles - Tim Pat Coogan
4. Conversations with Friends - Stella Rooney
5. The Government of No One - Ruth Kinna
6. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me - Javier Marias
7. All That Remains - Sue Black
8. Leaving the Atocha Station - Ben Lerner
9. The Heart of a Dog - Mikhail Bulgakov
10. The Plague - Albert Camus (re-read)
11. Weather - Jenny Offill
12. Palace Walk - Naguib Mahfouz
13. The Existentialist Cafe - Sarah Blackwell
14. Growth of the Soil - Knut Hamsun
15. The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
16. Racecraft - Karen and Barbara Fields
17. Feminism, Interrupted - Lola Olufemi
18. Algiers, Third World Capital - Elaine Mokhtefi
19. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace
20. Occult Features of Anarchism - Erica Lagalisse
21. Mistaken Identity - Asad Haider
22. Hinterland, America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict - Phil A. Neel
23. Hood Feminism - Mikki Kendall
24. Assata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur

 

[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
19/50 Frances Hardinge - Deeplight
20/50 Robert Jordan - The Fires of Heaven
21/50 Douglas Adams - The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
22/50 John Masouri - Rebel Frequency: Jamaica's Reggae Revival

23/50 Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

 

[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
10/50 The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter
11/50 Moon over Soho - Ben Aaronovitch
12/50 Whispers under Ground - Ben Aaronovitch
13/50 Homefires - Elizabeth Day
14/50 Let the great world spin - Colum Mcann
15/50 Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch

16/50 Ordinary Grace - William Kent Krueger
17/50 king Leopalds ghost -Adam Hochschild

 

[Ptolemy]

1/50. Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty. - Karl Shaw.
2/50. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/50. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/50. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/50. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/50. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/50. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/50. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/50. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/50. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read).
11/50. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/50. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/50. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/50. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
15/50. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (re-read).
16/50. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis.
17/50. Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
18/50. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle.
19/50. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen.
20/50. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole.
21/50. The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter.
22/50. The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle.
23/50. The State and Revolution - V. I. Lenin.
24/50. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
25/50. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe*.
26/50. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen.
27/50. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (re-read).
28/50. One on One: 101 True Encounters - Craig Brown.
29/50. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes*.
30/50. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev.
31/50. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham.
32/50. Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon - Jane Austen.
33/50. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (re-read).
34/50. Akira - Katsuhiro Otomo*.
35/50. Starving for Attention - Cherry Boone O'Neill.
36/50. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (re-read).
37/50. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind.

 

[Bwark]

Wow! I've probably read 50+ books already this year. I'll try and collate a list, without my predictive text stepping in!

 

[butchersapron]

28 - Under the Shadow of War: Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and Marxists, 1918-1939 - Larry Ceplair
29 - Assad Or We Burn the Country: How One Familys Lust for Power Destroyed Syria - Sam Dagher
30 - On Hitler's Mein Kampf: The Poetics of National Socialism - Albrecht Koschorke
31 - The Origins of Scottish Nationhood - Neil Davidson
32 - The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea - Robert Wald Sussman
33 - Discovering the Scottish Revolution 1692–1746 – Neil Davidson
34 - Authentocrats: Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness - Joe Kennedy

 

[chilango]

61/100: Slavoj Zizek, A Zizekian Gaze at Education - Tony Wall & David Perrin

Quite enjoyed this. A slighter read than expected and too many positive references to Frank Furedi however.

 

[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
17/50 Tom Robbins - Still Life with Woodpecker
18/50 Nick Bostrom - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
19/50 Margret Atwood - Cat's Eye
20/50 Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
21/50 Christopher Hitchens - The Trial of Henry Kissenger
22/50 Voltaire, Ed. S.G. Tallentyre - Voltaire in His Letters
23/50 John A. Anderson - Ukrainian Nationalism 1939-45
24/50 Limmy - Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny
25/50 Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
26/50 J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World

27/50 Maxim Gorky - Twenty Six and One, and Other Stories
28/50 William Shakespeare - The Tempest

 

[braindancer]

1/30 - Now in November - Josephine Johnson
2/30 - The Wanderers - Richard Price
3/30 - The Caves of Steel - Isaac Asimov
4/30 - The Naked Sun - Isaac Asimov
5/30 - Robots of Dawn - Isaac Asimov
6/30 - Robots and Empire - Isaac Asimov
7/30 - Underland - Robert McFarlane
8/30 - The 39 Steps - John Buchan
9/30 - The Secret Commonwealth - Phillip Pullman
10/30 - Clockers - Richard Price
11/30 - Fellside - M R Carey
12/30 - The Loney - Andrew Michael Hurley

 

[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
19/50 Frances Hardinge - Deeplight
20/50 Robert Jordan - The Fires of Heaven
21/50 Douglas Adams - The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
22/50 John Masouri - Rebel Frequency: Jamaica's Reggae Revival
23/50 Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

24/50 Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island

 

[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
8/24 Beren & Luthien - JRR Tolkien
9/24 Animal Farm - George Orwell
10/24 Sword of Kings - Bernard Cornwell
11/24 Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

 

[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
15/75 Zone One - Colson Whitehead
16/75 Long Range - C J Box
17/75 The Wanted - Robert Crais
18/75 Night Prey - John Sandford

****

19/75 Dark of the moon - John Sandford

 

[Bwark]

I do love C J Box novels, found them after reading the novels of Lee Child and liked them enormously

 

[SpookyFrank]

1/52 Philip Pullman - La Belle Sauvage
2/52 Norman Doidge - The Brain That Changes Itself
3/52 Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister
4/52 Mackenzie Wark - Capital is Dead
5/52 Peter Kinderman - A Manifesto for Mental Health
6/52 China Mieville - The Last Days of New Paris
7/52 Fred Pearce - The New Wild
8/52 Andy Wood - Abandoned and Vanished Canals of England
9/52 Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities
10/52 Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts - Edgelands
11/52 William Gibson - The Peripheral
12/52 Vera Caspary - Laura
13/52 Mary Roach - Packing for Mars
14/52 Boris Pasternak - Doctor Zhivago
15/52 Serhii Plokhy - Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
16/52 Carl Sagan - The Dragons of Eden
17/52 Paul Davies - The Demon in the Machine
18/52 Terry Pratchett - Mort
19/52 Tom Nancollas - Seashaken Houses
20/52 Randolph Nesse - Good Reasons for Bad Feelings
21/52 Anna Politkovskaya - Putin's Russia
22/52 William Gibson - Count Zero

23/52 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
24/52 Benedict Anderson - A Life Beyond Boundaries
25/52 Pablo Sendra & Richard Sennett - Designing Disorder

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1."Tombland" - C. J. Sansom
2. Exit Wounds" - compilation
3. "Murder in the Crooked House" - Soji Shimada
4."Into the Woods" - Tana French
5. "The Chalk Man" - CJ Tudor
6. "The Institute" - Stephen King
7. "The White Road" - Sarah Lotz
8. "Black Widow" - Christopher Brookmyre
9. "No One Home" - Tim Weaver
10. "Orphan X" - Gregg Hurwitz
11. "Nomad" - James Swallow

12. "Horns" - Joe Hill. Excellent

 

[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
23/70 - William Boyd - Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay
24/70 - Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) - The Long Walk (re-read)
25/70 - Michael Morpurgo - Born to Run
26/70 - Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) - Roadwork
27/70 - William Boyd - The Vanishing Game
28/70 - Anthony Doerr - All The Light we Cannot See
29/70 - Stephen King - If It Bleeds
30/70 - Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Under Ground
31/70 - Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King) - The Running Man (re-read)
32/70 - Minette Walters - Acid Row
33/70 - Liz Nugent - Our Little Cruelties
34/70 - Anne Tyler - A Spool of Blue Thread
35/70 - Stephen King - Dreamcatcher
36/70 - Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and The Six
37/70 - Ruth Rendell - Adam and Eve and Pinch Me (re-read)
38/70 - Harlan Coben - Run Away

39/70 - Susan Hill - The Various Haunts of Men

 

[Ptolemy]

1/50. Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty. - Karl Shaw.
2/50. Hrafnkel's Saga and Other Stories - Unknown (translated by Hermann Palsson).
3/50. Born 1900 - Hunter Davies.
4/50. The Pearl - John Steinbeck.
5/50. A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe.
6/50. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick.
7/50. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf.
8/50. First Love - Ivan Turgenev.
9/50. The Color Purple - Alice Walker.
10/50. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (re-read).
11/50. The Last Man - Mary Shelley.
12/50. A Very Easy Death - Simone de Beauvoir.
13/50. Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys.
14/50. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen.
15/50. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (re-read).
16/50. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C. S. Lewis.
17/50. Lord of the Flies - William Golding.
18/50. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle.
19/50. Mansfield Park - Jane Austen.
20/50. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole.
21/50. The Passion of New Eve - Angela Carter.
22/50. The Sign of Four - Arthur Conan Doyle.
23/50. The State and Revolution - V. I. Lenin.
24/50. Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh.
25/50. The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe*.
26/50. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen.
27/50. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (re-read).
28/50. One on One: 101 True Encounters - Craig Brown.
29/50. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes*.
30/50. Fathers and Sons - Ivan Turgenev.
31/50. The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham.
32/50. Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon - Jane Austen.
33/50. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (re-read).
34/50. Akira - Katsuhiro Otomo*.
35/50. Starving for Attention - Cherry Boone O'Neill.
36/50. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (re-read).
37/50. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Süskind.
38/50. Watchmen - Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons & John Higgins.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

1/40: Ben Pimblott - Harold Wilson
2/40: Raymond Williams - Border Country
3/40 : Neil Campbell - Lanyards
4/40: Steve Wright - Storming Heaven
5/40: David Wilkinson - Post-Punk, Politics and Pleasure in Britain
6/40: Martin Upham - Tempered not Quenched: The History of the Iron and Steel Confederation
7/40: Guy Standing - Work after Globalization: Building Occupational Citizenship
8/40: Richard Sennett: The Craftsman
9/40: Immanuel Wallerstein: Historical Capitalism
10/40: David Keenan: For the Good Times
11/40: Leo Panitch & Colin Leys: Searching for Socialism
12/40: Marisa McGlinchey: Unfinished Business: The Politics of 'Dissident' Irish Republicanism
13/40: Raphael Samuel: Island Stories: Theatres of Memory, Volume 2
14/40: Ralph Miliband: Parliamentary Socialism: A Study in the Politics of Labour
15/40: Tim Strangleman: Voices of Guinness
16/40: EP Thompson: Customs in Common
17/40: EP Thompson: The Poverty of Theory
18/40: Asad Haider: Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump
19/40: Ellen Meiksins Wood: The Retreat From Class: A New 'True Socialism'
20/40: Martin St. John: The Psychedelic Confessions of a Primal Screamer
21/40: Chantelle Mouffe: The Return of the Political

 

[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
14. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - Hilary Mantel
15. Lampedusa - Steven Price
16. I am Legend - Richard Matheson
17. Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff
18. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
19. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
20. The Long Walk - Richard Bachman/Stephen King
21. The Plague - Albert Camus
22. All Systems Red - Martha Wells
23. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells
24. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells
25. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
26. Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 - Albert Marrin
27. High Rise - J. G. Ballard
28. The Girl With All the Gifts - M. R. Carey
29. The Rules of Contagion - Adam Kutcharski

 

[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
21/40 Sarah Perry - Melmoth
22/40 Samanta Schwebelin - Mouthful of Birds
23/40 Denis Johnson - The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
24/40 Eva Meijer - Animal Languages
25/40 George Saunders - Pastoralia
26/40 Zoe Turner - The Book of Newcastle
27/40 Pete Brown - The Story of Craft Beer
*28/40 Ernest Hemingway - For Whom the Bell Tolls

29/40 George Saunders - In Persuasion Nation
30/40 George Saunders - CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
31/40 Shirley Jackson - The Lottery and Other Stories

(* = 500+ pages: my target this year was more long books)

 

[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
19/50 Frances Hardinge - Deeplight
20/50 Robert Jordan - The Fires of Heaven
21/50 Douglas Adams - The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
22/50 John Masouri - Rebel Frequency: Jamaica's Reggae Revival
23/50 Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
24/50 Bill Bryson - Notes from a Small Island

25/50 Sue Black - All That Remains

 

[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
7/19 A Culture of Fact: England, 1550-1720 - Barbara J. Shapiro
8/19 Semicolon - Cecelia Watson
9/19 Paradise - A.L. Kennedy
10/19 Advocacy: A Practical Guide - Peter Lyons
11/19 Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution - Bruce T. Moran

 

[kropotkin]

4/19 Conversations with Friends - Sally Rooney

How was that one? I was really impressed with normal people

 

[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
17/50 Tom Robbins - Still Life with Woodpecker
18/50 Nick Bostrom - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
19/50 Margret Atwood - Cat's Eye
20/50 Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
21/50 Christopher Hitchens - The Trial of Henry Kissenger
22/50 Voltaire, Ed. S.G. Tallentyre - Voltaire in His Letters
23/50 John A. Anderson - Ukrainian Nationalism 1939-45
24/50 Limmy - Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny
25/50 Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
26/50 J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World
27/50 Maxim Gorky - Twenty Six and One, and Other Stories
28/50 William Shakespeare - The Tempest

29/50 Christopher R. Browning - Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
30/50 Harlan Ellison - Ellison Wonderland

 

[Winot]

How was that one? I was really impressed with normal people

Quite similar to NP and not quite as polished. A dress rehearsal. Definitely worth reading if you liked NP.

 

[bellaozzydog]

1/59 Mortal causes, Ian Rankin a Rebus novel
2/59 Let it bleed Ian Rankin a Rebus novel
3/59 I know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou
4/59 Adolph Hitler, My part in his downfall. Spike Milligan
5/59 Rommel, Gunner who? Spike Milligan
6/59 Mussolini, his part in my downfall. Spike Milligan
7/59 Where have all the bullets gone? Spike Milligan
8/59 Diary of a nobody. George & Weedon Grosssmith
9/59 Black and blue, Ian Rankin a Rebus novel
10/59 The Hanging Garden Ian Rankin
11/59 dead souls Ian Rankin a Rebus novel
12/59 set in darkness Ian Rankin a Rebus novel
13/59 The falls Ian Rankin a Rebus novel
14/59 resurrection men Ian Rankin a Rebus novel
15/59 Sex power money, Sara Pascoe
16/59 three men in a boat, Jerome K Jerome
17/59 A bit of a stretch. The diaries of a prisoner, Chris Atkins
18/59 defending the guilty, Alex McBride
19/59 My sister the serial killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
20/59 strip jack Ian rankin
21//59 in the house of lies Ian Rankin
22/59 Rather be the devil Ian Rankin
23/59 saints of the shadow bible Ian Rankin
24/59 A question of blood Ian Rankin
25/59 hide and seek Ian Rankin
26/59 naming the dead Ian Rankin
27/59 Exit music Ian Rankin
28/59 Flesh market close Ian Rankin
29/59 Nudge Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness RICHARD H. THALER
AND CASS R. SUNSTEIN
30/59 A tale of two cities, Charles Dickens
31/59 stolen, Grace Blakeley
32/59 Hells Angels, Hunter S Thompson
33/59 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson
34/59 A walk on the wild side Nelson Algren
34/59 Psmith PG Wodehouse multiple
35/59 Jeeves and Wooster PG Wodehouse Multiple
36/59 Das Kapital, Marx ongoing and going and going
37/59 the man who didn’t call, Rosie Walsh
38/59 The life of Josiah Henson, formerly a slave.Now an inhabitant of Canada. As narrated by himself
39/59 Down and out in the magic kingdom, Cory Doctorow
40/59 Going dark, the social lives of extremists, julia Ebne
41/59 house arrest, a practical guide on how to replace your income through property investment, Rick Gannon
42/59 Blue moon, Lee Child
43/59 Stick it up your punter. The uncut story of the sun newspaper
44/59 Pour me a life A.A. Gill
45/59 History of the world in 7 cheap things. A guide to capitalism, nature and the future of the planet
46/59 Excel 2019 for dummies (kill,me now)
47/59 The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
48/59 Little Brother. Cory Doctorow
49/59 Homeland. Cory Doctorow
50/59 Dog behaviour an owners guide to a Happy healthy pet. Ian Dunbar
51/59 Reflected Glory. Carney Lake
52/59 Mythos Stephen fry
53/59 the red badge of courage. Stephen Crane
54/59 Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
55/59 Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
56/59 king Solomon’s mines Haggard H Rider
57/59 Crome Yellow, Aldous Huxley
58/59 Brit(ish) Afua Hirsch
59/59 Doughnut Economics. Kate Raworth
60. The art of racing in the rain, GARETH Stein
61. Play on, Mick Fleetwood
62. Unnatural causes Dr Richard Shepherd
63. Do birds still sing in hell. Horace greasly (dubious)

cracked my 59. Onwards and upwards

 

[billy_bob]

How was that one? I was really impressed with normal people

I said, meh.

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.