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
39/70 - Susan Hill - The Various Haunts of Men
40/70 - Julian Barnes - Arthur and George
41/70 - Stephen King - Cujo (re-read)
42/70 - Susan Hill - The Pure in Heart
43/70 - Patricia Highsmith - Ripley's Game
44/70 - Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
45/70 - P D James - The Part Time Job

46/70 - Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

 

[marty21]

Are you the Jennifer Jason Leigh to my Bridget Fonda?

Got them after seeing you post about them enjoyed them, a lot of films I hadn't seen or heard of , despite being the perfect age in the 80s .

 

[DaveCinzano]

Got them after seeing you post about them enjoyed them, a lot of films I hadn't seen or heard of , despite being the perfect age in the 80s .

I liked the Freeman one a lot for her genuine enthusiasm and her interviews; the King one was very handy for pointing out a lot of the more minor films. I definitely went on a trawl for a lot of movies I'd not seen before after reading them

 

[chilango]

66/100: Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

This was good.

 

[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
26/50 Alastair Reynolds - Shadow Captain
27/50 Douglas Adams - Life, the Universe and Everything
28/50 Bill Bryson - Neither Here Nor There
29/50 Douglas Adams - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
30/50 Mary Beard - SPQR: a History of Ancient Rome
31/50 Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
32/50 Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures
33/50 Linton Kwesi Johnson - From Mento to Lovers' Rock: the evolution of Jamaican popular music
34/50 Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man

35/50 Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon

 

[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
13. "Dark Places" - Gillian Flynn"
14. "The Second Sleep" - Robert Harris

15 "Curfew" - Phil Rickman. Genuinely scary at times, interesting characters but a bit long

 

[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
6. Tim Moore - Frost On My Moustache (reread)
7. Tim Moore - Continental Drifter (reread)
8. Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Ruin
9. Hallie Rubenhold - The Five

10. Glen Duncan - The Last Werewolf. What a book. Funny, sexy, exciting and I finished it just now in tears. This one will stick me me for ages.

 

[Biddlybee]

1/20 - The Good Immigrant - ed Nikesh Shukla
2/20 - The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
3/20 - Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
4/20 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy
5/20 - Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
6/20 - The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
7/20 - All That Remains - Sue Black
8/20 - Space: 10 Things You Should Know - Becky Smethurst
8.5/20 The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins (more an essay tbh so not really counting it, but want it on my list )
9/20 - The Explorer - Katherine Rundell
10/20 - Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch
11/20 - Lyra's Oxford - Philip Pullman
12/20 - Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

 

[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
13/30 - The long way to a small angry planet - Becky Chambers

 

[Poot]

1/23 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
2/23 The Magus - John Fowles
3/23 Shakespeare - Bill Bryson
4/23 No and Me - Delphine De Vigan
5/23 Orphan Boys - Phil Mews
6/23 The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
7/23 The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
8/23 Them: Adventures with Extremists - Jon Ronson
9/23 The Doll Factory - Elizabeth MacNeal
10/23 The Neighbour - Fiona Cummins
11/23 The World According to Garp (re-read) - John Irving
12/23 How to Build a Girl - Caitlin Moran
13/23 A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s - Alwyn W Turner

 

[ringo]

1/30 The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck - Mark Manson
2/30 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
3/30 Coketown - Barney Farmer
4/30 Before The Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
5/30 The Taxidermist’s Daughter - Kate Mosse
6/30 The Crying Of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
7/30 The Bird Man And The Lap Dancer: Close Encounters With Strangers - Eric Hansen
8/30 The Man In The High Castle - Philip K Dick
9/30 What You Want is in the Limo: On the road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and The Who in 1973. the year the sixties died and the modern rock star was born - Michael Walker
10/30 Night Boat To Tangier - Kevin Barry
11/30 Tenth Of December - George Saunders
12/30 The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse
13/30 Original Rockers - Richard King
14/30 Labyrinth - Kate Moss
Blimey that took a long time.

 

[Biddlybee]

1/20 - The Good Immigrant - ed Nikesh Shukla
2/20 - The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
3/20 - Exit West - Mohsin Hamid
4/20 - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy
5/20 - Grief is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
6/20 - The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
7/20 - All That Remains - Sue Black
8/20 - Space: 10 Things You Should Know - Becky Smethurst
8.5/20 The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins (more an essay tbh so not really counting it, but want it on my list )
9/20 - The Explorer - Katherine Rundell
10/20 - Broken Homes - Ben Aaronovitch
11/20 - Lyra's Oxford - Philip Pullman
12/20 - Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
13/20 - Ghost Boys - Jewell Parker Rhodes (checking if suitable for my eldest - few more years)

 

[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
18/50 The Truth About Celia - Kevin Brockmeier
19/50 The end of the affair - Graham Greene
20/50 Butterfly summer - Harriet evans
21/50 The Sunshine sisters - Jane Green
22/50 Fox Glove summer - Ben Aaronovitch
23/50 Throw away unopened - Viv Albertine
24/50 A Possible Life - Sebastian Faulks
25/50 The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch

26/50 Uncommon Type - Tom Hanks

 

[ringo]

1/30 The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck - Mark Manson
2/30 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
3/30 Coketown - Barney Farmer
4/30 Before The Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
5/30 The Taxidermist’s Daughter - Kate Mosse
6/30 The Crying Of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon
7/30 The Bird Man And The Lap Dancer: Close Encounters With Strangers - Eric Hansen
8/30 The Man In The High Castle - Philip K Dick
9/30 What You Want is in the Limo: On the road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and The Who in 1973. the year the sixties died and the modern rock star was born - Michael Walker
10/30 Night Boat To Tangier - Kevin Barry
11/30 Tenth Of December - George Saunders
12/30 The Winter Ghosts - Kate Mosse
13/30 Original Rockers - Richard King
14/30 Labyrinth - Kate Moss
15/30 Dog Walker - Arthur Bradford

 

[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
22/40: Tim Strangleman: Voices of Guinness
23/40: Raymond Williams: The Country and the City
24/40: Ken Coates & Richard Silburn: The Forgotten Englishmen
25/40: Dale Mahridge & Michael Williamson: Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass
26/40: Thomas Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

 

[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
6. Tim Moore - Frost On My Moustache (reread)
7. Tim Moore - Continental Drifter (reread)
8. Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Ruin
9. Hallie Rubenhold - The Five
10. Glen Duncan - The Last Werewolf

11. Mick Herron - Real Tigers. I love the Slough House series, perfect holiday reading, and this is another excellent installment.

 

[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
25. The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson
26. Palace of Desire - Naguib Mahfouz
27. Death in Venice and Other Stories - Thomas Mann
28. The Good Terrorist - Doris Lessing
29. Poor Things - Alasdair Gray
30. No Shortcuts - Jane Mcalevey

 

[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
31/50 Iain Banks - Walking On Glass
32/50 Ken Liu - The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

33/50 Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine
34/50 Zoe A. Colley - Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment and the Civil Rights Movement

 

[Me76]

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25 free ebooks up for grabs. All female authors who were originally published under a male pen name.

 

[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.
39/50. Diary of an Oxygen Thief - Anonymous.
40/50. Bear - Marian Engel.
41/50. Unspeakable: The Autobiography - John Bercow.

* = more than 500 pages.

 

[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
20/75 No One Home - Tim Weaver
21/75 Lockdown - Peter May
22/75 Rough Country - John Sandford
23/75 Life Moves Pretty Fast : The Lessons We Learned From 80s Movies - Hadley Freeman
24/75 Fast Times And Excellent Adventures: The Surprising History of The 80s Teen Movie. - James King

******

25/75 In A House Of Lies - Ian Rankin

 

[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.
39/50. Diary of an Oxygen Thief - Anonymous.
40/50. Bear - Marian Engel.
41/50. Unspeakable: The Autobiography - John Bercow.
42/50. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee.

* = more than 500 pages.

 

[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
26/50 Alastair Reynolds - Shadow Captain
27/50 Douglas Adams - Life, the Universe and Everything
28/50 Bill Bryson - Neither Here Nor There
29/50 Douglas Adams - So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
30/50 Mary Beard - SPQR: a History of Ancient Rome
31/50 Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America
32/50 Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures
33/50 Linton Kwesi Johnson - From Mento to Lovers' Rock: the evolution of Jamaican popular music
34/50 Terry Pratchett - Reaper Man
35/50 Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon

36/50 Philip Pullman - The Firework-maker's Daughter

 

[Signal 11]

8/10 - A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived - Adam Rutherford
9/10 - Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex - Nick Dyer-Witheford

 

[lunar]

Just read Bruce Lee, A Life. By Matthew Polly.
Great insight into the person. Interesting to learn about the revary between actors

 

[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
20/75 No One Home - Tim Weaver
21/75 Lockdown - Peter May
22/75 Rough Country - John Sandford
23/75 Life Moves Pretty Fast : The Lessons We Learned From 80s Movies - Hadley Freeman
24/75 Fast Times And Excellent Adventures: The Surprising History of The 80s Teen Movie. - James King
25/75 In A House Of Lies - Ian Rankin


******

26/75 The Shrine - LJ Ross

 

[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
31/50 Iain Banks - Walking On Glass
32/50 Ken Liu - The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
33/50 Naomi Klein - The Shock Doctrine
34/50 Zoe A. Colley - Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment and the Civil Rights Movement

35/50 Salman Rushdie - Haroun and the Sea of Stories
36/50 Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age As recommended by Me76 Very good

 

[Fozzie Bear]

17/30 Aaron Cometbus - Add Toner: A Cometbus Collection

Anthology of Cometbus - a punk fanzine that morphed into travelogues, tales of squat life, interviews with interesting people etc.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

18/30 Dhanveer Singh Brar - Beefy's Tune: Dean Blunt Edit

A short essay contrasting Dean Blunt's "BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow" album's rejection of Britishness with the character Beefy from Franco Rosso's 1980 film Babylon.

 

[chilango]

67/100: Comradely Greetings. The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj.

So refreshing after getting bogged down in utterly facile "rows" on Twitter.