the wonderful world of reading 2020 reading challenge thread

[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
12/19 Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
13/19 Notes on 'Camp' - Susan Sontag
14/19 The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula Le Guin
15/19 Living at the End of the World - Marina Benjamin
16/19 Stoner - John Williams
17/19 Oxford - Jan Morris
18/19 Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
19/19 High-Rise - JG Ballard
20/19 Building for England - Adrian Green

21/19 Right Ho, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse

 

[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 Wych Elm"
15 "The Hanging Tree" - Ben Aaranovitch
16. "False Values" - Ben Aaranovitch

17. "Nowhere Man" - Gregg Hurwitz. Undemanding high octane entertaining thriller, which was exactly what I wanted.

 

[imposs1904]

1/26 Smart Moves by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2/26 Think Fast, Mr. Peters by Stuart M. Kaminsky
3/26 Buried Caesars by Stuart M. Kaminsky
4/26 Hunting Grounds: A Scottish Football Safari by Gary Sutherland
5/26 Poor Butterfly by Stuart M. Kaminsky
6/26 The Melting Clock by Stuart M. Kaminsky
7/26 The Devil Met a Lady by Stuart M. Kaminsky
8/26 Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty, St Anns in the 1960s by Sylvia Riley
9/26 The Quiet Assassin: The Davie Hay Story by Davie Hay with Alex Gordon
10/26 Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (ReRead)
11/26 The Nation’s Favourite – The True Adventures of Radio 1 by Simon Garfield
12/26 The Greatest Living Englishman by Martin Newell
13/26 A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
14/26 Before We Was We: The Making of Madness by Madness (with Tom Doyle)
15/26 Divided City by Theresa Breslin
16/26 Shoedog by George Pelecanos

17/26 Nick's Trip by George Pelecanos

 

[imposs1904]

1/26 Smart Moves by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2/26 Think Fast, Mr. Peters by Stuart M. Kaminsky
3/26 Buried Caesars by Stuart M. Kaminsky
4/26 Hunting Grounds: A Scottish Football Safari by Gary Sutherland
5/26 Poor Butterfly by Stuart M. Kaminsky
6/26 The Melting Clock by Stuart M. Kaminsky
7/26 The Devil Met a Lady by Stuart M. Kaminsky
8/26 Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty, St Anns in the 1960s by Sylvia Riley
9/26 The Quiet Assassin: The Davie Hay Story by Davie Hay with Alex Gordon
10/26 Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (ReRead)
11/26 The Nation’s Favourite – The True Adventures of Radio 1 by Simon Garfield
12/26 The Greatest Living Englishman by Martin Newell
13/26 A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
14/26 Before We Was We: The Making of Madness by Madness (with Tom Doyle)
15/26 Divided City by Theresa Breslin
16/26 Shoedog by George Pelecanos
17/26 Nick's Trip by George Pelecanos

18/26 Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle

 

[Fozzie Bear]

25/30 Sam Selvon - The Lonely Londoners

Amazing novel of male black experience in 1950s London.

 

[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
27/50 Journey to the South - Annie Hawes
28/50 Lies Sleeping Ben Aaronovitch
29/50 Half a World Away - Mike Gayle
30/50 The Hunting Party - Lucy Foley
31/50 It started with a Secret - Jane Green
32/50 The Winner - David Baldacci
33/50 The Muse - Jessie Burton
34/50 The Guilty Party - Melanie McGrath
35/50 Falling: A love story - Jane Green
36/50 The Hope family calendar - Mike Gayle
37/50 Invisible Women - Caroline Criado-Perez
38/50 Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari

39/50 The Guardians - John Grisham
40/50 The Giver of Stars - Jojo Moyes
41/50 White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
42/50 The First 15 lives of Harry August - Claire North
43/50 False Values - Ben Aaronovitch

 

[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
37/50 Robert Jordan - Lord of Chaos
38/50 Matt Ruff - Lovecraft Country
39/50 Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
40/50 Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist
41/50 James Herriot - The Lord God Made Them All
42/50 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
43/50 George Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody
44/50 Alastair Reynolds - Bone Silence

45/50 Sophie Thérèse Ambler - The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's first revolutionary and the death of chivalry

 

[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
16/30 City Of Bohane - Kevin Barry
17/30 The Master And Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
18/30 Bone In The Throat - Anthony Bourdain

19/30 The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman
Really enjoyed that; smart and funny.

 

[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
12/19 Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
13/19 Notes on 'Camp' - Susan Sontag
14/19 The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula Le Guin
15/19 Living at the End of the World - Marina Benjamin
16/19 Stoner - John Williams
17/19 Oxford - Jan Morris
18/19 Hangover Square - Patrick Hamilton
19/19 High-Rise - JG Ballard
20/19 Building for England - Adrian Green
21/19 Right Ho, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse

22/19 How to be a Liberal - Ian Dunt

 

[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 Wych Elm"
15 "The Hanging Tree" - Ben Aaranovitch
16. "False Values" - Ben Aaranovitch
17."Nowhere Man" - Gregg Hurwitz

18. "The Hunting Party" Lucy Foley - page turning thriller, maybe a bit obvious in places but easy to read and very enjoyably

 

[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
27/75 Rogue - James Swallow.
28/75 Zone War - John Conroe
29/75 Borough of Bones - John Conroe
30/75 Web of Extinction - John Conroe
31/75 Exile - James Swallow
32/75 Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 - Max Hastings
33/75 Lethal Agent - Kyle Mills

*****
34/75. Ghost - James Swallow

 

[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
47/70 - Wally Lamb - I Know This Much is True
48/70 - Mick Herron - Slow Horses
49/70 - Patricia Highsmith - The Boy Who Followed Ripley
50/70 - David Mitchell - Utopia Avenue
51/70 - Ruth Rendell - The Copper Peacock
52/70 - Minette Walters - Disordered Minds
53/70 - Jane Harper - The Lost Man (BC)
54/70 - Elizabeth Strout - Olive, Again

55/70 - Richard Bachman - The Regulators

 

[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 Wych Elm" - Tana French
15 "The Hanging Tree" - Ben Aaranovitch
16. "Lies Sleeping" - Ben Aaranovitch
17."Nowhere Man" - Gregg Hurwitz
18. "The Hunting Party" - Lucy Foley

19. "The Chain" - Adrian McKinty. Compelling thriller

 

[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
37/50 Robert Jordan - Lord of Chaos
38/50 Matt Ruff - Lovecraft Country
39/50 Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
40/50 Seamus Heaney - Death of a Naturalist
41/50 James Herriot - The Lord God Made Them All
42/50 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat
43/50 George Grossmith - The Diary of a Nobody
44/50 Alastair Reynolds - Bone Silence
45/50 Sophie Thérèse Ambler - The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's first revolutionary and the death of chivalry

46/50 Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad

 

[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)
64. Long way home. dan Jarvis
65. The Room where it Happened. John Bolton
66. The blade itself Jo Abercrombie
67. Before they are hanged Jo Abercrombie
68. Last arguement of kings. Jo Abercrombie
69. How to argue with a racist Adam Rutherford
70.How to lose a country. The Seven steps From democracy to dictatorship. Eve telmulkuran
71. Natives. Akala
72. Best served cold. joe Abercrombie

73. Bullshit Jobs David Graeber
74. Life as a unicorn Amrou Al Kahdi
75. The great leveller Joe Abercrombie
76. Best served cold. joe Abercrombie
77. The heroes Joe Abercrombie
78. Red country Joe Abercrombie

One of those Joe Abercrombie’s may be a title split in two, I got the collection and just kept reading without much thought of when one ended and the next started

definitely need some reading recommendations now as I’ve read everything in my kindle. Need to stock up quick sharp

 

[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
14/20 - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson
15/20 - My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
16/20 - The Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman
17/20 - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr
18/20 - Mudlarking - Lara Maiklem
19/20 - Once Upon a Time in the North - Philip Pullman
20/20 - The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah - Benjamin Zephaniah
21/20 - Lara - Bernadine Evaristo
22/20 - A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby

 

[yield]

1. Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.
2. The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
3. The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni
4. The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson.
5. Stories of Your Life: And Others by Ted Chiang
6. The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott
7. Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
8. A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie

9. Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict by Phil Neel - explains a lot and opens up the space for so much

 

[yield]

77. The heroes Joe Abercrombie
78. Red country Joe Abercrombie

One of those Joe Abercrombie’s may be a title split in two, I got the collection and just kept reading without much thought of when one ended and the next started

definitely need some reading recommendations now as I’ve read everything in my kindle. Need to stock up quick sharp

A Little Hatred is the start of Abercrombie's new trilogy. Depends what you like? If you like SciFi, Ken Macleod's Fall Revolution series is excellent?

 

[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 Half a World Away - Mike Gayle
14/23 A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s - Alwyn W Turner
15/23 The Break - Marian Keyes
16/23 Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys
17/23 Agnes Grey - Ann Bronte (Audiobook)
18/23 The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year - Sue Townsend
19/23 Calypso - David Sedaris
20/23 A Shropshire Lad - AE Houseman
21/23 How the World Works - Noam Chomsky

 

[imposs1904]

1/26 Smart Moves by Stuart M. Kaminsky
2/26 Think Fast, Mr. Peters by Stuart M. Kaminsky
3/26 Buried Caesars by Stuart M. Kaminsky
4/26 Hunting Grounds: A Scottish Football Safari by Gary Sutherland
5/26 Poor Butterfly by Stuart M. Kaminsky
6/26 The Melting Clock by Stuart M. Kaminsky
7/26 The Devil Met a Lady by Stuart M. Kaminsky
8/26 Winter at the Bookshop: Politics and Poverty, St Anns in the 1960s by Sylvia Riley
9/26 The Quiet Assassin: The Davie Hay Story by Davie Hay with Alex Gordon
10/26 Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö (ReRead)
11/26 The Nation’s Favourite – The True Adventures of Radio 1 by Simon Garfield
12/26 The Greatest Living Englishman by Martin Newell
13/26 A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin
14/26 Before We Was We: The Making of Madness by Madness (with Tom Doyle)
15/26 Divided City by Theresa Breslin
16/26 Shoedog by George Pelecanos
17/26 Nick's Trip by George Pelecanos
18/26 Charlie Savage by Roddy Doyle

19/26 Plays: 1 by Sue Townsend

 

[Fozzie Bear]

26/30 The Rio Tape Slide Archive: Radical Community Photography in Hackney in the 80s.

Amazing photo book that’s been plugged all over. Great commentary by people who were part of the project, Michael Rosen, local radical photographer Alan Denney and more.

 

[butchersapron]

54 - I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism - A.M. Gittlitz - our fozzie and tom get a mention. Book is shallow cash in rubbish.
55 - Culture Warlords - Talia Lavin
56 - War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right (also published as War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers to cash in) - Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

 

[Fozzie Bear]

butchersapron is the Lavin any good? Was listening to a podcast with her this morning and she seemed ok but I got very little impression of the book.

 

[butchersapron]

butchersapron is the Lavin any good? Was listening to a podcast with her this morning and she seemed ok but I got very little impression of the book.

It's awful. All i learnt from it was she is on twitter. I totally respected her anger and all that, but fucking hell, yes, i now know that you're on twitter.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

It's awful. All i learnt from it was she is on twitter. I totally respected her anger and all that, but fucking hell, yes, i now know that you're on twitter.

Yeah it was billed as brave infiltration of extreme right groups but was then all about chatting online which is ok but let’s not get overexcited.

 

[butchersapron]

Yeah it was billed as brave infiltration of extreme right groups but was then all about chatting online which is ok but let’s not get overexcited.

Seriously, you have better things to spend energy on. Wouldn't bother with it.

 

[petee]

3: Lait and Mortimer, New York: Confidential. a repugnant book.

4: McKelway, Reporting at Wit's End
5: Sand, How I Stopped Being a Jew

 

[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
47/70 - Wally Lamb - I Know This Much is True
48/70 - Mick Herron - Slow Horses
49/70 - Patricia Highsmith - The Boy Who Followed Ripley
50/70 - David Mitchell - Utopia Avenue
51/70 - Ruth Rendell - The Copper Peacock
52/70 - Minette Walters - Disordered Minds
53/70 - Jane Harper - The Lost Man (BC)
54/70 - Elizabeth Strout - Olive, Again
55/70 - Richard Bachman - The Regulators

56/70 - Susan Hill - The Risk of Darkness

 

[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
14/36 - The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
15/36 - Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
16/36 - HMS Ulysses by Alistair Maclean
17/36 - Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
18/36 - Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist
19/36 - Adolf Hitler- My Part in his Downfall by Spike Milligan
20/36 - The Gathering by Anne Enright
21/36 - Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (rererereread)
22/36 - The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (reread)
23/36 - The Trench by Steve Alten (reread)
24/36 - The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
25/36 - Haunted by James Herbert
26/36 - Books of Blood 5: In the Flesh by Clive Barker (reread)
27/36 - Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen
28/36 - Domain by James Herbert (reread)
29/36 - The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

 

[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
12. Helen Pearson - The Life Project

13. Irenosen Okojie - Speak Gigantular. I really wanted to like this collection of short stories...but I just didn't. Didn't click with her style, which is intermittently engaging but veers too much towards a sort of magic realism bot, spewing out imagery that doesn't mean very much. The book is also sloppily edited, which I can overlook if I'm really into something but is always the final nail for something I'm indifferent to.