the wonderful world of reading 2020 reading challenge thread

[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

47/50 C S Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia 1-7

 

[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

20/26 Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? by Jimmy Breslin

 

[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, Sheyl Browne
16/50 Nutshell, Ian McEwan - Ld
17/50 The Killer You Know, SR Masters
18/50 Insurgent, Veronica Roth
19/50 Allegiant, Veronica Roth
20/50 Such a Fun Age, Kiley Reid - Ld
21/50 My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell - Ld
22/50 The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
23/50 The Cat and the City, Nick Bradley
24/50 Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
25/50 Cornerstone, Misty Provencher
26/50 A Man Called Ove, Fredrik Backman
27/50 At Last, John W Mefford
28/50 Painted Clay, Doris Boake Kerr
29/50 The Dinner Party, RJ Parket
30/50 Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
31/50 If It Bleeds, Stephen King
32/50 Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Reni Eddo- Lodge

 

[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
47/50 C S Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia 1-7

48/50 Seamus Heaney - Door Into the Dark

 

[chilango]

75/100: Visual Methodologies - Gillian Rose
76/100: Structuralism and Semiotics - Terence Hawkes

Yeah
As fun as they sound tbh.

 

[chilango]

77/100: Philosophy for Militants - Alain Badiou.

It's a bit shit. But at least it was short.

 

[chilango]

78/100: The Courage of Hopelessness - Slavoj Zizek.

Zizek has a pop at the woke left. Although he lands the occasional blow, its pretty dull stuff lacking his usual wit and turn of phrase. Not recommended.

 

[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
20/26 Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? by Jimmy Breslin

21/26 A Tournament Frozen in Time: The Wonderful Randomness of the European Cup Winners Cup by Steven Scragg

 

[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
20/26 Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? by Jimmy Breslin
21/26 A Tournament Frozen in Time: The Wonderful Randomness of the European Cup Winners Cup by Steven Scragg

22/26 Nightfall by David Goodis

 

[chilango]

79/100: The Post Card - Jacques Derrida.

Can't believe I read through this just to find a single, largely irrelevant, reference. No idea what was going on in this book if I'm honest. (On the bright side I only had to read a single chapter from Lacan's Ecrits to get the counter reference)

 

[chilango]

I need to read something fun

 

[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
27/40: Thomas Frank:
28/40: Raphael Samuel: Theatres of Memory, Volume 1

Not going to make the 40 target. I blame Samuel and EP Thompson. The bastards

 

[imposs1904]

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
27/40: Thomas Frank:
28/40: Raphael Samuel: Theatres of Memory, Volume 1

Not going to make the 40 target. I blame Samuel and EP Thompson. The bastards

But not Piketty?

 

[chilango]

But not Piketty?

It's mostly graphs.

 

[chilango]

80/100: On Television - Pierre Bourdieu

Short but sweet. One of his more accessible books.

 

[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

****

35/75 Wildfire - Robin Crumby

 

[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

44/50 Ramble Book - Adam Buxton

 

[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
14/30 - The Ruins - Scott Smith
15/30 - The Long Walk - Stephen King
16/30 - Wilding - Isabella Tree
17/30 - Join the Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music - Matt Anniss
18/30 - Heart Shaped Box - Joe Hill

 

[Smokeandsteam]

But not Piketty?

I know what you mean. But I’ve found Samuel a hard two volume read. It’s been slow and required a lot of googling and side reading.

Thompson is part of an ongoing reading group project I’m involved in and so involves writing and thinking.

In comparison Piketty was, relatively speaking, a piece of piss. I wasn’t that blown away by him btw

 

[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

23/19 The Years - Annie Ernaux

 

[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
30/36 - Skagboys by Irvine Welsh (reread)

 

[Fozzie Bear]

27/30 Fred Vermorel - Dead Fashion Girl: A Situationist Detective Story

A wild ride. Vermorel investigates the unsolved murder of a young woman near where he lived in South Ruislip when he was eight years old. Some great insights into the dark underbelly of 1950s Soho and London suburbs.

 

[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
30/36 - Skagboys by Irvine Welsh (reread)
31/36 - Not Dead Yet by Phil Collins

 

[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
23/20 - It Takes Blood and Guts - Skin

 

[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
37/50 Sol Littman - Pure Soldiers or Sinister Legion -The Ukrainian 14th Waffen-SS Division
38/50 Carol Gelles - 100 Best Vegetarian Recipes
39/50 Ken MacLeod - The Restoration Game
40/50 Catherine Samary - Yugoslavia Dismembered
41/50 Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim (eds.) - The Verso Book of Dissent
42/50 Graham Greene - The Burnt-out Case

43/50 Leigh Phillips - The Peoples Republic of Walmart
44/50 Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

 

[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

57/70 - Stephen King - Desperation

 

[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
47/50 C S Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia 1-7
48/50 Seamus Heaney - Door Into the Dark

49/50 Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women

 

[colbhoy]

1/10 - Die Trying by Lee Child
2/10 - The Three Kings: Busby, Shankley, Stein by Leo Moynihan
3/10 - The Sentry by Robert Crais
4/10 - Plainsong by Kent Haruf
5/10 - More Fool Me by Stephen Fry

 

[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
20/26 Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? by Jimmy Breslin
21/26 A Tournament Frozen in Time: The Wonderful Randomness of the European Cup Winners Cup by Steven Scragg
22/26 Nightfall by David Goodis

23/26 People Like That by Agnes Owens (ReRead)

 

[butchersapron]

57 - Germanys New Right as Culture and Politics - Roger Woods
58 - The Golden Dawn’s ‘Nationalist Solution’: Explaining the Rise of the Far Right in Greece - Sofia Vasilopoulou, Daphne Halikiopoulou
59 - Rethinking the French New Right: Alternatives to Modernity - Tamir Bar-On
60 - Holding Fast to an Image of the Past: Explorations in the Marxist Tradition - Neil Davidson
61 - The Origins of Nazi Violence - Enzo Traverso