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
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
58/70 - Peter James - Find Them Dead

59/70 - John Grisham - The Pelican Brief (BC)

 

[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

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36/75 Harbinger- Robin Crumby

 

[Pickman's model]

New thread for 2021 coming in a couple of weeks

 

[Fozzie Bear]

29/30 Joy White - Terraformed: Young Black Lives In The Inner City

Part memoir, part sociology. About Forest Gate / Newham. Some good chapters on Grime and accounts of the author visiting the new hipster businesses that are opening up. Hearbreaking chapter on the fatal stabbing of her nephew.

 

[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)
24/26 El Diego by Diego Armando Maradona
25/26 Northline by Willy Vlautin

26/26 How to Rob an Armored Car by Iain Levison (ReRead)

 

[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
31. The Long 68, - Richard Vinen
32. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class - Jonathan Rose
33. Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher (re-read)
34. Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood

Surprised that I reached my target this year as there's been long periods where I couldn't be arsed picking up a book.

 

[chilango]

86/100: Line of Fire - Andy McNab

My word that was shite. I only finished it to find out how many visits to CeX he could crowbar into the plot.

 

[hitmouse]

34. Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood

What did you think to it? I really enjoyed it, one of my new favourite writers, proper looking forward to the new one coming out in January.

 

[LDC]

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
31. The Long 68, - Richard Vinen
32. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Class - Jonathan Rose
33. Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher (re-read)
34. Priestdaddy - Patricia Lockwood

Surprised that I reached my target this year as there's been long periods where I couldn't be arsed picking up a book.

Did you like Hinterland Threshers_Flail ? It was one of my favourite books of the year.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Did you like Hinterland Threshers_Flail ? It was one of my favourite books of the year.

It's so good! It can be a bit gratuitously apocalyptic (pinched that off goodreads) at times yet it's great! Love how it's part radical geography and part travelogue. Have dipped into it loads.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

What did you think to it? I really enjoyed it, one of my new favourite writers, proper looking forward to the new one coming out in January.

I really enjoyed it yet new very little about PL beforehand (apart from her twitter profile) so maybe didn't grab me as much as it could have. Will keep an eye out for the new book!

 

[LDC]

It's so good! It can be a bit gratuitously apocalyptic (pinched that off goodreads) at times yet it's great! Love how it's part radical geography and part travelogue. Have dipped into it loads.

I re-read it a few months ago I enjoyed it so much. Somone posted a new epilogue he's written to the French edition somewhere on here.

He think he also used to do the Ultra // Loot Back website as well ULTRA The website been pretty dead for a bit, but he (I think!) posts on the Loot Back Twitter a fair bit.

 

[hitmouse]

Yeah, Neel has new bits and pieces (including that epilogue) published in the Brooklyn Rail from time to time, and Lockwood writes in the LRB semi-regularly (which tends to be paywalled, but there's ways to get around that). Not that two writers have much in common except that they both wrote books that I really liked this year, although thinking about it I guess you could say that Lockwood is also writing about the hinterland?

 

[LDC]

Yeah, Neel has new bits and pieces (including that epilogue) published in the Brooklyn Rail from time to time, and Lockwood writes in the LRB semi-regularly (which tends to be paywalled, but there's ways to get around that). Not that two writers have much in common except that they both wrote books that I really liked this year, although thinking about it I guess you could say that Lockwood is also writing about the hinterland?

Might have to try the Lockwood book then.

 

[hitmouse]

It's not really like indepth Marxist class analysis in the same way, but on the other hand it does have a lot more shagging jokes in. If you want a taster of her writing, here's something she wrote for the LRB just after the election, if you enjoy that then it's worth getting the book, if you decide you hate it then probably don't bother. And Priestdaddy does contain the information that the St Louis/Ferguson area is home to a massive underground dump of nuclear waste left over from the Manhattan project, which is an incredibly Phil Neel-feeling fact.

 

[yield]

It's so good! It can be a bit gratuitously apocalyptic (pinched that off goodreads) at times yet it's great! Love how it's part radical geography and part travelogue. Have dipped into it loads.

I re-read it a few months ago I enjoyed it so much. Somone posted a new epilogue he's written to the French edition somewhere on here.

Hinterland is the best book I've read this year.

there was a great book released in 2018 called Hinterland (worth a read) that did show that the far right was able to get a following but in the epilogue of the French edition of the book Neel sees some cause for hope for those of us that want a society fundamentally reordered The Spiral

 

[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
50/50 P G Wodehouse - Mike and Psmith
51/50 Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days

52/50 Stephen Fry - Mythos

 

[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)
24/26 El Diego by Diego Armando Maradona
25/26 Northline by Willy Vlautin
26/26 How to Rob an Armored Car by Iain Levison (ReRead)

27/26 Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out by David Ranney

 

[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
45/50 George Jackson - Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of
46/50 Anthony Edwards - Appointment in Aberedwy: The Death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

47/50 Nestor Makhno - The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays
48/50 Pragati Bidkar - Chai Street
49/50 C. A. Trypanis - The Glass Adonis

A bit of a last minute panic, thinking I'd never make the 50, so threw a few short ones in - They all had spines. I think I've run out of short books now, so it's still gonna be touch and go if I get to 50

 

[chilango]

87/100: Acts of Resistance - Pierre Bourdieu

 

[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)
24/26 El Diego by Diego Armando Maradona
25/26 Northline by Willy Vlautin
26/26 How to Rob an Armored Car by Iain Levison (ReRead)
27/26 Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out by David Ranney

28/26 Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football by Daniel Gray

 

[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

10. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

 

[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)
24/26 El Diego by Diego Armando Maradona
25/26 Northline by Willy Vlautin
26/26 How to Rob an Armored Car by Iain Levison (ReRead)
27/26 Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out by David Ranney
28/26 Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football by Daniel Gray

29/26 Call for the Dead by John le Carré

 

[chilango]

88/100: Forget Foucault - Jean Baudrillard

Take that Liz Truss!

 

[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
58/70 - Peter James - Find Them Dead
59/70 - John Grisham - The Pelican Brief (BC)

60/70 - R D Wingfield - Frost at Christmas

 

[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
45/50 Beloved - Toni Morrison
46/50 I Owe You One - Sophie Kinsella
47/50 The Phone Box at the End of the World - Laura Imai Messina
48/50 The Twin - Natasha Preston
49/50 A head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay

50/50 One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson

I've done it! Very pleased that I've made it to 50 books this year - at one point I was hardly reading at all.

 

[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
36/75 Harbinger- Robin Crumby

*****
37/75 The Highway - C J Box

 

[kropotkin]

1. Suttree - Cormac Mccarthy
2. The Order of Time - Carlo Rovelli
3. The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
4. Exhalation - Ted Chiang
5. The Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman
6. Birds Without Wings - Louis de Berniere
7. The Peripheral - William Gibson
8. Proxima Rising - Brandon Q. Morris
9. She Came to Slay: the Life and Times of Harriet Tubman - Erica Armstrong Dunbar
10. Radicalized - Corey Doctorow
11. American Dirt - Janine Cummins
12. Energy and Civilisation--a History - Vaclav Smil
13. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
14. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher - Hilary Mantel
15. Lampedusa - Steven Price
16. I am Legend - Richard Matheson
17. Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff
18. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
19. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
20. The Long Walk - Richard Bachman/Stephen King
21. The Plague - Albert Camus
22. All Systems Red - Martha Wells
23. Artificial Condition - Martha Wells
24. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells
25. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
26. Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 - Albert Marrin
27. High Rise - J. G. Ballard
28. The Girl With All the Gifts - M. R. Carey
29. The Rules of Contagion - Adam Kutcharski
30. Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo
31. Night Boat to Tangier - Kevin Barry
32. Recursion - Blake Crouch
33. The Risk Pool - Richard Russo
34. The Vanished Birds - Simon Jiminez
35. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Attwood
36. A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom - John Boyne
37. Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
38. James Baldwin - If Beale Street could Talk
39. The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
40. The World at Night - Alan Furst
41. Red Gold - Alan Furst
42. Kingdom of Shadows - Alan Furst
43. Blood of Victory - Alan Furst
44. Dark Voyage - Alan Furst

 

[Fozzie Bear]

30/30 Nigel Todd - In Excited Times: The People Against The Blackshirts

Entertaining and well-researched short history of opposition to the British Union of Fascists in the North East.

 

[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 - Ld
33/50 Family Album, Penelope Lively
34/50 Magickal Beginnings, Lisa M Hawkins
35/50 Courting Trouble, Lisa M Hawkins

I'm not going to make my target this year but seeing as I do most of my reading on my commute and when travelling I'm quite proud I got as far as I did.