1. born to run - bruce springsteen - 4/5
2. the magus - john fowles - 5/5
3. hideous creatures - s e lister - 4/5
4. the wind up bird chronicle - haruki murakami - 5/5
5. the supernatural enhancements - edgar canetro - 4/5
6. secret history of twin peaks - mark frost - 5/5
7. a ghost's story - lorna gibb - 4/5
8. longbarrow - mark morris - 3.5/5
9. wolves - simon ings - 3/5
10. the fire sermon - francesca haig - 3.5/5
11. man in the picture - susan hill - 4/5
12. wild sheep chase - haruki murakami - 4/5
13. old man and the wasteland (wasteland saga 1)- nick cole - 4.5/5
14. the savage boy (wasteland saga 2)- nick cole - 5/5
15. the road is a river (wasteland saga 3)- nick cole - 5/5
16. nyctophobia - christopher fowler - 4/5
17. pedro paramo - juan rolfo - 4/5
18. lost girl - adam nevill - 4/5
19. darkest past:haunting tales - benedict ashforth - 4/5 -
20. verona - benedict ashforth - 4/5
21. library of souls: miss peregrine 3 - ransom riggs - 4/5
22. thin air - michelle paver - 5/5
23. travelling bag and other ghostly stories - susan hill - 3/5
24. the last one - alexandra oliva - 4/5
25. hekla's children - james brogden - 4/5
26. i am providence - nick mamatas - 3.5/5
27. beneath the lake - christopher ransom - 3.5/5 - like many of his, there's bits i like but then there are other bits that frustrate me...so some of its 3/5, some's 4/5...

to be fair, the review tagline from the scum shouldve tipped me off....

1. born to run - bruce springsteen - 4/5
2. the magus - john fowles - 5/5
3. hideous creatures - s e lister - 4/5
4. the wind up bird chronicle - haruki murakami - 5/5
5. the supernatural enhancements - edgar canetro - 4/5
6. secret history of twin peaks - mark frost - 5/5
7. a ghost's story - lorna gibb - 4/5
8. longbarrow - mark morris - 3.5/5
9. wolves - simon ings - 3/5
10. the fire sermon - francesca haig - 3.5/5
11. man in the picture - susan hill - 4/5
12. wild sheep chase - haruki murakami - 4/5
13. old man and the wasteland (wasteland saga 1)- nick cole - 4.5/5
14. the savage boy (wasteland saga 2)- nick cole - 5/5
15. the road is a river (wasteland saga 3)- nick cole - 5/5
16. nyctophobia - christopher fowler - 4/5
17. pedro paramo - juan rolfo - 4/5
18. lost girl - adam nevill - 4/5
19. darkest past:haunting tales - benedict ashforth - 4/5 -
20. verona - benedict ashforth - 4/5
21. library of souls: miss peregrine 3 - ransom riggs - 4/5
22. thin air - michelle paver - 5/5
23. travelling bag and other ghostly stories - susan hill - 3/5
24. the last one - alexandra oliva - 4/5
25. hekla's children - james brogden - 4/5
26. i am providence - nick mamatas - 3.5/5
27. beneath the lake - christopher ransom - 3.5/5
28. the adventures of mr maximillian bacchus and his travelling circus - clive barker - 4/5
29. 10 extreme ghost stories - algernon blackwood - 4/5

two kindle books i've finished while waiting for the destroyer of worlds to come out of school....the second seems to be some sort of crappy kindle compilation...still love his writing, though, and barker's always good value in my book...

1 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
2 The Purple Plain by H E Bates
3 The Darling Buds of May by H E Bates
4 Selected short stories by H E Bates
5 The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
6 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
7 Home by Marilynne Robinson
8 Lila by Marilynne Robinson
9 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
10 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
11 Fury by Salman Rushdie
12 Beloved by Toni Morrison
13 The Girls by Emma Cline
14 Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
15 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
16 Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
17 The Mandibles: A Family, 2029 - 2047 by Lionel Shriver
18 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
19 Home by Toni Morrison
20 Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
21 The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence M. Krauss
22 About Grace by Anthony Doerr
23 Nutshell by Ian McEwan

1.Thresholds of Peace. German prisoners and the People of Britain. 1944-1948 - Matthew Sullivan
2. Escape from Germany - Aidan Crawley
3. Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning and Teaching - Jeanette Littlemore
4. Food in History - Reay Tannahill
5. The Cyclist Who Went Out In the Cold - Tim Moore
6. Cognitive English Grammar - Günther Radden & René Dirven
7. The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland - Rory Stewart
8. Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe - Gaston Dorren
9. The Blitz: The British Under Attack - Juliet Gardiner
10. Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin
11. Seeds of Earth - Michael Cobley
12. An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler - Peter Fritzsche
13. Speaking our Minds: Why Human communication is Different, and How Language Evolved to make it Special - Thom Scott-Phillips
14. In the Land of Giants: A journey through the Dark Ages - Max Adams
15. Conversational Repair and Human Understanding - Makoto Hayashi, Geoffrey Raymond & Jack Sidnell (Eds.)
16. Indirect Reports and Pragmatics: Interdisciplinary Studies (Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology) - Alessandro Capone (Ed.) (Re-read)

No. 14 was very engaging. A Professional archeologist tours some of the dark-age sites of Britain and Ireland. It is easy to overlook just how much stuff is out there, and the effects that those years and those peoples had and continue to have on Britain and Ireland. The author is, in addition to being extremely knowledgeable about the field (as one would expect), also a talented writer. One insight that he really brought out was the way in which our modern car-bound sensibilities color our view of landscape.
The ancient kingdom of Dal Raita, covering N. Ireland and the Western Isles of Scotland seems very pragmatic when viewed from the standpoint of sea-going peoples. The communities that are now isolated at the ends of peninsulas and on islands seem a lot less lonely when you shift perspective and see them as clustered around a northern Mare Nostrum.

No. 15 was a fantastic (if technical) collection of chapters of how interactants in real time deal with peturbations in talk. Rather than see spontaneous talk as 'corrupt' and 'degraded' (Chomsky, 1965), these authors demonstrate that the processes of repair are orderly and systematic, and that the restarts, hesitations, rephrasings and repetitions that are massively present in all spontaneous talk actually facilitate interaction, and that spoken interaction would be a brittle and difficult business without them.
(I can't claim to have read all of the chapters, but I read most of them, so I think it's fair to include this book on this list...)

No. 16, Similar in it's level of technical language and exposition, and equally fascinating in it's investigations of this central human activity of reported speech. We talk, and we quite often talk about talking. It is hard to imagine any stretch of interaction that does not refer to previous talk in some way. I feel smarter for having read this book.
(Similar to no.15, I can't claim to have read all chapters, but will include it on this list.)

1 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
2 The Purple Plain by H E Bates
3 The Darling Buds of May by H E Bates
4 Selected short stories by H E Bates
5 The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
6 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
7 Home by Marilynne Robinson
8 Lila by Marilynne Robinson
9 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
10 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
11 Fury by Salman Rushdie
12 Beloved by Toni Morrison
13 The Girls by Emma Cline
14 Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
15 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
16 Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
17 The Mandibles: A Family, 2029 - 2047 by Lionel Shriver
18 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
19 Home by Toni Morrison
20 Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
21 The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence M. Krauss
22 About Grace by Anthony Doerr
23 Nutshell by Ian McEwan
24 Thin Air by Michelle Paver

Audiobooks in Italics

1. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
3. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams - Josiah Adams
4. PNIN - Vladimir Nabokov
5. Zuleika Dobson, or An Oxford Love Story - Sir Max Beerbohm
6. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
7. The Mark of Athena - Rick Riordan
8. Now It Can Be Told - Philip Gibbs
9. The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan - Laurence Leamer
10. History of the Plague in London - Daniel Defoe
11. The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison
12. The Bad Beginnings: Or, Orphans!; The Reptile Room: Or, Murder!; The Wide Window: Or, Disappearance!; The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snickets (Books 1 through 4 of A Series of Unfortunate Events)
13. The Religion of the Ancient Celts - J.A. MacColluch
14. My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt - Sarah Bernhardt

1. The Heresy of Doctor Dee - Phil Rickman.
2. I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan - Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci.
3. Thinking About it Only Makes it Worse: And Other Lessons From Modern Life - David Mitchell.
4. A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson.
5. I am No One - Patrick Flanery.
6. A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay.
7. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov.
8. Fellside - M.R. Carey.
9. I Am Providence - Nick Mamas.
10. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft.
11. The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry.
12. A Ghost's Story - Lorna Gibb.
13. The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes.
14. Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi.
15. Hekla's Children - James Brogden.
16. Just an Ordinary Day - Shirley Jackson.

1. Empire State - Adam Christopher ***
2. Sleeping Giants - Sylvain Neuvel ****
3. Mustaa Lihaa (Black Meat, cyberpunk anthology) */**
4. Invisible Planets: Collected Fiction - Hannu Rajaniemi ****
5. The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu *****
6. Spin - Robert Charles Wilson *****

Not going to reach 25...

1. The Heresy of Doctor Dee - Phil Rickman.
2. I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan - Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci.
3. Thinking About it Only Makes it Worse: And Other Lessons From Modern Life - David Mitchell.
4. A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson.
5. I am No One - Patrick Flanery.
6. A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay.
7. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov.
8. Fellside - M.R. Carey.
9. I Am Providence - Nick Mamas.
10. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft.
11. The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry.
12. A Ghost's Story - Lorna Gibb.
13. The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes.
14. Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi.
15. Hekla's Children - James Brogden.
16. Just an Ordinary Day - Shirley Jackson.
17. The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain.
18. Thin Air - Michelle Paver.

1 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
2 The Purple Plain by H E Bates
3 The Darling Buds of May by H E Bates
4 Selected short stories by H E Bates
5 The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
6 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
7 Home by Marilynne Robinson
8 Lila by Marilynne Robinson
9 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
10 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
11 Fury by Salman Rushdie
12 Beloved by Toni Morrison
13 The Girls by Emma Cline
14 Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
15 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
16 Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
17 The Mandibles: A Family, 2029 - 2047 by Lionel Shriver
18 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
19 Home by Toni Morrison
20 Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
21 The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence M. Krauss
22 About Grace by Anthony Doerr
23 Nutshell by Ian McEwan
24 Thin Air by Michelle Paver
25 The Mine by Antti Tuomainen translated by David Hackston

1. The Heresy of Doctor Dee - Phil Rickman.
2. I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan - Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci.
3. Thinking About it Only Makes it Worse: And Other Lessons From Modern Life - David Mitchell.
4. A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson.
5. I am No One - Patrick Flanery.
6. A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay.
7. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov.
8. Fellside - M.R. Carey.
9. I Am Providence - Nick Mamas.
10. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft.
11. The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry.
12. A Ghost's Story - Lorna Gibb.
13. The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes.
14. Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi.
15. Hekla's Children - James Brogden.
16. Just an Ordinary Day - Shirley Jackson.
17. The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain.
18. Thin Air - Michelle Paver.
19. Nocturnal Animals - Austin Wright.

Audiobooks in Italics

1. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
3. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams - Josiah Adams
4. PNIN - Vladimir Nabokov
5. Zuleika Dobson, or An Oxford Love Story - Sir Max Beerbohm
6. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
7. The Mark of Athena - Rick Riordan
8. Now It Can Be Told - Philip Gibbs
9. The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan - Laurence Leamer
10. History of the Plague in London - Daniel Defoe
11. The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison
12. The Bad Beginnings: Or, Orphans!; The Reptile Room: Or, Murder!; The Wide Window: Or, Disappearance!; The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snickets (Books 1 through 4 of A Series of Unfortunate Events)
13. The Religion of the Ancient Celts - J.A. MacColluch
14. My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt - Sarah Bernhardt
15. To Find A Mountain - Dan Ames
16. Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis

1.Thresholds of Peace. German prisoners and the People of Britain. 1944-1948 - Matthew Sullivan
2. Escape from Germany - Aidan Crawley
3. Applying Cognitive Linguistics to Second Language Learning and Teaching - Jeanette Littlemore
4. Food in History - Reay Tannahill
5. The Cyclist Who Went Out In the Cold - Tim Moore
6. Cognitive English Grammar - Günther Radden & René Dirven
7. The Marches: A Borderland Journey Between England and Scotland - Rory Stewart
8. Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe - Gaston Dorren
9. The Blitz: The British Under Attack - Juliet Gardiner
10. Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Maturin
11. Seeds of Earth - Michael Cobley
12. An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler - Peter Fritzsche
13. Speaking our Minds: Why Human communication is Different, and How Language Evolved to make it Special - Thom Scott-Phillips
14. In the Land of Giants: A journey through the Dark Ages - Max Adams
15. Conversational Repair and Human Understanding - Makoto Hayashi, Geoffrey Raymond & Jack Sidnell (Eds.)
16. Indirect Reports and Pragmatics: Interdisciplinary Studies (Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology) - Alessandro Capone (Ed.) (Re-read)
17. Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can help Adults Learn a Foreign Language - Richard Robers and Roger Kreuz

1 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
2 The Purple Plain by H E Bates
3 The Darling Buds of May by H E Bates
4 Selected short stories by H E Bates
5 The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
6 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
7 Home by Marilynne Robinson
8 Lila by Marilynne Robinson
9 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
10 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
11 Fury by Salman Rushdie
12 Beloved by Toni Morrison
13 The Girls by Emma Cline
14 Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
15 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
16 Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
17 The Mandibles: A Family, 2029 - 2047 by Lionel Shriver
18 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
19 Home by Toni Morrison
20 Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
21 The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence M. Krauss
22 About Grace by Anthony Doerr
23 Nutshell by Ian McEwan
24 Thin Air by Michelle Paver
25 The Mine by Antti Tuomainen translated by David Hackston
26 The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

1. born to run - bruce springsteen - 4/5
2. the magus - john fowles - 5/5
3. hideous creatures - s e lister - 4/5
4. the wind up bird chronicle - haruki murakami - 5/5
5. the supernatural enhancements - edgar canetro - 4/5
6. secret history of twin peaks - mark frost - 5/5
7. a ghost's story - lorna gibb - 4/5
8. longbarrow - mark morris - 3.5/5
9. wolves - simon ings - 3/5
10. the fire sermon - francesca haig - 3.5/5
11. man in the picture - susan hill - 4/5
12. wild sheep chase - haruki murakami - 4/5
13. old man and the wasteland (wasteland saga 1)- nick cole - 4.5/5
14. the savage boy (wasteland saga 2)- nick cole - 5/5
15. the road is a river (wasteland saga 3)- nick cole - 5/5
16. nyctophobia - christopher fowler - 4/5
17. pedro paramo - juan rolfo - 4/5
18. lost girl - adam nevill - 4/5
19. darkest past:haunting tales - benedict ashforth - 4/5 -
20. verona - benedict ashforth - 4/5
21. library of souls: miss peregrine 3 - ransom riggs - 4/5
22. thin air - michelle paver - 5/5
23. travelling bag and other ghostly stories - susan hill - 3/5
24. the last one - alexandra oliva - 4/5
25. hekla's children - james brogden - 4/5
26. i am providence - nick mamatas - 3.5/5
27. beneath the lake - christopher ransom - 3.5/5
28. the adventures of mr maximillian bacchus and his travelling circus - clive barker - 4/5
29. 10 extreme ghost stories - algernon blackwood - 4/5
30. essex serpent - sarah perry - 5/5...brilliant book..

1 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
2 The Purple Plain by H E Bates
3 The Darling Buds of May by H E Bates
4 Selected short stories by H E Bates
5 The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
6 Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
7 Home by Marilynne Robinson
8 Lila by Marilynne Robinson
9 The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
10 Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie
11 Fury by Salman Rushdie
12 Beloved by Toni Morrison
13 The Girls by Emma Cline
14 Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
15 The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
16 Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham
17 The Mandibles: A Family, 2029 - 2047 by Lionel Shriver
18 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
19 Home by Toni Morrison
20 Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
21 The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence M. Krauss
22 About Grace by Anthony Doerr
23 Nutshell by Ian McEwan
24 Thin Air by Michelle Paver
25 The Mine by Antti Tuomainen translated by David Hackston
26 The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
27 The Sea by John Banville

Audiobooks in Italics

1. Kim - Rudyard Kipling
2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume
3. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams - Josiah Adams
4. PNIN - Vladimir Nabokov
5. Zuleika Dobson, or An Oxford Love Story - Sir Max Beerbohm
6. On the Road - Jack Kerouac
7. The Mark of Athena - Rick Riordan
8. Now It Can Be Told - Philip Gibbs
9. The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan - Laurence Leamer
10. History of the Plague in London - Daniel Defoe
11. The Worm Ouroboros - E.R. Eddison
12. The Bad Beginnings: Or, Orphans!; The Reptile Room: Or, Murder!; The Wide Window: Or, Disappearance!; The Miserable Mill - Lemony Snickets (Books 1 through 4 of A Series of Unfortunate Events)
13. The Religion of the Ancient Celts - J.A. MacColluch
14. My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt - Sarah Bernhardt
15. To Find A Mountain - Dan Ames
16. Elmer Gantry - Sinclair Lewis
17. The Neon Lawyer - Victor Methos

1. The Heresy of Doctor Dee - Phil Rickman.
2. I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan - Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci.
3. Thinking About it Only Makes it Worse: And Other Lessons From Modern Life - David Mitchell.
4. A God in Ruins - Kate Atkinson.
5. I am No One - Patrick Flanery.
6. A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay.
7. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov.
8. Fellside - M.R. Carey.
9. I Am Providence - Nick Mamas.
10. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft.
11. The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry.
12. A Ghost's Story - Lorna Gibb.
13. The Noise of Time - Julian Barnes.
14. Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi.
15. Hekla's Children - James Brogden.
16. Just an Ordinary Day - Shirley Jackson.
17. The Gustav Sonata - Rose Tremain.
18. Thin Air - Michelle Paver.
19. Nocturnal Animals - Austin Wright.
20. Moonglow - Michael Chabon.

1. born to run - bruce springsteen - 4/5
2. the magus - john fowles - 5/5
3. hideous creatures - s e lister - 4/5
4. the wind up bird chronicle - haruki murakami - 5/5
5. the supernatural enhancements - edgar canetro - 4/5
6. secret history of twin peaks - mark frost - 5/5
7. a ghost's story - lorna gibb - 4/5
8. longbarrow - mark morris - 3.5/5
9. wolves - simon ings - 3/5
10. the fire sermon - francesca haig - 3.5/5
11. man in the picture - susan hill - 4/5
12. wild sheep chase - haruki murakami - 4/5
13. old man and the wasteland (wasteland saga 1)- nick cole - 4.5/5
14. the savage boy (wasteland saga 2)- nick cole - 5/5
15. the road is a river (wasteland saga 3)- nick cole - 5/5
16. nyctophobia - christopher fowler - 4/5
17. pedro paramo - juan rolfo - 4/5
18. lost girl - adam nevill - 4/5
19. darkest past:haunting tales - benedict ashforth - 4/5 -
20. verona - benedict ashforth - 4/5
21. library of souls: miss peregrine 3 - ransom riggs - 4/5
22. thin air - michelle paver - 5/5
23. travelling bag and other ghostly stories - susan hill - 3/5
24. the last one - alexandra oliva - 4/5
25. hekla's children - james brogden - 4/5
26. i am providence - nick mamatas - 3.5/5
27. beneath the lake - christopher ransom - 3.5/5
28. the adventures of mr maximillian bacchus and his travelling circus - clive barker - 4/5
29. 10 extreme ghost stories - algernon blackwood - 4/5
30. essex serpent - sarah perry - 5/5
31. the noise of time - julian barnes - 4/5...powerful perspective on art in soviet russia....barnes is always good value