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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#161  Postby Blip » Aug 08, 2018 6:45 am

UncertainSloth wrote:how was 'the shadow catcher', blip? loved thin air and dark matter but unsure about this trilogy...


I'd describe as well-written chick lit, UncertainSloth; it was engaging enough for me to download Fever Hill but I preferred Thin Air and Dark Matter.

felltoearth wrote:Really looking forward to reading Warlight.


I think it's a masterpiece. :nod:
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#162  Postby crazyfitter » Aug 12, 2018 6:39 pm

1. The Associate - John Grisham. A nice re-read in my sickbed.
2. Galveston - Nic Pizzolatto
3. Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz
4. Nobody Walks - Mick Herron
5. A Darkness More Than Night - Michael Connelly
6. Reconstruction - Mick Herron
7. Death in the Rainy Season - Anna Jaquirty
8. Down Cemetery Road - Mick Herron
9. The Courier - Ava McCarthy
10. Locked Rooms - Laurie R. King
11. The Venetian Game - Philip Gwynne Jones
12. Dodgers - Bill Beverly
13. Hack - Kieran Crowley
14. Stasi Child - David Young
15. The Player of Games - Iain M Banks. Reread
16. The Whisperers - John Connolly. Reread
17. A Legacy of Spies - John leCarre
18. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
19. Before the Dawn - Jake Woodhouse
20. The Rooster Bar - John Grisham
21. The City & The City - China Mieville
22. The Tailor of Panama - John le Carre
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#163  Postby NamelessFaceless » Aug 13, 2018 2:05 pm

Audiobooks in Italics.

1. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
2. Ask the Dust - John Fante
3. Gerald's Game - Stephen King
4. Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders that America Forgot - Michael Arntfield
5. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
6. Prison Noir - Short story collection by various authors edited by Joyce Carol Oates
7. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
9. Crown Heights - Colin Warner, Carl King, and Holly Lorincz
10. The Price of Inequality - Joseph E. Stiglitz
11. No Coming Back - Keith Houghton
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[i]13. In the Light of the Garden - Heather Burch

14. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men - Harold Schechter
15. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
16. Twist of Faith - Ellen J. Green
17. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (read by Elijah Wood)
19. The Girl With All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
20. The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders - Anthony Flacco (read by the author)
21. Dracula - Bram Stoker (read by Alan Cummings, Tim Curry, and more)
22. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
23. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (read by Scarlett Johanssen)

24. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonassen
25. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (read by Kenneth Branagh)
26. The Unseen World - Liz Moore
27. The Descendants - Kaui Hart Hemmings
28. The Trial - Franz Kafka
29. Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
30. The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
31. How Parking Enforcement Stole My Soul - Ben Friedrich
32. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
33. The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
34. The Prestige - Christopher Priest
35. The Blood Of Olympus - Rick Riordan
36. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
37. Stephen Hero - James Joyce
38. The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#164  Postby Blip » Aug 18, 2018 11:32 am

1. A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
2. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
3. Learning to Look at Paintings by Mary Acton
4. The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
5. Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
6. Learning to Look at Modern Art by Mary Acton
7. Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
8. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
9. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
10. Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
11. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
12. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. The Shadow Catcher by Michelle Paver
14. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
15. Fever Hill by Michelle Paver
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#165  Postby Fallible » Aug 20, 2018 7:37 pm

1. The Unseen - Roy Jacobsen.
2. Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl.
3. The Sellout - Paul Beatty.
4. How to Stop Time - Matt Haig.
5. 4 3 2 1- Paul Auster.
6. The Lost Village - Neil Spring.
7. The Dog Stars - Peter Heller.
8. Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig.
9. The Vanishing - Sophia Tobin.
10. The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau - Graeme Macrae Burnet.
11. Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King & Owen King.
12. After Me Comes the Flood - Sarah Perry.
13. The Power - Naomi Alderman.
14. Beneath the Lake - Christopher Ransom.
15. The Testament of Vida Tremayne - Sarah Vincent.
16. The Sparsholt Affair - Alan Hollinghurst.
17. The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin.
18. The Obelisk Gate - N.K. Jemisin.
19. The Stone Sky - N.K. Jemisin.
20. The Outsider - Stephen King.
21. So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson. Kindle book.
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She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#166  Postby NamelessFaceless » Aug 21, 2018 2:41 pm

Audiobooks in Italics.

1. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
2. Ask the Dust - John Fante
3. Gerald's Game - Stephen King
4. Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders that America Forgot - Michael Arntfield
5. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
6. Prison Noir - Short story collection by various authors edited by Joyce Carol Oates
7. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
9. Crown Heights - Colin Warner, Carl King, and Holly Lorincz
10. The Price of Inequality - Joseph E. Stiglitz
11. No Coming Back - Keith Houghton
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[i]13. In the Light of the Garden - Heather Burch

14. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men - Harold Schechter
15. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
16. Twist of Faith - Ellen J. Green
17. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (read by Elijah Wood)
19. The Girl With All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
20. The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders - Anthony Flacco (read by the author)
21. Dracula - Bram Stoker (read by Alan Cummings, Tim Curry, and more)
22. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
23. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (read by Scarlett Johanssen)

24. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonassen
25. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (read by Kenneth Branagh)
26. The Unseen World - Liz Moore
27. The Descendants - Kaui Hart Hemmings
28. The Trial - Franz Kafka
29. Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
30. The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
31. How Parking Enforcement Stole My Soul - Ben Friedrich
32. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
33. The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
34. The Prestige - Christopher Priest
35. The Blood Of Olympus - Rick Riordan
36. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
37. Stephen Hero - James Joyce
38. The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
39. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (this is a "re-read" I guess. I listened to the audiobook a couple of months ago, but wanted to go back and read parts I felt I missed and ended up re-reading the whole book)
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#167  Postby Blip » Aug 23, 2018 7:42 am

1. A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
2. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
3. Learning to Look at Paintings by Mary Acton
4. The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
5. Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
6. Learning to Look at Modern Art by Mary Acton
7. Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
8. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
9. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
10. Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
11. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
12. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. The Shadow Catcher by Michelle Paver
14. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
15. Fever Hill by Michelle Paver
16. The Serpent's Tooth by Michelle Paver
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#168  Postby NamelessFaceless » Aug 24, 2018 2:24 pm

Audiobooks in Italics.

1. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
2. Ask the Dust - John Fante
3. Gerald's Game - Stephen King
4. Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders that America Forgot - Michael Arntfield
5. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
6. Prison Noir - Short story collection by various authors edited by Joyce Carol Oates
7. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
9. Crown Heights - Colin Warner, Carl King, and Holly Lorincz
10. The Price of Inequality - Joseph E. Stiglitz
11. No Coming Back - Keith Houghton
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[i]13. In the Light of the Garden - Heather Burch

14. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men - Harold Schechter
15. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
16. Twist of Faith - Ellen J. Green
17. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (read by Elijah Wood)
19. The Girl With All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
20. The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders - Anthony Flacco (read by the author)
21. Dracula - Bram Stoker (read by Alan Cummings, Tim Curry, and more)
22. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
23. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (read by Scarlett Johanssen)

24. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonassen
25. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (read by Kenneth Branagh)
26. The Unseen World - Liz Moore
27. The Descendants - Kaui Hart Hemmings
28. The Trial - Franz Kafka
29. Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
30. The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
31. How Parking Enforcement Stole My Soul - Ben Friedrich
32. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
33. The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
34. The Prestige - Christopher Priest
35. The Blood Of Olympus - Rick Riordan
36. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
37. Stephen Hero - James Joyce
38. The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
39. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (this is a "re-read" I guess. I listened to the audiobook a couple of months ago, but wanted to go back and read parts I felt I missed and ended up re-reading the whole book)
40. If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer - The Goldman Family
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#169  Postby UncertainSloth » Aug 25, 2018 11:39 pm

1. notes from the upside down: inside the world of stranger things - guy adams - 8/10
2. mythos - stephen fry - 9/10
3. how to stop time - matt haig - 9/10
4. fever dream - samanta schweblin - 8/10
5. tourmaline - james brogden - 9/10
6. the silent companions - laura purcell - 9/10
7. the surgeon of crowthorne - simon winchester - 8/10
8. the storm watcher - graham joyce - 8/10
9. the unseen - roy jacobsen - 8/10
10. the white city (down station 2) - simon morden - 8/10
11. the little stranger - sarah waters - 9/10
12. the pigeon - patrick suskind - 7/10
13. mr foreigner- matthew kneale - 8/10
14. arcadia - iain pears - 8/10
15. the children's home - charles lambert - 7/10
16. weird. dark. - luke smitherd - 8/10
17. the ghost hunters - neil spring - 9/10
18. the stone man - luke smitherd - and there it is, 10/10
19. reasons to stay alive - matt haig - 8/10
20. house of spines - michael j malone - 7/10
21. devil's day - andrew michael hurley - 10/10
22. limits of enchantment - graham joyce - 9/10
23. dream london - tony ballantyne - shite/10
24. rawblood - catriona ward - 9/10
25. underground railroad - colson whitehead - 9/10
26. the vanishing - sophia tobin - 7/10
27. reservoir 13 - jon macgregor - 8/10
28. norse mythology - neil gaiman - 9/10
29. under a watchful eye - adam nevill - 9/10
30. disappearance of adele bedeau - graeme mcrae burnet - 9/10
31. testament of vida tremayne - sarah vincent - 9/10
32. physics of the dead - luke smitherd - 9/10
33. the haunted book - jeremy dyson- 8/10
34. the daylight gate - jeanette winterson - 8/10
35. arrowood - laura mchugh - 9/10
36. the mysteries - lisa tuttle - 8/10
37. the terror - dan simmons spinal tap/10
38. The intuitionist - Colson whitehead 7/10
39. the hollow tree - james brogden - 8/10
40. a skinful of shadows - frances hardinge - 8/10 - preferred it to the lie tree, was less ya-ey...the only thing it lacked was a real sense of the period it was set in...the english civil war is a rich tapestry but felt underused in this...i liked the concept and the plot, though

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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#170  Postby NamelessFaceless » Aug 28, 2018 3:20 pm

Audiobooks in Italics.

1. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
2. Ask the Dust - John Fante
3. Gerald's Game - Stephen King
4. Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders that America Forgot - Michael Arntfield
5. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
6. Prison Noir - Short story collection by various authors edited by Joyce Carol Oates
7. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
9. Crown Heights - Colin Warner, Carl King, and Holly Lorincz
10. The Price of Inequality - Joseph E. Stiglitz
11. No Coming Back - Keith Houghton
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
[i]13. In the Light of the Garden - Heather Burch

14. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men - Harold Schechter
15. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
16. Twist of Faith - Ellen J. Green
17. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (read by Elijah Wood)
19. The Girl With All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
20. The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders - Anthony Flacco (read by the author)
21. Dracula - Bram Stoker (read by Alan Cummings, Tim Curry, and more)
22. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
23. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (read by Scarlett Johanssen)

24. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonassen
25. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (read by Kenneth Branagh)
26. The Unseen World - Liz Moore
27. The Descendants - Kaui Hart Hemmings
28. The Trial - Franz Kafka
29. Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
30. The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
31. How Parking Enforcement Stole My Soul - Ben Friedrich
32. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
33. The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
34. The Prestige - Christopher Priest
35. The Blood Of Olympus - Rick Riordan
36. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
37. Stephen Hero - James Joyce
38. The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
39. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (this is a "re-read" I guess. I listened to the audiobook a couple of months ago, but wanted to go back and read parts I felt I missed and ended up re-reading the whole book)
40. If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer - The Goldman Family
41. To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder - Nancy Rommelmann
42. Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Book 1) - Anthony Horowitz
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#171  Postby Blip » Sep 03, 2018 7:26 am

1. A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
2. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
3. Learning to Look at Paintings by Mary Acton
4. The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
5. Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
6. Learning to Look at Modern Art by Mary Acton
7. Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
8. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
9. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
10. Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
11. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
12. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. The Shadow Catcher by Michelle Paver
14. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
15. Fever Hill by Michelle Paver
16. The Serpent's Tooth by Michelle Paver
17. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#172  Postby Fallible » Sep 03, 2018 7:39 am

1. The Unseen - Roy Jacobsen.
2. Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl.
3. The Sellout - Paul Beatty.
4. How to Stop Time - Matt Haig.
5. 4 3 2 1- Paul Auster.
6. The Lost Village - Neil Spring.
7. The Dog Stars - Peter Heller.
8. Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig.
9. The Vanishing - Sophia Tobin.
10. The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau - Graeme Macrae Burnet.
11. Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King & Owen King.
12. After Me Comes the Flood - Sarah Perry.
13. The Power - Naomi Alderman.
14. Beneath the Lake - Christopher Ransom.
15. The Testament of Vida Tremayne - Sarah Vincent.
16. The Sparsholt Affair - Alan Hollinghurst.
17. The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin.
18. The Obelisk Gate - N.K. Jemisin.
19. The Stone Sky - N.K. Jemisin.
20. The Outsider - Stephen King.
21. So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson. Kindle book.
22. Otherland: City of Golden Shadow - Tad Williams. Re-read.
She battled through in every kind of tribulation,
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#173  Postby Blip » Sep 04, 2018 3:04 pm

1. A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
2. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
3. Learning to Look at Paintings by Mary Acton
4. The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
5. Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
6. Learning to Look at Modern Art by Mary Acton
7. Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
8. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
9. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
10. Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
11. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
12. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. The Shadow Catcher by Michelle Paver
14. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
15. Fever Hill by Michelle Paver
16. The Serpent's Tooth by Michelle Paver
17. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
18. Art Nouveau by Stephen Escritt
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#174  Postby NamelessFaceless » Sep 11, 2018 3:39 pm

Audiobooks in Italics.

1. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
2. Ask the Dust - John Fante
3. Gerald's Game - Stephen King
4. Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders that America Forgot - Michael Arntfield
5. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
6. Prison Noir - Short story collection by various authors edited by Joyce Carol Oates
7. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
9. Crown Heights - Colin Warner, Carl King, and Holly Lorincz
10. The Price of Inequality - Joseph E. Stiglitz
11. No Coming Back - Keith Houghton
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
13. In the Light of the Garden - Heather Burch
14. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men - Harold Schechter
15. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
16. Twist of Faith - Ellen J. Green
17. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (read by Elijah Wood)
19. The Girl With All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
20. The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders - Anthony Flacco (read by the author)
21. Dracula - Bram Stoker (read by Alan Cummings, Tim Curry, and more)
22. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
23. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (read by Scarlett Johanssen)

24. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonassen
25. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (read by Kenneth Branagh)
26. The Unseen World - Liz Moore
27. The Descendants - Kaui Hart Hemmings
28. The Trial - Franz Kafka
29. Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
30. The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
31. How Parking Enforcement Stole My Soul - Ben Friedrich
32. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
33. The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
34. The Prestige - Christopher Priest
35. The Blood Of Olympus - Rick Riordan
36. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
37. Stephen Hero - James Joyce
38. The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
39. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (this is a "re-read" I guess. I listened to the audiobook a couple of months ago, but wanted to go back and read parts I felt I missed and ended up re-reading the whole book)
40. If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer - The Goldman Family
41. To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder - Nancy Rommelmann
42. Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Book 1) - Anthony Horowitz
43. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - Dan Jones
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#175  Postby NamelessFaceless » Sep 16, 2018 3:00 am

Audiobooks in Italics.

1. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
2. Ask the Dust - John Fante
3. Gerald's Game - Stephen King
4. Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders that America Forgot - Michael Arntfield
5. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
6. Prison Noir - Short story collection by various authors edited by Joyce Carol Oates
7. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
9. Crown Heights - Colin Warner, Carl King, and Holly Lorincz
10. The Price of Inequality - Joseph E. Stiglitz
11. No Coming Back - Keith Houghton
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
13. In the Light of the Garden - Heather Burch
14. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men - Harold Schechter
15. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
16. Twist of Faith - Ellen J. Green
17. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (read by Elijah Wood)
19. The Girl With All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
20. The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders - Anthony Flacco (read by the author)
21. Dracula - Bram Stoker (read by Alan Cummings, Tim Curry, and more)
22. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
23. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (read by Scarlett Johanssen)

24. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonassen
25. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (read by Kenneth Branagh)
26. The Unseen World - Liz Moore
27. The Descendants - Kaui Hart Hemmings
28. The Trial - Franz Kafka
29. Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
30. The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
31. How Parking Enforcement Stole My Soul - Ben Friedrich
32. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
33. The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
34. The Prestige - Christopher Priest
35. The Blood Of Olympus - Rick Riordan
36. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
37. Stephen Hero - James Joyce
38. The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
39. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (this is a "re-read" I guess. I listened to the audiobook a couple of months ago, but wanted to go back and read parts I felt I missed and ended up re-reading the whole book)
40. If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer - The Goldman Family
41. To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder - Nancy Rommelmann
42. Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Book 1) - Anthony Horowitz
43. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - Dan Jones
44. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
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#176  Postby Blip » Sep 16, 2018 1:51 pm

1. A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
2. Golden Hill by Francis Spufford
3. Learning to Look at Paintings by Mary Acton
4. The Courage to be Disliked by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi
5. Nightwoods by Charles Frazier
6. Learning to Look at Modern Art by Mary Acton
7. Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis
8. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
9. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin
10. Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
11. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
12. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
13. The Shadow Catcher by Michelle Paver
14. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
15. Fever Hill by Michelle Paver
16. The Serpent's Tooth by Michelle Paver
17. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
18. Art Nouveau by Stephen Escritt
19. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
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#177  Postby Fallible » Sep 16, 2018 3:10 pm

1. The Unseen - Roy Jacobsen.
2. Man's Search For Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl.
3. The Sellout - Paul Beatty.
4. How to Stop Time - Matt Haig.
5. 4 3 2 1- Paul Auster.
6. The Lost Village - Neil Spring.
7. The Dog Stars - Peter Heller.
8. Reasons to Stay Alive - Matt Haig.
9. The Vanishing - Sophia Tobin.
10. The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau - Graeme Macrae Burnet.
11. Sleeping Beauties - Stephen King & Owen King.
12. After Me Comes the Flood - Sarah Perry.
13. The Power - Naomi Alderman.
14. Beneath the Lake - Christopher Ransom.
15. The Testament of Vida Tremayne - Sarah Vincent.
16. The Sparsholt Affair - Alan Hollinghurst.
17. The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin.
18. The Obelisk Gate - N.K. Jemisin.
19. The Stone Sky - N.K. Jemisin.
20. The Outsider - Stephen King.
21. So You've Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson. Kindle book.
22. Otherland: City of Golden Shadow - Tad Williams. Re-read.
22. Mister Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan.
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#178  Postby UncertainSloth » Sep 16, 2018 7:54 pm

1. notes from the upside down: inside the world of stranger things - guy adams - 8/10
2. mythos - stephen fry - 9/10
3. how to stop time - matt haig - 9/10
4. fever dream - samanta schweblin - 8/10
5. tourmaline - james brogden - 9/10
6. the silent companions - laura purcell - 9/10
7. the surgeon of crowthorne - simon winchester - 8/10
8. the storm watcher - graham joyce - 8/10
9. the unseen - roy jacobsen - 8/10
10. the white city (down station 2) - simon morden - 8/10
11. the little stranger - sarah waters - 9/10
12. the pigeon - patrick suskind - 7/10
13. mr foreigner- matthew kneale - 8/10
14. arcadia - iain pears - 8/10
15. the children's home - charles lambert - 7/10
16. weird. dark. - luke smitherd - 8/10
17. the ghost hunters - neil spring - 9/10
18. the stone man - luke smitherd - and there it is, 10/10
19. reasons to stay alive - matt haig - 8/10
20. house of spines - michael j malone - 7/10
21. devil's day - andrew michael hurley - 10/10
22. limits of enchantment - graham joyce - 9/10
23. dream london - tony ballantyne - shite/10
24. rawblood - catriona ward - 9/10
25. underground railroad - colson whitehead - 9/10
26. the vanishing - sophia tobin - 7/10
27. reservoir 13 - jon macgregor - 8/10
28. norse mythology - neil gaiman - 9/10
29. under a watchful eye - adam nevill - 9/10
30. disappearance of adele bedeau - graeme mcrae burnet - 9/10
31. testament of vida tremayne - sarah vincent - 9/10
32. physics of the dead - luke smitherd - 9/10
33. the haunted book - jeremy dyson- 8/10
34. the daylight gate - jeanette winterson - 8/10
35. arrowood - laura mchugh - 9/10
36. the mysteries - lisa tuttle - 8/10
37. the terror - dan simmons spinal tap/10
38. The intuitionist - Colson whitehead 7/10
39. the hollow tree - james brogden - 8/10
40. a skinful of shadows - frances hardinge - 8/10
41. beastings - benjamin myers - 8/10 - definitely my sort of dark, bucolic tale - would read more of his now

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#179  Postby NamelessFaceless » Sep 18, 2018 2:51 pm

Audiobooks in Italics.

1. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
2. Ask the Dust - John Fante
3. Gerald's Game - Stephen King
4. Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders that America Forgot - Michael Arntfield
5. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
6. Prison Noir - Short story collection by various authors edited by Joyce Carol Oates
7. As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
8. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
9. Crown Heights - Colin Warner, Carl King, and Holly Lorincz
10. The Price of Inequality - Joseph E. Stiglitz
11. No Coming Back - Keith Houghton
12. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
13. In the Light of the Garden - Heather Burch
14. Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men - Harold Schechter
15. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
16. Twist of Faith - Ellen J. Green
17. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
18. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (read by Elijah Wood)
19. The Girl With All the Gifts - M.R. Carey
20. The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders - Anthony Flacco (read by the author)
21. Dracula - Bram Stoker (read by Alan Cummings, Tim Curry, and more)
22. The Art of War - Sun Tzu
23. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (read by Scarlett Johanssen)

24. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared - Jonas Jonassen
25. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (read by Kenneth Branagh)
26. The Unseen World - Liz Moore
27. The Descendants - Kaui Hart Hemmings
28. The Trial - Franz Kafka
29. Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
30. The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro
31. How Parking Enforcement Stole My Soul - Ben Friedrich
32. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
33. The Coroner's Lunch - Colin Cotterill
34. The Prestige - Christopher Priest
35. The Blood Of Olympus - Rick Riordan
36. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
37. Stephen Hero - James Joyce
38. The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
39. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (this is a "re-read" I guess. I listened to the audiobook a couple of months ago, but wanted to go back and read parts I felt I missed and ended up re-reading the whole book)
40. If I Did It: Confessions of a Killer - The Goldman Family
41. To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder - Nancy Rommelmann
42. Stormbreaker (Alex Rider Book 1) - Anthony Horowitz
43. The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England - Dan Jones
44. Death Comes for the Archbishop - Willa Cather
45. True - Karl Taro Greenfeld
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Re: Book Challenge 2018

#180  Postby crazyfitter » Sep 18, 2018 9:14 pm

1. The Associate - John Grisham. A nice re-read in my sickbed.
2. Galveston - Nic Pizzolatto
3. Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz
4. Nobody Walks - Mick Herron
5. A Darkness More Than Night - Michael Connelly
6. Reconstruction - Mick Herron
7. Death in the Rainy Season - Anna Jaquirty
8. Down Cemetery Road - Mick Herron
9. The Courier - Ava McCarthy
10. Locked Rooms - Laurie R. King
11. The Venetian Game - Philip Gwynne Jones
12. Dodgers - Bill Beverly
13. Hack - Kieran Crowley
14. Stasi Child - David Young
15. The Player of Games - Iain M Banks. Reread
16. The Whisperers - John Connolly. Reread
17. A Legacy of Spies - John leCarre
18. Leviathan Wakes - James S.A. Corey
19. Before the Dawn - Jake Woodhouse
20. The Rooster Bar - John Grisham
21. The City & The City - China Mieville
22. The Tailor of Panama - John le Carre

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23. Revenge - Martina Cole
24. Phantoms - Dean R. koontz
25. The Tin Roof Blowdown - James Lee Burke
26. Dead Souls - Ian Rankin
27. The Billion Dollar Spy - David E. Hoffman
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