25/50 Book Challenge 2016

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[quote="Keep It Real";p="2470746"]1. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

I'm a late starter. Been in turmoil. Plenty of time left still[/quote]

Yep.

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1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
2. Little Black Lies by Sharon Bolton
3. The Far Cry by Emma Smith
4. Gardens of the Imagination edited by Sophie Biriotti
5. Grimm Tales by Philip Pullman
6. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer
7. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
8. Cure for a Crooked Smile by Chris Kinsey (re-read)
9. Bring Up The Bodies by Hilary Mantel
10. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
11. A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
12. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
13. The Places That Scare You by Pema Chödrön
14. Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
15. Erewhon by Samuel Butler
16. At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
17. The Rose of Tibet by Lionel Davidson
18. The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
19. The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
20. Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
21. River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
22. Water by Bapsi Sidhwa
23. Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
24. Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
25. The Black Mirror by Raymond Tallis
26. Previous Convictions by A.A. Gill
27. What is not yours is not yours by Helen Oyeyemi
28. The Death of an Owl by Paul Torday with Piers Torday
29. All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
30. The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
31. The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
32. The Vegetarian by Han Kang translated by Deborah Smith
33. The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
34. The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín
35. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
36. Max and the Cats by Moacyr Scliar translated by Eloah F. Giacomelli
37. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
38. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
39. The American Future by Simon Schama
40. How to be a Tudor by Ruth Goodman
41. A Shining Thing in Timeless Space by Lindsay Anthony
42. The Many by Wyl Menmuir
43. My Ántonia by Willa Cather (re-read)
44. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
45. A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
46. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
47. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
48. Maddaddam by Margaret Atwood
49. Crow by Ted Hughes
50. Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

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Don't speak like what she oughter.

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Oh the moon shone bright on Mrs Porter
And on her daughter.
They wash their feet in soda water.

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I should probably update my list.

When I do, The Waste Land and Other Poems or some such will be on that list. (A re-read.) (Just taken it off the shelf.)

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September is the cruellest month, breeding
Dead smells out of the waste bin, mixing
Apathy and Jeremy Kyle, stirring
Dull chavs with Special Brew.

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Shandy shandy shandy

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I could already never read the first lines without instantly recalling that they're a direct reference to Chaucer. So thanks. The middle shall be my territory from now on.

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14.

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1. The History of England vol1 Foundation - Peter Ackroyd
2. Dead Man's Ransom - Ellis Peters
3. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers. Thanks for the recommendation Evolving I really enjoyed it.
4. The Stranger - Albert Camus
5. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams.Read this several times in the past and it just seemed a bit flat this time.
6. Assassins Apprentice - Robin Hobbs
7. Royal Assassin - Robin Hobbs
8. The Racketeer - John Grisham Reread
9. Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
10. Children of Dust - Ali Eteraz
11. Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
12. Slabscape:Reset - S. Spencer Baker
13. Slabscape:Dammit - S. Spencer Baker
14. Spies of Warsaw - Alan Furst
15. Istanbul Passage - Joseph Kanon
16. Back on Murder - J. Mark Bertrand
17. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
18. The Power of the Dog - Don Winslow
19. The Cartel - Don Winslow
20. Savages - Don Winslow
21. The Winter of Frankie Machine - Don Winslow
22. The Slaughter Man - Tony Parsons
23. Arrival - Ryk Brown
24. Murder House - James Patterson & David Ellis
25. The Girl in the Spiders Web - David Lagercrantz
26. California Fire & Life - Don Winslow
27. Rogue Lawyer - John Grisham
28. The Travelers - Chris Pavone
29. A Dying Breed - Peter Hanington
30. Night Heron - Adam Brookes
31. Spy Games - Adam Brookes
32. the long way to a small angry planet - Becky Chambers
33. Hardwired - Walter Jon Williams
34. Rogue Elements - Hector Macdonald

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Audiobooks in Italics

1. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
2. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Joseph Conrad
3. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan
4. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces - Radley Balko
5. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
6. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
7. Rasputin and the Jews - Delin Colon
8. James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
9. What is Free Trade? - Frederic Bastiat
10. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
11. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl
12. Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
13. The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism - J. Michael Oliver
14. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
15. The Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks
16. Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal - Harold Schecter
17. The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
18. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
19. An Outline of Occult Science - Rudolf Steiner (this is the biggest collection of woo I've ever seen in one place)
20. The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation - Harold Schecter
21. Mistakes of Moses - Robert Green Ingersoll
22. The Rise and Fall of Nixon: A Scandalous Legacy - Calvin Murphy
23. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. That's a Great Question: What to Say When Your Faith is Challenged - Glenn Pearson
25. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief - Lawrence Wright
26. Without a Doubt - Marcia Clark
27. The Prettiest One - James Hankins
28. In Defense of Women - H.L. Mencken
29. Failure of Justice: A Brutal Murder, An Obsessed Cop, Six Wrongful Convictions - John Ferak
30. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
31. Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge - Don Lattin
32. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (short, but 3 volumes) - Alvin Schwartz
33. The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan
34. The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
35. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nobokov
36. A Life From Beginning to End (series): Theodore Roosevelt, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington

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First 50 here.

51. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (oh, but this is good. I thought she may have peaked with The Poisonwood Bible, but no).

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Audiobooks in Italics

1. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
2. The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale - Joseph Conrad
3. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Titan's Curse - Rick Riordan
4. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces - Radley Balko
5. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
6. To Have and Have Not - Ernest Hemingway
7. Rasputin and the Jews - Delin Colon
8. James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
9. What is Free Trade? - Frederic Bastiat
10. Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
11. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator - Roald Dahl
12. Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
13. The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism - J. Michael Oliver
14. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
15. The Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks
16. Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal - Harold Schecter
17. The Rainbow - D. H. Lawrence
18. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
19. An Outline of Occult Science - Rudolf Steiner (this is the biggest collection of woo I've ever seen in one place)
20. The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation - Harold Schecter
21. Mistakes of Moses - Robert Green Ingersoll
22. The Rise and Fall of Nixon: A Scandalous Legacy - Calvin Murphy
23. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. That's a Great Question: What to Say When Your Faith is Challenged - Glenn Pearson
25. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief - Lawrence Wright
26. Without a Doubt - Marcia Clark
27. The Prettiest One - James Hankins
28. In Defense of Women - H.L. Mencken
29. Failure of Justice: A Brutal Murder, An Obsessed Cop, Six Wrongful Convictions - John Ferak
30. Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
31. Jesus Freaks: A True Story of Murder and Madness on the Evangelical Edge - Don Lattin
32. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (short, but 3 volumes) - Alvin Schwartz
33. The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan
34. The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams
35. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nobokov
36. A Life From Beginning to End (series): Theodore Roosevelt, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington
37. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

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1. The History of England vol1 Foundation - Peter Ackroyd
2. Dead Man's Ransom - Ellis Peters
3. The Nine Tailors - Dorothy L. Sayers. Thanks for the recommendation Evolving I really enjoyed it.
4. The Stranger - Albert Camus
5. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams.Read this several times in the past and it just seemed a bit flat this time.
6. Assassins Apprentice - Robin Hobbs
7. Royal Assassin - Robin Hobbs
8. The Racketeer - John Grisham Reread
9. Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
10. Children of Dust - Ali Eteraz
11. Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke
12. Slabscape:Reset - S. Spencer Baker
13. Slabscape:Dammit - S. Spencer Baker
14. Spies of Warsaw - Alan Furst
15. Istanbul Passage - Joseph Kanon
16. Back on Murder - J. Mark Bertrand
17. A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
18. The Power of the Dog - Don Winslow
19. The Cartel - Don Winslow
20. Savages - Don Winslow
21. The Winter of Frankie Machine - Don Winslow
22. The Slaughter Man - Tony Parsons
23. Arrival - Ryk Brown
24. Murder House - James Patterson & David Ellis
25. The Girl in the Spiders Web - David Lagercrantz
26. California Fire & Life - Don Winslow
27. Rogue Lawyer - John Grisham
28. The Travelers - Chris Pavone
29. A Dying Breed - Peter Hanington
30. Night Heron - Adam Brookes
31. Spy Games - Adam Brookes
32. the long way to a small angry planet - Becky Chambers
33. Hardwired - Walter Jon Williams
34. Rogue Elements - Hector Macdonald
35. The Corporation Wars: Dissidence - Ken Macleod

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First 50 here.

51. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
52. The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (wonderful; am reading another novel by him next)

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15.


i likey....

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First 50 here.

51. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
52. The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
53. Miracle at Sant'Anna by James McBride - also highly recommended

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[quote="Fallible";p="2470750"][quote="Keep It Real";p="2470746"]1. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman

I'm a late starter. Been in turmoil. Plenty of time left still[/quote]

Yep. [/quote]
I just read my first Neil Gaiman book. Stardust! Onto American Gods now.
Stardust is cute and easy - a nice fairy tale.