Lemonade Posted November 15, 2015 Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 50 books DONE. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted November 15, 2015 Report Share Posted November 15, 2015 41. Still pretty sure I'll manage 50, but I'll be cutting it fine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted November 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2015 That's me knocked off 50 too. Quite pleased because I had a hefty lull in August and September when I became a dad and was adjusting to life with less free time but it's picked up again since! 1: Ranulph Feinnes - Captain Scott2: Keith Richards - Life3: Harry Leslie Smith - Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do about it4: Richard Moore - Mastermind: How Dave Brailsford Reinvented the Wheel5: Eric Lichtblau - The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men6: George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four7: Sean Payton - Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life8: Atul Gawande - The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right9: Martin Gilbert - Winston Churchill's War Leadership10: Matt Gemmell - Raw Materials: Collected Essays11: Robert H Frank - The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything12: F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby13: Brett King - Bank 3.014: J. D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye15: John Buchan - The 39 Steps16: Howard E. Wasdin - SEAL Team Six: The Incredible Story of an Elite Sniper and the unit that killed Osama17: John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men18: Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island19: Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park20: Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Cloud Howe21: Lee Price - Turning my Back on the Premier League22: Andy Bounds - Top Dog: Impress and Influence Everyone You Meet23: William Wyatt - Procrastination: Stop F#cking Procrastinating And Do Some F#cking Work! - The Ultimate Guide to Get Explosive Results, Get Rid of Procrastination And Laziness24: Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Grey Granite25: Irvine Welsh - A Decent Ride26: Irvine Welsh - Sex Lives of Siamese Twins27: Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles28: Michael Lewis - Flash Boys29: Buzz Bissinger - After Friday Night Lights: When the Games Ended30: Michael Lewis - The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game31: Jordan Belfort - The Wolf of Wall Street32: Iain Martin - Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy33: Steven R. Covey - Seven Habits of Highly Effective People34: Viktor Frankl - Man's Search For Meaning35: Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers36: Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea37: Duff McDonald - The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey38: Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness39: Peter Elkind & Bethany McLean - The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron40: James Kerr - Legacy41: Robbie Paulin - Coaching Theory for youth Teams: A quick guide42: Chris B. Brown - The Art of Smart Football43: Malcolm Gladwell - What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures44: Hunter S. Thomson - The Rum Diary: A Novel45: Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test46: Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare - Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths go to Work47: Nawal El Saadawi - Woman at Point Zero48: Garret Kramer - Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports And Life49: Irvine Welsh - If You Liked School You'll Love Work50: Ian Fleming - Casino Royale 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted November 28, 2015 Report Share Posted November 28, 2015 Here's my 52: 1 Stephen King - 11/22/632 Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) - Thinner3 Chris Jericho - The Best in the World: At What I Have No Idea4 Richard Wiseman - 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot5 James Crosbie - Peterhead Porridge: Tales From The Funny Side Of Scotland's Most Notorious Prison6 Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy7 J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)8 Thom Fell - Acceptable in the Eighties9 Michael Connelly - The Black Echo10 R.D. Reynolds - The Death of WCW: 10th Anniversary11 David Wong - John Dies at the End12 Lee Price - Turning My Back on the Premier League13 Roddy Doyle - The Commitments14 Roddy Doyle - The Snapper15 J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)16 Sarah Silverman - The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee17 Iain Hyslop - Is the Baw Burst?: A Long Suffering Supporter's Search for the Soul of Scottish Football18 Holly Goddard Jones - The Next Time You See Me19 Stephanie Meyer - Twilight20 James Patterson - Along Came a Spider21 Roddy Doyle - The Van22 Mindy Kaling - Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?23 Piper Kerman - Orange Is the New Black24 Nick Hornby - Juliet, Naked25 Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting26 Ron Jeremy - Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz27 Motley Crue - The Dirt28 Irvine Welsh - Glue29 Terry Pratchett - The Color of Magic 30 Tera Patrick - Sinner Takes All: A Memoir of Love and Porn31 Nikki Sixx - The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star32 J.B. Morrison - The Extra Ordinary Life of Frank Derrick, Age 8133 Stephen King - Doctor Sleep 34 Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic 35 J.K. Rowling - The Casual Vacancy36 Charlie Carroll - No Fixed Abode: A Journey Through Homelessness from Cornwall to London37 Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne38 Stephen King - Gerald's Game39 Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry40 Bill Bryson - Notes from a Big Country41 Stephen King - The Colorado Kid42 Ray Kavanagh - Mamie Cadden: Backstreet Abortionist43 Stephen King - Joyland44 Mark Webber - Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey45 Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) - Blaze46 Stephen King - The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)47 Stephen King - Salem's Lot48 Terry Pratchett - Sourcery 49 Yann Martel - Life of Pi50 Chuck Palahniuk - Snuff51 Chuck Palahniuk - Damned 52 Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted November 29, 2015 Report Share Posted November 29, 2015 (edited) I've only ever read one of his books - but you obviously rate Stephen King. Would you say he's a good writer in the classic sense or more of a good yarn spinner?I was indifferent to Joyland. It kept me reading but didn't really fulfil me in the way that my favourite authors do. Do you reckon it's worth persevering with him? P.S. I say this because I'm bored and half cut, not because I'm particularly interested in Stephen King's works. Edited November 29, 2015 by James Broonbreed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 3, 2015 Report Share Posted December 3, 2015 On 11/29/2015, 7:06:05, James Broonbreed said: I've only ever read one of his books - but you obviously rate Stephen King. Would you say he's a good writer in the classic sense or more of a good yarn spinner? I was indifferent to Joyland. It kept me reading but didn't really fulfil me in the way that my favourite authors do. Do you reckon it's worth persevering with him? P.S. I say this because I'm bored and half cut, not because I'm particularly interested in Stephen King's works. His old stuff is scary but not particularly well written. His new stuff is well written, but not that scary. He's a great storyteller but not a great writer. There are a few of his you should definitely read but you can skip a lot of his work. Off the top of my head I'd say 22/11/63, IT and Misery are probably his most essential reading. The Stand frequently tops list of best Stephen King books but I confess I haven't read it since I was 15 and I don't really remember much of it. Different Seasons is a good read as well, it's four short stories and includes Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Cool. Cheers, min. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 (edited) Everyone can relax now: I managed 50. (sorry for messed up copy paste formatting) Fiction: 1. Jerome Ferrari Where I Left My Soul 2. Cees Nootemboom The Foxes Come at Night 3. Luis Fernando Verissimo The Spies 4. Jacob Ejersbo Revolution 5. Jiang Rong Wolf Totem 6. Alissa Walser Mesmerized 7. G.R.R Martin A Game of Thrones 8. Khaled Hosseini And the Mountains Echoed 9. Martin Amis Einstein’s Monsters 10. Mo Yan Shifu, You’ll Do Anything for a Laugh 11. Gustav Flaubert Madame Bovary 12. Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea 13. Terry Pratchett Unseen Academicals 14. Rodman Philbrick Lobster Boy 15. Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies 16. Davide Longo The Last Man Standing 17. Norbert Gstrein Winters in the South 18. Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalist 19. Virgil The Aeneid 20. Shakespeare Richard II 21. Marie NDaiye Three Strong Women 22. Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần Open the Window, Eyes Closed 23. Beowulf 24. Tom Pollock The City’s Son 25. Rudyard Kipling Kim 26. Vũ Trọng Phụng Dumb Luck 27. Kari Hotakainen The Human Part 28. Amitav Ghosh River of Smoke 29. Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book 30. Nguyễn Nhật Ánh I See Yellow Flowers on Green Grass 31. Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood Non-fiction: 1. Andrew Wells-Dang Informal Pathbreakers 2. Francis Fukuyama Political Order and Political Decay 3. Jared Diamond Guns, Germs and Steel 4. Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction 5. Elizabeth Economy, M. Levi By All Means Necessary 6. Jared Diamond Collapse 7. Frank Dikotter Mao’s Great Famine 8. Patsy Lightbrown, N. Spader How Languages are Learned 9. William Easterly The Tyranny of Experts 10. Reza Aslan Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth 11. Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-First Century 12. Jared Diamond The Third Chimpanzee 13. Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time 14. Thomas De Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater 15. Edwin O. Reschauer Japan: The Story of a Nation 16. Jeffrey Sachs The Price of Civilisation 17. Niall Ferguson The Great Degeneration 18. Tony Morning Coffee with Tony 19. D. J. Hand Statistics: A Very Short Introduction Edited December 28, 2015 by scottyboy formatting 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted December 28, 2015 Report Share Posted December 28, 2015 Insanely good effort. Which would you recommend highest? I got bogged down with work/netflix/new playstation and only managed about half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 Fiction: Wolf Totem (Jiang Rong); Revolution (Jakob Ejersbo); Sea of Poppies and RIver of Smoke (1st two of a trilogy) as best fiction. Kipling's Kim and The Jungle Book were also unexpectedly amazing. Also really worth a read are The Spies, Einstein's Monsters; Lobster Boy (good children's fiction, Dahl meets Hemingway); Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh; The Last man Standing; The Human Part; Dumb Luck. Maybe I'll put up some notes on each later. Non-fiction: Apart from a handful of specialist books, I'd highly recommend almost any of them. Either of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse; The Third Chimpanzee too, maybe just a bit dated now. The Sixth Extinction in a slightly similar vein. Political Order and Political Decay. Mao's Great Famine is an amazing piece of scholarship, though a thoroughly grim read. Similarly The People's Republic of Amnesia*. Most of Zealot (attempts to be a biography of the historical Jesus, the actual guy) is really atmospheric and interesting, even if one isn't much interested in the attendant religion. Capital in the 21st Century is really worthwhile. A Brief History of Time is amazing if you haven't read it. And Japan like I posted a while back. *I see I missed this in this list, but definitely read it this year. So I got 51. Hooray. If I didn't miss anything else... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 29, 2015 Report Share Posted December 29, 2015 I put away number 54 last night. Doubt I'll squeeze in another before the end of the year, especially since I got FIFA 16 for Christmas, but I'll try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 Managed to squeeze one last one in. Finished the year on 55. Nae bad going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted December 31, 2015 Report Share Posted December 31, 2015 My reading has taken a severe hit since having a kid, I think I dropped down to around 20ish books this year. Usually I'm too knackered to read more than 10 pages or so a night before I start slipping off into slumberland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2016 Finished the year on 57, so pleased with that considering parenthood came along in August and interrupted my reading! Got into a good rhythm on my commutes and read some wicked stuff, with a lot more downloads sitting on the Kindle ready for 2016. 1: Ranulph Feinnes - Captain Scott 2: Keith Richards - Life 3: Harry Leslie Smith - Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do about it 4: Richard Moore - Mastermind: How Dave Brailsford Reinvented the Wheel 5: Eric Lichtblau - The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men 6: George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four 7: Sean Payton - Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life 8: Atul Gawande - The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right 9: Martin Gilbert - Winston Churchill's War Leadership 10: Matt Gemmell - Raw Materials: Collected Essays 11: Robert H Frank - The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything 12: F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby 13: Brett King - Bank 3.0 14: J. D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye 15: John Buchan - The 39 Steps 16: Howard E. Wasdin - SEAL Team Six: The Incredible Story of an Elite Sniper and the unit that killed Osama 17: John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men 18: Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island 19: Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park 20: Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Cloud Howe 21: Lee Price - Turning my Back on the Premier League 22: Andy Bounds - Top Dog: Impress and Influence Everyone You Meet 23: William Wyatt - Procrastination: Stop F#cking Procrastinating And Do Some F#cking Work! - The Ultimate Guide to Get Explosive Results, Get Rid of Procrastination And Laziness 24: Lewis Grassic Gibbon - Grey Granite 25: Irvine Welsh - A Decent Ride 26: Irvine Welsh - Sex Lives of Siamese Twins 27: Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles 28: Michael Lewis - Flash Boys 29: Buzz Bissinger - After Friday Night Lights: When the Games Ended 30: Michael Lewis - The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game 31: Jordan Belfort - The Wolf of Wall Street 32: Iain Martin - Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the men who blew up the British economy 33: Steven R. Covey - Seven Habits of Highly Effective People 34: Viktor Frankl - Man's Search For Meaning 35: Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers 36: Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea 37: Duff McDonald - The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey 38: Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness 39: Peter Elkind & Bethany McLean - The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron 40: James Kerr - Legacy 41: Robbie Paulin - Coaching Theory for youth Teams: A quick guide 42: Chris B. Brown - The Art of Smart Football 43: Malcolm Gladwell - What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures 44: Hunter S. Thomson - The Rum Diary: A Novel 45: Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test 46: Paul Babiak and Robert D. Hare - Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths go to Work 47: Nawal El Saadawi - Woman at Point Zero 48: Garret Kramer - Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports And Life 49: Irvine Welsh - If You Liked School You'll Love Work 50: Ian Fleming - Casino Royale 51: David Tuffley - Being Happy 52: Jon Ronson - Lost at Sea 53: Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer - The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government 54: Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle 55: Michael Lewis - The Money Culture 56: William McIlavnney - Remedy is None 57: Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted January 5, 2016 Report Share Posted January 5, 2016 Wonder how many KarmaTsunami finished? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted February 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2016 Started this year on more of a fiction vein than usual 1: William McIlvanney - Docherty 2: William McIlvanney - The Kiln 3: Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy 4: Simon Sinek - Start With Why 5: Chris Fore - Building Championship Caliber Football Programmes 6: George Samuel Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon 7: William Golding - Lord of the Flies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted March 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2016 Bit of a mix for the last few. 1: William McIlvanney - Docherty 2: William McIlvanney - The Kiln 3: Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy 4: Simon Sinek - Start With Why 5: Chris Fore - Building Championship Caliber Football Programmes 6: George Samuel Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon 7: William Golding - Lord of the Flies 8: James Vint - Installing Explosive RPO Concepts Into Any Offense 9: John B. Arden - Improving your memory for dummies 10: Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle is the Way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted August 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2016 Had a slow period in the middle of the year where I didn't read as much as I'd have liked but been getting back into it with some great stuff recently. Here's where I am in mid August 1: William McIlvanney - Docherty 2: William McIlvanney - The Kiln 3: Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy 4: Simon Sinek - Start With Why 5: Chris Fore - Building Championship Caliber Football Programmes 6: George Samuel Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon 7: William Golding - Lord of the Flies 8: James Vint - Installing Explosive RPO Concepts Into Any Offense 9: John B. Arden - Improving your memory for dummies 10: Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle is the Way 11: Irvine Welsh - Crime 12: Irvine Welsh - The Blade Artist 13: Tim Layden - Blood, Sweat and Chalk: The Ultimate Football Playbook: How the Great Coaches Built Today's Game 14: Steve Williams - The Successful Coach - Become the Coach who Creates Champions 15: Mike Mitchell - Mindfulness: Mindfulness for Anxiety Relief 16: Partick Easton Ellis - American Psycho 17: Matt Zeigler - College Football Schemes and Techniques 18: Roger Steare - Ethicability: How to decide what's right and what's wrong 19: Michael Francis - Guvnors: The Autobiography of a Football Hooligan Gang Leader 20: Jon Gordon - The Energy Bus 21: Chip Heath and Dan Heath - Switch: How to change things when change is hard 22: David Halberstam - The Education of a Coach 23: Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die 24: Les Giblin - Skill With People 25: Les Giblin - The Art of Dealing with People 26: Armin A. Brott - The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year 27: Russ Roberts - How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted September 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2016 Been off the pace still this year but 30 read so far: 1: William McIlvanney - Docherty 2: William McIlvanney - The Kiln 3: Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy 4: Simon Sinek - Start With Why 5: Chris Fore - Building Championship Caliber Football Programmes 6: George Samuel Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon 7: William Golding - Lord of the Flies 8: James Vint - Installing Explosive RPO Concepts Into Any Offense 9: John B. Arden - Improving your memory for dummies 10: Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle is the Way 11: Irvine Welsh - Crime 12: Irvine Welsh - The Blade Artist 13: Tim Layden - Blood, Sweat and Chalk: The Ultimate Football Playbook: How the Great Coaches Built Today's Game 14: Steve Williams - The Successful Coach - Become the Coach who Creates Champions 15: Mike Mitchell - Mindfulness: Mindfulness for Anxiety Relief 16: Partick Easton Ellis - American Psycho 17: Matt Zeigler - College Football Schemes and Techniques 18: Roger Steare - Ethicability: How to decide what's right and what's wrong 19: Michael Francis - Guvnors: The Autobiography of a Football Hooligan Gang Leader 20: Jon Gordon - The Energy Bus 21: Chip Heath and Dan Heath - Switch: How to change things when change is hard 22: David Halberstam - The Education of a Coach 23: Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die 24: Les Giblin - Skill With People 25: Les Giblin - The Art of Dealing with People 26: Armin A. Brott - The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year 27: Russ Roberts - How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness 28: George Lakoff - The All New Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate 29: Steve Boseley - Die, Blossom, Bloom 30: Steven Kotler - The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance Don't think of an Elephant and The Rise of Superman are both excellent reads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 6, 2016 Report Share Posted September 6, 2016 I'm only at 20 for the year, been distracted by other activities in what would have been my reading time last year (XBox, my Odeon Unlimited card) , and one of my friends got a job in my company so my lunch hour read is mostly gone. Also I've been reading the same gargantuan Stephen King novel for a month and I'm really not enjoying it so every time I pick it up I read it for ten minutes then think of an excuse to go and do something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted October 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2016 Holiday reading gave me a boost so looks like I should get past 50 again this year. The reads so far: 1: William McIlvanney - Docherty 2: William McIlvanney - The Kiln 3: Willy Russell - The Wrong Boy 4: Simon Sinek - Start With Why 5: Chris Fore - Building Championship Caliber Football Programmes 6: George Samuel Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon 7: William Golding - Lord of the Flies 8: James Vint - Installing Explosive RPO Concepts Into Any Offense 9: John B. Arden - Improving your memory for dummies 10: Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle is the Way 11: Irvine Welsh - Crime 12: Irvine Welsh - The Blade Artist 13: Tim Layden - Blood, Sweat and Chalk: The Ultimate Football Playbook: How the Great Coaches Built Today's Game 14: Steve Williams - The Successful Coach - Become the Coach who Creates Champions 15: Mike Mitchell - Mindfulness: Mindfulness for Anxiety Relief 16: Partick Easton Ellis - American Psycho 17: Matt Zeigler - College Football Schemes and Techniques 18: Roger Steare - Ethicability: How to decide what's right and what's wrong 19: Michael Francis - Guvnors: The Autobiography of a Football Hooligan Gang Leader 20: Jon Gordon - The Energy Bus 21: Chip Heath and Dan Heath - Switch: How to change things when change is hard 22: David Halberstam - The Education of a Coach 23: Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die 24: Les Giblin - Skill With People 25: Les Giblin - The Art of Dealing with People 26: Armin A. Brott - The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year 27: Russ Roberts - How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness 28: George Lakoff - The All New Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate 29: Steve Boseley - Die, Blossom, Bloom 30: Steven Kotler - The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance 31: Michael Lewis - Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour 32: Roald Dahl - Danny Champion of the World 33: Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox 34: Dr. Brad McRae and David Brooks - The Seven Strategies of Master Presenters 35: Les Giblin - How to have Power and Confidence when Deadling with People 36: Jonathan Wilson - Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics 37: Urban Meyer - Above The Line 38: David Peace - The Damned Utd 39: Michael Grant and Rob Robertson - The Management: Scotland's Great Football Bosses 40: Eric Clapton - The Autobiography 41: Dave Eggers - Zeitoun 42: Dave Eggers - The Wild Things 43: Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 44: Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 45: Philipp Meyer - American Rust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted October 29, 2016 Report Share Posted October 29, 2016 I had a slow first 6 months (probably not even a dozen finished) and but have been reading a lot (more books) the last few. I'm at 38; should hit 50 again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted October 31, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2016 The middle of the year was tough for me and I managed three books in two months but that holiday really boosted my reading again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 28, 2016 Report Share Posted December 28, 2016 On 31/12/2015 at 3:10 PM, Lemonade said: Managed to squeeze one last one in. Finished the year on 55. Nae bad going. 32 in 2016. Still not bad, and arguably enjoyed this year more because I could take my time and enjoy reading rather than racing through books. 32 books in a year is still pretty good going. Any reading goals for 2017? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted January 1, 2017 Report Share Posted January 1, 2017 (copy-pasted from Google Docs; the formatting is all messed up and the website won't let me fix it). I finished 48. Like I posted earlier, I think at least 34 of them were in the latter 6 months, and I thought I'd hit 50; but I also took it upon myself to read the Wealth of fucking Nations. Anyway, I'm calling it a moral victory. I obviously went on A Very Short Introduction binge (they're very addictive; and the one on the History of Life is one of the best books I've read this year), but I don't think they're really all that short compared to your Gatsbys, Catcher in the Ryes, etc. And between the Wealth of Nations and that book on food security, I think there are probably a dozen decent sized novels. The one marked x2 at the top of fiction I read twice, in English and Polish respectively. Non-fiction 1. Peter Boomgaard (ed.) A World of Water (SE Asian history essays) 2. Charles Darwin The Voyage of the Beagle 3. Carlo Rovelli Seven Brief Lessons on Physics 4. Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil 5. Niall Ferguson Empire [British] 6. Zhao Ziyang Prisoner of the State 7. David B. Norman Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction 8. Philip W. Sutton Nature, Environment and Society 9. Michael J. Benton The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction 10. Rachel Carson Silent Spring 11. Harry Sidebottom Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction 12. Mungo Park Travels in the Interior of Africa 13. John Parker, Richard Rathbone African History: A Very Short Introduction 14. Michel Foucault The Birth of Biopolitics 15. Ian Shaw Ancient Egypt: : A Very Short Introduction 16. Nico Stehr, Hans von Storch Climate and Society 17. Philip Ball Elements: A Very Short Introduction 18. Michel Foucault On the Government of the Living 19. William Easterly The Elusive Quest for Growth 20. Jeffrey Sachs The Age of Sustainable Development 21. Gary Gutting Foucault: A Very Short Introduction 22. Mike Jeffries, Derek Mills Freshwater Ecology 23. Aristotle The Nicomachean Ethics 24. Shunji Matsuoka (ed) Effective Environmental Management in Developing Countries 25. Charles Darwin The Origin of Species 26. D. John Shaw World Food Security: A History Since 1945 27. Rab Houston Scotland: A Very Short Introduction 28. Joseph Stiglitz Globalization and its Discontents 29. Diana Rosemary Sharpe New Horizons in Asian Management Harukiyo Hasegawa (eds.) 30. Eric Hobsbawm Industry and Empire 31. Michel Foucault Security, Territory, Population 32. J. C. Polkinghorne Quantum Theory: A Very Short Introduction 33. Frank Close Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction 34. Adam Smith Wealth of Nations 35. Vũ Trọng Phụng Lục Xì: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi 36 Dan Senor; Saul Singer Start-Up Nation [Israel] 37. Kunio Yanagita The Legends of Tono Fiction 1/2. Nguyễn Ngọc Thuận Open the Window, Eyes Open (x2) 3. Wei Hui Shanghai Baby 4. Rudyard Kipling Just So Stories 5. Trần Đăng Khoa Garden and Sky 6. Nguyễn Huy Thiệp The General Retires 7. Chuck Palahniuk Damned 8. Guy de Maupassant The Best Short Stories 9. Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 10 Jonas Jonasson The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden 11. F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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