Captain America Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 1 Let It Bleed (Inspector Rebus, #7) 2 Mortal Causes (Inspector Rebus, #6) 3 The Black Book (Inspector Rebus, #5) 4 Nemesis 5 A Thousand Sons 6 Fallen Angels 7 Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files (The Dresden Files, #12.5) 8 Strip Jack (Inspector Rebus, #4) 9 Tooth and Nail (Inspector Rebus, #3) 10 Hide and Seek (Inspector Rebus, #2) 11 Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1) 12 15th Affair (Women's Murder Club #15) 13 14th Deadly Sin (Women’s Murder Club, #14) 14 Unlucky 13 (Women’s Murder Club, #13) 15 12th of Never (Women's Murder Club, #12) 16 11th Hour (Women's Murder Club, #11) 17 10th Anniversary (Women's Murder Club, #10) 18 The 9th Judgment (Women's Murder Club, #9) 19 The 8th Confession (Women's Murder Club, #8) 20 7th Heaven (Women's Murder Club, #7) 21 The 6th Target (Women's Murder Club, #6) 22 The 5th Horseman (Women's Murder Club, #5) 23 4th of July (Women's Murder Club, #4) 24 3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club, #3) 25 2nd Chance (Women's Murder Club, #2) 26 1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1) 27 Tales of Heresy 28 Mechanicum 29 Pariah 30 Ravenor Rogue 31 Ravenor Returned 32 Ravenor 33 Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1) 34 Starship Troopers 35 Hereticus 36 Malleus 37 Xenos 38 Battle for the Abyss 39 Legion 40 Descent of Angels 41 Fulgrim 42 Vicious Circle (Felix Castor, #2) 43 The Devil You Know (Felix Castor, #1) 44 The Martian 45 The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1) 46 Cold Days (The Dresden Files, #14) 47 Ghost Story (The Dresden Files, #13) 48 Changes (The Dresden Files, #12) 49 Turn Coat (The Dresden Files, #11) 50 Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10) 51 White Night (The Dresden Files, #9) 52 Proven Guilty (The Dresden Files, #8) 53 Dead Beat (The Dresden Files, #7) 54 Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, #6) 55 Ubik 56 Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5) 57 Summer Knight (The Dresden Files, #4) 58 Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3) I seem to read a lot of trashy fiction... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skubbs Posted January 3, 2017 Report Share Posted January 3, 2017 I'm going to try and keep a list of the books I read this year, I've been lazy and re-read a lot of old favourites rather than the stack of newbies that are piling up. Any recommendations of new releases from last year? I'm a lover of fantasy and sci fi. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2017 Captain, you surely didn't read the Rebus novels out of order?! I couldn't handle that! Managed to get to 51 this year: 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 46: Cormack McCarthy - The Road 47: JM Barrie - Peter Pan 48: Normal MacLean - A River Runs Through It 49: General Stanley McChrystal - Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World 50: Jim Harrison - Legends of the Fall 51: Matt Gemmell - Changer Scubby - give my number 51 a look. Written by a Uni friend of mine and it's a bit sci fi and really well paced. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted January 5, 2017 Report Share Posted January 5, 2017 2 hours ago, Spoonie said: Captain, you surely didn't read the Rebus novels out of order?! I couldn't handle that! Oh no I read everything in order, I just didn't order that list right. Its reverse order. I have a problem with starting a series then having to read every one of them back to back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2017 Me too - I am terrible for it. Hate leaving things unfinished. Was devastated when he brought Rebus back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skubbs Posted January 7, 2017 Report Share Posted January 7, 2017 On 05/01/2017 at 10:38 AM, Spoonie said: Scubby - give my number 51 a look. Written by a Uni friend of mine and it's a bit sci fi and really well paced. Fab, cheers - I've added it to my wishlist for when payday comes along 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 RIght, i'm giving this a shot this year. 2 down, halfway through the 3rd: Kubrick's Game - Derek Taylor Kent - a trashy page-turner billed as the Da Vinci Code for film nerds. Great one to hammer through to kick things off. Gained very little from it except from a desire to rewatch a bunch of Kubrick films, but enjoyable nonetheless. Barry Lyndon is hugely underrated. The Circle - Dave Eggars - near-future dystopia type thing with a google-alike company that runs everything and spies on folk n shit. Decent. There's a movie coming out, will definitely go see it. reading The Girl On the Train - another wee page-turner before I crack into something a bit more dense. decent so far. I'm also doing a 52 week photography challenge thing which is quite fun, and easy https://dogwood.photography/52weekchallenge2017.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 Slow start to the year but finished my second on the train this morning. Grit by Angela Duckworth which is about the factors of passion and perseverance in success and is excellent, and Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed which focuses on Twitter shaming and the effects of it and is also excellent! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain America Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 I polished off another Rebus novel so far and I've read two of the walking dead compendiums the last couple of weeks. What's folks opinions on them? Do they count towards 50? They are over 1000 pages so minimum words is the length of your average novel these days? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 Yeah, I'd say so. Some of the books I read are tomes but some are pretty short and punchy so I don't see why this wouldn't be included Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 (edited) Toying with the idea of doing this. Would throw up a few randoms and stop me only reading Stephen King. POPSUGAR 2017 Reading Challenge Edited January 18, 2017 by Lemonade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gypsum_Fantastic Posted January 18, 2017 Report Share Posted January 18, 2017 1 hour ago, Lemonade said: Toying with the idea of doing this. Would throw up a few randoms and stop me only reading Stephen King. POPSUGAR 2017 Reading Challenge Less of this, more dead pool lists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 On 1/18/2017 at 4:03 AM, Spoonie said: Slow start to the year but finished my second on the train this morning. Grit by Angela Duckworth which is about the factors of passion and perseverance in success and is excellent, and Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed which focuses on Twitter shaming and the effects of it and is also excellent! Jon Ronson books are great. Psychopath test is maybe even better than publicly shamed. More interesting anyway if not as funny. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted January 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2017 Yeah, it's cracking - read that one last year, along with Lost at Sea. Keen for more of his work. Got this one because it was cheap on Kindle. I now get alerts with Bookbud and Book Hippo for what's cheap in my selected categories and usually just buy and add to the pile! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted January 10, 2018 Report Share Posted January 10, 2018 So who did hit 50 in 2017, then? I didn't hit 10 (9, believe); hellish year at work, mainly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 10, 2018 Report Share Posted January 10, 2018 Think I only managed about 25 last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest E.C Posted December 10, 2018 Report Share Posted December 10, 2018 Just finished book 50 of the year last night! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 10, 2018 Report Share Posted December 10, 2018 Poor effort from me this year, only got through 23. Should manage one or two more by year end but still not great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 I just counted 17 for me. I'm confident of finishing a couple more this month; but I'm thinking I've got to read one more from the stack to at least get a piss-poor 20. I finally broke my non-fiction duck (that One Market Under God that I mentioned in this or the other thread; eventually got into once I forced myself to read a chapter a day or ditch it for good), though; work has become sane of late and next year I'm betting on not spending months half-dying from dengue and consequent pneumonia. Ahem. So I'm determined to make next year another 50+ one, come hell or high water (though another fucking mosquito just could still be my undoing, I fear) and think I've got the pace going now. I also want to make War and Peace one of those 50 next year (read some of his short stories this year and have decided he's indeed the real deal). Can't actually find a copy though. Never thought I'd A. be in an despotic Asian bookshop and NOT see War and Peace, and B. be bummed about it. Might even go nuts and get another Kindle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest E.C Posted December 20, 2018 Report Share Posted December 20, 2018 Onto book 52 - quite a biggun but hopefully get it rounded out before Hogmanay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted January 5, 2019 Report Share Posted January 5, 2019 (edited) Here's what I got done. 18 it seems. I thought I was on track for 19 mind. Maybe I forgot to add one or I miscounted (a bunch of times...) Heavily lop-sided towards fiction, which is a break in how I usually read. Some great books there, though: Jules Verne and Amitav Ghosh are my new favourite writers. Tab-ed formatting hasn't carried over, blergh. . Fiction Steven Sherrill The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break Roberto Bolano Woes of the True Policeman Jonas Jonasson Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All Various Selected Poetry of the First World War Jules Verne Journey to the Center of the Earth Amitav Ghosh Flood of Fire Rudyard Kipling The Man Who would be King & Other Stories Jules Verne 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea James Hogg Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid Roald Dahl Matilda Leo Tolstoy The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories Bao Ninh The Sorrow of War Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Non-Fiction Thomas Paine Rights of Man Thomas Frank One Market Under God Robert F. Scott Scott’s Last Expedition Edited January 5, 2019 by scottyboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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