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harshad

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On a long road that returns to Old Trafford!!!
1. Sword of Destiny
2. Blood of Elves
3. Time of Contempt
4. Baptism of Fire
5. Tower of Swallow
6. Lady of the Lake
7. A Knife of Dreams
8. The Whistler
9. The Rooster Bar
10. Tiamat's Wrath
11. Remember The Dawn
12. The Three-Body Problem
13. The Gathering Storm
14. New Spring
 
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The tartare steppe
Flatland
Diary of a young girl
Fooled by randomness
Six impossible things


Will probably need to press pause on reading for a month or so as I really need to get my thesis finished and submitted.
 

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Waiting until after the bar to start this but putting a list together to begin in August. Any recommendations welcome (I'm going to look through this thread for ideas too).
 

harshad

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On a long road that returns to Old Trafford!!!
1. Sword of Destiny
2. Blood of Elves
3. Time of Contempt
4. Baptism of Fire
5. Tower of Swallow
6. Lady of the Lake
7. A Knife of Dreams
8. The Whistler
9. The Rooster Bar
10. Tiamat's Wrath
11. Remember The Dawn
12. The Three-Body Problem
13. The Gathering Storm
14. New Spring
15. The Golden Compass
 

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removing the scholarly and academic reading and graphic novels from my list:

January
Neighbors by Thomas Berger
The Broken Seals by Shi Nai'an
The Tiger Killers by Shi Nai'an
The Gathering Company by Shi Nai'an

March
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Shiloh and other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

April
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Sanctuary - William Faulkner
The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler

May
So Many Doors - Oakley Hall
Warlock - Oakley Hall
Ficciones - Jose Luis Borges
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
The Soul Thief - Charles Baxter
The Banished Immortal • A Life of Li Bai - Ha Jin

June
Running Dog - Don Delillo
The Names - Don Delillo
Citizen Vince - Jess Walter
Bodega Dreams - Ernesto Quinonez
The Bad Lands - Oakley Hall
Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon (in-progress)
 

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  1. Paradise Regained - John Milton
  2. A Different Drummer - William Melvin Kelley
  3. The Wretched Of The Earth - Frantz Fanon
  4. The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
  5. The Dog Who Dared To Dream - Sun-Mi Hwang
  6. The Body Artist - Don Delillo
  7. Gather Together In My Name - Maya Angelou
  8. Birdcage Walk - Helen Dunmore
  9. Pinin - Vladimir Nabokov
  10. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
  11. The Cathars - Sean Martin
  12. Tales From Ovid - Ted Hughes
  13. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
  14. Sula - Toni Morrison
  15. Heart of Darkness And Other Stories - Joseph Conrad
  16. A Short History Of Decay - Emile Cioran
  17. Shadow The Sheepdog - Enid Blyton
  18. Nothing - Jeremy Webb
  19. Short Story Collection - Virginia Woolf
  20. Collected Poems - T.S. Eliot
  21. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
  22. Singin and Swingin and Gettin Merry like Christmas - Maya Angelou
  23. The Abominables/One Dog And His Boy - Eva Ibbotson
  24. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
  25. Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
  26. Sir Gawain And The Green Knight - Simon Armitage
  27. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
  28. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  29. Wonder - R.J. Palacio
  30. Theogony And Other Works - Hesiod
  31. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  32. Coral - Steve Jones
  33. A Whole Life - Robert Seethaler
  34. Bring Up The Bodies - Hillary Mantel
  35. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
  36. The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Che Guevara
  37. The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios - Yann Martel
  38. Brer Rabbit - Joel Chandler Harris
  39. Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall - Spike Milligan
  40. Fables Of Aesop - Aesop
  41. The Portrait Of Mrs Charbuque - Jeffrey Ford
  42. Superstition - David Ambrose
  43. The Giant O'brien - Hilary Mantel
  44. Rommel? Gunner Who? - Spike Milligan
  45. Conversatins With Friends - Sally Rooney
  46. Monty His Part In My Victory - Spike Milligan
  47. On Chesil Beach - Ian McwEan
  48. There Once Was A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neihbour's Baby - Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
  49. Outrageous Conduct, Art, Ego And The Twilight Zone Case - Stephen Farber and Marc Green
  50. How Can You Bear To Be Human - Nicolas Bentley
  51. The Lottery And Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
  52. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

/Eboue
 
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Ah, Spike's war memoirs. Genius.
 

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Paradise Regained is the City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold of 17th Century epic poetry. #notmymilton. Outrageous Conduct... is fascinating if you are interested in what goes on behind the camera during the making of a film, or if you just want to see what terrible people John Landis and Steven Spielberg are. With Wolf Hall it took a little time to familiarise myself with names and places but when I started to piece it all together it really gripped me. Bring Up The Bodies is one of the best reading experiences I've ever had. I'm totally sold on Mantel's genius, every other paragraph I would be asking myself how she conjured up that bit of magic or what crazed imagination conceived of that imagery. The way she paints the bleakest scenes with an almost depraved black humour give the books a sense of forbidden delight. The Giant O'Brien works just as well and might make a better introduction to her work. I'll be in the queue on the day that the final Cromwell book drops. Sula is typically great, up there with Song of Solomon. The Woolf short collection contains some of the best writing I've ever read. Likewise Lighthouse is patently brilliant but I found the psychology so dense and the inner voices relentless to the point of suffocation. I've enough head daemons of my own thanks Virginia. The Shirley Jackson collection is a peach. The Lottery is the least interesting of the collection; an easy, clever but rather gimmicky set piece - perhaps the reason it has such a huge reputation. The complex characters and oppressive atmospheres exist in the other stories. Some incredible astute social observations attatched to disturbing and gripping tales. Steppenwolf was great, although I couldn't fully commit to the novel's late transcendental leap. Wonder - R.J. Palacio was the biggest surprise. It's YA sentimental optimism would usually put me off but it doesn't shy away from exposing raw human truths and it has some sharp insights into the nature of cruelty, adolescence and isolation. Zora Neale is a wonder of African American folk literature and American literature in general. Put her alongside Faulkner and Toni Morrison. The Spike Milligan's are fun but very of their time eek!


It's been good though. As silly and arbitrary as this type of challenge is (Tip#036: select short books to get back on target), it provides a real motivation to keep reading good stuff and it's kept me away from brain rotting webnews outlets. I have some comics and poetry lined up to mix things up a little for the rest of the year. I'm going to try and keep up the pace.

And there is plenty of time left. If you stopped following Ben Shapiro you'd make it no problem.
 

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Ironically I just did a count after month 6 and I'm exactly halfway through (though a few months I read mostly nonfiction I'm not counting). At current pace, I'll definitely hit 52 novels around Oct I think

  1. Neighbors - Thomas Berger
  2. The Broken Seals - Shi Nai'an
  3. The Tiger Killers - Shi Nai'an
  4. The Gathering Company -Shi Nai'an
  5. Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
  6. Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
  7. Shiloh and other Stories - Bobbie Ann Mason
  8. Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed
  9. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
  10. Sanctuary - William Faulkner
  11. The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
  12. So Many Doors - Oakley Hall
  13. Warlock - Oakley Hall
  14. Ficciones - Jose Luis Borges
  15. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  16. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
  17. The Soul Thief - Charles Baxter
  18. The Banished Immortal • A Life of Li Bai - Ha Jin
  19. Running Dog - Don Delillo
  20. The Names - Don Delillo
  21. Citizen Vince - Jess Walter
  22. Bodega Dreams - Ernesto Quinonez
  23. The Bad Lands - Oakley Hall
  24. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
  25. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
  26. The Exquisite - Laird Hunt
 

harshad

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On a long road that returns to Old Trafford!!!
1. Sword of Destiny
2. Blood of Elves
3. Time of Contempt
4. Baptism of Fire
5. Tower of Swallow
6. Lady of the Lake
7. A Knife of Dreams
8. The Whistler
9. The Rooster Bar
10. Tiamat's Wrath
11. Remember The Dawn
12. The Three-Body Problem
13. The Gathering Storm
14. New Spring
15. The Golden Compass
16. God of War

Far too behind the goal of completing 52 books
 

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Came across this thread today, and knowing that my wife is a book worm, I asked her how many books she has read so far this year. 40!!!. Must have too much time on her hands.
 

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  1. Neighbors - Thomas Berger
  2. The Broken Seals - Shi Nai'an
  3. The Tiger Killers - Shi Nai'an
  4. The Gathering Company -Shi Nai'an
  5. Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
  6. Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
  7. Shiloh and other Stories - Bobbie Ann Mason
  8. Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed
  9. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
  10. Sanctuary - William Faulkner
  11. The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
  12. So Many Doors - Oakley Hall
  13. Warlock - Oakley Hall
  14. Ficciones - Jose Luis Borges
  15. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  16. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
  17. The Soul Thief - Charles Baxter
  18. The Banished Immortal • A Life of Li Bai - Ha Jin
  19. Running Dog - Don Delillo
  20. The Names - Don Delillo
  21. Citizen Vince - Jess Walter
  22. Bodega Dreams - Ernesto Quinonez
  23. The Bad Lands - Oakley Hall
  24. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
  25. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
  26. The Exquisite - Laird Hunt
  27. The Last Thing He Wanted - Joan Didion
  28. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
  29. Captains of the Sands - Jorge Amado
  30. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
  31. She - Michelle Latiolas
  32. Cow Country - Aj Pearson
  33. The Overstory - Richard Powers
  34. Tornado Weather - Deborah Kennedy
  35. Lola - Melissa Scrivner Love
 

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  1. Neighbors - Thomas Berger
  2. The Broken Seals - Shi Nai'an
  3. The Tiger Killers - Shi Nai'an
  4. The Gathering Company -Shi Nai'an
  5. Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
  6. Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
  7. Shiloh and other Stories - Bobbie Ann Mason
  8. Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed
  9. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
  10. Sanctuary - William Faulkner
  11. The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
  12. So Many Doors - Oakley Hall
  13. Warlock - Oakley Hall
  14. Ficciones - Jose Luis Borges
  15. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  16. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
  17. The Soul Thief - Charles Baxter
  18. The Banished Immortal • A Life of Li Bai - Ha Jin
  19. Running Dog - Don Delillo
  20. The Names - Don Delillo
  21. Citizen Vince - Jess Walter
  22. Bodega Dreams - Ernesto Quinonez
  23. The Bad Lands - Oakley Hall
  24. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
  25. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
  26. The Exquisite - Laird Hunt
  27. The Last Thing He Wanted - Joan Didion
  28. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
  29. Captains of the Sands - Jorge Amado
  30. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
  31. She - Michelle Latiolas
  32. Cow Country - Aj Pearson
  33. The Overstory - Richard Powers
  34. Tornado Weather - Deborah Kennedy
  35. Lola - Melissa Scrivner Love
  36. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
  37. Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
  38. The Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa
  39. Been Down So Long It Feels Like Up to Me - Richard Fariña
  40. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
 

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Jan 2019:

1. The Dirty Streets of Heaven (Tad Williams) - 6/10
2. Happy Hour in Hell (Tad Williams) - 3/10
3. Sleeping Late on Judgement Day (Tad Williams) - 1/10

Feb 2019:

4. The Crown Tower (The Riyria Chronicles, #1) - 7/10
5. The Rose and the Thorn (The Riyria Chronicles, #2) - 7/10
6. The Death of Dulgath (The Riyria Chronicles, #3) - 7/10
7. The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter (The Riyria Chronicles, #4) - 7/10
8. Kellanved's Reach (Path to Ascendancy #3) - 7/10

Mar 2019:

9. Rejoice, A Knife to the Heart - Steven Erikson - 9/10
10. Red Sister - Mark Lawrence - 8/10
11. Grey Sister - Mark Lawrence - 7/10
12. Tiamat's Wrath - James SA Corey - 8/10

April 2019

13. Holy Sister - Mark Lawrence - 6/10
14. The Traitor God - Cameron Johnston - 5/10
15. The Heir of Eyria - Osku ALanen - 5/10
16. As Fire is to Gold - Mark McCabe - 6/10

May 2019

17. Fid's Crusade (Chronicles of the Fid) - David Reiss - 9/10
18. Behind Distant Stars - (Chronicles of the Fid) - David Reiss - 8/10
19. Starfall - (Chronicles of the Fid) - David Reiss - 9/10
20. Kings of the Wyld - Nicholas Eames - 7/10
21. Soon I will be Invincible - Austin Grossman - 8/10
22. Big in Japan (Gailsone #1) - Casey Glanders - 7/10
23. Red Rook (Gailsone #2) - Casey Glanders - 6/10
24. Head of the Dragon (Gailsone #3) - Casey Glanders - 7/10

June 2019

25. Skyward - Brandon Sanderson - 5/10
26. Copper Promise - Jen Williams - 6/10

July 2019

27. Here be Dragons - David P Macpherson - 9/10
28. Past Tense (Jack Reacher #23) - Lee Child - 4/10
29. Theft of Swords (Riyria Revelations #1-2) - 8/10
30. Rise of Empire (Riyria Revelations #3-4) - 7/10
31. Heir of Novron (Riyria Revelations #5-6) - 8/10
32. Age of Myth (Legends of First Empire #1) - 8/10

August 2019

33. Age of Swords (Legends of First Empire #2) - 8/10
34. Age of War (Legends of First Empire #3) - 7/10
35. Age of Legend (Legends of First Empire #4) - 6/10
 

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1. Sword of Destiny
2. Blood of Elves
3. Time of Contempt
4. Baptism of Fire
5. Tower of Swallow
6. Lady of the Lake
7. A Knife of Dreams
8. The Whistler
9. The Rooster Bar
10. Tiamat's Wrath
11. Remember The Dawn
12. The Three-Body Problem
13. The Gathering Storm
14. New Spring
15. The Golden Compass
16. God of War
17. His Subtle Knife
18. The Amber Spyglass
 

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  1. Neighbors - Thomas Berger
  2. The Broken Seals - Shi Nai'an
  3. The Tiger Killers - Shi Nai'an
  4. The Gathering Company -Shi Nai'an
  5. Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
  6. Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
  7. Shiloh and other Stories - Bobbie Ann Mason
  8. Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed
  9. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
  10. Sanctuary - William Faulkner
  11. The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
  12. So Many Doors - Oakley Hall
  13. Warlock - Oakley Hall
  14. Ficciones - Jose Luis Borges
  15. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  16. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
  17. The Soul Thief - Charles Baxter
  18. The Banished Immortal • A Life of Li Bai - Ha Jin
  19. Running Dog - Don Delillo
  20. The Names - Don Delillo
  21. Citizen Vince - Jess Walter
  22. Bodega Dreams - Ernesto Quinonez
  23. The Bad Lands - Oakley Hall
  24. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
  25. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
  26. The Exquisite - Laird Hunt
  27. The Last Thing He Wanted - Joan Didion
  28. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
  29. Captains of the Sands - Jorge Amado
  30. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
  31. She - Michelle Latiolas
  32. Cow Country - Aj Pearson
  33. The Overstory - Richard Powers
  34. Tornado Weather - Deborah Kennedy
  35. Lola - Melissa Scrivner Love
  36. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
  37. Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
  38. The Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa
  39. Been Down So Long It Feels Like Up to Me - Richard Fariña
  40. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
  41. Book of Swindles - Zhang Yingyu
  42. The Zero - Jess Walter
  43. Safe in Heaven Dead - Samuel Ligon
  44. Amongst the Dead and Dreaming - Samuel Ligon
  45. White Noise - Don Delillo
 

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  1. Neighbors - Thomas Berger
  2. The Broken Seals - Shi Nai'an
  3. The Tiger Killers - Shi Nai'an
  4. The Gathering Company -Shi Nai'an
  5. Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
  6. Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
  7. Shiloh and other Stories - Bobbie Ann Mason
  8. Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed
  9. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
  10. Sanctuary - William Faulkner
  11. The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
  12. So Many Doors - Oakley Hall
  13. Warlock - Oakley Hall
  14. Ficciones - Jose Luis Borges
  15. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  16. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
  17. The Soul Thief - Charles Baxter
  18. The Banished Immortal • A Life of Li Bai - Ha Jin
  19. Running Dog - Don Delillo
  20. The Names - Don Delillo
  21. Citizen Vince - Jess Walter
  22. Bodega Dreams - Ernesto Quinonez
  23. The Bad Lands - Oakley Hall
  24. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
  25. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
  26. The Exquisite - Laird Hunt
  27. The Last Thing He Wanted - Joan Didion
  28. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
  29. Captains of the Sands - Jorge Amado
  30. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
  31. She - Michelle Latiolas
  32. Cow Country - Aj Pearson
  33. The Overstory - Richard Powers
  34. Tornado Weather - Deborah Kennedy
  35. Lola - Melissa Scrivner Love
  36. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
  37. Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
  38. The Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa
  39. Been Down So Long It Feels Like Up to Me - Richard Fariña
  40. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
  41. Book of Swindles - Zhang Yingyu
  42. The Zero - Jess Walter
  43. Safe in Heaven Dead - Samuel Ligon
  44. Amongst the Dead and Dreaming - Samuel Ligon
  45. White Noise - Don Delillo
  46. Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh Prop - Robert Coover
  47. The Seven Days of Peter Crumb - Jonny Glynn
  48. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories - Ryünosuke Akutagawa
  49. Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear - Javier Marías
  50. The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
 

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I read that Akutagawa recently. So good. Given the age and translation of the texts I didn't expect it to be such an easy and delightful read. Hell Screen was wild.
 

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Completed
  1. Neighbors - Thomas Berger
  2. The Broken Seals - Shi Nai'an
  3. The Tiger Killers - Shi Nai'an
  4. The Gathering Company -Shi Nai'an
  5. Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
  6. Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
  7. Shiloh and other Stories - Bobbie Ann Mason
  8. Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed
  9. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
  10. Sanctuary - William Faulkner
  11. The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
  12. So Many Doors - Oakley Hall
  13. Warlock - Oakley Hall
  14. Ficciones - Jose Luis Borges
  15. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  16. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
  17. The Soul Thief - Charles Baxter
  18. The Banished Immortal • A Life of Li Bai - Ha Jin
  19. Running Dog - Don Delillo
  20. The Names - Don Delillo
  21. Citizen Vince - Jess Walter
  22. Bodega Dreams - Ernesto Quinonez
  23. The Bad Lands - Oakley Hall
  24. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
  25. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
  26. The Exquisite - Laird Hunt
  27. The Last Thing He Wanted - Joan Didion
  28. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
  29. Captains of the Sands - Jorge Amado
  30. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
  31. She - Michelle Latiolas
  32. Cow Country - Aj Pearson
  33. The Overstory - Richard Powers
  34. Tornado Weather - Deborah Kennedy
  35. Lola - Melissa Scrivner Love
  36. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
  37. Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
  38. The Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa
  39. Been Down So Long It Feels Like Up to Me - Richard Fariña
  40. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
  41. Book of Swindles - Zhang Yingyu
  42. The Zero - Jess Walter
  43. Safe in Heaven Dead - Samuel Ligon
  44. Amongst the Dead and Dreaming - Samuel Ligon
  45. White Noise - Don Delillo
  46. Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh Prop - Robert Coover
  47. The Seven Days of Peter Crumb - Jonny Glynn
  48. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories - Ryünosuke Akutagawa
  49. Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear - Javier Marías
  50. The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
  51. Satantango - László Krasznahorkai
  52. Frontier - Can Xue
  53. Coyote Songs - Gabino Iglesias
These four are lesser known in America and should absolutely be read by more people:

 
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Pretty impressive. Takes some discipline to accomplish. Embarrassed to admit that it's been a while since I've actually read a book. Used to read a lot more when I was younger when there weren't as many technological distractions.
 

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oneniltothearsenal said:
Completed
  1. Neighbors - Thomas Berger
  2. The Broken Seals - Shi Nai'an
  3. The Tiger Killers - Shi Nai'an
  4. The Gathering Company -Shi Nai'an
  5. Outer Dark - Cormac McCarthy
  6. Child of God - Cormac McCarthy
  7. Shiloh and other Stories - Bobbie Ann Mason
  8. Mumbo Jumbo - Ishmael Reed
  9. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
  10. Sanctuary - William Faulkner
  11. The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
  12. So Many Doors - Oakley Hall
  13. Warlock - Oakley Hall
  14. Ficciones - Jose Luis Borges
  15. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
  16. A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
  17. The Soul Thief - Charles Baxter
  18. The Banished Immortal • A Life of Li Bai - Ha Jin
  19. Running Dog - Don Delillo
  20. The Names - Don Delillo
  21. Citizen Vince - Jess Walter
  22. Bodega Dreams - Ernesto Quinonez
  23. The Bad Lands - Oakley Hall
  24. Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
  25. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
  26. The Exquisite - Laird Hunt
  27. The Last Thing He Wanted - Joan Didion
  28. A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
  29. Captains of the Sands - Jorge Amado
  30. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño
  31. She - Michelle Latiolas
  32. Cow Country - Aj Pearson
  33. The Overstory - Richard Powers
  34. Tornado Weather - Deborah Kennedy
  35. Lola - Melissa Scrivner Love
  36. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
  37. Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
  38. The Bad Girl - Mario Vargas Llosa
  39. Been Down So Long It Feels Like Up to Me - Richard Fariña
  40. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
  41. Book of Swindles - Zhang Yingyu
  42. The Zero - Jess Walter
  43. Safe in Heaven Dead - Samuel Ligon
  44. Amongst the Dead and Dreaming - Samuel Ligon
  45. White Noise - Don Delillo
  46. Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh Prop - Robert Coover
  47. The Seven Days of Peter Crumb - Jonny Glynn
  48. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories - Ryünosuke Akutagawa
  49. Your Face Tomorrow: Fever and Spear - Javier Marías
  50. The Melancholy of Resistance - László Krasznahorkai
  51. Satantango - László Krasznahorkai
  52. Frontier - Can Xue
  53. Coyote Songs - Gabino Iglesias
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Well done!
 

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@oneniltothearsenal Javier Marias has been on my list for some time. What did you think?
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Loved it.

From the entire list, the three authors I discovered in the last year that I absolutely love are Marias, Krasznahorkai and Can Xue.

Your Face Tomorrow is a wonderful psychological novel and I have heard good things about his others. Definitely check him out!
 

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Loved it.

From the entire list, the three authors I discovered in the last year that I absolutely love are Marias, Krasznahorkai and Can Xue.

Your Face Tomorrow is a wonderful psychological novel and I have heard good things about his others. Definitely check him out!
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Well that's three more writers on my list. Cheers mate. Congrats on the 52-in-52 by the way!
 

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@oneniltothearsenal Have you seen Werckmeister Harmonies? Haven't read the book but Tarr's movie is excellent (inspired by, or an adaptation, I forget which)

Edit: Melancholy of Resistance.
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Yes! I saw that after I finished the book and I thought it was a great movie that did justice to the novel. Tarr apparently worked with Krasznahorkai for a lot of his movies. I plan to see them all eventually.
 

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Books read for this year. Completed the 52 books task and a bit more!

01. The Dirty Streets of Heaven (Bobby Dollar #1) - Tad Williams - 6/10
02. Happy Hour in Hell (Bobby Dollar #2) - Tad Williams - 3/10
03. Sleeping Late on Judgement Day (Bobby Dollar #3 - Tad Williams - 1/10
04. The Crown Tower (The Riyria Chronicles, #1) - Michael J Sullivan - 7/10
05. The Rose and the Thorn (The Riyria Chronicles, #2) - Michael J Sullivan - 7/10
06. The Death of Dulgath (The Riyria Chronicles, #3) - Michael J Sullivan- 7/10
07. The Disappearance of Winter's Daughter (The Riyria Chronicles, #4) - Michael J Sullivan - 7/10
08. Kellanved's Reach (Path to Ascendancy #3) - Ian C Esselmont - 7/10
09. Rejoice, A Knife to the Heart - Steven Erikson - 9/10
10. Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor #1) - Mark Lawrence - 8/10
11. Grey Sister (Book of the Ancestor #2) - Mark Lawrence - 7/10
12. Tiamat's Wrath (Expanse #8) - James SA Corey - 8/10
13. Holy Sister - (Book of the Ancestor #3) - Mark Lawrence - 6/10
14. The Traitor God - Cameron Johnston - 5/10
15. The Heir of Eyria - Osku Alanen - 5/10
16. As Fire is to Gold - Mark McCabe - 6/10
17. Fid's Crusade (Chronicles of the Fid #1) - David Reiss - 9/10
18. Behind Distant Stars - (Chronicles of the Fid #2) - David Reiss - 8/10
19. Starfall - (Chronicles of the Fid #3) - David Reiss - 9/10
20. Kings of the Wyld - Nicholas Eames - 7/10
21. Soon I will be Invincible - Austin Grossman - 8/10
22. Big in Japan (Gailsone #1) - Casey Glanders - 7/10
23. Red Rook (Gailsone #2) - Casey Glanders - 6/10
24. Head of the Dragon (Gailsone #3) - Casey Glanders - 7/10
25. Skyward - Brandon Sanderson - 5/10
26. Copper Promise - Jen Williams - 6/10
27. Here be Dragons - David P Macpherson - 9/10
28. Past Tense (Jack Reacher #23) - Lee Child - 4/10
29. Theft of Swords (Riyria Revelations #1-2) - Michael J Sullivan - 8/10
30. Rise of Empire (Riyria Revelations #3-4) - Michael J Sullivan - 7/10
31. Heir of Novron (Riyria Revelations #5-6) - Michael J Sullivan - 8/10
32. Age of Myth (Legends of First Empire #1) - Michael J Sullivan - 8/10
33. Age of Swords (Legends of First Empire #2) - Michael J Sullivan - 8/10
34. Age of War (Legends of First Empire #3) - Michael J Sullivan - 7/10
35. Age of Legend (Legends of First Empire #4) - Michael J Sullivan - 6/10
36. Supremach's Shadow (Duelling Planets #1) - T Eric Bakutis - 6/10
37. Orconomics (Dark Profit saga #1) - J Zachary Pike - 7/10
38. Son of Liche (Dark Profit saga #2) - J Zachary Pike - 7/10
39. The Dungeoneers (Dungeoneers #1) - Jeffery Russell - 5/10
40. Vicious (Villains #1) - V.E Schwab - 8/10
41. Vengeful (Villains #2) - V.E. Schwab - 7/10
42. All Systems Red (Murderbot #1) - Martha Wells - 8/10
43. Artificial Condition (Murderbot #2) - Martha Wells - 8/10
44. Rogue Protocol (Murderbot #3) - Martha Wells - 8/10
45. Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4) - Martha Wells - 8/10
47. Sufficiently Advanced Magic (Arcane Ascension #1) - Andrew Rowe - 8/10
48. On Shoulders of Titans (Arcane Ascension #2) - Andrew Rowe - 8/10
49. Six Sacred Swords (Weapons and Wielders #1) - Andrew Rowe - 6/10
50. We are Legion We are Bob (Bobiverse #1) - Denis E Taylor - 7/10
51. Forging Divinity (War of Broken Mirrors #1) - Andrew Rowe - 7/10
52. Stealing Sorcery (War of Broken Mirrors #2) - Andrew Rowe - 7/10
53. Defying Destiny (War of Broken Mirrors #3) - Andrew Rowe - 7/10
54. Sword of Kaigen - M.L Wang - 6/10
55. Starsight (Skyward #2) - Brandon Sanderson -7/10
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56. Gideon the Ninth (Locked Tomb #1) - Tamsyn Muir - WIP
 
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  1. Paradise Regained - John Milton
  2. A Different Drummer - William Melvin Kelley
  3. The Wretched Of The Earth - Frantz Fanon
  4. The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
  5. The Dog Who Dared To Dream - Sun-Mi Hwang
  6. The Body Artist - Don Delillo
  7. Gather Together In My Name - Maya Angelou
  8. Birdcage Walk - Helen Dunmore
  9. Pinin - Vladimir Nabokov
  10. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
  11. The Cathars - Sean Martin
  12. Tales From Ovid - Ted Hughes
  13. Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
  14. Sula - Toni Morrison
  15. Heart of Darkness And Other Stories - Joseph Conrad
  16. A Short History Of Decay - Emile Cioran
  17. Shadow The Sheepdog - Enid Blyton
  18. Nothing - Jeremy Webb
  19. Short Story Collection - Virginia Woolf
  20. Collected Poems - T.S. Eliot
  21. Malone Dies - Samuel Beckett
  22. Singin and Swingin and Gettin Merry like Christmas - Maya Angelou
  23. The Abominables/One Dog And His Boy - Eva Ibbotson
  24. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
  25. Norse Mythology - Neil Gaiman
  26. Sir Gawain And The Green Knight - Simon Armitage
  27. The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
  28. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  29. Wonder - R.J. Palacio
  30. Theogony And Other Works - Hesiod
  31. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
  32. Coral - Steve Jones
  33. A Whole Life - Robert Seethaler
  34. Bring Up The Bodies - Hillary Mantel
  35. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
  36. The Motorcycle Diaries - Ernesto Che Guevara
  37. The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios - Yann Martel
  38. Brer Rabbit - Joel Chandler Harris
  39. Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall - Spike Milligan
  40. Fables Of Aesop - Aesop
  41. The Portrait Of Mrs Charbuque - Jeffrey Ford
  42. Superstition - David Ambrose
  43. The Giant O'brien - Hilary Mantel
  44. Rommel? Gunner Who? - Spike Milligan
  45. Conversatins With Friends - Sally Rooney
  46. Monty His Part In My Victory - Spike Milligan
  47. On Chesil Beach - Ian McwEan
  48. There Once Was A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neihbour's Baby - Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
  49. Outrageous Conduct, Art, Ego And The Twilight Zone Case - Stephen Farber and Marc Green
  50. How Can You Bear To Be Human - Nicolas Bentley
  51. The Lottery And Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
  52. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

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53. A Change Of Climate - Hilary Mantel
54. Swing Time - Zadie Smith
55. The System Of Dante's Hell - Leroi Jones
56. Rashomon And Seventeen Other Stories - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
57. Candide - Voltaire
58. Killing And Dying - Adrian Tomine
59. On Love And Barley - Basho
60. Death in Venice/Tristan/Tonio Kroger - Thomas Mann
61. A Brief History Of Seven Killings - Marlon James
62. One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
63. Spiritual Verses - Rumi
64. Beatrice And Viril - Yann Martel
65. The R. Crumb Handbook - R. Crumb And Peter Poplaski
66. Philip Larkin Complete Poems - Philip Larkin
67. Alice In Sunderland - Bryan Talbot
68. The Origin Of Satan - Elaine Pagels
69. A Book Of Nonsense - Mervin Peake
70. The Plague - Albert Camus
71. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
72. Godric - Frederick Buechner
73. Lost Girls Book 1 - Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore
74. Lost Girls Book 2 - Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore
75. Lost Girls Book 3 - Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore
76. This Is Life - Dan Rhodes
77. The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame
78. The Snows Of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
79. Supertoys Last All Summer Long And Other Stories - Brian Aldiss
80. The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century:1910 - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
81. The Vinland Sagas, Norse Discovery Of America - Hermann Palsson
82. Alien - Alan Dean Foster
83. Bartleby And The Lightning-Rod Man - Herman Melville
84. The Oresteian Trilogy - Aeschylus
85. The Musical Monsters Of Turkey Hollow - Jim Henson and Roger Langridge
86. Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
87. The Guest Cat - Takashi Hiraide
88. The Heaven Makers - Frank Herbert
89. The General - Alan Sillitoe
90. Wessex Tales - Thomas Hardy
91. Blindness - Jose Saramago
92. Grendel - John Gardner
93. King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
94. Anaximander And His Legacy: The First Scientist - Carlo Rovelli
95. Seven Brief Lessons On Physics - Carlo Rovelli
96. We Have Always Lived In The Castle - Shirley Jackson
97. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig
98. The Human Machine - E.R. Thompson
99. The Nature Of Things - Lucretius
100. The Box Of Delights - John Masefield
101. An Almost Perfect Christmas - Nina Stibbe
102. A Treasury Of African American-Christmas Stories - Betty Collier-Thomas
103. Free Fall - William Golding
104. Confabulations - John Berger



 

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53. A Change Of Climate - Hilary Mantel
54. Swing Time - Zadie Smith
55. The System Of Dante's Hell - Leroi Jones
56. Rashomon And Seventeen Other Stories - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
57. Candide - Voltaire
58. Killing And Dying - Adrian Tomine
59. On Love And Barley - Basho
60. Death in Venice/Tristan/Tonio Kroger - Thomas Mann
61. A Brief History Of Seven Killings - Marlon James
62. One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
63. Spiritual Verses - Rumi
64. Beatrice And Viril - Yann Martel
65. The R. Crumb Handbook - R. Crumb And Peter Poplaski
66. Philip Larkin Complete Poems - Philip Larkin
67. Alice In Sunderland - Bryan Talbot
68. The Origin Of Satan - Elaine Pagels
69. A Book Of Nonsense - Mervin Peake
70. The Plague - Albert Camus
71. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
72. Godric - Frederick Buechner
73. Lost Girls Book 1 - Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore
74. Lost Girls Book 2 - Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore
75. Lost Girls Book 3 - Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore
76. This Is Life - Dan Rhodes
77. The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame
78. The Snows Of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway
79. Supertoys Last All Summer Long And Other Stories - Brian Aldiss
80. The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century:1910 - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
81. The Vinland Sagas, Norse Discovery Of America - Hermann Palsson
82. Alien - Alan Dean Foster
83. Bartleby And The Lightning-Rod Man - Herman Melville
84. The Oresteian Trilogy - Aeschylus
85. The Musical Monsters Of Turkey Hollow - Jim Henson and Roger Langridge
86. Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
87. The Guest Cat - Takashi Hiraide
88. The Heaven Makers - Frank Herbert
89. The General - Alan Sillitoe
90. Wessex Tales - Thomas Hardy
91. Blindness - Jose Saramago
92. Grendel - John Gardner
93. King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
94. Anaximander And His Legacy: The First Scientist - Carlo Rovelli
95. Seven Brief Lessons On Physics - Carlo Rovelli
96. We Have Always Lived In The Castle - Shirley Jackson
97. Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M Pirsig
98. The Human Machine - E.R. Thompson
99. The Nature Of Things - Lucretius
100. The Box Of Delights - John Masefield
101. An Almost Perfect Christmas - Nina Stibbe
102. A Treasury Of African American-Christmas Stories - Betty Collier-Thomas
103. Free Fall - William Golding
104. Confabulations - John Berger



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Amazing work! Congratulations. 104 books in a year is quite a remarkable achievement considering you aren't reading Choose Your Own Adventure and Goosebumps
 

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Cheers, you too. The target was two books per week at the start of the year and it got a little close to collapsing a couple of times but I puffed it up with some shorter books and a few re-reads of old favourites. It did mean I had to mostly forgo anything really long or dense but it did allow me to clear most of the backlog that had been sat on the shelf for a while. At times it felt like too much, I'll take it easier next year. I'll probably be extensively mining your list.

Pour one out for Eboue and his six books for the year.
 

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You guys are inspiring, gonna give this a go in 2020.
 

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Cheers, you too. The target was two books per week at the start of the year and it got a little close to collapsing a couple of times but I puffed it up with some shorter books and a few re-reads of old favourites. It did mean I had to mostly forgo anything really long or dense but it did allow me to clear most of the backlog that had been sat on the shelf for a while. At times it felt like too much, I'll take it easier next year. I'll probably be extensively mining your list.

Pour one out for Eboue and his six books for the year.
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This is the year. I'll be commuting a lot more so I can get plenty done with audiobooks.
 

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Way behind my wife I've probably done about 14 she's read over a 100.
 

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dumbo said:
Cheers, you too. The target was two books per week at the start of the year and it got a little close to collapsing a couple of times but I puffed it up with some shorter books and a few re-reads of old favourites. It did mean I had to mostly forgo anything really long or dense but it did allow me to clear most of the backlog that had been sat on the shelf for a while. At times it felt like too much, I'll take it easier next year. I'll probably be extensively mining your list.

Pour one out for Eboue and his six books for the year.
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Is it worth it given that? I have a couple of massive books on the shelf I want to read and I want to finally tackle Crime and Punishment and David Copperfield, which have been gathering dust for years.
 

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Is it worth it given that? I have a couple of massive books on the shelf I want to read and I want to finally tackle Crime and Punishment and David Copperfield, which have been gathering dust for years.
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I really enjoyed Crime and Punishment. I'd recommend it thoroughly.
 
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