|
Jan 2021
7:37pm, 24 Jan 2021
35,343 posts
|
Night-owl
Edit its 1980
|
|
Jan 2021
7:42pm, 24 Jan 2021
20,524 posts
|
Serendippily
I enjoyed the devil and Miss Prym if you still have Brazil on your list Owlie. Theresa few possibles from Paulo Coelho he’s quite prolific
|
|
Jan 2021
7:48pm, 24 Jan 2021
35,344 posts
|
Night-owl
Thank you. Not done Brazil yet. Thanks for the suggestion
|
|
Jan 2021
12:48am, 25 Jan 2021
2,212 posts
|
DazTheSlug
I finished this challenge on 17th Jan.
those 56 books in full:
1964 - Beauty And Sadness (Yasunari Kawabata) - 8
1965 - The Magus (John Fowles) - DNF
1966 - To Each His Own (Leonardo Sciascia) - 8
1967 - Towards The End Of The Morning (Michael Frayn) - 9
1968 - Camp Concentration (Thomas M Disch) - 8
1969 - Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth) - 8
1970 - The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison) - 8
1971 - The Exorcist (William Peter Blatty) - 7
1972 - The Harpole Report (JL Carr) - 9
1973 - The Princess Bride (William Goldman) - 8
1974 - Porterhouse Blue (Tom Sharpe) - 8
1975 - Hello Summer, Goodbye (Michael G Coney) - 6
1976 - The Hearing Trumpet (Leonora Carrington) - 10
1977 - A Judgement In Stone (Ruth Rendell) - 9
1978 - Tales Of The City (Armistead Maupin) - 8
1979 - A Dry White Season (Andre Brink) - 8
1980 - Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum) - 6
1981 - Gorky Park (Martin Cruz Smith) - 7
1982 - If Not Now, When? (Primo Levi) - 8
1983 - Shame (Salman Rushdie) - 7
1984 - Nights At The Circus (Angela Carter) - 9
1985 - Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry) - 8
1986 - Extinction (Thomas Bernhard) - 9
1987 - Bonfire Of The Vanities (Tom Wolfe) - 9
1988 - Breathing Lessons (Anne Tyler) - DNF
1989 - Samarkand (Amin Maalouf) - 7
1990 - The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi) - 7
1991 - The Famished Road (Ben Okri) - 7
1992 - Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow (Peter Høeg) - 8
1993 - The Shipping News (Annie Proulx) - 8
1994 - Only Forward (Michael Marshall Smith) - 8
1995 - The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami) - 10
1996 - Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) - DNF
1997 - Great Apes (Will Self) - 8
1998 - The Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolaño) - 10
1999 - Disgrace (JM Coetzee) - 8
2000 - House Of Leaves (Mark Danielewski) - 8
2001 - Bold As Love (Gwyneth Jones) - 7
2002 - Everything Is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer) - 8
2003 - Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi) - 8
2004 - Air (Geoff Ryman) - 8
2005 - Beyond Black (Hilary Mantel) - 8
2006 - White Man Falling (Mike Stocks) - 8
2007 - Darkmans (Nicola Barker) - 10
2008 - The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (Victor Pelevin) - 8
2009 - The Gray House (Mariam Petrosyan) - 9
2010 - Harmony (Project Itoh) - 7
2011 - The Sisters Brothers (Patrick deWitt) - 8
2012 - Pig Iron (Benjamin Myers) - 6
2013 - Ancillary Justice (Ann Leckie) - 10
2014 - Station Eleven (Emily St.John Mandel) - 6
2015 - A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara) - DNF
2016 - The Association of Small Bombs (Karan Mahajan) - 8
2017 - 4 3 2 1 (Paul Auster) - 7
2018 - Milkman (Anna Burns) - 10
2019 - The Wall (John Lanchester) - 8
|
|
Jan 2021
12:55am, 25 Jan 2021
2,384 posts
|
Cheg
Well some done Daz.
I’ve just ordered Hotel Du Lac on Kindle. 1984 my year of birth and the start of my challenge. I’ve decided to go for Booker prize winners in order.
|
|
Jan 2021
3:52am, 25 Jan 2021
3,206 posts
|
TBR (TheBeardRunner)
Ooh, I like how you have chosen your list Cheg.
|
|
Jan 2021
6:21am, 25 Jan 2021
2,385 posts
|
Cheg
Thanks TBR, I just think otherwise I'd have been reading Lee Child and John Grisham. Love them both but not quite what the challenge was about.
|
|
Jan 2021
7:23am, 25 Jan 2021
35,347 posts
|
Night-owl
Good list Daz and very well done
Cheg nice thinking I have recently look at the booker prize list (and shortlisted) to get some ideas.
|
|
Jan 2021
7:25am, 25 Jan 2021
35,348 posts
|
Night-owl
For 1981 I think I will read Loitering with intent by Muriel Spark, which I have
|
|
Jan 2021
8:49am, 25 Jan 2021
20,529 posts
|
Serendippily
Well done Daz and that’s a lovely smorgasbord for me to dip into for missing years. I need to at least remember the book to keep it on my list I’ve had a few false attempts
|
Ice pie.
Jan 2025