Bluemoon's Official Top 100 Books

[Out on blue 6]

Mine for what it's worth as others have put there's on.

1. David Peace - GB84
2. Don Winslow - The Power Of The Dog
3. Denis Johnson - Tree Of Smoke
4. James Ellroy - American Tabloid
5. George Pelecanos - The Sweet Forever
6. Ian McDonald - Revolution In The Head
7. Irvine Welsh - Porno
8. Dennis Lehane - Live By Night
9. Michael Lewis - Moneyball
10. Stephen King - It
11. Elmore Leonard - Rum Punch
12. Ian Rankin - Fleshmarket Close
13. Michael Connelly - The Poet
14. James Lee Burke - Bitterroot
15. Carl Hiaason - Sick Puppy
16. Jo Nesbo - The Son
17. Joseph Wamburgh - Hollywood Station
18. Ken Kesey - One Flee Over The Cuckoo's Nest
19. Adrian McKinty - Gun Street Girl
20. Joseph Knox - The Smiling Man

 

[willipp]

Thanks Mark for going to the effort

My list for what it’s worth, had 13 make the 100, I would have swapped out the Redbreast for 1984 or Shadow of the wind

1. Return of the King (J. R. R. Tolkien)
2. Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre)
4. The Power of the dog (Don Winslow)
5. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
6. The Stand (Stephen King)
7. The Hobbit) (J. R. R. TOLKIEN)
8. The Beach (Alex Garland)
9. The Passage (Justin Cronin)
10. Single & Single (John LeCarre)
11. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
12. The Redbreast (Jo Nesbo)
13. I am Pilgrim (Terry Hayes)
14. The winter of Frankie Machine (Don Winslow)
15. One Flew over the cuckoo's nest (Ken Kesey)
16. Fatherland (Robert Harris)
17. The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
18. The Neon Rain (James Lee Burke)
19. The Cold six thousand (James Ellroy)
20, Misery (Stephen King)

Expected I am Pilgrim to be on the list. I had it at 7 on my list i think and you at 13. Must have been the only 2 to give it a vote.

 

[JRockBlues]

At the start of the year I planned on re-reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman for the second time. Was going to read 1 volume of the Absolute editions every other month as there are 6 in total if you include Absolute Death (and why wouldn't you). This was because I'd acquired the Sandman Companion book by Hy Bender to help me catch some of the stuff I'd missed on my first run through. As with most people's yearly plans mine was affected by the pretty crappy year that we've all endured but I'm now on the final volume (Vol.5) which collects the stories released after the main series came to a conclusion. I've also dipped into Norse Mythology, also by Gaiman, as the Sandman books are not something I'm going to read in the bath.

I've only finished 30 books so far this year so it's been a bad one on that score.

 

[RobMCFC]

Expected I am Pilgrim to be on the list. I had it at 7 on my list i think and you at 13. Must have been the only 2 to give it a vote.

22 points - cue calls for a recount!

 

[willipp]

22 points - cue calls for a recount!

In fact i had it at 5 on my list, so 16 points and 8 for 13th on discos list. 24 points with 2 votes would mean 86th spot on the list.

 

[discopop]

In fact i had it at 5 on my list, so 16 points and 8 for 13th on discos list. 24 points with 2 votes would mean 86th spot on the list.

get that happy hammer in here to explain himself

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Just out of interest. What are people reading right now? And what made you pick it?

I finished The Luck of the Bodkins by PG Wodehouse (how did he not get anything in the 100?) and Limmy's autobiography in the last two days. Both great.

I'm actually deciding what to read next. I think probably The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin. Fancy something short.

 

[Bob Hope]

This is my list.
1 1984, George Orwell
2 To kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
3 The grapes of wrath, John Steinbeck
4 The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, Douglas Adams
5 The ragged trousered philanthropists Robert Trussell
6 Cannery Row, John Steinbeck
7 The pillars of the earth, Ken Follett
8 Life of pi, Yann Martel
9 East of Eden, John Steinbeck
10 Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
11 One hundred year old man who climbed out of the window and disappeared. Jonas Jonasson
12 A tale of two Cities, Charles Dickens
13 Keeping the Aspidistra flying, George Orwell
14 The wayward bus, John Steinbeck
15 Germinal, Emile Zola
16 The time machine , H.G.Wells
17 The book thief, Markus Zusak
18 Coming up for air, George Orwell
19 The hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
20 Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

By the way, a book that's incredibly out of fashion to the point of oblivion, but one I think is a masterpiece of 19th century fiction: The Egoist by George Meredith. A brilliant satirical study of exactly what it says on the tin. Egoism, of the upper-class, male variety, especially as seen by the various women that he tramples over.

 

[Saddleworth2]

It's true, i spend to much time on Bluemoon to get time reading - i read the Brexit thread when i go to bed! it helps me go to sleep

Thanks for arranging this mate. Much appreciated. Will certainly influence my reading in 2021.