888 Challenge: End of October

Just two books to read to complete the challenge with the allow overlaps, then a few more to rid myself of the overlaps.



1001 Books to Read Before You Die
1. Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
2. The Graduate - Charles Webb (overlap)
3. Saturday - Ian McEwan
4. Choke - Chuck Palahunik (overlap)
5 . City of God - E. L. Doctorow (overlap)
6. Drop City - T C Boyle
7. The Outsider - Albert Camus
8. The Third Man - Graham Greene

Read so far: 8
To Read: 2 overlaps


Non-fiction
1. The Hypocrisy of Disco Clane Hayward (memoir about growing up in seventies communes
2. Pies and Prejudice Stuart Maconie (journey around the north of England)
3. The White Album Joan Didion (essays and articles)
4. The Film Club David Gilmour (film history mixed with father/son relationship)
5. Elephants on Acid Alex Boese (weird experiments)
6. Stuart a Life Backwards Alexander Masters (biography of a homeless man)
7 A Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion (memoir about grief)

8. My Life at Grey Gardens - Lois Wright (memoir)
Read so far: 8
To Read: 0

Fiction authors that are new to me
1. The Russian Debutante's Handbook Gary Shteygart
2. The Best Thing that can happen to a Croissant Pablo Tusset
3. Post Office Charles Bukowski
4. She's Come Undone Wally Lamb
5. Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
6. Replay - Ken Grimwood
7. The End of Mr Y - Scarlett Thomas
8. Fup - Jim Dodge
Read so far: 8
To Read: 0

Crime & Detectives
1. The Naming of the Dead Ian Rankin
2. The Big Blowdown George Pelecanos
3. Exit Music Ian Rankin
4. The Shape of Water - Andrea Camillieri
5. The Return of the Dancing Master - Henning Mankell
6. King Suckerman - George Pelecanos
7. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay (overlap)
8. The Sweet Forever - George Pelecanos
Read so far: 8

To Read - 1 overlap


As seen on Screen (books with films or television series)
1. The Graduate - Charles Webb (overlap)
2 Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay
3. 84 Charing Cross Road - Helen Hanff
4. Choke - Chuck Palahnuik (overlap)
5. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
6. Hallam Foe - Peter Jinks

7. Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
8. The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden

Read so far: 8

To Read: 2 overlaps


Prize Winners and Nominees
1. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch, Booker Prize Winner 1978 (overlap)
2. The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills, Booker Nominee
3. Last Orders - Graham Swift, Boooker Prize Winner
4. The Sea - John Banville, Booker Prize Winner 2005
5. The Gathering - Anne Enright, Booker Prize Winner

6. Boy A - Jonathan Trigell

7. Whatever - Michel Houellebecq

8. Shipping News - Annie Proulx
Read so far: 8

To Read - 1 overlaps



Book Club reads
1. Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett
2. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
3. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch (overlap)
4. City of God - E L Doctorow (overlap)
5. Book of Things Lost - John Connolly

6. Norwegian Wood - Hanuki Murakami
Read so far: 6
To read: 2



Books by authors whose other books I've enjoyed
1 Glyph Percival Everett
2. So Many Ways to Begin - Jon McGregor
3. A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon
4. All Families of Psychotic - Douglas Coupland

5. The Third Brother - Nick McDonell

6. Three to See a King - Magnus Mills

7. The Body - Hanif Kureishi

8. Tortilla Curtain - T C Boyle
Read so far: 8
To read: 0