888 Challenge - Completed

1001 Books to Read Before You Die
1. Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud
2. Saturday - Ian McEwan
3. Choke - Chuck Palahunik
4. Drop City - T C Boyle
5. The Outsider - Albert Camus
6. The Third Man - Graham Greene
7. Light of Day - Graham Swift
8. The Secret History - Donna Tartt


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)


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


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. The Sweet Forever - George Pelecanos
8. Shame the Devil - George Pelecanos



As seen on Screen (books with films or television series)
1. The Graduate - Charles Webb
2 Darkly Dreaming Dexter Jeff Lindsay
3. 84 Charing Cross Road - Helen Hanff
4 Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
5. Hallam Foe - Peter Jinks
6. Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
7. The Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden
8. Fight Club - Chuck Palahnuik



Prize Winners and Nominees
1. The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills, McKitterick Prize & Booker Nominee
2. Last Orders - Graham Swift, Boooker Prize Winner
3. The Sea - John Banville, Booker Prize Winner 2005
4. The Gathering - Anne Enright, Booker Prize Winner
5. Boy A - Jonathan Trigell, John Llewellyn Rhys
6. Shipping News - Annie Proulx, Pulitzer
7. Whatever - Michel Houellbecq, Impac winner
8. The Accidental - Ali Smith, Whitbread Prize/Booker Nominee




Book Club reads
1. Uncommon Reader Alan Bennett
2. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
3. The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
4. City of God - E L Doctorow
5. Book of Things Lost - John Connolly
6. Norwegian Wood - Hanuki Murakami
7. Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka
8. Never Let Me Down - Kazuo Ishiguro



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