1.) The Third World War - General Sir John Hackett, GCB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC, MA, B.Litt, LL.D

I'd read all the Reacher books

All completed on plane journeys…

1. Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
An autobiographical tome about Fern’s life growing up as an undiagnosed autistic girl/woman in Scotland. Quite an enlightening read.

2. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
Started this one (and the Fern Brady book) last year but I felt this was impenetrable so I stopped. Finally powered my way through it on the plane and I must have stopped just before the action kicked in, because the rest of it was a much nicer read and I’m looking forward to more Pratchett now!

3. Red Dwarf: Better Than Life, by Grant Naylor
The second book, and despite having read it (and listened to the audiobook) a few times I always forget just how funny and poignant it is.

All the Reacher books?
You're welcome!

Have you got Last Human?

Well, no - and that screenshot is missing "The Jack Reacher cases" which are a perfect example of how someone mimicking a style is unlikely to quite hit the mark (they're just 'fine').

I'll count those above as a maybe!

In all seriousness, The Gray Man by Mark Greaney is a great Reacher-like.

That's the best one.

Interesting, I'll let you know what I think when I get to the end of it!

1. Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
2. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
3. Red Dwarf: Better Than Life, by Grant Naylor
4. Red Dwarf: Backwards, by Rob Grant

3. Fake Heroes - Otto English a peer behind the curtain at a selection of venerated people. It's interesting, but appalling edited in places.

1. The Secret - Reacher (29??)

1. The Secret - Reacher (29??)
2. Spaceship Thrive - Ginger Booth

1. Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
2. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
3. Red Dwarf: Better Than Life, by Grant Naylor
4. Red Dwarf: Backwards, by Rob Grant
5. Red Dwarf: Last Human, by Doug Naylor

Milkman - Anna Burns. Booker prize winner that I found in parts hard going, in other parts clever, sweet, funny. Story of a girl and her life, with maybe-boyfriend, her wee sisters and Milkman, a shadowy older man who latches onto her. A country of the state and Renouncers, with an air of menace in the background that suggests it's in the developing world, but it never needs saying. Took me a while to read - I got just over halfway then diverted to Summer Knight and Ghosts, as above - but I enjoyed it.

Agent Running in the Field - John le Carré. Brilliant 2019 spy story with layers of anger and prescience over Johnson, Putin, Trump and Brexit, all of which are excoriated and dismissed in at least one pithy but extended paragraph. The title suggests one agent running from danger, and there's a bit of that, but you can also read it in the same tense as if it were a manual - how to run agents in the field. And there's that, too. The dialogue and characters are right on point, and the whole thing is massively satisfying.

5.) As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning - Laurie Lee
Laurie Lee decides to busk across Spain, getting sun stroke, sleeping in stables with tramps and getting adopted by poets and playing in a house band for a seaside hotel. Mostly a charming tale of bohemian jollity with views onto the corruption, poverty and desperation that helped lead to the civil war, that he is rescued from just as it's starting to get nasty ( although he returns to fight in the International Brigade later on ). I liked this book very much.

Somehow I managed to edit my last post to add this instead of adding a new reply. Ho hum.