Here is a list of books and stories I have read. I’ve read a lot more than are listed here, obviously, but I started posting in October 2012. Most recent reads are at the top.
What I’ve Read
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2019
How to Write a Novella in 24 Hours – Andrew Mayne
Crafting Fiction: Hard-Boiled Outlines – William Miller
Sweetlings – Lucy Taylor
The Cold Spot – J.G. Faherty
The Followers – Greg Chapman
The Suicide of Jeremy Price – Shaun Hupp
The Book at Dernie – Samantha Lienhard
The Twilight Pariah – Jeffrey Ford
Gnawed – John Grover
Dr. Morgan: The Sleepers Do Not Dream – Terry M. West
On Writing: Advice for Those Who Write to Publish (Or Would Like To) – George V. Higgins
Something Wicked This Way Comes (2x) – Ray Bradbury
Baby Teeth – Zoje Stage
Killer Concepts for Fiction Authors – Stacy Buck
A Soundless Dawn – Dustin LaValley
The Deceived (2x) – Dustin LaValley
Haunt – Laura Lee Bahr
The Seventh – Donald Westlake
2018
I read no fiction in 2018. Instead, I read a lot of non-fiction and theological studies.
2017
Her Halloween Treat – Tiffany Reisz
Columbella – Phyllis A. Whitney
Cane River: A Ghost Story – Scott A. Johnson
Morning Is Dead – Andersen Prunty
Ghosts Know – Ramsey Campbell
Our Lady of Darkness (2x) – Fritz Leiber
The Doll Who Ate His Mother (2x) – Ramsey Campbell
Thrall – Mary SanGiovanni
Dark Matter – Michelle Paver
Crimson Peak – Nancy Holder
The Handle – Donald Westlake
A Prayer for the Dying – Stewart O’Nan
68 Kill – Bryan Smith
Hour of the Oxrun Dead – Charles L. Grant
Grave – Charles L. Grant
Whispers – Kristin Dearborn
Sacrifice Island – Kristin Dearborn
Lady Afraid – Lester Dent
Revival (audio) – Stephen King
Joyland (audio) – Stephen King
The Score – Donald Westlake
The Outfit – Donald Westlake
The Mourner – Donald Westlake
The Man with the Getaway Face – Donald Westlake
The Hunter – Richard Stark (Donald Westlake)
Nineteen Eighty – David Peace
Nineteen Seventy-seven – David Peace
Nineteen Seventy-four – David Peace
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
Shane – Jack Shaefer
Boy in the Water – Stephen Dobyns
The Hook – Donald Westlake
Beautiful Joe – Marshall Saunders
Call of the Wild – Jack London
2014
The Friends of Eddie Coyle – George V. Higgins (1970)
The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold (2002)
2013
The Sorrow King – Andersen Prunty (2011)
The Revelations of Preston Black – Jason Jack Miller (2013)
The Art of Description: World into Word – Mark Doty (2010)
A Perfect Day (audio) – Richard Paul Evans (2003)
Life of Pi (audio) – Yann Martel (2001)
The Auld Mither – William Meikle (2013)
HYSTERIA: A Collection of Madness – Stephanie M. Wytovich (2013)
Too Late to Call Texas – Trent Zelazny (2013)
The Not So Simple Life – Alayne Adams (2010)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers – Mary Roach (2003)
Trout Fishing in America – Richard Brautigan (1967), 3x
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut (1963), 2x
The Art of Time in Fiction: As Long As It Takes – Joan Silber (2009)
The Graveyard Book – Neil Gaiman (2008)
The Wounded and the Slain – David Goodis (1955)
The Baby Jesus Butt Plug – Carlton Mellick III (2004)
Spinner – Dustin LaValley (2012)
Writing Subtext: What Lies Beneath – Linda Seger (2011)
The Menstruating Mall – Carlton Mellick III (2005), couldn’t put it down!
Angel Dust Apocalypse – Jeremy Robert Johnson (2005), mindsuckingly awesome!
The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot – Charles Baxter (2007), 2x
The Haunted Vagina – Carlton Mellick III (2011)
Zombie – Joyce Carol Oates (1995), 3x
Sexual Homicide Patterns and Motives – Ressler, Burgess, and Douglas (1988)
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson (1952)
Hellbender – Jason Jack Miller (2012)
2012
Trauma – Patrick McGrath (2008)
A Requiem for Dead Flies – Peter N. Dudar (2012)
Butterfly Potion – Trent Zelazny (2012)
Ghost Writer – John Harwood (2004)
Merlyn’s Raven – Rose Vanden Eynden (2012)
“A Warning to the Curious” – M. R. James, from The Haunted Dolls’ House and Other Ghost Stories (2006)
“The Pines” – Karl Edward Wagner, from Where the Summer Ends, vol. 1 (2011)
“Sticks” – Karl Edward Wagner, from Where the Summer Ends, vol. 1 (2011)
“A Toy for Juliette” – Robert Bloch, from Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (2011)
“A Most Unusual Murder” – Robert Bloch, from Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (2011)
“Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper” – Robert Bloch, from Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (2011)
Night Sisters – Sara Rath (2008)
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