Here's a list of all the books I read this year. I'm not a hypercritical reader and I read almost everything for its entertainment value, depending on what mood I'm in. I put an asterisk next to the ones I remember particularly enjoying.
1. Dress You Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
2. A Special Place by Peter Straub
3. Blindness by Jose Saramago
4. Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris
5. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
6. Scorch Atlas by Blake Butler*
7. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky*
8. Top of the Heap by Erle Stanley Gardner
9. Cows by Matthew Stokoe*
10. Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
11. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
12. Little Girl Lost by Richard Aleas
13. Floating Dragon by Peter Straub
14. High Life by Matthew Stokoe*
15. Spare Key by R. Frederick Hamilton
16. Pork Pie Hat by Peter Straub
17. To Each Their Darkness by Gary Braunbeck*
18. Strange Men in Pinstripe Suits by Cate Gardner
19. The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
20. Rock and Roll Reform School Zombies by Bryan Smith
21. Beyond the Curve by Kobo Abe
22. Catching the Big Fish by David Lynch*
23. 5 Stories by Peter Straub
24. The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
25. Brain Cheese Buffet by Edward Lee
26. A Life On Fire by Chris Bowsman*
27. The Woman by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee
28. Book of Souls by Jack Ketchum
29. Ladies’ Night by Jack Ketchum
30. Shadowland by Peter Straub*
31. Unearthed by Gina Ranalli
32. Love in the Time of Dinosaurs by Kirsten Alene*
33. Muscle Memory by Steve Lowe*
34. The Artichoke Room by Cameron Pierce and Kirsten Alene*
35. Suicide Girls in the Afterlife by Gina Ranalli*
36. Clickers by Mark Williams and J.F. Gonzalez
37. Waiting Out Winter by Kelli Owen
38. The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich
39. Abortion Arcade by Cameron Pierce*
40. Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You by Bradley Sands*
41. You Hear Ambulance Sounds and Think They Are For You by Sam Pink
42. Sleep Disorder by Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee
43. To the Devil, My Regards by Victor Gischler
44. Dark Surge by Gina Ranalli
45. Fuckin’ Lie Down Already by Tom Piccirilli*
46. Heinous by Jonathan Moon
47. Carrie by Stephen King
48. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis*
49. Bible Camp Bloodbath by Joey Comeau
50. It by Stephen King*
51. The Damned Highway by Brian Keene and Nick Mamatas*
52. Goddamn Electric Nights by William Pauley III
53. Mile 81 by Stephen King
54. Wolves Dressed As Men by Steve Lowe
55. The No Hellos Diet by Sam Pink*
56. Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock*
57. Hurt Others by Sam Pink
58. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
59. 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
60. The Crud Masters by Justin Grimbol*
61. By the Time We Leave Here We’ll Be Friends by J. David Osborne*
