So, I'm officially closing my 2014-15 reading year. My deadline was tomorrow, but since I'm not going to finish anything else until then, I prefer doing it now and leave only the fun part for the Holidays: the year-end lists. Let me preface this by saying I've had a fantastic reading year. By far the best since I've started this blog and perhaps the very best reading year of my life. I've read so much standout material in 2014-15, I'm going to have a hard time singling out twenty titles.
I will publish two lists before December 31st. The first one will feature 10 notable reads, which didn't crack the year's top 10 but were worthy of mention. The last one will be of course my 10 favorite reads of 2014-15. Since it's been a special reading year, I've probably read more standout books than I'm allowed to read so if your novel isn't featured, don't take it personal. Or you could always take it personal and pout. I don't really have leverage here,
So, here are the 125 books I've read in 2014-15. It's way too many, but I've reviewed them all on Goodreads and Amazon (yes, you can look), and maybe 110-115 on this very blog. The listed books will be picked from this very list!
Eryk Pruitt - Dirtbags
Mike Miner - Prodigal Sons
Anonymous 9 - Bite Harder
Joe R. Lansdale - Sunset and Sawdust
Brandon Barrows - The Altar in the Hills and Other Weird Tales
Brian Panowich - Bull Mountain
Anthony Neil Smith - Worm
Richard Godwin - Noir City
Mark Matthews - Milk Blood
Darcy Frey - The Last Shot
Andrez Bergen - Depth Charging Ice Planet Goth
Ben Bova - Mars
Roderick Thorp - Nothing Lasts Forever
Scott Adlerberg - Jungle Horses
Vincenzo Bilof - Vampire Strippers from Saturn
David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not
Chris Rhatigan/Pablo D’Stair - You Don`t Exist
Dennis Lehane - The Drop
Tom Piccirilli - The Night Class
Craig DiLouie - Suffer the Children
Troy James Weaver - Visions
Mike McCrary - Remo Went Rogue
Mikhail Lerma - Z Plan: Blood on the Sand
Tom Perrotta - The Leftovers
Ben Tanzer - After the Flood
Max Booth III - Toxicity
Adam Cesare/Cameron Pierce - Bottom Feeders
Lawrence Block - Eight Million Ways to Die
Owen Matthews - How to Win at High School
Andrew Pyper - The Damned
Jeremy Robert Johnson - Skullcrack City
Thomas Ligotti - My Work is Not Yet Done
Dennis Lehane - World Gone By
Evangeline Jennings - Riding in Cars with Girls
Bud Smith - F250
Christopher Irvin - Burn Cards
Richard K. Morgan - Altered Carbon
Liam Sweeny - Dead Man’s Switch
Jessica McHugh - The Green Kangaroos
C.J Anderson - Gina French is not a Waste of Roofies
Joe R. Lansdale - The Two-Bear Mambo
Sam Hawken - Full Throttle: The Collected Camaro, Vol. 1
Sam Wiebe - Last of the Independents
Andrew Hilbert - Death Thing
Stephen Baker - The Boost
Rob Hart - New Yorked
Tiffany Scandal - Jigsaw Youth
Paul Tremblay - A Head Full of Ghosts
Michael Weiss/Hassan Hassan - ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror
Chris Lambert - Killer and Victim
Anthony Schiavino - Shotglass Memories
Tom Pitts - Knuckleball
Keith Rawson - All Those Hungry Mouths
Todd Morr - Jesus Saves, Satan Invests
James Ellroy - The Big Nowhere
Ryan Sayles - That Escalated Quickly!
Truth or Dare? (Anthology)
Lawrence Block - The Crimes of Our Lives
Ben Bova - Transhuman
Kit Power - Lifeline
Jordan Harper - Love and Other Wounds
Max Booth III - How to Successfully Kidnap Strangers
Charlie LeDuff - Detroit: An American Autopsy
Mark Anastasi - The Laptop Millionaire
Kurt Reichenbaugh - Sirens
Phil Jackson - Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
Kurt Reichenbaugh - Last Dance in Phoenix
C.S DeWildt - Love You to a Pulp
Cody Goodfellow - Repo Shark
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Richard Thomas - Disintegration
Johnny Shaw - Plaster City
Tiffany Scandal - There’s No Happy Ending
Lawrence Block - The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes
Mandy De Sandra - Ravished by Reagansaurus
Eric Beetner - Rumrunners
Mike McCrary - Getting Ugly
David James Keaton - Pig Iron
Garnett Elliott - Scorched Noir
Lawrence Block - Telling Lies for Fun and Profit
Don Winslow - The Power of the Dog
Matt Rowan - Big Venerable
Sam Hawken - The Night Charter
Cameron Pierce - Our Love Will Go the Way of the Salmon
Nicholas Day - Necrosaurus Rex
Ross MacDonald - The Chill
Jennifer Hillier - Wonderland
Michael J. Seidlinger - The Laughter of Strangers
Ed Dinger - On the Black
Richard Godwin - Wrong Crowd
Dale Bailey - The Subterranean Season
Elmore Leonard - Raylan
Bob Truluck - Flat White
J.G Ballard - High Rise
Terry Pluto - Loose Balls
Rios de la Luz - The Pulse Between Dimensions and the Desert
J. David Osborne - Black Gum
Chuck Klosterman - HYPERtheticals
Rafael Alvarez - Tales from the Holy Land
Iain Ryan - Four Days
Cameron Bane - Pitfall
Zachary T. Owen - Burn Down the House and Everyone in it
Eryk Pruitt - Hashtag
Ben Bova - Jupiter
Ted E. Grau - The Nameless Dark
(Edited by) Giorgio Gandolfi - The NBA Coach Playbook
Cody Goodfellow - Strategies Against Nature
Cameron Pierce - The Incoming Tide
Kevin Maloney - Cult of Loretta
Junji Ito - The Enigma of Amigara Fault
Lawrence Block - When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
Patti Abbott - Concrete Angel
Jon Bassoff - The Incurables
Hanzai Japan (Anthology Edited by Nick Mamatas)
S.W Lauden - Bad Citizen Corporation
Thuglit Presents : Cruel Yule : Holiday Tales of Crime for People on the Naughty List
Paul Cleave - Trust No One
Gabino Iglesias - Gutmouth
Gabino Iglesias - Hungry Darkness
Gabino Iglesias - Zero Saints
Laird Barron - Xs for Eyes
George A. Romero/Susanna Sparrow - Dawn of the Dead
Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan Vol. 1
Ed Kurtz - Nausea
