Eligible Works for Dead End Follies' Year-End's Best Reads
Another year has gone by and it's been quite busy again. By the end of the week or so, I'll have 102 books read and eligible to become part of my year-end best lists. It was good overall. Maybe not fantastic like, let's say 2015 was, but there were plenty of standout novels to choose from and celebrate. They were just a little fewer and further between than some other years, maybe. It doesn't matter, because you're not going to hear about the shitty ones.
Next week, on Tuesday and Thursday respectively, I will publish my Notable Reads list of 2017 and my Best Reads list of 2017 in that order.In the meantime, here is the list of eligible works for you to browse. Those linked up have reviews you can read, which I encourage you to do, of course. It'll help you put yourself in the mood and get amped up for next week. It's almost Christmas, things are slowing down at work, get browsing. C'mon!
John Le Carré - The Night Manager
Will Viharo - Things I Do When I’m Awake
Chuck Tingle - Pounded in the Butt by my Own Butt
David Bowles - Chupacabra Vengeance
James Rayburn - The Truth Itself
Jordan Harper - She Rides Shotgun
George Karl - Furious George: 40 years of Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs and Poor Shot Selection
Jeremy Robert Johnson - Entropy in Bloom: Stories
Vincenzo Bilof - The Horror Show
Lauren Beukes - Slipping : Stories, Essays and Other Writing
Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
Chuck Klosterman - X : A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the 21st Century
Constance Ann Fitzgerald - Glue
William Peter Blatty - The Ninth Configuration
Brian Evenson - The Open Curtain
Brian Evenson - The Wavering Knife
Stephen Williams - Among the Ruin
William Dylan Powell - Untimely Demise
Joe Clifford - Give Up the Dead
Mike McCrary - Genuinely Dangerous
Mark Jaskowski - The Heartbeat Harvest
Tiffany McDaniel - The Summer That Melted Everything
Scott McClanahan - The Sarah Book
Andrew Hilbert - Invasion of the Weirdos
Henry Giroux & Brad Evans - Disposable Futures
Jon Bassoff - The Blade This Time
Nik Korpon - The Rebellion’s Last Traitor
Shea Serrano - The Rap Yearbook
Stephen Graham Jones - My Hero
Donald E. Westlake - Forever and a Death
Irvine Welsh - Glue
Brian Alan Ellis - Failure Pie in a Sadness Face
Brian Alan Ellis - Something to do with Self-Hate
Michael Landweber - Thursday 1:17 PM
Brian Evenson - Ed vs Yummy Fur
Noah Berlatsky - Your Favorite Superhero Sucks
Peter Straub - Floating Dragon
Jason Aaron - Scalped Vol. 1 : Indian Country
Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham - Veronica Mars : The Thousand Dollar Tan Line
David James Keaton (edited by) - Hard Sentences : Stories Inspired by Alcatraz
John D. MacDonald - A Purple Place for Dying
Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham - Veronica Mars : Mr. Kiss and Tell
Anthony Neil Smith - Castle Danger : Woman on Ice
Lester Bangs - Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Leland Pitts-Gonzalez - Savage Anesthesia
Chad Henning & Jon Finkel - Forces of Character
Chris Kelso - Ungar House Radicals
Chris Kelso - Shrapnel Apartments
Laird Barron - Occultation and Other Stories
Dan & Kate Malmon (edited by) - Killing Malmon
Ray Russell - The Case Against Satan
Howard Engel - Lord High Executioner
Brian Evenson - Altmann’s Tongue
Brian Evenson - A Collapse of Horses
Ed Kurtz - The Rib From Which I Remake the World
Anthony Neil Smith - Castle Danger : The Mental States
Shea Serrano - Basketball (and Other Things)
Lawrence Block - Out on the Cutting Edge
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club (sort of)
Will Viharo - Vic Valentine : International Man of Misery
Max Allan Collins - Quarry’s Climax
Alec Cizak - Down on the Street
Jordan Krall - Beyond the Great, Bloody, Bruised and Silent Veil of this World
David Foster Wallace - The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Adam Howe (edited by) - Wrestlemaniacs (upcoming)
Andrew James Stone - The Mortuary Monster (upcoming)
So, remember. Next Tuesday (19th), I will publish my 10 notable reads of 2017 (best of the rest) and Thursday (21st), I'll select my 10 best reads of 2017. In the meantime, you can read my year's work here.
