Eligible Works for Dead End Follies' 2016 Year-End's Best Reads
It's already the end of 2016, which has been another (perhaps the most) frantic reading year on this blog. Once again, I've read way too much, gave the books way too little thought, but I've had favorites and it'll soon be time to reward the absolute best I've had the pleasure to read. The structure will be the same this year as it was in 2014 and 2015, two lists of ten standout books: the very best of and the notables (the almost very best of).
Dead End Follies' Notable Reads of 2016: Singling out books that stood out and deserved mention, yet weren't quite the very best my year had to offer. Will be announced on December 15.
Dead End Follies' Best Reads of 2016:Singling out the books that were my absolute favorites of the year. Will be announced on December 20.
Here is the list of eligible works for this year. The last two aren't finished yet, but they will be by the time I publish my notables. There will be 146 eligible books this year, more than for any other year in this blog's seven years of existence. Click on the available links to read my reviews:
James Ellroy - Perfidia
Lawrence Block - Writing the Novel from Plot to Print to Pixel
Rolf Dobelli - The Art of Thinking Clearly
John C. Foster - Dead Men
Marc E. Fitch - Paradise Burns
Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan Vol. 2 : Lust for Life
William E. Wallace - Dead Heat with the Reaper
XIII : Stories of Transformation
Lance Carbuncle - Sloughing Off the Rot
Vincenzo Bilof - The Violators
Andrew Armacost - The Bohemian Guide to Monogamy
Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan Vol. 3 : Year of the Bastard
Scott Adlerberg - Graveyard Love
Amanda Gowin - Radium Girls
Jalen Rose - Got to Give the People What they Want
Rob Hart - City of Rose
Danger Slater - I Will Rot Without You
John D. MacDonald - The Deep Blue Good-By
Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan Vol. 4 : The New Scum
Laura Lee Bahr - Long Form Religious Porn
Roger Smith - Nowhere
Lori Michelle - Dual Harvest
Jon Ronson - So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
Troy James Weaver - Marigold
David W. Barbee - The Night’s Neon Fangs
Chris Kelso - Rattled by the Rush
Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan Vol. 5 : Lonely City
Richard Godwin - Savage Highway
Joe Clifford - December Boys
David McRaney - You Are Not So Smart
Robert Spencer - Everything Used to Work
Alex Segura - Silent City
Joe R. Lansdale - Hap & Leonard
M.P Johnson - Sick Pack
Laird Barron - Man With No Name
Lavinia Ludlow - Single Stroke Seven
Seb Doubinsky - White City
Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan Vol. 6 : Gouge Away
Brian Alan Ellis - A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar
Jon McGoran - Dust Up
Richard Thomas - Tribulations
Joe Navarro - What Every Body is Saying
Srdjan Smajic - We Dream of Water
Cody Goodfellow - Rapture of the Deep
Alex Segura - Down the Darkest Street
Mike Miner - Hurt Hawks
Adam Howe - Die Dog or Eat the Hatchet
Lance Carbuncle - Smashed, Squashed, Splattered, Chewed, Chunked and Spewed
Will Viharo - Hard-Boiled Heart: A Vic Valentine Novel
Nic Pizzolatto - Galveston
Tom Lucas - Pax Titanus
Chuck Klosterman - But What if We Were Wrong? Thinking About the Present as if it Were the Past
Stephen Graham Jones - Mongrels
William Gorman - Blackwater Val
Leah Erickson - The Gilded Lynx
Blake Butler & Sean Kilpatrick - Anatomy Courses
Blake Butler - Nothing
Scott Nicolay - Noctuidae
David James Keaton - Stealing Propeller Hats from the Dead
Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
Mike Monson - What Happens in Reno
William Boyle - Death Don’t Have No Mercy
Daniel Falatko - Condominium
Brian Keene - Where We Live and Die
D.Harlan Wilson - Battle Without Honor or Humanity, Vol. 1
Anthony Neil Smith - Holy Death
Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan Vol.7 : Spider’s Trash
Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan Vol.8 : Dirge
Sam Wiebe - Invisible Dead
Jonathan Janz - Children of the Dark
Paul Tremblay - Disappearance at Devil’s Rock
C.S DeWildt - Kill ‘em with Kindness
Steven Kotler - The Rise of Superman
Kristopher Triana - The Ruin Season
Jim Powell - Derrida for Beginners
John Langan - The Fisherman
Jennifer Loring - Those of my Kind
Mercedes M. Yardley - Apocalyptic Montessa and Nuclear Lulu : A Tale of Atomic Love
Juliet Escoria - Witch Hunt
Molly Tanzer - The Pleasure Merchant
Sarah M. Chen - Cleaning Up Finn
Erika Krouse - Contenders
Neliza Drew - All the Bridges Burning
Lauren Beukes - Broken Monsters
Damien Angelica Walters - Paper Tigers
Marie S. Crosswell - Texas, Hold Your Queens
Christoph Paul - Slasher Camp for Nerd Dorks
Pedro Proença - Benjamin
Lee Widener - Rock N’ Roll Headcase
Anthony Trevino - King Space Void
Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan Vol. 9 : The Cure
Jack Cady - The Off Season
Todd Robinson - Rough Trade
Jim Powell - Deconstruction for Beginners
Grant Wamack - Notes from the Guts of a Hippo
J. David Osborne - Low Down Death Right Easy
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club 2
Jordan Krall - The False Magic Kingdom Cycle
John D. MacDonald - Nightmare in Pink
Ryan W. Bradley - Nothing But the Dead and Dying
Erik Storey - Nothing Short of Dying
Laird Barron - Swift to Chase
Kit Power - Godbomb!
Brian Evenson - The Warren
Iain Ryan - Drainland
David Bernstein - Fecal Terror
Kimmy Dee - Pussy Planet
John Jeremiah Sullivan - Pulphead
Robert Brockway - The Unnoticeables
John Dixon - Devil’s Pocket
Autumn Christian - Ecstatic Inferno
Philip Fracassi - Altar
Warren Ellis - Transmetropolitan Vol. 10 - One More Time
Michael Griffin - The Lure of Devouring Light
Michael Wehunt - Greener Pastures
Grant Morrison - Nameless
Nick Mamatas - I am Providence
Matthew M. Bartlett - Gateways to Abomination
Philip Fracassi - Mother
Ruth Whippman - America the Anxious
Brian Evenson - Last Days
Livia Llewellyn - Furnace
Laird Barron - The Imago Sequence
Hannah Arendt - On Violence
Josh Malerman - A House at the Bottom of a Lake
Sparky Sweets PhD. - Thug Notes: A Street Smart Guide to Classic Literature
T.E.D Klein - The Ceremonies
S.W Lauden - Grizzly Season
Trumpocalypse! A Total Disaster
Fast Women and Neon Lights: Eighties-Inspired Neon Noir
Max Allan Collins - Quarry in the Black
Andrew Nette - Gunshine State
Robert Dean - The Red Seven
Jonathan Abrams - Boys Among Men
T.E Grau - They Don’t Come Home Anymore
Rob Hart - South Village
Mark Rapacz - Foreigners
Seb Doubinsky - Omega Gray
Walter Wink - The Powers that Be
Michael Allen Rose - Boiled Americans
Blake Butler - Scorch Atlas
Jon Padgett - The Secret of Ventriloquism
Year’s Best Weird Fiction : Volume Three
Max Booth III - The Nightly Disease
Paul Michael Anderson - Bones are Made to be Broken
