My year’s end reading summary — all the books I read (or read again) this year, with those I particularly enjoyed marked with an asterisk. Happy Holidays, all!
Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Best Horror of the Year Vol. 1 (Ellen Datlow, editor)*
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist*
Masters of Atlantis by Charles Portis*
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix*
The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll*
Crash Code (Quinn Parker, editor)*
The World Jones Made by Philip K. Dick
Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall*
Childgrave by Ken Greenhall*
The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today by Rob Dunn
Best Horror of the Year Vol. 2 (Ellen Datlow, editor)*
Gringos by Charles Portis
Books of Blood Vol. 4-6 by Clive Barker*
Elizabeth by Ken Greenhall*
Incubus by Ray Russell
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury*
The Ruins by Scott Smith*
The Rats by James Herbert
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Farmer by Jim Harrison
A Good Day to Die by Jim Harrison*
The Mist by Stephen King
Exorcisms and Ecstasies by Karl Edward Wagner*
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn*
The Reaping by Bernard Taylor*
X,Y by Michael Blumlein*
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco*
Walk on the Wild Side by Karl Edward Wagner*
The Woman Lit by Fireflies by Jim Harrison*
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell*
Body by Harry Crews
Where Furnaces Burn by Joel Lane*
A Tan and Sandy Silence by John D. MacDonald*
The Long Home by William Gay*
Best Horror of the Year Vol. 3 (Ellen Datlow, editor)*
The Feather Thief by Kirk W. Johnson*
Beloved by Toni Morrison
A Nest of Nightmares by Lisa Tuttle*
The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald
Dune by Frank Herbert*
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer*
Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard
The Answer Is… by Alex Trebek*
I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay*
Another Country by James Baldwin*
Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan L. Howard
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan*
Peaceable Kingdom by Jack Ketchum*
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager*
Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due*
The Terror by Dan Simmons*
Monsters, Movies & Mayhem (Kevin J. Anderson, editor)*
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson*
Gateways to Abomination by Matthew M. Bartlett*
Kalimantan by Lucius Shepard*
The Nightside Codex (Justin A. Burnett, editor)*
The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein*
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy by Page WilliamsThe Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight by Rebecca Rowland
Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror (Ellen Datlow, editor)*
Softspoken by Lucius Shepard*
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty*
Legion by William Peter Blatty*
The Influence by Ramsey Campbell*
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey*
Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon
Dracul by Dacre Stoke and J.D. Barker
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti*
Rapture by Thomas Tessier*
Hark! The Herald Angels Scream (Christopher Golden, editor)*
Cry Down Dark by T.J. Tranchell
Thieves of Book Row: New York’s Most Notorious Rare Book Ring And The Man Who Stopped It by Travis McDade (just started this one, but I expect to have it done before Jan. 1 so I’m counting it anyway)