When I started this blog, I had really good intentions. I was reading a bunch and then I really got going and got behind on writing reviews and never came back. But I will be better this year.
We’ll start this year by recapping what I read last year and I will come back and review some of theones that really stuck with me.
I did reach my completely unreasonable goal of 100 books read for the year. Its a number I won’t strive for again only because I passed over a lot of books that I wanted to read (or re-read) because they were big chunky reads. When you are trying to read 2 books a week, The Stand by Stephen King isn’t really an option.
I have a more modest goal of 50 this year and I will be reviewing them, hopefully, as I read them. I’m only 3 books into this year, so now’s a good time to start.
Here is the list of what I read last year:
1/3 McNally’s Luck – Lawrence Sanders
1/8 Secret Identity – Alex Segura
1/14 NOS4A2 – Joe Hill
1/16 Fool Me Once – Harlan Coben
1/22 April Evil – John D MacDonald
1/29 Murder on the Glitter Box – Steve Allen
1/31 God Bless You, Mr Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
2/3 The High Window – Raymond Chandler
2/8 Ride the Pink Horse – Dorothy B. Hughes
2/12 Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch
2/18 Chasing the Boogeyman – Richard Chizmar
3/2 Gerald’s Game – Stephen King
3/4 Slow Horses – Mick Herron
3/9 The Ivory Grin – Ross Macdonald
3/10 Chronicle of a Death Foretold – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
3/12 Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman
3/13 Gwendy’s Button Box – Stephen King
3/17 Act of Fear – Michael Collins
3/21 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone – Benjamin Stevenson
3/23 The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
3/24 The Assistant – Bernard Malamud
3/25 Already Dead – Charlie Huston
4/2 The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
4/7 Murder at the Vicarage – Agatha Christie
4/9 Free Fall – Robert Crais
4/19 Bordersnakes – James Crumley
4/22 The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
4/23 The Daughter of Time – Josephine Tey
4/30 Moon Over Soho – Ben Aaronovitch
5/5 Everyone on This Train is a Suspect – Benjamin Stevenson
5/6 A Thief of Time – Tony Hillerman
5/12 Bright Orange for the Shroud – John D
5/13 Murder Beyond the Pale – Wendy Church
5/18 Tourist Season – Carl Hiaasen
5/23 An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
5/28 A Great Deliverance -Elizabeth George
6/3 Caught Stealing – Charlie Huston
6/6 City of Glass – Paul Auster
6/8 Fletch – Gregory Macdonald
6/9 The Weekend Washington Murder – Joan Lowery Nixon
6/9 Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption – Stephen King
6/12 McNally’s Risk – Lawrence Sanders
6/16 Post Mortem – Patrica Cromwell
6/18 Lady in the Lake – Raymond Chandler
6/20 Gwendy’s Magic Feather – Richard Chizmar
6/23 Find A Victim – Ross Macdonald
6/25 The Widening Gyre – Robert B. Parker
6/28 Soft Touch – John D
7/2 White Butterfly – Walter Mosely
7/6 B is For Burglar – Sue Grafton
7/8 The Switch – Elmore Leonard
7/14 The Woman Chaser – Charles Willeford
7/25 The Big Nowhere – James Ellroy
7/30 The Stepford Wives- Ira Levin
8/5 The Circular Staircase – Mary Robert’s Rinehart
8/6 Three to Get Deadly – Janet Evanovich
8/11 Blue Lonesome – Bill Pronzini
8/18 Magpie Murders – Anthony Horowitz
8/20 Bad Monkey – Carl Hiaasen
8/25 A Study in Scarlet – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
9/5 The Beekeeper’s Apprentice- Laurie R. King
9/7 The Little Sister – Raymond Chandler
9/8 C is for Corpse – Sue Grafton
9/9 Fletch’s Fortune – Gregory Macdonald
9/13 The Girl Who Took What She Wanted – David Handler
9/16 Amazing Detective – Walter Mark
9/18 Fun & Games – Dwayne Swierczynski
9/22 Anatomy of a Murder – Robert Traver
9/26 McNally’s Caper – Lawrence Sanders
9/29 No Dominion – Charlie Huston
10/1 Border Town Girl – John D
10/6 The Dogsitter Detective – Antony Johnston
10/7 Quarry’s Cut – Max Allan Collins
10/10 The Girl on the Porch – Richard Chizmar
10/13 The Barbarous Coast – Ross Macdonald
10/14 Much Ado About Nothing – Shakespeare
10/18 Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
10/21 The Spy Who Came in From the Cold – John LeCarre
10/23 Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets – Georges Simenon
10/24 The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
10/28 The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
10/29 Fletch and the Widow Bradley – Gregory McDonald
11/2 Darker Than Amber – John D
11/6 Nightshades – Bill Pronzini
11/8 Storm Front – Jim Butcher
11/9 Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
11/10 The Canceled Czech – Lawrence Block
11/11 Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
11/13 Dead Man’s Folly – Agatha Christie
11/14 Cats Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
11/17 My Gun is Quick – Mickey Spillane
11/18 Deal Breaker – Harlan Coben
11/21 Voodoo River – Robert Crais
11/23 Dead Giveaway – Simon Brett
12/1 Whispers Underground – Ben Aaronovitch
12/8 Crime & Parchment – Daphne Silver
12/10 Razor Girl – Carl Hiaasen
12//14 Presumed Innocent – Scott Turow
12/17 The Outsiders – SE Hinton
12/26 Payment in Blood – Elizabeth George – 100
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