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I took a few risks this year, reading a handful of new authors such as
Tom Holt, Elizabeth McKenzie, Alex Jennings, and Scott Hawkins. Only
Jennings and Hawkins won me over, but I’m unsure if I would read new outings by
them when they come about.
As usual, I fell into reading series tales such as Joseph
Hansen (with only two more Brandstetter titles coming) and continue to read
Westlake (and his various pseudonyms). I read a few Simon Hawke tales and
DOCTOR WHO.
I have a lot of unread books and I’ve made a decision to
stop buying books I really have no plan on reading and will try to go through
what I have. It may mean less bookstore visits, less Friends of the Library
visits, and maybe not going to the Vintage Paperback Collectors convention in
March, and maybe not even go to the Festival Of Books in April @ USC.
I’ve become distracted and bored with reading –I’m
finding nothing new and exciting coming out anymore. Nothing worth anticipating
for, nothing that is written that will blow my mind. It’s like publishers have
taken the same off-ramp the studios have done with films –giving us empty
blockbuster novels that are essentially tossed in the bin instead proudly put
on the shelf.
Perhaps it’s why I find reading 40 to 50 year-old titles
(if not older) more fulfilling –even if no one has heard of these writers or
titles before.
Still, I never say never to new writers –or old standbys
like Stephen King and Jasper Fforde, who both have new books out in 2024. But I need to really get through my TBR pile. It's huge and I'm not getting younger.
01. The Lincoln Highway By Amor Towles
02. Troublemaker By Joseph Hansen
03. East of Ealing By Robert Rankin
04. False Value By Ben Aaronovitch
05. Stolen Skies By Tim Powers
06. The Last Dragonslayer By Jasper Fforde
07. The Song of the Quarkbeast By Jasper Fforde
08. The Eye of Zoltar By Jasper Fforde
09. Doctor Who: Dark Horizons by Jenny T. Colgan
10. Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro
11. The Man Everyone Was Afraid Of By Joseph Hansen
12. The Portable Door by Tom Holt
13. Amongst Our Weapons By Ben Aaronovitch
14. Doctor Who: The Doctor Trap By Simon Messingham
15. The Midnight Library By Matt Haig
16. The Big Door Prize By M.O. Walsh
17. Doctor Who: The Blood Cell By James Goss
18. The Dame By Richard Stark
19. The Portable Veblen By Elizabeth McKenzie
20. The Great Troll War by Jasper Fforde
21. In the Lives of Puppets By TJ Klune
22. This Other Eden by Ben Elton
23. Two Much By Donald E. Westlake
24. Sphere By Michael Crichton
25. The Editor by Steven Rowley
26. Razzmatazz By Christopher Moore
27. The Reluctant Sorcerer By Simon Hawke
28. The Inadequate Adept By Simon Hawke
29. The Ambivalent Magician By Simon Hawke
30. Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: The Knight, The Fool And The Dead by Steve Cole
31. Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: All Flesh is Grass by Una McCormack
32. The Goblin Tower By L. Sprague de Camp
33. The Library at Mount Char By Scott Hawkins
34. Roadwork By Richard Bachman
35. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon By Stephen King
36. The Ballad of Perilous Graves By Alex Jennings
37. High Adventure By Donald E. Westlake
38. Skinflick By Joseph Hansen
39. Native Tongue By Carl Hiaasen
40. Gangway By Donald E. Westlake and Brian Garfield
41. The Saturday Night Ghost Club By Craig Davidson
42. The Scared Stiff By Judson Jack Carmichael
43. The Chinese Agent By Michael Moorcock
44. A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt
45. Holly By Stephen King
46. Gravedigger By Joseph Hansen
47. Doctor Who: Josephine and the Argonauts by Paul Magrs
48. Nightwork By Joseph Hansen
49. ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
50. The TimeWars: The Ivanhoe Gambit by Simon Hawk
51. The Devil’s Alphabet By Daryl Gregory
52. Anarchaos by Curt Clark
53. The Mist By Stephen King
54. A Peculiar Peril By Jeff VanderMeer
55. The Vesuvius Club By Mark Gatiss
56. The Little Dog Laughed By Joseph Hansen
57. Early Graves By Joseph Hansen
58. Obedience By Joseph Hansen
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