My Reading increased from the previous year, but like always, there seems to be a stretch in which I don’t read, a time when reading does –for whatever reason- becomes difficult. Between October 17 to November 21, I barley read. I think the election had a lot to do with that, along with the continuing depressing aspects of the pandemic. But sometimes I just don’t read.
Can’t say if there were any books that where my favorite, but I finished off the John Dortmunder series by Donald E. Westlake, while I started Westlake’s darker half, Richard Stark’s Parker tales, getting through 12 of the 24. I really enjoyed Dortmunder (and still have a collectionof short stories to go through) and the Parker books are brutal and the violence and death makes me a bit queasy at times.
Also, I still have plenty more Westlake ahead as well, and
need to finish the Fletch series (one more book) and the Groucho Marx mysteries
(one more, as well). But I still have more and more to go through.More than I can ever read.
The list below in the 54 novels I got through in 2020 –The Year of Hell.
01. The Word is Murder By Anthony Horowitz
02. The Hunter By Richard Stark
03. Dead Voices By Katherine Arden
04. Nobody’s Perfect By Donald E. Westlake
05. The Conference of Birds by Ransom Riggs
06. The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin & Link Neal
07. Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919-1945 By Julia Boyd
08. Good Behavior By Donald E. Westlake
09. From the Dust Returned By Ray Bradbury
10. Paradox Bound By Peter Clines
11. The Liquidator By John Gardner
12. Elementary, My Dear Groucho by Ron Goulart
13. At Childhood’s End By Sophie Aldred
14. The Philosopher’s Flight by Tom Miller
15. Don’t Ask By Donald E. Westlake
16. If it Bleeds By Stephen King
17. The Remarkable Inventions of Walter Mortinson by Quinn Sosna-Spear
18. The Man with the Getaway Face By Richard Stark
19. The Outfit By Richard Stark
20. Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders By Ron Goulart
21.The Mourner By Richard Stark
22. The Score By Richard Stark
23. The Jugger By Richard Stark
24. The Seventh By Richard Stark
25. What’s the Worst that Could Happen? By Donald E. Westlake
26. One of Us is Wrong by Sam Holt
27. Bad News By Donald E. Westlake
28. Battlestar Galactica: Armageddon By Richard Hatch and Christopher Golden
29. Mostly Dead Things By Kristen Arnett
30. The Fugitive Pigeon By Donald E. Westlake
31. The Road to Ruin By Donald E. Westlake
32. The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires By Grady Hendrix
33. Watch Your Back By Donald E. Westlake
34. What’s So Funny? By Donald E. Westlake
35. Fletch Won By Gregory McDonald
36. Fletch, Too By Gregory Mcdonald
37. Fletch and the Widow Bradley By Gregory McDonald
38. Fletch By Gregory McDonald
39. Carrioca, Fletch by Gregory McDonald
40. Confess, Fletch By Gregory McDonald
41. Get Real By Donald E. Westlake
42. The Handle By Richard Stark
43. Fletch’s Fortune By Gregory McDonald
44. The Rare Coin Score by Richard Stark
45. The Risk Pool By Richard Russo
46. The Green Eagle Score By Richard Stark
47. The Black Ice Score By Richard Stark
48. Enola Holmes And the Case of the Missing Marquess By Nancy Springer
49. Fletch’s Moxie By Gregory McDonald
50. Groucho Marx, Secret Agent By Ron Goulart
51. The Sour Lemon Score By Richard Stark
52. 4.50 From Paddington By Agatha Christie
53. Castle in the Air By Donald E. Westlake
54. Pandemonium By Daryl Gregory
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