The Thumbed Residents of a Bookshelf Near Me in 2013
The Decent:
- Lullaby by Chuck Palahnuik
- World War Z by Max Brooks
- Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell
- Sinatra: The man behind the myth by J.R. Taraborelli
- The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
- Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Call of Cthulu by H.P. Lovecraft
- Collected Short Stories by Agatha Christie
- Devotion to Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre
- Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories compiled by Peter Haining
- Optimal Experience by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi
- Philosophy for Life by Jules Evans
- Joke Book by Tim Vine
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain
- The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman
- Joyland by Stephen King
- To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
- Fahrenehit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
- Boy Racers by Alan Bissett – a modern Scottish classic
- Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
- Poker, Gaming and Life by David Sklansky
- Expect the Unexpected: Someone Like You by Roald Dahl
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
- Salvation of a Saint by Keigo Higashino
- The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
- Liars Poker by Michael Lewis
- Thinking in Pictures by Temple Grandin
- Love In The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Short stories)
- The Art of Creative Writing by John Adair
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik
- Ham and Rye by Charles Bukowski
The Generally Indecent:
- BBC National Short Story Award 2008 – Richard Beard’s story is brilliant sadly the rest is dirge
- Killing With Confidence by Matt Bendoris – easy to read but not high grade stuff not that I expected it, feel more could have been done on the ‘Confidence Killer’ part.
- The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells – A classic for some but apart from the premise I struggled to get into this potentially good book. The writing style of Wells means there’s little to get involved in character wise or to feel immersed in the world due to minimal description.
Scarcely a dud among them, I’ve been fortunate.
A lot of classics so far…might need to change that! More trash I say!
Great list!
I found some of my favorite authors here.
🙂
Was that before reading the books or after? Either way I’m glad.
Thanks for including my novel in your year in books. Have to agree with your short synopsis. But it was my debut offering! Hope you’ll give the sequel a chance when it’s out later this year. Thanks
Thanks for stopping by! I’ll check the sequel out. And i like the fact you used your blackberry to write a lotof ut too, i do that as well for ideas etc.
Try the one in my above post.
Of the list the big one for me was Fahrenehit 451. I find my time now a days filled with writing and creating and not reading. I use to go through authors like crazy. One month it was Doyle the next Verne. But I got the bug to write and ideas keep swirling around my head. I write for myself. I just finished a short novel on a serial killer and would be most happy to have you read it. If it is okay for you I will send it and would appreciate your input. Let me know, Barry
I find reading = writing. If i stop one I stop the other.
As for your book, send away. I cant promise to read it soon but i’ll get round to it.
And i like short novels! 🙂
Thanks for thinking to give it a read. I will send it by e-mail
Grand, thanks for asking me!
Did you send it yet? If so I couldn’t seem to find it. it’s efgeesus@mail.com
I sent it by donotreply@wordpress.com> Let me know if you got it. Barry