Following the lead of Chris Shearer and Heidi Ruby Miller, I’m sharing my reading list from 2012.
My goal was 40 books, and I came in just over at 41. Some of my favorites were Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, John Dies at the End by David Wong, Westlake Soul by Rio Youers, The Passage by Justin Cronin, and The Croning by Laird Barron.
My 2012 reading list in alphabetical order:
- Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell
- Back Roads & Frontal Lobes by Brady Allen
- Booklife: Strategies and Survival Tips for the 21st Century Writer by Jeff VanderMeer
- Bottled Abyss by Benjamin Kane Ethridge
- Brimstone by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
- Dead City by Joe McKinney
- Dreaming While Awake: Techniques for 24-Hour Lucid Dreaming by Arnold Mindell
- ECTOSTORM: Book Three of the Stanley Cooper Chronicles by Scott A. Johnson
- In the Midnight Museum by Gary A. Braunbeck
- John Dies at the End by David Wong
- Mama Said by Lee Allen Howard
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird by Paula Guran
- Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
- Pyrotechnicon by Adam Browne
- Rage Against the Night by Shane Jiraiya Cummings
- Rumors of My Death by Gina Ranalli
- Seven Stories by Brian James Freeman
- Take The Long Way Home by Brian Keene
- Tequila’s Sunrise by Brian Keene
- The Bone Factory by Nate Kenyon
- The Croning by Laird Barron
- The Ghost IS the Machine by Patrick Scalisi
- The Inhabitant of the Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants by Ramsey Campbell
- The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
- The Men Upstairs by Tim Waggoner
- The Midnight Eye Files: The Amulet by William Meikle
- The Other Place by Nancy Robison
- The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman
- The Passage by Justin Cronin
- The Power of Presence: Unlock Your Potential to Influence and Engage Others by Kristi Hedges
- The Red Church by Scott Nicholson
- The Sixth Seed by Lee Allen Howard
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- These Trespasses by Kenneth W. Cain
- Torn Realities by Paul Anderson
- Trinity by Kristin Dearborn
- Veins by Lawrence C. Connolly
- Vipers by Lawrence C. Connolly
- Westlake Soul by Rio Youers
I’m keeping my goal for next year at 40 for now as I have some pretty thick books in mind, but may bump it up mid-year if I’m making good progress on both reading and writing.