Well, that’s another year over, and another annual reading list coming at you! I read the most books this year that I have in a very long time, and that’s including 2020 when we all spent most of it locked indoors. Anyway, this is going to take a while so I best get to it. Here we go, in the order I read them:

The Female Man – Joanna Russ

All My Friends Are Superheroes – Andrew Kaufman

There There – Tommy Orange

Girl, Woman, Other – Bernardine Evaristo

Dawn – Octavia E Butler

Cop Hater – Ed McBain

Kinski Uncut – Klaus Kinski

The World Of Lore: Monstrous Creatures – Aaron Mahnke

Bobby March Will Live Forever – Alan Parks

Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness – Reinhard Kleist

The Southern Book Club’s Guide To Slaying Vampires – Grady Hendrix

Equal Rites – Terry Pratchett

Blood And Guts In High School – Kathy Acker

Howl And Other Poems – Alen Ginsberg

Ariel – Sylvia Plath

The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler

Kings Of The Wyld – Nicholas Eames

Patience – Daniel Clowes

Ancillary Justice – Ann Leckie

The Loop – Jeremy Robert Johnson

Sword Of Destiny – Andrzej Sapkowski

Tapping The Source – Kem Nunn

Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt – John Cooper Clarke

The Midnight Line – Lee Child

Way Of The Blade – Phil Schneider

Dead Girls – Alice Bolin

The Kings Of Cool – Don Winslow

Eternals – Neil Gaiman

Widespread Panic – James Ellroy

She Dominates All & Other Stories – Eric Stanton

The Final Girl Support Group – Grady Hendrix

The Great Hunt – Robert Jordan

The Elementals – Michael McDowell

Blood Of Elves – Andrzej Sapkowski

Boy Parts – Eliza Clark

The Courtyard – Alan Moore

Neonomicon – Alan Moore

Providence: Act One – Alan Moore

Providence: Act Two – Alan Moore

The League Of Regrettable Superheroes – Jon Morris

The Girl Next Door – Jack Ketchum

Hydra – Matt Wesolowski

Providence: Act Three – Alan Moore

My Heart Is A Chainsaw – Stephen Graham Jones

Harrow County: Omnibus One – Cullen Bunn

Harrow County: Omnibus Two – Cullen Bunn

Blood Sugar – Daniel Kraus

Dark Harvest – Norman Partridge

Paperbacks From Hell – Grady Hendrix

The Mask Omnibus – John Arcudi

Three-Fifths – John Vercher

Nameless – Grant Morrison

Star – Yukio Mishima

The Night Always Comes – Willy Vlautin

Winter Counts – David Heska Wanbli Wieden

Christmas: A Very Peculiar History – Fiona MacDonald

Changeling – Matt Wesolowski

Devil In A Coma – Mark Lanegan

Klaus: How Santa Claus Began – Grant Morrison

Klaus: The New Adventures Of Santa Claus – Grant Morrison

Klaus: The Life And Times Of Santa Claus – Grant Morrison

Time Of Contempt – Andrzej Sapkowski

The Fifth Head Of Cerberus – Gene Wolfe

So, there it is, another year down! Top reads, in no order, were Tapping The Source, Dawn, There There, Boy Parts, and The Elementals.