One again, I fell a bit behind on both updating this blog, and also on posting my reading list for last year in a timely manner. Better late than never I suppose. And the positive of my falling behind isn’t that it was laziness or forgetfulness, but rather I’ve been incredibly busy. I spent the end of 2023 and the start of 2024 racing to finish the twelfth Tom Rollins thriller, which is currently being edited and I believe is due for release at the end of March. So that’s exciting! It’s been a busy time. Anyhow, on to what I read in 2023:

• Confessions Of A Bookseller – Shaun Bythell
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
• Berserk Deluxe 7 – Kentaro Miura
• The Amber Spyglass – Philip Pullman
• Parable Of The Sower – Octavia E. Butler
• Some New Kind Of Kick – Kid Congo Powers
• Annihilation Squad – Gav Thorpe
• Saga vol 10 – Brian K. Vaughan
• The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
• You Can Run – Trevor Wood
• Krieg – Steve Lyons
• Do A Powerbomb – Daniel Warren Johnson
• Reckless – Ed Brubaker
• City Of Dreams – Don Winslow
• Friend Of The Devil – Ed Brubaker
• Cuddy – Ben Myers
• Belisarius Cawl: The Great Work – Guy Haley
• The Saturday Night Ghost Club – Craig Davidson
• Train Dreams – Denis Johnson
• Camera Man – Dana Stevens
• The Sick Bag Song – Nick Cave
• The Fade Out – Ed Brubaker
• Negative Space – B.R. Yeager
• Trilobites And Other Stories – Breece D’J Pancake
• The Dawn Patrol – Don Winslow
• Mort – Terry Pratchett
• Golden Son – Pierce Brown
• The Sluts – Dennis Cooper
• Bad Luck And Trouble – Lee Child
• Deity – Matt Wesolowski
• Along The River Of Flesh – Kristopher Triana
• Off Season – Jack Ketchum
• Punk Rock Ghost Story – David Agranoff
• Demon – Matt Wesolowski
• The Liminal Zone – Junji Ito
• The Long Shadows Of October – Kristopher Triana
• Where Monsters Lie – Kyle Starks
• All Hallows – Christopher Golden
• Halloween Tales – O.G. Boiscommun
• Fetish Blonde – John Gilmore
• Everybody Knows – Jordan Harper
• Journey Into Fear – Eric Ambler
• The Enchanters – James Ellroy
• The Visitor – Sergio Gomez
• Easy Death – Daniel Boyd
• Friday Book One – Ed Brubaker
• And So This Is Christmas – Brian Bilston
• Friday Book Two – Ed Brubaker
• Don’t Fear The Reaper – Stephen Graham Jones
• A Stroke Of The Pen – Terry Pratchett

There we go, another year of reading in the record books. Discovered some exciting new to me authors, such as Dennis Cooper and Eric Ambler, and read a good mix of genres. One thing that stood out to me as I worked my way through the list, in 2024 I need to read more women. I’m off to a better start so far this year in that respect. Here’s to more great books throughout 2024!