Once again, it’s that annual time when I remember to update my blog. It’s unlikely that I’ll finish what I’m reading today, so below is the complete list of everything I’ve read in 2024, and in the order they were read:

• The Last Action Heroes – Nick De Semlyen
• Call For The Dead – John Le Carre
• The Golden Ass – Milo Manara
• Closer – Dennis Cooper
• Breaking Kayfabe – Wes Brown
• Rare Singles – Ben Myers
• Pandora’s Box – Peter Biskind
• Girl, Interrupted – Susanna Kaysen
• The Spy Who Came In From The Cold – John Le Carre
• Sleep Donation – Karen Russell
• Animals Eat Each Other – Elle Nash
• The Hurricane Blonde – Halley Sutton
• Silverview – John Le Carre
• Soul Hunter – Aaron Dembski-Bowden
• Pandora’s Eyes – Milo Manara
• Where The Body Was – Ed Brubaker
• One Hundred Tales – Osamu Tezuka
• The Eagle Has Landed – Jack Higgins
• The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn’t – Barrett Martin
• Frisk – Dennis Cooper
• Behold The Man – Michael Moorcock
• City In Ruins – Don Winslow
• Chrysalis – Anna Metcalfe
• Eye Of The Storm – Jack Higgins
• Story Of The Eye – Georges Bataille
• The Gray Man – Mark Greaney
• Scene Of The Crime – Ed Brubaker
• Guards! Guards! – Terry Pratchett
• Pulp – Ed Brubaker
• The Horse – Willy Vlautin
• Fist Of The North Star Volume One – Buronson
• Mister Magic – Kiersten White
• Never Die Alone – Donald Goines
• Elantris – Brandon Sanderson
• Everything The Darkness Eats – Eric LaRocca
• The Firm – John Grisham
• Cruel Summer – Ed Brubaker
• Kala – Colin Walsh
• Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
• The Darkness That Comes Before – R. Scott Bakker
• We Sold Our Souls – Grady Hendrix
• The Cipher – Kathe Koja
• Shiver – Junji Ito
• Yours Cruelly, Elvira – Cassandra Peterson
• That Night In The Woods – Kristopher Triana
• How To Sell A Haunted House – Grady Hendrix
• Elric: The Making Of A Sorcerer – Michael Moorcock
• Killing And Dying – Adrian Tomine
• The Man With The Getaway Face – Richard Stark
• Summer Blonde – Adrian Tomine
• Sleepwalk And Other Stories – Adrian Tomine
• The Illustrated Lyrics – John Grant
• It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be – Paul Arden
• The Black Echo – Michael Connelly
• A Christmas Ghost Story – Kim Newman
• Desire Is Death – Rob Pierce
• The Dead Of Winter – Sara Clegg
• The Spy Who Came For Christmas – David Morrell
• The Philosophy Of Christmas – Caroline Taggart
• Friday: Book Three – Ed Brubaker
• Letters From Father Christmas – J.R.R. Tolkien
• Shortcomings – Adrian Tomine
• Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan

So, a broad mix of things – fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novels. A good reading year for me, I feel. There was only one book I actively disliked. I won’t name it as I don’t feel that’s necessary, but it was a book that had a lot of hype, an author I’d heard a lot of good things about, and I was massively disappointed. Anyway, I won’t dwell on the one negative – I read both John Le Carre and Michael Moorcock for the first time this year and hugely enjoyed both and have more of their titles lined up, especially for the incredibly prolific Moorcock.

Anyway, if you’re curious, my top reads of the year are, in no particular order: Kala, The Eagle Has Landed, Animals Eat Each Other, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, Closer, The Cipher, and Killing And Dying.

And what did I get up to in between all of my reading? Well, I did a lot of writing. Something of a banner year for me as I had six books come out – four Tom Rollins’ with Full Throttle, Sudden Impact, Kill Switch, and Choke Hold, all from Inkubator Books; the second in The First Sleeper series, with Sleeper Run, from Aethon Books; and finally, 24 Hour Gas, a standalone Christmas crime story, my first Christmas story that I’ve been able to write and put out since 2019.

Anyway, on to 2025!