Reading/ Recommended
These are all books I’ve read in recent years that I thought were good. I don’t have time to do extensive reviews. That said, if it ‘made the cut’ it means I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone. So if you’re at a loss for what to read next…
Key: (F)=Fiction (NF)=Non Fiction (C)=Classic (OW)=On Writing (P)=Philosophy/Self Help (S)=Short Stories
Books I liked:
Let’s go play at the Adams’ – Mendal Johnson (F) Horror
The Only Good Indians – Stephen Graham Jones (F) Horror
The Reddening – Adam Nevill (F) Horror
The Wide, Carnivorous Sky – John Langan (S) Horror
The Breakout Novelist – Donald Maas (OW)
Best Horror of the Year vol. 11 – Ellen Datlow (S)
Educated – Tara Westover (NF)
The Deep – Alma Katsu (F)
Orphan X series – Gregg Hurwitz (F)
Talking To Strangers – Malcolm Gladwell (NF)
The Nevernight Chronicles Trilogy – Jay Kristoff (F)
The Madness of Crowds – Douglass Murray (NF)
The 3 Body Problem – Cixin Liu (F)
House of Leaves – Mark Danielewski (F) Horror
Economics in One Lesson – Henry Hazlitt (NF)
Making Evil – Dr. Julia Shaw (NF)
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe (F)
The Wise Man’s Fear – Pat Rothfuss (F)
Nevernight – Jay Kristoff (F)
Mongrels – Stephen Graham Jones (F) Horror
The Deep – Nick Cutter (F) Horror
The Gulag Archipelago – Alexander Solzhenitsyn (P)
Flowers for Algernon (F)
The Hunger – Alma Katsu (F) Horror
The Name of the Wind – Pat Rothfuss (F)
The Institute – Stephen King (F) Horror
Wake in Fright – Kenneth Cooke (F)
Blue Mind – Wallace J. Nichols (NF)
The Little Stranger – Sarah Waters (F) Horror
A Sense of Style – Steven Pinker (OW)
Enlightenment Now – Steven Pinker (NF)
How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes – Peter Schiff (NF)
Moby Dick – Hermann Melville (F)
The Butchering Art – Lindsay Fitzharris (NF)
The Ritual – Adam Nevill (F) Horror
The Labyrinth of the Spirits – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (F)
The Original Grimm’s Fairy Tales (S)
The First 5 Pages – Noah Lukeman (OW)
October Country – Ray Bradbury (S) Horror
Some Will Not Sleep – Adam Nevill (S) Horror
His Dark Materials – Phillip Pullman (F)
Interview with a Vampire – Anne Rice (F)
Win Bigly – Scott Adams (P)
Summer of Night – Dan Simmons (F) Horror
The Troop – Nick Cutter (F) Horror
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath (C)
Psycho – Robert Bloch (C) Horror
Can’t Hurt Me – David Goggins (P)
Planet Word – J.P Davidson (NF)
The Damnation Game – Clive Barker (F) Horror
Writing the Breakout Novel – Donald Maas (OW)
Prisoner of Heaven – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (F)
Bird Box – Josh Malerman (F) Horror
Flow – Mihaly Csiksentmihalyi (P)
Ordinary Men – Christopher Browning (NF)
Hellbent – Gregg Hurwitz (F)
Mistborn #1 – Brandon Sanderson (F)
The Fireman – Joe Hill (F)
The Emotional Craft of Fiction – Donald Maas (OW)
The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang (NF)
Tribe – Sebastian Junger (P)
Nowhere Man – Gregg Hurwitz (F)
Orphan X – Gregg Hurwitz (F)
Broken Monsters – Lauren Beukes (F) Horror
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch – Alexander Solzhenitzen (C)
Dracula – Bram Stoker (C) Horror
Kitchen Confidential – Anthony Bourdain (NF)
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov (C)
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (F)
Where Nightmares Come From – (Various) (OW)
Reality is Broken – Jane McGonigal (P)
The 5 People You Meet in Heaven – Mitch Albom (F)
NOS4R2 – Joe Hill (F) Horror
The Nightrunners – Joe Landsdale (F) Horror
Influence – Robert Cialdini (P)
Dune – Frank Herbert (F)
Writing Down the Bones – Natalie Goldberg (OW)
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson (P)
Musashi – Eiji Yoshikawa (F)
Writing Tools – Roy Clark (OW)
Junky – William S. Burroughs (F)
Midnight Sun – Ramsey Campbell (F) Horror
The Martian – Andy Weir (F)
Panzram – Journal of Murder (NF)
Angel’s Game – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (F)
Watcher in the Shadows – Carlos Ruiz Zafon (F)
Nocturnal – Scott Sigler (F)
Madam Bovary – Gustave Flaubert (C)
Bird By Bird – Ann Lamott (OW)
Permutation City – Greg Egan (F)
The Uses of Enchantment – Bruno Bettleheim (OW)
Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Ransom Riggs (F)
The View from the Cheap Seats – Neil Gaiman (OW)
The Passage – Justin Cronin (F) Horror
The Warrior Ethos – Steven Pressfield (OW)
The Knowledge – Steven Pressfield (F)
Letters to Lucilius – Seneca (P)
Killing Rommel – Steven Pressfield (F)
Mothertongue – Bill Bryson (NF)
Wild – Cheryl Strayed (P)
Trigger Warning – Neil Gaiman
Danse Macabre – Stephen King (NF)
Watership Down – Richard Adams (C)
If This is a Man – Primo Levi (P)
Night Music – John Connolly (F)
The Writing Life – Annie Dillard (OW)
Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harari (NF)