Reads & Ratings

Grouped by star-rating in no particular order, and woefully out of date…

★★★★★

  • THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME by Donald Ray Pollock [reviewabout]
  • THE DISTANT SOUND OF VIOLENCE by Jason Greensides [review / about]
  • THE LESSER DEAD by Christopher Buehlman [reviewabout]
  • THE CONTORTIONIST’S HANDBOOK by Craig Clevenger [reviewabout]
  • THE ELEMENTALS by Michael McDowell [reviewabout]
  • THROTTLE (short story) by Joe Hill & Stephen King [about]
  • COSMOPOLIS by Don DeLillo [about]
  • BALTIMORE by Mike Mignola [about]
  • THE THINGS THEY CARRIED by Tim O’Brien [about]
  • DOG SOLDIERS by Robert Stone [about]
  • TREE OF SMOKE by Denis Johnson [reviewabout]
  • HOUSE OF LEAVES by Mark Z. Danielewski [about]
  • ALL THE LITTLE LIVE THINGS by Wallace Stegner [about]
  • ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner [about]
  • THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy [about]
  • BLOOD MERIDIAN by Cormac McCarthy [about]
  • THE WILD HORSES OF HIROSHIMA by Paul Xylinides [review /about]
  • MOBY DICK: OR, THE WHITE WHALE by Herman Melville
  • MOBY DICK (Graphic Novel) by Herman Melville (Author), Christophe Chaboute (Illustrator)
  • INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE by Anne Rice
  • MADAME BOVARY by Gustav Flaubert
  • CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE by Henry Thoreau
  • INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL WRITTEN BY HERSELF by Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • BOOK OF FIVE RINGS by Miyamoto Musashi
  • WE ALL DIE IN THE END by Elizabeth Merry
  • BUSHIDO, THE SOUL OF JAPAN by Inazo Nitobe
  • DRACULA by Bram Stoker
  • FRANKENSTEIN: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka
  • THE CASTLE by Franz Kafka
  • MOON AND SIXPENCE by W. Somerset Maugham

★★★★

  • THE BLADE RUNNER AMENDMENT by Paul Xylinides [about]
  • IN A LONELY PLACE by Dorothy B. Hughes [about]
  • A GATHERING OF BUTTERFLIES by Sean C. Wright [about]
  • AMERICAN PSYCHO by Bret Easton Ellis [about]
  • NIGHTMARE ALLEY by William Lindsay Gresham [about]
  • BONE WHITE by Ronald Malfi [about]
  • THE TELEPORTER by Lee Hall [reviewabout]
  • BLOOD TEST by Jonathan Kellerman [about]
  • AN AMERICAN POPE by Paul Xylinides [review / about]
  • TRUE AND FALSE: HERESY AND COMMON SENSE FOR THE ACTOR by David Mamet [about]
  • HOW TO WRITE A MOVIE IN 21 DAYS by Viki King [reviewabout]
  • FACTOTUM by Charles Bukowski [reviewabout]
  • SURVIVE THE NIGHT by Danielle Vega [about]
  • NIGHT FILM by Marisha Pessl [reviewabout]
  • BLOOD STANDARD by Laird Barron [about]
  • THE LONEY by Andrew Michael Hurly [about]
  • THE SUICIDE MOTOR CLUB by Christopher Buehlman [about]
  • THOSE ACROSS THE RIVER by Christopher Buehlman [about]
  • DEADLY STILLWATER by Roger Stelljes [about]
  • BEACH LAWYER by Avery Duff [about]
  • CARTER & LOVECRAFT Jonathon L. Howard [reviewabout]
  • BEACON 23 by Hugh Howey [about]
  • WOOL by Hugh Howey [about]
  • WHISKEY SOUR by J. A. Konrath [about]
  • FALLING ANGEL (Angel Heart) by William Hjortsberg [about]
  • THE GIRL NEXT DOOR by Jack Ketchum [about]
  • THE BOX by Jack Ketchum [about]
  • NOBODY MOVE by Denis Johnson [about]
  • JESUS’ SON by Denis Johnson [about]
  • DOCTOR SLEEP by Stephen King [about]
  • FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk [about]
  • YAKUZA MOON by Shoko Tendo [about]
  • GO SET A WATCHMAN by Harper Lee
  • TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
  • THE HOUSE OF DUST by Noah Broyles
  • THE COUNSELOR (A Screenplay) by Cormac McCarthy
  • IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? by Mark Twain
  • A CRITICAL ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE by Leo Tolstoy
  • THE ALTAR OF THE DEAD by Henry James
  • POETICS by Aristotle
  • GHOST STORY by Peter Straub
  • THE DA VINCI CODE by Dan Brown

★★★

  • BEAST by Paul Kingsnorth [about]
  • THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain [about]
  • INTENSITY by Dean Koontz [about]
  • FRANKENSTEIN: CITY OF NIGHT by Dean Kootz [about]
  • AND THE HIPPOS WERE BOILED IN THEIR TANKS by Kerouac & Burroughs [reviewabout]
  • OF FOSTER HOMES AND FLIES by Chad Lutzke [about]
  • FRANKENSTEIN: PRODIGAL SON by Dean Kootz [about]
  • WITHIN THESE WALLS by Ania Ahlborn [about]
  • KILL SWITCH by Jonathan Maberry [about]
  • THE CHANGELING by Victor LaValle [about]
  • WHEN NIETZCHE WEPT by Irvin D. Yalom [reviewabout]
  • FINDERS KEEPERS by Stephen King [about]
  • MR. MERCEDES by Stephen King [about]
  • SALEM’S LOT by Stephen King [about]
  • TRUE FICTION by Ian Ludlow [about]
  • FIGHT CLUB 2 by Chuck Palahniuk [about]
  • THE VAMPYRE: A TALE by John William Polidori
  • THE DIARY OF A MAN OF FIFTY by Henry James

★★

  • LAST DAYS by Brian Evenson [reviewabout]
  • THE THIEF by Fuminori Nakamura [about]
  • THE DARK TOWER by Stephen King [about]

  • MR. MURDER by Dean Koontz [about]
  • GO: A NOVEL by John Clellon Holmes [about]
  • DARK DEBTS by Karen Hall [about]
  • DRIVE by James Sallis [about]
  • BUST by Ken Bruen [about]
  • A THOUSAND PARDONS by Jonathan Dee [about]
  • I AM NO ONE by Patrick Flanery [about]
  • SPOONBENDERS by Daryl Gregory [about]
  • IQ by Joe Ide [about]