My Favorite Reads in 2012
Posted in News on December 17, 2012
Here is the best of the best of what I’ve read during 2012. Thanks to the friends who recommended or sent me some of this stuff! Read ‘em!
Novels
The Wreckage of Agathon by John Gardner
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane
The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli
The Burning Soul by John Connolly
The Neon Rain by James Lee Burke
Heaven’s Prisoners by James Lee Burke
Light in August by William Faulkner
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley
So Cold the River by Michael Koryta
Novellas
The Night We Buried Road Dog by Jack Cady
By Reason of Darkness by Jack Cady
Reign of Blood by Sandy DeLuca
Without Purpose Without Pity by Brian Hodge
The Rapist by Les Edgerton (forthcoming)
Collections
Beautiful Sorrows by Mercedes Yardley
Non-Fiction
Becoming Faulkner by Philip Weinstein
The Faulkner-Cowley Files: Letters & Memories 1944-1962
Writing 21st Century Fiction by Donald Maass
Books to Die For by John Connolly and Declan Burke
And for my 2012 Year in Review… Go here! It blew 2011 to bits.
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Just picked up Heart Shaped Box. Looking forward to getting into it.
Heart-shaped Box is great, Brett! I read Horns this year too but didn’t like it as much. Hope you dig it!