Of interest
I provide a few links below as pointers to some award winning books and information on authors.
- Governor General’s Literary Awards: Our best books of 2021 https://ggbooks.ca/#winners
- The Canada Council for the Arts presents The 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards https://ggbooks.ca/#winners
- CBC Books https://www.cbc.ca/books
- Scotia Bank Giller Prize Winners https://scotiabankgillerprize.ca/winners/
- Canadian Authors Association https://canadianauthors.org/national/
- Janet Reid (Query Shark) list of author’s websites https://jetreidliterary.blogspot.com/2022/06/examples-of-good-writer-websites-from.html
My author and poet friends and colleagues
One of the great things about being a writer is the friends I’ve made and colleagues I’ve met along the way. I list a few of them below. Take a look at what they are writing!
- Anne Archer https://alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2021/12/07/spotlight-ich-heisse-clara-meine-geschichte-by-anne-archer/
- Allison Baggio http://www.allisonbaggio.com
- Kevin Craig https://ktcraig.com
- Bon Echo performance group (Anne Archer, Susan Gillis, Barb Secker and Alfred Von Mirbach; formed in 2019, they perform poems written and arranged for multiple voices) https://shop.artfestontario.com/pages/poets-at-artfest-kingston-2021
- Matt Egner http://www.mattegner.com/
- Terry Fallis https://terryfallis.com
- Susan Gillis https://www.susangillis.ca
- Tanah Haney https://tanahhaney.wordpress.com/
- Lisa Justus https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7058443.L_M_Justus
- Joe Mahoney https://www.assortednonsense.com/
- Maria Coletta McLean https://theauthorsbookclub.ca/about-maria-coletta-mclean/
- Andrew Pyper http://www.andrewpyper.com
- Lori Twining https://www.lvtwriter.com
- Robert Wiersema https://ah.viu.ca/creative-writing-and-journalism/contacts/profiles/robert-wiersema
- Caroline Wissing https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5429065.Caroline_Wissing
- Collette Yvonne https://www.whisperingstories.com/writing-life-collette-yvonne/
Books I have read
Foy 2023 and moving forward, I will keep track of the books I’ve read and those I want to read on Goodreads. Look for me there as JA Secker.
I like to keep track of the books that I read, and this (2022) will be my 14th year doing this. I’ve included my lists below. These include fiction (novels, novellas and short story collections) and non-fiction books. Some of these books were borrowed from the Ottawa Public Library (both print and e-books).
2022 (January to June)
- The Last Light Of The Sun (Guy Gavriel Kay, 2004)
- The Dresden Files, Book 5: Death Masks (Jim Butcher, 2003)
- The Lincoln Highway (Amor Towles, 2021)
- Desperation (Stephen King, 1996)
- The Regulators (Richard Bachman/Stephen King, 1996)
- A Mannequin Triplets Mystery: Homicide In The Hundred Homes (V.H Vachon, 2020)
- A Mannequin Triplets Mystery: Who Cut The Cheese In Armstrong? (V.H. Vachon, 2022)
- Elevation (Stephen King, 2018)
- Midnight Sweatlodge (Waubgeshig Rice, 2011)
- Sleeping Beauties (Stephen King and Owen King, 2017)
- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Ransom Riggs, 2011)
- Midnight Sun (Stephenie Meyer, 2020)
- To Be Taught If Fortunate (Becky Chambers, 2019)
- The Harry Hole Series, Book 3: Nemesis (Jo Nesbo, 2002)
- Rendezvous With Rama (Arthur C. Clarke, 1973)
- Legacy (Waubgeshig Rice, 2014)
- Illegal Alien (Robert J. Sawyer, 1997)
- The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields, 1993)
- River Of Stars (Guy Gavriel Kay, 2013)
- The Paris Apartment (Lucy Foley, 2022)
- The Galaxy, And The Ground Within (Becky Chambers, 2022)
- The Jade Peony (Wayson Choy, 1995)
2022 (July to December)
- Away (Jane Urquhart, 1994)
- Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood (Wayson Choy, 1999)
- Seven Deadly Pens (Moretti, Bradley, Clouden, Devine, Smith, Sully and Tammi, 2022)
- Never (Ken Follett, 2021)
- Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir Of Recording And Discording With Wilco, Etc. (Jeff Tweedy, 2018)
- Broken Promise: Book 1 Of The Promise Falls Trilogy (Linwood Barclay, 2015)
- The Twelve (Justin Cronin, 2012)
- Fairy Tale (Stephen King, 2022)
- Far From True: Book 2 of the Promise Falls Trilogy (Linwood Barclay, 2015)
- The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien, 1937)
- The Harry Hole Series, Book 5: The Devil’s Star (Jo Nesbo, 2005) (library)
- The Accident (Linwood Barclay, 2011)
- The Fell (Sarah Moss, 2022)
- Aurora (Kim Stanley Robinson, 2015) (library)
- The Twenty-Three: Book 3 of the Promise Falls Trilogy (Linwood Barclay, 2016)
- Scarborough (Catherine Hernandez, 2017)
- Migratory Birds (Mariana Oliver, 2021)
2021
- The Vinyl Frontier: The Story Of The Voyager Golden Record (Jonathan Scott, 2019)
- To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars (Christopher Paolini, 2020)
- The Institute (Stephen King, 2020)
- The Dresden Files, Book 3: Grave Peril (Jim Butcher, 2001)
- Avenue of Mysteries (John Irving, 2015)
- Viridian Dreams (Liz Henderson, 2020)
- The Cure For Death By Lightning (Gail Anderson-Dargatz, 1996)
- The Orchid Crow (Matt Egner, 2021, beta version)
- Bear (Marian Engel, 1976, 2009)
- Two Solitudes (Hugh MacLennan, 1945)
- The Dresden Files, Book 4: Summer Knight (Jim Butcher, 2002)
- The Kingdom (Jo Nesbo, 2020)
- The Coming Of The Quantum Cats (Frederik Pohl, 1986)
- The Starchild Trilogy, Book 1: The Reefs of Space (Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson, 1964)
- The Starchild Trilogy, Book 2: Starchild (Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson, 1965)
- The Starchild Trilogy, Book 3: Rogue Star (Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson, 1969)
- Empire Of The Wild (Cherie Dimaline, 2019)
- Headhunters (Jo Nesbo, 2008)
- Pet Sematary (Stephen King, 1983)
- Orphan Train (Christina Baker Kline, 2013)
- Fall On Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald, 1996)
- The Book Of Dust, Book 1: La Belle Sauvage (Philip Pullman, 2017)
- The Book Of Dust, Book 2: The Secret Commonwealth (Philip Pullman, 2019)
- Jonny Appleseed (Joshua Whitehead, 2018)
- From A Buick 8 (Stephen King, 2002)
- The Harry Hole Series, Book 1: The Bat (Jo Nesbo, 1997)
- Later (Stephen King, 2021)
- The Cormoran Strike Series, Book 5: Troubled Blood (Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling, 2020)
- The Harry Hole Series, Book 2: Cockroaches (Jo Nesbo, 1998)
- The Talisman (Stephen King and Peter Straub, 1984)
- Black House (Stephen King and Peter Straub, 2001)
- Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (Avi Loeb, 2021)
- The Stand (Stephen King, 1978, original version)
- The Cormoran Strike Series, Book 4: Lethal White (Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling, 2018)
- The Far Arena (Richard Ben Sapir, 1978)
- Annabel (Kathleen Winter, 2010)
- The Cormoran Strike Series, Book 2: The Silkworm (Robert Galbraith/J.K Rowling, 2014)
- Inside (Alix Ohlin, 2012)
- Billy Summers (Stephen King, 2021)
- How To Order The Universe (Maria Jose Ferrada, 2021)
- Slow Horses (Mick Herron, 2010)
- Forever Terry: A Legacy In Letters (edited by Darrell Fox, 2020)
- The Cormoran Strike Series, Book 1: The Cuckoo’s Calling (Robert Galbraith/J.K Rowling, 2013)
- The Cormoran Strike Series, Book 3: Career of Evil (Robert Galbraith/J.K Rowling, 2015)
- Alias Grace (Margaret Atwood, 1996)
- The Age Of Anxiety (Pete Townshend, 2019)
- The Harry Hole Series, Book 3: The Redbreast (Jo Nesbo, 2000)
- Who Has Seen The Wind (W.O. Mitchell, 1947)
- The Apollo Murders (Chris Hadfield, 2021)
- Gwendy’s Button Box (Stephen King and Richard Chizmar, 2017)
- Gwendy’s Magic Feather (Richard Chizmar, 2019)
2020
- Dual Citizens (Alix Ohlin, 2019)
- High School (Tegan and Sara, 2019)
- Mining The Oort (Frederick Pohl, 1992)
- The Education Of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir (Joseph Auguste Merasty and David Carpenter, 2015)
- The Andromeda Evolution (Daniel H. Wilson, 2019)
- The Onion Girl (Charles de Lint, 2001)
- Imaginary Friend (Stephen Chbosky, 2019)
- Moon Of The Crusted Snow (Waubgeshig Rice, 2018)
- Wayfarers Series: Record Of A Spaceborn Few (Becky Chambers, 2018)
- The Woman In The Window (A.J. Finn, 2018)
- The Age Of The Pussyfoot (Frederik Pohl, 1969)
- A Gentleman In Moscow (Amor Towles, 2016)
- The Interstellar Undertakers (Paul S. Wesson, 2002)
- Cosmic Dreams (Paul S. Wesson, 2003)
- Gambling Galaxies (Paul S. Wesson, 2011)
- Doctor Sleep (Stephen King, 2013)
- The Outsider (Stephen King, 2018)
- Jane, Unlimited (Kristin Cashore, 2017)
- The Dead Zone (Stephen King, 1979)
- If It Bleeds (Stephen King, 2020)
- Mr. Mercedes (Stephen King, 2014)
- Finders Keepers (Stephen King, 2015)
- End Of Watch (Stephen King, 2016)
- The Dresden Files, Book 1: Storm Front (Jim Butcher, 2000) (library)
- Oryx And Crake (Margaret Atwood, 2003)
- Children Of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky, 2015)
- The Colorado Kid (Stephen King, 2005)
- The Art Of Racing In The Rain (Garth Stein, 2008)
- The City We Became (N.K. Jemisin, 2020)
- Lands Of Lost Borders: Out Of Bounds On The Silk Road (Kate Harris, 2018)
- The Music Shop (Rachel Joyce, 2017)
- Marooned In Realtime (Vernor Vinge, 1986)
- Sanctuary Line (Jane Urquhart, 2010)
- The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence, 1964)
- Pilgrim (Timothy Findley, 1999)
- A Fire Upon The Deep (Vernor Vinge, 1992)
- The Dresden Files, Book 2: Fool Moon (Jim Butcher, 2001)
- The Goldfinch (Donna Tartt, 2013)
- The Shipping News (E. Annie Proulx, 1993)
- Everything Is Equally Important (Caroline Wissing, 2020, beta version)
2019
- Deals With Devils (Jenn Delagran, 2018, beta version)
- Hockey Dreams (David Adams Richards, 1996)
- Lightfoot (Nicholas Jennings, 2017)
- Son Of A Trickster (Eden Robinson, 2017)
- The Broken Earth Trilogy: I. The Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin, 2015)
- The Snow Walker (F. Mowat, 1975)
- The Broken Earth Trilogy: II. The Obelisk Gate (N.K. Jemison, 2016)
- The Broken Earth Trilogy: III. The Stone Sky (N.K. Jemison, 2017)
- Deafening (Frances Itani, 2003)
- His Dark Materials: I. The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman, 1995)
- The Wanderers (Meg Howrey, 2017)
- A Wrinkle In Time (Madeleine L’Engle, 1962)
- His Dark Materials: II. The Subtle Knife (Philip Pullman, 1997)
- His Dark Materials: III. The Amber Spyglass (Philip Pullman, 2000)
- Beyond The Blue Event Horizon (Frederik Pohl, 1980)
- Dragon Pearl (Yoon Ha Lee, 2019)
- Wayfarers Series: The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet (Becky Chambers, 2014)
- Bird By Bird: Some Instructions On Writing And Life (Anne Lamott, 1994)
- The House On The Strand (Daphne duMaurier, 1969)
- Two Dark Moons (Avi Silver, 2019)
- Stopping At Slowyear (Frederick Pohl, 1991)
- Late Nights On Air (Elizabeth Hay, 2007)
- Graceling (Kristin Cashore, 2008)
- The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrey Niffenegger, 2003)
- The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Paolo Giordano, 2008)
- Wayfarers Series: A Closed And Common Orbit (Becky Chambers, 2016)
- The Trials Of Apollo: I. The Hidden Oracle (Rick Riordan, 2016)
- Wildings: I. Under My Skin (Charles de Lint, 2012)
- This Is Your Brain On Music: The Science Of A Human Obsession (Daniel J. Levitin, 2006)
2018
- Bellevue Square (Michael Redhill, 2017)
- The Gripping Hand (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, 1993)
- Xenocide (Orson Scott Card, 1991)
- I, Robot (Isaac Asimov, 1950)
- The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury, 1950)
- The Caves Of Steel (Isaac Asimov, 1954)
- The Stranger In The Woods: The Extraordinary Story Of The Last True Hermit (Michael Finkel, 2018)
- The Shockwave Rider (John Brunner, 1975)
- A Time And A Place (Joe Mahoney, 2016)
- Gateway (Frederik Pohl, 1976)
- The Book Of M (Peng Shepherd, 2018)
- The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation (Isaac Asimov, 1951)
- The Foundation Trilogy: Foundation and Empire (Isaac Asimov, 1952)
- The Foundation Trilogy: Second Foundation (Isaac Asimov, 1953)
- Good Morning, Midnight (Lily Brooks-Dalton, 2016)
- Times Without Number (John Brunner, 1974)
- The Saturday Night Ghost Club (Craig Davidson, 2018)
2017
- Testimony (Jaime Robbie Roberston, 2016)
- The Last Best Lie (Kennedy Quinn, 2015)
- A Wizard Of Earthsea (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1968)
- The Tombs Of Ataun (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1970)
- The Film Club (David Gilmour, 2007)
- March (Geraldine Brooks, 2005)
- Clara Callan (Richard B. Wright, 2001)
- All Our Wrong Todays (Elan Mastai, 2017)
- The Farthest Shore (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1972)
- Tehanu (Ursula K. LeGuin, 1990)
- The End Of The Alphabet (CS Richardson, 2007)
- Nightfall (Richard B. Wright, 2016)
- A Wind In The Door (Madeleine L’Engle, 1973)
- The Golden Mean (Annabel Lyon, 2009)
- A Wrinkle In Time (Madeleine L’Engle, 1962)
- Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1932)
- The Silent Corner (Dean Koontz, 2017)
- All The Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy, 1992)
- The Crossing (Cormac McCarthy, 1994)
- Cities Of The Plain (Cormac McCarthy, 1998)
- Clockwork Angels (Kevin J. Anderson, 2012)
- Lab Girl (Hope Jahren, 2016)
- Gods Of The Hammer: The Teenage Head Story (Geoff Pevere, 2014)
- The Day Of The Star Cities (John Brunner, 1965)
- The Left Hand Of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969)
- The Radleys (Matt Haig, 2010)
- Dune (Frank Herbert, 1965)
- Girl Mans Up (M-E Girard, 2016)
- Norse Mythology (Neil Gaiman, 2017)
- Monkey Beach (Eden Robinson, 2000)
2016
- The Doomsday Conspiracy (Sidney Sheldon, 1991)
- The Sweetness At The Bottom Of The Pie (Alan Bradley, 2009)
- The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag (Alan Bradley, 2010)
- Fifteen Dogs (André Alexis, 2015)
- The Maze Runner (James Dashner, 2009)
- Calculating God (Robert J. Sawyer, 2001)
- The Scorpion Rules (Erin Bow, 2015)
- Midnight Sun: Canadian Intelligence And Security In 2030 (Karl Schroeder, 2011)
- Empire (Orson Scott Card, 2006)
- Sixth Column (Robert A. Heinlein, 1949)
- The Dark Tower Volume 1: The Gunslinger (Stephen King, 1982)
- The Dark Tower Volume 2: The Drawing Of The Three (Stephen King, 1987)
- The Dark Tower Volume 3: The Wastelands (Stephen King, 1991)
- The Dark Tower Volume 4: Wizard And Glass (Stephen King, 1997)
- The Dark Tower Volume 5: Wolves Of The Calla (Stephen King, 2003)
- The Dark Tower Volume 6: Song of Suzannah (Stephen King, 2004)
- The Dark Tower Volume 7: The Dark Tower (Stephen King, 2004)
- Paper Gods: Ink (Amanda Sun, 2013)
- The World At The End Of Time (Frederick Pohl, 1990)
- The Wind Through The Keyhole (A Dark Tower Novel) (Stephen King, 2012)
- Worldly Goods (Alice Petersen, 2016)
- The Ocean At The End Of The Lane (Neil Gaiman, 2013)
- A Red Herring Without Mustard (Alan Bradley, 2011)
- Second Contact (Mike Resnick, 1990)
- The Summer Guest (Justin Cronin, 2004)
- The Girls (Emma Cline, 2015)
- SETI (Frederick Fichman, 1990)
- The Afterlife Of Stars (Joseph Kertes, 2014)
- The Gold At The Starbow’s End (Frederick Pohl, 1973)
- Finders Keepers (Stephen King, 2015)
- My Brilliant Friend: Book One of the Neapolitan Novels (Elena Ferrante, 2012)
- Under Major Domo Minor (Patrick DeWitt, 2015)
- Heir To The Sky (Amanda Sun, 2016)
- A Bird In The House (Margaret Lawrence, 1970)
2015
- The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion, 2013)
- Revival (Stephen King, 2014)
- Gray Mountain (John Grisham, 2014)
- Half-Blood Blues (Esi Edugyan, 2011)
- The Ringworld Engineers (Larry Niven, 1980)
- The Wildfire Season (Andrew Pyper, 2005)
- The Room (Jonas Karlsson, 2009)
- Red Mars (Kim Stanley Robinson, 1993)
- The Girl On The Train (Paula Hawkins, 2014)
- Destiny’s Telescope And Other Stories (Richard Scarsbrook, 2006)
- Half Dead And Fully Broken (Kevin Craig, 2014)
- Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan, 2005)
- Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea Of Monsters (Rick Riordan, 2006)
- Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Titan’s Curse (Rick Riordan, 2007)
- Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Battle Of The Labyrinth (Rick Riordan, 2008)
- Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Last Olympian (Rick Riordan, 2009)
- Aliens: Recent Encounters (Edited by Alex Dally MacFarlane, 2013)
- The Mote In God’s Eye (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, 1974)
- The Finisher (David, Baldacci, 2014)
- The Neanderthal Parallax: Volume Two – Humans (Robert J. Sawyer, 2003)
- A Jest Of God (Margaret Lawrence, 1966)
- Night Without End (Alistair MacLean, 1959)
- Generation A (Douglas Coupland, 2009)
- Treason (Orson Scott Card, 1988)
- Caught (Lisa Moore, 2013)
- All The Bright Places (Jennifer Niven, 2015)
- The Neanderthal Parallax: Volume Three – Hybrids (Robert J. Sawyer, 2003)
- Simple Genius (David Baldacci, 2007)
- A Vision Of Fire (Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin, 2014)
- Treasure Box (Orson Scott Card, 1996)
- The Age Of Wonders: Tales From The Near Future (Jeffry Dwight, Editor, 2000)
- Ender’s Shadow (Orson Scott Card, 1999)
- The Martian (Andy Weir, 2011)
2014
- Allegiant (Veronica Roth, 2013)
- The Lorien Legacies: I Am Number Four (Pittacus Lore, 2010)
- The Shining Girls (Lauren Beukes, 2013)
- The Giver (Lois Lowry, 1993)
- The Lorien Legacies: The Power Of Six (Pittacus Lore, 2011)
- The Jewel Of Bas (Leigh Brackett, 1944)
- Omens: A Cainsville Novel (Kelley Armstrong, 2013)
- The 5th Wave (Rick Yancy, 2013)
- The Nine Lives Of Chloe King: The Fallen (Liz Braswell, 2004)
- The Nine Lives Of Chloe King: The Stolen (Liz Braswell, 2004)
- The Nine Lives Of Chloe King: The Chosen (Liz Braswell, 2005)
- The Beggar’s Opera: An Inspector Ramirez Novel (Peggy Blair, 2010)
- The Poisoned Pawn: An Inspector Ramirez Novel (Peggy Blair, 2013)
- Red Rising (Pierce Brown, 2014)
- Inhuman (Kat Falls, 2013)
- Speaker ForThe Dead (Orson Scott Card, 1986)
- Red Planet Blues (Robert J. Sawyer, 2013)
- Plain Kate (Erin Bow, 2010)
- The Rules Of Engagement (Catherine Bush, 2000)
- Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn, 2012)
- All The Broken Things (Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, 2014)
- The Demonologist (Andrew Pyper, 2013)
- All You Need Is Kill (Hiroshi Sakurazaka, 2004) (retitled Edge Of Tomorrow)
- Up And Down (David Fallis, 2012)
- Claire’s Head (Catherine Bush, 2004)
- Ender In Exile (Orson Scott Card, 2008)
- Hominids (Robert J. Sawyer, 2002)
- Four (Veronica Roth, 2014)
- The Long Tomorrow (Leigh Brackett, 1955)
- Mr. Mercedes (Stephen King, 2014)
- The Time Machine (H.G. Wells, 1895)
- And The Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini, 2013)
- The Fault In Our Stars (John Green, 2012)
- Leviathan Wakes (James S. A. Corey, 2011)
- Meat Loaf: To Hell And Back (Meat Loaf with David Dalton, 2000)
- Open Season (Deryn Collier, 2014)
- Ringworld (Larry Niven, 1970)
- The Spark (Kristine Barnett, 2013)
- Such Is My Beloved (Morley Callaghan, 1934)
- Star Trek: Mind Meld (John Vornholt, 1997)
- Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (Vincent Lam, 2005)
- The Tiger’s Wife (Tea Obreht, 2011)
- Warriors Book 1: Into The Wild (Erin Hunter, 2003)
2013
- One Shot (Lee Child)
- 419 (Will Ferguson)
- The Friday Society (Adrienne Kress)
- Gone Tomorrow (Lee Child)
- The Catcher In The Rye (J.D. Salinger)
- Prey (Michael Crichton)
- The Day The Earth Stood Still (Arthur Tofte)
- In the Skin of a Lion (Michael Ondaatje)
- The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ (Philip Pullman)
- In The Body (Allison Baggio)
- Looking for Alaska (John Green)
- Canada (Richard Ford)
- World War Z (Max Brooks)
- Wake (Robert J. Sawyer)
- Watch (Robert J. Sawyer)
- Wonder (Robert J. Sawyer)
- Mindscan (Robert J. Sawyer)
- Divergent (Veronica Roth)
- Rollback (Robert J. Sawyer)
- Joyland (Stephen King)
- Insurgent (Veronica Roth)
- The Mortal Instruments: Book One – City of Bones (Cassandra Clare)
- Paper Towns (John Green)
- The Mortal Instruments: Book Two – City of Ashes (Cassandra Clare)
- Girl In Shades (Allison Baggio)
- The Cormoran Strike Series, Book 1: The Cuckoo’s Calling (Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling, 2013)
- The Mortal Instruments: Book Three – City of Glass (Cassandra Clare)
- Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card, 1991)
- Just Kids (2010, Patti Smith)
- February (2009, Lisa Moore)
- High Fidelity (Nick Hornby, 1995)
- Orr: My Story (Bobby Orr, 2013)
- About A Boy (Nick Hornby, 1998)
- How To Be Good (Nick Hornby, 2003)
- Doctor Sleep (Stephen King, 2013)
2012
- Stolen (Kelley Armstrong)
- Tales Of The Otherworld (Kelley Armstrong)
- The First Horseman (John Case)
- The Queen Of The Damned (Anne Rice)
- The Princess Of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
- Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
- Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)
- 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
- Voiceless (Caroline Wissing)
- Red Means Run (Brad Smith)
- The Reader (Bernhard Schlink)
- ‘Salem’s Lot (Stephen King)
- The Perks Of Being A Wallflower (Stephen Chbosky)
- The Gathering (Kelley Armstrong)
- On Writing (Stephen King)
- Carrie (Stephen King)
- Cell (Stephen King)
- Blockade Billy (Stephen King)
- Morality (Stephen King)
- Spellbound (Kelley Armstrong)
- Alex And The Ironic Gentleman (Adrienne Kress)
- Timothy And The Dragon’s Gate (Adrienne Kress)
- Skeleton Crew (Stephen King)
- The Sisters Brothers (Patrick DeWitt)
- For One More Day (Mitch Albom)
- From Dead To Worse: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Charlaine Harris)
- White Heat (M. J. McGrath)
- Crow’s Landing (Brad Smith)
- Cycle Of The Werewolf (Stephen King and Berni Wrightson)
- On The Road (Jack Kerouac)
- The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)
- The World More Full Of Weeping (Robert J. Wiersema)
- The Guardians (Andrew Pyper)
- No Country For Old Men (Cormac McCarthy)
2011
- The Alchemist’s Dream (John Wilson)
- The Girls Who Played with Fire (Stieg Larsson)
- The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest (Stieg Larsson)
- The Shining (Stephen King)
- Full Dark, No Stars (Stephen King)
- Light Lifting (Alexander MacLeod)
- Riding The Bullet (Stephen King)
- Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
- The House Of The Vampire (George Sylvester Viereck)
- The Vampire (Jan Nepomuk)
- The Vampire Maid (James Hume Nisbet)
- Darkness Under The Sun (Dean Koontz)
- Before I Wake (Robert Wiersema)
- The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
- The Killing Circle (Andrew Pyper)
- The Summoning (Kelley Armstrong)
- Gently Down The Stream (Ray Robertson)
- Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill)
- The Awakening (Kelley Armstrong)
- The Reckoning (Kelley Armstrong)
- The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
- Wildlife (Richard Ford)
- Worth Dying For (Lee Child)
- Freedom (Jonathan Franzen)
- Bitten (Kelley Armstrong)
- Dead Until Dark: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Charlaine Harris)
- Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Charlaine Harris)
- Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Charlaine Harris)
- Dead to the World: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel (Charlaine Harris)
- Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
- The Witching Hour (Ann Rice)
- A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (James De Mille)
2010
- Under The Dome (Stephen King)
- Her Fearful Symmetry (Audrey Niffenegger)
- On Chesil Beach (Ian McEwan)
- The Loved And The Lost (Morley Callaghan)
- The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova)
- Of Mice And Men (John Steinbeck)
- The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
- Dragon Keeper: Volume 1 Of The Rain Wilds Chronicles (Robin Hobb)
- The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner (Stephanie Meyers)
- Half A Loaf … My Love Affair With The Hurdville Mill (Irene Morel)
- The Passage (Justin Cronin)
- Neon Angel: A Memoir Of A Runaway (Cherie Currie)
- A Wrinkle In Time (Madeleine D’Engle)
- The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
- Point Omega (Don DeLillo)
- The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials Book I (Philip Pullman)
- The Subtle Knife: His Dark Materials Book II (Philip Pullman)
- The Amber Spyglass: His Dark Materials Book III (Philip Pullman)
- Project Pendulum (Robert Silverberg)
- Happy Deathday, Alfred Hitchcock Editor (short stories)
2009
- Into The Wild (Jon Kraukner)
- Through Black Spruce (Joseph Boyden)
- Your Heart Belongs To Me (Dean Kootnz)
- And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks (Jack Kerouac and WilliamS. Burroughs)
- Inkdeath (Cornelia Funke)
- You Don’t Scare Me (John Harris)
- Odd Hours (Dean Kootnz)
- The Underdogs (Mariano Azuela)
- Twilight (Stephanie Meyers)
- New Moon (Stephanie Meyers)
- Eclipse (Stephanie Meyers)
- Breaking Dawn (Stephanie Meyers)
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