Member: blackdogbooks

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About my libraryThe library is an ecclectic mix of interests, running from classic literature to true crime to political history to science fiction. I am currently working my way through about four different 100 best lists, catching up on all of the great literature I refused to read as a rebellious English student.

TBR Stack - Favorite writers - though I found that I now have too many favorites to include them all in a manageable stack

Joyland by Stephen King
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
Double Feature by Owen King
Murder as a Fine Art by David Morrell
Benediction by Kent Haruf
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
Now and Forever by Ray Bradbury
Taking the Wall by Jonis Agee
Forever Odd by Dean Koontz
The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy
A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion
The Things that Always Were by Solla Carrock

Currently Reading:
Joyland by Stephen King



All Time Favorite Books
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
The Stand by Stephen King
The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Weight of Dreams by Jonis Agee
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Howards End by E.M. Forster
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
Owen Wister Out West by Owen Wister
You Learn by Living by Eleanor Roosevelt
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Joy of Keeping Score by Paul Dickson
Ironweed by William J. Kennedy
Lessons from A Lifetime of Writing by David Morrell
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Favorite 2013 Reads:
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Favorite 2012 Reads
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Favorite 2011 Reads
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Joy of Keeping Score by Paul Dickson
Ironweed by William J. Kennedy
Lessons from A Lifetime of Writing by David Morrell
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King
Call of the Wild by Jack London
In the Woods by Tana French

Favorite 2010 Reads:
The Creed of Violence by Boston Teran
Stones into Schools by Greg Mortenson
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Quickening by Michelle Hoover
Eat, Pray, Love
Limitations by Scott Turow
The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane

Favorite 2009 Reads:
Bird by Bird by Ann Lamott
Joy Writing By Kenn Amdahl
Reading and Writing by Robertson Davies
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Howards End by E.M. Forster
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Joker One by Donovan Campbell
You Learn By Living by Eleanor Franklin
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
The Wood Wife by Terri Windling
Ghost by Alan Lightman
The Face by Dean Koontz
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Favorite 2008 Reads:
Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Blaze by Stephen King
A Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawkes
Cottonwood Saints by Gene Guerin
Marley and Me by John Grogan
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
Owen Wister Out West by Owen Wister
Dune by Frank Herbert
the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Red Lights by Georges Simenon

Groups75 Books Challenge for 2008, 75 Books Challenge for 2009, 75 Books Challenge for 2010, 75 Books Challenge for 2011, 75 Books Challenge for 2012, 75 Books Challenge for 2013, Le Salon du peuple pour le peuple, The Clocks Have All Stopped, Top 100 Novels of All time, Tropic of Ideas —show all groups, Writer-readers

Favorite authorsJonis Agee, Ray Bradbury, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Cormac McCarthy, David Morrell, John Steinbeck (Shared favorites)

Membership LibraryThing Early Reviewers/Member Giveaway

LocationAmerican Southwest

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Member sinceNov 16, 2007