Writers need to do two things: Read a lot and write a lot. Stephen King said something to that effect in his book On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. If he said it, then it must be true. That is one of my goals for the New Year. To read a lot and to write a lot. Here is my To Be Read list, or TBR list:

• Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews

• Rose Madder by Stephen King

• Dance Macabre by Stephen King

• Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

• Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind

• Rise of Empire by Michael J. Sullivan

• Heir of Novron by Michael J. Sullivan

• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

• The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orezy

• Scythe by Neal Shusterman

• The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice

• The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell

• Angel Dust Apocalypse by Jeremy Robert Johnson

• The Ninth Circle by Brendan Deneen

• Battlefront II: Inferno Squad by Christie Golden

• Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

• Dying to Live: a novel of life among the undead by Kim Paffenroth

• The Undead Volume III: Flesh Feast edited by D.L. Snell and Travis Adkins

• Ordinary Monsters: High School and the Final Solution by Frank Martin

• Fire in the Hole and Other Stories by Elmore Leonard

• Arthurian Magic by John and Caitlin Matthews

• Last Shot by Daniel Jose Older

• The Book of Dust by Philip Pullman

• American Dream Machine by Matthew Specktor

• The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher

• Dead Zero by Stephen Hunter

• The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter

• Sniper’s Honor by Stephen Hunter

• That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis

• Liliane’s Balcony by Kelcey Parker

• For Sale by Owner by Kelcey Parker

• The Bitter Life of Bozena Nemcova by Kelcey Parker

• A Lot of Bull by James F. Walsh

• Pretty When She Destroys by Rhiannon Frater

• Escaped with Honor by Charles Layton

• Le More d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

• I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes

• The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

• Empire by David Dunwoody 

• Frankenstein: Lost Souls by Dean Koontz

• The Darkest Evening of the Year by Dean Koontz

• Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel by A.W. Jantha

• The Magician’s Apprentice by Trudi Canavan

• Tentyrian Legacy by Elise Walters

• Leia: Princess of Alderaan by Claudia Gray

• The Death and Life of Superman by Roger Stern

• The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King

• Anne Bonny’s Wake by Dick Elam

• Fully Awake by Ken Davis

• Nocturne of the Sea by Cameron Davis

• Widow of the Empyrean by Nikki Collins-Mewha

• Human Ouija by L. Bachman

• Harvest by L. Bachman

• Maxwell Demon by L. Bachman

• We Will Heal These Wounds by Nicole Thorn and Sarah Hall

• The Curse of Ormshire by S.L. Perrine

• In the Shadow of the House of God by Jeffrey G. Roberts

• We Will Change Our Stars by Nicole Thorn and Sarah Hall

• We Will Bleed by Nicole Thorn and Sarah Hall

• Way Down Below by Nicole Thorn and Sarah Hall

• We Will Gain Our Fury by Nicole Thorn and Sarah Hall

• The Human-Undead War: Patriarch by Jonathan Edward Ondrashek

• In Obscura Silva by Ellie Piersol

• Mysterium Excelsum Unum by Ellie Piersol

• Wind Up Toy by David Owain Hughes

• Choice Cuts Delicatessen by David Owain Hughes

• Forgotten Hero: The Chronicles of Death Book 1 by Brian G. Murray

• We Could Be Heroes by Sarah Dale

• Manleigh Cheese by James Crawford

• Rowan’s End by L.D. Ricard

• The Starhawk Chronicles by Joseph J. Madden

• The Dinosaur Lords by Victor Milan

That’s a lot of books to read in a year. Of course, I’ll not be able to read all of these books in this year, but I’m hoping to make a dent. What’s your TBR List? Let me know in the comments below and maybe I’ll expand mine a bit longer.