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.
