books I’ve read
I was making myself a list of stuff to keep an eye out for at the bookstore, which turned into a list of stuff that I’ve read so that I don’t buy a book twice.
I figured I’d drop it in here for posterity.
This is mostly stuff I’ve read since college. A few Stephen King books actually started way back in Jr. High school (Thinner was my first of his.) I know there are a lot that I am forgetting, and I’m not including anything I was forced to read, nor any of the countless technical books I’ve read in my geek career.
You’ll notice a rather wide variety. Yes, I’m a Stephen King fan. Yes, I’ve read a bunch of books that my kids liked so that we’d have something to talk about. And yes, they were actually some of the most fun ones to read…
Stephen King
Rage (Bachman)
The Long Walk (Bachman)
Roadwork (Bachman)
The Running Man (Bachman)
Thinner (Bachman)
The Regulators (Bachman)
Night Shift (Collection)
Different Seasons (Collection)
Skeleton Crew (Collection)
Four Past Midnight (Collection)
Nightmares and Dreamscapes (Collection)
Hearts in Atlantis (Collection)
Everything’s Eventual (Collection)
Carrie
Salem’s Lot
The Shining
The Stand
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
Cujo
The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
Christine
Pet Sematary
Cycle of the Werewolf
The Talisman (with Peter Straub)
It
The Eyes of the Dragon
Misery
The Tommyknockers
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
The Dark Half
Needful Things
Gerald’s Game
Dolores Claiborne
Insomnia
Rose Madder
Desperation
The Green Mile
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
Bag of Bones
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Dreamcatcher
Black House (with Peter Straub)
From a Buick 8
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
Cell
Danse Macabre (non-fiction)
On Writing (non-fiction)
Secret Windows (non-fiction)
The Colorado Kid
Blaze (Bachman)
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born (Comic)
Dean Koontz
Midnight
Night Chills
Dark Fall
Cold Fire
The Door to December
Mr. Murder
Intensity
The Vision
Fear Nothing
Dark Rivers of the Heart
Strange Highways
Watchers
The Bad Place
Seize the Night
One Door Away From Heaven
Dragon Tears
Odd Thomas
Sole Survivor
Forever Odd
Tick Tock
Brother Odd
John Grisham
The Chamber
A Time To Kill
The Rainmaker
Anne Rice
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire LeStat
The Queen of the Damned
Exit to Eden
The Witching Hour
The Tale of the Body Thief
Memnoch the Devil
Vittorio the Vampire
Pandora
The Vampire Armand
Lasher
Taltos
Merrick
Michael Chichton
Sphere
The Lost World
Tom Clancy
Red Star Rising
Net Force
Op-Center
Without Remorse
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
OpCenter – Mirror Image
Debt of Honor
Patriot Games
The Sum of all Fears
The Hunt for Red October
Op-Center Games of State
Clear and Present Danger
Executive Orders
Rainbow Six
Star Wars Series
The Last Command
Heir to the Empire
X-Wing
Dark Force Rising
Xwing Rogue Squadron
Tales from Jabba’s Palace
Wedge’s Gamble
The Mandalorian Armor
Darth Maul Shadow Hunter
Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey
The City and the Stars
The Deep Range
A Fall of Moondust
Rendevous with Rama
Carl Sagan
Cosmos
Contact
Clive Barker
The Damnation Game
Cabal
The Life of Death
How Spoilers Breed
Twilight at the Towers
The Last Illusion
Comedy
Dirty Jokes and Beer – Drew Carey
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Liar – Al Franken
Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man – Tim Allen
Everything and a Kite – Ray Romano
Napalm and Silly Putty – George Carlin
Misc
Dark Seeker – K.W.Jeter
The Touch – F. Paul Wilson
Extreme Measures – Michael Palomer
The Descent – Jeff Long
Koko – Peter Straub
A Sideways Look at Time – jay Griffiths
Time’s Arrow and Archimedes Point – New Directions for the Physics of Time – Huw Price
Red Dragon – Thomas Harris
Fight Club – Chuck Palahntuk
I am America and So Can You – Stephen Colbert
America – A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction – Jon Stewart
A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
Code to Zero – Ken Follett
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Death Du Jour – Kathy Reichs
The Miko – Eric Van Lustbader
Ethics for the New Millenium – Dalai Lama
Ideas and Opinions – Albert Einstein
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Lost – Jack Ketchum
Heart Shaped Box – Joe Hill
True Cop
Written in Blood: Detectives and Detection – Colin Wilson
Trooper Down – Marie Bartlett
Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi
Cops – Mark Baker
Pure Cop – Connie Fletcher
Homicide – David Simon
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Dan Brown
The DaVinci Code
Deception Point
Jon Saul
Black Lightning
Punish the Sinners
Hellfire
J.R.R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings – The Return of the King
Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
Christopher Paolini
Eragon
Eldest
Rick Riordan
The Lightning Thief
The Sea of Monsters
The Titan’s Curse