What I’m Reading

• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

On Deck

• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
• The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

What I Read Recently

• A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham
• The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
• The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
• No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Lucky by Alice Sebold
• Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Killer on the Road by James Ellroy
• The Captive Mind by Czeslaw Milosz
• John Adams by David McCullough
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• American Sphinx by Joseph J. Ellis
• You Suck: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
• Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
• In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo
• Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story by Christopher Moore
• Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
• Deadeye Dick by Kurt Vonnegut
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Lamb by Christopher Moore
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Alienist by Caleb Carr
• Songbirds and Stray Dogs by Meagan Lucas
• The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
• Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Allison
• Journeys into the Wilderness by John Muir
• Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
• Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Say what you will about Burroughs, but he depicts action with the same ease as Tarzan flying through the trees
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Grendel by John Gardner
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
• Scores of Lit Mags and Short Story Anthologies
• Dozens of books on fiction writing
• Research for WIP Novel:
  • In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us by Dr. Robert D. Hare
  • Snakes in Suits by Dr. Robert D. Hare & Paul Babiak
  • The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist’s Personal Journey Into the Dark Side of the Brain by Dr. James H. Fallon
  • Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
  • MindHunter by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
  • The Anatomy of Motive by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
  • Journey Into Darkness by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
  • Obsession by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
  • The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson
  • The Psychopath Whisperer by Kent A. Kiehl
  • I’ll be Gone In The Dark by Michelle McNamara
  • The Killer Across the Table by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
  • The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley, M.D.

• Etc.