When I’m not writing, raging in public or watching live music while supping beer, I like to read. For those who care, and also those who don’t, and for my own posterity, here’s a list of the books I’ve rad or re-read in the last 12 months.
Derek Raymond – The Devil’s Home on Leave
Chuck Palahniuk – Beautiful You
William S. Burroughs – The Electronic Revolution
Nicholson Baker – The Anthologist
Mickey Spillane – The Long Wait
William Gibson – Neuromancer
Ed McBain – Axe
Joseph O’Neill – The Dog
Paul Scott-Bates – Hitting the Black Wall
Edward Bunker – Stark
Douglas Coupland – Girlfriend in a Coma
Richard Stark – Parker
Peter York – Dictators’ Homes
JG Ballard – Kingdom Come
Derek Raymond – How the Dead Live
Chuck Palahniuk – Make Something Up
John Niven – The Sunshine Cruise Company
AD Hitchin – Consensual
Colin Wilson – The Mind Parasites
Charles Bukwoski – Ham on Rye
J S Gordon – Life Pervert
HP Lovecraft – Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
Dennis Lewis – The Fevered Hive
Ellis Johnson – Peep Book
David Peace – Nineteen Seventy Seven
Michel Houellebecq – Submission
Derek Raymond – A State of Denmark
David Peace – Nineteen Eighty
Dashiel Hammett – The Maltese Falcon
Ed McBain – Give the Boys a Great Big Hand
Laura A Munteanu – Street Dog Music
Harry Harrison – Wheelworld
Brett Easton Ellis – The Informers
Ed McBain – Cut Me In
Glen Taylor (ed.) – More Exhibitionism
David Peace – Nineteen Eighty Three