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A-Z Authors I've never readA -- Keri Arthur ----------------- N -- Naomi Novak
B -- Terri Blackstock ----------- O -- Flannery O'Connor
C -- Chieh Chieng --------------- P -- T A Pratt
D -- Peter David ----------------- Q -- Anton Quintana
E -- Ralph Ellison -----------------R -- Mike Resnick
F -- Craig Ferguson --------------- S -- Brian Selznick
G -- David Gerrold --------------- T -- Anne Tyler
H -- Robin Hobb -------------------- U -- Mati Unt
I -- Kazuo Ishiguro ---------------- V -- Elizabeth Villars
J -- Albert Jack ------------------ W -- Minette Walters
K -- Faye and Jonathan Kellerman ---- X -- Uanhenga Xitu
L -- Stephanie Lehmann ------ Y -- Banana Yoshimoto
M -- Elizabeth Moon------------ Z -- Merla Zellerbach
A-Z titles
A -- Altered Carbon ---------------------------- N -- Nothing Human
B -- Bloodfever ---------------------------------- O - Once Bitten
C -- A Caress of Twilight -------------------------P -- Prodigal Summer
D -- Dates from Hell ----------------------------- Q -- Queen Sheba's Ring
E -- Everything's Eventual ------------------------ R -- The Robber Bride
F -- The First Men in the Moon -------------------- S -- So Yesterday
G -- The Girl Who Played With Fire ----------- T -- Traffic
H -- The Help --------------------------------------- U -- UR
I -- Into the Mist ----------------------------------V -- Veronica Decides to Die
J -- Jinx ----------------------------------------- W -- The White Tiger
K -- A Kiss Before Dying --------------------------- X -- The Xibalba Murders
L -- Living with the Dead ------------------------ Y -- The Yiddish Policemen's Union
M -- Mistborn -------------------------------------- Z -- Zorba the Greek
Decade challenge1850s -- The Coral Island -------------------- 1930s -- Brave New World
1860s -- The Woman in White ----------------- 1940s -- Gather, Darkness
1870s -- For a Night of Love -------------- 1950s - A Canticle for Leibowitz
1880s -- A Study in Scarlet ----------------1960s -- A Man For All Seasons
1890s -- The Great God Pan ---------------- 1970s - The Tombs of Atuan
1900s -- The Marvellous Land of Oz ------ 1980s -- Money
1910s -- Tarzan of the Apes ------------ 1990s -- The Ultimate Witch
1920s -- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd -- 2000s - Scat
Genre challenge
Autobio./Memoir -- The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances
Biography -- Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Fable, Fairy tale, Folklore -- The Akhenaten Adventure
Adventure novel -- The Emerald Storm
Humor -- Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through the Pearly Gates
Crime or Detective fiction -- Judgment in Death
Fantasy -- Men of the Underworld
Graphic novel -- Preludes and Nocturnes
Historical fiction -- Dreamers of the Day
Horror -- Fangland
Nonfiction -- Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution
Philosophical -- Tao Te Ching
Political -- No Apology
Romance novel -- Lucky's Lady
Saga, Family Saga -- A Spot of Bother
Satire -- Shades of Grey
Science fiction -- Green Mars
Thriller -- Caught Stealing
Tragedy -- The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Short Story -- McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
January 1. So Yesterday - Scott Westerfeld (240 pages - 3 stars)
2. The Very Best People - Elizabeth Villars (279 pages - 4 stars)
3. Full Moon Rising - Keri Arthur (416 pages - 3 stars)
4. His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novak (356 pages - 4 stars)
5. Blood Engines - TA Pratt (368 pages - 3 stars)
6. UR - Stephen King (3 stars)
7. The Art of Undressing - Stephanie Lehmann (256 pages - 3 stars)
8. The Speed of Dark - Elizabeth Moon (384 pages - 5 stars)
9. The Girl Who Played with Fire - Stieg Larsson (503 pages - 5 stars)
10. A Long Stay in a Distant Land - Chieh Chieng (audio - 5 stars)
11. The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga (288 pages - 3 stars)
12. Once Bitten - Kalayna Price (276 pages - 2 stars)
13. Dreamers of the Day - Mary Doria Russell (audio - 3 stars)
14. Jinx - Meg Cabot (audio - 3 stars)
15. Darkness of the Light - Peter David (416 pages - 3 stars)
16. Emerald Windows - Terri Blackstock (audio - 3 stars)
17. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick (533 pages - 5 stars)
18. Loch Ness Monsters and Raining Frogs The World's Most Puzzling Mysteries Solved - Albert Jack (272 pages - 2 stars)
Pages read this month: 4,587
JanuaryShort Stories
(no specific goal, but want to keep track)
where I found them:
* eastoftheweb.com/short-stories
+ tor.com
^ feedbooks.com
" kelleyarmstrong.com
# http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/
~ http://www.fishpublishing.com/short-s...
& http://www.classicshorts.com
! http://www.hubfiction.com/
$ http://www.horrormasters.com/
% http://www.nightshadebooks.com/downloads
1. Case of the Half Demon Spy - Kelley Armstrong"
2. The Horrid Glory of Its Wings - Elizabeth Bear+
3. To Sit in the Sun - Joanna Leyland*
4. Bleeding Jungle - Charlie Fish*
5. Bugs in the Arroyo - Steven Gould+
6. Phase in Space - Paul O'Neill*
7. Rachel's House - Ian Phillips*
8. Chastisement by the Lambs - Fernando Sorrentino*
9. We Haven't Got There Yet - Harry Turtledove+
10. The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder - Elizabeth Bear+
11. The Mummy's Foot - Theophile Gautier*
12. The Empire of the Parakeets - Fernando Sorrentino*
February19. Scat - Carl Hiaasen (audio - 3 stars)
20. Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson (544 pages - 5 stars)
21. Bloodfever - Karen Marie Moning (audio - 3 stars)
22. A Caress of Twilight - Laurell K Hamilton (audio - 3 stars)
23. Boston Baby A Field Guide for Urban Parents - Kim Foley MacKinnon (192 pages - 5 stars)
24. The Baboon King - Anton Quintana (192 pages - 5 stars)
25. Assassin's Apprentice - Robin Hobb (480 pages - 4 stars)
26. The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K Leguin (163 pages - 5 stars)
27. Men of the Underworld - Kelley Armstrong (369 pages - 4 stars)
28. Living with the Dead - Kelley Armstrong (372 pages - 3 stars)
29. Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson (640 pages - 3 stars)
books this month: 11
pages this month: 2,952
pages YTD: 7,539
FebruaryShort Stories
13. Rappaccini's Daughter - Nathaniel Hawthorne*
14. The Horla - Guy de Maupassant*
15. Pumping up Napoleon - Maria Donovan*
16. The Eclipse - James Fenimore Cooper*
17. My Soul to Lose - Rachel Vincent
18. Tourists - Sean Craven+
19. Last Son of Tomorrow - Greg van Eekhout+
20. The Star and the Rockets - Harry Turtledove+
21. Firstborn - Brandon Sanderson+
March30. Everything's Eventual - Stephen King (459 pages - 3 stars)
31. The Shape of Snakes - Minette Walters (365 pages - 4 stars)
32. The Marvellous Land of Oz - L. Frank Baum (192 pages - 4 stars)
33. Conspiracy in Death - JD Robb (audio - 3 stars)
34. The Wind-up Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi (300 pages - 4 stars)
35. Loyalty in Death - JD Robb (audio - 3 stars)
36. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Agatha Christie (288 pages - 5 stars)
37. Witness in Death - JD Robb (audio - 3 stars)
38. Fangland - John Marks (audio - 3 stars)
39. The First Men in the Moon - H.G. Wells (272 pages - 4 stars)
Books read this month: 10
Pages read this month: 1,879
Pages read YTD: 9,415
MarchShort Stories
22. A Respectable Woman - Kate Chopin#
23. Juice Baby - Freda Churches~
24. Believe It - Brian Tiernan~
25. Aubergine - Selma Dabbagh~
26. Postcard from New York - Tom Murray~
27. The Cut Glass Bowl - F Scott Fitzgerald#
28. The Brass Teapot - Tim Macy* (oohh...this one was creepy)
29. Tone - YZ Chin*
30. Love - Chris Delahunty*
April40. Money - Martin Amis (394 pages - 2 stars)
41. The Help - Kathryn Stockett (audio - 5 stars)
42. The Ultimate Witch - (360 pages - 3 stars)
43. McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories - Ed. Michael Chabon (352 pages - 3 stars)
44. For a Night of Love - Émile Zola (100 pages - 5 stars)
45. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter Miller (352 pages - 4 stars)
46. Faefever - Karen Marie Moning (audio - 3 stars)
47. Moonstone - Marilee Brothers (236 pages - 3 stars)
48. Preludes and Nocturnes The Sandman 1 - Neil Gaiman (240 pages - 3 stars)
49. Couldn't Keep It to Myself Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution - Wally Lamb (368 pages - 4 stars)
50. Double Homicide - Jonathan and Faye Kellerman (audio - 3 stars)
books read this month: 11
pages read this month: 2,402
pages read YTD: 11,817
AprilShort Stories
31. The Five Boons of Life - Mark Twain*
32. My Beloved Edith - Tom Gillespie*
33. Visiting the Millionaire - George Anthony*
34. Professor Panini - Matthew Griggs*
35. The Star - Esther Claes*
36. An Uncomfortable Bed - Guy de Maupassant*
37. A Little Fable - Franz Kafka*
38. Hope and Comfort - A.J. McKenna*
39. The Yellow Paint - Robert Louis Stevenson*
40. In the Evenings - Melissa Checker*
41. Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory - Rudy Rucker+
42. Zeppelin City -
May51. Turn Coat - Jim Butcher (420 pages - 5 stars)
52.The Patron Saint of Used Cars and Second Chances A Memoir - Mark Milhone (208 pages - 3 stars)
53. Mystery of the Mermaid - Merla Zellerbach (208 pages - 3 stars)
54. The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood (528 pages - 3 stars)
55. The Xibalba Murders - Lyn Hamilton (290 pages - 3 stars)
56. Into the Mist - Maya Banks (230 pages - 2 stars)
57. Seduced by Moonlight Meredith Gentry 3 - Laurell K. Hamilton (audio - 2 stars)
58. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories - Flannery O'Connor (264 pages - 5 stars)
59 Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu (176 pages - 5 stars)
60. Judgment in Death - J.D. Robb (audio - 3 stars)
books read this month: 10
pages read this month: 2,324
pages read YTD: 14,141
MayShort Stories
43. Business Deal - Nathanael West#
44. When Man Falls, a Crowd Gathers - Stephen Crane#
45. The Final Now - Gregory Benford+
46. The Starship Mechanic - Jay Lake and Ken Scholes+
47. Bridesicle - Will McIntosh
48. Farewell Performance - Nick Mamatas+
49. The Drop Outs - Aine Greaney~
50. The Courtship of the Queen - Bruce McAllister+
51. The Four Horsemen, at Their Leisure - Richard Parks+
52. Looking for Truth in a Wild Blue Yonder - Ken Scholes and Jay Lake+
53. The Yellow Sign - Robert W Chambers*
54. Old Timer - Mike Krath*
55. Sacrifice - Jamie Cameron*
56. The Strange Case of Salad Monday - G.D. Falksen+
June61. Dead Witch Walking - Kim Harrison (416 pages - 3 stars)
62. Frostbitten - Kelley Armstrong (339 pages - 5 stars)
63. Traffic Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us - Tom Vanderbilt (audio - 5 stars)
64. Hardboiled and Hard Luck - Banana Yoshimoto (149 pages - 5 stars)
65. Changes - Jim Butcher (441 pages - 5 stars)
66. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (581 pages - 3 stars)
67. The Good the Bad and the Undead - Kim Harrison (453 pages - 3 stars)
68. The Haunted Vagina - Carlton Mellick (120 pages - 4 stars)
69. Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde (audio - 5 stars)
70. Dates From Hell - (444 pages - 3 stars)
71. The Martian Child - David Gerrold (audio - 3 stars)
72. The Garden of Iden - Kage Baker (336 pages - 4 stars)
73. A Man for All Seasons - Robert Bolt (163 pages - 4 stars)
74. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (258 pages - 5 stars)
75. Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver (444 pages - 4 stars)
books read this month: 15
pages read this month: 4,144
pages read YTD: 18,285
JuneShort Stories
57. From the Bering Strait - Gina Ochsner~
58. 2BR02B - Kurt Vonnegut
59. Message for Minerva - Jean Hart Stewart
60. Sin Eater - Evangeline Anderson
61. Waiting at Eros - Rosemary Laurey
July76. The World of Mestre Tamoda Uanhenga Xitu (158 pages - 3 stars)
77. Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan (544 pages)
78. Birthright The Book of Man - Mike Resnick (audio - 4 stars)
79. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon (414 pages - 5 stars)
80. A Kiss Before Dying - Ira Levin (242 pages - 5 stars)
81. Caught Stealing - Charlie Huston (288 pages - 2 stars)
82. Zorba the Greek - Nikos Kazantzakis (335 pages - 2 stars)
83. The Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler (352 pages - 4 stars)
84. Nothing Human - Nancy Kress (300 pages - 5 stars)
85. The Year's Best Science Fiction 10th Annual Collection- ed. Gardner R. Dozois (624 pages - 4 stars)
86. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman (307 pages - 5 stars)
87. Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through the Pearly Gates - Thomas Cathcart (audio - 3 stars)
88. The Emerald Storm - Michael J. Sullivan (356 pages - 4 stars)
89. Veronica Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho (audio - 3 stars)
90. Things in the Night - Mati Unt (316 pages - 3 stars)
91. The Coral Island - R.M. Ballantyne (304 pages - 2 stars)
books read this month: 16
pages read this month: 4,540
pages read YTD: 22,825
JulyShort Stories
62. Overtime - Charles Stross+
63. The Next Invasion - Robert Reed+
64. Scoring - Mari Carr
65. Hunting Evander - Kim Knox
66. Haunted by the Past - Riley Ashford
67. Stakeout for Love - Christie Walker Bos
68. The President's Brain is Missing - John Scalzi+
69. Vilcabamba - Harry Turtledove+
70. Better Late than Never - Savannah Stuart
71. Desire in the Dark - Naima Simone
72. First Taste - Paisley Smith
73. Take Me - Grace Samuels
74. Found Objects - Jennifer Egan*
75. Natalie - Anne Enright*
76. Baiting the Umpire - George Jean Nathan#
77. Nightfall - Isaac Asimov
August92. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt (416 pages - 4 stars)
93. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (audio - 5 stars)
94. American on Purpose - Craig Ferguson (268 pages - 4 stars)
95. Queen Sheba's Ring - H. Rider Haggard (360 pages - 4 stars)
96. The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen (128 pages - 3 stars)
97. Lucky's Lady - Tami Hoag (368 pages - 3 stars)
98. Gather, Darkness - Fritz Leiber (248 pages - 5 stars)
99. The Man in the High Castle - Philip K Dick (259 pages - 4 stars)
100. A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle (108 pages - 4 stars)
101. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (audio - 5 stars)
102. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley (268 pages - 4 stars)
103. A Stroke of Midnight - Laurell K Hamilton (audio - 3 stars)
104. Dead Eyes Open - Matthew Shepherd (160 pages - 3 stars)
105. Betrayal in Death - J.D. Robb (audio - 3 stars)
Books read this month: 14
pages read this month: 2,583
pages read YTD: 25,408
AugustShort Stories
78. The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model - Charlie Jane Anders+
79. Reaper's Justice - Charlotte Boyett-Compo
80. Hot Moon Rising - Desiree Holt
81. Thrill of the Hunt - Nathalie Gray
82. Puppy - George Saunders*
September106. Mistral's Kiss - Laurell K. Hamilton (audio - 2 stars)
107. Boneshaker - Cherie Priest (416 pages - 5 stars)
108. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell (245 pages - 5 stars)
109. Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin - Marion Meade (audio - 3 stars)
110. Swords and Deviltry - Fritz Leiber (192 pages - 3 stars)
111. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (720 pages - 5 stars)
112. The Akhenaten Adventure - P.B. Kerr (355 pages - 3 stars)
113. A Spot of Bother - Mark Haddon (audio - 3 stars)
Books read this month: 8
Pages read this month: 1,928
Pages read YTD: 27,336
SeptemberShort Stories
83. The Celebrated Frog of Calaveras County - Mark Twain*
84. Gifts to the Dark Gods - Mary McCluskey*
85. Bitter Grounds - Neil Gaiman+
86. The Cockroach Hat - Terry Bisson+
87. A Child's Christmas in Wales - Dylan Thomas&
88. The Traveller - Steven Ellis!
89. Murdress Lane - Louise Morgan!
90. The Nightmare of You and Death in the Room - Adam Christopher!
91. Inside Closed Eyes - Kailleaugh Andersson$ (ugh...it's though...not tho!!!!)
October114. Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs (324 pages - 2 stars)
115. Under the Amoral Bridge - Gary A Ballard (170 pages - 4 stars)
116. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (audio - 5 stars)
117. War for the Oaks - Emma Bull (336 pages - 4 stars)
118. Holes - Louis Sachar (233 pages - 5 stars)
119. I, City - Pavel Brycz (153 pages - 3 stars)
120. Great House - Nicole Krauss (289 pages - 3 stars)
121. No Apology - Mitt Romney (309 pages - 4 stars)
122. Always You - Megan Hart (120 pages - 4 stars)
123. Lick of Frost - Laurell K. Hamilton (audio - 4 stars)
124. Broken - Megan Hart (378 pages - 5 stars)
125. Kiln People - David Brin (459 pages - 2 stars)
126. Old Man's War - John Scalzi (314 pages - 5 stars)
127. The Vicious Circle - Otto Penzler ed. (205 pages - 3 stars)
128. Puck of Pook's Hill - Rudyard Kipling (288 pages - 3 stars)
Books read this month: 15
pages read this month: 3,578
pages read YTD: 30,914
OctoberShort Stories
92. The Landlady - Roald Dahl
-Asimov's Science Fiction, Dec 2010:
-93. Libertarian Russia - Michael Stanwick
-94. Plus or Minus - James Patrick Kelly
-95. Sins of the Father - Sara Genge
-96. Freia in the Sunlight - Gregory Norman Bossert
-97. Variations - Ian Werkheiser
-98. Excellence - Robert Reed
99. Eland - Allyson James
100. His Voice, His Command - Vonna Harper
101. Spirit's Release - Tea Trelawny
102. The Bad Widow - Barbara Elsborg
103. The Rocking Horse Winner - D.H. Lawrence&
104. Small Offerings - Paolo Bacigalup+
105. Yorkshire Dick - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch$
106. The Magnanimous Girl - P‘u Sung-ling$
107. The Kiss - Guy De Maupassant$
108. As the Crow Flies - J. D. Beresford$
109. The Secret - Algernon Blackwood$
110. The Succubus - E. Lynn Linton$
November129. 100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's and Age Related Memory Loss - Jean Carper (306 pages - 4 stars)
130. Haze - L.E. Modesitt (303 pages - stars)
131. The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (332 pages - 4 stars)
132. Magic of Recluce - L.E. Modesitt (501 pages - stars)
133. Clementine - Cherie Priest (208 pages)
134. Charlotte's Web - E.B White (192 pages)
books read this month: 6
pages read this month: 1,842
pages read YTD: 32,756
NovemberShort Stories
111. Fare Thee Well - Cathy Clamp+
112. Speed of Time - Jay Lake+
113. The Monster's Million Faces - Rachel Swirsky+
114. A Stroke of Dumb Luck - Shiloh Walke
115. A Telephone Call - Dorothy Parker
116. What Doctor Gottlieb Saw - Ian Tregillis
117. Prize Beyond Gold - Ian Creasey
Asimov's Oct
-118. Names for Water - Kij Johnson
-119. No Distance too Great - Don D'Ammassa
-120. The Termite Queen of Tallulah County - Felicity Shoulders
December135. Three Seconds - Roslund and Hellstrom (489 pages - 4 stars)
136. Eden - Phil Rossi (audio - 3 stars)
137.XYZ A Detective Story - Anna Katherine Green (94 pages - 4 stars)
138. The Know Circuit - Gary A Ballard (162 pages - 3 stars)
139. Queer Stories for Boys and Girls - Edward Eggleston (196 pages - 2 stars)
140. The Zero - Jess Walter (audio - 4 stars)
141. The Looking Glass Wars - Frank Beddor (audio - 4 stars)
142. The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay (510 pages)
143. Room Number 3 and Other Detective Stories - Anna Katharine Green (178 pages - 2 stars)
144. Night of the Living Trekkies - Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall (253 pages - 5 stars)
145. Existence Costs - Brad Simkulet (95 pages - 4 stars)
146. Swallowing Darkness - Laurell K Hamilton (audio - 3 stars)
books read this month: 12
pages read this month: 1,977
pages read YTD: 34,733
DecemberShort Stories
-Asimov's Science Fiction Oct, 2010
-121. Dummy Tricks - R. Neube
-122. Changing the World - Kate Wilhelm
123. Olga - C.T. Adams+
124. Bogieman - Carole Nelson Douglas+
125. Eve of Sin City - S.J. Day+
-Asimov's Science Fiction Jan, 2011
-126. Dolly - Elizabeth Bear
127. What Makes a River - Deborah Coate+
128. The Ghost of Leadville - Jeanne C Stein
129. The Cage - A.M. Dellamonica+
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