The Reading List

The books i’ve read since starting properly on this wild journey of literary consciousness expansion.

That first year of reading in full, I look back on and think how many I digested, but where I dropped in subsequent years, I found that I was writing more and more.

These lists are for tracking rather than competition.

  • Horus Rising

    False Gods

    Galaxy in Flames

    The Flight of the Eisenstein

    Fulgrim

    Legion

    The First Heretic

    A Thousand Sons

    Deliverance Lost

    The Damnation of Pythos

    Vulkan Lives

    Mechanicum

    Prospero Burns

    Scars

    Battle for the Abyss

    Tender is the Flesh

    The Man in the Hightower

    Johnny Got His Gun

    The Cat Who Saved the Books

    Lord of the Flies

    Catcher in the Rye

    Call of the Wild

    The Bell Jar

    The Woman in Black

    Slaughterhouse 5

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    The Midnight Library

    The Lords of Silence

    Fight Club

    Fight Club 2

    Fear and loathing in Las Vegas

    Coraline

    The Haunting of Hill House

    We Have Always Lived in the Castle

    The Year of Magical Thinking

    The Vegetarian

    You

    You: Hidden Bodies

    Rosemary’s Baby

    The Shining

    Misery

    Carrie

    Salem’s Lot

    The Old Man and the Sea

    The Outsider

    Into the Wild

    The Alchemist

    Snuff

    Closer

    The Hellbound Heart

    Julie and Julia

    The Graveyard Book

    Geek Love

    IT

    Dark Imperium

    Dark Imperium: Plague War

    Dark Imperium: Godblight

    The Body

    Interview with the Vampire

    Animal Farm

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Of Mice and Men

    Hell’s Angels

  • The Path of Heaven

    The Unremembered Empire

    The Playwright’s manifesto

    Angel Exterminatus

    Betrayer

    Know No Fear

    Journey to the Centre of the Earth

    Little Women

    Vengeful Spirit

    Black Beauty

    The Sun Dog

    Convenient Store Women

    How to Write a Mystery

    How to Sell a Haunted House

    Screenplays: How to Write and Sell Them

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    1984

    Brave New World

    Fight Club

    Nausea

    The Beach

    High Fidelity

    A Farewell to Arms

    Saturnine

    The Hobbit

    Game of Thrones #1

    Game of Thrones #2

    The Buried Dagger

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Hamlet

    Macbeth

    Romeo and Juliet

    A Waiter in Paris

    A Confederacy of Dunces

    The Solar War

    The First Wall

    A Year in Provence

    The Lost and the Damned

    The Witches of Eastwick

  • Perfume, Patrick Suskind

    Leviathan, Darius Hinks

    Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote

    Warhawk, Chris Wright

    A Song of Ice & Fire: A Storm of Swords, George R.R. Martin

    A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

    The Heart of a Dog, Mikhail Bulgakov

    Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey

    Lord of the Flies, William Golding

    The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe

    Animal Farm, George Orwell

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson

    The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson

    Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

    The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells

    The Writing of Fiction, Edith Wharton

    State of the Union, Nick Hornby

    The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux

    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Lous Stevenson

    The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Turbo

    Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

    Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell

    Echoes of Eternity, Aaron Dembski-Bowden

    Inferno, Dante Aligheri

    Cannery Row, John Steinbeck

    Alone in Berlin, Hans Fallada

    A Wild Sheep Chase, Haruki Marukami

    The End and the Death: Volume 1, Dan Ablett

    Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

    Edgar Allen Poe: Eight Tales of Terror

    A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

    Utopia, Thomas More

    The Christmas Books: Volume 1, Charles Dickens

  • Kallocain, Karin-Boye

    Damned, Chuck Palahniuk

    We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

    Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

    Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72, Hunter S. Thompson

    Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

    The Haunting of Luna Moon, Guy Bass

    The Spy who came in from the Cold, John le Carre

    The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes

    Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome

    Cadia Stands, Justin D. Hill

    Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

    Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

    King Lear, William Shakespeare

    Hamlet, William Shakespeare

    Steel Tread, Andy Clark

    Ask the Dust, John Fante

    Post Office, Charles Bukowski

    Survivor, Chuck Palahniuk

    Consider This, Chuck Palahniuk

    The Beautiful & Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Meditations, Marcus Aurelius

    On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, William Zinsser