TBR

[physical editions only]

The Big Crime Read:

• 1929 – Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
• 1931 – The Lost Gallows – John Dickson Carr
• 1931 – The Yellow Dog – Georges Simenon
• 1933 – Thirteen at Dinner/Lord Edgware Dies – Agatha Christie
• 1939 – The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
• 1944 – The Case of the Gilded Fly – Edmund Crispin
• 1946 – The Big Clock – Kenneth Fearing
• 1947 – I, The Jury – Mickey Spillane
• 1948 – Dreadful Summit – Stanley Ellin 
• 1956 – Cop Hater – Ed McBain
• 1962 – Love in Amsterdam – Nicolas Freeling
• 1962 – The Hunter – Richard Stark
• 1972 – The Friends of Eddie Coyle – George V. Higgins
• 1972 – A Lively Game of Death – Marvin Kaye
• 1973 – The Godwulf Manuscript – Robert B. Parker
• 1974 – Fletch – Gregory McDonald
• 1976 – Swag – Elmore Leonard
• 1976 – Red Highway (The Oklahoma Punk) – Loren D. Estleman
• 1977 – The DieHard – Jon A. Jackson
• 1978 – The Last Good Kiss – James Crumley
• 1981 – Brown’s Requiem – James Ellroy
• 1987 – The Neon Rain – James Lee Burke
• 1992 – A Firing Offense – George Pelecanos
• 1992 – Death at La Fenice – Donna Leon
• 1992 – The Ice House – Minette Walters
• 2008 – The Long Fall – Walter Mosley
• 2014 – The Drop – Dennis Lehane

Official 2023 To Be Read List:

• Strong Poison – Dorothy L. Sayers
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami
• The Hare – Cesar Aira
• More Things in Heaven – John Brunner
• The Green Futures of Tycho – William Sleator
• Secret Rendezvous – Kobo Abe
• The Goblin Reservation – Clifford D. Simak
• Mona Lisa Overdrive – William Gibson
• Cursed – Benedict Jacka
• I Am Half Sick of Shadows – Alan Bradley
• The Forgotten Room – Lincoln Child
• Brother Odd – Dean Koontz
• Leave the Grave Green – Deborah Crombie
• Meeting at Infinity – John Brunner
• A Dedicated Man – Peter Robinson
• Red Chameleon – Stuart M. Kaminsky
• Sins of the Fathers – Ruth Rendell
• The Concrete Blonde -Michael Connelly
• Death in the Stocks – Georgette Heyer
• Look to the Lady – Margery Allingham
• The Secret People – John Wyndham
• The Naked Sun – Isaac Asimov
• The Twilight World – Werner Herzog

Series Continuation Stuff:

• Reliquary – Preston & Child
• The Third Gate – Lincoln Child
• The Concrete Blonde – Michael Connelly
• Ghost of a Chance – Dan Willis
• The Snake Tattoo – Linda Barnes
• Dirty Deeds 2 – Armand Rosamillia
• All Shall Be Well – Deborah Crombie
• Flesh & Bone – Jefferson Bass
• Forever Odd – Dean Koontz
• Swift Vengeance – T. Jefferson Parker
• The Last Mile – David Baldacci
• Grave Secrets – Kathy Reichs
• A Red Herring Without Mustard – Alan Bradley
• Nightmare in Pink – John D. MacDonald
• Die Trying – Lee Child

Wildly Hopeful Goal Setting for 2022 2023:

• Legend – David Gemmell
• Time Out of Joint – PKD
• Gardens of the Moon – Steven Erikson
• The Werewolf Principle – Clifford D. Simak
• The Last Kingdom – Bernard Cornwell
• Mistborn – Brandon Sanderson
• Caliban’s War – James S. A. Corey

Books That Are Stuck:

• The Terror – Dan Simmons
• Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake