BookDoc16: Still Here in 2024

This year, I'm going to intersperse the re-reading of past favorites with new, or new-to-me, books. I'll indicate re-reads by an * in my posts here. Had to settle for 48 books in '23; wish me luck this time!

1. Let Noon Be Fair - Willard Motley*
2. Wolfbane - Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth

3. The List of Adrian Messenger - Phillip MacDonald*
4. Citizen Soldiers - Stephen E. Ambrose
5. The Circus of Dr. Lao & Other Improbable Stories - Ray Bradbury, ed.

>3 BookDoc16: I read that same Dr. Lao collection last year. All in all, a very good assemblage of stories, I thought.

>4 rocketjk: I just found it via a FB post, and had to have a copy, as I have nearly everything else by Mr. Bradbury. I agree with your comment!

6. The Dark Knight Returns (graphic novel) - Frank Miller, Klaus Jonson & Lynn Varley*
7. A Separate Peace - John Knowles*
8. Watchmen (graphic novel) - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons*
9. The Cold Dish - Craig Johnson

10. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens*
11. Heart of the West - O. Henry
12. The Addams Family - Jack Sharkey*

13. The Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman
14. The Case of the Amorous Aunt - Erle Stanley Gardner
15. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley*

16. From the 911 Files: True Crime from Behind the Phone - Jackson Anhalt
17. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin*

18. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - V. E. Schwab
19. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
20. Random Harvest - James Hilton*

21. The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson*
22. Where Rivers Go to Die - Dila Dilman
23. Spartacus - Howard Fast*

24. The Hemingway Hoax - Joe Haldeman
25. The Town That Died - Michael C. Bird*
26. Field of Thirteen - Dick Francis
27. Northwest Passage - Kenneth Roberts
28. JLA: Liberty and Justice (graphic novel) - Paul Dini & Alex Ross

29. The Case of the Stepdaughter's Secret - Erle Stanley Gardner
30. Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
31. Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan - Keisuke Matsuoka, trans. James Balzer
32. I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Ogden Nash
33. The "Canary" Murder Case - S. S. Van Dine

34. A Death in Belmont - Sebastian Junger
35. The Tango Briefing - Adam Hall*
36. A Sea of Space - William F. Nolan, ed.
37. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - John Le Carre
38. They Called Us Enemy (graphic memoir) - George Takei & Harmony Becker
39. The Enemy Gods - Oliver La Farge

40. Someone Like You - Roald Dahl
41. March: Book One (graphic memoir) - John Lewis, Andrew Ayden, Nate Powell
42. Lost City of the Monkey God - Douglas Preston
43. Rogue Dragon - Avram Davidson
44. Overture to Death - Ngaio Marsh
45. Great American Folklore - Kemp P. Battle, ed.

46. The Crystal Cave - Mary Stewart*
47. Strange Itineraries - Tim Powers
48. The House of Unexpected Sisters - Alexander McCall Smith
49. The October Country - Ray Bradbury*

50. Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory - Constance Bowman &
Claire Marie Allen
51. The Ivory Grin - Ross MacDonald
52. The Golem of Brooklyn - Adam Mansbach