17 Books I Didn’t Get a Chance to Read in 2007 (But Wish I Had)
Forgive me, but I can’t read everything I want to. Time was my enemy like never before in ‘07, so these novels fell by the wayside. However, they remain on my shelf in the hopes I’ll get to them someday – either in retirement or whenever I win the lottery, whichever comes first.
And what about you? What escaped your schedule or fell victim to bouts of laziness over the past 12 months? And hey, if you’ve read any of the books on this list and have an opinion that might convince to make a concerted effort to get to them, I’d love to hear them (even more so if you can freeze time).
In no particular order, other than alphabetical:
HORROR
• THE APOCALYPSE READER edited by Justin Taylor
• A DARK AND DEADLY VALLEY edited by Mike Hefferman
• THE HAUNTING OF CAMBRIA by Richard Taylor
• RANT by Chuck Palahniuk
MYSTERY & THRILLERS
• ASTOUNDING HERO TALES edited by James Lowder
• BLAZE by Richard Bachman
• JACK KNIFE by Virginia Baker
• ON THE FIFTH DAY by A.J. Hartley
• PASSPORT TO CRIME: THE FINEST MYSTERY STORIES FROM INTERNATIONAL CRIME WRITERS edited by Janet Hutchings
• SHADOWS IN THE WHITE CITY by Robert W. Walker
• UNCERTAIN ENDINGS: THE WORLD’S GREATEST UNSOLVED MYSTERY STORIES edited by Otto Penzler
• ZIG ZAG by José Carlos Somoza
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY
• BATMAN: FEAR ITSELF by Michael Reaves and Steven-Elliot Altman
• FREEDOM & NECESSITY by Steven Brust and Emma Bull
• SHELTER by Susann Palwick
• TRANSFORMERS: GHOSTS OF YESTERDAY by Alan Dean Foster
• TWENTY EPICS edited by David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi
–Rod Lott
Heard that. There’s never enough time.
… but you passed on Batman? The Dark Knight! Send to me before you chuck it. I’ll try and write a review
Adding insult to injury, there are two more in that Batman series that also mock me from the shelf: BATMAN: DEAD WHITE by John Shirley and BATMAN: INFERNO by Alex Irvine. If the covers are indication, they should be great.
You are like some sort of reading machine. Have you kept track of how many books you have read? It must be more than 300.
You gotta love the pure menace and flirtations with insanity that come with good Batman books.