MY READING LIST: June 2005 - May 2006

I read a lot. You should, too. But what to read? I can't answer that, but I can tell you what I've been reading--and recommend. These are all the books I've read since June 2005... Not as many as I would have liked, but I did read 60 total in 2005 and 40 the year before.

ACTION/ADVENTUREFrank Garrett (aka Dan Schmidt): KILLSQUAD #3: LETHAL ASSAULT
Don Pendleton's THE EXECUTIONER (various ghostwriters): #235 PLAGUE WIND, #56 ISLAND DEATHTRAP, #54 MOUNTAIN RAMPAGE, #49 DISCIPLES OF DOOM
* Richard Sapir & Warren Murphy: THE DESTROYER #3: CHINESE PUZZLE (reading now)

FANTASY
Jacqueline Carey: KUSHIEL'S DART
John C. Hocking: CONAN AND THE EMERALD LOTUS
Robert E. Howard: THE SAVAGE TALES OF SOLOMON KANE
George R. R. Martin: A GAME OF THRONES, A CLASH OF KINGS, A STORM OF SWORDS
John Maddox Roberts: CONAN THE BOLD
Karl Edward Wagner: DARK CRUSADE, DARKNESS WEAVES

HORROR
J.L. Bourne: DAY BY DAY ARMAGEDDON
Max Brooks: THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE
Charles M. Collins, editor: A WALK WITH THE BEAST
David Wellington: MONSTER ISLAND

HISTORICAL FICTION
Bernard Cornwell: THE ARCHER'S TALE, VAGABOND, HERETIC
Michael Curtis Ford: THE LAST KING: Rome's Greatest Enemy

NOIR
Paul Cain: SEVEN SLAYERS
Elliott Chaze: BLACK WINGS HAS MY ANGEL
David Goodis: STREET OF NO RETURN, THE BLONDE ON THE STREET CORNER
Charles Williams: THE HOT SPOT
Jonathan Latimer: SOLOMON'S VINEYARD