Caleb’s New 20
June 22nd, 2008 — Charlie HustonContinuing the previous post about knocking yourself out of a reading rut by comitting to a reading list of 20 books by authors you’ve not read before, Caleb W. shares his list:
“The Rum Diary” by Hunter S. Thompson
“Psychosomatic” by Anthony Neil Smith
“Two-Way Split” by Allan Guthrie
“Saturday’s Child” by Ray Banks
“Bahamarama” by Bob Morris
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey
“Hit Man” by Lawrence Block
“Deadfall” by Robert Liparulo
“Four Kinds of Rain” by Robert Ward
“Dark Passage” by David Goodis
“The Friends of Eddie Coyle” by George V. Higgins
“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway
“About the Author” by John Colapinto
“I, Lucifer” by Glen Duncan
“Shotgun Opera” by Victor Gischler
“A Swell-Looking Babe” by Jim Thompson
“Rain Dogs” by Sean Doolitle
“Renfield” by Barbara Hambly
“Who’s Conrad Hirst” by Kevin Wignall
“The Business of Dying” by Simon Kernick
Caleb’s got some doozies on there. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, “A Swell-Looking Babe”. “The Friends of Eddy Coyle”, and “The Rum Diary” are all first class reads. As are many of the others, I’m sure. I’m still compiling my own list, and I can already see some changes I need to make based on titles I see here. Man, how many times have I picked up “I, Lucifer” and put it back down? That has to be on my list.