I'm keeping it simple this year:
- Read 75 books in total. Completed!
- Read a book in each of the 40 categories (detailed below). One book can only count for one category. Unsuccessful - 36 of 40 achieved
75 Books
1. Six Scary Stories: Selected by Stephen King (Audiobook)
2. Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
3. Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
4. Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan
5. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
6. John MacNab by John Buchan
7. The Creeper by Stephen Leather
8. Livia Lone by Barry Eisler
9. Children of the Dark by Stephen Leather
10. Death of a Bore by M.C. Beaton
11. Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Mayberry
12. Extracted by R.R. Haywood
13. Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
14. Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson
15. Robert B. Parker's Blackjack by Robert Knott
16. Gerald's Game by Stephen King
17. Heartbreak Hotel by Jonathan Kellerman
18. The Cleaner by Mark Dawson
19. Diary Of An Oxygen Thief by Anonymous
20. Zero by Matt Brolly
21. Parsnips, Buttered by Joe Lycett
22. The Undead Day One by R.R. Haywood
23. Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon
24. Jack Carter's Law by Ted Lewis
25. Domina by L.S. Hilton
26. The Undead Day Two by R.R. Haywood
27. At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
28. XOMBIE by Brody Sommers
29. Alien: River of Pain by Christopher Golden
30. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
31. A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
32. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
33. Robert B. Parker's Revelation by Robert Knott
34. The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
35. Sniper's Honor by Stephen Hunter
36. Prince2 for Beginners by Bryan Mathis
37. Keller's Fedora by Lawrence Block
38. Robert B. Parker's Little White Lies by Ace Atkins
39. Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz
40. Twisted 50 by Stephanie Wessel
41. And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead by Brooke Bolander
42. No Middle Name: The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories by Lee Child
43. Twisted's Evil Little Sister: Volume 1 by Chris Jones
44. Deathworld 1 by Harry Harrison
45. Orfeo by Richard Powers
46. Zero Sum by Barry Eisler
47. War Cry by Wilbur Smith
48. Executed 2 by R.R. Haywood
49. The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
50. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
51. The End by Charlie Higson
52. Somewhere In Time by Richard Matheson
53. The Nowhere Man by Gregg Hurwitz
54. Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
55. G-Man by Stephen Hunter
56. VOICE: The Secret Power of Great Writing by James Scott Bell
57. Monster Hunter Siege by Larry Correia
58. The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson
59. Safe by Ryan Gattis
60. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
61. The Word Is Murder by Anthony Horowitz
62. Y is for Yesterday by Sue Grafton
63. Death of a Dreamer by M.C. Beaton
64. Silent Child by Sarah A. Denzil
65. Jack the Ripper: Case Closed by Gyles Brandreth
66. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
67. The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett
68. The Bourne Enigma by Eric Van Lustbader
69. Watch Me Die by Lee Goldberg
70. Desperation by Stephen King
71. Agile Project Management: For Beginners! by Austin Spencer
72. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
73. The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
74. Kill the Father by Sandrone Dazieri
75. The Road to Little Dribbling: Adventures of an American in Britain by Bill Bryson
76. The Hangman's Sonnet by Reed Farrel Coleman
77. The Ritual by Adam Nevill
78. The Spring Suit by P.G. Wodehouse
79. Old Man's War by John Scalzi
80. White Trash Zombie Unchained by Diana Rowland
81. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
82. Midnight Line by Lee Child
83. Pulse by Felix Francis
84. Revival by Stephen King
85. The Whispering Room by Dean Koontz
86. Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben
87. Snare by Lilja Sigurðardóttir
88. Ghostly Tales by Various
Categories:
[36 of 40 matched]
Action/Adventure - Extracted by R.R. Haywood
AutoBiography/Biography - Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
Award Winner - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Banned or Challenged - Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Crime Fiction - Heartbreak Hotel by Jonathan Kellerman
Cyberpunk - And You Shall Know Her by the Trail of Dead by Brooke Bolander
Dystopian - Zero by Matt Brolly
Espionage - The Cleaner by Mark Dawson
Family or Friend Recommendation - Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
Fantasy Free for All (Freebie, Open Slot) - The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett
Gothic - Jack the Ripper: Case Closed by Gyles Brandreth
Graphic Novels - Preacher: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon
Historical Fiction - Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Horror - The Creeper by Stephen Leather
Humour - Queen Lucia by E.F. Benson
LGBTQ
Literary Fiction - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Magical Realism - Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Mystery - Dear Amy by Helen Callaghan
Mythology
New (to you) Author - Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
Noir - Domina by L.S. Hilton
Non-Fiction - Parsnips, Buttered by Joe Lycett
Paranormal - The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Philosophical (Fiction or Non-Fiction) - The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson
Post-Apocalyptic - The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey
Pulp Fiction - Jack Carter's Law by Ted Lewis
Science Fiction - I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Short Story Collection or Anthology - Six Scary Stories: Selected by Stephen King
Speculative Fiction - Diary of an Oxygen Thief by Anonymous
Steampunk
Supernatural - Desperation by Stephen King
Survival - Gerald's Game by Stephen King
Thriller - Livia Lone by Barry Eisler
Translated Work (Formerly Foreign) - Kill the Father by Sandrone Dazieri
Urban Fantasy
War - War Cry by Wilbur Smith
Western - Robert B. Parker's Blackjack by Robert Knott
Zombies - Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Mayberry