2020 in Books.
~Every link leads to an entry with basic information about the book, my favourite quotes and my review.
~The image I use is the edition I read.
♥♥♥ = Personal favourites I recommend.
NON-FICTION:
♥♥♥ Gratitude by Oliver Sacks (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ Mercury. (9/10).
♡♡♡ My Own Life. (8.5/10)
♡ My Periodic Table. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sabbath. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ Hi-Mawari. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ Butterflies. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Mosquitoes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Ants. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Blood in the Bayou: A Record of the Operations and Blessed Techniques of a Doctor of Conjure-Work by Docteur Sureaux. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Open Garden: A Story with Four Essays by Christopher Milne (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ The Open Garden. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ Efficiency and the Oil Beetle. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Egg, the Fox and the Dagger. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Beetles ton Betelgeuse. (8/10)
♥ Free Will by Sam Harris. (6/10)
♥♥♥ The Savage God: A Study of Suicide ( PART 1--- PART 2), by A. Alvarez. (8/10)
♥ How to Survive a Horror Movie by Seth Grahame-Smith. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Haruki Murakami. (8.5/10)
+ ♡♡♡ Blind Nightmare: Where Are We Japanese Going? (8.5/10).
♥♥♥ Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds by Rachel Levin. (7.5/10)
+ ♡ Ants in the Minivan by McKenzie Funk. (7/10).
♡ Grizzlies in Alaska by Peter Fish. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Bed Bugs on My Mind by Brooke Borel. (7.5/10)
♡ Cockroaches in New York (Of Course) by Bonnie Tsui. (7/10)
♡ Coyotes in My Face by Chris Colin. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Deer in the Suburbs by Vanessa Hua. (7.5/10)
♡ Mice in the Backseat by Samin Nosrat. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Bunnies in the Backyard by Rebecca Flint Marx. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Raccoons in the Kitchen by Peter Orner. (7.5/10)
♡ Rats in the Bedroom by Diana Kapp. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ I've Been Meaning to Tell You by David Chariandy. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Essential Trudeau by Pierre Elliott Trudeau. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye. (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Motive for Metaphor. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Singing School. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Giants in Time. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Keys to Dreamland. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Verticals of Adam. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Vocation of Eloquence. (8.5/10)
☼ --> Not only non-fiction included in the compendium, but only non-fiction listed here.
FICTION:
NOVELS:
♥♥♥ Amok by Stefan Zweig. (8.5/10)
♥ The Ruins by Scott Smith. (6/10)
♥♥♥ The Troop by Nick Cutter (Craig Davidson). (8/10)
♥♥♥ Hell House by Richard Matheson. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Confusion by Stefan Zweig. (8.5/10)
♥ Flawless by Sara Shepard. (5/10)♧
♥ The Mist by Stephen King. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Vanity Fair ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3), by William Makepeace Thackeray. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Persuasion by Jane Austen. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Nocturnal Animals (Tony and Susan) by Austin Wright. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Hannibal by Thomas Harris. (7.5/10)♧
♥ Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. (7.5/10)♧
♥ A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Deep by Nick Cutter. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Age of Innocence ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Edith Wharton. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Gerald's Game by Stephen King. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Song of Roland by Anonymous (translated by Robert Harrison). (8/10)
♥♥♥ Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Who Among Us? by Mario Benedetti. (9/10)
♥ The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. (9.5/10)
♥♥♥ Passing Ceremony by Helen Weinzweig. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid. (8/10)
♥ The Cockroach by Ian McEwan. (5.5/10)
♥ Weather by Jenny Offill. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Petulia's Rouge Tin by Su Tong (translated by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz). (7.5/10)
♥ Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave by Aphra Behn. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf (translated by Susan Bernofsky). (8/10)
♥♥♥ Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates. (7.5/10)
♥ The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West. (8.5/10)
♥ Ruins by Brian Aldiss. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Wenjack by Joseph Boyden. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant by Jean de Brunhoff (translated by Merle S. Haas). (10/10)
♥♥♥ The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann (illustrated by Sanna Annukka). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Animal Farm by George Orwell. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss. (9.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum. (8/10)☁
♥ Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Road to Oz ( PART 1--- PART 2), by L. Frank Baum. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Handmaid's Tale ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Margaret Atwood. (8.5/10)
♥ The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. (6/10)
♥♥♥ The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson. (7.5/10)
♥ The House on the Borderlands by William Hope Hodgson. (8.5/10)
♥ The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. (8/10)☁
♥ The Big Four by Agatha Christie. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The House with a Clock in Its Wall by John Bellairs (illustrated by Edward Gorey). (8/10)☁
♥ The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs (illustrated by Mercer Mayer). (8.5/10)
♥ Austenland by Shannon Hale. (6/10)
♥ Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale. (5.5/10)
♥♥♥ More About Paddington by Michael Bond. (8/10)☁
♥ Paddington Helps Out by Michael Bond. (8.5/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
SHORT STORIES:
♥♥♥ Night Shift ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Stephen King (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Jerusalem's Lot. (8/10).
♡ Graveyard Shift. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Night Surf. (8/10)
♡♡♡ I Am the Doorway. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mangler (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Boogeyman. (7.5/10)
♡ Gray Matter. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Battleground. (7.5/10)
♡ Trucks. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sometimes They Come Back. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Strawberry Spring. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Ledge. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Lawnmower Man. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Quitters, Inc.. (8/10)
♡♡♡ I Know What You Need. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Children of the Corn. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Last Rung on the Ladder. (7.5/10)
♡ The Man Who Loved Flowers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ One for the Road. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Woman in the Room. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn. (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōichi. (8/10).
♡♡♡ Oshidori. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Story of O-Tei. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ubazakura. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Diplomacy. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Of a Mirror and a Bell. 8/10)
♡♡♡ Jikininki. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Mujina. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Rokuro-Kubi. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Dead Secret. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Yuki-Onna. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Story of Aoyagi. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jiu-Roku-Zakura. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Dream of Akinosuké. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Riki-Baka. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Hōrai. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen. (8.5/10):☼
♡♡♡ Novel of the White Powder. (8/10).
♡ The Red Hand. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The White People. (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Open Garden: A Story with Four Essays by Christopher Milne (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ The Windfall. (8/10).
♥ Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Tower of Babylon. (7.5/10).
♡ Understand. (7/10)
♡ Division by Zero. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Story of Your Life. (8/10)
♡ Seventy-Two Letters. (7.5/10)
♡ The Evolution of Human Science. (7.5/10)
♡ Hell is the Absence of God. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Liking What You See: A Documentary. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. (7.5/10):☼
♡ The Mist. (7.5/10)
♡ Here There Be Tygers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Monkey. (8/10)
♡ Cain Rose Up. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Mrs. Todd's Shortcut. 7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Jaunt. (8/10)
♡ The Wedding Gig. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Raft. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Word Processor of the Gods. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands. (7.5/10)
♡ Beachworld. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Reaper's Image. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Nona. (8/10)
♡ Survivor Type. (7/10)
♡ Uncle Otto's Truck. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1). (8.5/10)
♡ Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry Game (Milkman #2). (7/10)
♡♡♡ Gramma. (8.5/10)
♡ The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Reach. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The House on the Borderland & Other Stories by William Hope Hodgson. (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ From the Tideless Sea. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Voice in the Night. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mystery of the Derelict. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Derelict. (8/10)
♥ The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by Various (edited by Robert Morrison and Chris Baldick). (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Vampyre by John Polidori. (8/10).
♡ Sir Guy Eveling's Dream by William Carleton (7/10)
♡ Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman by William Carleton. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Monos and Daimonos by Edward Butler. (7.5/10)
♡ The Master of Logan by Allan Cunningham. (6.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Victim by Anonymous. (7.5/10).
♡ Some Terrible Letters from Scotland by James Hogg. (7/10).
♡♡♡ The Curse by Anonymous. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Life in Death by Anonymous. (7.5/10).
♡ My Hobby,-Rather by N.P. Willis. (7.5/10).
♡ The Red Man by Catherine Gore. (7/10).
♡♡♡ Post-Mortem Recollections of a Medical Lecturer by Charles Lever. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Bride of Lindorf by Letitia E. Landon. (7.5/10).
♡ Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. (7.5/10).
♥ Shining in the Dark by Various (edited by Hans-Åke Lilja). (7/10):
♡ The Blue Air Compressor: A Telling of Horror by Stephen King. (7/10).
♡ The Net by Jack Ketchum & P.D. Cacek. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Novel of the Holocaust by Stewart O'Nan. (8/10)
♡ Aeliana by Bev Vincent. (7/10)
♡ Pidgin and Theresa by Clive Barker. (7.5/10).
♡ An End to All Things by Brian Keene. (7/10).
♡ Cemetery Dance by Richard Chizmar. (6.5/10).
♡ Drawn to the Flame by Kevin Quigley. (7/10).
♡ The Companion by Ramsey Campbell. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10).
♡♡♡ A Mother's Love by Brian James Freeman. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Keeper's Companion by John Alivide Lindqvist. (7.5/10).
♥♥♥ The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka. (8/10):☼
♡ The Judgement. (7/10).
♡♡♡ In the Penal Colony. (7.5/10)
♡ A Country Doctor. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Report to an Academy. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Ghost Tour: An Armchair Journey Through the Supernatural by Various (edited by Peter Haining). (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ A Warning to the Curious by M.R. James. (8/10).
♡ In the Fog by Dennis Wheatley. (7/10).
♡♡♡ Mason's Life by Kingsley Amis. (7.5/10).
♡ The Tale of Tod Lapraik by Robert Louis Stevenson. (7/10).
♡♡♡ Skule Skerry by John Buchan. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Sexton's Adventure by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Banshee by Lord Dunsany. (7.5/10).
♡ The Children of the Pool by Arthur Machen. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Ghost by Richard Hughes. (8/10).
♡♡♡ In Letters of Fire by Gaston Leroux. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Doppelganger by E.T.A. Hoffman. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Man on the Bottle by Gustav Meyrink. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Ghostly Rental by Henry James. (8/10).
♡ Richmond, Late September by Fritz Leiber. (6.5/10).
♡ The Hour of Ghosts by Ray Bradbury. (7.5/10).
♥♥♥ The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and the Forgotten: Tales of the Supernatural, Strange, and Bizarre ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Various (edited by Judika Illes). (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Horror at Martin's Beach by H.P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene. (8.5/10)
♡ The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Twisting of the Rope by W.B. Yeats. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen. (8/10)
♡ Blood Lust by Dion Fortune. (7.5/10)
♡ The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood. (7/10)
♡ The Lady with the Carnations by Marie Corelli. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Guest by Lord Dunsany. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales by Various (edited by Gordon Jarvie). (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Milk-White Doo by Elizabeth Grierson. (7.5/10).
♡ The Well O' the World's End by Elizabeth Grierson. (7/10).
♡♡♡ The Seal Catcher and the Merman by Elizabeth Grierson. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Laird of Morphie and the Water Kelpie by Elizabeth Grierson. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Laird O' Co by Elizabeth Grierson. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Brownie O' Ferne-Den by Elizabeth Grierson. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ Katherine Crackernuts by Elizabeth Grierson. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ Tam Lin, Traditional. (8/10).
♡♡♡ Thomas Rymer, Traditional. (8/10).
♡♡♡ Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree by Joseph Jacobs. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Two Shepherds by J.F. Campbell. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Sprightly Tailor by Joseph Jacobs. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Lonely Giant by Alasdair MacLean. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm by Elizabeth Grierson. (8/10).
♡ Adam Bell by James Hogg. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Grey Wolf by George MacDonald. (8/10).
♡ Through the Veil by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Gold of Fairnilee by Andrew Lang. (8/10).
♡ Why Everyone Should Be Able to Tell a Story by John Lorne Campbell. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Tail by J.F. Campbell. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ A Warning to the Curious by M.R. James. (8/10).
♥♥♥ The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame (illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard). (8/10)
♥ Horrology by Various (edited by Stephen Jones). (7/10):
♡♡♡ Accursed by Robert Shearman. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Afraid by Clive Barker. (8/10).
♡ Afterlife by Michael Marshall Smith. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Chilling by Pat Cadigan. (7.5/10).
♡ Decay by Mark Samuels. (7/10).
♡♡♡ Faceless by Joanne Harris. (8/10).
♡ Forgotten by Muriel Gray. (6.5/10).
♡♡♡ Guignol by Kim Newman. (7.5/10).
♡ Nightmare by Ramsey Campbell. (6.5/10).
♡ Possessions by Reggie Oliver. (7/10).
♡ Ripper by Angela Slatter. (7/10).
♡ Vastation by Lisa Tuttle. (7/10).
♥♥♥ Hungarian Folk-tales (retold) by Val Biro. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Thieving Goblins. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Tobias and the Dragon. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Donkey's Load. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Peter Cheater. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Magic Doctor. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Devil of a Bailiff. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Honest Thief. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mayor's Egg. (8/10)
♡ King Greenbeard. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Almafi and the Flying Palace. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Almafi and the Golden Cockerel. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Hedgehog. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ever Thus and As You Were. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Dragon-tale. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cauldron of Gold. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Goosy Gander. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Lazy King. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Joking Wolf. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Obstinate Little Rabbit. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sammy Lazybones. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Briar Peter. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Nightmare Hour: Time for Terror by R.L. Stine. (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Pumpkinhead (illustrated by Cliff Nielsen). (8/10).
♡ Alien Candy (illustrated by Edward Koren). (7/10).
♡ The Most Evil Sorcerer (illustrated by Bernie Wrightson). (6.5/10).
♡ Nightmare Inn (illustrated by Gary Kelley). (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ I'm Not Martin (illustrated by Patrick McBride). (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Black Mask (illustrated by Mark Summers). (8/10).
♡♡♡ Afraid of Clowns (illustrated by Vince Natale). (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Dead Body (illustrated by John Collier). (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Make Me a Witch (illustrated by Bleu Terrell). (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Pumpkinhead (illustrated by John Jude Palencar). (7.5/10).
♥♥♥ Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont (7.5/10):☁
♡♡♡ The Howling Man. (8/10)
♡ A Classic Affair. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Place of Meeting. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Song for a Lady. (8/10)
♡ Blood Brother. (7.5/10)
♡ In His Image. (7.5/10)
♡ The Monster Show. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Beautiful People. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Free Dirt. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Magic Man. (8.5/10)
♡ Last Rites. (7.5/10)
♡ The Music of the Yellow Brass. (7.5/10)
♡ The New People. (7/10)
♡ A Death in the Country. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Träumerei. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Night Ride. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The New Sound. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Necklace and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant (translated by Joachim Neugroschel). (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Necklace. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Butterball. (8/10).
♡ The Tellier House. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ On the Water. (8/10).
♡♡♡ Mademoiselle Fifi. (7.5/10).
♡ The Mask. (7/10).
♡♡♡ The Inn. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ A Day in the Country. (7.5/10).
♡ The Hand. (7/10).
♡♡♡ The Jewels. (8/10).
♡ The Model. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Entity (The Horla). (8/10).
♥♥♥ The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre by W.W. Jacobs. (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Monkey's Paw. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Well. (7.5/10).
♡ The Three Sisters. (7/10).
♡ The Toll-House. (7/10).
♡ Jerry Bundler. (6.5/10).
♡ His Brother's Keeper. (7.5/10).
♡ The Interruption. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ In the Library. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Captain Rogers. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Lost Ship. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Three at Table. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Brown Man's Servant. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Over the Side. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Vigil. (7.5/10).
♡ Sam's Ghost. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ In Mid-Atlantic. (8/10).
♡♡♡ Twin Spirits. (7.5/10).
♡ The Castaway. (7.5/10).
♥♥♥ The October Country: Stories ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Ray Bradbury (8/10):☁
♡ The Dwarf. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Next in Line. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Skeleton. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Jar. (7.5/10)
☁ --> Not all stories listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only short stories included in the compendium, but only short stories listed here.
PLAYS:
♥♥♥ Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare. (8/10)
♥ Proof by David Auburn. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. (9/10)
POETRY:
♥♥♥ Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. (7.5/10):☼
♡ Paranoid: A Chant. (7/10)
♡ For Owen. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Song of Roland by Anonymous (translated by Robert Harrison). (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde. (10/10)
♥♥♥ 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (aka A Visit from St. Nicholas) by Clement Clarke Moore. (10/10)
☼ --> Not only poetry included in compendium, but only poetry listed here.
GRAPHIC NOVELS:
♥ Drama by Raina Telgemeier. (7.5/10)
♥ Ex Machina: Power Down by Tony Harris, Tom Feister and Jim Clark. (7.5/10)♧
♥ Superman: True Brit by John Cleese and Kim Howard Johnson, and John Byrne and Mark Farmer. (6/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
PREVIOUS YEARS:
2009-2010/ 2010/ 2011/ 2012/ 2013/ 2014/ 2015/ 2016/ 2017/ 2018/ 2019
~The image I use is the edition I read.
♥♥♥ = Personal favourites I recommend.
NON-FICTION:
♥♥♥ Gratitude by Oliver Sacks (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ Mercury. (9/10).
♡♡♡ My Own Life. (8.5/10)
♡ My Periodic Table. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sabbath. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ Hi-Mawari. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ Butterflies. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Mosquitoes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Ants. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Blood in the Bayou: A Record of the Operations and Blessed Techniques of a Doctor of Conjure-Work by Docteur Sureaux. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Open Garden: A Story with Four Essays by Christopher Milne (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ The Open Garden. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ Efficiency and the Oil Beetle. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Egg, the Fox and the Dagger. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Beetles ton Betelgeuse. (8/10)
♥ Free Will by Sam Harris. (6/10)
♥♥♥ The Savage God: A Study of Suicide ( PART 1--- PART 2), by A. Alvarez. (8/10)
♥ How to Survive a Horror Movie by Seth Grahame-Smith. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Haruki Murakami. (8.5/10)
+ ♡♡♡ Blind Nightmare: Where Are We Japanese Going? (8.5/10).
♥♥♥ Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds by Rachel Levin. (7.5/10)
+ ♡ Ants in the Minivan by McKenzie Funk. (7/10).
♡ Grizzlies in Alaska by Peter Fish. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Bed Bugs on My Mind by Brooke Borel. (7.5/10)
♡ Cockroaches in New York (Of Course) by Bonnie Tsui. (7/10)
♡ Coyotes in My Face by Chris Colin. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Deer in the Suburbs by Vanessa Hua. (7.5/10)
♡ Mice in the Backseat by Samin Nosrat. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Bunnies in the Backyard by Rebecca Flint Marx. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Raccoons in the Kitchen by Peter Orner. (7.5/10)
♡ Rats in the Bedroom by Diana Kapp. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ I've Been Meaning to Tell You by David Chariandy. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Essential Trudeau by Pierre Elliott Trudeau. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Educated Imagination by Northrop Frye. (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Motive for Metaphor. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Singing School. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Giants in Time. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Keys to Dreamland. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Verticals of Adam. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Vocation of Eloquence. (8.5/10)
☼ --> Not only non-fiction included in the compendium, but only non-fiction listed here.
FICTION:
NOVELS:
♥♥♥ Amok by Stefan Zweig. (8.5/10)
♥ The Ruins by Scott Smith. (6/10)
♥♥♥ The Troop by Nick Cutter (Craig Davidson). (8/10)
♥♥♥ Hell House by Richard Matheson. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Road Through the Wall by Shirley Jackson. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Confusion by Stefan Zweig. (8.5/10)
♥ Flawless by Sara Shepard. (5/10)♧
♥ The Mist by Stephen King. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Vanity Fair ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3), by William Makepeace Thackeray. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Persuasion by Jane Austen. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Burning Secret by Stefan Zweig. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Nocturnal Animals (Tony and Susan) by Austin Wright. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Hannibal by Thomas Harris. (7.5/10)♧
♥ Monster of Elendhaven by Jennifer Giesbrecht. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. (7.5/10)♧
♥ A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Deep by Nick Cutter. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Age of Innocence ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Edith Wharton. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Gerald's Game by Stephen King. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Song of Roland by Anonymous (translated by Robert Harrison). (8/10)
♥♥♥ Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Who Among Us? by Mario Benedetti. (9/10)
♥ The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. (9.5/10)
♥♥♥ Passing Ceremony by Helen Weinzweig. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid. (8/10)
♥ The Cockroach by Ian McEwan. (5.5/10)
♥ Weather by Jenny Offill. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Petulia's Rouge Tin by Su Tong (translated by Jane Weizhen Pan and Martin Merz). (7.5/10)
♥ Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave by Aphra Behn. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf (translated by Susan Bernofsky). (8/10)
♥♥♥ Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates. (7.5/10)
♥ The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West. (8.5/10)
♥ Ruins by Brian Aldiss. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Wenjack by Joseph Boyden. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant by Jean de Brunhoff (translated by Merle S. Haas). (10/10)
♥♥♥ The Nutcracker by E.T.A. Hoffmann (illustrated by Sanna Annukka). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Animal Farm by George Orwell. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss. (9.5/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum. (8/10)☁
♥ Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Road to Oz ( PART 1--- PART 2), by L. Frank Baum. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Handmaid's Tale ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Margaret Atwood. (8.5/10)
♥ The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. (6/10)
♥♥♥ The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson. (7.5/10)
♥ The House on the Borderlands by William Hope Hodgson. (8.5/10)
♥ The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. (8/10)☁
♥ The Big Four by Agatha Christie. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The House with a Clock in Its Wall by John Bellairs (illustrated by Edward Gorey). (8/10)☁
♥ The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs (illustrated by Mercer Mayer). (8.5/10)
♥ Austenland by Shannon Hale. (6/10)
♥ Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale. (5.5/10)
♥♥♥ More About Paddington by Michael Bond. (8/10)☁
♥ Paddington Helps Out by Michael Bond. (8.5/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
SHORT STORIES:
♥♥♥ Night Shift ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Stephen King (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Jerusalem's Lot. (8/10).
♡ Graveyard Shift. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Night Surf. (8/10)
♡♡♡ I Am the Doorway. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mangler (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Boogeyman. (7.5/10)
♡ Gray Matter. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Battleground. (7.5/10)
♡ Trucks. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sometimes They Come Back. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Strawberry Spring. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Ledge. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Lawnmower Man. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Quitters, Inc.. (8/10)
♡♡♡ I Know What You Need. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Children of the Corn. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Last Rung on the Ladder. (7.5/10)
♡ The Man Who Loved Flowers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ One for the Road. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Woman in the Room. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn. (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōichi. (8/10).
♡♡♡ Oshidori. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Story of O-Tei. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ubazakura. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Diplomacy. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Of a Mirror and a Bell. 8/10)
♡♡♡ Jikininki. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Mujina. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Rokuro-Kubi. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Dead Secret. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Yuki-Onna. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Story of Aoyagi. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jiu-Roku-Zakura. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Dream of Akinosuké. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Riki-Baka. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Hōrai. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen. (8.5/10):☼
♡♡♡ Novel of the White Powder. (8/10).
♡ The Red Hand. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The White People. (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Open Garden: A Story with Four Essays by Christopher Milne (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ The Windfall. (8/10).
♥ Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Tower of Babylon. (7.5/10).
♡ Understand. (7/10)
♡ Division by Zero. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Story of Your Life. (8/10)
♡ Seventy-Two Letters. (7.5/10)
♡ The Evolution of Human Science. (7.5/10)
♡ Hell is the Absence of God. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Liking What You See: A Documentary. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. (7.5/10):☼
♡ The Mist. (7.5/10)
♡ Here There Be Tygers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Monkey. (8/10)
♡ Cain Rose Up. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Mrs. Todd's Shortcut. 7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Jaunt. (8/10)
♡ The Wedding Gig. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Raft. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Word Processor of the Gods. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands. (7.5/10)
♡ Beachworld. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Reaper's Image. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Nona. (8/10)
♡ Survivor Type. (7/10)
♡ Uncle Otto's Truck. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1). (8.5/10)
♡ Big Wheels: A Tale of The Laundry Game (Milkman #2). (7/10)
♡♡♡ Gramma. (8.5/10)
♡ The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Reach. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The House on the Borderland & Other Stories by William Hope Hodgson. (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ From the Tideless Sea. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Voice in the Night. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mystery of the Derelict. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Derelict. (8/10)
♥ The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre by Various (edited by Robert Morrison and Chris Baldick). (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Vampyre by John Polidori. (8/10).
♡ Sir Guy Eveling's Dream by William Carleton (7/10)
♡ Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman by William Carleton. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Monos and Daimonos by Edward Butler. (7.5/10)
♡ The Master of Logan by Allan Cunningham. (6.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Victim by Anonymous. (7.5/10).
♡ Some Terrible Letters from Scotland by James Hogg. (7/10).
♡♡♡ The Curse by Anonymous. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Life in Death by Anonymous. (7.5/10).
♡ My Hobby,-Rather by N.P. Willis. (7.5/10).
♡ The Red Man by Catherine Gore. (7/10).
♡♡♡ Post-Mortem Recollections of a Medical Lecturer by Charles Lever. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Bride of Lindorf by Letitia E. Landon. (7.5/10).
♡ Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. (7.5/10).
♥ Shining in the Dark by Various (edited by Hans-Åke Lilja). (7/10):
♡ The Blue Air Compressor: A Telling of Horror by Stephen King. (7/10).
♡ The Net by Jack Ketchum & P.D. Cacek. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Novel of the Holocaust by Stewart O'Nan. (8/10)
♡ Aeliana by Bev Vincent. (7/10)
♡ Pidgin and Theresa by Clive Barker. (7.5/10).
♡ An End to All Things by Brian Keene. (7/10).
♡ Cemetery Dance by Richard Chizmar. (6.5/10).
♡ Drawn to the Flame by Kevin Quigley. (7/10).
♡ The Companion by Ramsey Campbell. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10).
♡♡♡ A Mother's Love by Brian James Freeman. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Keeper's Companion by John Alivide Lindqvist. (7.5/10).
♥♥♥ The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka. (8/10):☼
♡ The Judgement. (7/10).
♡♡♡ In the Penal Colony. (7.5/10)
♡ A Country Doctor. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Report to an Academy. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Ghost Tour: An Armchair Journey Through the Supernatural by Various (edited by Peter Haining). (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ A Warning to the Curious by M.R. James. (8/10).
♡ In the Fog by Dennis Wheatley. (7/10).
♡♡♡ Mason's Life by Kingsley Amis. (7.5/10).
♡ The Tale of Tod Lapraik by Robert Louis Stevenson. (7/10).
♡♡♡ Skule Skerry by John Buchan. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Sexton's Adventure by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Banshee by Lord Dunsany. (7.5/10).
♡ The Children of the Pool by Arthur Machen. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Ghost by Richard Hughes. (8/10).
♡♡♡ In Letters of Fire by Gaston Leroux. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Doppelganger by E.T.A. Hoffman. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Man on the Bottle by Gustav Meyrink. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Ghostly Rental by Henry James. (8/10).
♡ Richmond, Late September by Fritz Leiber. (6.5/10).
♡ The Hour of Ghosts by Ray Bradbury. (7.5/10).
♥♥♥ The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and the Forgotten: Tales of the Supernatural, Strange, and Bizarre ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Various (edited by Judika Illes). (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Haunted Orchard by Richard Le Gallienne. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Horror at Martin's Beach by H.P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene. (8.5/10)
♡ The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Twisting of the Rope by W.B. Yeats. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen. (8/10)
♡ Blood Lust by Dion Fortune. (7.5/10)
♡ The Woman's Ghost Story by Algernon Blackwood. (7/10)
♡ The Lady with the Carnations by Marie Corelli. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Guest by Lord Dunsany. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Oval Portrait by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales by Various (edited by Gordon Jarvie). (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Milk-White Doo by Elizabeth Grierson. (7.5/10).
♡ The Well O' the World's End by Elizabeth Grierson. (7/10).
♡♡♡ The Seal Catcher and the Merman by Elizabeth Grierson. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Laird of Morphie and the Water Kelpie by Elizabeth Grierson. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Laird O' Co by Elizabeth Grierson. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Brownie O' Ferne-Den by Elizabeth Grierson. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ Katherine Crackernuts by Elizabeth Grierson. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ Tam Lin, Traditional. (8/10).
♡♡♡ Thomas Rymer, Traditional. (8/10).
♡♡♡ Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree by Joseph Jacobs. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Two Shepherds by J.F. Campbell. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Sprightly Tailor by Joseph Jacobs. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Lonely Giant by Alasdair MacLean. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm by Elizabeth Grierson. (8/10).
♡ Adam Bell by James Hogg. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Grey Wolf by George MacDonald. (8/10).
♡ Through the Veil by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Gold of Fairnilee by Andrew Lang. (8/10).
♡ Why Everyone Should Be Able to Tell a Story by John Lorne Campbell. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Tail by J.F. Campbell. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ A Warning to the Curious by M.R. James. (8/10).
♥♥♥ The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame (illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard). (8/10)
♥ Horrology by Various (edited by Stephen Jones). (7/10):
♡♡♡ Accursed by Robert Shearman. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Afraid by Clive Barker. (8/10).
♡ Afterlife by Michael Marshall Smith. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Chilling by Pat Cadigan. (7.5/10).
♡ Decay by Mark Samuels. (7/10).
♡♡♡ Faceless by Joanne Harris. (8/10).
♡ Forgotten by Muriel Gray. (6.5/10).
♡♡♡ Guignol by Kim Newman. (7.5/10).
♡ Nightmare by Ramsey Campbell. (6.5/10).
♡ Possessions by Reggie Oliver. (7/10).
♡ Ripper by Angela Slatter. (7/10).
♡ Vastation by Lisa Tuttle. (7/10).
♥♥♥ Hungarian Folk-tales (retold) by Val Biro. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Thieving Goblins. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Tobias and the Dragon. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Donkey's Load. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Peter Cheater. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Magic Doctor. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Devil of a Bailiff. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Honest Thief. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mayor's Egg. (8/10)
♡ King Greenbeard. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Almafi and the Flying Palace. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Almafi and the Golden Cockerel. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Hedgehog. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ever Thus and As You Were. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Dragon-tale. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Cauldron of Gold. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Goosy Gander. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Lazy King. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Joking Wolf. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Obstinate Little Rabbit. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sammy Lazybones. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Briar Peter. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Nightmare Hour: Time for Terror by R.L. Stine. (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Pumpkinhead (illustrated by Cliff Nielsen). (8/10).
♡ Alien Candy (illustrated by Edward Koren). (7/10).
♡ The Most Evil Sorcerer (illustrated by Bernie Wrightson). (6.5/10).
♡ Nightmare Inn (illustrated by Gary Kelley). (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ I'm Not Martin (illustrated by Patrick McBride). (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Black Mask (illustrated by Mark Summers). (8/10).
♡♡♡ Afraid of Clowns (illustrated by Vince Natale). (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Dead Body (illustrated by John Collier). (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Make Me a Witch (illustrated by Bleu Terrell). (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Pumpkinhead (illustrated by John Jude Palencar). (7.5/10).
♥♥♥ Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont (7.5/10):☁
♡♡♡ The Howling Man. (8/10)
♡ A Classic Affair. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Place of Meeting. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Song for a Lady. (8/10)
♡ Blood Brother. (7.5/10)
♡ In His Image. (7.5/10)
♡ The Monster Show. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Beautiful People. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Free Dirt. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Magic Man. (8.5/10)
♡ Last Rites. (7.5/10)
♡ The Music of the Yellow Brass. (7.5/10)
♡ The New People. (7/10)
♡ A Death in the Country. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Träumerei. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Night Ride. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The New Sound. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Necklace and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant (translated by Joachim Neugroschel). (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Necklace. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Butterball. (8/10).
♡ The Tellier House. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ On the Water. (8/10).
♡♡♡ Mademoiselle Fifi. (7.5/10).
♡ The Mask. (7/10).
♡♡♡ The Inn. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ A Day in the Country. (7.5/10).
♡ The Hand. (7/10).
♡♡♡ The Jewels. (8/10).
♡ The Model. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Entity (The Horla). (8/10).
♥♥♥ The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and the Macabre by W.W. Jacobs. (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ The Monkey's Paw. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Well. (7.5/10).
♡ The Three Sisters. (7/10).
♡ The Toll-House. (7/10).
♡ Jerry Bundler. (6.5/10).
♡ His Brother's Keeper. (7.5/10).
♡ The Interruption. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ In the Library. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Captain Rogers. (8/10).
♡♡♡ The Lost Ship. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Three at Table. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Brown Man's Servant. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ Over the Side. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Vigil. (7.5/10).
♡ Sam's Ghost. (7.5/10).
♡♡♡ In Mid-Atlantic. (8/10).
♡♡♡ Twin Spirits. (7.5/10).
♡ The Castaway. (7.5/10).
♥♥♥ The October Country: Stories ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Ray Bradbury (8/10):☁
♡ The Dwarf. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Next in Line. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Skeleton. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Jar. (7.5/10)
☁ --> Not all stories listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only short stories included in the compendium, but only short stories listed here.
PLAYS:
♥♥♥ Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare. (8/10)
♥ Proof by David Auburn. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. (9/10)
POETRY:
♥♥♥ Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. (7.5/10):☼
♡ Paranoid: A Chant. (7/10)
♡ For Owen. (7/10)
♥♥♥ The Song of Roland by Anonymous (translated by Robert Harrison). (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde. (10/10)
♥♥♥ 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (aka A Visit from St. Nicholas) by Clement Clarke Moore. (10/10)
☼ --> Not only poetry included in compendium, but only poetry listed here.
GRAPHIC NOVELS:
♥ Drama by Raina Telgemeier. (7.5/10)
♥ Ex Machina: Power Down by Tony Harris, Tom Feister and Jim Clark. (7.5/10)♧
♥ Superman: True Brit by John Cleese and Kim Howard Johnson, and John Byrne and Mark Farmer. (6/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
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