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Updated: January 1, 2018
Chronicling, for some reason, every book and short story I've read since The Lord of the Rings late in the Spring. This is a companion to the rabble-rousing "Selected readings from the Old Lady Book Club," protested openly by AARP, NOW and other pro-civility agencies. You cannot spell literati without ire, nor geriatric without rage.

Critical remarks are avoided in similar fashion to another fine list. Rereads coopt the register-mark symbol and establish that "rereads" and "coopt" should not be hyphenated. "Library Book Club" selections are noted in red to represent the spectre of death.

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JRR Tolkien
The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
The Two Towers (1954)
The Return of the King (1955)

Stephen King
From The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982/2003 revision)
"The Gunslinger" (1978/2003 revision)
"The Way Station" (1980/2003 revision)
"The Oracle and the Mountains" (1981/2003 revision)
"The Slow Mutants" (1981/2003 revision)
"The Gunslinger and the Dark Man," a.k.a. "The Gunslinger and the Man in Black" (1981/2003 revision)

Agatha Christie
Sleeping Murder (1976)

Edgar Allan Poe
"Review of The Quacks of Helicon" (1841)
"Astoria" (1837)

Elmore Leonard
Glitz (1985)

Agatha Christie
The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side (1962)

Edgar Allan Poe
"The Domain of Arnheim" (1847)
"Landor's Cottage" (1849)
"William Wilson" (1839)

Jeff Pearlman
Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty (2008) ®

HP Lovecraft
"The Nameless City" (1921)

Keith Cameron
Mudhoney: The Sound and the Fury From Seattle (2013)

Elmore Leonard
Pronto (1993)

HP Lovecraft
"The Festival" (1925)

Edgar Allan Poe
"Berenice" (1835)
"Eleonora" (1841)
"Ligeia" (1838)
"Morella" (1835)
"Metzengerstein" (1832)

Stephen King
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987) ®

Edgar Allan Poe
"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1844)
"The Spectacles" (1844)
"The Duke of l'Omelette" (1832)
"The Oblong Box" (1844)

HP Lovecraft
"The Colour Out of Space" (1927)

Edgar Allan Poe
"King Pest the First" (1835)
"A Succession of Sundays," a.k.a. "Three Sundays in a Week" (1841)
"The Devil in the Belfry" (1839)
"Lionizing" (1835)

HP Lovecraft
"The Call of Cthulhu" (1928)
"The Dunwich Horror" (1929)

Charlotte Gordon
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley (2016) 👍

Ian McGuire
The North Water (2016)

Edgar Allan Poe
"The Rationale of Verse" (1848)
"The Poetic Principle" (1848)

Mary Shelley
Frankenstein (or: The Modern Prometheus) (1818)

Edgar Allan Poe
Politian (1835)

John William Polidori
"The Vampyre" (1819)

HP Lovecraft
The Whisperer in Darkness (1931)

Edgar Allan Poe
"The Philosophy of Furniture" (1840)
"The Light-House" (1849)

HP Lovecraft
"The Dreams in the Witch House" (1933)
"The Haunter of the Dark" (1936)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"The Big Trip Up Yonder" (1954)

Ben H. Winters
Underground Airlines (2016) 👎

Edgar Allan Poe
"Eureka" (1848)

Andrew Boylan
Sacrifice (2016)

Edgar Allan Poe
"A Few Words on Etiquette" (1846) *
"Morning on the Wissahiccon" (1844)
"The Philosophy of Composition" (1846)
"A Few Words on Secret Writing" (1841)
"Fifty Suggestions" (1849)
"Some Account of Stonehenge, the Giant's Dance, a Druidical Ruin in England" (1840)

Robert W. Chambers
From The King in Yellow (1895)
"The Repairer of Reputations"
"The Mask"
"In the Court of the Dragon"
"The Yellow Sign"

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Player Piano (1952) ®

Edgar Allan Poe
"Byron and Miss Chaworth" (1844)
"Harper's Ferry" (1842) *

E. Christopher Clark
From Those Little Bastards (2002)
"Revelation"
"Ezekiel and the Harvesters"
"Hacker"
"Vamp"
"Sylvia's Masterpiece"
"Deux ex Machina"

Edgar Allan Poe
"An Opinion on Dreams" (1839)
"Instinct vs. Reason: A Black Cat" (1840) *
"Pay of American Authors" (1845) *
"Wood Pavements" (1845)
"Why Not Try a Mineralized Pavement" (1845)
"Old English Poetry" (1836) *
"The Capitol at Washington" (1839) *

Erik Larson
The Devil in the White City (2003)

Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

Edgar Allan Poe
"Our Magazine Literature" (1843) *