Tessie Hutchinson and Cancer Boy walk into a bar

Updated: January 1, 2019
Continuing, for some reason, to chronicle every book and short story I've read since The Lord of the Rings last Spring.

Part 1 (2017) | "Selected readings from the Old Lady Book Club"

Critical remarks are avoided…

Rereads coopt the register-mark symbol…

"Library Book Club" selections are noted in red to represent the spectre of death.

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HP Lovecraft
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936)
"Discarded Draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1931)

Mark Twain
"The Million-Pound Bank Note" (1893)

Edgar Allan Poe
"American Novel-Writing" (1839)
"American Poetry" (1845)

Rachel Joyce
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012) 👍

William Peter Blatty
Which Way to Mecca, Jack? (1959)

Stephen King
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991) ®

HP Lovecraft
The Shadow Out of Time (1936)

Edgar Allan Poe
"Letter to B––" (1836)
"Review of 'The Culprit Fay' and Other Poems and 'Alnwick Castle' With Other Poems" (1836)
"Review of Poems" (1837)
"Review of 'The Old Curiosity Shop' and Other Tales and Master Humphrey's Clock" (1841)
"Critical Notes Exordium" (1842)

E. Christopher Clark
From Those Little Bastards (2002)
"Sam"
"Two Weirdos, a Shovel and Lots of Open Land"
"The Breakdown"
"A River Runs Through These Three Points of View"
"God (The Fine Art of Letting Go)"

Robert W. Chambers
From The King in Yellow (1895)
"The Demoiselle d'Ys"
"The Prophets' Paradise"
"The Street of the Four Winds"

Graham Norton
Holding (2016) 👍

John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915)

HG Wells
The Sleeper Awakes (1910)

Edgar Allan Poe
The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage Across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized Man (1840)

E. Christopher Clark
From Those Little Bastards (2002)
"Death by Cursor"
"Out of the Groove"
"Those Little Bastards"
"The Perfect Pitch"
"The Girl Who Isn't Ready"

Shirley Jackson
From "The Lottery" and Other Stories (1949)
"The Daemon Lover" (1949) ®
"My Life With RH Macy" (1941) ®
"Pillar of Salt" (1948) ®
"The Intoxicated" (1949) ®

Robert W. Chambers
From The King in Yellow (1895)
"The Street of the First Shell"

Angela Flournoy
The Turner House (2015) 👍

Robert W. Chambers
From The King in Yellow (1895)
"The Street of Our Lady of the Fields"
"Rue Barrée"

Edgar Allan Poe
"Ballads and Other Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" (1842)
"Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne" (1842)

Bruce McCulloch
Let's Start a Riot: How a Young Drunk Punk Became a Hollywood Dad (2014)

Agatha Christie
The Secret Adversary (1922)

HP Lovecraft
At the Mountains of Madness (1936)

Edgar Allan Poe
"The American Drama" (1845)

Jeffrey Archer
Kane and Abel (1979/2009 revision) 👎

Edgar Allan Poe
"Marginalia" (1845–1849)
"Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House" (1845)
"Literary Small Talk" (1839)
"Palæstine" (1836)
"Anastatic Printing" (1845)
"Street-Paving" (1845)

Stephen King
From Four Past Midnight (1990)
The Langoliers ®

Edgar Allan Poe
"Intemperance" (1839) *
"Cabs" (1840) *
"A Moving Chapter" (1844)
"Desultory Notes on Cats" (1844)
"A Chapter of Suggestions" (1844)

Stephen King
From Four Past Midnight (1990)
Secret Window, Secret Garden

Edgar Allan Poe
"Souvenirs of Youth" (1843)
"The Head of St. John the Baptist" (1843)
"Memo to Rufus W. Griswold, Esqre., Boston, Mass." (1841)

Shirley Jackson
From "The Lottery" and Other Stories (1949)
"Like Mother Used to Make" (1949) ®
"Trial by Combat" (1944) ®

Philip K. Dick
"Second Variety" (1953)

Shirley Jackson
From "The Lottery" and Other Stories (1949)
"The Villager" (1944) ®

Philip K. Dick
"Exhibit Piece" (1954)

HP Lovecraft
"Fungi From Yuggoth" (1929–1930)

Sam Eastland (Paul Watkins)
Eye of the Red Tsar (2010) 👎

Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968/2008 revision)

Shirley Jackson
From "The Lottery" and Other Stories (1949)
"The Witch" (1949) ®
"The Renegade" (1949) ®
"After You, My Dear Alphonse" (1943) ®
"Charles" (1948) ®

Stephen King
From Four Past Midnight (1990)
The Library Policeman

Edgar Allan Poe
"The Literati of New York City" (1846)
"Autography" (1836)
"A Chapter on Autography" (1841)
"An Appendix of Autographs" (1842)
"A Chapter on Science and Art" (1840) *

Stephen King
From Four Past Midnight (1990)
The Sun Dog

Edgar Allan Poe
"Pinakidia" (1836)
"Omniana" (1840) *

Samanta Schweblin
Fever Dream (2014/2017 translation)

Edgar Allan Poe
"Doings of Gotham" (1844)

George Saunders
From Tenth of December (2013)
"Victory Lap" (2009)
"Sticks" (1995)
"Puppy" (2007)
"Escape From Spiderhead" (2010)
"Exhortation" (2000)
"Al Roosten" (2009)
"The Semplica Girl Diaries" (2012)
"Home" (2011)
"My Chivalric Fiasco" (2011)

Matthew Dicks
Something Missing (2009) ® 👍

Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)

John Buchan
Greenmantle (1916)

Philip K. Dick
"Beyond Lies the Wub" (1952)
"The Defenders" (1953)

Carrie Fisher
Postcards From the Edge (1987)

Philip K. Dick
"The Crystal Crypt" (1954)
"Beyond the Door" (1952)
"The Eyes Have It" (1953)

Herman Koch
The Dinner (2009/2013 translation)

Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
"Coda" (1979)

Shirley Jackson
From "The Lottery" and Other Stories (1949)
"Afternoon in Linen" (1943) ®

HP Lovecraft
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)

Robert W. Chambers
"The Maker of Moons" (1896)

HP Lovecraft
"Azathoth" (1922)

Philip K. Dick
"The Gun" (1952)

Joseph Heller
Good As Gold (1979)

Shirley Jackson
From "The Lottery" and Other Stories (1949)
"Flower Garden" (1949) ®
"Dorothy and My Grandmother and the Sailors" (1949) ®
"Colloquy" (1944) ®

David McCullough
The Wright Brothers (2015) 👍

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[Thus ends Year One of my involvement with the Ladies. Skipped titles were Ron Hall and Denver Moore's Same Kind of Different As Me and Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See. I am penciled in for Year Two—at least through another "one book" offering—but I may drop out in favor of starting my own group at work. Stay tuned.]

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Philip K. Dick
The Variable Man (1953)
"Tony and the Beetles" (1953)

HP Lovecraft
"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" (1919)
"Celephaïs" (1922)

Shirley Jackson
From "The Lottery" and Other Stories (1949)
"Elizabeth" (1949) ®
"A Fine Old Firm" (1944) ®

Philip K. Dick
"The Hanging Stranger" (1953)

HP Lovecraft
"Cool Air" (1928)

Kevin Courrier
33⅓: Trout Mask Replica (2007)

Stephen King
The Eyes of the Dragon (1984/1987 revision)

HP Lovecraft
"Dagon" (1919)
"The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (1920)
"Ibid" (1928)
"The Rats in the Walls" (1924)
"The White Ship" (1919)
"History of The Necronomicon" (1927)
"The Terrible Old Man" (1921)
"Memory" (1923)
"Ex Oblivione" (1921) *
"The Evil Clergyman" (1933)
"What the Moon Brings" (1923)
"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" (1917) *
"The Tree" (1921)
"The Tomb" (1922)
"The Street" (1920)
"Sweet Ermengarde" (c. 1921) *

John Buchan
Mr. Standfast (1919)

Philip K. Dick
"The Skull" (1952)
"Piper in the Woods" (1953)
"Mr. Spaceship" (1953)
"Strange Eden" (1954)

William Landay
Defending Jacob (2012) 👍

Shirley Jackson
From "The Lottery" and Other Stories (1949)
"The Dummy" (1949) ®
"Seven Types of Ambiguity" (1943) ®
"Come Dance With Me in Ireland" (1943) ®
"Of Course" (1949) ®

John McMillian
Beatles vs. Stones (2013)

Philip K. Dick
"The Unreconstructed M" (1957)

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The Sirens of Titan (1959)

Shirley Jackson
From "The Lottery" and Other Stories (1949)
"Men With Their Big Shoes" (1947) ®
"The Tooth" (1949) ®
"Got a Letter From Jimmy" (1949) ®

Philip K. Dick
"Sales Pitch" (1954)
"Shell Game" (1954)
"Roog" (1953)

Shirley Jackson
From "The Lottery" and Other Stories (1949)
"The Lottery" (1948) ®

CJ Tudor
The Chalk Man (2018)

Philip K. Dick
"Breakfast at Twilight" (1954)
"Paycheck" (1953)
"Impostor" (1953)
"The King of the Elves" (1953)

Cyril G. Wates
"The Visitation" (1927)

EM Forster
"The Machine Stops" (1909)

Philip K. Dick
"Adjustment Team" (1954)
"Foster, You're Dead!" (1955)
"The Crawlers" (1954)

Nathaniel Philbrick
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (2000) 👍

HP Lovecraft
"The Music of Erich Zann" (1922)
"The Cats of Ulthar" (1920)
"Old Bugs" (1919)

Philip K. Dick
The Golden Man (1954)
The Last of the Masters (1954)
The Turning Wheel (1954)

HP Lovecraft
"He" (1926)
"The Picture in the House" (1921)
"The Outsider" (1926)

Philip K. Dick
"Upon the Dull Earth" (1954)
"Human Is" (1955)
"Meddler" (1954)

HP Lovecraft
"The Quest of Iranon" (1921)
"Hypnos" (1923)
"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family," a.k.a. "The White Ape" (1921)

Upton Bell/Ron Borges
Present at the Creation: My Life in the NFL and the Rise of America's Game (2017)

Mark Twain
"My First Lie and How I Got Out of It" (1899)

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[A second book club emerges! In blue, to represent the spectre of… another man in the room? Tis an unshackled Commissioner Rico himself! And lo, "CSGNFBØQEBCBBL" initiates its culturally significant gasbaggery with…]

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Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) 👍

Philip K. Dick
"Autofac" (1955)
"The Minority Report" (1956)
"We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" (1966)

Mark Twain
"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" (1899)

HP Lovecraft
"Pickman's Model" (1927)
"The Moon-Bog" (1926)
"The Strange High House in the Mist" (1931)

Mark Twain
"Luck" (1891)
"The Captain's Story" (1892)
"The Esquimaux Maiden's Romance" (1893)

William Faulkner
"A Rose for Emily" (1930)

Richard Russo
Straight Man (1997)