The Death of Sweet Mister – Daniel Woodrell
The Outlaw Album – Daniel Woodrell
Cadillac Orpheus – Solon Timothy Woodward
I Never Met A Story I Didn’t Like – Todd Snyder
Give Us A Kiss – Daniel Woodrell
My Dog Skip – Willie Morris
Good Old Boy – Willie Morris
A Brief History Of Seven Killings – Marlon James
The Hilliker Curse – James Ellroy
Wild Tales – Graham Nash
Thelonious Rising – Judith Richards
Sidewalks – Valerie Luiselli
North of Havana – Randy Wayne White
Elvis Presley Calls His Mother After The Ed Sullivan Show – Samuel Charters
Man Walking On Eggshells – Herbert Simmons
Sound Man – Glyn Johns
Yonder Stands the Orphan – Barry Hannah
The Snare – Elizabeth Spencer (at Peter Whipple’s recommendation)
Ralph Peer & The Making of Popular Roots Music – Barry Mazor
Reverb, An Oddysey – Joe Ely
The Blue Hammer – Ross MacDonald
The Doomsters – Ross MacDonald
You Don’t Know Me – James Nolan
Starting Over – Elizabeth Spencer
Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You – Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes
The Distant Marvels – Chantal Acevedo
The Underground Man – Ross MacDonald
The Instant Enemy – Ross MacDonald
Strangers in Town – Ross MacDonald
Into The Beautiful North – Luis Alberto Urrea
A Sport and a Pastime – James Salter
Black Orchid Blues – Persia Walker
All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
World Gone By – Dennis Lehane
The Dog of the South – Charles Portis (at John Sieger’s recommendation)
Going Into The City – Robert Christgau
Fire In The Hole – Elmore Leonard
Unknown Man No.89 – Elmore Leonard
Trouble Follows Me – Ross MacDonald
Find A Victim – Ross MacDonald
And Sometimes I Wonder About You – Walter Mosley
The Galton Case – Ross MacDonald
Return To The Same City – Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Yonnondio: From The Thirties – Tillie Olsen (re-read)
Dylan Goes Electric – Elijah Wald
The Wise Women of Havana – Jose Raul Bernardo
A Free State – Tom Piazza
The Name Is Archer – Ross MacDonald
The Way Some People Die – Ross MacDonald
The Chill – Ross MacDonald
Cortadito – Enrique Fernandez
Among The Wild Mulattos – Tom Williams
The Barbaous Coast – Ross MacDonald
Tell Me A Riddle, Requa1and other works – Tillie Olsen
The Sisters Brothers – Patrick DeWitt (at Gurf Morlix’s recommendation)
The Wind In The Reeds – Wendell Pierce
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink – Elvis Costello
Street Of No Return – David Goodis
Natural Histories – Guadalupe Nettel
Haitian Graves – Vicki Delany
Charlie Martz & Other Stories – Elmore Leonard
Gold Coast – Elmore Leonard
Please Talk To Me – Liliana Heker
The Odd Woman And The City – Vivian Gornick
Cuba Straits – Randy Wayne White
Los Lobos: Dream In Blue – Chris Morris
Mourner’s Bench – Sanderia Fayel