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I am interested to hear what everyone's favorite reads of 2014 were. For me, the year included lots of sci fi classics, which I listened to in audiobook format at my summer job cutting grass.

Here are my personal top 5:

1. The Book of Paul by Richard Long
2. The Postman by David Brin (audio)
3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (audio)
4. The Green Mile by Stephen King
5. Old Man's War by John Scalzi (audio)

Honorable Mention:
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (audio)

Depraved seems like it has been more than a year on this one but goodreads says I read it this year.

Sea Sick

Pus Junkies

Frostbite

Video Night

Honorable mentions
Kumquat
Miranda

I've gotta read Depraved. I've got both on kindle. I also need to give Shane McKenzie a try.

My 5, in no particular order, are:

1.A Storm of Swords
2.Angel Dust Apocalypse
3.Dark Father
4.NOS4A2
5.The Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland(The series not just #1)

Great lists guys. This is a fun way to get recommendations.

For Shane I would recommend pus junkies if you like gross out bizzaro horror, or maybe Fat Off Sex and Violence or Muerte Con Carne

1. We Are All Completely Fine
2. Blackout
3. The Nightmare Girl
4. Exponential
5. Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror

Honourable mentions:
The Last Mile
The Infection

Kaisersoze wrote: "1. We Are All Completely Fine
2. Blackout
3. The Nightmare Girl
4. Exponential
5. [book:Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror|2..."

How's everyone getting Nightmare Girl already! I plan on picking that one up. Going back and forth on Blackout...

Jason wrote: "Kaisersoze wrote: "1. We Are All Completely Fine
2. Blackout
3. The Nightmare Girl
4. Exponential
5. [book:Bad Apples: Five Slices of..."

Netgalley! ;)

My top 5 reads for 2014 were:


Necroscope by Brian Lumley. Just so freakin' awesome. I can't wait to read the whole series.

Murderland by Garrett Cook. Something about this bizarro book really got to me. I loved it.

Uzumaki by Junji Ito. A graphic novel, very Lovecraftian in a way, about a small Japanese town where people become obsessed by spirals and everything slowly falls apart.

Jack & Jill by Kealan Patrick Burke. I love it when an author can nail a novella and this one made my jaw drop.

The Charlie Parker series. Each book (I've read up through #6 now) has been fantastic.

Also worth noting:

~ I read Neil Gaiman's entire Sandman graphic novel series last year and it was brilliant.

~ I also read the entire Ender's Game quartet and was blown away by it. Definitely going to move onto the Ender's Shadow series soon.

~ Got 2 great classics out of the way, Song of Kali (Dan Simmons) and Harvest Home (Thomas Tryon) both of which every horror fan should be required to read!

Sounds like you had a great year of reading Maxine. I've gotta check out Necroscope.

Lots of people didn't like Murderland when we read it in this group so I gave it a skip. Maybe I should give it a chance.

Song of Kali is a personal favorite.

Yeah, that seems to be the thing with bizarro, sometimes you connect with it and sometimes you don't, I really found the story and premise very interesting.

You totally have to read Necroscope!

All the Brians of horror fiction have long been muddled together for me (Keene, Smith, Lumley). Perhaps it's time to remedy that.

Smith is a Bryan, right? That helps...

I'll pick up a copy of Necroscope at my next used book store trip.

Yes, Brian Smith wrote House of Blood, etc.

Bryan Smith has a lot of good books and I have bought most of them from Amazon so they are lendable if you ever want one andy. Also, I have necroscope if you want to buddy read it sometime this year. I'm not up for it right now but let me know when you find a copy.

How about we nominate Necroscope for the group read next month. If not, I'm very down for a b.r.

Sounds good it would probably have a good shot at winning.

I must stop procrastinating on Necroscope. I'm in.

I would actually do a reread on that one (and I rarely do rereads).

1) The Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo

2) Exorcist Road by Jonathan Janz

3) Ghost Story by Peter Straub

4) Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon

5) Rogue by Greg F. Gifune