So, to sum up, here is what I have read this year:
- The Making of the Old Testament edited by Enid B. Mellor
- All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque
- Death in Dittmer James R. Wilder
- Blood Relatives Ed McBain
- Treasure in Hell’s Canyon Bill Gulick
- Karate-dō Nyūmon Gichin Funakoshi
- Generation B Music & Melodies Ernie Bedell
- Sharpe’s Trafalgar Bernard Cornwell
- Tales from the Missouri Tigers Alan Goforth
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
- Mine the Harvest Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
- The Beautiful and Enduring Ozarks Leland Payton
- Midnight Cowboy James Leo Herlihy
- Blood Debts Shayne Silvers
- Star Trek 12 James Blish with J.A. Lawrence
- Blood Count “Dell Shannon”
- Myths and Mysteries of Missouri Josh Young
- A History of Pierce City Through Post Cards, Photographs, Papers, and People David H. Jones
- Raiders of the Lost Ark Campbell Black
- Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks Terrance Dicks
- Dirty Jokes and Beer Drew Carey
- A Pound of Paper John Baxter
- The Widow’s Ring Mary Schaffer
- George Burns: The Hundred Year Dash Martin Gottfried
- 40 Days of Wisdom
- White Banners Lloyd C. Douglas
- Lake of the Ozarks Bill Geist
- Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám translated by Edward FitzGerald
- After Worlds Collide Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie
- The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elizabeth and Other Poems Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Big Frame The Gordons
- The Prophet Khalil Gibran
- The Deserted Village and Other Poems Oliver Goldsmith
- Tigers of the Sea Robert E. Howard
- King Solomon’s Mines Rider Haggard
- Conan the Invincible Robert Jordan
- The Hour of the Dragon Robert E. Howard
- Walking the Labyrinth Shirley Gilmore
- The Way Salesian Missions
- Shin Splints Dorothy Straud
- Songs of Three Shirley Gilmore
- Last of the Breed Louis L’Amour
- Ancient Mines of Kitchi-Gummi Roger Jewell
- The Last Best Hope Ed McBain
- The Cthulhu Stories of Robert E. Howard Robert E. Howard
- The Golden Goddess Gambit Larry Maddock
- Dress Her In Indigo John D. MacDonald
- The Emerald Elephant Gambit Larry Maddock
- Hang Me If I Stay Here Shoot Me If I Run Cody Walker
- Loot the Bodies Cody Walker
- Post Scripts Humor
- Scientific Progress Goes “Boink” Bill Watterson
- The Quest of Kadji Lin Carter
- Flashing Swords! #2 edited by Lin Carter
- The Wisdom of Yo Meow Ma Joanna Sandmark
- Priceless Gifts Salesian Missions
- Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians edited by Lin Carter
- Houses of Worship
- Girlfriends and Wives Robert Wallace
- Glory Road Robert A. Heinlein
- 97 Ways to Make Your Cat Like You Carol Kaufman
- Tough Guys and Gals of the Movies Edward Edelson
- Motels:American Retro
- Horror and Fantasy in the Movies Tom Hutchinson
- Touching the Face of God Howard Klemp
- Cats and Dogs Unleashed
- Who Would Win? Justin Heimberg
- Ethan Allen: The Treasury of American Traditional Interiors
- Renascence Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Hondo Louis L’Amour
- Down the Road and Back Again Cody Walker
- A Few Figs from Thistles Edna St. Vincent Millay
- The Downhill Lie Carl Hiaasen
- Edward the Second Christopher Marlowe
- The Bogey Man George Plimpton
- Silver Canyon Louis L’Amour
- Old School Day Romances James Whitcomb Riley
- Bad Monkey Carl Hiaasen
- Razor Girl Carl Hiaasen
- Ghost Mine Ben Wolf
- 50 Years of Text Games Aaron A. Reed
- 50 Years of Text Games: Further Explorations Aaron A. Reed
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
- Flynn’s In Gregory McDonald
- Exiles to Glory Jerry Pournelle
- Gideon’s Gift Karen Kingsbury
- Sarah’s Song Karen Kingsbury
- Hannah’s Hope Karen Kingsbury
- What’s So Funny About Growing Old? Ed Fischer and Jane Thomas Noland
- Small Lofts Edited by Paco Asensio
- Strive and Succeed Horatio Alger
- The Loser’s End William Heyliger
- Live from the Tiki Lounge Angela Williams
- Christmas Train David Baldacci
- Harvest of Gold collected by Ernest R. Miller
- Golden Moments Salesian Missions
I have to say that the Winter Reading Challenge really does kick my year off right. And with this year coming, where I am starting off with extra free time, might prove to be my best year yet! (Although, to be honest, I often ring the bell at hitting all fifteen categories in the challenge, and I once read 16 books, hitting one category twice.
So what did I read in 2024?
I dunno, five or six “classics?” A bunch of sword-and-sorcery. A couple of books about television and movie genres. A pile of poetry. Several Westerns and/or books by Western authors. Three or five books I’ve read before. Two or four books of cartoons or magazine gags.
You know, not a bad selection. But maybe next year I will get to that ideal 100.
