52 Books to Madness: My Yearly Challenge

Every year I challenge myself to read 52 books and I'm happy to report that I met and exceeded my goals once again (and still have a few days left to possibly squeeze one more in).

Here's the list:

1. Smoke by Ellen Hopkins
2. How to Write Horror Fiction by William F. Nolan
3. The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
4. Women by Charles Bukowski
5. The Art of Description: World into Word by Mark Doty
6. Beautiful Sorrows by Mercedes M. Yardley
7. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
8. Back Roads & Frontal Lobes by Brady Allen
9. Booklife by Jeff Vandermeer
10. The Strangers by Mort Castle
11. Mama Fish by Rio Youers
12. Vampires, Zombies and Wanton Souls by Marge Simon
13. Zombie Haiku by Ryan Mecum
14. The Body by Stephen King
15. The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
16. Daughters of Lilith by Donna Lynch
17. Death Perception by Lee Allen Howard
18. Westlake Soul by Rio Youers
19. Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi
20. The Colossus by Sylvia Plath
21. I'm Not Sam by Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee
22. The Crossing by Joe McKinney
23. Erotic Poems by e.e. cummings
24. Totems and Taboos by Jason V. Brock
25. A Stir of Echoes by Richard Matheson
26. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau by Martha Ward
27. Dark Duet by Linda D. Addison and Stephen M. Wilson
28. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
29. Tearstone by David L. Day
30. What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
31. Days of Reckoning by Chris Stout
32. Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward
33. Revising Fiction by Kirt Hickman
34. Mastering the Techniques of Teaching by Joseph Lowman
35. The Writing Class by Jincy Willet
36. Gone South by Robert R. McCammon
37. Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
38. The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human by Jonathan Gottschall
39. Red by Jack Ketchum
40. The Writing Workshop by Alan Ziegler
41. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein
42. A Haunted Love Story: The Ghosts of the Allen House by Mark Spencer
43. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
44. Ashes by Donna Burgess
45. The Pact by Jodi Picoult
46. The Monstrance by Bryan D. Dietrich
47. Ladies' Night by Jack Ketchum
48. Weed Species by Jack Ketchum
49. Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor
50. The Devil's Wine by Tom Piccirilli
51. Perfect by Ellen Hopkins
52. Fallout by Ellen Hopkins