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Mark Schiffer

1,374 Reads

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3 books

Beat

Hawkline Monster
A Confederate general from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline monster

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11 books

Bio

The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
Mike Nichols: A Life
Dreamer of Dune
Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed

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25 books

British

The Minotaur
Dark Corners
Exit Stage Left
The Bridesmaid
Peril at End House
Live Flesh
A Sight for Sore Eyes

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4 books

C9

A Night in the Lonesome October
Hench
A Fire Upon the Deep
Everfair

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72 books

Crime

The Expendable Man
Beast In View
In a Lonely Place
Dark Corners
Faceless Killers
An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good
The Suspect

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4 books

Essays

Last Days of Roger Federer
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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11 books

Fantasy

Babel, or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
The Pastel City
Lord Foul's Bane
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Silver in the Wood
Neverwhere
Canticle

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13 books

Favorites

The Acme Novelty Library #13
The Best of Richard Matheson
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
11/22/63
The Complete Persepolis
Orlando

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3 books

Favorites From 2018

A Fine Balance
Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
The Haunting of Hill House

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18 books

Film History

Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
Lon Chaney Speaks
Mike Nichols: A Life
The Purple Diaries : Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
20th Century-Fox

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1 book

Food

The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard

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4 books

Gay

Bath Haus
Hawk Mountain
Empty Theatre A Novel
Running With Scissors

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3 books

Gothic

The Minotaur
Don't Look Now
Jamaica Inn

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62 books

Graphic Novel

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Lon Chaney Speaks
The Well
Flung Out of Space
The Liminal Zone
Megg & Mogg In Amsterdam

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11 books

Halloween Reading

The Reaping
The Voice of the Clown
The Spirit
The Changeling
Ghost Story
The Stepford Wives
The Between

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14 books

Historical Fiction

Remarkable Creatures
Empty Theatre A Novel
Crossroads
The Shadow Killer
Miss Iceland
Booth
Last Night at the Telegraph Club

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83 books

Horror

A History of Fear
The Liminal Zone
Black Paradox; ブラックパラドクス; Burakku Paradokusu
Hidden Pictures
Hawk Mountain
A Child Alone With Strangers
Be Very Afraid of Kanako Inuki!

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17 books

Horror I Read In 2019

The Devil in Silver
The Dry Salvages
The Nest
The Elementals
A Head Full of Ghosts
Infidel
Fledgling

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13 books

Japan

The Master Key
The Liminal Zone
Black Paradox; ブラックパラドクス; Burakku Paradokusu
Mimi's Tales of Terror
Soichi: Junji Ito Story Collection
How Do You Live?
The Honjin Murders

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16 books

Lgbt

The Man Who Ate Too Much: The Life of James Beard
Hawk Mountain
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Worship
Light From Uncommon Stars
Looking Glass Sound

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2 books

Liminal

A Short Stay in Hell
Looking Glass Sound

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32 books

Litfic

Freedom
Neighbor George
Crossroads
Three Beds in Manhattan
Women Talking
Hell of a Book
Miss Iceland

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42 books

Manga To Read

Calling You
The Flowers of Evil, Vol. 1
What Did You Eat Yesterday?, Volume 1
Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
Attack on Titan, Vol. 1
Parasyte, Vol. 1
Black Paradox; ブラックパラドクス; Burakku Paradokusu

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3 books

Mcbain

Tricks
Give the Boys a Great Big Hand
Like Love

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60 books

Media History

Woke Up This Morning
Flung Out of Space
Lon Chaney Speaks
Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore
Dreamer of Dune
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
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