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I've been playing around with the reading list/challenge feature on The StoryGraph, and I've just published my first: The Haycraft List of Detective Story Cornerstones

In his 1941 book Murder for Pleasure: The Life and Times of the Detective Story, Howard Haycraft included a list offering "a suggestive selection of the 'high spots'" of the first century of modern detective fiction, from "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" to The Patience of Maigret, by way of Holmes, Wimsey, and many others.

For the most part, he limited himself to one book per author, except in a few cases where he felt that the author's range or impact justified the making of an exception. Dorothy L. Sayers and John Dickson Carr, to name two, were awarded a second spot on the list. Arthur Conan Doyle is the sole author to be awarded a third (in fact he gets nine, because Haycraft refused to play favourites and included the entire Canon).

(My first thought for a reading list was actually the book club from Jo Walton's Among Others, but I put it off long enough that someone else got there first.)

Fiction books
Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan. Black Mould
Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan. Body Work (re-read)
Ben Aaronovitch, Andrew Cartmel, Lee Sullivan. Night Witch (re-read)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Valley of Fear (e) (re-read)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland
Ursula K Le Guin. Catwings (e)
Ursula K Le Guin. Catwings Return (e)
Ursula K Le Guin. Jane On Her Own (e)
Ursula K Le Guin. Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings (e)
Jack Masterton. The Same Damn Thing
E Nesbit. The Railway Children
Jeff Smith. Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume (re-read)

Abandoned
Hanan al-Shayk. Women of Sand and Myrrh

Picture books
Diane Elson. Olivia the Ostrich Has a Special Day (re-read)
Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing, David Hardy. Back On Country
Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing, David Hardy. Somebody's Land
Barbara Lloyd, Michael Williams. Pirate Edna of Old Tallangatta (re-read)

Non-fiction books
Stan Grant. Talking to My Country
Rosaleen Love. Reefscape
Thomas Mayo. Always Was, Always Will Be

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Connie Willis. Inside Job (e)

I've finally worked through all of the collection of respiratory ailments. One of the last symptoms to persist was a lethargy that I hadn't really noticed until it wasn't there and I was suddenly interested again in doing things that I'd been putting off all month. If I don't do them now, it'll just be the usual procrastination.

One of the things I'm suddenly interested in again is exercise: I'm already right back on track with the walking and bike riding I'd been doing before.

Mildly annoyed that my regular check-up at the doctor fell due now, at the end of a month of inactivity and leaning on comfort food, instead of a month ago, when I was exercising regularly and eating fairly well. The results weren't too bad, considering, but I'd have liked to have known how much better I was doing. Oh well, there's always next time.

I finished reading several things this week. First there was the Classic Tales of SF collection I've been working through since July; the last two tales after Herland were both novellas, so I finished them both in one day. Then Letters From Watson reached the end of The Valley of Fear, which means it has now gone through the complete Sherlock Holmes canon and is going into hiatus until the organiser feels up to doing the whole thing over again. Then I also finished Bone -- I had a strong suspicion I would finish it quickly despite the page count, which is why I picked it -- which means I have also finished the Randomize Your TBR challenge for 2024. I've already signed up for the 2025 Randomize Your TBR challenge, but I'm still considering whether to do the monthly theme challenge again; I like it, but it's the same themes every year, so I might do a different monthly theme challenge instead.

Auditions for the club's next production were held this week. There was an option to audition remotely by sending a video for people who couldn't make it to the audition session, and I decided I'd better take that option rather than trail my remaining respiratory symptoms through a room full of people -- which meant that I needed to teach myself how to make and send a video on my phone. It came out pretty well, I thought. Not having been to the audition session, I have no specific information about who else auditioned, so I can have some fun speculating about who might have been cast in the other roles.

The Obscure Favourite Characters blog on Tumblr is doing a seasonal mini-tournament for Santa Clauses and Father Christmases. I nominated Raymond Briggs's Father Christmas, who seems to be doing well in his first contest.

Fiction books
(anthology). The Witch Who Came in From the Cold: Season One (e)
Ben Aaronovitch. The Masquerades of Spring (e)
Pamela Freeman. Victor's Quest
Tamora Pierce. Cold Fire (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. The Fire in the Forging (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. The Healing in the Vine (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. The Magic in the Weaving (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. Magic Steps (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. The Power in the Storm (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. Shatterglass (e)
Tamora Pierce. Street Magic (e) (re-read)
Rafael Sabatini. The Sword of Islam
Shelby Van Pelt. Remarkably Bright Creatures (e)
Evangeline Walton. The Island of the Mighty

In progress
Hanan al-Shayk. Women of Sand and Myrrh
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Valley of Fear (e) (re-read)

Abandoned
(anthology). Tremontaine: Season One (e)

Picture books
Lee Fox, Mitch Vane. Jasper McFlea Will Not Eat His Tea
Julia Patton. The Very Very Very Long Dog
Eve Titus, Paul Galdone. Anatole

Non-fiction books
Marc Abrahams. This Is Improbable
Andrew Ford. Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (e)
Patrick Radden Keefe. Say Nothing (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
Rosaleen Love. Reefscape

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland

Saturday was my last full day in town. I went to Parkrun in the morning, taking the opportunity to visit a course I haven't done before; I picked one near the seashore since I hadn't been properly near the sea yet during my visit, though as it turned out the track was on the landward side of a string of high dunes so I didn't actually see the sea except in glimpses. Later in the day I went to WABA and to Astrofest, and caught up with people I knew.

On Sunday morning, I went to the beach with relatives, and we looked in tide pools and found interesting shells and generally had a nice time. In the afternoon, it was time for the train home. On the train, I read The Witch Who Came in From the Cold, one of a bundle of ebooks I got a while back which had originally been published in a serial format with different authors writing each chapter. I got on better with it than the last one I tried, in that I didn't give up before I reached the end, but I found it disappointing; the plotting was uneven, with elements being introduced without proper set-up or dropped without proper pay-off, and the characters were all Types without enough personal history or individuality for me to really care about what happened to them.

When I got home, I did read Remarkably Bright Creatures. If it weren't for the octopus, it would be a kind of book I don't usually read, but on the whole I enjoyed it, though one of the subplots set off one of my narrative allergies so badly that I started skimming chapters whenever it cropped up. It might have been a good thing that I didn't have it with me on the train; I think I might have been less happy with it if I hadn't been able to put it down and walk away for a bit when it was getting too much.

After the better part of two years, I've finally finished listening to all of Re: Dracula, the audio drama podcast adaptation of Dracula Daily. I started listening last year on its original release, but stopped partway through, then restarted at the same point when it came around again this year. To be fair to the podcast, a major reason I struggled with it was external; last year was the year I started logging daily reading progress and not just when I completed a book, and I made the possibly unwise decision to log Re: Dracula as an audio book and keep track of the cumulative run time. That would always have been a challenge and a distraction from simply listening and enjoying, though now I'm done being fair I want to also note that having to calculate and subtract the run time of all the ad breaks certainly didn't help.

With that out of the way, Letters From Watson is now the only serialised fiction thing I'm still participating in, and when that finishes next month I think I'm going to want a significant break before I let myself consider getting caught up in any more.

I put my 750 Words account into scheduled vacation mode before my trip, since I wouldn't have access to an internet with a keyboard and I don't write anything of significant length on my phone, and I didn't reactivate it immediately after I got home. Partly that was because I'd found that it was actually quite nice to be able to go "I'm tired, I'm going to bed" and not "I'm tired, but I have to write 750 words before I can think about going to bed", and partly it was because I couldn't decide what to do about the days I'd skipped: try to summarise them, or just write them off and resume journalling from where I was. Anyway, I didn't do any journal entries all week, and one of the consequences was that I didn't have a handy supply of pre-digested things to say. That's one of the reasons this is a week late, though perhaps not the main one – but that is a topic for next time.

. As I mentioned some time back, I had formed a vague intention to travel to the city and catch up with family there, but I had run aground on my problems with self-motivated scheduling. A week ago, I finally managed to nail down a specific event I could build the rest of my travel plans around, and then things proceeded with rapidity (perhaps aided by the fact that I'm running out of leave), so I'll be heading down later this week. Those of you who are in the city already, any suggestions about fun things to do or places to visit while I'm in town? I've already taken note that it's a WABA weekend, so if any of you are going I might see you there.

. I've been playing Ingress more than usual, partly inspired by the recent event and partly by noticing that I'm getting close to unlocking Access Level 12, which I've been picking my way toward for quite a while. (Although I looked it up just now, and apparently the feature that used to be only available to Level 12 and up was recalibrated months ago and is now available from Level 10 up, which shows you how much attention I've been paying. I'd have found out if I'd tried to use it in the past few months, but of course I never did because I thought I knew it wouldn't be available.) I'm running out of things to do locally because everything within easy bike distance is already incorporated into a field, which is partly a result of my activity and partly due to the fact that my main opponent, who can usually be relied on to tear down anything I build in short order, hasn't been active recently (based on past experience, he's probably out of town for a while). I'm using it as an impetus to expand my definition of "easy bike distance".

. Speaking of which, I've been riding my bike a lot recently. I'm trying to build up a habit of going for a bike ride in the morning before the day heats up (though even then, I haven't gone out recently without being glad my bike has a water bottle holder). I'm hoping that if I get the habit going now, it will stick when my leave is over and turn into me going for a bike ride before work.

. I've been reading a four-volume retelling of stories from the Mabinogion by Evangeline Walton, which if memory serves I picked up secondhand at a Swancon. It's a mixed bag; she tries to give comprehensible human motivations to the characters, which works better for some stories than others. Sometimes if you try to add human depth to a wonder tale about a cunning trickster, you run the risk of your audience coming to the conclusion that the trickster is an entitled jackass. And sometimes I don't know what Walton was doing; her characterisation of the female characters in Prince of Annwn, which I read first, is deeply weird and would probably have resulted in me giving up on the series entirely if I didn't already have all four volumes at hand. The Children of Llyr, which I read next, is much more successful (though the subject matter is grimmer, and it trails off a bit after it gets to the climactic tragedy), and The Song of Rhiannon and The Island of the Mighty fall somewhere in between. Looking back on it, I think the characters Walton created from whole cloth to patch gaps in the narrative feel more alive than the ones she took from the Mabinogion and tried to add flesh to, which is probably significant of something about the pitfalls of a project like this. In the end The Island of the Mighty did stick the landing, but my main emotion at finishing is to be glad I've got these checked off and can get on with reading something else that hopefully I'll enjoy more.

. Letters from Watson is onto the last Sherlock Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear. We're about halfway through, which since it shares the traditional Sherlock Holmes Novel Structure means that Holmes has just solved the murder and most of the remaining page count is going to be Arthur Conan Doyle, Frustrated Historical Novelist, giving us a detailed account of the killer and victim's backstory. I'm looking forward to it; from memory, this is the one in which the structure is most successful and the backstory most interesting. (I'm also looking forward to the reactions of the people who haven't read it before.)

Fiction books
Rachael Allen. Harley Quinn: Ravenous (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World (re-read)
Colin Forbes. The Leader and the Damned
Jack London. The Scarlet Plague
Dan Moren. The Caledonian Gambit (e)
Evangeline Walton. The Children of Llyr
Evangeline Walton. Prince of Annwn
Evangeline Walton. The Song of Rhiannon

In progress
Hanan al-Shayk. Women of Sand and Myrrh
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Valley of Fear (e) (re-read)
Evangeline Walton. The Island of the Mighty

Non-fiction books in progress
Marc Abrahams. This Is Improbable
Andrew Ford. Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
(anthology). Tremontaine: Season One (e)

Fiction books
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener. Tesladyne Industries Field Guide (re-read)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles (e) (re-read)
Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell. Fortunately, the Milk (re-read)
David Langford. He Do the Time Police in Different Voices (e)
Claire North. House of Odysseus
Claire North. Ithaca
Claire North. The Last Song of Penelope
Arthur Upfield. The Mountains Have a Secret (e)
Arthur Upfield. The Widows of Broome (e)
Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle. Down with Skool!
Timothy Zahn. Cobra

In progress
Hanan al-Shayk. Women of Sand and Myrrh
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World (re-read)

Non-fiction books in progress
Andrew Ford. Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Marc Abrahams. This Is Improbable

Off the back of my previous post, it's occurred to me that reviewing a week's worth of journal entries at a time is reasonably doable, and maybe once I'm caught up I could make a weekly habit of it. So here are five things from my first week of journalling:

. One thing I have achieved in the past month, though not to as full an extent as I would have liked, is that I've done some yard work and weeded out the plants that have grown up around the sides of the house over winter, which I never quite found the time and energy to deal with when I was working full-time. In the first week, I concentrated on the side of the house where the clothes line is, because some of the plants had grown tall enough to brush against the clothes when they were hung there to dry.

. I've already mentioned that I didn't achieve any progress on reading The Female Man; I loaded it onto my ebook reader at the beginning of the week and then spent the entire week never quite getting around to starting it. Every evening I'd remember that I needed to read something to keep my streak going, then decide that I was too tired to start what would probably be a book requiring concentrated attention, and read the latest Letter from Watson or Wildfell Weekly or a story from He Do the Time Police in Different Voices instead. On the Friday, there was a power outage lasting much of the day, which presented a prime opportunity to get a concentrated bout of reading in - and that's when I decided it was about time I got around to reading the latest Liaden novel.

. I am still really enjoying the D&D actual play series Natural Six. Each new episode premieres with a half-hour live pre-show on Twitch, with many of the more dedicated fans watching it and chatting together as soon as it premieres; due to time zones, that happens in the wee small hours of the morning here, so I'd always missed it. On my first week of leave, I decided to try getting up early and watching, since missing a few hours of sleep wouldn't be a problem when I didn't have to work later in the day. I made it through the pre-show before deciding that I was way too tired to sit up for another three hours watching the actual episode, or to get any enjoyment out of interacting with the other watchers, and went back to bed. I watched the episode on VOD later in the day, and it was a lot of fun and ended in a really dramatic place.

. During the week, I received a phone call which, after a confusing beginning, turned out to be from someone who was calling because they still had me down as the contact person for the brass band. That reminds me that it's been several years since I last talked about the band here, back when it was starting to rebuild after the pandemic hiatus and the loss of several key members, so I should probably at least mention that I haven't been playing with the band for a few years now; I wasn't comfortable with the direction the band was moving, and, to be fair, would have been uncomfortable in any case since the pandemic had left me with a lingering discomfort with the basic idea of getting together in a group to operate devices that spray bodily fluids into the air. I told myself when I stopped that I'd go back if I found that I missed it, but that hasn't happened yet; I miss in a general way being able to regularly make music with other people, but not the brass band in particular. (And partly that's because one of the reasons I stopped going to the brass band is that not very much time was being spent at the rehearsals actually making music.)

. On the Wednesday, I decided to go and have lunch at the café that recently opened a few blocks up from where I live. It's at least the third café that's tried to make a go of that location since I've been paying attention, and we'll see if it lasts any longer than the previous two. There was a good range of food, but the menus showed signs of being hastily assembled and could have done with at least one more round of proof-reading; I particularly remember that the burger I ate purportedly contained "friend onion".

Fiction books
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars (re-read)
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Ribbon Dance (e)
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Trader's Leap (e) (re-read)
Yoon Ha Lee. Hexarchate Stories (e)
Arthur Upfield. An Author Bites the Dust

In progress
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles (e) (re-read)
David Langford. He Do the Time Police in Different Voices (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
Andrew Ford. Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Joanna Russ. The Female Man (e)

Fiction books
Edward Bellamy. Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Yoon Ha Lee. Revenant Gun (e)
Dave Luckett. A Dark Journey (re-read)
Dave Luckett. A Dark Victory
Dave Luckett. A Dark Winter (re-read)
Jules Verne, tr. Frederick Amadeus Malleson. A Journey to the Center of the Earth
HG Wells. The War of the Worlds (re-read)

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles (e) (re-read)
David Langford. He Do the Time Police in Different Voices (e)
Yoon Ha Lee. Hexarchate Stories (e)

Non-fiction books
AC Grayling. The Good Book

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Joanna Russ. The Female Man (e)

Fiction books
Lee Child. Killing Floor
Timothy Zahn. Spinneret

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)

Abandoned
(anthology) The Workers' Paradise

Non-fiction books
Gerard Jones. Men of Tomorrow

Non-fiction books in progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Ribbon Dance (e)

Fiction books
(anthology). Mists and Magic
Ben Aaronovitch. Remembrance of the Daleks (re-read)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sign of the Four (e) (re-read)
Yoon Ha Lee. Ninefox Gambit (e)
Yoon Ha Lee. Raven Stratagem (e)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Catriona (e)

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)

Picture books
Chris Ferrie. General Relativity for Babies (e)

Non-fiction books
Thom Hartmann. Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class (e)

In progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book
Gerard Jones. Men of Tomorrow

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
(anthology) The Workers' Paradise

Fiction books
Agatha Christie. Peril at End House
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (e) (re-read)
Barbara Hambly. Scandal in Babylon (e)
Katherine Locke. The Girl with the Red Balloon (e)
Mike Mignola. The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects

In progress
(anthology). Mists and Magic
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sign of the Four (e) (re-read)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Catriona (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book
Gerard Jones. Men of Tomorrow

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Thom Hartmann. Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class (e)

Fiction books
Becky Chambers. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. A Study in Scarlet (e) (re-read)
Neil Gaiman. Day of the Dead (e) (re-read)
Thomas Babington Macaulay. Lays of Ancient Rome

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (e) (re-read)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Catriona (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book
Gerard Jones. Men of Tomorrow

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Katherine Locke. The Girl with the Red Balloon (e)

Fiction books
Alan Bennett. The Uncommon Reader
Gail Carriger. Soulless
Catherine Johnson. Mamma Mia!

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. A Study in Scarlet (e) (re-read)
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (e) (re-read)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Catriona (e)

Picture books
Margaret Wild, Jane Tanner. There's a Sea in My Bedroom (re-read)

Non-fiction books in progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book
Gerard Jones. Men of Tomorrow

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Thomas Babington Macaulay. Lays of Ancient Rome

Fiction books
Patricia A. McKillip. Harpist in the Wind (e)
Patricia A. McKillip. Heir of Sea and Fire (e)
Patricia A. McKillip. The Riddle-Master of Hed
Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped (e)
Arthur Upfield. The Devil's Steps (e)

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. A Study in Scarlet (e) (re-read)
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (e) (re-read)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Catriona (e)

Picture books
Michael Dahl, Ethen Beavers. Bedtime for Batman
Oliver Jeffers. Begin Again

Non-fiction books
Neil Gaiman. Adventures in the Dream Trade (e)
Steve Lindstrom. CSS Refactoring (e) (re-read)

Non-fiction books in progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Gail Carriger. Soulless

Fiction books
Ben Aaronovitch. Winter's Gifts (e)
Mary Robinette Kowal. The Calculating Stars (e)
Dave Luckett. Rhianna and the Castle of Avalon
Dave Luckett. Rhianna and the Dogs of Iron
Dave Luckett. Rhianna and the Wild Magic (re-read)
Kim Newman. The Hound of the D'Urbervilles (re-read)
Robert Newman. A Puzzle for Sherlock Holmes (re-read)
Martha Wells. All Systems Red (e) (re-read)
Martha Wells. Artificial Condition (e) (re-read)
Martha Wells. Exit Strategy (e) (re-read)
Martha Wells. Fugitive Telemetry (e) (re-read)
Martha Wells. Network Effect (e) (re-read)
Martha Wells. Rogue Protocol (e) (re-read)
Martha Wells. System Collapse (e)

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (e) (re-read)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
Neil Gaiman. Adventures in the Dream Trade (e)
AC Grayling. The Good Book

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Patricia A. McKillip. The Riddle-Master of Hed

Fiction books
Becky Chambers. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (e)
Diane Duane. Spock's World
Barbara Hambly. Ishmael
Barry Hughart. Bridge of Birds (e) (re-read)
Barry Hughart. Eight Skilled Gentlemen (e)
Barry Hughart. The Story of the Stone (e)
CS Lewis. The Screwtape Letters (e) (re-read)
William Sleator. The Spirit House
Arthur Upfield. Bushranger of the Skies (e)
Arthur Upfield. Death of a Swagman (re-read)

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Mary Robinette Kowal. The Calculating Stars (e)

Fiction books
L Frank Baum. Ozma of Oz (e)
Agatha Christie. The Secret Adversary
Sholly Fisch, Ivan Cohen, Dario Brizuela, Randy Elliott, Scott Jeralds. The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries, Volume 1 (e)
Sholly Fisch, Ivan Cohen, Dario Brizuela, Randy Elliott, Scott Jeralds. The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries, Volume 2 (e)
Sholly Fisch, Ivan Cohen, Matthew Cody, Amanda Deibert, Dario Brizuela, Scott Jeralds, Erich Owen. The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries, Volume 3 (e)
Sholly Fisch, Dario Brizuela, Scott Jeralds, Walter Carzon, Horacio Ottolini. Scooby-Doo Team-Up, Volume 6 (e)
Sholly Fisch, Dario Brizuela, Scott Jeralds, Walter Carzon, Horacio Ottolini. Scooby-Doo Team-Up, Volume 7 (e)
Sholly Fisch, Dario Brizuela, Scott Jeralds, Walter Carzon, Horacio Ottolini. Scooby-Doo Team-Up, Volume 8 (e)
Janet Kagan. Hellspark (e) (re-read)

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
CS Lewis. The Screwtape Letters (e) (re-read)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Kidnapped (e)

Abandoned
Shannon Chakraborty. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (due back at library)

Non-fiction books
Laurie Oakes. Power Plays

In progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
William Sleator. The Spirit House

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