Another year is about to end. Probably the most eventful year of my short, eclectic life. This means that another reading season is over and it's time to hand out Dead End Follies Awards. Simplified formula this year. One post for nominees. One post for winners. Eight categories, that's it. Here are the categories that survived the year :
BEST BOOK COVER
BEST SHORT STORY
BEST SHORT STORY COLLECTION
BEST NEW BOOK (published in 2013)
BEST CRIME NOVEL
BEST LITERARY NOVEL
BEST NEW WRITER
BEST NOVEL
Now, here are the 97 eligible books for this year.
Jedidiah Ayres - F*ckload of Shorts
John Irving - The World According to Garp
Tom Piccirilli - Fuckin’ Lie Down Already
Hilary Davidson - The Next One to Fall
David Cranmer - The Education of a Pulp Writer
Edward Bunker - Education of a Felon
John Rector - Lost Things
Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
James Ellroy - Shakedown
Edward Wright - From Blood
Heath Lowrance - Hawthorne Series No. 1-3
Joshua Davis - John McAfee’s Last Stand
Dennis Lehane - Live By Night
Wajdi Mouawad - Anima
Tom Piccirilli - All You Despise
Joshua Mohr - Fight Song
Pearce Hansen - Stagger Bay
Vince Flynn - Kill Shot
Jim Wilsky & Frank Zafiro - Blood on Blood
Trevanian - Shibumi
Jedidiah Ayres - Fierce Bitches
Hilary Davidson - Evil in All its Disguises
Malachi Stone - Conjurer’s Oath
George V. Higgins - The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Les Edgerton - The Rapist
Jamie Mason - Three Graves Full
Andrew Nette - Ghost Money
Chuck Wendig - Mockingbird
Ray Banks - Wolf Tickets
Dan O’Shea - Penance
Gerard Brennan - Fireproof
Paul Tremblay - Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye
Anonymous 9 - The 1st Short Story Collection
Feeding Kate
Tom Piccirilli - Loss
Chuck Klosterman - Eating the Dinosaur
Max Wilde - Vile Blood
Frank Bill - Donnybrook
Heath Lowrance - City of Heretics
Joe R. Lansdale - Mucho Mojo
Vincent Zandri - Godchild
Noam Chomsky - Power Systems
Craig Wallwork - Quintessence of Dust
Don DeLillo - Falling Man
Aaron Philip Clark - A Healthy Fear of Man
Tom Piccirilli - The Last Whisper in the Dark
Dave Zeltserman - Bad Thoughts
Lee Child - One Shot
Nik Korpon - Bar Scars
Anonymous 9 - Hard Bite
Joe Clifford - Choice Cuts
Alex Garland - The Beach
Bradley Sands - Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You
James Wood - The Fun Stuff and Other Essays
Warren Moore - Broken Glass Waltzes
Anthony Neil Smith - The Baddest Ass
Thomas Harris - Hannibal
Ian Truman - Tales of Lust, Hate & Despair
Douglas Trevor - Girls I know
Les Edgerton - Just Like That
Duane Swierczynski - Point & Shoot
Ryan Sayles - The Subtle Art of Brutality
Hugh Howey - Wool
Court Merrigan - Moondog Over The Mekong
Rob Roberge - Drive
Tom Piccirilli - Nightjack
Richard Godwin - One Lost Summer
Richard Thomas - Herniated Roots
William Peter Blatty - Legion
Roger Smith - Sacrifices
Nik Korpon - Stay God
L.A Noire - The Collected Stories
Harry Crews - A Feast of Snakes
Josh Stallings - All The Wild Children
Harlan Ellison - Harlan Ellison’s Watching
Hilary Davidson - The Black Widow Club
David Foster Wallace - The Pale King
Lee Goldberg & William Rabkin - The Dead Man Vol. 1
Nick Cutter - The Troop
Martin Stanley - The Gamblers
Rob Roberge - The Cost of Living
Rudy Yuly - Sparkle
Steve Weddle - Country Hardball
Jordan Harper - American Death Songs
Richard Thomas - Transubstantiate
Col Bury - The Cops of Manchester
Stephen King - Joyland
Chuck Klosterman - The Visible Man
Jon Bassoff - Corrosion
Ian Truman - The Factory Line
John Rector - Out of the Black
Travis Richardson - Lost in Clover
Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn
Glenn Gray - The Little Boy Inside and Other Stories
Richard Stark - The Hunter
Josh Stallings - One More Body