Read in October

Around these parts, October turned into Starktober, so you'll notice a certain consistency of author to the list below. If you're not a fan of crime fiction, I'm afraid this was a boring month -- I'd apologize, but I've been enjoying myself too much over the past four weeks.

Here's what I read:

Richard Stark, The Score (10/1)

Richard Stark, The Jugger (10/2)

Richard Stark, The Seventh (10/3)

Richard Stark, The Handle (10/4)

Richard Stark, The Damsel (10/6)

Richard Stark, The Rare Coin Score (10/7)

Richard Stark, The Green Eagle Score (10/8)

Roger Ebert, A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length (10/8)

Richard Stark, The Dame (10/9)

Richard Stark, The Black Ice Score (10/10)

Richard Stark, The Sour Lemon Score (10/11)

Darby Conley, The Stinking (10/12)

Joel Rickett, introducer, How to Avoid Huge Ships and Other Implausibly Titled Books (10/13)


Richard Stark, The Blackbird (10/13)

Richard Stark, Deadly Edge (10/14)

Richard Stark, Slayground (10/15)

Richard Stark, Lemons Never Lie (10/16)

Richard Stark, Plunder Squad (10/17)

Richard Stark, Butcher's Moon (10/19)

Richard Stark, Comeback (10/21)

Richard Stark, Backflash (10/22)

Richard Stark, Flashfire (10/23)

Richard Stark, Firebreak (10/24)

Matthew Diffee, editor, The Best of the Rejection Collection (10/24)

Richard Stark, Breakout (10/25)

Richard Stark, Nobody Runs Forever (10/26)

Richard Stark, Ask the Parrot (10/28)

Richard Stark, Dirty Money (10/29)

Donald E. Westlake, Jimmy the Kid (10/30)

Robert Mankoff, editor, The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book (10/30)


I have to thank Richard Stark; I read as many books in October as in just about any three-month period of the past two years.

The non-Stark books all have quick reviews written; those will dole themselves out over the next week, as I'm busy doing other things. And so it's on to November.