Corey Pemberton

Writes dark, character-driven fiction. Blogs about creativity.

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Reading Log

For several years now, I’ve attempted to start a reading log that chronicles every novel, short story collection, and non-fiction book I read. The problem? Every log I’ve started until now has ended up scattered across various notebooks, Word documents, and Evernote cards.

Until now.

It’s time to bring everything together. Keeping my reading log online will help me trace my influences as a writer, inspire long-overdue book reviews, and satisfy any curiosity you might have about what I’ve been reading lately.

(Note: I only count works that I’ve read cover to cover. I guess I’m just obsessive compulsive that way.)

2019

  1. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2018

  1. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  2. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story by D.T. Max
  3. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
  4. Horns by Joe Hill
  5. Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
  6. It by Stephen King
  7. Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson
  8. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
  9. Revolting Youth: The Further Journals of Nick Twisp by C.D. Payne
  10. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
  11. Sapiens by Yuval Harari
  12. Save Yourself by Kelly Braffett
  13. Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King
  14. The Imago Sequence by Laird Barron
  15. The New Black: A Neo-Noir Anthology edited by Richard Thomas
  16. The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
  17. The Stranger by Albert Camus
  18. The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone
  19. This Census-Taker by China Mieville
  20. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
  21. Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp by C.D. Payne
  22. Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami
  23. Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
  24. Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson
  25. Dead Boys by Richard Lange
  26. Homo Deus by Yuval Harari
  27. The Lost by Jack Ketchum
  28. I’m Not Sam by Jack Ketchum
  29. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
  30. Firestarter by Stephen King

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People, Places, and Things of Interest

Doing my part to scour the big, bad internet and find the gems. These will mostly be about reading, writing, music, travel, and outdoor adventures. Or maybe I’ll just post funny cat pictures!

  • Dead Robots’ Society podcast
  • Joe Hill
  • John Langan
  • Laird Barron
  • Richard Thomas
  • Paul Tremblay
  • Stephen Graham Jones
  • This Is Horror podcast

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