- A Technique for Producing Ideas (1940) - James Webb Young (1886-1973)
- A Thousand Naked Strangers (2016) - Kevin Hazzard
- A Treasury of Deception (2005) - Michael Farquhar
- Abaddon’s Gate (2013) - James S.A. Corey (2011-)
- Ancillary Justice (2013) - Ann Leckie (1966-)
- Annihilation (2014) - Jeff VanderMeer (1968-)
- Apocalypse World (2010) - D. Vincent Baker
- Bad Blood (2018) - John Carreyrou
- Being Called to Change (2018) - Dale Halaway
- Blades in the Dark (2016) - John Harper
- Star Wars: Bloodline (2016) - Claudia Gray
- Caliban’s War (2012) - James S.A. Corey (2011-)
- Dark Force Rising (1992) - Timothy Zahn (1951-)
- Deep Carbon Observatory (2014) - Patrick Stuart
- Dogs in the Vineyard (2004) - D. Vincent Baker
- Dungeon World (2012) - Sage LaTorra & Adam Koebel
- Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana (2018) - Michael Witwer
- 52 Pick-Up (1974) - Elmore Leonard (1925-2013)
- Fight Club (1996) - Chuck Palahniuk (1962-)
- Frostbitten and Mutilated (2014) - Zak Smith (1976-)
- Giovanni’s Room (1956) - James Baldwin (1924-1987)
- Heir to the Empire (1991) - Timothy Zahn (1951-)
- Hooked (2013) - Nir Eyal (1980-)
- House of Leaves (2000) - Mark Z. Danielewski (1966-)
- Introducing Bertrand Russell (1998) - Dave Robinson
- Lincoln’s Melancholy (2006) - Joshua Wolf Shenk
- MONEY Master the Game (2014) - Tony Robbins (1960- )
- Night’s Black Agents (2012) - Kenneth Hite (1965-)
- Perennial Seller (2017) - Ryan Holiday (1987-)
- Robin’s Laws of Good Game Mastering (2002) - Robin D. Laws (1964-)
- Swag (1976) - Elmore Leonard (1925-2013)
- The Art of Gathering (2018) - Priya Parker
- The Big Sleep (1939) - Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
- The Drowned Cities (2012) - Paolo Bacigalupi (1972-)
- The Last Command (1993) - Timothy Zahn (1951-)
- The Scarlet Letter (1850) - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1803-1864)
- The Secret History of Star Wars (2008) - Michael Kaminski
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (2016) - Mark Manson (1984-)
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) - Joan Didion (1934-)
- Tower of the Stargazer (2010) - James Edward Raggi IV
- Volo’s Guide to Monsters (2016) - Wizards of the Coast
- Vornheim (2011) - Zak Smith (1976-)
2018 YEAR END TOTALS:
| type | total | % |
|---|
| gnr: | 12 | 28.6% |
| lit: | 4 | 9.5% |
| mm: | 0 | |
| pol: | 1 | 2.4% |
| his: | 7 | 16.7% |
| rpg: | 11 | 26.2% |
| sci: | 1 | 2.4% |
| wis: | 4 | 9.5% |
| biz: | 2 | 4.8% |
- Total Fiction: 16 (38%)
- Total Heavies (pol/his/sci): 9 (21.4%)
- Total Work (wis/biz): 6 (14.3%)
LEGEND
- gnr - (fiction): genre (sff/hor/mys)
- lit - (fiction): literature
- mm - (fiction): mass market
- pol - geopolitics (eco/pol/soc)
- his - history (bio/rel/war)
- rpg - roleplaying games
- sci - science (chem/phy/psych)
- wis - wisdom/self-help/spiritual
- biz - work (craft/mar/copy)
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