The Dragon's Cache: my review at Comic Book Dispatch

Reading List 2021

A A Milne: When We Were Young
Alex Irvine: Transformers: Exiles
Alice Muriel Williamson: The Castle of Shadows
Alice Muriel Williamson: The Girl Who Had Nothing
Alice Muriel Williamson: The Motor Maid
Alice Muriel Williamson: The Second Latchkey
Amor Towles: A Gentleman in Moscow
Andrew Adams: Ninja: The Invisible Assassins
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World
Ben Bova: Exiles
Ben Bova: Kinsman
Christopher Wood: The Spy Who Loved Me
Connie Palmen: Your Story, My Story
Dan Brown: Origin
David Gerrold: Chess with a Dragon
David Weber: The Honor of the Queen
Eric Idle: The Road To Mars
Frederik Pohl: Gateway
Gavin Smith: Bloodshot
H G Wells: Marriage
H G Wells: The New Machiavelli
J S Fletcher: In the Days of Drake
Janet Evanovich: Twisted Twenty-Six
Kim Stanley Robinson: A Short, Sharp Shock
Kim Stanley Robinson: Green Earth
Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry of the Future
Mackenzi Lee: Loki: Where Mischief Lies
Martin Day: Bunker Soldiers
Michael Crichton: Jurassic Park
P G Wodehouse: A Damsel in Distress
P G Wodehouse: A Prefect's Uncle
P G Wodehouse: Indiscretions Of Archie
P G Wodehouse: Love Among The Chickens
P G Wodehouse: Not George Washington
Peter O'Donnell: A Taste for Death
Philip Hinchcliffe: Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus
Rick Riordan: The Sword of Summer
Robert E Howard: Conan The Barbarian Collection
Robert Hugh Benson: The Lord of the World
Roger Zelazny: A Dark Traveling
Royd Tolkien: There's a Hole in my Bucket
Steven Brust: The Baron of Magister Valley
Terrance Dicks: Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders
Terrance Dicks: The Three Doctors
Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter: The Long Earth
Terry Pratchett: Equal Rites
Terry Pratchett: Men At Arms
Terry Pratchett: Small Gods
Terry Pratchett: The Color of Magic
Veronica Henry: Bacchanal
Weina Dai Randel: The Last Rose of Shanghai

Books I Enjoyed in 2020

Allison Winn Scotch: Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Morrison: Chronicles of Martin Hewitt
Arthur Morrison: Martin Hewitt Investigator
Bernard Knight: The Sanctuary Seeker
David Weber: On Basilisk Station
Douglas Adams: Life the Universe and Everything
Douglas Adams: Mostly Harmless
Douglas Adams: So Long and Thanks for all the Fish
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
E. F. Benson: Limitations
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Gods Of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Jungle Tales of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Son Of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan & the Jewels of Opar
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Beasts of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Warlord Of Mars
Elizabeth Rudnick: Dead Men Tell No Tales (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Epictetus: The Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Gary Russell: Beautiful Chaos (Doctor Who)
H. G. Wells: The History of Mr. Polly
H. Rider Haggard: The Ivory Child
Hans Christian Anderson: Complete Fairy Tales
Hourly History: Celtic Mythology
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters & the Ice Carnaval Mystery
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters & the Mystery of the Totem Faces
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters & the Old Clipper Ship
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters at Lizard Cove
John Lydecker: Terminus (Doctor Who)
John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids
Joy Jordan-Lake: Under a Gilded Moon
K. H. Scheer: The Cosmic Decoy (Perry Rhodan)
Katrin Schumann: This Terrible Beauty
Kevin J. Anderson: Blindfold
Kevin Wignall: The Names of the Dead
Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Moon
Larry Correia: Monster Hunters International
Marcus Aurelius: The Meditations
Martin L. Shoemaker: The Last Dance
Matthew Costello: The Island of the Skull (King Kong)
Michael Bond: Love From Paddington
Michael Bond: Paddington At Large
Michael Bond: Paddington At Work
Michael Bond: Paddington Goes To Town
Michael Bond: Paddington Marches On
P. G. Wodehouse: Something New
Peter F. Hamilton: The Abyss Beyond Dreams
Phil K. Dick: Time Traveler Tales
Philip Pullman: Spring-Heeled Jack
Poul Anderson: The Game of Empire
Reginald Hill: Exit Lines
Rick Riordan: Demigods & Magicians
Rick Riordan: The Demigod Diaries
Rick Riordan: The Red Pyramid
Rick Riordan: The Serpent's Shadow
Rick Riordan: The Throne of Fire
Robert Maselo: The Haunting of H. G. Wells
Robert Silverberg: Across a Billion Years
Robert Silverberg: Hawksbill Station
Roger Zelazny: A Night in the Lonesome October
Sebrem Isignuzel: The Girl in the Tree
Terry Pratchett: Raising Steam
Thomas Burnett Swann: Lady of the Bees
Tim Powers: The Anubis Gates
Timothy Zahn: Dragon And Thief
Various: From a Certain Point of View (Star Wars)
William K. Hartman: Mars Underground
William Shatner: Leonard

Books I Enjoyed in 2019

Agatha Christie: N Or M?
Agatha Christie: Poirot's Early Cases
Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders
Agatha Christie: The Sittaford Mystery
Alain Paillou: Agatha Christie's The Big Four
Andy Lane & Jim Mortimore: Lucifer Rising
Baroness Emma Orczy: Fire In Stubble
Don Wood: Into The Volcano
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Return Of Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Mad King
Forstchen & Fawcett: It Seemed Like A Good Idea
Frank Herbert, Brian Herber & Kevin J. Anderson: The Road to Dune
H. G. Wells: Ann Veronica
H. G. Wells: Tono-Bungay
H. Rider Haggard: She And Allan
Ian Marter: Doctor Who & the Enemy of the World
Ian Stuart Black: The Savages
J. S. Fletcher: Scarhaven Keep
J. S. Fletcher: The Middle of Things
Janet Evanovich: Look Alive Twenty-Five
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters & the Merry-Go-Round Mystery
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters & the Secret Fort
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters & the Trading Post Mystery
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters at Circus Island
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters at Pony Hill Farm
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters at Snowflake Camp
John Grisham: The Client
John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids
Kathryn M. Drennan: To Dream in the City of Sorrows
Kevin J. Anderson: Spine of the Dragon
Luanne G. Smith: The Vine Witch
Luke Jerod Kummer: The Blue Period
Marlowe Benn: Relative Fortunes
Michael Bond: Love From Paddington
Morgan Rice: Rise of the Dragons
Peter F. Hamilton: Mindstar Rising
Plato: Apology, Crito & Phaedo
Rick Riordan: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Rick Riordan: The Blood of Olympus
Rick Riordan: The House of Hades
Rick Riordan: The Last Olympian
Rick Riordan: The Lost Hero
Rick Riordan: The Mark of Athena
Rick Riordan: The Son of Neptune
Rick Riordan: The Titan's Curse
Robert E. Howard: A Gent from Bear Creek
Robert E. Howard: The Hour of the Dragon
Roger Zelazny: Changling
Somerville & Ross: Further Experiences of an Irish P.M.
Sommerville & Ross: In Mr. Knox's Country
Steven Brust: Jhereg
Steven Brust: Teckla
Steven Brust: The Paths of the Dead
Steven Brust: Yendi
Terrance Dicks: Doctor Who & The Abominable Snowmen
Terry Pratchett: Reaper Man
Timothy Zahn: Cobra
Ursula K. Le Guin: A Wizard of Earthsea
Vanessa Lillie: Little Voices
W. J. Burley: Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue
Werner Sonne: Where The Desert Meets The Sea
Yvonne Fern: Gene Roddenberry The Last Conversation

Books I Enjoyed in 2018

A.A. Milne: Once Upon A Time
Addison E. Steele: Buck Rogers--That Man on Beta
Agatha Christie & Charles Osborne: Black Coffee
Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express
Al Ewing: Afterlife (Doctor Who)
Al Sarrantonio: Personal Agendas (Babylon 5)
Alastair Reynolds: Harvest Of Time (Doctor Who)
Ashley & Leslie Saunders: The Rule Of One
Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson: Hellhole
Clifford D. Simak: Project Pope
Colin Brake: The Price of Paradise (Doctor Who)
Donald Cotton: The Gunfighters (Doctor Who)
Donald Cotton: The Myth Makers (Doctor Who)
Edgar Rice Burroughs: At The Earth's Core
Emma Orczy: A True Woman
Emma Orczy: Petticoat Government
Emma Orczy: The Elusive Pimpernel
Emma Orczy: The Nest of the Sparrowhawk
Emma Orczy: The Noble Rogue
Gareth Roberts: The Highest Science (Doctor Who)
H. Rider Haggard: Allan's Wife
H. Rider Haggard: Child Of Storm
H. Rider Haggard: Marie
H. Rider Haggard: The Holy Flower
Harry Harrison: Deathworld
Harry Harrison: Planet of the Damned
Harry Harrison: Sense Of Obligation
Harry Harrison: The Ethical Engineer
James Herriot: J.H.'s Treasury For Children
Janet Evanovich: High Five
Janet Evanovich: Hot Six
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters & the Indian Treasure
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters at Mystery Mountain
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters at Sea Gull Beach
Jerry West: The Happy Hollisters on a River Trip
John Lucarotti: The Massacre (Doctor Who)
John Peel: War of the Daleks (Doctor Who)
Jonathan Stroud: Bartimaeus
Karl Taro Greenfeld: True
Lemony Snicket: The Wide Window
Michael Bond: Paddington Abroad
Michael Moorcock: The Warlord of the Air
Neil Penswick: The Pit (Doctor Who)
Nevil Shute: So Disdained
Nevil Shute: The Old Captivity
P.G. Wodehouse: My Man Jeeves
Pat Shand: Space Riot (Guardians of the Galaxy)
Peter Darvill-Evans: Deceit (Doctor Who)
Rick Riordan: The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan: The Sea of Monsters
Robert Silverberg: Starman's Quest
Roger Zelazny: A Night in Lonesome October
Rudyard Kipling: The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling: The Second Jungle Book
Somerville & Ross: Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.
Steve Lyons: The Witch Hunters (Doctor Who)
Steven Brust: Vallista
Terry Pratchett: Mort
Terry Pratchett: The Wee Free Men
Various Authors: A Very Austen Christmas

Books I Enjoyed in 2017

Anderson & Moesta: Lightsabers
Archer, Jeffrey: Shall We Tell The President
Atkinson, Kate: Case Histories
Balch & Poythress: Tales of the Cinnamon Dragon
Benson, E.F.: Scarlet And Hyssop
Blum, Vicki: The Dragon Prince
Bond, Michael: More About Paddington
Bond, Michael: Paddington Helps Out
Bowen, Rhys: In Farleigh Field
Brust, Steven: Five Hundred Years After
Christie, Agatha: The Secret Adversary
Conrad, Joseph: Heart Of Darkness
Cover, A. Byron: Night of the Living Rerun
Davis, Gerry: The Highlanders
Dicks, Terrance: Doctor Who and the Web of Fear
Doyle, Arthur Conan: His Last Bow
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan: The White Company
Doyle, Arthur Conan: Vampire Stories
Emms, William: Galaxy Four
Evanovich & Hughes: Full House
Evanovich, Janet: Four To Score
Evanovich, Janet: Three to get Deadly
Evanovich, Janet: Two for the Dough
Fleming, Ian: Casino Royale
Gash, Jonathan: The Judas Pair
Gatiss, Mark: The Roundheads
Gerrold, David: The Trouble with Tribbles
Haggard, H. Rider: King Soloman's Mines
Johnson, Kenneth: The Man of Legends
Melville, Herman: Billy Budd
Melville, Herman: Israel Potter
Melville, Herman: Mardi and a Voyage Hither
Melville, Herman: The Confidence Man
Milne, A.A.: Winnie The Pooh
Orczy, Emma: A Son of the People
Orczy, Emma: I Will Repay
Orczy, Emma: In Mary's Reign
Orczy, Emma: The Emperor's Candlesticks
Orczy, Emma: The Gates of Kamt
Orczy, Emma: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Pratchett, Terry: The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner
Richards, Justin: The Clockwise Man
Roberts, Gareth: The English Way of Death
Robinson, Kim Stanley: New York 2140
Snicket, Lemony: The Bad Beginning
Snicket, Lemony: The Reptile Room
Steele, Addison E.: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
Stohl, Margaret: Black Widow Forever Red
Verne, Jules: From the Earth to the Moon
Wells, H.G.: In the Days of the Comet
Wells, H.G.: The War in the Air
White, James: Hospital Station
White, James: Star Surgeon
Williams, Dee: Annie of Albert Mews

Books I Enjoyed in 2016

A. C. Crispin: Yesterday's Son (Star Trek)
Agatha Christie: Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie: Partners In Crime
Agatha Christie: Problem at Pollensa Bay
Agatha Christie: The Labours of Hercules
Agatha Christie: The Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha Christie: The Secret of Chimneys
Agatha Christie: Thirteen At Dinner
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Valley of Fear
Arthur Machen: The Angels of Mons, The Bowmen, & Other Legends of the War
Avram Davidson: Peregrin Primus
Ben Aaronovitch: Transit (Doctor Who)
Bernard Knight: Crowner's Crusade
Charles Dickens: The Pickwick Papers
Charlotte Bronte: Shirley
Christopher Mari & Jeremy K Brown: Ocean Of Storms
E. F. Benson: Six Common Things
E. F. Benson: The Babe, B.A.
Fred Saberhagen: The First Book of Swords
Gail Carriger: Soulless
Gordon Eklund: Devil World (Star Trek)
H. G. Wells: A Modern Utopia
H. G. Wells: Kipps
H. G. Wells: The Food of the Gods
H. G. Wells: The Sea Lady
Henry Kingsley: Ravenshoe
Herman Melville: Omoo
James Welldon: Gerald Eversley's Friendship
Jane Austen: Lady Susan
Jane Austen: Love And Freindship
Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen: Persuasion
Jane Lindskold: Artemis Invaded
Janet Evanovich: Tricky Twenty-Two
Jeanne Cavelos: The Shadow Within (Babylon 5)
Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows
Kevin J. Anderson & Steven Savile: Tau Ceti
L Sprague de Camp: Conan and the Spider God
Libbie Hawker: Daughter of Sand and Stone
Malcolm Hulke: Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon
Peter F. Hamilton: The Dreaming Void
Roald Dahl: The BFG
Robert B Parker: Resolution
Robert E Howard, L Sprague de Camp, & Lin Carter: Conan
S. M. Stirling: Betrayals (Babylon 5)
Stan Lee & Stuart Moore: Convergence
Walter R Brooks: Freddy Goes to the North Pole
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
William Shatner: Captain's Glory (Star Trek)

Books I Enjoyed in 2015

Agatha Christie: Poirot Investigates
Agatha Christie: The Big Four
Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie: The Murder on the Links
Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie: The Secret Adversary
Alex Irvine: The Ultimates: Against All Enemies
Andrew Cartmel: Cat's Cradle: Warhead
Andrew Hunt: Cat's Cradle Witchmark
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Total Recall
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of the Four
Baroness Emma Orczy: I Will Repay
Baroness Emma Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Bernard Knight: The Noble Outlaw
C. S. Lewis: Till We Have Faces
Carrie L. Lewis: Colored Pencils--The Complimentary Method
Charles Kingsley: Westward Ho!
Charles Kingsley: Yeast, A Problem
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: False Dawn
Cuthbert Bede: The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green
Diane Carey: STTMP: Ghost Ship
E. F. Benson: Limitations
E. F. Benson: Mammon And Company
Edgar Rice Burroughs: Out of Time's Abyss
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Land That Time Forgot
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The People That Time Forgot
Francois Riviere: In the Footsteps of Agatha Christie
H. G. Wells: First Men in the Moon
H. G. Wells: Love and Mr. Lewisham
H. G. Wells: The Invisible Man
H. G. Wells: The Island of Dr. Moreau
H. G. Wells: The Sleeper Awakes
H. G. Wells: The Time Machine
H. G. Wells: The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells: The Wheels of Chance
H. G. Wells: The Wonderful Visit
Harry Harrison: Starworld
Herman Melville: Typee
James L. Sutter: Death's Heretic
Jane Lindskold: Artemis Awakening
Jules Verne: Around the World in 80 Days
K. W. Jeter: Morlock Night
Karen Haber & Robert Silverberg: The Mutant Season
Karen Haber: Mutant Prime
Michael Bond: A Bear Called Paddington
Michael Bond: The Paddington Treasury
Neal Barrett Jr: The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Philip Jose Farmer: The Fabulous Riverboat
Philip Jose Farmer: To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Richard Castle: A Brewing Storm
Roald Dahl: James and the Giant Peach
Rob MacGregor: Indiana Jones and the Peril at Delphi
Robert B. Parker: Appaloosa
Robert Hugh Benson: A Mirror of Shalott
Robert Hugh Benson: Lord of the World
Robert Sheckley: The Status Civilization
Robert Silverberg: Downward to the Earth
Robert Silverberg: The Longest Way Home
Roger Moore: Last Man Standing
Roger Zelazny: A Night in Lonesome October
Roy MacGregor: Attack on the Tower of London
Ruth Stiles Gannett: Elmer and the Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett: My Father's Dragon
Ruth Stiles Gannett: The Dragons of Blueland
Steven Brust: Hawk
Steven Brust: Iorich
Steven Brust: Jhegaala
Steven Brust: Tiassa
Suzy England: To The Manor Born
Terry Brooks: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
Terry Pratchett: Dragons at Crumbling Castle
Tom Baker: The Boy Who Kicked Pigs