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01 January 2015
On the ShortRead, we bring you bring you an extract from the latest book worthy of your attention every Wednesday. We're generous like that. Gritty dramas, murderous thrillers, sci-fi epics, non-fiction knowledge enhancers: the ink will still be wet and your book club won't have read it.
Below are all of the titles we shared with you in 2014. If you're looking for a new read, you'll find something worthy of your attention below.
Anger is an energy by John Lydon
The MeatLIQUOR Chronicles by Yianni Papoutsis and Scott Collins
Peripheral by William Gibson
THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE BY GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
REVIVAL BY STEPHEN KING
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Extinction Game by Gary Gibson
Perfidia by James Ellroy
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer
The Pointless Book by Alfie Deyes
A Possibility of Violence by D.A. Mishani
Personal by Lee Child
COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE by HARUKI MURAKAMI
Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb
Breakfast with the Borgias by DBC Pierre
The Final Silence by Stuart Neville
The Traitor's Heir by Anna Thayer
Cop Town by Karin Slaughter
Half a King by Joe Abercrombie
Heartman by M.P. Wright
Lobsters by Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison
Want You Dead by Peter James
Caught Short by Anthony Horowitz
No Harm Can Come To A Good Man by James Smythe
The Murder Bag by Tony Parsons
The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins by Irvine Welsh
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
Natchez Burning by Greg Iles
Who is Tom Ditto by Danny Wallace
The Girl who saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
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