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Dan Abnett
Warhammer Black Library
Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker’s Trilogy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe – Douglas Adams
One Story: Guerilla Marketing – Sanjay Agnihotri
One Story: Prairie Fire, 1899 – Mike Alberti
Richard Aleas
Little Girl Lost – Richard Aleas
Songs of Innocence – Richard Aleas
Boss Fight Books: NBA Jam (#21) – Reyan Ali
Boss Fight Books: ZZT (#3) – Anna Anthropy
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World – Donald Antrim
86 Eighty-Six vol. 1 – Asato Asato
Robert Asprin
Myth Adventures
Myth Adventures One – Robert Asprin
Myth Directions / Hit or Myth – Robert Asprin
Losers Live Longer – Russell Atwood
Applewood Books: American Roots: The Passenger Pigeon – John James Audobon
One Story: Rites – Matthew Baker
Iain Banks
Consider Phlebas – Iain M. Banks
John Barth
The Floating Opera – John Barth
Boss Fight Books: Earthbound (#1) – Ken Baumann
One Story: And Then Someone Came From So Very Far Away – Ann Beattie
Pro Physique: An Intro to Flexible Dieting – Stephen Beaugrand and Karina Noboa
Jake Bell
The Amazing Adventures of Nate Banks
The Amazing Adventures of Nate Banks #3: Red Alert – Jake Bell
Straight Cut – Madison Smart Bell
Boss Fight Books (#8): Baldur’s Gate II – Matt Bell
Star vs the Forces of Evil: The Magic Book of Spells – Daron Nefcy, Dominic
Bisignano, Amber Benson, Devin Taylor
One Story: The Third Birdhouse – John Biguenet
Birth. Movies. Death.
Birth. Movies. Death. Batman v Superman Commemorative Issue
Birth. Movies. Death. Civil War Commemorative Issue
Star vs the Forces of Evil: The Magic Book of Spells – Daron Nefcy, Dominic
Bisignano, Amber Benson, Devin Taylor
Spiderweb / Shooting Star – Robert Bloch
Lawrence Block
Grifter’s Game – Lawrence Block
The Girl With the Long Green Heart – Lawrence Block
Lucky at Cards – Lawrence Block
A Diet of Treacle – Lawrence Block
Killing Castro – Lawrence Block
Catch and Release – Lawrence Block
Getting Off – Lawrence Block (as Jill Emerson)
69 Barrow Street – Lawrence Block
Strange Embrace – Lawrence Block
Strange Embrace / 69 Barrow Street – Lawrence Block
One Story: Case Studies – Charles Bock
One Teen Story: Toby – Lily Boyd
Randall Boyll
Darkman
Darkman 1: The Hangman – Randall Boyll
Darkman 2: The Price of Fear – Randall Boyll
Darkman 4: In the Face of Death – Randall Boyll
One Story: What Is Behind – Tomiko Breland
The Vengeful Virgin – Gil Brewer
Ken Bruen
Bust – Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
Slide – Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
The Max – Jason Starr and Ken Bruen
PIMP – Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
Boss Fight Books: Metal Gear Solid (#9) – Ashly & Anthony Burch
“But… I Can’t Do Anything Else!”: the art of Rob Schrab
The Cocktail Waitress – James M. Cain
Bonnie Jo Campbell
One Story: Mothers, Tell Your Daughters – Bonnie Jo Campbell
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters – Bonnie Jo Campbell
Michael Carroll
Judge Dredd Year One: The Cold Light of Day – Michael Carroll
Judge Dredd Year One Omnibus – Michael Carroll, Al Ewing, Matt Smith
Judge Dredd Year Two: The Righteous Man – Michael Carroll
Judge Dredd Year Two Omnibus – Michael Carroll, Cavan Scott, Matt Smith
Judges: The Avalanche – Michael Carroll
Ghosts and Ruins – Ben Catmull
Farewell, My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
Mindsploitation – Vernon Chatman
George Chesbro
Mongo
Shadow of a Broken Man – George C. Chesbro
The Fear in Yesterday’s Rings – George Chesbro
One Story: Bursk’s Cutting Board – Scott Cheshire
Max Allan Collins
Two For the Money – Max Allan Collins
Deadly Beloved – Max Allan Collins
The Consummata – Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
Seduction of the Innocent – Max Allan Collins
Quarry
The First Quarry – Max Allan Collins
Quarry’s Ex – Max Allan Collins
Quarry’s Choice – Max Allan Collins
The Wrong Quarry – Max Allan Collins
Quarry in the Middle – Max Allan Collins
The Last Quarry – Max Allan Collins
One Story: Our New Lives – Helen Coats
Boss Fight Books: Kingdom Hearts II (#16) – Alexa Ray Corriea
Boss Fight Books: Shovel Knight (#19) – David L. Craddock
The Crash Bandicoot Files: How Willy the Wombat Sparked Marsupial Mania
Michael Crichton
Odds On – Michael Crichton (writing as John Lange)
Scratch One – Michael Crichton (writing as John Lange)
Easy Go – Michael Crichton (writing as John Lange)
Zero Cool – Michael Crichton (writing as John Lange)
The Venom Business – Michael Crichton (writing as John Lange)
Drug of Choice – Michael Crichton (writing as John Lange)
Grave Descend – Michael Crichton (writing as John Lange)
Binary – Michael Crichton (writing as John Lange)
Boss Fight Books: Final Fantasy IV (#28) – Sebastian Deken
The Fall (The Strain Trilogy book 2) – Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Honey in His Mouth – Lester Dent
EMS Synthi 100 – David & Stephen Dewaele
One Story: Durga Sweets – Chitra Danerjee Divakaruni
David Dodge
Plunder of the Sun – David Dodge
The Ultimate Anabolic Cookbook 2.0 (HC edition) – Greg Doucette
The Valley of Fear – A.C. Doyle
One Story: Optimistic People – Chris Drangle
Time Troop (#1 – 3) – Dr. Herodotus
Boss Fight Books: Silent Hill 2 (#27) – Mike Drucker
Gabe Durham
Boss Fight Books (#7): Bible Adventures – Gabe Durham
Boss Fight Books: Majora’s Mask (#26) – Gabe Durham
Web of the City – Harlan Ellison
Mateo and the Flower of the Rain – Moisés Escudero
Al Ewing
Judge Dredd Year One: Wear Iron – Al Ewing
Judge Dredd Year One Omnibus – Michael Carroll, Al Ewing, Matt Smith
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Visual History – Andrew Farago
Christa Faust
One Story: Queen Elizabeth – Brad Felver
One Story: Safety – Lydia Fitzpatrick
The Secret History of Twin Peaks – Mark Frost
Erle Stanley Gardner
Top of the Heap – Erle Stanley Gardner
The Book of Qualities – J. Ruth Gendler
Understanding Movies (8th Edition) – Louis Giannetti
One Story: The Savior of Gladstone County – J.F. Glubka
The Cabin in the Woods: The Official Visual Companion – Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
Moldy Castle is a Band – Billie Goltz
The Wounded and the Slain – David Goodis
Kiss Her Goodbye – Allan Guthrie
The 100 Unwritten Norwegian Social Law – Egil Aslak A. Hagerup
Boss Fight Books: Katamari Damacy (#17) – L.E. Hall
One Story: Goodnight, Nobody – Sarah Hall
Murder is My Business – Brett Halliday
The Guns of Heaven – Pete Hamill
Night Walker – Donald Hamilton
One Story: A Month on Greene Street – Tom Hanks
One Story: Storm Windows – Charles Haverty
Joseph Heller
Something Happened – Joseph Heller
The Devotion of Subject X – Keigo Higashino
Patricia Highsmith
Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Ripley Under Ground – Patricia Highsmith
The Boy Who Followed Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Ripley Under Water – Patricia Highsmith
Those Who Walk Away – Patricia Highsmith
The Fall (The Strain Trilogy book 2) – Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
One Story: Where the Bees Are Going – Andy Holt
One Teen Story: Bulletin Board Dragon – Lilly Hunt
Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Bros. 2 (#6) – Jon Irwin
Attack on Titan: Short Stories – Hajime Isayama
Boss Fight Books: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (#20) – Alex Kane
Boss Fight Books: Jagged Alliance 2 (#5) – Darius Kazemi
Home is the Sailor – Day Keene
Boss Fight Books: Galaga (#4) – Michael Kimball
One Story: When in the Dordogne – Lily King
Stephen King
The Colorado Kid – Stephen King
Boss Fight Books: Super Mario Bros. 3 (#13) – Alyse Knorr
Boss Fight Books: Soft & Cuddly (#15) – Jarett Kobek
False Negative – Joseph Koenig
Boss Fight Books: Final Fantasy V (#18) – Chris Kohler
One Story: A Party for the Colonel – F.T. Kola
One Story: The Pole of Cold – Erika Krouse
John Lange
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John le Carré
One Story: The Quality of Your Life – Min Jin Lee
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race – Thomas Ligotti
Sam Lipsyte
The Subject Steve – Sam Lipsyte
Boss Fight Books: World of Warcraft (#12) – Daniel Lisi
Bald New World – Peter Tieryas Liu
One Story: Are You Mine and No One Else’s – Danny Lorberbaum
The Making of Earthworm Jim – Doug TenNapel and Mark Lorenzen
Scrum: A Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction – Chris Sims & Hillary Louise Johnson
H.P. Lovecraft
The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft – H.P. Lovecraft, edited by S.T. Joshi (1997, Dell)
The Colour Out of Space – H.P. Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror – H.P. Lovecraft
The Rats in the Walls – H.P. Lovecraft
Sherlock Sam and the Missing Heirloom in Katong: Case 1 – A. J. Low
One Story: The Elephant’s Foot – Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Collectibles – Matt MacNabb with Robert Barbieri
How To Take Care of Your Human: A Beginner’s Guide for Cacti – Marianna Madriz
Boss Fight Books: Red Dead Redemption (#24) – Matt Margini
James Maxey
Ed McBain
The Gutter and the Grave – Ed McBain
Phantasm Exhumed – Dustin McNeill
Elric: The Stealer of Souls: Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné vol. 1 – Michael Moorcock
Brighter Than You Think: 10 Short Works by Alan Moore – Alan Moore / Marc Sobel
The Knights Tales Book 2: The Adventures of Sir Givret the Short – Gerald Morris
Iris Murdoch
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
The Sea, the Sea – Iris Murdoch
Created, the Destroyer (The Destroyer, Book 1) – Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
Baccano! vol. 1: The Rolling Bootlegs – Ryohgo Narita
Star vs the Forces of Evil: The Magic Book of Spells – Daron Nefcy, Dominic
Bisignano, Amber Benson, Devin Taylor
Brave Ollie Possum – Ethan Nicolle
The Art of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Ciero Nieli
B^F: The Novelization of the Feature Film – Ryan North
One Story: The Woman in the Window – Joyce Carol Oates
Boss Fight Books: Mega Man 3 (#14) – Salvatore Pane
Passport to Peril – Robert B. Parker
One Story: Switzerland – Ann Patchett
The Journal of Philip Von Tik – Thee Contortionists (Tyson Platt)
The Corpse Wore Pasties – Johnny Porkpie
Say It With Bullets – Richard Powell
Boss Fight Books: Postal (#23) – Brock Wilbur & Nathan Rabin
The Westing Game – Ellen Raskin
One Story: Faint of Heart – Amanda Rea
Boss Fight Books: Resident Evil (#25) – Philip J. Reed
The Murderer Vine – Shepard Rifkin
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber – Julian Rubenstein
Greg Rucka
Atticus Kodiak
Batman: No Man’s Land – Greg Rucka
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark: Initial Vector – Greg Rucka
Queen & Country
A Gentleman’s Game – Greg Rucka
One Story: The King of the Animals – Josh Russell
Created, the Destroyer (The Destroyer, Book 1) – Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir
One Story: An Oral History of the Next Battle of the Sexes – Lucas Schaefer
Love is Walking Hand in Hand – Charles Schulz
Jon Scieszka
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor (Frank Einstein 1) – Jon Scieszka
Cavan Scott
Judge Dredd Year Two: Alternative Facts – Cavan Scott
Judge Dredd Year Two Omnibus – Michael Carroll, Cavan Scott, Matt Smith
The Art of God of War – Evan Shamoon
Witness to Myself – Seymour Shubin
Blood on the Mink – Robert Silverberg
Scrum: A Breathtakingly Brief and Agile Introduction – Chris Sims & Hillary Louise Johnson
One Story: Staff Picks – George Singleton
One Story: North – Aria Beth Sloss
Matt Smith
Judge Dredd Year One: City Fathers – Matt Smith
Judge Dredd Year One Omnibus – Michael Carroll, Al Ewing, Matt Smith
Judge Dredd Year Two: Down and Out – Matt Smith
Judge Dredd Year Two Omnibus – Michael Carroll, Cavan Scott, Matt Smith
Lemony Snicket
All the Wrong Questions
All the Wrong Questions 1: “Who Could That Be at This Hour?” – Lemony Snicket
All the Wrong Questions 2: “When Did You See Her Last?” – Lemony Snicket
All the Wrong Questions 3: “Shouldn’t You Be in School?” – Lemony Snicket
All the Wrong Questions 4: “Why is This Night Different From All Other Nights?” – Lemony Snicket
Brighter Than You Think: 10 Short Works by Alan Moore – Alan Moore / Marc Sobel
Mickey Spillane
The Consummata – Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
The Confession – Dominic Stansberry
Lemons Never Lie – Richard Stark
Jason Starr
Bust – Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
Slide – Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
The Max – Jason Starr and Ken Bruen
PIMP – Ken Bruen and Jason Starr
Neal Stephenson
The Mongoliad
Steve Gerber: Conversations – edited by Jason Sacks, Eric Hoffman, and Dominick Grace
Rhytz of Rocque: The Flyer Art of Reuben Storey – Reuben Storey
One Story: The Crazies – Maud Streep
Boss Fight Books: Breakout: Pilgrim in the Microworld (#22) – David Sudnow
One Story: All Lateral – Matt Sumell
Boss Fight Books: Shadow of the Colossus (#10) – Nick Suttner
Star vs the Forces of Evil: The Magic Book of Spells – Daron Nefcy, Dominic
Bisignano, Amber Benson, Devin Taylor
The Making of Earthworm Jim – Doug TenNapel and Mark Lorenzen
Kill Now, Pay Later – Robert Terrall
Twisted Visions: The Art of Junji Ito HC – edited by Masumi Washington
One Story: Tell Us You Were Here – Anne Valente
Jack Vance
The Demon Princes
The Demon Princes: The Star King – Jack Vance
The Demon Princes: The Killing Machine – Jack Vance
The Demon Princes: The Palace of Love – Jack Vance
The Demon Princes vol. 1 (Orb edition, 1997) – Jack Vance
Tales of the Dying Earth
Tales of the Dying Earth – Jack Vance (Orb, 1994 edition)
Tales of the Dying Earth: The Dying Earth – Jack Vance
Tales of the Dying Earth: The Eyes of the Overworld – Jack Vance
Tales of the Dying Earth: Cugel’s Saga – Jack Vance
Tales of the Dying Earth: Rhialto the Marvellous – Jack Vance
Everything Can Be Beaten – Jhonen Vasquez (as Chancre Scolex)
Shawn Vestal
One Story: Please Give Me One Good Reason Not to Hate You – Shawn Vestal
Vice: The Comics Issue (Vol. 13, Number 5)
Thieves Fall Out – Gore Vidal (writing as Cameron Kay)
One Teen Story: Guts – Gnesis Villar
The Secret Lives of Married Women – Elissa Wald
The Four Just Men – Edgar Wallace
One Story: Bayou – Bryan Washington
Peter Watts
The Freeze-Frame Revolution – Peter Watts
Rifters
Behemoth, Part One: B-Max – Peter Watts
Behemoth: Seppuku – Peter Watts
An Ordinary Spy – Joseph Weisburg
Donald Westlake
Somebody Owes Me Money – Donald Westlake
The Cutie – Donald E. Westlake
The Comedy is Finished – Donald Westlake
The Cabin in the Woods: The Official Visual Companion – Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard
One Story: An Inventory – Joan Wickersham
Boss Fight Books: Postal (#23) – Brock Wilbur & Nathan Rabin
A Touch of Death – Charles Williams
Boss Fight Books: Chrono Trigger (#2) – Michael P. Williams
The Twenty-Year Death – Ariel S. Winter
Who Censored Roger Rabbit? – Gary K. Wolf
John Dies at the End – David Wong
Boss Fight Books: Spelunky (#11) – Derek Yu
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