Recent Books (My Hardboiled Covers Page)
A land more kind than home, Wiley Cash
Only Killers and Thieves, Paul Howarth
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
The Company, Robert Littell
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
The Grifters, Jim Thompson
The Slave, Isaac Bashevis Singer​
Rain Dogs, Adrian McKinty
Pogrom, Steven Zipperstein
Night Life, David Taylor
The Collected Stories, Isaac Babel
Beneath a Scarlet Sky, Mark Sullivan
The Stand, Stephen King
The Kill Artist, Daniel Silva
In the Distance, Hernan Diaz
War at the End of the World, Mario Vargas Llosa
Satan in Goray, Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Last Good Kiss, James Crumley
Killing Rommel, Steven Pressfield
The Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
On Writing, Stephen King
A Rising Man, Abir Mukherjee
Odessa Stories, Isaac Babel
Pumpkinflowers, Matti Friedman
Two Kinds of Truth, Michael Connelly
The Late Show, Michael Connelly
A Simple Story, SY Agnon
The Way Some People Die, Ross MacDonald
The Moor's Account, Laila Lalami
Signals, Tim Gautreaux
She Rides Shotgun, Jordan Harper
Israel, a concise history, Daniel Gordis
UNSUB, Meg Gardiner
The Lion's Gate, Stephen Pressfield
The Force, Don Winslow
The Drifter, Nick Petrie
Gun Street Girl, Adrian McKinty
In the morning I'll be gone, Adrian McKinty
The Tsar of Love and Techno, Anthony Marra
Roman Blood, Steven Saylor
Flesh and Bones​, Paul Levine
Train, Pete Dexter
The Long Home, ​William Gay
Gunshot Straight, Lou Berney
Joe, Larry Brown
I hear the sirens in the street, Adrian McKinty
I hate to see that evening sun go down, William Gay
Chasing Darkness, Robert Crais​
The Cold Cold Ground, Adrian McKinty
The Long and Faraway Gone, Lou Berney
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra

Top Books (ongoing list as they occur to me)
​The Power and the Glory, Grahame Greene
The Razor's Edge, W. Somerset Maugham
Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, Anthony Marra
The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt
Paris Trout, Pete Dexter
Deadwood, Pete Dexter
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Orenda, Joseph Boyden
Lamb, Christopher Moore
Bosch Series, Michael Connelly
Elvis Cole Series, Robert Crais
Joe Pickett Series, CJ Box
Abel Jones Series, Owen Parry
Sean Duffy Series, Adrian McKinty
​Stone City, Mitchell Smith
Treasure of Sierra Madre, B. Traven
​Anything Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Recent Music
The Complete Sessions 1962, Coleman Hawkins Quartet
Freedom is Free, Chicano Batman
Rad Gumbo, Little Feat
​Living Legend, Art Pepper
Retrospective, Emily Remler
High Lonesome Cowboy, Peter Rowan & Don Edwards
​One on One, Stephane Grappelli & McCoy Tyner
Trouble No More (Bootleg Series), Bob Dylan
Last Days of Oakland, Fantastic Negrito
Scandal, Soundprints 
One Word, Hillstomp
​Virtuoso, Joe Pass
Nashville, Bill Frisell
Harmony of Difference, Kamasi Washington
Hudson, Hudson
Trio, Sam Yahel Trio
Stephanova, Stephane Grapelli
Complete Recordings 1953-54, Kenny Drew Trio
Roots, Rosenberg Trio
Freedom Highway, Rhiannon Giddins
Junior's Blues/Happy Time/Big Chief!, Junior Mance Trio
​American Dream, LCD Soundsystem
Hand-crafted Swing, George VanEps & Howard Alden
MoodSwing, Joshua Redman
The Bluegrass Album, Alan Jackson
Apti, Mahanthappa Rudresh's Indo-Pak Coalition
Cosmogram, Hugo Fernandez
​The Journey, Sean Dobbins Organ Quartet
Rights of Swing, Phil Woods
Together at the Bluebird Cafe, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark
The Epic, Kamasi Washington
JJ Cale & Leon Russell at the Paradise Studios, LA 1979, JJ Cale & Leon Russell
Lovers, Nels Cline
Swingin' Stampede, Hot Club of Cowtown
Schmilco, Wilco
22, A Million, Bon Iver
Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula, ​John Zorn
The Fields of November, Norman Blake
The Water is Wide, Charles Lloyd
Rad Gumbo, Little Feat
Alfie, Sonny Rollins
Zodiac Suite: Revisited, Mary Lou Williams Collective
The SteelDrivers, The SteelDrivers
​Suite 4 y 20, Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Resonance, Joe Pass
Hide Head Blues, Jim Mills
1948-1954, Saunders King
Knuckleball Prime, Willie Tea Taylor
Sound & Color, Alabama Shakes

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Top Albums (ongoing list as they occur to me)
London Calling, The Clash
Electric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix
Rumors, Fleetwood Mac
Monk's Dream, Thelonious Monk
The Wall, Pink Floyd
Kind of Blue, Mile Davis
A Love Supreme, John Coltrane
Greens from the Garden, Corey Harris
​Exodus, Bob Marley  & the Wailers
Burnin', Bob Marley  & the Wailers
Souvenirs, Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli
​Full House, Wes Montgomery
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco
​Blood on the Tracks, Bob Dylan
The Complete Recordings, Robert Johnson
​The Infinite, Dave Douglas
​Paradise & Lunch, Ry Cooder
Slant 6 Mind, Greg Brown
Bone Machine, Tom Waits
Paul's Boutique, Bestie Boys
Game Theory, The Roots​
The Bridge, Sonny Rollins
Live in San Francisco, Tabla Beat Science