The Abominable Dan Simmons
After Dark, My Sweet Jim Thompson
Archaeologies of the Future Fredric Jameson
The Burden Agatha Christie
The Deep Peter Benchley
Demand the Impossible Tom Moylan (though I have long settled for the smart and lovely Tom Moylan)
Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault
Drown Junot Díaz (sorry, Junot!)
The Ecstatic Victor LaValle
Everything Belongs to the Future Laurie Penny
Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler
Fifty Degrees Below Kim Stanley Robinson
The Gradual Christopher Priest
The Hollow Agatha Christie
The Hollow Man Dan Simmons
The Human Stain Philip Roth (although he undoubtedly prefers to contemplate The Professor of Desire Philip Roth)
Leather Maiden Joe R. Lansdale (sorry, Joe, but it’s how I picture you now whenever I hear your name)
Mr Britling Sees It Through H.G. Wells
Occupy Noam Chomsky
The Peripheral William Gibson (remember when he was absolutely central?)
The Queen’s Fool Philippa Gregory
Search and Destroy Tom Clancy
Serenade James M. Cain
Signatures of the Visible Fredric Jameson
Sixty Days and Counting Kim Stanley Robinson
Stone Adam Roberts (sorry, Adam, but at least I’m not advocating people Splinter Adam Roberts, like you’re a log, or Salt Adam Roberts like you’re some kind of slug – and of course I always really think of you as The Thing Itself)
Terrorist John Updike
Together We Kill Mickey Spillane
The Transparency of Evil Jean Baudrillard (bestselling sequel to The OHP of Evil Jean Baudrillard)
We Can Build You Philip K. Dick