paced reading horror and thrillers discussion

RachelvlehcaR had the idea to do a "Literature Map" challenge. If you go to the link to the Literature Map - HERE - you can type in an author's name and it gives you a map of related authors.

For this challenge, we'll all start with the same author. From there, for the rest of the year, we'll each choose which related author to move onto, leaving a 'literature trail' behind us :) Hopefully we'll discover some great new reads, maybe even some great new authors!

Anyone is welcome to join in! Remember to save a space below to leave your 'literature trail'!

Any suggestion as to the first author and book to begin with? I was hoping to keep it in the horror or thriller genre, at least to start, then we can see where the trail leads...

Saving my trail here...


Author 1: Robert McCammon
Book: The Queen of Bedlam read 3/3


leads to....


Author 2: Brian Keene
Book: The Girl on the Glider read 3/4

leads to....

Author 3:

Which author are we starting with?

Its up for suggestion or vote.
I'll throw out a few options:

Joe Lansdale
Jonathan Maberry
Richard Laymon
Robert McCammon

Color my trail right here...:)

Stephen King
Jonathan Janz
Kristopher Rufty
Hunter Shea

Stephen King
Richard Matheson
Robert McCammon
Clive Barker

Lol, somehow we have to decide the first author. I don't suppose it even needs to be the same book, just an author. The authors that overlap btwn our three suggestions are Robert McCammon and Stephen King. Why don't we decide btwn those?

Robert McCammon sounds good.

Literature Map: Starting with Robert McCammon

Book 1: Swan Song by Robert McCammon

Book 2: The Red Queen Philippa Gregory

Book 3: The Last Runaway by Tracy Chevalier

Book 4:

Maxine wrote: "Lol, somehow we have to decide the first author. I don't suppose it even needs to be the same book, just an author. The authors that overlap btwn our three suggestions are Robert McCammon and Steph..."

I'm happy with either, I think we'll still get a lot of the same authors whoever we pick. :)

When can we start?

Okay, looks like Robert McCammon is our starting author. If you want to participate, start with any book by him and then let the literature 'cloud' take you where it may! This should be a neat way to check out different authors.

The challenge has begun!

Side note: I think it would also be fine if participants want to start with a different author. Maybe McCammon's not your style ;) Feel free to start a different trail!

Maxine wrote: "Okay, looks like Robert McCammon is our starting author. If you want to participate, start with any book by him and then let the literature 'cloud' take you where it may! This should be a neat way ..."

Excellent executive choice, Maxine.
I think I'm going to go with The Queen of Bedlam

Kate wrote: "Maxine wrote: "Okay, looks like Robert McCammon is our starting author. If you want to participate, start with any book by him and then let the literature 'cloud' take you where it may! This should..."

Kate, is that the sequel to Speaks the Nightbird? Very cool!

And it is a Q title...good for the A-Z challenge too.

Maxine wrote: "Kate wrote: "Maxine wrote: "Okay, looks like Robert McCammon is our starting author. If you want to participate, start with any book by him and then let the literature 'cloud' take you where it may..."

Yes it is. I'm keen to see how he handles the sadistic schoolmaster. :)

RachelvlehcaR wrote: "Literature Map: Starting with Robert McCammon

Book 1: Swan Song by Robert McCammon"

I loved Swan Song, Rachel, enjoy it!

Kate wrote: "Maxine wrote: "Kate wrote: "Maxine wrote: "Okay, looks like Robert McCammon is our starting author. If you want to participate, start with any book by him and then let the literature 'cloud' take y..."

I sucked it up and spent the $12.99 for the ebook, so I'll be starting this challenge with Queen of Bedlam as well. I've read the first few pages, good old Matthew Corbett is back!

Maxine wrote: "I loved Swan Song, Rachel, enjoy it! "

It's a big book. I found it on kindle unlimited. I'm looking forward to it. I've started it. It has started out in a direction I didn't expect. Kind of political right now.

I was debating which book to start because I was also looking at a few others of his books, is high on the tbr list.

I finally finished my first book of this challenge! McCammon's The Queen of Bedlam was absolutely awesome! Now to decide what comes next!

Finished a novella by the second author, Brian Keene's The Girl on the Glider...luckily I'm making these reads work for other challenges too