make a list of authors/books I want to read

He wrote a lot of thrillers which either depict or are a manifestation of a disordered mind. I’ve read several of them, and it’s amazing such strange stuff was published in more conservative times.

“After Dark, My Sweet” (1955) I’ve read it, but don’t remember it well.
“The Alcoholics” (1953)
“Bad Boy” (1953)
“Child of Rage” (1972) I may or may not have read it.
“The Criminal” (1953)
“Cropper’s Cabin” (1952)
“The Getaway” (1959) This is for the most part unlike the movies. Steve McQueen wanted a more upbeat ending.
“The Golden Gizmo” (1954)
“The Golden Sinner” (1955)
“The Grifters” (1963) I think the movie is relatively similar.
“Heed the Thunder” (1946)
“A Hell of a Woman” (1954) Hell, indeed.
“Ironside” (1967) A licensed spinoff of the TV show. I haven’t read it.
“The Kill-Off” (1957)
“The Killer Inside Me” (1952) This is one of the best I’ve read.
“King Blood” (1973)
“Nothing But a Man” (1970) This is a licensed spinoff of a film.
“The Nothing Man” (1954)
“Nothing More Than Murder” (1949)
“Now and On Earth” (1942) I remember nothing but that I read it.
“Pop. 1280” (1964) A film was made as “Coup de Torchon.” Both are quite good.
“Recoil” (1953)
“The Rip-Off” (1989)
“Roughneck” (1954)
“Savage Night” (1953)
“South of Heaven” (1967)
“A Swell-Looking Babe” (1954) This is weird – even from Jim Thompson.
“Texas by the Tail” (1965)
“The Transgressors” (1961)
“The Undefeated” (1969) A licensed spinoff of a film
“Wild Town” (1957)

There are some short stories, but “This World, Then the Fireworks” is the only one I recall.

I have had the novels for several months, but not read them yet. Genesis 27-50 is the substance for these four long novels – which Mann considered his best. I am not fluent in German, and hope the English translation does them justice.

I read most of the books in the series in elementary and junior high school, in rather bad and certainly abridged translations. I’d like to try them again, in sequence. I remember thinking it would have been a good thing if someone had slain Aramis in his youth, and wondering why Athos wasted his time with someone like him.

I’ve read perhaps a third of his novels and slightly more of his short stories, but I want to read them all in order, and perhaps understand them better. “If I Forget Thee Jerusalem” (formerly called “The Wild Palms”) is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read – heartbreaking and perfectly structured in parallel storylines.