Home Sweet Own Book 15

For Themed Anthology I read Red. Red was a discovery at Awesome Con, DC’s first comic convention. A friend of the editor who lived in Middle of Nowhere Pennsylvania found a red scarf on some back road and wondered how it got there. This anthology poses different answers to that question.

One of my favorite things for an anthology is giving different writers the same premise and seeing what they can do with it. People go in so many different directions and I loved it. As always I liked some stories more than others but I think my favorite was Superhero by Justin McLachlan.

A lot of the writers were local to the DC, MD, VA AREA so it was really neat to read stories and think “I know that neighborhood” or “I am familiar with those metro problems.” Having the stories take place in your own backyard added another layer I really enjoyed

1) Fiction 

2) Nonfiction – The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett

3) Sci-Fi – Redshirts by John Scalzi

4) Fantasy 

5) Mystery 

6) Horror 

7) Memoir/Biography – Data, A Love Story by Amy Webb

8) Chick Lit – Me and Mr. Darcy by Alexandra Potter

9) Feminist – Commencement by J. Courtney Sullivan

10) Teen – What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen

11) Holiday 

12) Essays – What Was I Thinking? ed. by Barbara Davilman & Liz Dubelman

13) Short Stories 

14) Library 

15) Animal 

16) Book about Books – Judging a Book By Its Lover by Lauren Leto

17) New – Pitch Perfect by Mickey Rapkin

18) Old – Dark and Stormy Knights edited by P. N. Elrod

19) Pop Science 

20) Near 

21) Far 

22) Graphic Novel – Love and Capes: Do You Want to Know a Secret? by Thomas F. Zahler

23) Reread – Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

24) Wild Card 

25) Otherworldly Creature 

26) Free – Point Your Face at This by Demetri Martin

27) Noteworthy 

28) Bestseller 

29) Themed Anthology – Red edited by Kris Goldsmith

30) Steampunk 

31) Movie-Book 

32) Media  

33) Travel 

34) Food 

35) Classic 

36) Humor 

37) Poetry 

38) Past – Stasiland by Anna Funder

39) Future 

40) Dystopia/Post-Apocalyptic 

41) Zombie 

42) Sports

Music: Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey