The Haugen Top 25 of 2013:

As promised, here's a peek into my demented mind reading list from last year. This is the fiction list with the title, author, and the HRS (Haugen Rating Scale, not to be confused with the Hamilton Rating Scale).

Obviously, I tend to stick with my favorites, but this list doesn't include the non-fiction books (I'm not going to start rating the Bible, for example), the short story anthologies (Twain and Borges) and poetry (Frost, Poe, etc.).

I think if you look at this list, you will see authors responsible for selling 800 trillion books and approximately 300,000 homicides.

Here it is. Don't judge.

Amsterdam - Ian McEwan (9)
Butcher's Moon - Richard Stark, aka Donald Westlake (7+)
Bad Business - Robert B. Parker (7+)
Persuader - Lee Child (7+)
School Days - Robert B. Parker (7+)

Tsar - Ted Bell (7)
Dark Rivers of the Heart - Dean Koontz (7)
Shockwave - John Sanford (7)
Breathless - Dean Koontz (7)
Innocence - Dean Koontz (7-)

Bad Luck & Trouble - Lee Child (7-)
Running Blind - Lee Child (7-)
Deeply Odd - Dean Koontz (7-)
The Vision - Dean Koontz (7-)
Echo Burning - Lee Child (7-)

Nothing to Lose - Lee Child (7-)
Phantom - Ted Bell (6+)
Soft Target - Stephen Hunter (6+)
Wicked Appetite - Janet Evanovich (6+)
Get Real - Donald Westlake (6+)

Gator A-Go-Go - Tim Dorsey (6)
Florida Roadkill - Tim Dorsey (6)
No Country For Old Men - Cormac McCarthy (6)
The Third Bullet - Stephen Hunter (6-)
Electric Baracuda - Tim Dorsey (6-)