This week the Spine Crackers read noted Japanese author Natsume Sōseki's proto-modernist novel The Miner  (1908). 

This week the Spine Crackers read Czech author Bohumil Hrabal's comedic, erotic, historical adventure I Served the King of England, first published surreptitiously in 1971, and formally released in 1983. 

This week the Spine Crackers read Roberto Bolaño's 1996 fictional pseudo-encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas. 

This Thanksgiving week the Spine Crackers read Paul Auster's 1989 coming of age-ish novel Moon Palace. 

This week the Spine Crackers read weird-fiction author Michael Cisco's first novel, The Divinity Student (1999). 

Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author whose horror stories are often seen as a precursor to the "weird fiction" of today. This week the Spine Crackers read his two novellas "The Great God Pan" and "The White People."

In which we read Shella by Andrew Vachss.