READER’S FORUM

December 21, 2025 at 08:42 pm Reply
Korman Junkie
Since last time, I've read:
- Snoop
- Faker
- The Fort
- War Stories
So in all, I've read:
- MasterMinds
- MasterMinds Criminal Destiny
- MasterMinds Payback
- 39 Clues Book 2
- Old School
- Slugfest
- Mixed Up
- The Superteacher Project
- Operation Do-Over
- Linked
- Unplugged
- Secrets of Splat Night (a Restart Story)
- Notorious
- Level Thirteen
- The Unteachables
- Slacker
- Ungifted
- Supergifted
- A Reasonable Sum
- Homicide Meets Mr. Gold Medal
- Wimp of Sparta
- Hamish MacTavish Is Eating a Bus
- The Trophy
- Restart
- The Hypnotists
- Swindle
- Snoop
- Faker
- The Fort
- War Stories
Laundry: I read Swindle a while ago, but it managed to evade my list. I've added it to the above.

I have left to read:
- Memory Maze
- The Dragonfly Effect
- Zoobreak
- Framed
- Showoff
- Hideout
- Jackpot
- Unleashed
- Jingle
- 39 Clues Book 8
- 39 Clues Book 11
- 39 Clues Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1
- 39 Clues Unstoppable Book 4
- Unsinkable
- Collision Course
- S.O.S.
- Kidnapped The Abduction
- Kidnapped The Search
- Kidnapped The Rescue
- On the Run Chasing The Falconers
- On the Run The Fugitive Factor
- On the Run Now You See Them, Now You Don’t
- On the Run The Stowaway Solution
- On The Run Public Enemies
- On the Run Hunting the Hunter
- Everest The Contest
- Everest The Climb
- Everest The Summit
- Dive The Discovery
- Dive The Deep
- Dive The Danger
- Island Shipwreck
- Island Survival
- Island Escape
- This Can’t Be Happening at MacDonald Hall
- MacDonald Hall Go Jump In The Pool
- MacDonald Hall Beware The Fish
- MacDonald Hall The Wizzle War (also The War With Mr. Wizzle)
- MacDonald Hall The Zucchini Warriors
- MacDonald Hall Lights Camera Disaster (or Macdonald Hall Goes Hollywood)
- MacDonald Hall The Joke’s On Us (or Something Fishy At Macdonald Hall)
- Slapshots The Stars From Mars
- Slapshots The Dream Team (or All-Mars All-Stars)
- Slapshots The Face-off Phony
- Slapshots Cup Crazy
- Nose Pickers From Outer Space
- The Planet of The Nose Pickers
- Your Mummy’s a Nose Picker
- Invasion of the Nose Pickers
- Monday Night Football Club Quarterback Exchange: I Was John Elway
- Monday Night Football Club Running Back Conversion: I Was Barry Sanders
- Monday Night Football Club Super Bowl Switch: I Was Dan Marino
- Monday Night Football Club Heavy Artillery: I Was Junior Seau
- Monday Night Football Club Ultimate Scoring Machine: I Was Jerry Rice
- Whatshisface
- Schooled
- No More Dead Dogs
- The 6th Grade Nickname Game
- The Chicken Doesn’t Skate
- The Toilet Paper Tigers
- Radio Fifth Grade
- Maxx Comedy: The Funniest Kid in America
- The D-Minus Poems of Jeremy Bloom
- The Last-Place Sports Poems of Jeremy Bloom
- Why Did The Underwear Cross The Road?
- I Want To Go Home
- No Coins, Please
- The Twinkie Squad
- Who is Bugs Potter?
- Bugs Potter: Live At Nickaninny
- Our Man Weston
- Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
- Pop
- The Juvie Three
- Born To Rock
- Jake, Reinvented
- Losing Joe’s Place
- Son Of Interflux
- A Semester In The Life Of A Garbage Bag
- Don’t Care High
Recommend which I should read next!
December 22, 2025 at 03:25 am Reply

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How about MEMORY MAZE and THE DRAGONFLY EFFECT just to polish off the Hypnotists trilogy.

I am frazzled with grateful respect and respectful gratitude! --GK--
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How about MEMORY MAZE and THE DRAGONFLY EFFECT just to polish off the Hypnotists trilogy.

I am frazzled with grateful respect and respectful gratitude! --GK--
December 22, 2025 at 12:49 pm Reply

Darren

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As Gord suggests, best to finish off that trilogy first.

I did mine close to chronologically. I'm more of an OG GK fan in that I was a kid when Gord first started putting out books (and he was pretty much a kid too), so I grew up reading the early works as they were coming out. I still remember the thrill of getting those scholastic catalogs and seeing a new Korman in there. So the MacDonald Hall series, Our Man Weston, Bugs Potter, I Want To Go Home and No Coins, Please are the top of my list. He's done a lot of good works since, but those have the nostalgia factor for me.
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As Gord suggests, best to finish off that trilogy first.

I did mine close to chronologically. I'm more of an OG GK fan in that I was a kid when Gord first started putting out books (and he was pretty much a kid too), so I grew up reading the early works as they were coming out. I still remember the thrill of getting those scholastic catalogs and seeing a new Korman in there. So the MacDonald Hall series, Our Man Weston, Bugs Potter, I Want To Go Home and No Coins, Please are the top of my list. He's done a lot of good works since, but those have the nostalgia factor for me.
December 23, 2025 at 01:47 am Reply

Adam

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Yeah, and try to go by series. It will help with finding the books, and also just help you enjoy it more. By the way, which one is your favorite so far?
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Yeah, and try to go by series. It will help with finding the books, and also just help you enjoy it more. By the way, which one is your favorite so far?
December 23, 2025 at 02:12 pm Reply

Daniel

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Supergifted for me
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Supergifted for me
December 23, 2025 at 04:58 pm Reply

Korman Junkie

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Masterminds, no question
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Masterminds, no question