I had an utter reading slump at the beginning of the year, the past two years I think my lists were at like 80 or so. Damn the internet!!
I've had a few month long reading slumps too. I have had extended periods of almost no internet though.
2008 Book List
2009 Book List
2010 Book List
1. 13 Specimens-Jeffrey Thomas
2. In The Mean Time-Paul Tremblay
3. Chimerascope-Douglas Smith
4. Neil Gaiman-Odd And The Frost Giants
5. Rust And Bone-Craig Davidson
6. Cities Of Night-Philip Nutman
7. Destinations Unknown-Gary A. Braunbeck
8. Sinister Purposes- Gary Raisnor
9. Horror Story And Other Horror Stories- Robert Boyczuk
10. Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales from Four Masters of the Macabre-edited by Peter Crowther
11. Haunted House and other Presidential Horrors-Edward Lee
12. Do Unto Others- J.F. Gonzales
13. Sleep Disorder-Jack Ketchum & Edward Lee
14. Haunter Of The Threshold-Edward Lee
15. Fear Of Gravity- Brian Keene
16. Dangerous Red-Mehitobel Wilson
17. Kill Whitey-Brian Keene
18. The Stickmen-Edward Lee
19. Full Dark, No Stars-Stephen King
20. When The Darkness Falls-J. F. Gonzales
21. Tales From The Nightside-Charles L. Grant
22. Needles And Sins-John Everson
23. Assassination: Political Murder Through the Ages-Xavier Waterkeyn
24. The Black Train-Edward Lee
25. Beware-Richard Laymon
26. The Woods Are Dark-Richard Laymon
27. Friday Night In Beast House- Richard Laymon
28. Cuts- Richard Laymon
29. Old Flames- Jack Ketchum
30. Urban Gothic- Brian Keene
31. Bestial-Ray Garton
32. A Gathering Of Crows- Brian Keene
33. Savage-Richard Laymon
34. The Asylum Prophecies-Daniel Keyes
35. The Reach-Nate Kenyon
36. Fears Unnamed-Tim Lebbon
37. The 5th Witch-Graham Masterton
38. Queen Of Blood-Bryan Smith
39. Covenant-John Everson
40. Ravenous-Ray Garton
41. The Bone Factory-Nate Kenyon
42. Water Witch-Deborah LeBlanc
43. Really Really Really Really Weird Stories-John Shirley
44. Alice In Zombieland-Lewis Carroll and Nickolas Cook
45. Visions Through A Shattered Lens-Gerard Houarner
46. The Very Best Of Best New Horror-Ed. Stephen Jones
47. The Passage-Justin Cronin
48. Ennui And Other States Of Madness-David Niall Wilson
49. Odd Thomas-Dean Koontz
50. Full Dark, No Stars (galllery books edition)
51. Einstein's Dreams-Alan Lightman
52. Different Seasons-Stephen King
53. Christine-Stephen King
54. The Gunslinger-Stephen King
55. Pet Semetary-Stephen King
56. Got To Kill Them All- Dennis Etchison
57. Mondo Zombie-Edited by John Skipp
58. Required Reading Remixed Vol. 1- Jeff Conner
59. Required Reading Remixed Vol. 2- Jeff Conner
60. Required Reading Remixed Vol. 3- Jeff Conner
61. 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said- Stephen D. Price
62. The Mammoth Book Of Coverups-Jon E. Lewis
63. Dragonfly-Brian Knight
64. The Everlasting- Tim Lebbon
65. Midnight Grinding And Other Twilight Terrors- Ronald Kelly
66. Buffy The Vampir Slayer 1
67. Buffy The Vampire Slayer 2
68. The top 100 immunity boosters- Charlotte Haugh
69. Marked-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
70. Betrayed-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
71. Chosen-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
72. Untamed- P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
73. 501 Must-Read Books
74. The Bottoms-Joe R. Lansdale
75. Blue World-Robert R. McCammon
76. Hunted- P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
77. Tempted-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
78.Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK-Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartman
79. Triage-Leonard C. Lewin
80. Burned-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
81. Dragon's Oath-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
82. The Party-Christopher Pike
83. The Dance-Christopher Pike
84. The Graduation-Christopher Pike
85. Awakening-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
86. Buffy The Vampire Slayer 3
87. Mile 81-Stephen King
88. Stephen king Master Of Horror-Anne Saidman
89. Fangoria Masters Of The Dark ed. By Anthony Timpone
90. The Last Header- Edward Lee
91. 11/22/63-Stephen king
92. Supernatural horror in literature-H. P. Lovecraft
93. Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands
1. Side Jobs - Jim Butcher
2. The Shadow Rising - Robert Jordan
3. John Dies at the End - David Wong
4. Night of the Humans - David Lleywn
5. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
6. The Spine of the World - R.A. Salvatore
7. The Forgotten Army - Brian Minchin
8. The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses - Dorothy Crawford (for school)
9. Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
10. A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
11. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
12. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
13. The Gunslinger - Stephen King
14. The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
15. The Waste Lands - Stephen King
16. Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
17. Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King
18. Song of Susannah - Stephen King
19. The Dark Tower - Stephen King
20. Hunter's Moon - Paul Finch
21. Ghost Story - Jim Butcher
22. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet
23. The Wandering Fire - Guy Gavriel Kay
24. A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
25. Scarlet - Stephen R. Lawhead
26. A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin
27. The Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan
28. A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin
29. Rogue Squadron - Michael Stackpole
30. Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
2008 Book List
2009 Book List
2010 Book List
1. Transition ~ Iain Banks
2. How To Be Good ~ Nick Hornby
3. The Business ~ Iain Banks
4. The Book Of Universes ~ John D Barrow
5. Birth of a Killer ~ Darren Shan
6. The Small Hand ~ Susan Hill
7. The Bookseller Of Kabul ~ Asne Seierstad
8. The Angel of Grozny ~ Asne Seierstad
9. Lost In A Good Book ~ Jasper Fforde
10. The Well of Lost Plots ~ Jasper Fforde
11. Something Rotten ~ Jasper Fforde
12. Dead Reckoning ~ Charlaine Harris
13. A Game Of Thrones ~ George R R Martin
14. Full Dark, No Stars ~ SK
15. A Clash Of Kings ~ George R R Martin
16. A Storm Of Swords ~ George R R Martin
17. A Feast For Crows ~ George R R Martin
18. The Wind Up Bird Chronicles ~ Haruki Murakami
19. A Dance With Dragons ~ George R R Martin
20. Dexter Is Delicious ~ Jeff Lindsay
21. First Among Sequels ~ Jasper Fforde
22. Ghost Story ~ Jim Butcher
23. The Three Musketeers ~ Alexandre Dumas
24. Ready Player One ~ Ernest Cline
25. On Stranger Tides ~ Tim Powers (currently reading)
26. Plum Spooky ~ Janet Evanovich
27. The Raw Shark Texts ~ Steven Hall
28. Eleven On Top ~ Janet Evanovich
29. Twelve Sharp ~ Janet Evanovich
30. Lean Mean Thirteen ~ Janet Evanovich
31. Fearless Fourteen ~ Janet Evanovich
32. Finger Lickin' Fifteen ~ Janet Evanovich
33. Sizzling Sixteen ~ Janet Evanovich
34. Smokin' Seventeen ~ Janet Evanovich
35. South of the Border, West of the Sun ~ Haruki Murakami
36. Night Warriors ~ Graham Masterton
37. 11.22.63 ~ Stephen King
38. Locke and Key: Welcome To Lovecraft ~ Joe Hill (reread)
39. Locke and Key: Head Games ~ Joe Hill (reread)
40. Locke and Key: Crown Of Shadows ~ Joe Hill (reread)
41. Locke and Key: Keys To The Kingdom ~ Joe Hill (currently reading)
2011 Book List
1. Bec by Darren Shan
2. Blood Beast by Darren Shan
3. Demon Apocalypse by Darren Shan
4. Death's Shadow by Darren Shan
5. Wolf Island by Darren Shan
6. Dark Calling by Darren Shan
7. Hell's Heroes by Darren Shan
8. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
9. The Monk by Matthew Lewis
10. Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown
11. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
12. Jekyll and Hyde by Robert L. Stevenson
13. Turn of the Screw by Henry James
14. Frankenstein's Monster by Susan O'Keefe
15. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
16. True Grit by Charles Portis
17. In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus
18. The Toy Collector by James Gunn
19. A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin
20. A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
21. A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
22. A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin
23. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
24. Plugged by Eoin Colfer
25. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
26. A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
27. Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist
28. Nightmare Hour by R. L. Stine
29. Haunting Hour by R. L. Stine
30. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
31. Double Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.
My Collection
2008 Book List
2009 Book List
2010 Book List
1. Transition ~ Iain Banks
2. How To Be Good ~ Nick Hornby
3. The Business ~ Iain Banks
4. The Book Of Universes ~ John D Barrow
5. Birth of a Killer ~ Darren Shan
6. The Small Hand ~ Susan Hill
7. The Bookseller Of Kabul ~ Asne Seierstad
8. The Angel of Grozny ~ Asne Seierstad
9. Lost In A Good Book ~ Jasper Fforde
10. The Well of Lost Plots ~ Jasper Fforde
11. Something Rotten ~ Jasper Fforde
12. Dead Reckoning ~ Charlaine Harris
13. A Game Of Thrones ~ George R R Martin
14. Full Dark, No Stars ~ SK
15. A Clash Of Kings ~ George R R Martin
16. A Storm Of Swords ~ George R R Martin
17. A Feast For Crows ~ George R R Martin
18. The Wind Up Bird Chronicles ~ Haruki Murakami
19. A Dance With Dragons ~ George R R Martin
20. Dexter Is Delicious ~ Jeff Lindsay
21. First Among Sequels ~ Jasper Fforde
22. Ghost Story ~ Jim Butcher
23. The Three Musketeers ~ Alexandre Dumas
24. Ready Player One ~ Ernest Cline
25. On Stranger Tides ~ Tim Powers (currently reading)
26. Plum Spooky ~ Janet Evanovich
27. The Raw Shark Texts ~ Steven Hall
28. Eleven On Top ~ Janet Evanovich
29. Twelve Sharp ~ Janet Evanovich
30. Lean Mean Thirteen ~ Janet Evanovich
31. Fearless Fourteen ~ Janet Evanovich
32. Finger Lickin' Fifteen ~ Janet Evanovich
33. Sizzling Sixteen ~ Janet Evanovich
34. Smokin' Seventeen ~ Janet Evanovich
35. South of the Border, West of the Sun ~ Haruki Murakami
36. Night Warriors ~ Graham Masterton
37. 11.22.63 ~ Stephen King
38. Locke and Key: Welcome To Lovecraft ~ Joe Hill (reread)
39. Locke and Key: Head Games ~ Joe Hill (reread)
40. Locke and Key: Crown Of Shadows ~ Joe Hill (reread)
41. Locke and Key: Keys To The Kingdom ~ Joe Hill
42. IQ84 (Part One and Two) ~ Haruki Murakami (currently reading)
2008
2009
2010
In English
1. Jerzy Kosiński. The Painted Bird.
2. Arturo Pérez-Reverte. The Club Dumas. - Novel
3. Peter Straub. In the Night Room (finishing). - Novel
4. Helen Fielding. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. - Novel
5. Roman Polanski. Interviews. (Edited by Paul Cronin, 2005). - Nonfiction
6. Roman by Polanski. - Nonfiction (Memoirs)
7. Stephen King. Full Dark, No Stars. - Novellettes
8. James Herbert. Others - Novel
9. Agatha Christie. Sleeping Murder. - Novel
In Various Languages: everything Polanski-related (articles, reviews, transcripts, interviews, blogs, memoirs etc)
In Russian:
1. Дмитрий Быков. Остромов, или Ученик чародея. - Novel
2. Людмила Улицкая. Зеленый шатер. - Novel
3. Александра Маринина. Личные мотивы. - Novel
4. Татьяна Устинова. С небес на землю. - Novel
5. Николай Носов. Иронические юморески. - Non-fiction
6. Людмила Петрушевская. Девятый том. - Non-fiction
7. Юрий Герт. Кто, если не ты? - Novel
8. Лев Корнешов. Зона риска. - Novel
9. Михаил Веллер. Легенды Арбата. - Non-fiction (reread)
10. В. Тублин. Гонки в сентябре. - Novel (children's)
11. Михаил Веллер. Слово и профессия. - Non-fiction (reread)
12. Виктор Пелевин. Операция "Burning Bush" - Novelette
13. Виктор Пелевин. Зенитные кодексы Аль-Эфесби. - Novelette
14. Виктор Пелевин. Тхаги. - Novelette
15. Холгер Пукк. Юри. - Novel (children's)
16. Холгер Пукк. Виллу-филателист. - Short Stories (children's)
17. Н.Соломко. Если бы я был учителем. - Novel and Short Stories (children's)
18. Ф.Достоевский. Идиот. - Novel
19. Анна Малышева. Сплошной разврат - Novel (reread)
20. Татьяна Устинова. Мой генерал - Novel (reread)
21. Татьяна Устинова. Саквояж со светлым будущим - Novel (reread)
22. Иоанна Хмелевская. Проселочные дороги. - Novel (reread)
23. Иоанна Хмелевская. Все красное. - Novel (reread)
24. Иоанна Хмелевская. Инопланетяне в Гарволине. - Novel (reread)
25. Иоанна Хмелевская. Подозреваются все. - Novel
26. Татьяна Устинова. Неразрезанные страницы. - Novel
27. Татьяна Устинова. Отель последней надежды. - Novel (reread)
28. Александра Маринина. Смерть как искусство. Маски. - Novel
Last edited by Jean; 03-18-2012 at 10:22 AM.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2008 Book List
2009 Book List
2010 Book List
1. Transition ~ Iain Banks
2. How To Be Good ~ Nick Hornby
3. The Business ~ Iain Banks
4. The Book Of Universes ~ John D Barrow
5. Birth of a Killer ~ Darren Shan
6. The Small Hand ~ Susan Hill
7. The Bookseller Of Kabul ~ Asne Seierstad
8. The Angel of Grozny ~ Asne Seierstad
9. Lost In A Good Book ~ Jasper Fforde
10. The Well of Lost Plots ~ Jasper Fforde
11. Something Rotten ~ Jasper Fforde
12. Dead Reckoning ~ Charlaine Harris
13. A Game Of Thrones ~ George R R Martin
14. Full Dark, No Stars ~ SK
15. A Clash Of Kings ~ George R R Martin
16. A Storm Of Swords ~ George R R Martin
17. A Feast For Crows ~ George R R Martin
18. The Wind Up Bird Chronicles ~ Haruki Murakami
19. A Dance With Dragons ~ George R R Martin
20. Dexter Is Delicious ~ Jeff Lindsay
21. First Among Sequels ~ Jasper Fforde
22. Ghost Story ~ Jim Butcher
23. The Three Musketeers ~ Alexandre Dumas
24. Ready Player One ~ Ernest Cline
25. On Stranger Tides ~ Tim Powers (currently reading)
26. Plum Spooky ~ Janet Evanovich
27. The Raw Shark Texts ~ Steven Hall
28. Eleven On Top ~ Janet Evanovich
29. Twelve Sharp ~ Janet Evanovich
30. Lean Mean Thirteen ~ Janet Evanovich
31. Fearless Fourteen ~ Janet Evanovich
32. Finger Lickin' Fifteen ~ Janet Evanovich
33. Sizzling Sixteen ~ Janet Evanovich
34. Smokin' Seventeen ~ Janet Evanovich
35. South of the Border, West of the Sun ~ Haruki Murakami
36. Night Warriors ~ Graham Masterton
37. 11.22.63 ~ Stephen King
38. Locke and Key: Welcome To Lovecraft ~ Joe Hill (reread)
39. Locke and Key: Head Games ~ Joe Hill (reread)
40. Locke and Key: Crown Of Shadows ~ Joe Hill (reread)
41. Locke and Key: Keys To The Kingdom ~ Joe Hill
42. Double Dexter ~ Jeff Lindsay
43. Battle Royale ~ Koushun Takami (currently reading)
I decided to hold off on Murakami until after Christmas.
2008 Book List
2009 Book List
2010 Book List
1. 13 Specimens-Jeffrey Thomas
2. In The Mean Time-Paul Tremblay
3. Chimerascope-Douglas Smith
4. Neil Gaiman-Odd And The Frost Giants
5. Rust And Bone-Craig Davidson
6. Cities Of Night-Philip Nutman
7. Destinations Unknown-Gary A. Braunbeck
8. Sinister Purposes- Gary Raisnor
9. Horror Story And Other Horror Stories- Robert Boyczuk
10. Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales from Four Masters of the Macabre-edited by Peter Crowther
11. Haunted House and other Presidential Horrors-Edward Lee
12. Do Unto Others- J.F. Gonzales
13. Sleep Disorder-Jack Ketchum & Edward Lee
14. Haunter Of The Threshold-Edward Lee
15. Fear Of Gravity- Brian Keene
16. Dangerous Red-Mehitobel Wilson
17. Kill Whitey-Brian Keene
18. The Stickmen-Edward Lee
19. Full Dark, No Stars-Stephen King
20. When The Darkness Falls-J. F. Gonzales
21. Tales From The Nightside-Charles L. Grant
22. Needles And Sins-John Everson
23. Assassination: Political Murder Through the Ages-Xavier Waterkeyn
24. The Black Train-Edward Lee
25. Beware-Richard Laymon
26. The Woods Are Dark-Richard Laymon
27. Friday Night In Beast House- Richard Laymon
28. Cuts- Richard Laymon
29. Old Flames- Jack Ketchum
30. Urban Gothic- Brian Keene
31. Bestial-Ray Garton
32. A Gathering Of Crows- Brian Keene
33. Savage-Richard Laymon
34. The Asylum Prophecies-Daniel Keyes
35. The Reach-Nate Kenyon
36. Fears Unnamed-Tim Lebbon
37. The 5th Witch-Graham Masterton
38. Queen Of Blood-Bryan Smith
39. Covenant-John Everson
40. Ravenous-Ray Garton
41. The Bone Factory-Nate Kenyon
42. Water Witch-Deborah LeBlanc
43. Really Really Really Really Weird Stories-John Shirley
44. Alice In Zombieland-Lewis Carroll and Nickolas Cook
45. Visions Through A Shattered Lens-Gerard Houarner
46. The Very Best Of Best New Horror-Ed. Stephen Jones
47. The Passage-Justin Cronin
48. Ennui And Other States Of Madness-David Niall Wilson
49. Odd Thomas-Dean Koontz
50. Full Dark, No Stars (galllery books edition)
51. Einstein's Dreams-Alan Lightman
52. Different Seasons-Stephen King
53. Christine-Stephen King
54. The Gunslinger-Stephen King
55. Pet Semetary-Stephen King
56. Got To Kill Them All- Dennis Etchison
57. Mondo Zombie-Edited by John Skipp
58. Required Reading Remixed Vol. 1- Jeff Conner
59. Required Reading Remixed Vol. 2- Jeff Conner
60. Required Reading Remixed Vol. 3- Jeff Conner
61. 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said- Stephen D. Price
62. The Mammoth Book Of Coverups-Jon E. Lewis
63. Dragonfly-Brian Knight
64. The Everlasting- Tim Lebbon
65. Midnight Grinding And Other Twilight Terrors- Ronald Kelly
66. Buffy The Vampir Slayer 1
67. Buffy The Vampire Slayer 2
68. The top 100 immunity boosters- Charlotte Haugh
69. Marked-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
70. Betrayed-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
71. Chosen-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
72. Untamed- P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
73. 501 Must-Read Books
74. The Bottoms-Joe R. Lansdale
75. Blue World-Robert R. McCammon
76. Hunted- P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
77. Tempted-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
78.Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK-Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartman
79. Triage-Leonard C. Lewin
80. Burned-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
81. Dragon's Oath-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
82. The Party-Christopher Pike
83. The Dance-Christopher Pike
84. The Graduation-Christopher Pike
85. Awakening-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
86. Buffy The Vampire Slayer 3
87. Mile 81-Stephen King
88. Stephen king Master Of Horror-Anne Saidman
89. Fangoria Masters Of The Dark ed. By Anthony Timpone
90. The Last Header- Edward Lee
91. 11/22/63-Stephen king
92. Supernatural horror in literature-H. P. Lovecraft
93. Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands
94. I AM PROVIDENCE: The Life And Times Of H. P. Lovecraft-S. T. Joshi
2009
2010
01. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote - 12/30-1/4
02. Let Me In - John Ajvide Lindqvist - 1/4-1/8
03. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon - 1/8-1/15
04. Skippy Dies - Paul Murray - 1/15-1/26
05. Signifying Rappers - Mark Costello & David Foster Wallace - 1/26-1/29
06. 60 Years Later - John David California - 1/29-2/4
07. The Universal History of the Destruction of Books - Fernando Báez - 2/4-2/12
08. 22 Uncollected Short Stories - J.D. Salinger - *nook* - 2/12-2/16
09. Witz - Joshua Cohen - 2/16-2/24
10. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon - 2/24-3/4
11. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac - 3/4-3/11
12. The Waitress Was New - Dominique Fabre - 3/11-3/12
13. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre - 3/12-3/16
14. One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box - Eggers, Manguso, and Unferth - 3/16-3/19
15. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen - 3/19-3/29
16. The Pale King - David Foster Wallace - 3/29-4/9
17. Maps and Legends - Michael Chabon - 4/9-4/18
18. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky - 4/18-4/23
19. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs - 4/23-4/26
20. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen - 4/26-5/6
21. Zabiba and the King - Saddam Hussein - 5/6-5/9
22. The Better of McSweeney's Volume 2 - 5/9- 5/12
23. Badass: The Birth of a Legend - Ben Thompson - 5/12-5/14
24. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson - 5/14-5/19
25. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman - 5/19-5/23
26. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman - 5/23-5/27
27. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman - 5/27-6/6
28. Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal - 6/6-6/7
29. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer - 6/7-6/13
30. Between Parentheses - Roberto Bolaño - 6/13-6/23
31. The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists - Granta - 6/23-6/26
32. The Collected Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde - 6/26-7/3
33. You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers - 7/3-7/9
34. The Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft - 7/9-7/17
35. Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon - 7/17-7/24
36. The Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol I - Mark Twain - 7/24-7/30
37. Palo Alto - James Franco - 7/30-7/31
38. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway - 7/31-8/1
39. The Children's Hospital - Chris Adrian - 8/1-8/7
40. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - 8/7-8/14
41. Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern 38 - Ed. Dave Eggers - 8/14-8/21
42. The Arabian Nightmare - Robert Irwin - 8/21-8/25
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 8/25-9/3
44. Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway - 9/3-9/11
45. Museum of the Weird - Amelia Gray - 9/11-9/14
46. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace - 9/14-10/9
47. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger - 10/9-10/12
48. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides - 10/12-10/22
49. Mile 81 - Stephen king - 10/22-10/26
50. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami - 10/26-11/12
51. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick - Philip K. Dick - 11/12-11/20
52. The Obits - Ed. William McDonald - 11/20-12/11
53. Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire - 12/11-
School
01. The First World War - John Keegan - Finished
02. Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert K. Massie - Finished
03. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë - Finished
04. Paris 1919 - Margaret Macmillan - Finished
05. All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque - Finished
06. The Tempest - Shakespeare - Finished
07. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism, and Theory - Bennet and Royle - Finished
08. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe - Finished
09. Existentialism Basic Writings - Guignon and Pereboom - Finished
10. Another Planet - Elinor Burkett - Finished
11. Nietzsche Sleections - Richard Schacht - Finished
12. Slaughterhouse-5 - Kurt Vonnegut - Finished
13. A Mercy - Toni Morrison - Finished
14. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer - Finished
15. The Children in Room E4 - Susan Eaton - Finished
16. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby - Finished
17. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre - Finished
18. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner - Finished
19. Are We Born Racist? - Jason Marsh et all. - Finished
20. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick - Finished
21. No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre - Finished
22. The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus - Finished
23. Puddn'head WIlson - Twain - Finished
Comics Read On Top of Books
01. The Walking Dead 1-85
02. Silverfish
03. The Li'l Depressed Boy Vol 1
04. Transmetropolitan Vol 1
05. Habibi
Fact'ry Read'n
(read concurrently with the above lists)
01. The Stranger - Albert Camus - 5/16-5/19
02. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl - 5/20-5/25
03. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - 5/26-6/6
04. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski - 6/7-6/10
05. The Collector - John Fowles - 6/13-6/17
06. Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo - 6/20-6/24
07. The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin - 6/27-7/1
08. Hamlet and Oedipus - Ernest Jones - 7/5-7/8
09. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Mark Twain - 7/11-7/15
10. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 7/18-7/28
11. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand - 7/29-8/5
12. Feed - M.T. Anderson - 8/8-8/10
13. You Don't Love Me Yet - Jonathan Lethem - 8/11-8/12
14. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner - 8/15-8/17
15. Siddartha - Hermann Hesse - 8/18-8/19
16. The Cellist of Serajevo - Steven Galloway - 8/22-8/24
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
. Stephen King ~ The Tommyknockers 1/1-1/7
2. Stephen King ~ Blaze 1/7-1/9
3. Guilermo Del Toro ~ The Strain 1/9-1/14
4. Benjamin Kane Etheridge ~ Black & Orange 1/15- 1/20
5. Robert Silverberg ~ To Open The Sky 1/21-1/23
6. Charles Grant ~ Dialing the wind 1/28-1/30
7. Stephen King ~ My Pretty Pony 1/31
8. Stephen King ~ Four Past Midnight 2/1 - 2/10
9. China Mieville ~ King Rat 2/10 - 2/13
10. Dan Simmons ~ Song of Kali 2/13 - 2/16
11. Tim Lebbon ~ As The Sun Goes Down 2/17 - 2/22
12. Tim Lebbon ~ The Reach Of Children 2/25 - 2/27
13. Stephen King ~ Needful Things 3/2 - 3/9
14. Stephen King ~ Rose Madder 3/10 - 3/14
15. Robert Heinlein ~ The Menace from Earth
16. Matthew Woodring Stover ~ Heroes Die 3/17 - 3/25
17. Steve Vernon ~ Do-overs and Detours 3/25 - 3/30
18. Wondrous Beginnings (anthology) 4/1 - 4/19
19. Stephen King ~ Colorado Kid 4/2 - 4/2
20. Four Rode Out ~ 4/3 - 4/9
21. Tim Lebbon ~ Until She Sleeps 4/10-4/11
22. Robert Heinlein ~ The Puppet Masters 4/12 - 4/21
23. Guillermo Del Toro ~ The Fall 4/21 - 4/22
24. Portents (anthology) 4/23 - 4/28
25. Harry Shannon ~ Dead and Gone 4/29- 4/30
26. Stephen King & John Farris ~ Transgressions 4/30 - 5/1
27. Stephen King ~ Dolores Clairborne 5/1- 5/2
28. Stephen King ~ Just After Sunset 5/2 - 5/7
29. William Ollie ~ Sideshow 5/7 - 5/11
30. Brian James Freeman~ The Painted Darkness 5/12
31. Tim Lebbon ~ Pieces of Hate 5/13
32. Tim Lebbon ~ Dead Man's Hand 5/13
33. Tim Lebbon ~ A Whisper of Southern Lights
34. Charles L. Grant ~ The Hour of the Oxrun Dead 5/14 - 5-20
35. Robert A. Heinlein ~ Starship Troopers 5/20 - 5/24
36. Tim Lebbon ~ The Thief of Broken Toys 6/1 - 6/2
37. Robert Silverberg ~ The Reality Trip and other improbabilities 6/2 - 6/8
38. Stephen King ~ Nightmares and Dreamscapes 6/8 - 6/29
39. Arthur C. Clarke ~ Expedition to Earth 6/9 - 6/14
40. Keith Minion ~ The Island Funeral 6/29
SCI-FI MONTH:
41. Isaac Asimov ~ Foundation 7/1 - 7/2
42. Isaac Asimov ~ Second Foundation 7/2 -7/6
43. Isaac Asimov ~ Foundation and Empire 7/7 - 7/10
44. Greg Bear ~ Beyond Heaven's River 7/10 - 7/12
45. Ray Bradbury ~ The Martian Chronicles 7/12 - 7/15
46. Yevgeny Zamyatin ~ We 7/15 - 7/19
47. Robert Heinlein ~ Stranged in a strangle land 7/19 - 7/29
SHORT STORY COLLECTION MONTH:
48. Mark Alan Gunnels ~ The Stories from the Night Shift 8/1 - 8/4
49. Keith Minion ~ It's For You 8/4 - 8/7
50. Stephen King ~ Everything's Eventual 8/8 - 8/11
51. Harlan Ellison ~ Deathbird Stories 8/11 - 8/16 80% finished
52. Brian Keene ~ Conspiracy of One
53. Tim Curran ~ Bone Marrow Soup
54. William Ollie ~ Into Hell 9/1
55. Brian Keene ~ Alone 9/2
56. Stephen King ~ Hearts in Atlantis 9/2 - 9/4
57. Jack Vance ~ The Dying Earth 9/4 - 9/5
58. Chuck Hogan ~ Devils in Exile 9/5 - 9/8
59. Larry Niven ~ Ringworld 9/11 - 9/21
60. John Brunner ~ Into the Slave Nebula 9/n
61. John Urbancik ~ Once Upon a Time in Midnight 9/23 - 9/24
62. Charles L. Grant ~ The Soft Whisper of the Dead 9/25.
63. Paolo Bacigalupi ~ Ship Breaker 9/25 - 9/26
64. Gary A. Braunbeck ~ We now pause for station identification 9/29.
65. Joe R. Lansdale ~ Dread Island 9/29 - 9/30
66. Philip Jose Farmer ~ Dare
67. Ronald Kelly ~ Hell Hollow
68. Robert Silverberg ~ Tower of Glass
69. John Franklin Bardin ~ The Deadly Percheron
70. Charles Stross ~ Wireless
71. Stephen King ~ The Gunslinger (original)
72. Stephen King ~ The Wolves of the Calla
73. Dan Simmons ~ Phases of Gravity 11/1 - 11/9
74. Ian Rankin ~ The Flood 11/2 - 11/3
75. The New Dead anthology 11/3 - 11/13
76. Shockrock anthology 11/8 - 11/19
77. Charles L. Grant - The Sound of Midnight 11/9 - 24/11
78. Dan Simmons - Hyperion (audio book) 11/1 - listening
79. Gene O'Neil - Double Jack 11/17.
80. John Urbancik - Necropolis 11/17.
81. Stephen King - On Writing 11/20 - 11/23
82. Neil Gaiman - Interworld 11/23 - 11/24
83. Gord Rollo & Gene O'Neail - Mean Streets 11/24 - 11/26
84. Tom Piccirilli - Hexes 11/26 - 11/28
85. Bev Vincent - Stephen King Illustrated Companion 11/28 - 11/29
86. John Urbancik - Wings of the butterfly 11/29 - 11/30
87. John Urbancik - House of blood and ash 12/1 - 12/2
88. Tim Lebbon & Christopher Golden - The secret journeys of Jack London: The Wild 12/4 - 12/12
89. Dan Simmons - Black Hills 12/6 - listenin'
90. Larry Niven - The Mote in God's Eye - 12/15 - 12/26
91. Robert Silverberg - Collision Course 12/28- 12/29
Goal accomplished! I'm pretty sure I could've had easy 95 books but I focused on graphic novels this month.
2009
2010
As usual, I will give a 0-5 rating.
1. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (4)
2. Full Dark No Stars - SK - (3)
3. Green Mile (reread) -5
4. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - 5
5. Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally (4)
6. Beloved - Toni Morrison (5)
7. Uncle John’s Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader (3)
8. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne (5)
9. Rum Punch - Elmore Leonard (4)
10. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk (3)
11. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (4)
12. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (5)
13. Rising Sun - Micheal Crichton (3)
14. 11/22/63 - SK - (5)
15. Tell-All - Chuck Palahniuk (3)
Sloth Love Chunk
2009
2010
01. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote - 12/30-1/4
02. Let Me In - John Ajvide Lindqvist - 1/4-1/8
03. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon - 1/8-1/15
04. Skippy Dies - Paul Murray - 1/15-1/26
05. Signifying Rappers - Mark Costello & David Foster Wallace - 1/26-1/29
06. 60 Years Later - John David California - 1/29-2/4
07. The Universal History of the Destruction of Books - Fernando Báez - 2/4-2/12
08. 22 Uncollected Short Stories - J.D. Salinger - *nook* - 2/12-2/16
09. Witz - Joshua Cohen - 2/16-2/24
10. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon - 2/24-3/4
11. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac - 3/4-3/11
12. The Waitress Was New - Dominique Fabre - 3/11-3/12
13. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre - 3/12-3/16
14. One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box - Eggers, Manguso, and Unferth - 3/16-3/19
15. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen - 3/19-3/29
16. The Pale King - David Foster Wallace - 3/29-4/9
17. Maps and Legends - Michael Chabon - 4/9-4/18
18. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky - 4/18-4/23
19. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs - 4/23-4/26
20. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen - 4/26-5/6
21. Zabiba and the King - Saddam Hussein - 5/6-5/9
22. The Better of McSweeney's Volume 2 - 5/9- 5/12
23. Badass: The Birth of a Legend - Ben Thompson - 5/12-5/14
24. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson - 5/14-5/19
25. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman - 5/19-5/23
26. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman - 5/23-5/27
27. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman - 5/27-6/6
28. Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal - 6/6-6/7
29. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer - 6/7-6/13
30. Between Parentheses - Roberto Bolaño - 6/13-6/23
31. The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists - Granta - 6/23-6/26
32. The Collected Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde - 6/26-7/3
33. You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers - 7/3-7/9
34. The Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft - 7/9-7/17
35. Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon - 7/17-7/24
36. The Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol I - Mark Twain - 7/24-7/30
37. Palo Alto - James Franco - 7/30-7/31
38. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway - 7/31-8/1
39. The Children's Hospital - Chris Adrian - 8/1-8/7
40. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - 8/7-8/14
41. Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern 38 - Ed. Dave Eggers - 8/14-8/21
42. The Arabian Nightmare - Robert Irwin - 8/21-8/25
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 8/25-9/3
44. Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway - 9/3-9/11
45. Museum of the Weird - Amelia Gray - 9/11-9/14
46. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace - 9/14-10/9
47. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger - 10/9-10/12
48. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides - 10/12-10/22
49. Mile 81 - Stephen king - 10/22-10/26
50. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami - 10/26-11/12
51. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick - Philip K. Dick - 11/12-11/20
52. The Obits - Ed. William McDonald - 11/20-12/11
53. Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire - 12/11-12/20
54. 11/22/63 - Stephen king - 12/20-
School
01. The First World War - John Keegan - Finished
02. Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert K. Massie - Finished
03. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë - Finished
04. Paris 1919 - Margaret Macmillan - Finished
05. All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque - Finished
06. The Tempest - Shakespeare - Finished
07. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism, and Theory - Bennet and Royle - Finished
08. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe - Finished
09. Existentialism Basic Writings - Guignon and Pereboom - Finished
10. Another Planet - Elinor Burkett - Finished
11. Nietzsche Sleections - Richard Schacht - Finished
12. Slaughterhouse-5 - Kurt Vonnegut - Finished
13. A Mercy - Toni Morrison - Finished
14. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer - Finished
15. The Children in Room E4 - Susan Eaton - Finished
16. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby - Finished
17. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre - Finished
18. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner - Finished
19. Are We Born Racist? - Jason Marsh et all. - Finished
20. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick - Finished
21. No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre - Finished
22. The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus - Finished
23. Puddn'head WIlson - Twain - Finished
Comics Read On Top of Books
01. The Walking Dead 1-85
02. Silverfish
03. The Li'l Depressed Boy Vol 1
04. Transmetropolitan Vol 1
05. Habibi
Fact'ry Read'n
(read concurrently with the above lists)
01. The Stranger - Albert Camus - 5/16-5/19
02. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl - 5/20-5/25
03. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - 5/26-6/6
04. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski - 6/7-6/10
05. The Collector - John Fowles - 6/13-6/17
06. Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo - 6/20-6/24
07. The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin - 6/27-7/1
08. Hamlet and Oedipus - Ernest Jones - 7/5-7/8
09. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Mark Twain - 7/11-7/15
10. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 7/18-7/28
11. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand - 7/29-8/5
12. Feed - M.T. Anderson - 8/8-8/10
13. You Don't Love Me Yet - Jonathan Lethem - 8/11-8/12
14. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner - 8/15-8/17
15. Siddartha - Hermann Hesse - 8/18-8/19
16. The Cellist of Serajevo - Steven Galloway - 8/22-8/24
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
2008 Book List
2009 Book List
2010 Book List
1. 13 Specimens-Jeffrey Thomas
2. In The Mean Time-Paul Tremblay
3. Chimerascope-Douglas Smith
4. Neil Gaiman-Odd And The Frost Giants
5. Rust And Bone-Craig Davidson
6. Cities Of Night-Philip Nutman
7. Destinations Unknown-Gary A. Braunbeck
8. Sinister Purposes- Gary Raisnor
9. Horror Story And Other Horror Stories- Robert Boyczuk
10. Fourbodings: A Quartet of Uneasy Tales from Four Masters of the Macabre-edited by Peter Crowther
11. Haunted House and other Presidential Horrors-Edward Lee
12. Do Unto Others- J.F. Gonzales
13. Sleep Disorder-Jack Ketchum & Edward Lee
14. Haunter Of The Threshold-Edward Lee
15. Fear Of Gravity- Brian Keene
16. Dangerous Red-Mehitobel Wilson
17. Kill Whitey-Brian Keene
18. The Stickmen-Edward Lee
19. Full Dark, No Stars-Stephen King
20. When The Darkness Falls-J. F. Gonzales
21. Tales From The Nightside-Charles L. Grant
22. Needles And Sins-John Everson
23. Assassination: Political Murder Through the Ages-Xavier Waterkeyn
24. The Black Train-Edward Lee
25. Beware-Richard Laymon
26. The Woods Are Dark-Richard Laymon
27. Friday Night In Beast House- Richard Laymon
28. Cuts- Richard Laymon
29. Old Flames- Jack Ketchum
30. Urban Gothic- Brian Keene
31. Bestial-Ray Garton
32. A Gathering Of Crows- Brian Keene
33. Savage-Richard Laymon
34. The Asylum Prophecies-Daniel Keyes
35. The Reach-Nate Kenyon
36. Fears Unnamed-Tim Lebbon
37. The 5th Witch-Graham Masterton
38. Queen Of Blood-Bryan Smith
39. Covenant-John Everson
40. Ravenous-Ray Garton
41. The Bone Factory-Nate Kenyon
42. Water Witch-Deborah LeBlanc
43. Really Really Really Really Weird Stories-John Shirley
44. Alice In Zombieland-Lewis Carroll and Nickolas Cook
45. Visions Through A Shattered Lens-Gerard Houarner
46. The Very Best Of Best New Horror-Ed. Stephen Jones
47. The Passage-Justin Cronin
48. Ennui And Other States Of Madness-David Niall Wilson
49. Odd Thomas-Dean Koontz
50. Full Dark, No Stars (galllery books edition)
51. Einstein's Dreams-Alan Lightman
52. Different Seasons-Stephen King
53. Christine-Stephen King
54. The Gunslinger-Stephen King
55. Pet Semetary-Stephen King
56. Got To Kill Them All- Dennis Etchison
57. Mondo Zombie-Edited by John Skipp
58. Required Reading Remixed Vol. 1- Jeff Conner
59. Required Reading Remixed Vol. 2- Jeff Conner
60. Required Reading Remixed Vol. 3- Jeff Conner
61. 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said- Stephen D. Price
62. The Mammoth Book Of Coverups-Jon E. Lewis
63. Dragonfly-Brian Knight
64. The Everlasting- Tim Lebbon
65. Midnight Grinding And Other Twilight Terrors- Ronald Kelly
66. Buffy The Vampir Slayer 1
67. Buffy The Vampire Slayer 2
68. The top 100 immunity boosters- Charlotte Haugh
69. Marked-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
70. Betrayed-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
71. Chosen-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
72. Untamed- P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
73. 501 Must-Read Books
74. The Bottoms-Joe R. Lansdale
75. Blue World-Robert R. McCammon
76. Hunted- P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
77. Tempted-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
78.Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK-Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartman
79. Triage-Leonard C. Lewin
80. Burned-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
81. Dragon's Oath-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
82. The Party-Christopher Pike
83. The Dance-Christopher Pike
84. The Graduation-Christopher Pike
85. Awakening-P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
86. Buffy The Vampire Slayer 3
87. Mile 81-Stephen King
88. Stephen king Master Of Horror-Anne Saidman
89. Fangoria Masters Of The Dark ed. By Anthony Timpone
90. The Last Header- Edward Lee
91. 11/22/63-Stephen king
92. Supernatural horror in literature-H. P. Lovecraft
93. Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands
94. I AM PROVIDENCE: The Life And Times Of H. P. Lovecraft-S. T. Joshi
95. Children Of The New Disorder-Tim Lebbon & Lindy Moore
2008 Book List
2009 Book List
2010 Book List
1. Transition ~ Iain Banks
2. How To Be Good ~ Nick Hornby
3. The Business ~ Iain Banks
4. The Book Of Universes ~ John D Barrow
5. Birth of a Killer ~ Darren Shan
6. The Small Hand ~ Susan Hill
7. The Bookseller Of Kabul ~ Asne Seierstad
8. The Angel of Grozny ~ Asne Seierstad
9. Lost In A Good Book ~ Jasper Fforde
10. The Well of Lost Plots ~ Jasper Fforde
11. Something Rotten ~ Jasper Fforde
12. Dead Reckoning ~ Charlaine Harris
13. A Game Of Thrones ~ George R R Martin
14. Full Dark, No Stars ~ SK
15. A Clash Of Kings ~ George R R Martin
16. A Storm Of Swords ~ George R R Martin
17. A Feast For Crows ~ George R R Martin
18. The Wind Up Bird Chronicles ~ Haruki Murakami
19. A Dance With Dragons ~ George R R Martin
20. Dexter Is Delicious ~ Jeff Lindsay
21. First Among Sequels ~ Jasper Fforde
22. Ghost Story ~ Jim Butcher
23. The Three Musketeers ~ Alexandre Dumas
24. Ready Player One ~ Ernest Cline
25. On Stranger Tides ~ Tim Powers (currently reading)
26. Plum Spooky ~ Janet Evanovich
27. The Raw Shark Texts ~ Steven Hall
28. Eleven On Top ~ Janet Evanovich
29. Twelve Sharp ~ Janet Evanovich
30. Lean Mean Thirteen ~ Janet Evanovich
31. Fearless Fourteen ~ Janet Evanovich
32. Finger Lickin' Fifteen ~ Janet Evanovich
33. Sizzling Sixteen ~ Janet Evanovich
34. Smokin' Seventeen ~ Janet Evanovich
35. South of the Border, West of the Sun ~ Haruki Murakami
36. Night Warriors ~ Graham Masterton
37. 11.22.63 ~ Stephen King
38. Locke and Key: Welcome To Lovecraft ~ Joe Hill (reread)
39. Locke and Key: Head Games ~ Joe Hill (reread)
40. Locke and Key: Crown Of Shadows ~ Joe Hill (reread)
41. Locke and Key: Keys To The Kingdom ~ Joe Hill
42. Double Dexter ~ Jeff Lindsay
43. Battle Royale ~ Koushun Takami
44. One Of Our Thursdays Missing ~ Jasper Fforde (currently reading)
2009
2010
01. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote - 12/30-1/4
02. Let Me In - John Ajvide Lindqvist - 1/4-1/8
03. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon - 1/8-1/15
04. Skippy Dies - Paul Murray - 1/15-1/26
05. Signifying Rappers - Mark Costello & David Foster Wallace - 1/26-1/29
06. 60 Years Later - John David California - 1/29-2/4
07. The Universal History of the Destruction of Books - Fernando Báez - 2/4-2/12
08. 22 Uncollected Short Stories - J.D. Salinger - *nook* - 2/12-2/16
09. Witz - Joshua Cohen - 2/16-2/24
10. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon - 2/24-3/4
11. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac - 3/4-3/11
12. The Waitress Was New - Dominique Fabre - 3/11-3/12
13. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre - 3/12-3/16
14. One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box - Eggers, Manguso, and Unferth - 3/16-3/19
15. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen - 3/19-3/29
16. The Pale King - David Foster Wallace - 3/29-4/9
17. Maps and Legends - Michael Chabon - 4/9-4/18
18. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky - 4/18-4/23
19. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs - 4/23-4/26
20. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen - 4/26-5/6
21. Zabiba and the King - Saddam Hussein - 5/6-5/9
22. The Better of McSweeney's Volume 2 - 5/9- 5/12
23. Badass: The Birth of a Legend - Ben Thompson - 5/12-5/14
24. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson - 5/14-5/19
25. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman - 5/19-5/23
26. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman - 5/23-5/27
27. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman - 5/27-6/6
28. Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal - 6/6-6/7
29. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer - 6/7-6/13
30. Between Parentheses - Roberto Bolaño - 6/13-6/23
31. The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists - Granta - 6/23-6/26
32. The Collected Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde - 6/26-7/3
33. You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers - 7/3-7/9
34. The Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft - 7/9-7/17
35. Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon - 7/17-7/24
36. The Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol I - Mark Twain - 7/24-7/30
37. Palo Alto - James Franco - 7/30-7/31
38. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway - 7/31-8/1
39. The Children's Hospital - Chris Adrian - 8/1-8/7
40. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - 8/7-8/14
41. Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern 38 - Ed. Dave Eggers - 8/14-8/21
42. The Arabian Nightmare - Robert Irwin - 8/21-8/25
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 8/25-9/3
44. Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway - 9/3-9/11
45. Museum of the Weird - Amelia Gray - 9/11-9/14
46. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace - 9/14-10/9
47. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger - 10/9-10/12
48. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides - 10/12-10/22
49. Mile 81 - Stephen king - 10/22-10/26
50. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami - 10/26-11/12
51. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick - Philip K. Dick - 11/12-11/20
52. The Obits - Ed. William McDonald - 11/20-12/11
53. Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire - 12/11-12/20
54. 11/22/63 - Stephen king - 12/20-12/27
55. Inheritance - Christopher Paolini - 12/27-
School
01. The First World War - John Keegan - Finished
02. Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert K. Massie - Finished
03. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë - Finished
04. Paris 1919 - Margaret Macmillan - Finished
05. All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque - Finished
06. The Tempest - Shakespeare - Finished
07. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism, and Theory - Bennet and Royle - Finished
08. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe - Finished
09. Existentialism Basic Writings - Guignon and Pereboom - Finished
10. Another Planet - Elinor Burkett - Finished
11. Nietzsche Sleections - Richard Schacht - Finished
12. Slaughterhouse-5 - Kurt Vonnegut - Finished
13. A Mercy - Toni Morrison - Finished
14. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer - Finished
15. The Children in Room E4 - Susan Eaton - Finished
16. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby - Finished
17. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre - Finished
18. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner - Finished
19. Are We Born Racist? - Jason Marsh et all. - Finished
20. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick - Finished
21. No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre - Finished
22. The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus - Finished
23. Puddn'head WIlson - Twain - Finished
Comics Read On Top of Books
01. The Walking Dead 1-85
02. Silverfish
03. The Li'l Depressed Boy Vol 1
04. Transmetropolitan Vol 1
05. Habibi
Fact'ry Read'n
(read concurrently with the above lists)
01. The Stranger - Albert Camus - 5/16-5/19
02. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl - 5/20-5/25
03. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - 5/26-6/6
04. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski - 6/7-6/10
05. The Collector - John Fowles - 6/13-6/17
06. Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo - 6/20-6/24
07. The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin - 6/27-7/1
08. Hamlet and Oedipus - Ernest Jones - 7/5-7/8
09. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Mark Twain - 7/11-7/15
10. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 7/18-7/28
11. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand - 7/29-8/5
12. Feed - M.T. Anderson - 8/8-8/10
13. You Don't Love Me Yet - Jonathan Lethem - 8/11-8/12
14. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner - 8/15-8/17
15. Siddartha - Hermann Hesse - 8/18-8/19
16. The Cellist of Serajevo - Steven Galloway - 8/22-8/24
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
2009
2010
As usual, I will give a 0-5 rating.
1. Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy (4)
2. Full Dark No Stars - SK - (3)
3. Green Mile (reread) -5
4. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk - 5
5. Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally (4)
6. Beloved - Toni Morrison (5)
7. Uncle John’s Triumphant 20th Anniversary Bathroom Reader (3)
8. The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne (5)
9. Rum Punch - Elmore Leonard (4)
10. Choke - Chuck Palahniuk (3)
11. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (4)
12. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (5)
13. Rising Sun - Micheal Crichton (3)
14. 11/22/63 - SK - (5)
15. Tell-All - Chuck Palahniuk (3)
16. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain (5)
Sloth Love Chunk
1. Side Jobs - Jim Butcher
2. The Shadow Rising - Robert Jordan
3. John Dies at the End - David Wong
4. Night of the Humans - David Lleywn
5. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
6. The Spine of the World - R.A. Salvatore
7. The Forgotten Army - Brian Minchin
8. The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses - Dorothy Crawford (for school)
9. Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
10. A Clash of Kings - George R.R. Martin
11. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
12. American Gods - Neil Gaiman
13. The Gunslinger - Stephen King
14. The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King
15. The Waste Lands - Stephen King
16. Wizard and Glass - Stephen King
17. Wolves of the Calla - Stephen King
18. Song of Susannah - Stephen King
19. The Dark Tower - Stephen King
20. Hunter's Moon - Paul Finch
21. Ghost Story - Jim Butcher
22. Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet
23. The Wandering Fire - Guy Gavriel Kay
24. A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
25. Scarlet - Stephen R. Lawhead
26. A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin
27. The Son of Neptune - Rick Riordan
28. A Dance with Dragons - George R.R. Martin
29. Rogue Squadron - Michael Stackpole
30. Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
31. The House of Silk - Anthony Horowitz
32. The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
2009
2010
01. In Cold Blood - Truman Capote - 12/30-1/4
02. Let Me In - John Ajvide Lindqvist - 1/4-1/8
03. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon - 1/8-1/15
04. Skippy Dies - Paul Murray - 1/15-1/26
05. Signifying Rappers - Mark Costello & David Foster Wallace - 1/26-1/29
06. 60 Years Later - John David California - 1/29-2/4
07. The Universal History of the Destruction of Books - Fernando Báez - 2/4-2/12
08. 22 Uncollected Short Stories - J.D. Salinger - *nook* - 2/12-2/16
09. Witz - Joshua Cohen - 2/16-2/24
10. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon - 2/24-3/4
11. The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac - 3/4-3/11
12. The Waitress Was New - Dominique Fabre - 3/11-3/12
13. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre - 3/12-3/16
14. One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box - Eggers, Manguso, and Unferth - 3/16-3/19
15. Freedom - Jonathan Franzen - 3/19-3/29
16. The Pale King - David Foster Wallace - 3/29-4/9
17. Maps and Legends - Michael Chabon - 4/9-4/18
18. The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky - 4/18-4/23
19. Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs - 4/23-4/26
20. The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen - 4/26-5/6
21. Zabiba and the King - Saddam Hussein - 5/6-5/9
22. The Better of McSweeney's Volume 2 - 5/9- 5/12
23. Badass: The Birth of a Legend - Ben Thompson - 5/12-5/14
24. The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson - 5/14-5/19
25. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman - 5/19-5/23
26. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman - 5/23-5/27
27. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman - 5/27-6/6
28. Too Loud a Solitude - Bohumil Hrabal - 6/6-6/7
29. Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer - 6/7-6/13
30. Between Parentheses - Roberto Bolaño - 6/13-6/23
31. The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists - Granta - 6/23-6/26
32. The Collected Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde - 6/26-7/3
33. You Shall Know Our Velocity - Dave Eggers - 7/3-7/9
34. The Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft - 7/9-7/17
35. Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon - 7/17-7/24
36. The Autobiography of Mark Twain Vol I - Mark Twain - 7/24-7/30
37. Palo Alto - James Franco - 7/30-7/31
38. A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway - 7/31-8/1
39. The Children's Hospital - Chris Adrian - 8/1-8/7
40. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë - 8/7-8/14
41. Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern 38 - Ed. Dave Eggers - 8/14-8/21
42. The Arabian Nightmare - Robert Irwin - 8/21-8/25
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 8/25-9/3
44. Death in the Afternoon - Ernest Hemingway - 9/3-9/11
45. Museum of the Weird - Amelia Gray - 9/11-9/14
46. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace - 9/14-10/9
47. Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger - 10/9-10/12
48. The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides - 10/12-10/22
49. Mile 81 - Stephen king - 10/22-10/26
50. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami - 10/26-11/12
51. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick - Philip K. Dick - 11/12-11/20
52. The Obits - Ed. William McDonald - 11/20-12/11
53. Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire - 12/11-12/20
54. 11/22/63 - Stephen king - 12/20-12/27
55. Inheritance - Christopher Paolini - 12/27-12/31
56. Y: The Last Man Vol 1 - Brian K. Vaughn - 12/31-12/31
School
01. The First World War - John Keegan - Finished
02. Nicholas and Alexandra - Robert K. Massie - Finished
03. Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë - Finished
04. Paris 1919 - Margaret Macmillan - Finished
05. All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque - Finished
06. The Tempest - Shakespeare - Finished
07. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism, and Theory - Bennet and Royle - Finished
08. Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe - Finished
09. Existentialism Basic Writings - Guignon and Pereboom - Finished
10. Another Planet - Elinor Burkett - Finished
11. Nietzsche Sleections - Richard Schacht - Finished
12. Slaughterhouse-5 - Kurt Vonnegut - Finished
13. A Mercy - Toni Morrison - Finished
14. Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer - Finished
15. The Children in Room E4 - Susan Eaton - Finished
16. High Fidelity - Nick Hornby - Finished
17. Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre - Finished
18. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner - Finished
19. Are We Born Racist? - Jason Marsh et all. - Finished
20. A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick - Finished
21. No Exit - Jean-Paul Sartre - Finished
22. The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus - Finished
23. Puddn'head WIlson - Twain - Finished
Comics Read On Top of Books
01. The Walking Dead 1-85
02. Silverfish
03. The Li'l Depressed Boy Vol 1
04. Transmetropolitan Vol 1
05. Habibi
Fact'ry Read'n
(read concurrently with the above lists)
01. The Stranger - Albert Camus - 5/16-5/19
02. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl - 5/20-5/25
03. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - 5/26-6/6
04. The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosinski - 6/7-6/10
05. The Collector - John Fowles - 6/13-6/17
06. Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo - 6/20-6/24
07. The Boys from Brazil - Ira Levin - 6/27-7/1
08. Hamlet and Oedipus - Ernest Jones - 7/5-7/8
09. The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Mark Twain - 7/11-7/15
10. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck - 7/18-7/28
11. The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand - 7/29-8/5
12. Feed - M.T. Anderson - 8/8-8/10
13. You Don't Love Me Yet - Jonathan Lethem - 8/11-8/12
14. Go Down, Moses - William Faulkner - 8/15-8/17
15. Siddartha - Hermann Hesse - 8/18-8/19
16. The Cellist of Serajevo - Steven Galloway - 8/22-8/24
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
2011 List:
1. Psycho - Robert Bloch
2. Swan Song - Robert McCammon
3. The Long Walk - Stephen King
4. The Talisman - Stephen King & Peter Straub
5. Black House - Stephen King & Peter Straub
6. Winter's Bone - Daniel Woodrell
7. Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
8. Tick Tock - Dean Koontz
9. Bossypants - Tina Fey
10. Ghost Story - Peter Straub
11. Phantoms - Dean Koontz
12. 20th Century Ghosts - Joe Hill
13. The Cypress House - Michael Koryta
14. The Painted Darkness - Brian Freeman
15. So Cold the River - Michael Koryta
16. The Silent Land - Graham Joyce
17. Darkfall - Dean Koontz
18. Handling the Undead - John Ajvide Lindqvist
19. The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
20. 11/22/63 - Stephen King
A NEW GAME BEGINS
2011 Book List
1. Swan Song - Robert McCammon
2. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
3. Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memior - Cara Muhlhahn
4. The Passage - Justin Cronin
5. The Other Boelyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
6. Gone - Michael Grant
7. Hunger - Michael Grant
8. Divine Guidance - Doreen Virtue
9. One Last Time - John Edward
10. Lies - Michael Grant
11. After Life - John Edward
12. Many Lives, Many Masters - Dr. Brian Weiss
13. Through Time Into Healing - Dr. Brian Weiss
14. Only Love Is Real - Dr. Brian Weiss
15. The Name Of The Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
16. The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum
17. Messages From the Masters - Dr. Brian Weiss
18. A Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin
19. A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin
20. A Dance With Dragons - George R. R. Martin
21. The Killing King - Bryan Smith
22. Off Season - Jack Ketchum
23. The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
24. Offspring - Jack Ketchum
25. Mile 81 - Stephen King
26. Ghost Story - Jim Butcher
27. House Rules - Jodi Picoult
28. 11/22/63 - Stephen King
29. Dying of the Light - George R. R. Martin
30. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Well, 30 books this year. That's a pretty sad number. Here's to hitting 50 in 2012!
I am Daenerys Stormborn and I will take what is mine. With fire and blood.
Yeah but some of those are heavy as bricks and although the number of books is (relatively) low, the word count is high.
True, true. I tended to read quite a few long fantasy books last year.
I am Daenerys Stormborn and I will take what is mine. With fire and blood.
2011 Book List:
1. IT
2. Night Shift
3. The Dead Zone
4. The Shining
5. Different Seasons
6. On Writing
7. Salem's Lot
8. Walking Dead Vol. 1-14 - Kirkman/Moore
9. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
10. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
11. The Fragment - Warren Fahy
12. Raise the Titanic - Clive Cussler
13. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (re-read)
14. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
15. Pandemonium - Daryl Gregory
16. Meg / The Trench - Steve Alten
17. Big Man - Clarence Clemons
18. Diamonds Are Forever / Octopussy & The Living Daylights - Ian Fleming
19. Dead City - Joe McKinney
20. The Night Eternal - Chuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro
21. Frankenstein: The Prodigal Son - Dean Koontz
22. The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
23. I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
24. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larson
The one's I can't recall must not have been that good haha
"Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known." - Nick Carraway
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Great Gatsby"
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