I've got a nice edition of The Theif of Always. Very surprised its never been adapted to film
I've got a nice edition of The Theif of Always. Very surprised its never been adapted to film
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2010
2011
01. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon - 1/1-1/3
02. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins - 1/3-1/4
03. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins - 1/4-1/5
04. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller - 1/5-1/6
05. All The King's Men - Robert Penn Warren - 1/6-1/9
06. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño - 1/9-1/16
07. Hope: A Tragedy - Shalom Auslander - 1/16-1/21
08. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern 39 - Ed. Dave Eggers - 1/21-1/23
09. The Third Reich - Roberto Bolaño - 1/23-2/4
10. The Ecstasy of Influence - Jonathan Lethem - 2/4-2/18
11. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace - 2/18-3/7
12. People Who Eat Darkness - Richard Lloyd Parry - 3/7-3/9
13. Threats - Amelia Gray - 3/9-3/16
14. Pulphead - John Jeremiah Sullivan - 3/16-4/23
15. The Secret of Evil - Roberto Bolaño - 4/23-4/26
16. I Pass Like Night - Jonathan Ames - 4/26-4/28
17. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides - 4/28-5/11
18. AM/PM – Amelia Gray – 5/11-5/12
19. The Wind Through the Keyhole - Stephen King - 5/12-5/20
20. Paris, I Love You But You're Brining Me Down - Rosecrans Baldwin - 5/20-5/28
21. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West - 5/28-6-3
22. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Vol. 40 - ed. Dave Eggers - 6/3-6/7
23. In My Home There Is No More Sorrow - Rick Bass - 6/7-6/11
24. Isn't It Pretty to Think So? - Nick Miller - 6/11-6/21
25. The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien - 6/21-6/23 (Part of Study Project)
26. Hopscotch - Julio Cortázar - 6/23-7/3 (SP)
27. The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien - 7/3-7/11
28. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz - 7/11-7/25 (SP)
29. Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig - 7/25-7/28 (SP)
30. Lake Wobegone Days - Garrison Keillor - 7/28-7/28 (SP)
31. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov - 7/28-7/30 (SP)
32. Ibid - Mark Dunn - 7/30-8-6 (SP)
33. A Hologram For the King - Dave Eggers - 8/6-8/12
34. Hot Pink - Adam Levin - 8/12-8/23
35. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - 8/23-9/2
36. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story - D.T. Max - 9/2-9/4
37. NW - Zadie Smith - 9/4-9/30
38. Telegraph Avenue - Michael Chabon - 9/30-10/14
39. The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling - 10/14-11/3
40. This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz - 11/3-11/12
41. Both Flesh and Not - David Foster Wallace - 11/12-11/25
42. Woes of the True Policeman - Roberto Bolaño - 11/25-
For School
01. To Teach - William Ayers - Finished
02. I Am a Pencil - Sam Swope - Finished
03. The Call of the Wild - Jack London - Finished
04. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Jack Finney - Finished
05. Inside Teaching - Mary M. Kennedy - Finished
06. Kidwatching - Owocki and Goodman - Finished
07. Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck - Finished
08. Hey, Wait… - Jason - Finished
09. The Left Bank Gang - Jason - Finished
10. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides - Finished
11. Lenses on Reading - Tracey & Morrow - Finished
12. Swamplandia! - Karen Russell - Finished
13. The Footnote - Anthony Grafton - Finished
14. Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer - Finished
15. The Devil's Details - Chuck Zerby - Finished
16. Invisible Forms - Kevin Jackson - Finished
17. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison - Finished
18. Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man - Finished
19. The Actor at Work - Benedetti -
20. Educating Emergent Bilinguals - Garcia and Kleifgen - Finished
21. Proof - David Auburn - Finished
22. Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL - Peregoy and Boyle - Finished
Comics Read on Top of Books
01. Pride of Baghdad - Brian K. Vaughn
02. The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City - Brendan Leach
03. Spider-Men 1-4
04. Saga 1-4
05. The Cartoons - Flannery O'Connor
06. Ultimate X-Men 1-18
07. The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
08. Almost Silent - Jason
09. Laika - Nick Abadzis
10. Leviathan - Jens Harder
11. Ghost World - Daniel Clowes
12. 20th Century Eightball - Daniel Clowes
13. After the Cape 1 - Wong
14. Phonogram 1 - Kieren Gillan
15. Phonogram 2 - Kieren Gillan
Fact'ry Read'n
01. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett – 5/7-5/10
02. Night Flight – Antoine de Saint Exupery – 5/10-5/11
03. The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett - 5/14-5/17
04. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 5/18-5/19
05. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - 5/21-5/24
06. The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury - 5/21-5/27
07. We - Eugene Zamiatin - 5/29-6/1
08. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous - 6/4-6/7
09. The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad - 6/8-6/8
10. The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey - 6/11-6/16
11. Watership Down - Richard Adams - 6/18-6/22
12. Tales From Watership Down - Richard Adams - 6/25-6/30
13. Something Happened - Joseph Heller - 7/2-7/14
14. The Last Man - Mary Shelley - 7/9-7/14
15. The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton - 7/16-7/18
16. The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail - lawrence and Lee - 7/19-7/20
17. The Man Who Sold The Moon - Robert A. Heinlein - 7/23-7/28
18. Three by Flannery O'Connor - Flannery O'Connor - 7/30-8/5
19. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett - 8/6-8/9
20. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury - 8/10-8/15
21. The Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 8/16-8/22
Study Project
01. The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker - 6/20-6/20
02. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce - 8/6-9/2
03. A Skeleton key to Finnegans Wake - Campbell and Robinson - 8/6-9/2
04. A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake - Tindall - 8/6-9/2
Other
01. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories - Ernest Hemingway - 9/4-9/30
02. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury - 9/30-10/22
03. Down the Rabbit Hole - Juan Pablo Villalobos - 10/13-10/13
04. The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 - Richard Brautigan - 10/22-11/2
05. The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery - 11/2-11/2
06. Kim - Rudyard Kipling - 11/2-11/11
07. MR. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - 11/11-11/17
08. Groucho and Me - Grouch Marx - 11/17-11/18
09. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train - Howard Zinn - 11/18-11/20
10. Cash - Johnny Cash - 11/20-11/23
11. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick - 11/23-11/24
12. Just My Type - Simon Garfield - 11/24-
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
2012
1. Cujo (Stephen King) 01/02
2. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) 01/04-01/12
3. The Gunslinger (Stephen King) 01/13-01/14
4. The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King) 01/14-01/16
5. The Waste Lands (Stephen King) 01/16-01/20
6. Wizard and Glass (Stephen King) 01/21-01/27
7. The Talisman (Stephen King) 01/28-02/02
8. Black House (Stephen King) 02/03-02/09
9. Wolves of the Calla (Stephen King) 02/11-02/15
10. Song of Susannah (Stephen King) 02/16-02/18
11. The Dark Tower (Stephen King) 02/19-02/26
12. The Dead Zone (Stephen King) 02/27-02/29
13. Insomnia (Stephen King) 03/01-03/09
14. IT (Stephen King) 03/10-03/25
15. The Eyes of the Dragon (Stephen King) 03/26-03/27
16. Skeleton Crew (Stephen King) 03/28-04/05
17. The Colorado Kid (Stephen King) 04/05-04/06
18. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Seth Grahame-Smith) 04/6-04/9
19. Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born Comics 1-7 (Stephen King) 04/09-04/11
20. Under the Dome (Stephen King) 04/11-04/17
21. Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill) 04/18-04/20
22. Pet Sematary (Stephen King) 04/20-04/24
23. Needful Things (Stephen King) 04/24-05/04
24. The Wind Through the Keyhole (Stephen King) 05/04-05/09
25. Everything’s Eventual (Stephen King) 05/10-05/14
26. The Passage (Justin Cronin) 05/14-05/24
27. The Shining (Stephen King) 05/25-05/28
28. The Painted Darkness (Brian James Freeman) 05/29
29. Offspring (Jack Ketchum) 05/29-05/30
30. Different Seasons (Stephen King) 05/31-06/04
31. Floating Dragon (Peter Straub) 06/04-06/14
32. Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft (Joe Hill) 06/15
33. Duma Key (Stephen King) 06/15-06/21
34. Blaze (Stephen King) 06/22-06/24
35. The Strain (Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan) 06/24-06/29
36. Willa (Stephen King) 06/29
37. The Fall (Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan) 06/29-07/05
38. In The Flesh (Clive Barker) 07/05-07/09
39. A Special Place (Peter Straub) 07/09
40. Christine (Steven King) 07/10-07/15
41. Locke & Key: Head Games (Joe Hill) 07/16
42. Lost boy, lost girl (Peter Straub) 07/16-07/19
43. Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows (Joe Hill) 07/19
44. Firestarter (Stephen King) 07/19-07/24
45. Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom (Joe Hill) 07/24
46. Dueling Minds (Anthology) 07/25-07/27
47. Dark Tower: The Long Road Home (Stephen King ) 07/28
48. Mystery Walk (Robert McCammon) 07/28-08/05
49. Better Than Home (Joe Hill) 08/05
50. 11/22/63 (Stephen King) 08/05-08/12
51. Dark Tower: Treachery HC (Stephen King) 08/13
52. Carrie (Stephen King) 08/13-08/14
53. Cycle of the Werewolf (Stephen King) 08/15
54. The Girl Next Door (Jack Ketchum) 08/15-08/16
55. Lisey’s Story (Stephen King) 08/17-08/24
56. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith) 08/24-08/27
57. Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton) 08/28-08/31
58. Full Dark, No Stars (Stephen King) 09/01-09/03
59. The Andromedia Strain (Michael Crichton) 09/04-09/06
60. Desperation (Stephen King ) 09/07-09/16
61. The Regulators (Stephen King/Richard Bachman) 09/16-09/19
62. The Hellfire Club (Peter Straub) 09/20-09/24
63. Ghoul (Brian Keene) 09/24-09/27
64. J. Edgar Hoover graphic novel (Rick Geary) 09/28
65. Gone South (Robert McCammon) 09/28/-10/01
66. The Twelve (Justin Cronin) 10/02-10/14
67. From a Buick 8 (Stephen King) 10/15-10/18
68. NOS4A2 (Joe Hill) 10/19-10/22
69. Strange Candy (Robert McCammon) 10/22
70. Gerassimos Flamotas (Simon Clark) 10/22
71. Just After Sunset (Stephen King) 10/23-10/28
72. The Vanishing (Bentley Little) 10/28-10/30
73. Year Zero (Jeff Long) 10/30-11/4
74. Carrion Comfort (Dan Simmons) 11/5-11/18
75. Thinner (Stephen King) 11/19-11/21
76. The Resort (Bentley Little) 11/21-11/23
77. The Rising (Brian Keene) 11/24-11/25
78. Dark Tower: The Sorcerer (Stephen King) 11/25
79. Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead (Stephen King) 11/25
80. Dark Tower: Battle of Jericho Hill (Stephen King) 11/25
Audiobooks
1. The Long Walk (Stephen King) 03/14
2. Dracula (Bram Stoker) 03/27-04/10
3. Herman Wouk is Still Alive (Stephen King) 04/16
4. The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson) 04/17-04/22
5. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) 04/23-04/25
6. The Running Man (Stephen King) 04/25-05/02
7. I Am Legend (Richard Matheson) 05/03-05/07
8. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) 05/09-05/16
9. Roadwork (Stephen King) 05/17-05/23
10. Horns (Joe Hill) 05/23-06/04
11. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) 06/05-06/30
12. The Incredible Shrinking Man (Richard Matheson) 06/30
13. The Colour Out Of Space (H.P. Lovecraft) 07/01
14. A Dark Matter (Peter Straub) 07/04-07/08
15. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (Richard Matheson) 07/09-07/13
16. Other Kingdoms (Richard Matheson) 07/13-07/20
17. The Gunslinger (Stephen King) 07/22-07/25
18. UR (Stephen King) 07/25-07/26
19. What Dreams May Come (Richard Matheson) 07/27-07/30
20. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) 07/30-08/02
21. A Stir of Echoes (Richard Matheson) 08/02-08/03
22. Somewhere in Time (Richard Matheson) 08/03-08/06
23. Steel: And Other Stories (Richard Matheson) 08/07-08/09
24. Inferno (Larry Niven) 08/10-08/13
25. The Night Eternal (Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan) 08/14-08/18
26. The Terminal Man (Michael Crichton) 08/19-08/21
27. Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift) 08/21-08/26
28. Black Hills (Dan Simmons) 08/26-08/30
29. The Illustrated Man (Ray Bradbury) 08/30-08/31
30. Classic Tales of Horror (Anthology) 09/01
31. The Island of Doctor Moreau (H. G. Wells) 09/02-09/03
32. Summer of Night (Dan Simmons) 09/03-09/09
33. Micro (Michael Crichton and Richard Preston) 09/09-09/11
34. Drood (Dan Simmons) 09/11-09/17
35. Nicholas Nickleby (Charles Dickens) 09/17-09/22 unfinished
36. Watership Down (Richard Adams) 09/23-09/27
37. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 09/28-10/3
38. Flashback (Dan Simmons) 10/03-10/08
39. Good Omens (Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett) 10/08-10/09 unfinished
40. The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King) 10/10-10/13 reread
41. The Waste Lands (Stephen King) 10/14-10/18 reread
42. Wizard and Glass (Stephen King) 10/18-10/24 reread
43. So Cold the River (Michael Koryta) 10/24-10/26
44. Pirate Latitudes (Michael Crichton) 10/27-10/30
45. ‘Salem’s Lot (Stephen King) 10/30-11/4 reread
46. Tales for a Stormy Night (Various) 11/5-11/7
47. The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells) 11/8-11/9
48. Escape from Hell (Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle) 11/10-11/12
49. The Cypress House (Michael Koryta) 11/13-11/15
50. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) 11/15-11/16
51. Shadowland (Peter Straub) 11/16-11/24
52. Wolves of the Calla (Stephen King) 11/24- reread
Books: 133 finished as of 12/26. * means published in 2012
January: 6
Stephen King - Secret Windows
Stephen King - 11/23/63
John Brunner - The Sheep Look Up
Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan - The Night Eternal *
Peter S. Beagle - The Last Unicorn
Lucius Shepard - Vacancy & Ariel
February: 8
Stephen King - Lisey's Story
Dan Simmons - The Fall of Hyperion
Justin Cronin - The Passage
Tim Lebbon & Lindy Moore - The Children of the New Disorder
Roger Zelazny - Dark Travelling
Gene Wolfe - Stories from the Old Hotel
Feast of Fear, Conversations with Stephen King
Horror Drive-In Presents... *
March: 13
Tim Lebbon & Jack Ketchum - Absinthe
Robert J. Wiersema- World More Full of Weeping
Tim Lebbon - The Fire Wolves *
Christopher Golden - The Secret Backs of Things
Stephen King - Black House
Stephen King - Dreamcatcher
Stephen King - Bag of Bones
Tom Piccirilli - Night Class
Robert Silverberg - The Alien Years
Tim Curran - The Underdwelling *
Arthur C. Clarke - Space Odyssey 2001
James Newman - Olden
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream...
April: 12
Stephen King - Gerald's Game
Stephen King - The Wind.. *
Tim Lebbon and others - In That Quiet Earth
Ronald Malfi - Skullbelly
Dean Koontz - 77 Shadow Street *
Dan Simmons - Children of the Night
Carlos Ruis Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind
Joe Lansdale - Edge of Dark Water *
Tony Burgess - People Live Still In Cashtown Corners
John Scalzi, Jay Lake and other - Metatropolis
Isaac Asimov & Robert Silverberg - Nightfall
William Ollie - The Mountain *
May: 18 so far
Suzane Collins - The Hunger Games
Robert McCammon - Swan Song
Tim Lebbon - Cabin in the Woods *
John Urbancik - Shadows, Legends and Secrets
Bentley Little - The Mailman
Gene O'Neil - Rusting Chickens
Arthur C. Clarke - 2010: Odyssey Two
Tim Curran - Graveworm *
Douglas Clegg - Mischief
Stephen King - Duma Key
Iain M. Banks - The State of the Art
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Neil Gaiman - Stardust
Roger Zelazny - Home is the Hangman / Samuel R. Delany - We, in some strange power's employ..
Fred Vargas - The Chalk Circle Man
William Meikle - Crustaceans *
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Fellowship of the Ring
Kage Baker - Rude Mechanicals
June: 8
Dean Koontz - Shattered
Ray Bradbury - The Day It Rained Forever
Clive Barker - The Hellbound Heart
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Dean Koontz - What The Night Knows
Robert Heinlein - Tunnel in the Sky
Stephen King - Insomnia
Tom Piccirilli - Every Shallow Cut
July: 13
China Mieville - Railsea *
Robert McCammon - Baal
Jack Ketchum - Off Season
Stephen King - Desperation
Tobias S. Buckell - Sly Mongoose
Robert E. Howard - Red Nails
Rex Miller - Butcher
Thomas Tessier - Wicked Things
Nicholas Kaufman - Chasing the Dragon
Cory Doctorow - East Standard Tribe
Peter Straub - If You Could See Me Now
Michael Moorcock - Behold the Man
Dan Simmons - Summer of Night
August: 9
Isaac Asimov - The Naked Sun
The Architecture of Fear (anthology)
Dean Koontz - Darkfall
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett - Good Omens
Roger Zelazny - Roadmarks
Dan Simmons - Muse of Fire
Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
H.P. Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror
Larry Niven - A Hole In Space
September: 16
Tim Lebbon - Faith in the Flesh
Tim Lebbon & Christopher Golden - The Secret Journeys of Jack London Book II: The Sea Wolves *
John Varley - Press Enter / Robert Silverberg - Hawksbill Station
Stephen King - Under the Dome
Tom Piccirilli - Last Kind Words *
Dean Koontz - The Mask
Joe R. Lansdale - Act of Love
Julianna Baggott - Pure *
George R.R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle - Windhaven
Elmore Leonard - Road Dogs
Paolo Bacigalupi - The Drowned Cities *
Kealan Patrick Burke - The Turtle Boy
Brandon Sanderson - Legion *
Tim Curran - Puppet Graveyard *
Patton Oswalt - Zombie Spaceship Wasteland *
Stephen King - The Plant
October: 7
J.K. Rowling - Casual Vacancy *
Norman Prentiss - The Fleshless Man *
George R.R. Martin - Sandkings (collection)
Steve Rasnic Tem - Deadfall Hotel *
Dennis Lehane - Live By Night *
Michael Koryta - The Prophet *
Brandon Sanderson - The Way of Kings
November: 11
Rio Youers - Westlake Soul *
Bev Vincent - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Norman Prentiss - Invisible Fences
Tim Powers - On Stranger Tides
Tim Powers - Hide Me Among the Graves *
Jay Bonansinga - Oblivion
Tim Lebbon - The Heretic Land *
Michael McBride - Snowblind *
Justin Cronin - The Twelve *
Tim Waggoner - The Harmony Society *
Tim Curran - Fear Me
December: 11
Dan Simmons - Endymion
Ronald Malfi - After The Fade *
Lee Thompson - Within This Garden Weeping *
Brian Hodge - Without Purpose, Without Pity *
Greg F. Gifune - The Rain Dancers *
Dean Koontz - Breathless
China Mieville - Perdido Street Station
JG Faherty - The Cold Spot *
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Peter Straub - Floating Dragon
Philip Jose Farmer - To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Graphic novels and TPBs: 61
January: 7
Mike Mignola - Hellboy Library Edition 1
Warren Ellis - Absolute Planetary 1 & 2
Jeff Lemire - Sweet Tooth 4
Star Wars Legacy 11: War
Judd Winick - Blood & Water
Ed Brudabeker - The Possessed
February: 2
Garth Ennis - Dan Dare omnibus
Alex Ross etc. - Project Superpowers vol. 2
March: 6
Neil Gaiman - Absolute Sandman 4
Alan Moore - Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths
Garth Ennis - Chronicles of Wormwood
Alex Ross etc - Project Superpowers 2, chapter 2
Brian Wood - DMZ 11. Free States Rising
Brian Wood - Northlanders 6. Thor's Daughter
April: 6
Alex Ross - Masquerade
Howard Chaykin - Barnum
F. Paul Wilson - The Keep
Jeff Lemire - Essex County
Mike Mignola - Hellboy Library Edition Vol. 2
Bill Willingham - Fables Deluxe Edition Book Four
May: 7
Jamie Delano - Constantine Hellblazer Vol. 1, Original Sin
Chuck Dixon - Winterworld
Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden - Baltimore 1, Plague Ships
Grant Morrison - Batman, Incorporated (HC)
Alan Moore - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Century: 1969
Joe Quesada - Daredevil: Father
Jason Aaron - Ultimate Captain America
June: 4
Scott Snyder & Kyle Higgins - Batman: Gates of Gotham
Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips - Scene of the Crime
Warren Ellis: Stormwatch vol. 1 HC (Force of Nature + Lighting Strikes)
Brian Wood - DMZ vol. 12: The Five States of New York
July: 10
Scott Beatty - The Last Phantom Vol. 1: Ghost Walk
Leah Moore - Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1: The Trial of Sherlock Holmes
Jim Butcher - Dresden Files Vol. 1: Fool Moon
Jim Butcher - Dresden Files Vol. 2: Stormfront
Kevin Smith - Green Hornet Vol. 1
Grant Morrison & Mark Millar - Vampirella Masters Series Vol. 1
Warren Ellis - Vampirella Masters Vol. 2
Alex Ross - Black Terror Vol. 1
Ed Brubaker - X-Men: The Rise & Fall of the Sh'iar Empire
Mike Mignola - Hellboy Library Edition Vol. 3
August: 1
Jeff Lemire - Lost Dogs
October: 2
Mike Mignola - Hellboy Library Edition Vol. 4
Bill Willingham - Fables Deluxe Edition Book 4
November: 3
Jeff Lemire: Sweet Tooth Vol. 5: Unnatural Habitats
Jeff Lemire - The Nobody
Mike Mignola - B.P.R.D. Vol. 3: Plague of Frogs
December: 13
Garth Ennis - The Boys Definitive Edition Vol. 1
Garth Ennis - The Boys Definitive Edition Vol. 2
Garth Ennis - The Boys Definitive Edition Vol. 3
Jeff Lemire - Underground Welder
Robert Venditti - Surrogates
Garth Ennis - The Boys Definitive Edition Vol. 4
Alan Moore - From Hell
Cory Doctorow - Cory Doctorow's Futiristic Tales
Clive Barker - The Thief of Always
Clive Barker - The Great and Secret Show
Garth Ennis - Judge Dredd: The Garth Ennis Collection
Mike Carey - Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Garth Ennis - Chronicles of Wormwood: The Last Battle
Ah crispy crap, I didn't realise I'd been away for quite so long! Thankfully I've been keeping track on Goodreads, but from #11 onwards these won't necessarily be in the order I read them...
2008 Book List
2009 Book List
2010 Book List
2011 Book List
1. Snuff ~ Terry Pratchett
2. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time ~ Mark Haddon (reread)
3. Mary Poppins ~ P L Travers (reread)
4. The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher - or - The Murder At The Road Hill House ~ Kate Summerscale
5. The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase ~ Joan Aiken (reread)
6. 1Q84 (Book One & Two) ~ Haruki Murakami
7. Explosive Eighteen ~ Janet Evanovich
8. The Fry Chronicles ~ Stephen Fry
9. 1Q84 (Book Three) ~ Haruki Murakami
10. The Earthsea Quartet ~ Ursula Le Guinn
11. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children ~ Ransom Riggs
12. The Psychopath Test ~ Jon Ronson
13. The Adventures Of Tintin: The Calculus Affair ~ Herge
14. The Casual Vacancy ~ J K Rowling
15. One Day ~ David Nicholls
16. The Professional ~ Robert B Parker
17. Valediction ~ Robert B Parker
18. Innocent In Death ~ J D Robb
19. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy ~ Douglas Adams (reread)
20. The Glass Books Of The Dream Eaters ~ G W Dahlquist (reread)
21. The Dark Volume ~ G W Dahlquist (reread)
22. The Chemickal Marriage ~ G W Dahlquist
23. The Wind Through The Keyhole ~ Stephen King
24. After Dark ~ Haruki Murakami
25. The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen ~ Alan Garner
26. The Long Earth ~ Terry Pratchett
27. The Hobbit ~ J R R Tolkien (reread)
28. On Stranger Tides ~ Tim Powers currently reading
LISA!!!!
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
2012 Book List
1. THE HUNGER GAMES, by Suzanne Collins
2. CATCHING FIRE, by Suzanne Collins
3. MOCKINGJAY, by Suzanne Collins
4. THE NIGHT CIRCUS, by Erin Morgenstern
5. THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, by Mark Haddon
6. BEATRICE & VIRGIL, by Yann Martel
7. ROADWORK, by Richard Bachman
8. BOSSYPANTS, by Tina Fey
9. IT, by Stephen King
10. BACK WHEN WE WERE GROWNUPS, by Anne Tyler
11. A GAME OF THRONES (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1), by George R.R. Martin
12. A CLASH OF KINGS (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2), by George R.R. Martin
13. THE WIND THROUGH THE KEYHOLE, by Stephen King
14. BLOCKADE BILLY, by Stephen King
15. A STORM OF SWORDS (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3), by George R.R. Martin
16. AMERICAN GODS: THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: A NOVEL, Author's Preferred Text, by Neil Gaiman
17. BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
18. FAHRENHEIT 451, by Ray Bradbury
19. THE RUINS OF GORLAN (Ranger's Apprentice, Book 1), by John Flanagan
20. OUTLANDER, by Diana Gabaldon
21. STORIES, ALL NEW TALES, edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio
22. PREY, by Michael Crichton
23. FIRST WORDS: Earliest Writing from Favorite Contemporary Authors
24. THE DHARMA BUMS, by Jack Kerouac
25. ULYSSES, by James Joyce
26. NEEDFUL THINGS, by Stephen King
27. THE POWER OF A POSITIVE NO, by William Ury
28. A FEAST FOR CROWS (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4), by George R.R. Martin (currently reading)
"...that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." ~ Ray Bradbury
2009
2010
2011
1. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
2. The Rise of the Governor by Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga
3. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
4. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
5. The Borrowers by Mary Norton
6. Books of Blood v.1 by Clive Barker
7. Books of Blood v.2 by Clive Barker
8. Books of Blood v.3 by Clive Barker
9. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
10. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King
11. It by Stephen King
12. Beware! by R. L. Stine
13. The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
14. Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King by William Joyce
15. Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer
16. Birth of a Killer by Darren Shan
17. Ocean of Blood by Darren Shan
18. Little Star by John Ajvide Lindqvist
19. A Book of Horrors by Stephen Jones
A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.
My Collection
2009
2010
2011
01. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon - 1/1-1/3
02. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins - 1/3-1/4
03. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins - 1/4-1/5
04. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller - 1/5-1/6
05. All The King's Men - Robert Penn Warren - 1/6-1/9
06. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño - 1/9-1/16
07. Hope: A Tragedy - Shalom Auslander - 1/16-1/21
08. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern 39 - Ed. Dave Eggers - 1/21-1/23
09. The Third Reich - Roberto Bolaño - 1/23-2/4
10. The Ecstasy of Influence - Jonathan Lethem - 2/4-2/18
11. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace - 2/18-3/7
12. People Who Eat Darkness - Richard Lloyd Parry - 3/7-3/9
13. Threats - Amelia Gray - 3/9-3/16
14. Pulphead - John Jeremiah Sullivan - 3/16-4/23
15. The Secret of Evil - Roberto Bolaño - 4/23-4/26
16. I Pass Like Night - Jonathan Ames - 4/26-4/28
17. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides - 4/28-5/11
18. AM/PM – Amelia Gray – 5/11-5/12
19. The Wind Through the Keyhole - Stephen King - 5/12-5/20
20. Paris, I Love You But You're Brining Me Down - Rosecrans Baldwin - 5/20-5/28
21. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West - 5/28-6-3
22. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Vol. 40 - ed. Dave Eggers - 6/3-6/7
23. In My Home There Is No More Sorrow - Rick Bass - 6/7-6/11
24. Isn't It Pretty to Think So? - Nick Miller - 6/11-6/21
25. The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien - 6/21-6/23 (Part of Study Project)
26. Hopscotch - Julio Cortázar - 6/23-7/3 (SP)
27. The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien - 7/3-7/11
28. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz - 7/11-7/25 (SP)
29. Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig - 7/25-7/28 (SP)
30. Lake Wobegone Days - Garrison Keillor - 7/28-7/28 (SP)
31. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov - 7/28-7/30 (SP)
32. Ibid - Mark Dunn - 7/30-8-6 (SP)
33. A Hologram For the King - Dave Eggers - 8/6-8/12
34. Hot Pink - Adam Levin - 8/12-8/23
35. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - 8/23-9/2
36. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story - D.T. Max - 9/2-9/4
37. NW - Zadie Smith - 9/4-9/30
38. Telegraph Avenue - Michael Chabon - 9/30-10/14
39. The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling - 10/14-11/3
40. This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz - 11/3-11/12
41. Both Flesh and Not - David Foster Wallace - 11/12-11/25
42. Woes of the True Policeman - Roberto Bolaño - 11/25-12/2
43. McSweeney's 41 - Ed. Dave Eggers - 12/2-
For School
01. To Teach - William Ayers - Finished
02. I Am a Pencil - Sam Swope - Finished
03. The Call of the Wild - Jack London - Finished
04. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Jack Finney - Finished
05. Inside Teaching - Mary M. Kennedy - Finished
06. Kidwatching - Owocki and Goodman - Finished
07. Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck - Finished
08. Hey, Wait… - Jason - Finished
09. The Left Bank Gang - Jason - Finished
10. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides - Finished
11. Lenses on Reading - Tracey & Morrow - Finished
12. Swamplandia! - Karen Russell - Finished
13. The Footnote - Anthony Grafton - Finished
14. Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer - Finished
15. The Devil's Details - Chuck Zerby - Finished
16. Invisible Forms - Kevin Jackson - Finished
17. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison - Finished
18. Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man - Finished
19. The Actor at Work - Benedetti -
20. Educating Emergent Bilinguals - Garcia and Kleifgen - Finished
21. Proof - David Auburn - Finished
22. Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL - Peregoy and Boyle - Finished
Comics Read on Top of Books
01. Pride of Baghdad - Brian K. Vaughn
02. The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City - Brendan Leach
03. Spider-Men 1-4
04. Saga 1-4
05. The Cartoons - Flannery O'Connor
06. Ultimate X-Men 1-18
07. The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
08. Almost Silent - Jason
09. Laika - Nick Abadzis
10. Leviathan - Jens Harder
11. Ghost World - Daniel Clowes
12. 20th Century Eightball - Daniel Clowes
13. After the Cape 1 - Wong
14. Phonogram 1 - Kieren Gillan
15. Phonogram 2 - Kieren Gillan
Fact'ry Read'n
01. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett – 5/7-5/10
02. Night Flight – Antoine de Saint Exupery – 5/10-5/11
03. The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett - 5/14-5/17
04. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 5/18-5/19
05. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - 5/21-5/24
06. The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury - 5/21-5/27
07. We - Eugene Zamiatin - 5/29-6/1
08. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous - 6/4-6/7
09. The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad - 6/8-6/8
10. The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey - 6/11-6/16
11. Watership Down - Richard Adams - 6/18-6/22
12. Tales From Watership Down - Richard Adams - 6/25-6/30
13. Something Happened - Joseph Heller - 7/2-7/14
14. The Last Man - Mary Shelley - 7/9-7/14
15. The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton - 7/16-7/18
16. The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail - lawrence and Lee - 7/19-7/20
17. The Man Who Sold The Moon - Robert A. Heinlein - 7/23-7/28
18. Three by Flannery O'Connor - Flannery O'Connor - 7/30-8/5
19. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett - 8/6-8/9
20. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury - 8/10-8/15
21. The Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 8/16-8/22
Study Project
01. The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker - 6/20-6/20
02. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce - 8/6-9/2
03. A Skeleton key to Finnegans Wake - Campbell and Robinson - 8/6-9/2
04. A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake - Tindall - 8/6-9/2
Other
01. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories - Ernest Hemingway - 9/4-9/30
02. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury - 9/30-10/22
03. Down the Rabbit Hole - Juan Pablo Villalobos - 10/13-10/13
04. The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 - Richard Brautigan - 10/22-11/2
05. The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery - 11/2-11/2
06. Kim - Rudyard Kipling - 11/2-11/11
07. MR. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - 11/11-11/17
08. Groucho and Me - Grouch Marx - 11/17-11/18
09. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train - Howard Zinn - 11/18-11/20
10. Cash - Johnny Cash - 11/20-11/23
11. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick - 11/23-11/24
12. Just My Type - Simon Garfield - 11/24-
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
2011
1-5 rating as usual.
1. Black House - SK (5)
2. Pirate Latitudes - Chrichton (4)
3. The Winter of Our Discontent - Steinbeck (4)
4. The Chamber - John Grisham (5)
5. Life - Keith Richards (2)
6. Horns - Joe Hill (5)
7. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown (5)
8. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy (5) - my favorite of his so far
9. Trapped in Death Cave - Bill Wallace (4) - (reread)
10. Different Seasons -SK - (reread) (5)
11. Gulliver's Travels - Johnathan Swift (5)
12. Blockade Billy - SK (3)
13. The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (4)
14. The Wind Through the Keyhole - SK (4)
15. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter Thompson (5)
16. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins (4)
17. Cycle of the Werewolf - SK (4) reread
18. A Case of Need - Micheal Crichton -as Jeffery Hudson (4)
19. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins (3)
20. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (5)
21. Metallica: This Monster Lives - Joe Berlinger/Greg Milner (3)
22. A Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams (5)
23. Nightmares and Dreamscapes - SK - (reread) (5)
24.The Twelve - Justin Cronin (5)
Sloth Love Chunk
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
In French:
1. Sébastien Japrisot. L'été meurtrier. - Novel (reread)
2. Sébastien Japrisot. Piège pour Cendrillon. - Novel
3. Sébastien Japrisot. Compartiment tueurs. - Novel
In English:
1. Stephen King. Nightmares and Dreamscapes (reread)
2. Stephen King. 11/22/63. - Novel
3. Stephen King. Sun Dog. - Novelette (reread)
4. Dean Koontz. Dark Rivers of the Heart. - Novel
5. Stephen King. Just After Sunset. - Short stories (selective reread)
6. Stephen King. Pet Sematary. - Novel (reread)
7. Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House. - Novel
8. John Saul. Suffer the Children. - Novel
9. John Saul. Cry for the Strangers. - Novel
10. John Saul. Perfect Nightmare. - Novel
11. Stephen Leacock. Literary Lapses. - Short Stories
12. John Saul. Sleepwalk. - Novel
13. Ira Levin. Rosemary's Baby. - Novel (reread)
14. Dan Simmons. Summer of Night. - Novel
15. Michael Crichton. The Andromeda Strain. - Novel
16. Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park. - Novel
17. John Saul. Brain Child. - Novel
18. Michael Crichton. The Lost World. - Novel
19. Stephen King. Ur. - Novelette
20. John Saul. Nightshade. - Novel
21. Michael Crichton. Sphere. - Novel
22. Joe Hill. Horns. - Novel
23. Ramsey Campbell. Scared Stiff. - Short Stories
24. Stephen King. The Wind Through the Keyhole. - Novel.
25. Jack London. Smoke Bellew. - A Series of Stories (first time in English)
26. J.K.Rowling. The Casual Vacancy. - Novel
27. Clive Barker. The Thief of Always. - Novel
28. Stephen King. Cycle of the Werewolf. - Novel
29. Clive Barker. The Hellbound Heart. - Novel
30. Agatha Christie. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. - Novel
31. Dean Koontz. The Mask. - Novel
32. Michael Crichton. Eaters of the Dead. - Novel
In Russian:
1. Татьяна Устинова. С небес на землю. - Novel
2. Татьяна Устинова. Неразрезанные страницы. -Novel
3. Александра Маринина. Смерть как искусство: Маски. -Novel (vol.1)
4. Александра Маринина. Бой тигров в долине. - Novel (vol.1)
5. Татьяна Устинова. Колодец забытых желаний. - Novel
6. Алина Знаменская. Свидетельница. - Novel
7. Татьяна Устинова. Хроника гнусных времен. - Novel (reread)
8. Татьяна Устинова. Подруга особого назначения. - Novel
9. Татьяна Устинова. Пороки и их поклонники. - Novel
10. Александра Маринина. Бой тигров в долине. - Novel (vol.2)
11. Александра Маринина. Смерть как искусство: Правосудие. - Novel (vol.2)
12. Дмитрий Быков. Календарь: Разговоры о главном. - Nonfiction: Essays
13. Дмитрий Быков. Календарь: Споры о бесспорном. - Nonfiction: Essays
14. Татьяна Устинова. Один день, одна ночь. - Novel
15. Б.Акунин. Азазель. - Novel (reread)
16. Б.Акунин. Алтын-Толобас. - Novel (reread)
17. Б.Акунин. Внеклассное чтение. - Novel (reread)
18. Б.Акунин. Пиковый валет. - Novel (reread)
19. Б.Акунин. Коронация. - Novel (reread)
20. Б.Акунин. Из жизни щепок. - Novelette (reread)
21. Б.Акунин. Нефритовые четки. - Novelette (reread)
22. Б.Акунин. Скарпея Баскаковых. - Novelette (reread)
23. Б.Акунин. Чаепитие в Бристоле. - Novelette (reread)
24. Б.Акунин. Долина Мечты. - Novelette (reread)
25. Б.Акунин. ФМ. - Novel (reread)
26. Б.Акунин. Перед концом света. - Novelette (reread)
27. Б.Акунин. Узница Башни, или Краткий, но прекрасный путь трех мудрых. - Novelette
28. Б.Акунин. Алмазная колесница: Ловец стрекоз. - Novel (reread)
29. Б.Акунин. Левиафан. - Novel (reread)
30. Юрий Томин. Борька, я и невидимка. - Novelette
31. Юрий Томин. Шел по городу волшебник. - Novelette
32. Б.Акунин. Алмазная колесница: Между строк. - Novel (reread)
33. С.Витицкий (Б.Стругацкий). Бессильные мира сего. - Novel
34. Б.Акунин. Весь мир - театр. - Novel
35. Б.Акунин. Декоратор. - Novel (reread)
36. Б.Акунин. Смерть Ахиллеса. - Novel (reread)
37. Иван Шевцов. Тля. - Novel
38. Татьяна Устинова. Большое зло и мелкие пакости. - Novel (reread)
39. Татьяна Устинова. Мой личный враг. - Novel
40. Татьяна Устинова. Седьмое небо. - Novel (reread)
41. Татьяна Устинова. Гений пустого места. - Novel
42. Татьяна Устинова. Миф об идеальном мужчине. - Novel
43. Татьяна Устинова. Запасной инстинкт. - Novel
44. Татьяна Устинова. Одна тень на двоих. - Novel
45. Татьяна Устинова. Закон обратного волшебства. - Novel
46. Татьяна Устинова. Сразу после сотворения мира. - Novel
47. Б.Акунин. Черный город. - Novel
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. Damned - Chuck Palahniuk (read)
2. Miss Peregine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs (read)
3. Blue - Lou Aronica (read)
4. A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin (Read)
5. Song Yet Sung- James McBride (Read)
6. Dark Taste of Rapture - Gena Showalter (Read)
7. Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner - Diana Gabaldon (Read)
8. The Wolf Gift - Anne Rice - (read)
9. Third Grave Dead Ahead - Darynda Jones (read)
10. A Perfect Blood - Kim Harrison (read)
11. Lover Reborn - JR Ward (read)
12. A Dance with Dragons - GRRM (read)
13. Sacrificial Magic - Stacia Kane (read)
14. Hyperion - Dan Simmons (read)
15. Wind Through the Keyhole - SK (read)
16. The Ice Dragon - GRRM (read)
17. Off Season - Jack Ketchum (read)
18. Offspring - Jack Ketchum (read)
19. Sacré Bleu - Christopher Moore (read)
20. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (read)
21. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons (read)
22. The Passage - Justin Cronin (read)
23. A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness/Siobhan Dowd (read)
24. A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness (read)
25. Fevre Dream - GRRM (read)
26. Anna Dressed In Blood - Kendare Blake (read)
27. Retribution - Sherrilyn Kenyon (read)
28. Dark Lover - JR Ward (reread)
29. Lover Awakened - JR Ward (reread)
30. The Darkest Secret - Gena Showalter (read)
31. The Darkest Surrender - Gena Showalter (read)
32. The Darkest Seduction - Gena Showalter (read)
33. A Face in the Crowd - SK/O'Nan (read)
34. Silence - Becca Fitzpatrick (read)
35. Defending Jacob - William Landay (read)
36. Chasing Magic - Stacia Kane (read)
37. Rapture - J.R. Ward (read)
38. In the Tall Grass - King/Hill (read)
39. Wicked Nights - Gena Showalter (read)
40. Red Rain - R.L. Stine (read)
41. The Hedge Knight - GRRM (read)
42. Iced - Karen Moning (read)
43. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (read)
44. Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet - Darynda Jones (read)
45. Finale - Becca Fitzpatrick (read)
46. Death and the Girl Next Door - Darynda Jones (read)
Wanted: Human skin edition of The Book of the Dead. Will accept PC copy.
2009
2010
2011
01. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon - 1/1-1/3
02. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins - 1/3-1/4
03. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins - 1/4-1/5
04. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller - 1/5-1/6
05. All The King's Men - Robert Penn Warren - 1/6-1/9
06. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño - 1/9-1/16
07. Hope: A Tragedy - Shalom Auslander - 1/16-1/21
08. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern 39 - Ed. Dave Eggers - 1/21-1/23
09. The Third Reich - Roberto Bolaño - 1/23-2/4
10. The Ecstasy of Influence - Jonathan Lethem - 2/4-2/18
11. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace - 2/18-3/7
12. People Who Eat Darkness - Richard Lloyd Parry - 3/7-3/9
13. Threats - Amelia Gray - 3/9-3/16
14. Pulphead - John Jeremiah Sullivan - 3/16-4/23
15. The Secret of Evil - Roberto Bolaño - 4/23-4/26
16. I Pass Like Night - Jonathan Ames - 4/26-4/28
17. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides - 4/28-5/11
18. AM/PM – Amelia Gray – 5/11-5/12
19. The Wind Through the Keyhole - Stephen King - 5/12-5/20
20. Paris, I Love You But You're Brining Me Down - Rosecrans Baldwin - 5/20-5/28
21. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West - 5/28-6-3
22. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Vol. 40 - ed. Dave Eggers - 6/3-6/7
23. In My Home There Is No More Sorrow - Rick Bass - 6/7-6/11
24. Isn't It Pretty to Think So? - Nick Miller - 6/11-6/21
25. The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien - 6/21-6/23 (Part of Study Project)
26. Hopscotch - Julio Cortázar - 6/23-7/3 (SP)
27. The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien - 7/3-7/11
28. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz - 7/11-7/25 (SP)
29. Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig - 7/25-7/28 (SP)
30. Lake Wobegone Days - Garrison Keillor - 7/28-7/28 (SP)
31. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov - 7/28-7/30 (SP)
32. Ibid - Mark Dunn - 7/30-8-6 (SP)
33. A Hologram For the King - Dave Eggers - 8/6-8/12
34. Hot Pink - Adam Levin - 8/12-8/23
35. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - 8/23-9/2
36. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story - D.T. Max - 9/2-9/4
37. NW - Zadie Smith - 9/4-9/30
38. Telegraph Avenue - Michael Chabon - 9/30-10/14
39. The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling - 10/14-11/3
40. This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz - 11/3-11/12
41. Both Flesh and Not - David Foster Wallace - 11/12-11/25
42. Woes of the True Policeman - Roberto Bolaño - 11/25-12/2
43. McSweeney's 41 - Ed. Dave Eggers - 12/2-12/10
44. The Fifty Year Sword - Mark Z. Danielewski - 12/10-
For School
01. To Teach - William Ayers - Finished
02. I Am a Pencil - Sam Swope - Finished
03. The Call of the Wild - Jack London - Finished
04. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Jack Finney - Finished
05. Inside Teaching - Mary M. Kennedy - Finished
06. Kidwatching - Owocki and Goodman - Finished
07. Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck - Finished
08. Hey, Wait… - Jason - Finished
09. The Left Bank Gang - Jason - Finished
10. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides - Finished
11. Lenses on Reading - Tracey & Morrow - Finished
12. Swamplandia! - Karen Russell - Finished
13. The Footnote - Anthony Grafton - Finished
14. Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer - Finished
15. The Devil's Details - Chuck Zerby - Finished
16. Invisible Forms - Kevin Jackson - Finished
17. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison - Finished
18. Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man - Finished
19. The Actor at Work - Benedetti -
20. Educating Emergent Bilinguals - Garcia and Kleifgen - Finished
21. Proof - David Auburn - Finished
22. Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL - Peregoy and Boyle - Finished
Comics Read on Top of Books
01. Pride of Baghdad - Brian K. Vaughn
02. The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City - Brendan Leach
03. Spider-Men 1-4
04. Saga 1-4
05. The Cartoons - Flannery O'Connor
06. Ultimate X-Men 1-18
07. The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
08. Almost Silent - Jason
09. Laika - Nick Abadzis
10. Leviathan - Jens Harder
11. Ghost World - Daniel Clowes
12. 20th Century Eightball - Daniel Clowes
13. After the Cape 1 - Wong
14. Phonogram 1 - Kieren Gillan
15. Phonogram 2 - Kieren Gillan
Fact'ry Read'n
01. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett – 5/7-5/10
02. Night Flight – Antoine de Saint Exupery – 5/10-5/11
03. The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett - 5/14-5/17
04. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 5/18-5/19
05. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - 5/21-5/24
06. The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury - 5/21-5/27
07. We - Eugene Zamiatin - 5/29-6/1
08. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous - 6/4-6/7
09. The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad - 6/8-6/8
10. The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey - 6/11-6/16
11. Watership Down - Richard Adams - 6/18-6/22
12. Tales From Watership Down - Richard Adams - 6/25-6/30
13. Something Happened - Joseph Heller - 7/2-7/14
14. The Last Man - Mary Shelley - 7/9-7/14
15. The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton - 7/16-7/18
16. The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail - lawrence and Lee - 7/19-7/20
17. The Man Who Sold The Moon - Robert A. Heinlein - 7/23-7/28
18. Three by Flannery O'Connor - Flannery O'Connor - 7/30-8/5
19. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett - 8/6-8/9
20. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury - 8/10-8/15
21. The Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 8/16-8/22
Study Project
01. The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker - 6/20-6/20
02. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce - 8/6-9/2
03. A Skeleton key to Finnegans Wake - Campbell and Robinson - 8/6-9/2
04. A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake - Tindall - 8/6-9/2
Other
01. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories - Ernest Hemingway - 9/4-9/30
02. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury - 9/30-10/22
03. Down the Rabbit Hole - Juan Pablo Villalobos - 10/13-10/13
04. The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 - Richard Brautigan - 10/22-11/2
05. The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery - 11/2-11/2
06. Kim - Rudyard Kipling - 11/2-11/11
07. MR. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - 11/11-11/17
08. Groucho and Me - Grouch Marx - 11/17-11/18
09. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train - Howard Zinn - 11/18-11/20
10. Cash - Johnny Cash - 11/20-11/23
11. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick - 11/23-11/24
12. Just My Type - Simon Garfield - 11/24-
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
1. Damned - Chuck Palahniuk (read)
2. Miss Peregine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs (read)
3. Blue - Lou Aronica (read)
4. A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin (Read)
5. Song Yet Sung- James McBride (Read)
6. Dark Taste of Rapture - Gena Showalter (Read)
7. Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner - Diana Gabaldon (Read)
8. The Wolf Gift - Anne Rice - (read)
9. Third Grave Dead Ahead - Darynda Jones (read)
10. A Perfect Blood - Kim Harrison (read)
11. Lover Reborn - JR Ward (read)
12. A Dance with Dragons - GRRM (read)
13. Sacrificial Magic - Stacia Kane (read)
14. Hyperion - Dan Simmons (read)
15. Wind Through the Keyhole - SK (read)
16. The Ice Dragon - GRRM (read)
17. Off Season - Jack Ketchum (read)
18. Offspring - Jack Ketchum (read)
19. Sacré Bleu - Christopher Moore (read)
20. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (read)
21. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons (read)
22. The Passage - Justin Cronin (read)
23. A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness/Siobhan Dowd (read)
24. A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness (read)
25. Fevre Dream - GRRM (read)
26. Anna Dressed In Blood - Kendare Blake (read)
27. Retribution - Sherrilyn Kenyon (read)
28. Dark Lover - JR Ward (reread)
29. Lover Awakened - JR Ward (reread)
30. The Darkest Secret - Gena Showalter (read)
31. The Darkest Surrender - Gena Showalter (read)
32. The Darkest Seduction - Gena Showalter (read)
33. A Face in the Crowd - SK/O'Nan (read)
34. Silence - Becca Fitzpatrick (read)
35. Defending Jacob - William Landay (read)
36. Chasing Magic - Stacia Kane (read)
37. Rapture - J.R. Ward (read)
38. In the Tall Grass - King/Hill (read)
39. Wicked Nights - Gena Showalter (read)
40. Red Rain - R.L. Stine (read)
41. The Hedge Knight - GRRM (read)
42. Iced - Karen Moning (read)
43. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (read)
44. Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet - Darynda Jones (read)
45. Finale - Becca Fitzpatrick (read)
46. Death and the Girl Next Door - Darynda Jones (read)
47. The Twelve - Justin Cronin (read)
Wanted: Human skin edition of The Book of the Dead. Will accept PC copy.
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
In French:
1. Sébastien Japrisot. L'été meurtrier. - Novel (reread)
2. Sébastien Japrisot. Piège pour Cendrillon. - Novel
3. Sébastien Japrisot. Compartiment tueurs. - Novel
In English:
1. Stephen King. Nightmares and Dreamscapes (reread)
2. Stephen King. 11/22/63. - Novel
3. Stephen King. Sun Dog. - Novelette (reread)
4. Dean Koontz. Dark Rivers of the Heart. - Novel
5. Stephen King. Just After Sunset. - Short stories (selective reread)
6. Stephen King. Pet Sematary. - Novel (reread)
7. Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House. - Novel
8. John Saul. Suffer the Children. - Novel
9. John Saul. Cry for the Strangers. - Novel
10. John Saul. Perfect Nightmare. - Novel
11. Stephen Leacock. Literary Lapses. - Short Stories
12. John Saul. Sleepwalk. - Novel
13. Ira Levin. Rosemary's Baby. - Novel (reread)
14. Dan Simmons. Summer of Night. - Novel
15. Michael Crichton. The Andromeda Strain. - Novel
16. Michael Crichton. Jurassic Park. - Novel
17. John Saul. Brain Child. - Novel
18. Michael Crichton. The Lost World. - Novel
19. Stephen King. Ur. - Novelette
20. John Saul. Nightshade. - Novel
21. Michael Crichton. Sphere. - Novel
22. Joe Hill. Horns. - Novel
23. Ramsey Campbell. Scared Stiff. - Short Stories
24. Stephen King. The Wind Through the Keyhole. - Novel.
25. Jack London. Smoke Bellew. - A Series of Stories (first time in English)
26. J.K.Rowling. The Casual Vacancy. - Novel
27. Clive Barker. The Thief of Always. - Novel
28. Stephen King. Cycle of the Werewolf. - Novel
29. Clive Barker. The Hellbound Heart. - Novel
30. Agatha Christie. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe. - Novel
31. Dean Koontz. The Mask. - Novel
32. Michael Crichton. Eaters of the Dead. - Novel
33. Dean Koontz. Odd Thomas. - Novel
In Russian:
1. Татьяна Устинова. С небес на землю. - Novel
2. Татьяна Устинова. Неразрезанные страницы. -Novel
3. Александра Маринина. Смерть как искусство: Маски. -Novel (vol.1)
4. Александра Маринина. Бой тигров в долине. - Novel (vol.1)
5. Татьяна Устинова. Колодец забытых желаний. - Novel
6. Алина Знаменская. Свидетельница. - Novel
7. Татьяна Устинова. Хроника гнусных времен. - Novel (reread)
8. Татьяна Устинова. Подруга особого назначения. - Novel
9. Татьяна Устинова. Пороки и их поклонники. - Novel
10. Александра Маринина. Бой тигров в долине. - Novel (vol.2)
11. Александра Маринина. Смерть как искусство: Правосудие. - Novel (vol.2)
12. Дмитрий Быков. Календарь: Разговоры о главном. - Nonfiction: Essays
13. Дмитрий Быков. Календарь: Споры о бесспорном. - Nonfiction: Essays
14. Татьяна Устинова. Один день, одна ночь. - Novel
15. Б.Акунин. Азазель. - Novel (reread)
16. Б.Акунин. Алтын-Толобас. - Novel (reread)
17. Б.Акунин. Внеклассное чтение. - Novel (reread)
18. Б.Акунин. Пиковый валет. - Novel (reread)
19. Б.Акунин. Коронация. - Novel (reread)
20. Б.Акунин. Из жизни щепок. - Novelette (reread)
21. Б.Акунин. Нефритовые четки. - Novelette (reread)
22. Б.Акунин. Скарпея Баскаковых. - Novelette (reread)
23. Б.Акунин. Чаепитие в Бристоле. - Novelette (reread)
24. Б.Акунин. Долина Мечты. - Novelette (reread)
25. Б.Акунин. ФМ. - Novel (reread)
26. Б.Акунин. Перед концом света. - Novelette (reread)
27. Б.Акунин. Узница Башни, или Краткий, но прекрасный путь трех мудрых. - Novelette
28. Б.Акунин. Алмазная колесница: Ловец стрекоз. - Novel (reread)
29. Б.Акунин. Левиафан. - Novel (reread)
30. Юрий Томин. Борька, я и невидимка. - Novelette
31. Юрий Томин. Шел по городу волшебник. - Novelette
32. Б.Акунин. Алмазная колесница: Между строк. - Novel (reread)
33. С.Витицкий (Б.Стругацкий). Бессильные мира сего. - Novel
34. Б.Акунин. Весь мир - театр. - Novel
35. Б.Акунин. Декоратор. - Novel (reread)
36. Б.Акунин. Смерть Ахиллеса. - Novel (reread)
37. Иван Шевцов. Тля. - Novel
38. Татьяна Устинова. Большое зло и мелкие пакости. - Novel (reread)
39. Татьяна Устинова. Мой личный враг. - Novel
40. Татьяна Устинова. Седьмое небо. - Novel (reread)
41. Татьяна Устинова. Гений пустого места. - Novel
42. Татьяна Устинова. Миф об идеальном мужчине. - Novel
43. Татьяна Устинова. Запасной инстинкт. - Novel
44. Татьяна Устинова. Одна тень на двоих. - Novel
45. Татьяна Устинова. Закон обратного волшебства. - Novel
46. Татьяна Устинова. Сразу после сотворения мира. - Novel
47. Б.Акунин. Черный город. - Novel
48. Т.Устинова, П.Астахов. Кредит доверчивости. - Novel
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2012
1. Cujo (Stephen King) 01/02
2. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) 01/04-01/12
3. The Gunslinger (Stephen King) 01/13-01/14
4. The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King) 01/14-01/16
5. The Waste Lands (Stephen King) 01/16-01/20
6. Wizard and Glass (Stephen King) 01/21-01/27
7. The Talisman (Stephen King) 01/28-02/02
8. Black House (Stephen King) 02/03-02/09
9. Wolves of the Calla (Stephen King) 02/11-02/15
10. Song of Susannah (Stephen King) 02/16-02/18
11. The Dark Tower (Stephen King) 02/19-02/26
12. The Dead Zone (Stephen King) 02/27-02/29
13. Insomnia (Stephen King) 03/01-03/09
14. IT (Stephen King) 03/10-03/25
15. The Eyes of the Dragon (Stephen King) 03/26-03/27
16. Skeleton Crew (Stephen King) 03/28-04/05
17. The Colorado Kid (Stephen King) 04/05-04/06
18. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Seth Grahame-Smith) 04/6-04/9
19. Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born Comics 1-7 (Stephen King) 04/09-04/11
20. Under the Dome (Stephen King) 04/11-04/17
21. Heart-Shaped Box (Joe Hill) 04/18-04/20
22. Pet Sematary (Stephen King) 04/20-04/24
23. Needful Things (Stephen King) 04/24-05/04
24. The Wind Through the Keyhole (Stephen King) 05/04-05/09
25. Everything’s Eventual (Stephen King) 05/10-05/14
26. The Passage (Justin Cronin) 05/14-05/24
27. The Shining (Stephen King) 05/25-05/28
28. The Painted Darkness (Brian James Freeman) 05/29
29. Offspring (Jack Ketchum) 05/29-05/30
30. Different Seasons (Stephen King) 05/31-06/04
31. Floating Dragon (Peter Straub) 06/04-06/14
32. Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft (Joe Hill) 06/15
33. Duma Key (Stephen King) 06/15-06/21
34. Blaze (Stephen King) 06/22-06/24
35. The Strain (Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan) 06/24-06/29
36. Willa (Stephen King) 06/29
37. The Fall (Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan) 06/29-07/05
38. In The Flesh (Clive Barker) 07/05-07/09
39. A Special Place (Peter Straub) 07/09
40. Christine (Steven King) 07/10-07/15
41. Locke & Key: Head Games (Joe Hill) 07/16
42. Lost boy, lost girl (Peter Straub) 07/16-07/19
43. Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows (Joe Hill) 07/19
44. Firestarter (Stephen King) 07/19-07/24
45. Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom (Joe Hill) 07/24
46. Dueling Minds (Anthology) 07/25-07/27
47. Dark Tower: The Long Road Home (Stephen King ) 07/28
48. Mystery Walk (Robert McCammon) 07/28-08/05
49. Better Than Home (Joe Hill) 08/05
50. 11/22/63 (Stephen King) 08/05-08/12
51. Dark Tower: Treachery HC (Stephen King) 08/13
52. Carrie (Stephen King) 08/13-08/14
53. Cycle of the Werewolf (Stephen King) 08/15
54. The Girl Next Door (Jack Ketchum) 08/15-08/16
55. Lisey’s Story (Stephen King) 08/17-08/24
56. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith) 08/24-08/27
57. Jurassic Park (Michael Crichton) 08/28-08/31
58. Full Dark, No Stars (Stephen King) 09/01-09/03
59. The Andromedia Strain (Michael Crichton) 09/04-09/06
60. Desperation (Stephen King ) 09/07-09/16
61. The Regulators (Stephen King/Richard Bachman) 09/16-09/19
62. The Hellfire Club (Peter Straub) 09/20-09/24
63. Ghoul (Brian Keene) 09/24-09/27
64. J. Edgar Hoover graphic novel (Rick Geary) 09/28
65. Gone South (Robert McCammon) 09/28/-10/01
66. The Twelve (Justin Cronin) 10/02-10/14
67. From a Buick 8 (Stephen King) 10/15-10/18
68. NOS4A2 (Joe Hill) 10/19-10/22
69. Strange Candy (Robert McCammon) 10/22
70. Gerassimos Flamotas (Simon Clark) 10/22
71. Just After Sunset (Stephen King) 10/23-10/28
72. The Vanishing (Bentley Little) 10/28-10/30
73. Year Zero (Jeff Long) 10/30-11/4
74. Carrion Comfort (Dan Simmons) 11/5-11/18
75. Thinner (Stephen King) 11/19-11/21
76. The Resort (Bentley Little) 11/21-11/23
77. The Rising (Brian Keene) 11/24-11/25
78. Dark Tower: The Sorcerer (Stephen King) 11/25
79. Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead (Stephen King) 11/25
80. Dark Tower: Battle of Jericho Hill (Stephen King) 11/25
81. Gerald’s Game (Stephen King) 11/26-11/29
82. Dolores Claiborne (Stephen King) 11/30-12/2
83. I’m Not Sam (Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee) 12/2
84. A Winter Haunting (Dan Simmons) 12/2-12/6
85. More than Midnight (Brian James Freeman) 12/6
86. Kin (Kealan Patrick Burke) 12/6-12/9
87. The Skin Trade (Various) 12/9-12/11
88. Boy’s Life (Robert R. McCammon) 12/11-
Audiobooks
1. The Long Walk (Stephen King) 03/14
2. Dracula (Bram Stoker) 03/27-04/10
3. Herman Wouk is Still Alive (Stephen King) 04/16
4. The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson) 04/17-04/22
5. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) 04/23-04/25
6. The Running Man (Stephen King) 04/25-05/02
7. I Am Legend (Richard Matheson) 05/03-05/07
8. Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) 05/09-05/16
9. Roadwork (Stephen King) 05/17-05/23
10. Horns (Joe Hill) 05/23-06/04
11. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) 06/05-06/30
12. The Incredible Shrinking Man (Richard Matheson) 06/30
13. The Colour Out Of Space (H.P. Lovecraft) 07/01
14. A Dark Matter (Peter Straub) 07/04-07/08
15. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (Richard Matheson) 07/09-07/13
16. Other Kingdoms (Richard Matheson) 07/13-07/20
17. The Gunslinger (Stephen King) 07/22-07/25
18. UR (Stephen King) 07/25-07/26
19. What Dreams May Come (Richard Matheson) 07/27-07/30
20. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson) 07/30-08/02
21. A Stir of Echoes (Richard Matheson) 08/02-08/03
22. Somewhere in Time (Richard Matheson) 08/03-08/06
23. Steel: And Other Stories (Richard Matheson) 08/07-08/09
24. Inferno (Larry Niven) 08/10-08/13
25. The Night Eternal (Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan) 08/14-08/18
26. The Terminal Man (Michael Crichton) 08/19-08/21
27. Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift) 08/21-08/26
28. Black Hills (Dan Simmons) 08/26-08/30
29. The Illustrated Man (Ray Bradbury) 08/30-08/31
30. Classic Tales of Horror (Anthology) 09/01
31. The Island of Doctor Moreau (H. G. Wells) 09/02-09/03
32. Summer of Night (Dan Simmons) 09/03-09/09
33. Micro (Michael Crichton and Richard Preston) 09/09-09/11
34. Drood (Dan Simmons) 09/11-09/17
35. Nicholas Nickleby (Charles Dickens) 09/17-09/22 unfinished
36. Watership Down (Richard Adams) 09/23-09/27
37. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 09/28-10/3
38. Flashback (Dan Simmons) 10/03-10/08
39. Good Omens (Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett) 10/08-10/09 unfinished
40. The Drawing of the Three (Stephen King) 10/10-10/13 reread
41. The Waste Lands (Stephen King) 10/14-10/18 reread
42. Wizard and Glass (Stephen King) 10/18-10/24 reread
43. So Cold the River (Michael Koryta) 10/24-10/26
44. Pirate Latitudes (Michael Crichton) 10/27-10/30
45. ‘Salem’s Lot (Stephen King) 10/30-11/4 reread
46. Tales for a Stormy Night (Various) 11/5-11/7
47. The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells) 11/8-11/9
48. Escape from Hell (Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle) 11/10-11/12
49. The Cypress House (Michael Koryta) 11/13-11/15
50. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne) 11/15-11/16
51. Shadowland (Peter Straub) 11/16-11/24
52. Wolves of the Calla (Stephen King) 11/24-12/3
53. Song of Susannah (Stephen King) 12/3-12/6
54. The Dark Tower (Stephen King) 12/6-
1. Damned - Chuck Palahniuk (read)
2. Miss Peregine's Home for Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs (read)
3. Blue - Lou Aronica (read)
4. A Feast for Crows - George R.R. Martin (Read)
5. Song Yet Sung- James McBride (Read)
6. Dark Taste of Rapture - Gena Showalter (Read)
7. Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner - Diana Gabaldon (Read)
8. The Wolf Gift - Anne Rice - (read)
9. Third Grave Dead Ahead - Darynda Jones (read)
10. A Perfect Blood - Kim Harrison (read)
11. Lover Reborn - JR Ward (read)
12. A Dance with Dragons - GRRM (read)
13. Sacrificial Magic - Stacia Kane (read)
14. Hyperion - Dan Simmons (read)
15. Wind Through the Keyhole - SK (read)
16. The Ice Dragon - GRRM (read)
17. Off Season - Jack Ketchum (read)
18. Offspring - Jack Ketchum (read)
19. Sacré Bleu - Christopher Moore (read)
20. The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern (read)
21. The Fall of Hyperion - Dan Simmons (read)
22. The Passage - Justin Cronin (read)
23. A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness/Siobhan Dowd (read)
24. A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness (read)
25. Fevre Dream - GRRM (read)
26. Anna Dressed In Blood - Kendare Blake (read)
27. Retribution - Sherrilyn Kenyon (read)
28. Dark Lover - JR Ward (reread)
29. Lover Awakened - JR Ward (reread)
30. The Darkest Secret - Gena Showalter (read)
31. The Darkest Surrender - Gena Showalter (read)
32. The Darkest Seduction - Gena Showalter (read)
33. A Face in the Crowd - SK/O'Nan (read)
34. Silence - Becca Fitzpatrick (read)
35. Defending Jacob - William Landay (read)
36. Chasing Magic - Stacia Kane (read)
37. Rapture - J.R. Ward (read)
38. In the Tall Grass - King/Hill (read)
39. Wicked Nights - Gena Showalter (read)
40. Red Rain - R.L. Stine (read)
41. The Hedge Knight - GRRM (read)
42. Iced - Karen Moning (read)
43. Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn (read)
44. Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet - Darynda Jones (read)
45. Finale - Becca Fitzpatrick (read)
46. Death and the Girl Next Door - Darynda Jones (read)
47. The Twelve - Justin Cronin (read)
48. The Prince of Mist - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (read)
Wanted: Human skin edition of The Book of the Dead. Will accept PC copy.
2009
2010
2011
01. Vineland - Thomas Pynchon - 1/1-1/3
02. Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins - 1/3-1/4
03. Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins - 1/4-1/5
04. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller - 1/5-1/6
05. All The King's Men - Robert Penn Warren - 1/6-1/9
06. The Savage Detectives - Roberto Bolaño - 1/9-1/16
07. Hope: A Tragedy - Shalom Auslander - 1/16-1/21
08. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern 39 - Ed. Dave Eggers - 1/21-1/23
09. The Third Reich - Roberto Bolaño - 1/23-2/4
10. The Ecstasy of Influence - Jonathan Lethem - 2/4-2/18
11. Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace - 2/18-3/7
12. People Who Eat Darkness - Richard Lloyd Parry - 3/7-3/9
13. Threats - Amelia Gray - 3/9-3/16
14. Pulphead - John Jeremiah Sullivan - 3/16-4/23
15. The Secret of Evil - Roberto Bolaño - 4/23-4/26
16. I Pass Like Night - Jonathan Ames - 4/26-4/28
17. The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides - 4/28-5/11
18. AM/PM – Amelia Gray – 5/11-5/12
19. The Wind Through the Keyhole - Stephen King - 5/12-5/20
20. Paris, I Love You But You're Brining Me Down - Rosecrans Baldwin - 5/20-5/28
21. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West - 5/28-6-3
22. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Vol. 40 - ed. Dave Eggers - 6/3-6/7
23. In My Home There Is No More Sorrow - Rick Bass - 6/7-6/11
24. Isn't It Pretty to Think So? - Nick Miller - 6/11-6/21
25. The Third Policeman - Flann O'Brien - 6/21-6/23 (Part of Study Project)
26. Hopscotch - Julio Cortázar - 6/23-7/3 (SP)
27. The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien - 7/3-7/11
28. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz - 7/11-7/25 (SP)
29. Kiss of the Spider Woman - Manuel Puig - 7/25-7/28 (SP)
30. Lake Wobegone Days - Garrison Keillor - 7/28-7/28 (SP)
31. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov - 7/28-7/30 (SP)
32. Ibid - Mark Dunn - 7/30-8-6 (SP)
33. A Hologram For the King - Dave Eggers - 8/6-8/12
34. Hot Pink - Adam Levin - 8/12-8/23
35. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell - 8/23-9/2
36. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story - D.T. Max - 9/2-9/4
37. NW - Zadie Smith - 9/4-9/30
38. Telegraph Avenue - Michael Chabon - 9/30-10/14
39. The Casual Vacancy - J.K. Rowling - 10/14-11/3
40. This Is How You Lose Her - Junot Diaz - 11/3-11/12
41. Both Flesh and Not - David Foster Wallace - 11/12-11/25
42. Woes of the True Policeman - Roberto Bolaño - 11/25-12/2
43. McSweeney's 41 - Ed. Dave Eggers - 12/2-12/10
44. The Fifty Year Sword - Mark Z. Danielewski - 12/10-12/17
45. The Boy Detective Fails - Joe Meno - 12/17-
For School
01. To Teach - William Ayers - Finished
02. I Am a Pencil - Sam Swope - Finished
03. The Call of the Wild - Jack London - Finished
04. Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Jack Finney - Finished
05. Inside Teaching - Mary M. Kennedy - Finished
06. Kidwatching - Owocki and Goodman - Finished
07. Travels with Charley - John Steinbeck - Finished
08. Hey, Wait… - Jason - Finished
09. The Left Bank Gang - Jason - Finished
10. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides - Finished
11. Lenses on Reading - Tracey & Morrow - Finished
12. Swamplandia! - Karen Russell - Finished
13. The Footnote - Anthony Grafton - Finished
14. Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer - Finished
15. The Devil's Details - Chuck Zerby - Finished
16. Invisible Forms - Kevin Jackson - Finished
17. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison - Finished
18. Cultural Contexts for Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man - Finished
19. The Actor at Work - Benedetti - Finished
20. Educating Emergent Bilinguals - Garcia and Kleifgen - Finished
21. Proof - David Auburn - Finished
22. Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL - Peregoy and Boyle - Finished
Comics Read on Top of Books
01. Pride of Baghdad - Brian K. Vaughn
02. The Pterodactyl Hunters in the Gilded City - Brendan Leach
03. Spider-Men 1-4
04. Saga 1-4
05. The Cartoons - Flannery O'Connor
06. Ultimate X-Men 1-18
07. The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller
08. Almost Silent - Jason
09. Laika - Nick Abadzis
10. Leviathan - Jens Harder
11. Ghost World - Daniel Clowes
12. 20th Century Eightball - Daniel Clowes
13. After the Cape 1 - Wong
14. Phonogram 1 - Kieren Gillan
15. Phonogram 2 - Kieren Gillan
16. Tunes - Ed. Vincent Brunner
Fact'ry Read'n
01. The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett – 5/7-5/10
02. Night Flight – Antoine de Saint Exupery – 5/10-5/11
03. The Dain Curse - Dashiell Hammett - 5/14-5/17
04. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - 5/18-5/19
05. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov - 5/21-5/24
06. The Illustrated Man - Ray Bradbury - 5/21-5/27
07. We - Eugene Zamiatin - 5/29-6/1
08. Go Ask Alice - Anonymous - 6/4-6/7
09. The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad - 6/8-6/8
10. The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey - 6/11-6/16
11. Watership Down - Richard Adams - 6/18-6/22
12. Tales From Watership Down - Richard Adams - 6/25-6/30
13. Something Happened - Joseph Heller - 7/2-7/14
14. The Last Man - Mary Shelley - 7/9-7/14
15. The Man Who Was Thursday - G.K. Chesterton - 7/16-7/18
16. The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail - lawrence and Lee - 7/19-7/20
17. The Man Who Sold The Moon - Robert A. Heinlein - 7/23-7/28
18. Three by Flannery O'Connor - Flannery O'Connor - 7/30-8/5
19. Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett - 8/6-8/9
20. The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury - 8/10-8/15
21. The Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 8/16-8/22
Study Project
01. The Mezzanine - Nicholson Baker - 6/20-6/20
02. Finnegans Wake - James Joyce - 8/6-9/2
03. A Skeleton key to Finnegans Wake - Campbell and Robinson - 8/6-9/2
04. A Reader's Guide to Finnegans Wake - Tindall - 8/6-9/2
Other
01. The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories - Ernest Hemingway - 9/4-9/30
02. Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury - 9/30-10/22
03. Down the Rabbit Hole - Juan Pablo Villalobos - 10/13-10/13
04. The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 - Richard Brautigan - 10/22-11/2
05. The Little Prince - Antoine de St. Exupery - 11/2-11/2
06. Kim - Rudyard Kipling - 11/2-11/11
07. MR. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson - 11/11-11/17
08. Groucho and Me - Grouch Marx - 11/17-11/18
09. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train - Howard Zinn - 11/18-11/20
10. Cash - Johnny Cash - 11/20-11/23
11. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick - 11/23-11/24
12. Just My Type - Simon Garfield - 11/24-
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
2011 Book List
1. Snuff ~ Terry Pratchett
2. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time ~ Mark Haddon (reread)
3. Mary Poppins ~ P L Travers (reread)
4. The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher - or - The Murder At The Road Hill House ~ Kate Summerscale
5. The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase ~ Joan Aiken (reread)
6. 1Q84 (Book One & Two) ~ Haruki Murakami
7. Explosive Eighteen ~ Janet Evanovich
8. The Fry Chronicles ~ Stephen Fry
9. 1Q84 (Book Three) ~ Haruki Murakami
10. The Earthsea Quartet ~ Ursula Le Guinn
11. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children ~ Ransom Riggs
12. The Psychopath Test ~ Jon Ronson
13. The Adventures Of Tintin: The Calculus Affair ~ Herge
14. The Casual Vacancy ~ J K Rowling
15. One Day ~ David Nicholls
16. The Professional ~ Robert B Parker
17. Valediction ~ Robert B Parker
18. Innocent In Death ~ J D Robb
19. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy ~ Douglas Adams (reread)
20. The Glass Books Of The Dream Eaters ~ G W Dahlquist (reread)
21. The Dark Volume ~ G W Dahlquist (reread)
22. The Chemickal Marriage ~ G W Dahlquist
23. The Wind Through The Keyhole ~ Stephen King
24. After Dark ~ Haruki Murakami
25. The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen ~ Alan Garner
26. The Long Earth ~ Terry Pratchett
27. The Hobbit ~ J R R Tolkien (reread)
28. On Stranger Tides ~ Tim Powers
29. Storm Front ~ Jim Butcher (reread)
30. Cold Days ~ Jim Butcher currently reading