Wednesday, January 19, 2011

My 2010 Reading

Inspired by kingshearte's post, I decided to try to recall the books I read in the past year. I never thought to try to keep track of them but since I have a really good memory for this sort of thing, I figured I would take a shot at it.

Obviously, these are in absolutely no order whatsoever. Not all of them are novels - some are collections of short stories and some are plays or novellas -  and most of the nineteenth century stuff was for school. Some of them, like Red Dragon, I have read more than three times. Some, like A Christmas Carol, Watchmen or the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, I read every year.

1. Tooth & Nail - Ian Rankin

2. Dracula - Bram Stoker

3. Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen

4. Magic Moon - Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein

5. Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Eoin Colfer

4. Pluto (8 volumes in total) - Naoki Urasawa

5. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

6. Silas Marner - George Elliot

7. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard

8. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

9. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

10. Earth X - Jim Krueger and Alex Ross

11. Universe X - Jim Krueger and Alex Ross

12. Hellboy: The Crooked Man and Others - Mike Mignola and Jim Corben

13. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

15. Ender in Exile - Orson Scott Card

16. Hide & Seek - Ian Rankin

17. The Walking Dead: Days Gone Bye - Robert Kirkman

18. Akira Volume One: Katsuhiro Otomo

19. The Castle in Transylvania - Jules Verne

20. Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

21. Batman Year One - Frank Miller

22. JPOD - Douglas Coupland

23. Dissolution - Richard Lee Byers

24. Insurrection - Thomas M. Reid

24. Condemnation - Richard Baker

25. Extinction - Lisa Smedman

26. Knots & Crosses - Ian Rankin

27. Voice of the Fire - Alan Moore

28. The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fford

29. Love Hina Volume One - Ken Akamatsu

30. Pirate Latitudes - Michael Chrichton

31. Give Our Regards To Atom Smashers! - edited by Sean Howe

32. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born - Peter David, Jae Lee and Richard Isanove

33. The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home - Peter David, Jae Lee and Richard Isanove

34. The Dark Tower: Treachery - Peter David, Jae Lee and Richard Isanove

35. The Dark Tower: Fall Of Gilead - Peter David and Richard Isanove

36. The Dark Tower: Battle Of Jericho Hill - Peter David, Jae Lee and Richard Isanove

37. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K. Rowling

38. Inherit The Wind - Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

39. X-Men: Days Of Future Past - Chris Claremont and John Byrne

40. Dark Entries - Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'edera

41. Sacrifice of the Widow - Lisa Smedman

42. Storm of the Dead - Lisa Smedman

42. Ascendancy of the Last - Lisa Smedman

43. Swordmage - Richard Baker

44. Corsair - Richard Baker

45. Avenger - Richard Baker

46. Watership Down - Richard Adams

47. The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R Tolkien

48. The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien

49. The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien (Tolkien always insisted they all be treated as one novel but oh well)

50. Akira Volume Two - Katsuhiro Otomo

51. Daredevil: The Man Without Fear - Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.

52. Weapon X  - Barry Windsor-Smith

53. The China Wall - Johnny Bower with Bob Duff

54. The Gunslinger - Stephen King

55. The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris

56. The Thief Of Always - Clive Barker

57. The Ghost King - R.A. Salvatore

58. Coraline - Neil Gaiman

59. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? - Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert

60. The Dark Hills Divide - Patrick Carman

61. Hellboy: The Conqueror Worm - Mike Mignola

62. Death On The Nile - Agatha Christie

63. The Last Iron Fist Story - Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction and David Aja

64. Guardian Devil - Kevin Smith and Joe Quesada

65. Strange Tales - J.R.R Tolkien

66. The Pirate King - R.A. Salvatore

67. The Orc King - R.A. Salvatore

68. The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams

69. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

70. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

71. DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore - Alan Moore and various

72. The Black Book - Ian Rankin

73. Exit Music - Ian Rankin

74. Arkham Asylum A Serious House On Serious Earth - Grant Morrison and Dave McKean

75. MW - Osamu Tezuka

76. 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

77. Daredevil: Born Again - Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli

78. Sideways Stories From Wayside School - Louis Sachar

79. Murder On The Orient Express - Agatha Christie

80. Hellboy: The Wild Hunt - Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo

81. Batman: The Long Halloween - Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale

82. Blaze - Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

83. The Long Walk - Richard Bachman

84. The Running Man - Richard Bachman

85. The Two Swords - R.A. Salvatore

86. X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga - Chris Claremont and John Byrne

87. Akira Volume Three - Katsuhiro Otomo

88. Akira Volume Four - Katsuhiro Otomo

89. Out Of The Silent Planet - C.S. Lewis

90. Let The Right One In - John Ajvide

91. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life - Bryan Lee O'Malley

92. Scott Pilgrim VS The World - Bryan Lee O'Malley

93. Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness - Bryan Lee O'Malley

94. Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together - Bryan Lee O'Malley

95. Scott Pilgrim VS The Universe - Bryan Lee O'Malley

96. Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour - Bryan Lee O'Malley

97. Wizard And Glass - Stephen King

98. Joker - Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo

99. Primal Fear - William Diehl

100. A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett

101. Wayside School is Falling Down - Louis Sachar

102. The Three Muskateers - Alexandre Dumas *wins the Longest Thing Read This Year Award...I think

103. The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King

104. Tommy Taylor And The Bogus Identity - Mike Carey and Peter Gross

105. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

106. Batman And Son - Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert

107. Batman: Cacophony  - Kevin Smith and Walter Flanagan

108. Batman: The Widening Gyre - Kevin Smith and Walter Flanagan

109. Batman: R.I.P - Grant Morrison and Tony S. Daniel

110. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

I definitely forgot a few, like three or four books I read standing in the bookstore. And I left out a lot of comic arcs that were too short to mention. More will probably occur to me later but still, that's the most significant stuff, I think.