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.
5 comments:
Impressive. You must be a fast reader.
What did you think of VOICE OF THE FIRE?
Art> yes, i am a pretty fast reader. not like, genius fast speedreading but it seems i'm much faster than most people. i think i read at a clip of about 1200 words a minute or something.
Voice of the Fire was certainly interesting; i'm glad I read it. If you can get through that almost unreadable first story it gets worth it.
But as far as the vast, deep concepts Moore was trying to convey - I guess they went right past me. Like, what the hell does his own little blurb about the book on the inside cover even mean?
That's pretty good. I think I read about 20 books last year (although I think a lot of that is more due to time constraints than reading speed (or lack thereof) - I used to read quite a bit more than that).
I know what you're saying about the 1st chapter - I actually had a whole blog (decipheringhobshog.blogspot.com) devoted to figuring out what the fuck was going on there.
As far as what he was trying to get across conceptually or thematically - I think the book was sort of his shot at telling a big Lovecraftian cosmic horror story; i.e., that there are horrible malevolent forces just outside the threshold of our perception, just waiting for an opportunity to come and destroy us.
Not sure what blurb you're referring to - did you have the hardback edition or another one?
i think that's a very good analysis.
here's the long-winded Moore quote from my paperback's inside cover:
"It's about the vital message that the stiff lips of decapitated men still shape; the testament of black and spectral dogs written in piss across our bad dreams. It's about raising the dead to tell us what they know. It is a bridge, a crossing point,a worn spot in the curtain between our world and the underworld, between the mortar and the myth, fact and fiction, a threadbare gauze no thicker than a page. It's about the powerful glossolalia of witches and their magical revision of the texts we live in. None of this is speakable."
It's hard to tell if he's being serious or not. Although at least some of it does sort of fit with what you said.
This list is crazy long. I feel so ashamed. I read like maybe 5 books last year. And it's not like I don't like reading. I guess I just didn't have the time. I've got to get my act together.
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