Books completed in December of 2013:
"The Outsider" (Colin Wilson) 12/10/13
"A Dance With Dragons" (George R.R. Martin) 12/24/13
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (James Joyce) 12/25/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
21. "Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
22. "Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
23. "My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
24. "The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
25. "Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
26. "Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
27. "No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
28. "The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
29. "The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
30. "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
31. "Four Quartets" (T.S. Eliot) 5/1/13
32. "Illuminations" (Arthur Rimbaud, Ashbery translation) 5/4/13
33. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) 5/7/13
34. "The Wasteland and Other Poems" (T.S. Eliot) 5/8/13
35. "Psychology & Alchemy" (C.G. Jung) 5/9/13
36. "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (Carson McCullers) 5/9/13
37. "The Vatard Sisters" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/16/13
38. "Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust" (Nathanael West) 5/16/13
39. "The Member of the Wedding" (Carson McCullers) 5/21/13
40. "The Trial" (Franz Kafka) 5/28/13
41. "Parisian Sketches" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/31/13
42. "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (Truman Capote) 6/3/13
43. "Cocaine Nights" (J.G. Ballard) 6/11/13
44. "A Game of Thrones" (George R.R. Martin) 6/19/13
45. "Demian" (Herman Hesse) 6/23/13
46. "Victory" (Joseph Conrad) 6/25/13
47. "The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons of the Dead" (Stephan A. Hoeller) 6/28/13
48. "Foam of the Daze" (Boris Vian) 7/16/13
49. "Death Poems" (Thomas Ligotti) 7/16/13
50. "Counting With Calico" (Phyllis Limbacher Tildes) 7/16/13 *
51. "Answer to Job" (C.G. Jung) 7/21/13
52. "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (H.P. Lovecraft) 7/22/13 *
53. "The Dream Police" (Dennis Cooper) 7/22/13
54. "The Last Revelation of Gla'aki" (Ramsey Campbell) 7/28/13
55. "A Clash of Kings" (George R.R. Martin) 7/31/13
56. "Dubliners" (James Joyce) 8/7/13
57. "Wise Blood" (Flannery O'Connor) 8/12/13
58. "Dragon Age: The World of Thedas: Volume 1" (Various) 8/20/13
59. "Following an Angel" (Tom Champagne) 8/27/13
60. "L'Amour" (Marguerite Duras) 8/29/13
61. "Betrayal" (Harold Pinter) 8/30/13
62. "A Storm of Swords" (George R.R. Martin) 9/3/13
63. "Girl With Curious Hair" (David Foster Wallace) 9/5/13
64. "Project for a Revolution in New York" (Alain Robbe-Grillet) 9/8/13
65. "At Fear's Altar" (Richard Gavin) 9/13/13
66. "Dorian" (Will Self) 9/14/13
67. "My Loose Thread" (Dennis Cooper) 9/15/13 *
68. "Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories" (Craig Laurance Gidney) 9/18/13
69. "A Certain Kind of Light" (Thomas Moore) 9/25/13
70. "Bleeding Edge" (Thomas Pynchon) 9/28/13
71. "Mira Corpora" (Jeff Jackson) 9/29/13
72. "The Grimscribe's Puppets" (Various) 10/1/13
73. "Macbeth" (William Shakespeare) 10/10/13 *
74. "The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All & Other Stories" (Laird Barron) 10/14/13
75. "Divinations of the Deep" (Matt Cardin) 10/15/13
76. "Dracula" (Bram Stoker) 10/18/13
77. "Home" (Michael Salerno/Peter Sotos) 10/19/13
78. "The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales" (Mark Samuels) 10/22/13
79. "Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three" (Clive Barker) 10/26/13
80. "A Mind Forever Voyaging: A History of Storytelling in Video Games" (Dylan Holmes) 11/3/13
81. "Zenith" (Grant Morrison) 11/10/13
82. "Two Boys Kissing" (David Levithan) 11/11/13
83. "A Cat Compendium: The Worlds of Louis Wain" (Editor: Peter Haining) 11/12/13
84. "Audrey: The 60s" (David Willis & Stephen Schmidt) 11/12/13
85. "Lil Bub's Lil Book: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Amazing Cat on the Planet" (Mike Bridavsky) 11/12/13
86. "Madonna: Inspirations" (Kate Ward) 11/12/13
87. "Kenneth Grant- A Bibliography- from 1948" (Henrik Bogdan) 11/12/13
88. "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" (Edward Gorey) 11/12/13
89. "A Feast for Crows" (George R.R. Martin) 11/17/13
90. "Bedrooms Have Windows" (Kevin Killian) 11/24/13
91. "The Outsider" (Colin Wilson) 12/10/13
92. "A Dance With Dragons" (George R.R. Martin) 12/24/13
93. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (James Joyce) 12/25/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"Ulysses" (James Joyce) up to pg. 212
Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
My Fifty Favorite Novels (Updated Version 3/22/15)
When compiling this list, I tried to limit myself to only one entry per author, but in some cases it was unavoidable that an author might appear on it more than once. Along with novels, I also considered short novels to be proper candidates for the list (hence the appearance of Lovecraft's "At The Mountains of Madness"). Also, in the name of impartiality, and with the exception of Dennis Cooper, no books written by my friends appear on this list, though I can certainly think of many novels written by people I know that could appear on this list had I gone down that route. No doubt this list will change as the years go by and I read new books. In any event, here then is my top 50 favorite novels, arranged in the order of author's last name:
My Top 50 Novels
2. Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
3. The Place of Dead Roads (William S. Burroughs)
4. Midnight Sun (Ramsey Campbell)
5. The Plague (Albert Camus)
6. Other Voices, Other Rooms (Truman Capote)
7. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Angela Carter)
8. The George Miles Cycle (Dennis Cooper) *
9. No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai)
10. Dhalgren (Samuel R. Delany)
11. Valis (Philip K. Dick)
12. Play It as It Lays (Joan Didion)
13. The Man Who Fought Alone (Stephen R. Donaldson)
14. The Gap Cycle (Stephen R. Donaldson) **
15. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
16. The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
17. American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
18. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
19. The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
20. Omensetter’s Luck (William H. Gass)
21. Our Lady of the Flowers (Jean Genet)
22. Neuromancer (William Gibson)
23. The White Plague (Frank Herbert)
24. Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
25. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
26. Against Nature (J.K. Huysmans)
27. Là-Bas (J.K. Huysmans)
28. Angels (Denis Johnson)
29. Ulysses (James Joyce)
30. The Ceremonies (T.E.D. Klein)
31. Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont)
32. At the Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft)
33. The Hill of Dreams (Arthur Machen)
34.The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
35. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (Cormac McCarthy)
36. Mawrdew Czgowchwz (James McCourt)
37. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
38. Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
39. Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright (Steven Millhauser)
40. Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima)
41. Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
42. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
43. The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson)
44. Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
45. Against the Day (Thomas Pynchon)
46. Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon)
47. Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
48. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
49. In Youth is Pleasure (Denton Welch)
50. The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
Honorable Mentions:
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
Story of the Eye (Georges Bataille)
Drawing Blood (Poppy Z. Brite)
The Fall (Albert Camus)
The Hearing Trumpet (Leonora Carrington)
Moravagine (Blaise Cendras)
Wonder Boys (Michael Chabon)
God Jr. (Dennis Cooper)
Consumed (David Cronenberg)
Dark Reflections (Samuel R. Delany)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Foucault’s Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
The Rules of Attraction (Bret Easton Ellis)
Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis)
The Magus (John Fowles)
The Miracle of the Rose (Jean Genet)
Hannibal Rising (Thomas Harris)
En Route (J. K. Huysmans)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Revival (Stephen King)
Briefing For a Descent Into Hell (Doris Lessing)
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (Carson McCullers)
Perdido Street Station (China Mieville)
My Work is Not Yet Done (Thomas Ligotti)
Nineteen Eighty (David Peace)
Nineteen Eighty Three (David Peace)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon)
The Witching Hour (Anne Rice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz)
Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
The Mind Parasites (Colin Wilson)
Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust (Nathanel West)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
addendum:
*= technically five books, but I've decided to lump them in as one here. If I had to pick a favorite from the George Miles Cycle, it would most probably be Guide.
**= again, technically a five book series, but seeing as how Donaldson considered it to be one giant work split into five parts for publication purposes, I here consider it as one book. If I had to choose one of the five, it would be This Day All Gods Die.
My Top 50 Novels
2. Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
3. The Place of Dead Roads (William S. Burroughs)
4. Midnight Sun (Ramsey Campbell)
5. The Plague (Albert Camus)
6. Other Voices, Other Rooms (Truman Capote)
7. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Angela Carter)
8. The George Miles Cycle (Dennis Cooper) *
9. No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai)
10. Dhalgren (Samuel R. Delany)
11. Valis (Philip K. Dick)
12. Play It as It Lays (Joan Didion)
13. The Man Who Fought Alone (Stephen R. Donaldson)
14. The Gap Cycle (Stephen R. Donaldson) **
15. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
16. The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
17. American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
18. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
19. The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
20. Omensetter’s Luck (William H. Gass)
21. Our Lady of the Flowers (Jean Genet)
22. Neuromancer (William Gibson)
23. The White Plague (Frank Herbert)
24. Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
25. Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
26. Against Nature (J.K. Huysmans)
27. Là-Bas (J.K. Huysmans)
28. Angels (Denis Johnson)
29. Ulysses (James Joyce)
30. The Ceremonies (T.E.D. Klein)
31. Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont)
32. At the Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft)
33. The Hill of Dreams (Arthur Machen)
34.The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
35. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (Cormac McCarthy)
36. Mawrdew Czgowchwz (James McCourt)
37. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
38. Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
39. Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright (Steven Millhauser)
40. Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima)
41. Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
42. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
43. The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson)
44. Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
45. Against the Day (Thomas Pynchon)
46. Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon)
47. Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
48. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
49. In Youth is Pleasure (Denton Welch)
50. The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
Honorable Mentions:
Blood and Guts in High School (Kathy Acker)
The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks) Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
Story of the Eye (Georges Bataille)
Drawing Blood (Poppy Z. Brite)
The Fall (Albert Camus)
The Hearing Trumpet (Leonora Carrington)
Moravagine (Blaise Cendras)
Wonder Boys (Michael Chabon)
God Jr. (Dennis Cooper)
Consumed (David Cronenberg)
Dark Reflections (Samuel R. Delany)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Foucault’s Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
The Rules of Attraction (Bret Easton Ellis)
Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis)
The Magus (John Fowles)
The Miracle of the Rose (Jean Genet)
Hannibal Rising (Thomas Harris)
En Route (J. K. Huysmans)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Revival (Stephen King)
Briefing For a Descent Into Hell (Doris Lessing)
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (Carson McCullers)
Perdido Street Station (China Mieville)
My Work is Not Yet Done (Thomas Ligotti)
Nineteen Eighty (David Peace)
Nineteen Eighty Three (David Peace)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon)
The Witching Hour (Anne Rice)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz)
Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
The Mind Parasites (Colin Wilson)
Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust (Nathanel West)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
addendum:
*= technically five books, but I've decided to lump them in as one here. If I had to pick a favorite from the George Miles Cycle, it would most probably be Guide.
**= again, technically a five book series, but seeing as how Donaldson considered it to be one giant work split into five parts for publication purposes, I here consider it as one book. If I had to choose one of the five, it would be This Day All Gods Die.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
2013 Reading List Monthly Update: November
Books completed in November of 2013:
"A Mind Forever Voyaging: A History of Storytelling in Video Games" (Dylan Holmes) 11/3/13
"Zenith" (Grant Morrison) 11/10/13
"Two Boys Kissing" (David Levithan) 11/11/13
"A Cat Compendium: The Worlds of Louis Wain" (Editor: Peter Haining) 11/12/13
"Audrey: The 60s" (David Willis & Stephen Schmidt) 11/12/13
"Lil Bub's Lil Book: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Amazing Cat on the Planet" (Mike Bridavsky) 11/12/13
"Madonna: Inspirations" (Kate Ward) 11/12/13
"Kenneth Grant- A Bibliography- from 1948" (Henrik Bogdan) 11/12/13
"The Gashlycrumb Tinies" (Edward Gorey) 11/12/13
"A Feast for Crows" (George R.R. Martin) 11/17/13
"Bedrooms Have Windows" (Kevin Killian) 11/24/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
21. "Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
22. "Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
23. "My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
24. "The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
25. "Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
26. "Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
27. "No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
28. "The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
29. "The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
30. "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
31. "Four Quartets" (T.S. Eliot) 5/1/13
32. "Illuminations" (Arthur Rimbaud, Ashbery translation) 5/4/13
33. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) 5/7/13
34. "The Wasteland and Other Poems" (T.S. Eliot) 5/8/13
35. "Psychology & Alchemy" (C.G. Jung) 5/9/13
36. "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (Carson McCullers) 5/9/13
37. "The Vatard Sisters" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/16/13
38. "Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust" (Nathanael West) 5/16/13
39. "The Member of the Wedding" (Carson McCullers) 5/21/13
40. "The Trial" (Franz Kafka) 5/28/13
41. "Parisian Sketches" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/31/13
42. "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (Truman Capote) 6/3/13
43. "Cocaine Nights" (J.G. Ballard) 6/11/13
44. "A Game of Thrones" (George R.R. Martin) 6/19/13
45. "Demian" (Herman Hesse) 6/23/13
46. "Victory" (Joseph Conrad) 6/25/13
47. "The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons of the Dead" (Stephan A. Hoeller) 6/28/13
48. "Foam of the Daze" (Boris Vian) 7/16/13
49. "Death Poems" (Thomas Ligotti) 7/16/13
50. "Counting With Calico" (Phyllis Limbacher Tildes) 7/16/13 *
51. "Answer to Job" (C.G. Jung) 7/21/13
52. "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (H.P. Lovecraft) 7/22/13 *
53. "The Dream Police" (Dennis Cooper) 7/22/13
54. "The Last Revelation of Gla'aki" (Ramsey Campbell) 7/28/13
55. "A Clash of Kings" (George R.R. Martin) 7/31/13
56. "Dubliners" (James Joyce) 8/7/13
57. "Wise Blood" (Flannery O'Connor) 8/12/13
58. "Dragon Age: The World of Thedas: Volume 1" (Various) 8/20/13
59. "Following an Angel" (Tom Champagne) 8/27/13
60. "L'Amour" (Marguerite Duras) 8/29/13
61. "Betrayal" (Harold Pinter) 8/30/13
62. "A Storm of Swords" (George R.R. Martin) 9/3/13
63. "Girl With Curious Hair" (David Foster Wallace) 9/5/13
64. "Project for a Revolution in New York" (Alain Robbe-Grillet) 9/8/13
65. "At Fear's Altar" (Richard Gavin) 9/13/13
66. "Dorian" (Will Self) 9/14/13
67. "My Loose Thread" (Dennis Cooper) 9/15/13 *
68. "Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories" (Craig Laurance Gidney) 9/18/13
69. "A Certain Kind of Light" (Thomas Moore) 9/25/13
70. "Bleeding Edge" (Thomas Pynchon) 9/28/13
71. "Mira Corpora" (Jeff Jackson) 9/29/13
72. "The Grimscribe's Puppets" (Various) 10/1/13
73. "Macbeth" (William Shakespeare) 10/10/13 *
74. "The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All & Other Stories" (Laird Barron) 10/14/13
75. "Divinations of the Deep" (Matt Cardin) 10/15/13
76. "Dracula" (Bram Stoker) 10/18/13
77. "Home" (Michael Salerno/Peter Sotos) 10/19/13
78. "The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales" (Mark Samuels) 10/22/13
79. "Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three" (Clive Barker) 10/26/13
80. "A Mind Forever Voyaging: A History of Storytelling in Video Games" (Dylan Holmes) 11/3/13
81. "Zenith" (Grant Morrison) 11/10/13
82. "Two Boys Kissing" (David Levithan) 11/11/13
83. "A Cat Compendium: The Worlds of Louis Wain" (Editor: Peter Haining) 11/12/13
84. "Audrey: The 60s" (David Willis & Stephen Schmidt) 11/12/13
85. "Lil Bub's Lil Book: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Amazing Cat on the Planet" (Mike Bridavsky) 11/12/13
86. "Madonna: Inspirations" (Kate Ward) 11/12/13
87. "Kenneth Grant- A Bibliography- from 1948" (Henrik Bogdan) 11/12/13
88. "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" (Edward Gorey) 11/12/13
89. "A Feast for Crows" (George R.R. Martin) 11/17/13
90. "Bedrooms Have Windows" (Kevin Killian) 11/24/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"A Dance With Dragons" (George R.R. Martin)
"The Outsider" (Colin Wilson)
"A Mind Forever Voyaging: A History of Storytelling in Video Games" (Dylan Holmes) 11/3/13
"Zenith" (Grant Morrison) 11/10/13
"Two Boys Kissing" (David Levithan) 11/11/13
"A Cat Compendium: The Worlds of Louis Wain" (Editor: Peter Haining) 11/12/13
"Audrey: The 60s" (David Willis & Stephen Schmidt) 11/12/13
"Lil Bub's Lil Book: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Amazing Cat on the Planet" (Mike Bridavsky) 11/12/13
"Madonna: Inspirations" (Kate Ward) 11/12/13
"Kenneth Grant- A Bibliography- from 1948" (Henrik Bogdan) 11/12/13
"The Gashlycrumb Tinies" (Edward Gorey) 11/12/13
"A Feast for Crows" (George R.R. Martin) 11/17/13
"Bedrooms Have Windows" (Kevin Killian) 11/24/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
21. "Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
22. "Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
23. "My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
24. "The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
25. "Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
26. "Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
27. "No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
28. "The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
29. "The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
30. "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
31. "Four Quartets" (T.S. Eliot) 5/1/13
32. "Illuminations" (Arthur Rimbaud, Ashbery translation) 5/4/13
33. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) 5/7/13
34. "The Wasteland and Other Poems" (T.S. Eliot) 5/8/13
35. "Psychology & Alchemy" (C.G. Jung) 5/9/13
36. "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (Carson McCullers) 5/9/13
37. "The Vatard Sisters" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/16/13
38. "Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust" (Nathanael West) 5/16/13
39. "The Member of the Wedding" (Carson McCullers) 5/21/13
40. "The Trial" (Franz Kafka) 5/28/13
41. "Parisian Sketches" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/31/13
42. "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (Truman Capote) 6/3/13
43. "Cocaine Nights" (J.G. Ballard) 6/11/13
44. "A Game of Thrones" (George R.R. Martin) 6/19/13
45. "Demian" (Herman Hesse) 6/23/13
46. "Victory" (Joseph Conrad) 6/25/13
47. "The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons of the Dead" (Stephan A. Hoeller) 6/28/13
48. "Foam of the Daze" (Boris Vian) 7/16/13
49. "Death Poems" (Thomas Ligotti) 7/16/13
50. "Counting With Calico" (Phyllis Limbacher Tildes) 7/16/13 *
51. "Answer to Job" (C.G. Jung) 7/21/13
52. "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (H.P. Lovecraft) 7/22/13 *
53. "The Dream Police" (Dennis Cooper) 7/22/13
54. "The Last Revelation of Gla'aki" (Ramsey Campbell) 7/28/13
55. "A Clash of Kings" (George R.R. Martin) 7/31/13
56. "Dubliners" (James Joyce) 8/7/13
57. "Wise Blood" (Flannery O'Connor) 8/12/13
58. "Dragon Age: The World of Thedas: Volume 1" (Various) 8/20/13
59. "Following an Angel" (Tom Champagne) 8/27/13
60. "L'Amour" (Marguerite Duras) 8/29/13
61. "Betrayal" (Harold Pinter) 8/30/13
62. "A Storm of Swords" (George R.R. Martin) 9/3/13
63. "Girl With Curious Hair" (David Foster Wallace) 9/5/13
64. "Project for a Revolution in New York" (Alain Robbe-Grillet) 9/8/13
65. "At Fear's Altar" (Richard Gavin) 9/13/13
66. "Dorian" (Will Self) 9/14/13
67. "My Loose Thread" (Dennis Cooper) 9/15/13 *
68. "Sea, Swallow Me & Other Stories" (Craig Laurance Gidney) 9/18/13
69. "A Certain Kind of Light" (Thomas Moore) 9/25/13
70. "Bleeding Edge" (Thomas Pynchon) 9/28/13
71. "Mira Corpora" (Jeff Jackson) 9/29/13
72. "The Grimscribe's Puppets" (Various) 10/1/13
73. "Macbeth" (William Shakespeare) 10/10/13 *
74. "The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All & Other Stories" (Laird Barron) 10/14/13
75. "Divinations of the Deep" (Matt Cardin) 10/15/13
76. "Dracula" (Bram Stoker) 10/18/13
77. "Home" (Michael Salerno/Peter Sotos) 10/19/13
78. "The Man Who Collected Machen and Other Weird Tales" (Mark Samuels) 10/22/13
79. "Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three" (Clive Barker) 10/26/13
80. "A Mind Forever Voyaging: A History of Storytelling in Video Games" (Dylan Holmes) 11/3/13
81. "Zenith" (Grant Morrison) 11/10/13
82. "Two Boys Kissing" (David Levithan) 11/11/13
83. "A Cat Compendium: The Worlds of Louis Wain" (Editor: Peter Haining) 11/12/13
84. "Audrey: The 60s" (David Willis & Stephen Schmidt) 11/12/13
85. "Lil Bub's Lil Book: The Extraordinary Life of the Most Amazing Cat on the Planet" (Mike Bridavsky) 11/12/13
86. "Madonna: Inspirations" (Kate Ward) 11/12/13
87. "Kenneth Grant- A Bibliography- from 1948" (Henrik Bogdan) 11/12/13
88. "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" (Edward Gorey) 11/12/13
89. "A Feast for Crows" (George R.R. Martin) 11/17/13
90. "Bedrooms Have Windows" (Kevin Killian) 11/24/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"A Dance With Dragons" (George R.R. Martin)
"The Outsider" (Colin Wilson)
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