Saturday, June 1, 2019

2019 Reading List Monthly Update: May

Books read in May of 2019:
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"Star" (Yukio Mishima) 5-2-19
"White" (Bret Easton Ellis) 5-3-19
"Plan for the Abduction of J.G. Ballard" (Jeremy Reed/Audrey Szasz) 5-7-19
"Myrtle, Rue & Cypress" (Count Stenbock) 5-8-19
"The Call: Art and Speculative Literature" (editor: Ben Robinson) 5-18-19
"The Holy Bible" (David Evans) 5-19-19
"Mademoiselle de Maupin" (Théophile Gautier) 5-21-19
"Cari Mora" (Thomas Harris) 5-26-19
"Heliogabalus or, the Crowned Anarchist" (Antonin Artaud) 5-27-19
"Haunted Girlfriend" (James Nulick) 5-30-19
"Elsewhere and Other Stories" (G. Albert Aurier) 5-31-19
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2019 Reading List Total:
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1. "The Paintings of William Blake" (Raymond Lister) 1-1-19 
2. "Fascination" (Kevin Killian) 1-10-19
3. "Neo-Decadent Manifesto of Women's Fashion" (Justin Isis) 1-11-19
4. "Halyartes and Other Poems in Prose" (Éphraïm Mikhaël) 1-12-19
5. "In the Stillness of Marble" (Teresa Wilms Montt) 1-13-19
6. "Harlem Smoke" (James Champagne) 1-18-19 *
7. "The Shadow" (Maurice Level) 1-20-19
8. "Batman: A Death in the Family" (Jim Starlin/Marv Wolfman) +
9. "Death Mort Tod: A European Book of the Dead" (Steve Finbow/Karolina Urbaniak) 1-26-19
10. "Of Kings and Things" (Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock/ed. David Tibet) 1-27-19
11. "Batman: Sword of Azrael" (Dennis O'Neil) 1-30-19
12. "The Rita: Anatomical Charisma" (Sam McKinlay/Gabrielle Losoncy) 2-1-19
13. "Sea of Love" (Simon Morris) 2-3-19
14. "Inside the Castle" (Josiah Morgan) 2-4-19
15. "War with the Newts" (Karel Čapek) 2-5-19
16. "Granite City Blues" (Josh Peterson) 2-8-19
17. "Bloom" (Kevin Panetta/Savanna Ganucheau) 2-8-19
18. "The Metapheromenoi" (Brendan Connell) 2-10-19
19. "Batman: Prelude to Knightfall" (Chuck Dixon/Doug Moench) 2-13-19
20. "Tosh: Growing up in Wallace Berman's World" (Tosh Berman) 2-24-19
21. "The Ballet of Dr. Caligari and Madder Mysteries" (Reggie Oliver) 2-26-19
22. "Negrophobia: An Urban Parable" (Darius James) 2-27-19
23. "The Secret History of Twin Peaks" (Mark Frost) 3-7-19
24. "This Planet is Doomed: the Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra" (Sun Ra) 3-8-19
25. "Batman: Knightfall Volume 1" (Doug Moench/Chuck Dixon) 3-13-19
26. "Four Circles" (Meg McCarville) 3-16-19
27. "The Purple Cloud" (M.P. Shiel) 3-24-19
28. "Death in Midsummer" (Yukio Mishima) 4-2-19
29. "Faustina and Other Stories" (Renée Vivien and Helène de Zuylen de Nyevelt) 4-3-19
30. "The Invention of Dreams" (Tom Champagne) 4-7-19
31. "Batman: Knightfall Volume 2" (Chuck Dixon/Doug Moench/Alan Grant) 4-9-19
32. "Some Pink Star" (Sophie Essex) 4-16-19
33. "The Man Who Murdered His Muse" (James Champagne) 4-17-19 *
34. "The Pale Ape and Other Pulses" (M.P. Shiel) 4-18-19
35. "Third Instar" (David Gullen) 4-20-19
36. "Smashed" (Junji Ito) 4-21-19
37. "The War Within" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 4-25-19
38. "The Life of Tomorrow" (Fillia) 4-25-19
39. "Love, Sleep & Dreams" (Count Stenbock) 4-26-19
40. "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies" (C.G. Jung) 4-27-19
41. "Amico Di Sandro" (Baron Corvo) 4-30-19
42. "Star" (Yukio Mishima) 5-2-19
43. "White" (Bret Easton Ellis) 5-3-19
44. "Plan for the Abduction of J.G. Ballard" (Jeremy Reed/Audrey Szasz) 5-7-19
45. "Myrtle, Rue & Cypress" (Count Stenbock) 5-8-19
46. "The Call: Art and Speculative Literature" (editor: Ben Robinson) 5-18-19
47. "The Holy Bible" (David Evans) 5-19-19
48. "Mademoiselle de Maupin" (Théophile Gautier5-21-19
49. "Cari Mora" (Thomas Harris) 5-26-19
50. "Heliogabalus or, the Crowned Anarchist" (Antonin Artaud) 5-27-19
51. "Haunted Girlfriend" (James Nulick) 5-30-19
52. "Elsewhere and Other Stories" (G. Albert Aurier) 5-31-19

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*= book I have read at least once in the past
+= book I have read before, but not this reprint/edition/translation

Currently Reading:

"The Dreams of Cardinal Vittorini & Other Strange Stories" (Reggie Oliver) 
"After the Banquet" (Yukio Mishima)