Monday, August 31, 2020

2020 Reading List Monthly Update: August

 Books read in August of 2020:

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"There Is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man" (Various; edited by David Tibet) 8-3-20
"Shrike" (Quentin S. Crisp) 8-3-20
"No Country For Old Men" (Cormac McCarthy) 8-8-20 *
"Thirst for Love" (Yukio Mishima) 8-10-20
"Agents of Dreamland" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 8-12-20 *
"Idols" (Dennis Cooper) 8-18-20
"The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard" (J.G. Ballard) 8-22-20 
"The Bride of Christ and Other Fictions" (Montague Summers) 8-24-20 
"Venus in the Blind Spot" (Junji Ito) 8-27-20 
"The Mindshaft" (Steve Finbow) 8-29-20 
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2020 Reading List Total:
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1. "Beauty and Sadness" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1-8-20
2. "Egyptian Mythology" (Geraldine Pinch) 1-15-20
3. "The Last Crusade" (Jean-Louis Costes) 1-24-20
4. "Writings from Ancient Egypt" (edited by Toby Wilkinson) 1-25-20
5. "If Beale Street Could Talk" (James Baldwin) 1-27-20
6. "The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Complete Papyrus of Ani: Twentieth Anniversary Edition" (Unknown) 2-9-20
7. "Cleopatra: A Life" (Stacy Schiff) 2-10-20
8. "Pyramid" (David Macaulay) 2-11-20
9. "Hiccups in Paradise: the Fiction of Justin Isis and Alienation" (Colby Smith) 2-19-20
10. "Neo-Decadent Manifesto of Interpersonal Relationships" (Justin Isis) 2-20-20
11. "What Makes the Wave Break?" (Toadhouse) 2-20-20
12. "Sentimental Doubts" (Teresa Wilms Montt) 2-22-20
13. "Desire for a Holy War" (Simon Morris) 2-25-20
14. "Hauntings" (Édouard Dujardin) 2-25-20
15. "Invisibility: A Manifesto" (Audrey Szasz) 2-27-20
16. "When a Girl Loves a Girl" (Jeremy Reed) 2-29-20
17. "The Magician" (Christopher Zeischegg) 3-1-20
18. "The Nurses at Eris Hospital" (Gea Philes + Simon Morris) 3-5-20
19. "The Metapheromenoi" (Brendan Connell) 3-7-20
20. "Stand on Zanzibar" (John Brunner) 3-10-20 
21. "The Snuggly Satyricon" (Various; edited by Brian Stableford) 3-21-20 
22. "Spring Snow" (Yukio Mishima) 3-28-20
23. "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" (Jack Weatherford) 3-31-20
24. "Everyday Life of the Aztecs" (Warwick Bray) 4-7-20
25. "Aye, and Gomorrah and Other Stories" (Samuel R. Delany) 4-13-20
26. "The Invisibles: The Deluxe Edition Book One" (Grant Morrison) 4-16-20 +
27. "The Crowds of Lourdes" (J.-K. Huysmans) 4-22-20
28. "The Invisibles: The Deluxe Edition Book Two" (Grant Morrison) 4-23-20
29. "The Invisibles: The Deluxe Edition Book Three" (Grant Morrison) 4-29-20 +
30. "The Invisibles: Deluxe Edition Book Four" (Grant Morrison) 5-5-20 +
31. "The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore" (W.B. Yeats) 5-12-20
32. "A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome" (Alberto Angela) 5-14-20
33. "Runaway Horses" (Yukio Mishima) 5-18-20
34. "Listen, Little Man!" (Wilhelm Reich) 5-21-20
35. "The Temple of Dawn" (Yukio Mishima) 5-25-20
36. "The Decay of the Angel" (Yukio Mishima) 5-30-20 
37. "Come Down To Us" (Mark Gluth) 6-7-20
38. "Daughter of Regals & Other Tales" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 6-13-20
39. "Crippled Symmetry" (Mark Gluth) 6-13-20
40. "A Malediction" (Erckmann-Chatrian) 6-17-20
41. "Doomsday Clock Pt. 2" (Geoff Johns) 6-20-20
42. "Alone" (Thomas Moore) 6-21-20
43. "The Flowering Hedgerow" (Quentin S. Crisp) 6-23-20
44. "Past Lives of Old Books and Other Essays" (R.B. Russell) 6-28-20 
45. "Zac's Drug Binge" (Dennis Cooper) 6-29-20 
46. "Decadent Prose Pieces" (Léo Trézenik) 7-8-20
47. "The Desperate Man" (Léon Bloy) 7-8-20
48. "Life for Sale" (Yukio Mishima) 7-11-20 
49. "The Adventure Zone Vol. 3: Petals to the Metal" (The McElroys/Carey Pietsch) 7-16-20
50. "Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper" (Diarmuid Hester) 7-21-20 
51. "Monsieur de Bougrelon and Other Stories" (Jean Lorrain) 7-24-20 
52. "There Is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man" (Various; edited by David Tibet) 8-3-20
53. "Shrike" (Quentin S. Crisp) 8-3-20
54. "No Country For Old Men" (Cormac McCarthy) 8-8-20 *
55. "Thirst for Love" (Yukio Mishima) 8-10-20
56. "Agents of Dreamland" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 8-12-20 *
57. "Idols" (Dennis Cooper) 8-18-20
58. "The Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard" (J.G. Ballard) 8-22-20 
59. "The Bride of Christ and Other Fictions" (Montague Summers) 8-24-20 
60. "Venus in the Blind Spot" (Junji Ito) 8-27-20 
61. "The Mindshaft" (Steve Finbow) 8-29-20 
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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: 

"Sid Meier's Memoir!: a Life in Computer Games" (Sid Meier/Jennifer Lee Noonan) 
"Naomi" (Junichiro Tanizaki)