Tuesday, November 30, 2021

2021 Reading List Monthly Update: November

Books read in November of 2021:

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"Certain Artists (Certains)" (J.-K. Huysmans) 11-4-21 
"The Gnostic Gospels" (Elaine Pagels) 11-12-21
"The Exalted and the Abased" (Damian Murphy) 11-13-21
"Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu: Collector's Edition" (Junji Ito) 11-13-21 +
"Rocksong" (Golnoosh Nour) 11-16-21
"Luminous Subjects" (Andrew Champagne) 11-20-21
"How To Live Like A Monk: Medieval Wisdom For Modern Life" (Danièle Cybulskie)11-25-21
"My Little Golden Book About Dolly Parton" (Deborah Hopkinson) 11-27-21
"Hamster Dam" (Quentin S. Crisp) 11-30-21

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2021 Reading List Total:

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1. "Hate" (Michael Salerno) 1-6-21
2. "Just Kids: Illustrated Edition" (Patti Smith) 1-9-21
3. "The Thing About Attraction" (Tom Champagne) 1-10-21
4. "Desperate" (Alexandrine Ogundimu) 1-11-21
5. "Jerk" (Nathan Blake/Dennis Cooper) 1-16-21
6. "The Moon Down To Earth" (James Nulick) 1-20-21
7. "Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book One" (Alan Moore) 1-27-21*
8. "Morose Vignettes" (Remy de Gourmont) 1-30-31
9. "The Universe Is A Haunted House: COIL through their art & archives" (Coil) 1-31-21
10. "Ruthless Little Things" (Elizabeth V Aldrich) 2-6-21
11. "Sentimental Education" (Gustave Flaubert) 2-10-21
12. "Comes a Pale Rider" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 2-12-21
13. "Neo-Decadence: 12 Manifestos" (Various; edited by Justin Isis) 2-13-21
14. "Soviet Cities: Labour Life Leisure" (Arseniy Kotov) 2-13-21
15. "Let Me Tell You What I Mean" (Joan Didion) 2-17-21
16. "Paresis" (Isabelle Nicou) 2-20-21
17. "Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book Two" (Alan Moore) 2-21-21 *
18. "The Castle of Otranto" (Horace Walpole) 2-23-21
19. "Genesis 0" (Isabelle Nicou) 2-25-21
20. "Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist" (Charles Brockden Brown) 3-16-21
21. "The Secret History of Kate Bush" (Fred Vermorel) 3-17-21
22. "The Frail Soul and Other Stories" (Camille Mauclair) 3-19-21
23. "The Bull-Man and the Grasshopper" (Jean Richepin) 3-20-21
24. "Urien's Voyage" (André Gide) 3-21-21
25. "The Last Train" (Arnaud Rykner) 3-23-21
26. "The Fallen West" (Douglas Thompson) 3-27-21
27. "Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book Three" (Alan Moore) 3-28-21
28. "Vathek" (William Beckford) 3-29-21
29. "Sentimental Stories" (Enrique Gómez Carrillo) 3-30-21
30. "Prince Narcissus and Other Stories" (Robert Scheffer) 4-5-21
31. "Asphodels" (Bernardo Couto Castillo) 4-10-21
32. "A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology" (Toby Wilkinson) 4-11-21
33. "The Monk" (Matthew Lewis) 4-13-21
34. "Lovesickness" (Junji Ito) 4-16-21
35. "Spiritus Ex Machina" (L.C. von Hessen) 4-17-21
36. "A Decadent Woman" (Georges de Peyrebrune) 4-26-21
37. "Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book Four" (Alan Moore) 4-27-21
38. "The Mirror of Her Dreams: Mordant's Need Vol. 1" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 4-29-21
39. "Alabaster: Wolves" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 5-1-21
40. "The Setting Sun" (Osamu Dazai) 5-4-21
41. "The Red Spider" (Delphi Fabrice) 5-6-21
42. "The Dwarf of Westerbourg" (Christian Heinrich Spiess) 5-14-21
43. "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner" (James Hogg) 5-16-21
44. "The Worm" (New Juche) 5-18-21
45. "Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book Five" (Alan Moore) 5-21-21
46. "The Latin Orgy" (Félicien Champsaur) 5-23-21
47. "Jottings From A Far Away Place" (Brendan Connell) 5-27-21
48. "The Paris Notebooks" (Quentin S. Crisp) 5-29-21
49. "The Temptation of Saint Anthony" (Gustave Flaubert) 6-2-21
50. "World's End Harem Vol.1" (Link/Kotaro Shono) 6-6-21
51. "World's End Harem Vol. 2" (Link/Kitaro Shono) 6-7-21
52. "Saga of the Swamp Thing: Book Six" (Alan Moore) 6-11-21
53. "A Man Rides Through" (Stephen R. Donaldson) 6-19-21
54. "Jakob Von Gunten" (Robert Walser) 6-26-21
55. "Alcina and Other Stories" (Guido Gozzano) 6-30-21
56. "Watchmen" (Alan Moore) 7-6-21 *
57. "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" (Quentin Tarantino) 7-12-21
58. "The Adventure Zone 4: The Crystal Kingdom" (The McElroys/Carey Pietsch) 7-16-21
59. "Batman: The Killing Joke" (Alan Moore) 7-21-21 *
60. "The Variegated Alphabet" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 7-25-21
61. "A Maze for the Minotaur and Other Strange Stories" (Reggie Oliver) 7-26-21
62. "The Averoigne Chronicles" (Clark Ashton Smith) 8-6-21
63. "From Hell" (Alan Moore) 8-7-21 *
64. "Alabaster: Grimmer Tales" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 8-8-21
65. "Sensor" (Junji Ito) 8-11-21
66. "Princesses of Darkness and Other Exotica" (Jean Lorrain) 8-12-21
67. "The Sex Shops of Sherman Oaks" (SJXSJC) 8-14-21
68. "The Dying Peasant" (Karl van de Woestijne) 8-15-21
69. "The Confession of a False Soul" (Ilarie Voronca) 8-18-21
70. "Ilse" (Ossit) 8-21-21 
71. "Life in a Medieval City" (Joseph and Frances Gies) 8-22-21
72. "A Cheerful Soul and Other Stories" (Hersh Dovid Nomberg) 8-25-21
73. "Forever" (Thomas Moore) 8-26-21
74. "Millennium People" (J.G. Ballard) 8-30-21
75. "Flowers of Ether" (Delphi Fabrice) 8-31-21
76. "Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird" (Caitlín R. Kiernan) 9-2-21 *
77. "The Liar" (Stephen Fry) 9-9-21
78. "I Wished" (Dennis Cooper) 9-17-21
79. "Among the Lilies" (Daniel Mills) 9-19-21
80. "Neonomicon" (Alan Moore) 9-21-21 *
81. "Dune" (Frank Herbert) 9-23-21
82. "Against the Grain Again" (Brendan Connell) 9-29-21
83. "Providence Compendium" (Alan Moore) 10-8-21 +
84. "The House of Souls" (Arthur Machen) 10-15-21
85. "Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark" (Cassandra Peterson) 10-17-21
86. "The Last Oblivion: Best Fantastic Poems of Clark Ashton Smith" (Clark Ashton Smith) 10-23-21
87. "Penny: A Graphic Memoir" (Karl Stevens) 10-24-21
88. "The Grin of the Dark" (Ramsey Campbell) 10-28-21
89. "Certain Artists (Certains)" (J.-K. Huysmans) 11-4-21 
90. "The Gnostic Gospels" (Elaine Pagels) 11-12-21
91. "The Exalted and the Abased" (Damian Murphy) 11-13-21
92. "Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu: Collector's Edition" (Junji Ito) 11-13-21 +
93. "Rocksong" (Golnoosh Nour) 11-16-21
94. "Luminous Subjects" (Andrew Champagne) 11-20-21
95. "How To Live Like A Monk: Medieval Wisdom For Modern Life" (Danièle Cybulskie)11-25-21
96. "My Little Golden Book About Dolly Parton" (Deborah Hopkinson) 11-27-21
97. "Hamster Dam" (Quentin S. Crisp) 11-30-21
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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: 

"Three Tales" (Gustave Flaubert)
"Braquemard: The Clavicle of Gilles De Rais" (Martin Bladh)