Saturday, August 31, 2024

2024 Reading List Monthly Update: August

Books read in August of 2024:

"Goodnight Tokyo" (Atsuhiro Yoshida) 8-3-24
"Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders" (Vincent Bugliosi + Curt Gentry) 8-5-24
"Spook" (Klabund) 8-7-24
"Dark Entries: Bauhaus and Beyond" (Ian Shirley) 8-9-24
"The Sun Also Rises" (Ernest Hemingway) 8-15-24
"Depeche Mode: A Biography" (Steve Malins) 8-20-24
"The Sirens of Titan" (Kurt Vonnegut) 8-25-24
"We" (Yevgeny Zamyatin) 8-26-24
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2024 Reading List Total:

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1. "The Explosion of a Chandelier" (Damian Murphy) 1-7-24
2. "Empire of the Sun" (J.G. Ballard) 1-11-24
3. "The Consolation of Philosophy" (Boethius) 1-14-24
4. "CAW: Colossal Abandoned World" (James Champagne) 1-17-24
5. "The Green Fly and Other Stories" (Robert Scheffer) 1-19-24
6. "Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again" (Shigeru Kayama) 1-22-24
7. "Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982" (Cho Nam-joo) 1-27-24
8. "The Planetary Omnibus" (Warren Ellis) 1-28-24
9. "A Song in the Night" (Daniel Mills) 1-31-24 
10. "The Princess of Darkness" (Rachilde) 2-13-24
11. "i'm still growing" (Josiah Morgan) 2-15-24
12. "Winona" (Robert Rich) 2-16-24
13. "Alexandria: The City That Changed The World" (Islam Issa) 2-21-24
14. "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)" (Mindy Kaling) 2-27-24
15. "Self-Portraits" (Osamu Dazai) 2-27-24
16. "The Siren's Lament: Essential Stories" (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki) 3-10-24
17. "The Secret History with Related Texts" (Prokopios) 3-13-24
18. "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" (Marie Kondo) 3-14-24
19. "Crampton" (Thomas Ligotti & Brandon Trenz) 3-16-24 +
20. "Stitches" (Hirokatsu Kihara + Junji Ito) 3-26-24
21. "Artists and Their Cats" (Alison Nastasi) 3-28-24
22. "Great Cities of the Ancient World" (L. Sprague de Camp) 4-3-24
23. "Terminal Boredom" (Izumi Suzuki) 4-12-24
24. "Dragon Palace" (Hiromi Kawakami) 4-16-24
25. "Alexander the Great: His Life and Mysterious Death" (Anthony Everitt) 4-21-24
26. "The Antichrist: A New Biography" (Philip C. Almond) 5-24-24
27. "The Old Capital" (Yasunari Kawabata) 5-16-24
28. "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" (Bettany Hughes) 5-20-24
29. "The Cat Inside" (William S. Burroughs) 5-22-24 +
30. "A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes" (Anthony Bale) 5-29-24
31. "Diary of a Void" (Emi Yagi) 5-29-24
32. "The Book of Marvels and Travels" (Sir John Mandeville/Anthony Bale translation) 6-4-24
33. "The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are" (Michael Pye) 6-9-24
34. "The Three Cornered World" (Natsume Soseki) 6-15-24
35. "A Kingdom of Frozen Tears" (Tom Champagne) 6-21-24
36. "Michigan Basement" (Thomas Ligotti & Brandon Trenz) 6-22-24
37. "The Stronghold" (Dino Buzzati) 6-24-24 
38. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (Gawain-Poet/Keith Harrison translation) 7-1-24
39. "The Death of King Arthur" (Sir Thomas Malory/a retelling by Peter Ackroyd) 7-2-24
40. "Flunker" (Dennis Cooper) 7-4-24
41. "The Rule of St. Benedict" (St. Benedict of Nursia) 7-5-24
42. "Beowulf" (Unknown/John McNamara translation) 7-9-24
43. "Alley" (Junji Ito) 7-15-24
44. "Out of the Silent Planet" (C.S. Lewis) 
45. "Soviet Asia" (Roberto Conte + Stefano Perego) 7-17-24
46. "The Adventure Zone Vol. 6: The Suffering Game" (The McElroys + Carey Pietsch) 7-19-24
47. "The Tokyo Zodiac Murders" (Soji Shimada) 7-27-24
48. "The Singularity" (Dino Buzzati) 7-31-24
49. "Goodnight Tokyo" (Atsuhiro Yoshida) 8-3-24
50. "Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders" (Vincent Bugliosi + Curt Gentry) 8-5-24
51. "Spook" (Klabund) 8-7-24
52. "Dark Entries: Bauhaus and Beyond" (Ian Shirley) 8-9-24
53. "The Sun Also Rises" (Ernest Hemingway) 8-15-24
54. "Depeche Mode: A Biography" (Steve Malins) 8-20-24
55. "The Sirens of Titan" (Kurt Vonnegut) 8-25-24
56. "We" (Yevgeny Zamyatin) 8-26-24

*= book I have read at least once in the past

+= book I have read before, but not this reprint/edition/translation

Currently Reading: 

"Shakespeare and the Medieval World" (Helen Cooper) 
"Vita Nuova" (Dante Alighieri) 

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