My very OCD list of books, short stories, films, and tv shows read/watched/to be read.
Books I've read in 2008:
* denotes books/movies already read/watched
~=read/watched for school
January-
1. The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer - 380 pages
2. I am Legend - Richard Matheson - 150
3. The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman - 332
4. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer - 544
5. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer - 608
6. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer - 640
7. The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman - 526
8. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - 346
9. I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert - 240
10. Uglies - Scott Westerfeld - 425
11. Pretties - Scott Westerfeld - 380
12. Specials - Scott Westerfeld - 372
13. Peeps - Scott Westerfeld - 312
14. Sunshine - Robin McKinley - 405
15. Two Serious Ladies - Jane Bowles - 201~
16. Kiss Kiss - Roald Dahl - 288
17. So Yesterday - Scott Westerfeld - 225
18. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman - 400
19. Speak - Laurie Halse Anderson - 198
=6,972 pages
February-
20. Hannibal - Thomas Harris - 484
21. The Midnighters: The Secret Hour: Scott Westerfeld - 383
22. Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin - 248~
23. The Great Tree of Avalon: Child of the Dark Prophecy - T.A. Barron - 357
24. The Great Tree of Avalon: Shadows on the Stars - T.A. Barron - 364
25. The Great Tree of Avalon: The Eternal Flame - T.A. Barron - 377
26. Blood Price - Tanya Huff - 272
27. Night Watch - Sergei Lukyanenko - 455
28. The Midnighters: Touching Darkness - Scott Westerfeld - 439
29. The Midnighters: Blue Noon - Scott Westerfeld - 505
30. The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli - 106
31. Dancer From the Dance - Andrew Holleran - 250~
32. Blood Trail - Tanya Huff - 277
33. Guilty Pleasures - Laurell K. Hamilton - 355
34. Blood Lines - Tanya Huff - 268
35. Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin - 248*~ (Had to write a paper on it)~
36. Blood Pact - Tanya Huff - 280
37. Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There - Lewis Carroll - 224
=5,408
March-
38. Blood Debt - Tanya Huff - 310
39. Blood Bank - Tanya Huff - 210
40. Night - Elie Weisel - 120
41. The Laughing Corpse - Laurell K. Hamilton - 293
42. Thirteen Ways of Looking For a Poem - Wendy Bishop - 224~
43. The Gilda Stories - Jewelle Gomez - 252~
44. Case Histories - Kate Atkinson - 310
45. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood - 521
46. The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs - 388
47. The Circus of the Damned - Laurell K. Hamilton - 329
48. Therefore, Repent!: A Post- Rapture Graphic Novel - Joe Munroe and Salgood Sam - 160
=3,117
April-
49. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke - 1,006
50. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art - Scott McCloud - 215~
51. Watchmen - Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - 416*~
52. The Little Sister - Raymond Chandler - 296
53. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller - 200~
54. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick - 243
55. Deeply Into the Bone: Re-inventing Rites of Passage - Ronald L. Grimes - 212~
56. Heartbreak Soup: A Love and Rockets Story - Gilbert Hernandez - 287~
57. Spindle's End - Robin McKinley - 343
58. Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling - 479*
59. Stalking Darkness - Lynn Flewelling - 501*
=3,898
May -
60. American Born Chinese - Gene Leun Yang - 233~
61. Traitor's Moon - Lynn Flewelling - 540*
62. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin - 304
63. The Host - Stephenie Meyer - 624
64. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi - 153*~
65. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return - Marjane Satrapi - 187
66. The Art of Fiction - John Gardner - 224~
67. Runaways Vol 1 - Brian K. Vaughan - 448
68. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - 232~
69. Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides - 529
70. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain - 412
71. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer - 544*
72. Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media - Marina Warner - 379~
73. David Boring - Daniel Clowes - 137~
=4,946
June-
74. Othello - William Shakespeare - 117
75. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex - Alice Domurat Dreger - 201
76. Religion & American Culture - edited by David G. Hackett - 253~
77. Intersex - Catharine Harper - 184
78. London, 1849: A Victorian Murder Story - Michael Alpert - 220
79. Heroes Vol 1 - Various authors - 233
80. Dracula - Bram Stoker - 417
81. Fables Vol 10: The Good Prince - Bill Willingham & Matthew Sturges - 240
82. One of Us - Michael Marshall Smith - 307
83. Jack of Fables Vol 3: The Bad prince - Bill Willingham et al - 128
84. Virtual Unrealities - Alfred Bester - 366
85. Shadow's Return - Lynn Flewelling - 522
=3,188
July-
86. Darkly Dreaming Dexter - Jeff Lindsay - 304
87. The Forever War - Joe Haldeman - 252*
88. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin - 166~
89. Dearly Devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay - 304
90. Forever Peace - Joe Haldeman - 351
91. The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula K. Le Guin - 132~
92. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov - 170
93. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams - 247
94. Blindness - Jose Saramago - 309
95. Preacher: Gone to Texas - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - 200
96. Preacher: Until the End of the World - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - 264
97. Preacher: Proud Americans - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - 232
98. Preacher: Ancient History - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - 224
99. Preacher: Dixie Fried - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - 224
100. Preacher: War in the Sun - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - 240
101. Preacher: Salvation - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - 256
102. Preacher: All Hell's A-Coming - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - 192
103. Preacher: Alamo - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - 224
=4,289
August-
104. Preacher: Arseface & Cassidy, Good Old Boys , One Man's War, Tall in the Saddle, Saint of Killers - Garth Ennis & Steve Dillion - 363
105. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer - 752
106. The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. Le Guin - 175~
107. The Invisibles: Say You Want a Revolution - Grant Morrison - 224
108. Sundays at Tiffany's - James Patterson & Gabrielle Charbonnet - 320
109. The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan - 832
110. Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters - Peter Vronsky - 384
111. Only You Can Save Mankind - Terry Pratchett - 224
112. Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman & Andy Kubert - 248
113. The Ruby in the Smoke - Philip Pullman - 230
114. Tehanu - Ursula K. Le Guin - 208~
115. The Other Wind - Ursual K. Le Guin - 246~
116. The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler - 163
117. Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler - 203
=4,572
September-
118. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin - 225
119. Shadow in the North - Philip Pullman - 331
120. The Bridge - Iain Banks - 288
121. Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris - 304
122. One Good Turn - Kate Atkinson - 527
123. When Will There Be Good News? - Kate Atkinson - 348
124. How To Write Science Fiction and Fantasy - Orson Scott Card - 137
=2,160
October-
125. The Classic Fairy Tales - Iona & Peter Opie - 329~
126. The Bone Doll's Twin - Lynn Flewelling - 524
127. The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole - 202~
128. The Romance of the Forest - Ann Radcliffe - 423~
129. The Walking Dead Vol 1: Days Gone By - Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore - 144
130. The Walking Dead Vol 2: Miles Behind Us - Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore - 136
131. The Walking Dead Vol 3: Safety Behind Bars - Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore - 136
132. The Walking Dead Vol 4: The Heart's Desire - Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore - 136
133. The Walking Dead Vol 5: The Best Defense - Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore - 136
134. The Walking Dead Vol 6: This Sorrowful Life - Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore - 144
=2,310
November-
135. Hidden Warror - Lynn Flewelling - 551
136. Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen - 260~
137. The Illiad - Homer - 453
138. Last Evenings on Earth - Roberto Bolaño - 219~
139. Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley - 272~
140. Foundation - Isaac Asimov - 256
141. The Oracle's Queen - Lynn Flewelling - 557
=2,568
December-
142. The Discover of Poetry - Frances Mayes - 253~
143. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger - 518
144. Extraordinary Engines: The Definitive Steampunk Anthology - ed. by Nick Gevers - 441
145. Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood - 545
146. Boy Proof - Cecil Castelucci - 207
147. Rex Libris: I, Librarian - James Turner - 171
148. Y: The Last Man Vol 10: Whys and Wherefores - Brian Vaughan and Pia Guerra - 168
149. The Walking Dead Vol 7: The Calm Before - Robert Kirkman & Tony Moore - 136
150. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman - 312
=2,751
Short Stories, Plays, and Articles-
1. The Most Dangerous Game - Richard Connell
2. Hunters in the Snow - Tobias Wolff
3. The Destructors - Graham Greene
4. How I Met my Husband - Alice Monro
5. Miss Brill - Katherine Mansfield
6. The Lesson - Toni Cade Bambara
7. Paul's Case - Willa Cather
8. Tommy the Unsentimental - Willa Cather
9. Once Upon a Time - Nadine Gordimer
10. Sister Josepha - Alice Dunbar
11. Big Two-Hearted River - Ernest Hemingway
12. The Gilded Six Bits - Zora Neale Hurtston
13. Eveline - James Joyce
14. Young Goodman Brown - Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. The Rocking-Horse Winner - D.H. Lawrence
16. A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
17. The Kugelmass Episode - Woody Allen
18. The Guest - Alfred Camus
19. Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been - Joyce Carol Oates
20. A Rose for Emily - William Faulkner
21. The Way We Live Now - Susan Sontag
22. Arrival - David Vernon
23. I, Vampire - Jody Scott
24. Dracula Retold - Zana
25. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
26. Lilith - Robbi Sommers
27. The Hunger - Whitley Schreiber
28. Roman Fever - Edith Wharton
29. The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allan Poe
30. Good Country People - Flannel O'Connor
31. Brokeback Mountain - Annie Proulx
32. Ghost World - Daniel Clowes - 80
33. Shitty First Drafts - Annie Lamott
34. Reading Blind - Magaret Atwood
35. 26 Sonnets - William Shakespeare
36. A & P - John Updike
37. Politics and the English Language - George Orwell
38. The Rape of Lucrece - William Shakespeare
39. Lucrece's Re-Creation - Laura G. Bromley
40. Shakespeare and the Soil of Rape - Charine R. Stimpson
41. Pericles - William Shakespeare
42. The School - Donald Barthelme
43. Ovid's Lucretia - A.G. Lee
44. The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
45. Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
46. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
47. Here, Bullet - Brian Turner
48. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
49. A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
50. Daylight Come - Amy Hempel
51. Disappearing Act - Alfred Bester
52. Oddy and Id - Alfred Bester
53. Star Light, Star Bright - Alfred Bester
54. 5,271,009 - Alfred Bester
55. Fondly Fahrenheit - Alfred Bester
56. Hobson's Choice - Alfred Bester
57. Of Time and Third Avenue - Alfred Bester
58. Time Is the Traitor - Alfred Bester
59. The Men Who Murdered Mohammed - Alfred Bester
60. The Pi Man - Alfred Bester
61. They Don't Make Life Like They Used To - Alfred Bester
62. Will You Wait? - Alfred Bester
63. The Flowered Thundermug - Alfred Bester
64. Adam and No Eve - Alfred Bester
65. And 3 1/2 to Go - Alfred Bester
66. Galatea Galante - Alfred Bester
67. The Devil Without Glasses - Alfred Bester
68. The Landlady - Roald Dahl
69. William and Mary - Roald Dahl
70. The Way Up to Heaven - Roald Dahl
71. Parson's Pleasure - Roald Dahl
72. Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat - Roald Dahl
73. Royal Jelly - Roald Dahl
74. Georgy Porgy - Roald Dahl
75. Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story - Roald Dahl
76. Edward the Conquerer - Roald Dahl
77. Pig - Roald Dahl
78. The Champion of the World - Roald Dahl
79. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
80. Of Withered Apples - Philip K. Dick
81. The Young Visiters - Daisy Ashcroft
82. Blacksad - Juan Diaz Canales & Guardino
83. Durham Red: The Vermin Stars - Dan Abnett & Mark Harrison
84. The Changing American Family - various
85. Writing for Comics - Alan Moore
86. Tick - Joyce Carol Oates
87. The Abduction - Joyce Carol Oates
88. A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
89. The Taming of the Shrew - William Shakespeare
90. Build a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies - Scott Adams
91. Arroyo Vol 1 - edited by Eric Neurenfelt
Peter and Iona Opie:
92. The History of Tom Thumb
93. Jack the Giant Killer
94. The Yellow Dwarf
95. Sleeping Beauty
96. Little Red Ridinghood
97. Diamonds and Toads
98. Bluebeard
99. Puss in Boots
100. Cinderella
101. Little Poucet/Hop o' My Thumb
102. Beauty and the Beast
103. The Three Wishes
104. The Three Heads in the Well/The King of Colchester's Daughters'
105. Jack and the Beanstalk
106. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves/Snow-drop
107. The Frog Prince
108. The Twelve Dancing Princesses
109. Rumpelstiltskin
110. Goldilocks and the Three Bears/The Story of the Three Bears
111. The Tinder Box
112. The Princess and the Pea
113. Thumbelina
114. The Swineherd
115. Hansel and Gretel
116. Still Life with Candles and Spanish Guitar - Kirk Nesset
117. The Dead Know Too Much - Kirk Nesset
118. Sensini - Roberto Bolaño
119. Henri Simon Leprince - Roberto Bolaño
120. Enrique Martin - Roberto Bolaño
121. A Literary Adventure - Roberto Bolaño
122. Phone Calls - Roberto Bolaño
123. The Grub - Roberto Bolaño
124. Anne Moore's Life - Roberto Bolaño
125. Mauricio ("The Eye") Silva - Roberto Bolaño
126. Gomez Palacio - Roberto Bolaño
127. Last Evenings on Earth - Roberto Bolaño
128. Days of 1978 - Roberto Bolaño
129. Vagabond in France and Belgium - Roberto Bolaño
130. Dentist - Roberto Bolaño
131. Dance Card - Roberto Bolaño
132. Disappearances - Elizabeth Gaskell - 10
133. The Old Nurse's Story - Elizabeth Gaskell - 21
134. The Squire's Story - Elizabeth Gaskell - 15
135. The Doom of the Griffiths - Elizabeth Gaskell - 35
136. Curious, If True - Elizabeth Gaskell - 15
137. The Grey Woman - Elizabeth Gaskell - 53
138. Steampunch - James Lovegrove
139. Static - Marly Youmans
140. Speed, Speed the Cable - Kage Baker
141. Elementals - Ian R. MacLeod
142. Machine Maid - Margo Lanagan
143. Lady Witherspoon's Solution - James Morrow
144. Hannah - Keith Brooke
145. Petrolpunk - Adam Roberts
146. American Cheetah - Robert Reed
147. Fixing Hanover - Jeff VanderMeer
148. The Lollygang Save the World on Accident - Jay Lake
149. The Dream of Reason - Jeffery Ford
Total pages not already counted in the Books read list:
1,875
Total=47,062 pages
Pages for school: 8,979
Books for school: around 33
Average pages per book: 301 (+ 6.2 books worth of extra short stories, plays, and articles)
Average pages read per day: 129
Books per week: 2.9
Re-reads: 11
Graphic novels: 34
1001 Books to Read Before you Die: 19
Books to read in 2009:
1. Watership Down - Richard Adams
2. Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
3. The Toynbee Convector - Ray Bradbury
4. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (re-read)
5. The Book of Jhereg - Steven Brust
6. The Plague - Albert Camus
7. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
8. Over to You - Roald Dahl
9. Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
10. Valis - Philip K. Dick
11. A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
12. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
13. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
14. Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
15. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon
16. Dhampir - Barb & J.C. Hendee
17. Assassin's Quest - Robin Hobb (re-read)
18. Four Great Plays - Henrik Ibsen
19. Interworld - Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves
20. Smoke & Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
21. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
22. A Cavern of Black Ice - J.V. Jones
23. The Lions of Al-Rassan - Guy Gavriel Kay
24. Bird by Bird - Annie Lamott
25. Tales from the Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin
26. Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and Macabre - H.P. Lovecraft
27. Atonement - Ian McEwan
28. The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
29. The Old Man's War - John Scalzi
30. The Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles
31. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
32. The Once and Future King - T.H. White
33. Innocents Aboard - Gene Wolfe
34. The Stories of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories - Gene Wolfe
Movie List 2008:
January-
1. Sicko
2. The Pianist
3. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix*
4. The Golden Compass*
5. Red Dragon*
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Extended Version
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Extended Version
8. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Extended version
9. Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC version)
10. Equilibrium
11. Who Killed the Electric Car?
12. Outfoxed: Rubert Murdoch's War on Journalism
13. The Silence of the Lambs*
14. 10 Things I Hate About You*
15. Homeless to Harvard
February-
16. Ocean's 13
17. Across the Universe*
18. Taxi Driver
19. The Graduate
20. Donnie Darko*
21. Brazil
22. Hannibal*
23. Memento
24. Chinatown
25. Blade*
26. Total Recall
27. Night Watch
28. Paycheck
29. Lady in the Water
30. Starship Troopers
31. The Sixth Sense*
32. American Gangster - Extended Version
March-
33. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets*
34. The Other Boleyn Girl
35. The Spiderwick Chronicles
36. Becoming Jane
37. Interview With a Vampire*
38. Ever After*
39. The Omega Man
40. Delicatessen
41. Lars and the Real Girl
42. Bram Stoker's Dracula
43. Metropolis
44. Paris, Je T'aime*
45. The Prestige
46. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
47. The Station Agent
48. Death At A Funeral
April-
49. The Virgin Suicides
50. Vampire Hunter D
51. Pride and Prejudice (2005)*
52. Crumb~
53. B-13
54. The Man in the Iron Mask*
55. Chocolat*
56. Juno
57. Devil's Playground~
58. The Machinist
59. Princess
60. Dune: Extended Version
61. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
May-
62. Labyrinth*
63. Clue
64. 1001 Arabian Nights~
65. Sweeney Todd
66. Pericles~
67. Iron Man
68. The Winter's Tale~
69. Cymbeline~
70. Ratatouille
71. Macbeth
72. 2 Days in Paris
73. Sex And the City
June:
74. A Midsummer Night's Dream
75. Othello
76. Atonement
77. Iron Man*
78. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
79. The Incredible Hulk
80. The Kite Runner
81. Hannibal Rising
82. Gattaca*
July-
83. Gregory's Girl
84. Angel Heart
85. Hellboy
86. Mongol
87. Grosse Pointe Blank
88. Natural City
89. Lolita
90. Star Trek: Generations
91. The Dark Knight
August-
92. X Files: I Want to Believe
93. Cat People
94. Police Story
95. Blue Velvet
96. 30 Days of Night
97. The Hidden
98. The Goonies
99. Se7en
100. The Shining
101. Enter the Dragon
102. L'Emploi du Temps (Time Out)
September -
103. Idiocracy
104. Say Anything
105. Grizzly Man
106. Indianna Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
107. Indianna Jones and the Last Crusade
108. Farewell, My Lovely
109. 21
110. Not of This Earth
111. The Birth of a Nation~
October-
112. Made of Honor
113. Smart People
114. Thank You For Smoking
115. 27 Dresses
116. Jane Eyre
117. High Fidelity
118. W.
119. Man on Fire
120. Emma
121. The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
122. The 24th Day
November-
123. Frida
124. Northanger Abbey
125. The Boondock Saints
126. Fahrenheit 451
127. Charlie Bartlett
128. Frankenstein: The True Story
129. Twilight
130. Across the Universe*
131. Batman Returns
132. Casino Royale
133. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
December-
134. X-Men: The Last Stand*
135. Like Minds/Murderous Intent
136. Wall-E
137. Milk
138. Into the Wild
139. Speed Racer*
140. Twilight*
141. Let the Right One In*
142. Noi Albinoi
143. Alien
144. Aliens
145. Millennium Actress
146. The Mummy: Curse of the Dragon Emperor
147. Burn After Reading
148. Birthday Girl
Re-watched: 31
TV Shows:
1. Star Trek - TNG - Seasons 2, 3
2. Project Runway - Seasons 4, 5
3. Heroes - Season 1* (twice), 2*, 3
4. Moonlight - Season 1
5. Blood Ties - Seasons 1, 2
6. Forever Knight - Season 1
7. Dexter - Seasons 1, 2, 3
8. Sarah Connor Chronicles - Season 1
9. Six Feet Under - Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4
10. Top Chef - Season 3
11. Flight of the Conchords - Season 1
12. America's Next Top Model - Cycle 10
13. Weeds - Season 1
14. Twin Peaks - Seasons 1, 2
15. Monkey Life
16. Cracker
17. True Blood - Season 1
18. The Venture Bros - Season 1
19. Gilmore Girls - Seasons 1 (twice) ,2 (twice), 3
Why yes, I am a gigantic nerd. Why do you ask?