the year-end book list
Wow, that end of year meme that's going around is hard! I can't remember anything this year!
I'll make my book list instead. Several of these are books I have read once before (Machen,Hodgson) and several I did not in fact finish quite yet as of this writing (those are at the end). There are a few others that I started and abandoned, but I didn't list those.
I expect next year my list will be very short because I plan to read a couple of 1,000-plus page short story collections, and POSSIBLY just MAYBE try to read Finnegan's Wake, just a little. Maybe. With a reader's guide. I might need some hand-holding if anyone wants to come along.
Stanislaw Lem - The Futurological Congress
Doris Lessing - Canopus in Argos: Shikasta (I started this in late Dec. 2008 so I included it in last year's list too...don't judge me!!)
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris
Steve Almond - Candy Freak
Philip K Dick - The Zap Gun
Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths
Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine
Felipe Fernández-Armesto - Near a Thousand Tables
Steve Martin - Born Standing Up
Alan Moore - Watchmen (yeah it's a graphic novel but there are a lot of words!)
Natalie Angier - The Canon - A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
HP Lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Marcus Chown - The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Never-Ending Universe
Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Stanislaw Lem - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Arthur Machen - The Three Imposters and other stories
William Hope Hodgson - House on the Borderland
Arthur Machen - The White People and other stories
William Hope Hodgson - The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sign of the Four
Michio Kaku - Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories (I didn't read every single story...)
Greg Bear - Blood Music
Clifford Simak - City
Peter Dickinson - The Devil's Children
Eric Bunde - Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
Carl Honore - In Praise of Slowness
Fred Pearce - Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Tom Zoellner - Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
Robert Van Gulik - The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
Jeremy Bernstein - Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
Robert Val Gulik - The Chinese Gold Murders
HG Wells - A Dream of Armageddon (short story collection)
David A. Kessler - The End of Overeating (this was NOT a diet book, ok?)
Elisa Parsons - The Castle of Wolfenbach
Bram Stoker - Return from the Dead (Jewel of Seven Stars and other mummy stories)
Alice and Claude Askew - Aylmer Vance: Ghost Seer
Mrs. Carter - The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey
Marjorie Bowen - The Bishop of Hell and other stories
A.C. and R.H. Benson - The Temple of Death and other stories
Jennifer 8. Lee - The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Edith Nesbitt - Tales of Terror
D.K. Broster - Couching at the Door
Ellen Ruppel Shell - Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
Gertrude Atherton - The Bell in the Fog
Alain Robbe-Grillet - In The Labyrinth (still reading)
Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan (started to re-read but got sidetracked)
James Joyce - Ulysses (I'm taking my sweet time reading it again, along with a reader's guide)
The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse (just barely started this one)
I'll make my book list instead. Several of these are books I have read once before (Machen,Hodgson) and several I did not in fact finish quite yet as of this writing (those are at the end). There are a few others that I started and abandoned, but I didn't list those.
I expect next year my list will be very short because I plan to read a couple of 1,000-plus page short story collections, and POSSIBLY just MAYBE try to read Finnegan's Wake, just a little. Maybe. With a reader's guide. I might need some hand-holding if anyone wants to come along.
Stanislaw Lem - The Futurological Congress
Doris Lessing - Canopus in Argos: Shikasta (I started this in late Dec. 2008 so I included it in last year's list too...don't judge me!!)
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris
Steve Almond - Candy Freak
Philip K Dick - The Zap Gun
Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun
Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths
Blaise Cendrars - Moravagine
Felipe Fernández-Armesto - Near a Thousand Tables
Steve Martin - Born Standing Up
Alan Moore - Watchmen (yeah it's a graphic novel but there are a lot of words!)
Natalie Angier - The Canon - A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
HP Lovecraft - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Marcus Chown - The Quantum Zoo: A Tourist's Guide to the Never-Ending Universe
Brian Greene - The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Stanislaw Lem - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
Arthur Machen - The Three Imposters and other stories
William Hope Hodgson - House on the Borderland
Arthur Machen - The White People and other stories
William Hope Hodgson - The Casebook of Carnacki the Ghost Finder
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sign of the Four
Michio Kaku - Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon
The Mammoth Book of 20th Century Ghost Stories (I didn't read every single story...)
Greg Bear - Blood Music
Clifford Simak - City
Peter Dickinson - The Devil's Children
Eric Bunde - Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology
Carl Honore - In Praise of Slowness
Fred Pearce - Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
Tom Zoellner - Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
Robert Van Gulik - The Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee
Jeremy Bernstein - Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element
Robert Val Gulik - The Chinese Gold Murders
HG Wells - A Dream of Armageddon (short story collection)
David A. Kessler - The End of Overeating (this was NOT a diet book, ok?)
Elisa Parsons - The Castle of Wolfenbach
Bram Stoker - Return from the Dead (Jewel of Seven Stars and other mummy stories)
Alice and Claude Askew - Aylmer Vance: Ghost Seer
Mrs. Carter - The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey
Marjorie Bowen - The Bishop of Hell and other stories
A.C. and R.H. Benson - The Temple of Death and other stories
Jennifer 8. Lee - The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
Edith Nesbitt - Tales of Terror
D.K. Broster - Couching at the Door
Ellen Ruppel Shell - Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
Gertrude Atherton - The Bell in the Fog
Alain Robbe-Grillet - In The Labyrinth (still reading)
Mervyn Peake - Titus Groan (started to re-read but got sidetracked)
James Joyce - Ulysses (I'm taking my sweet time reading it again, along with a reader's guide)
The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse (just barely started this one)