2019 in Books.
~Every link leads to an entry with basic information about the book, my favourite quotes and my review.
~The image I use is the edition I read.
♥♥♥ = Personal favourites I recommend.
NON-FICTION:
♥ The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens. (7.5/10)+
♥♥♥ Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Cleopatra: A Life ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Stacy Schiff. (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Nobel Lecture by Bob Dylan. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Micromegas and Other Stories by Voltaire. (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ Wives, Submit Yourselves unto Your Own Husbands. (8/10)
♥ The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation by Hannah Fry. (7/10)
♥ The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel. (6/10)
♥ The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule. (7/10)
♥ The Bro Code by Matt Kuhn (writing as Barney Stinson). (6/10)
♥♥♥ Lying by Sam Harris. (10/10)
♥♥♥ Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell. (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ Books v. Cigarettes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Bookshop Memories. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Confessions of a Book Reviewer. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Prevention of Literature. (9.5/10)
♡♡♡ My Country Right or Left. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ How the Poor Die. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Such, Such Were the Joys. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett. (8/10)
♥♥♥ How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Darwinian Stories Told Through Evolutionary Biology by Léo Grasset. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Devil and Tom Walker and Other Selected Stories ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Washington Irving:☼
♡♡♡ The Author's Account of Himself. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Voyage. (8.5/10)
♡ The Governor and the Notary. (8/10)
♡ The Grand Prairie-A Buffalo Hunt. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Rural Life in England. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Art of Bookmaking. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Mutability of Literature. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Rural Funerals. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Westminster Abbey. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Stratford on Avon. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Traits of Indian Character. (8/10)
♡♡♡ English and French Character. (8/10)
♡ The Tuileries and Windsor Castle. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Street by Mordecai Richler. (8/10):
♡♡♡ Going Home Again. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Street. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Summer My Grandmother was Supposed to Die. (8.5/10)
♡ The Red Menace. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Main. (8.5/10)
♡ Pinky's Squealer. (7.5/10)
♡ Bambinger. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Benny, the War in Europe, and Myerson's Daughter Bella. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Making It with the Chicks. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill. (8.5/10)
♡ The War, Chaverim, and After. (7/10)
♥ The Dark Side of Japan: Ancient Black Magic, Folklore, Ritual by Antony Cummins. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Toronto Book of the Dead ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3), by Adam Bunch. (9/10)
♥ The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic ( PART 1--- PART 2), by M. Oldfield Howey. (7/10)
♥♥♥ In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (trans. by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker). (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Rights of Man by H.G. Wells. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett (foreword by Stephen Fry). (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Hubris of Religion, The Humility of Science, and the Intellectual and Moral Courage of Atheism by Richard Dawkins. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Letting the Neighbours Know by Daniel C. Dennett. (8/10)
♡♡♡ In Good Company by Sam Harris. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Discussion by Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. (8.5/10)
♥ How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton. (7/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Maus, A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman. (8.5/10)
♥ Maus, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman. (9/10)
☼ --> Not only non-fiction included in the compendium, but only non-fiction listed here.
+ --> I list Holy Books (and their derivatives) in the non-fiction because that is the way they are intended by the authors, and not to reflect any personal belief.
FICTION:
NOVELS:
♥♥♥ The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood. (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. (8/10)☁♧
♥♥♥ The Royal Game (Chess) by Stefan Zweig. (8/10)
♥♥♥ It ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3), by Stephen King. (8.5/10)
♥ Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard. (4/10)☁♧
♥♥♥ The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig. (8.5/10)
♥ The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell. (7/10)
♥ Slender Man by Anonymous. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. (8/10)☁♧
♥ South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Vegetarian by Han Kang. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Bone Mother by David Demchuk. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Howards End ( PART 1--- PART 2), by E.M. Forster. (9.5/10)
♥♥♥ Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. (8/10)
♥ Rage by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman). (5.5/10)
♥ The Shack by Wm. Paul Young. (4/10)
♥♥♥ The Neverending Story ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Michael Ende. (10/10)
♥ Forrest Gump by Winston Groom. (7/10)☁
♥♥♥ Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien. (8.5/10)
♥ Stallo (aka Shapeshifters) by Stefan Spjut. (6.5/10)☁
♥♥♥ Abel's Island by William Steig. (8.5/10)
♥ Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (translated by Lisa Dillman). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Mary Poppins in the Kitchen: A Cookery Book with a Story by P.L. Travers. (7.5/10)☁
♥ In the Tall Grass by Stephen King. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm Story by Gary Larson. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau. (9/10)
♥♥♥ How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired by Dany Laferrière (translated by David Homel). (8/10)
♥♥♥ James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. (9/10)
♥ The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. (7/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥ The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights by Ted Huges. (7.5/10)
♥ The Iron Woman by Ted Huges. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)☁
♥ Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie (8/10)**
♥♥♥ Tunnels of Blood by Darren Shan. (8/10)☁
♥ Vampire Mountain by Darren Shan. (6.5/10)
♥ The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. (5.5/10)
♥ The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks. (5.5/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
** --> Short stories/plays chronicled here for the purpose of listing series continuity. (Refer to the Short Stories header below for break-down of individual stories.)
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
SHORT STORIES:
♥ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume 2 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. (8/10):☼
♡ The New Traveller's Almanac. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain. (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ Extracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms.. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Eve's Diary. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Micromegas and Other Stories by Voltaire. (8/10):☼
♡ Cosi-Sancta, A Small Sin to Achieve a Greater Good: An African Tale (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Plato's Dream. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Micromegas. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Way of the World: Babouc's Vision. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Memnon. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Letter from a Turk: about Fakirs and His Friend Bababec. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Scarmentado's Travels. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Consolation for Two. (7.5/10)
♡ Story of a Good Brahmin. (7.5/10)
♡ Jeannot and Colin. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Short Digression. (9/10)
♡ An Adventure in India: Translated by the Ignoramus. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Adventure of Memory. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Korean Folk-Tales (compiled and retold) by James Riordan. (8/10):
♡♡♡ Dan-Gun, First Emperor of Korea. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Blindman's Daughter Shiim Chung. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Weaver and Herdsman Chik-Nyo and Kyun-Woo. (7.5/10)
♡ Son-Nyo the Nymph and the Woodcutter. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Snail Woman. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Distant Journey. (8.5/10)
♡ Blindman and the Demons. (7.5/10)
♡ The Fox Girl. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Tiger's Grave. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Hare's Liver. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ How the Cat Saved the Magic Amber. (8.5/10)
♡ Choi Chum-Ji. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars. (8/10)
♡ Bride Island. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Magic Club. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Three Dead Wives. (8.5/10)
♡ The Four Mighty Brothers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Adventures of the Three Sons. (8.5/10)
♡ The Centipede Girl. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Accusation by Bandi. (9/10):
♡♡♡ Record of a Defection. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ City of Spectres. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Life of a Swift Steed. (8/10)
♡♡♡ So Near, Yet So Far. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Pandemonium. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ On Stage. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Red Mushroom. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell. (8/10):☼✿♧
♡♡♡ The Appointment. (7.5/10)
♡ The Bus Stop. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Faster and Faster. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Just Delicious. (7.5/10)
♡ Hello, Kate! (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Black Dog. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Footsteps. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Like Cats' Eyes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Bess. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Harold. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Dead Hand. (8/10)
♡ Such Things Happen. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Wolf Girl. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Dream. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sam's New Pet. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Maybe You Will Remember. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Red Spot. (8.5/10)
♡ No, Thanks. (6/10)
♡♡♡ The Trouble. (7.5/10)
♡ Strangers. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Hog. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Is Something Wrong? (8/10)
♡ It's Him! (7/10)
♡ T-h-u-p-p-p-p-p-p-p! (7/10)
♥♥♥ Eight Tales of Hoffmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann. (8/10):
♡ The Lost Reflection. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Sandman. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Jesuit Church at Glogau. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Deserted House. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Councillor Krespel. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mines of Falun. (8/10)
♡ A Ghost Story. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Gamblers' Luck. (8/10)
♥♥♥ A Bottomless Grave and Other Victorian Tales of Terror ( PART 1--- PART 2) by Various. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Devil on the Marsh by H.B. Marriott-Watson. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Tragic Honeymoon by G.R. Sims. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Battle of the Monsters by Morgan Robertson. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Return by R. Murray Gilchrist. (8/10)
♡ The Corpse Light by Dick Donovan. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ship That Saw a Ghost by Frank Norris. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce. (9/10)
♡♡♡ One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Ghosts that have Haunted Me by J.K. Bangs. (8/10)
♡ Haunted by Spirits by George Manville Fenn. (7.5/10)
♡ A Ghost Slayer by J. Keighley Snowden. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Tomb by Guy de Maupassant. (9/10)
♡ The Man with the Nose by Rhoda Broughton. (7.5/10)
♡ My Nightmare by Dorothea Gerard. (7/10)
♡♡♡ A Life-Watch by Georgina C. Clark. (8/10)
♡ The Haunted Chair by Richard Marsh. (7/10)
♡ Coolies by W. Carleton Dawe. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Three Souls by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian. (8/10)
♡ A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Story of Baelbrow by E. and H. Heron. (7.5/10)
♥ Ghost Stories by E.F. Benson. (7.5/10):
♡ Spinach. (7/10)
♡♡♡ In the Tube. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Man Who Went Too Far. (8/10)
♡ Mrs. Amworth. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Room in the Tower. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Bus Conductor. (7.5/10)
♡ Negotium Perambulans. (7/10)
♡♡♡ And No Bird Sings. (7.5/10)
♡ Caterpillars. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Folk Tales from Bohemia by Adolf Wenig (translated by Lillian P. Mokrejs). (8/10):
♡♡♡ How a Devil Contended with Man. (8/10)
♡♡♡ How a Soldier Punished the Devils. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ About the Real and the Unreal Devils. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Devil's Gifts. (8/10)
♡♡♡ About the Devil and the Blacksmith. (8/10)
♡ How the Devil Became Afraid of a Woman. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ How a Young Man Served in Hell. (8/10)
♡ The Devil's Mill. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ How an Old Woman Cheated the Devil. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Devil and Tom Walker and Other Selected Stories ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Washington Irving:☼
♡♡♡ Rip Van Winkle. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Specter Bridegroom. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Wife. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Devil and Tom Walker. (8/10)
♡ The Adventure of the Mason. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Widow and Her Son. (8/10)
♡ The Guests from Gibbet Island. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Legend of Don Munio Sancho de Hinojosa. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. (7.5/10):☼
♡ In the Beginning. (7/10)
♡ Sixteen Candles. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Tales of Unease by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Ring of Thoth. (8/10)
♡ The Lord of Château Noir. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The New Catacomb. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Case of Lady Sannox. (8/10)
♡ The Brazilian Cat. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Brown Hand. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Horror of the Heights. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Terror of Blue John Gap. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Captain of the Polestar. (8/10)
♡♡♡ How It Happened. (7.5/10)
♡ Playing with Fire. (7.5/10)
♡ The Leather Funnel (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Lot No. 249. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Los Amigos Fiasco. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Nightmare Room. (8/10)
♥♥♥ After Many Years: Twenty-One "Long-Lost" Stories by L.M. Montgomery. (7.5/10):
♡ The Chivers Light. (7/10)
♡ Elvie's Necklace. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ What Happened at Brixley's. (7.5/10)
♡ Janie's Bouquet. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jean's Birthday Party. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Maggie's Kitten. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Old Homestead. (8/10)
♡ The Pineapple Apron. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ How Bobby Got to the Picnic. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Peter of the Lane. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ For the Good of Anthony. (7.5/10)
♡ Our Neighbours at the Tansy Patch. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Matchmaker. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Bloom of May: The Story of an Old Apple Tree and Those Who Loved It. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Hill o' the Winds. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jim's House. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Mirror. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Tomorrow Comes. (7.5/10)
♡ The Use of Her Legs. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Janet's Rebellion. (8/10)
♡♡♡ More Blessed to Give. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Adventure of "The Western Star". (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Adventure of the Cheap Flat. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mystery of the Hunter's Lodge. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Million Dollar Bond Robbery. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Kidnapped Prime Minister. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman. (7.5/10)
♡ The Case of the Missing Will. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Veiled Lady. (7.5/10)
♡ The Lost Mine. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Chocolate Box. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and the Forgotten: Tales of the Supernatural, Strange, and Bizarre by Various. (/10):☁
♡♡♡ Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker. (7.5/10)
♡ A Water Witch by H.D. Everett. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ash Tree by M.R. James. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont (7.5/10):☁
♡♡♡ Perchance to Dream. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Jungle. (8/10)
♡ Sorcerer's Moon. (7.5/10)
♡ You Can't Have Them All. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Fritzchen. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Oh Father of Mine (Father, Dear Father). (8/10)
♥ Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (7.5/10):☁
♡ Tower of Babylon. (7.5/10)
♡ Understand. (7/10)
♡ Division by Zero. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Story of Your Life. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Hungarian Folk-tales (retold) by Val Biro. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Thieving Goblins. (8/10)☁
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Books of Blood, Volume 3 by Clive Barker. (8/10):☁✿
♡♡♡ Son of Celluloid. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Rawhead Rex. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud. (7.5/10)
♡ Scape Goats. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Human Remains. (7.5/10)
♥ Books of Blood, Volume 4 by Clive Barker. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Body Politic. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Inhuman Condition. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Revelations. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Down, Satan! (7.5/10)
♡ The Age of Desire (7/10)
♥ Books of Blood, Volume 5 (aka In the Flesh) by Clive Barker (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ In the Flesh. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Forbidden. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Madonna. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Babel's Children. (7.5/10)
♥ Books of Blood, Volume 6 by Clive Barker (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Life of Death. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ How Spoilers Bleed. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Twilight at the Towers. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Last Illusion. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Book of Blood (a postscript): On Jerusalem Street. (8/10)
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only short stories included in the compendium, but only short stories listed here.
✿ --> A series of short story collections, wherein the short stories themselves are primarily independent of each other or stories within other volumes (though sometimes tied together by a general setting or plot device).
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
PLAYS:
♥♥♥ Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco. (8.5/10)
POETRY:
♥♥♥ The Accusation by Bandi. (9/10):☼
♡♡♡ In Place of a Preface. (10/10)
♡♡♡ In Place of Acknowledgements. (10/10)
♥♥♥ Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell. (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ You May Be the Next... (8/10)
♥♥♥ Beowulf by Anonymous (translated by Seamus Heaney). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl (9/10):
♡♡♡ Cinderella. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Jack and the Beanstalk. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Goldilocks and the Three Bears. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. (10/10)
♡♡♡ The Three Little Pigs. (9.5/10)
♥ Now We Are Sick: An Anthology of Nasty Verse by Various (edited by Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones) (7/10):
♡♡♡ Now We Are Sick by Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones. (8.5/10)
♡ A Slice of Life by Diana Wynne Jones. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Auntie Ethel by Richard Hill. (8/10)
♡♡♡ You Always Eat the One You Love by Kim Newman. (8/10)
♡ Chocolate and Worms by David Garnett. (7/10)
♡ The Dangers of Color TV by Simon Ian Childer. (0/10)
♡♡♡ The Children's Hour by Alan Moore. (8.5/10)
♡ Radio Nasty by Stephen Gallagher. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Something Came Out of the Toilet by Harry Adam Knight. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Secret Book of the Dead by Terry Pratchett. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Mummy's Blocked the Lav Again by John Grant. (9/10)
♡ Rice Pudding by Brian Aldiss. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Good Ship "Revenger", Or, What the Crew Don't Know Won't Hurt Me by Galad Elflandsson. (7.5/10)
♡ The Dream of Omar K. Yam by David Sutton. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ You're Deceased, Father William by Colin Greenland. (9/10)
♡♡♡ A Landlady's Lament by Ramsey Campbell. (7.5/10)
♡ The Borgia Brats by Garry Kilworth. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Another Cursed House Story (or) Always Enquire About the Prior Tenants by John M. Ford. (8/10)
♡ Waiting... by James Herbert. (7.5/10)
♡ The Thing at the Top of the Stairs by Sharon Baker. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Things that Go Bump in the Night by Ian Pemble. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ In the Dark by Storm Constantine. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Lights Out by Alex Stewart. (7.5/10)
♡ A Mother's Tender Love by Jo Fletcher. (7/10)
♡ Catcawls by Samantha Lee. (7.5/10)
♡ The Haunted Henhouse; Or The Irate Ghost of Thomas Hood by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. (7/10)
♡♡♡ When the Music Breaks by R.A. Lafferty. (8/10)
♡ Nasty Snow by Jody Scott. (6.5/10)
♡ Why Private War Or, "Why They Pinned This Name on My Progenitor by Gene Wolfe. (5.5/10)
♡ The Answering Machine by S.P. Somtow. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Warning: Death My Be Injurious to Your Health by Robert Bloch. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Poems of Gratitude ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Various (compiled by Emily Fragos) (8/10):
♡♡♡ Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Today, Like Every Other Day, We Wake Up Empty by Jalal Al-Din Rumi. (10/10)
♡ A Blessing by James Wright. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors by William Butler Yeats. (10/10)
♡ Thanks by W.S. Merwin. (7.5/10)
♡ The Selkirk Grace by Robert Burns. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Invocation, 1926, for Loretta Dixon Turnbough by Natasha Trethewey. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Thanks by Yusef Komunyakaa. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Letter to Mrs. Bixby by Abraham Lincoln. (8/10)
♡♡♡ I'm Thankful That My Life Doth Not Deceive by Henry David Thoreau. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Xaipe by E.E. Cummings. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Gratefulnesse by George Herbert. (8/10)
♡ From Pippa Passes by Robert Browning. (6/10)
♡ Night Pieces by Mark Strand. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Late Hours by Lisel Mueller. (7.5/10)
♡ At Least by Raymond Carver. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Welcome Morning by Anne Sexton. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Te Deum by Charles Reznikoff. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Here, There Are Blueberries by Mary Szybist. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Sonnets From the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Hearts-of-Gold by Herman Melville. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Prayer of the Traveler Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Thanks in Old Age by Walt Whitman. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Utitia'q's Song, tradition Inuit poem (translated by Franz Boaz). (7.5/10)
♡ The Summer Day by Mary Oliver. (7/10)
♡ Thank You, My Fate by Anna Swir. (7.5/10)
♡ For the Anniversary of My Death by W.S. Merwin. (7/10)
♡ Gift by Czeslaw Milosz. (7/10)
♡ Pastoral by William Carlos Williams. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Into My Head Rose, traditional Eskimo poem (translated by W.S. Merwin). (8/10)
♡♡♡ Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ God's World by Edna St. Vincent Millay. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Eternity by William Blake. (9/10)
♡ Abba Jacob and Miracles by Marilyn Nelson. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ithaka by Constantine P. Cavafy. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Tea at the Plaza of Hoon by Wallace Stevens. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Salutation by Thomas Traherne. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Love After Love by Derek Walcott. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Late Fragment by Raymond Carver. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ At the Border of Paradise by Anna Kamienska (translated by Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Waking by Theodore Roethke. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Three Haiku by Issa (translated b y Sam Hamill). (7.5/10)
♡ Autumn, Love, Commercials by Yehuda Amichai (translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld). (7/10)
♡♡♡ Tattered Kaddish by Adrienne Rich. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Child's Evening Prayer by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (8/10)
♡ Rain Light by W.S. Merwin. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Ein Leben by Dan Pagis. (8/10)
♡♡♡ To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet. (7.5/10)
♡ Fulfillment by William Cavendish. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10)
♡♡♡ To His Dying Brother, Master William Herrick by Robert Herrick. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux. (8/10)
♡ Special Orders by Edward Hirsch. (6.5/10)
♡ Like the New Moon, My Mother Drifts Through the Night Sky by Charles Wright. (7/10)
♡ To My Aunt Margie by W.S. Merwin. (6/10)
♡♡♡ Daughters by Lucille Clifton. (8/10)
♡ Father by Ted Kooser (translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh). (7/10)
♡ In Praise of My Sister by Wislawa Szymborska. (7.5/10)
♡ From Gabreil by Edward Hirsch. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Lineage by Margaret Walker. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Mother by Ted Kooser. (8/10)
♡ Because by Nikki Giovanni. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Paradise Lost by John Milton. (9.5/10)
♡♡♡ Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar. (8/10)
♡ Love Lightly Praised by Robert Herrick. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Afternoon Sun by Constantine P. Cavafy (translated by Edmund Keely and Philip Sherrard). (8/10)A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe. (9/10)
♡♡♡ From The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare. (8.5/10)
♡ Fragment by Sappho (translated by F.T. Palgrave). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ First Love by John Clare. (8.5/10)
♡ Rose-Cheeked Laura by Thomas Campion. (7/10)
♡♡♡ From Sonnets by the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (10/10)
♡♡♡ The Oblation by Algernon Charles Swinburne. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Birthday by Christina Rossetti. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay. (8/10)
♡♡♡ "Pack, Clouds, Away, and Welcome Day" by Thomas Heywood. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare. (8/10)
♡ The Blue Booby by James Tate. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Upon Julia's Clothes by Robert Herrick. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ L'Amitié Est L'Amour Sans Ailes by Lord Byron. (10/10)
♡♡♡ O My Friends by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by A. Poulin, Jr.). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Travelling by William Wordsworth. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Invitation to Love by Emily Brontë. (8/10)
♡♡♡ From To a Cat by Algernon Charles Swinburne. (8.5/10)
♡ Friendship, Traditional Aztec. (7.5/10)
♡ Odes, I.36 by Horace (translated by Debora Greger). (7/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet: I Thank You by Henry Timrod. (8.5/10)
♡ Inviting a Friend to Supper by Ben Jonson. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Meat Without Mirth by Robert Herrick. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Forbearance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Friendship by Dinah Maria Craik. (8/10)
♡ Sitting at Night by Om Ui-Gil (translated by Kim Jong-Gil). (6/10)
♡ "Rest and Be Thankful!" by William Wordsworth. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ To My Friends by Primo Levi (translated by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann). (7.5/10)
♡ Being Visited by a Friend During Illness by Po Chu-I (translated by Arthur Waley). (7/10)
♡♡♡ Recovery by Edward Hirsch. (7/10)
♡ One Heart by Franz Wright. (7/10)
♡ Otherwise by Jane Kenyon. (6/10)
♡ A Mistake by Czeslaw Milosz (translated by Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass). (7/10)
♡♡♡ On His Blindness by John Milton. (8/10)
♡♡♡ "My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. (8.5/10)
♡ After a Long Illness by Nicholas Christopher. (7/10)
♡ After Dürer by Emily Fragos. (7.5/10)
♡ Spell to Be Said After Illness by Jane Hirshfield. (7/10)
♡ Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Of Many Worlds in This World by John Dryden. (8/10)
♡♡♡ From Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart. (8/10)
♡♡♡ War God's Horse Song, Navajo Native American (words by Tall Kia Ahni, interpreted by Louis Watchman). (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys by Francis Jammes (translated by Richard Wilbur). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ "See Yonder Leafless Trees Against the Sky" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8/10)
♡ Weeds by J.D. McClatchy. (7/10)
♡ The Evening is Tranquil, and Dawn is a Thousand Miles Away by Charles Wright. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Eagle Poem by Joy Harjo. (8.5/10)
♡ The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Patience Taught by Nature by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Thyrsis by Matthew Arnold. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Cricket by Edwin Markham. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling. (8.5/10)
♡ Little Birds of the Night by Stephen Crane. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. (7.5/10)
♡ Ku'u Pua I Paoakalani by Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawaii. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Ode to a Day in the Country by Gary Soto. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Father, We Thank Thee by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8/10)
♡ Prayer by Maya Angelou. (7.5/10)
♡ Ghanaian Prayer by Anonymous. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Amazing Grace by John Newton. (9/10)
♡♡♡ "Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace by St. Francis of Assisi (translated by anonymous). (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ God's Gardener by Gerard Manley Hopkins. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Psalm 23 by The Holy Bible (King James). (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Tao Te Ching by Laozi (translated by Chungliang Al Huang). (8/10)
♡♡♡ Buddhist Prayer by Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Qua'an 1:1-7, translated by Shaykha Halima Krausen. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Shema Koleinu, Jewish Prayer, Day of Atonement (translated by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ From The Vedas. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ African Canticle by Anonymous. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Light Shining Out of Darkness by William Cowper. (8/10)
♡ From Holy Sonnets by John Donne. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Miracles by Walt Whitman. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Prayer at Sunrise by James Weldon Johnson. (8.5/10)
♡ "Bent with Worry" by Marina Tsvetaeva (translated by Elaine Feinstein). (7/10)
♡♡♡ Prayer by Langston Hughes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Vision by Henry Vaughan. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ "Ample Make This Bed" by Emily Dickinson. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Now May Every Living Thing by The Buddha. (8/10)Thanksgiving by Traditional Iroquois (translated by Harrier Maxwell Converse). (8/10)
♡ At the First Thanksgiving by X.J. Kennedy. (7/10)
♡ What They Ate by Campbell McGrath. (6.5/10)
♡ A Romance for the Wild Turkey by Paul Zimmer. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day by Lydia Maria Child. (8/10)
♡ From Two Thanksgiving Poems by Billy Collins. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Point of View by Shel Silverstein. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Harvest Home by Henry Alford. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Harvest Hymn by John Greenleaf Whittier. (8/10)
♡ Harvest Sunset by Carl Sandburg. (6.6/10)
♡♡♡ The Harvest Moon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Farewell to the Farm by Robert Louis Stevenson. (9/10)
♡ Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ To Autumn by John Keats. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Wildtrack by John Wain. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Howl: For Carl Solomon. (8/10)
♡ A Supermarket in California. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Transcription of Organ Music. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sunflower Sutra. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ America. (8/10)
♡ In the Baggage Room at Greyhound. (7.5/10)
♡ An Asphodel. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Song. (8.5/10)
♡ Wild Orphan. (7.5/10)
♡ In Back of the Real. (7/10)
☼ --> Not only poetry included in compendium, but only poetry listed here.
GRAPHIC NOVELS:
♥ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume 2 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. (8/10)♧
♥ Sin City: Hell and Back by Frank Miller. (8/10)♧
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Maus, A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman. (8.5/10)
♥ Maus, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman. (9/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
PREVIOUS YEARS:
2009-2010/ 2010/ 2011/ 2012/ 2013/ 2014/ 2015/ 2016/ 2017/ 2018
~The image I use is the edition I read.
♥♥♥ = Personal favourites I recommend.
NON-FICTION:
♥ The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens. (7.5/10)+
♥♥♥ Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Cleopatra: A Life ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Stacy Schiff. (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Nobel Lecture by Bob Dylan. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Micromegas and Other Stories by Voltaire. (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ Wives, Submit Yourselves unto Your Own Husbands. (8/10)
♥ The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation by Hannah Fry. (7/10)
♥ The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel. (6/10)
♥ The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule. (7/10)
♥ The Bro Code by Matt Kuhn (writing as Barney Stinson). (6/10)
♥♥♥ Lying by Sam Harris. (10/10)
♥♥♥ Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell. (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ Books v. Cigarettes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Bookshop Memories. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Confessions of a Book Reviewer. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Prevention of Literature. (9.5/10)
♡♡♡ My Country Right or Left. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ How the Poor Die. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Such, Such Were the Joys. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Lady in the Van by Alan Bennett. (8/10)
♥♥♥ How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Darwinian Stories Told Through Evolutionary Biology by Léo Grasset. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Devil and Tom Walker and Other Selected Stories ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Washington Irving:☼
♡♡♡ The Author's Account of Himself. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Voyage. (8.5/10)
♡ The Governor and the Notary. (8/10)
♡ The Grand Prairie-A Buffalo Hunt. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Rural Life in England. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Art of Bookmaking. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Mutability of Literature. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Rural Funerals. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Westminster Abbey. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Stratford on Avon. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Traits of Indian Character. (8/10)
♡♡♡ English and French Character. (8/10)
♡ The Tuileries and Windsor Castle. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Street by Mordecai Richler. (8/10):
♡♡♡ Going Home Again. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Street. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Summer My Grandmother was Supposed to Die. (8.5/10)
♡ The Red Menace. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Main. (8.5/10)
♡ Pinky's Squealer. (7.5/10)
♡ Bambinger. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Benny, the War in Europe, and Myerson's Daughter Bella. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Making It with the Chicks. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill. (8.5/10)
♡ The War, Chaverim, and After. (7/10)
♥ The Dark Side of Japan: Ancient Black Magic, Folklore, Ritual by Antony Cummins. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Toronto Book of the Dead ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3), by Adam Bunch. (9/10)
♥ The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic ( PART 1--- PART 2), by M. Oldfield Howey. (7/10)
♥♥♥ In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (trans. by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker). (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Rights of Man by H.G. Wells. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett (foreword by Stephen Fry). (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Hubris of Religion, The Humility of Science, and the Intellectual and Moral Courage of Atheism by Richard Dawkins. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Letting the Neighbours Know by Daniel C. Dennett. (8/10)
♡♡♡ In Good Company by Sam Harris. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Discussion by Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. (8.5/10)
♥ How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton. (7/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Maus, A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman. (8.5/10)
♥ Maus, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman. (9/10)
☼ --> Not only non-fiction included in the compendium, but only non-fiction listed here.
+ --> I list Holy Books (and their derivatives) in the non-fiction because that is the way they are intended by the authors, and not to reflect any personal belief.
FICTION:
NOVELS:
♥♥♥ The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood. (9/10)
♥♥♥ The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris. (8/10)☁♧
♥♥♥ The Royal Game (Chess) by Stefan Zweig. (8/10)
♥♥♥ It ( PART 1--- PART 2--- PART 3), by Stephen King. (8.5/10)
♥ Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard. (4/10)☁♧
♥♥♥ The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig. (8.5/10)
♥ The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell. (7/10)
♥ Slender Man by Anonymous. (6.5/10)
♥♥♥ Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. (8/10)☁♧
♥ South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Vegetarian by Han Kang. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Bone Mother by David Demchuk. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. (7.5/10)♧
♥♥♥ A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Howards End ( PART 1--- PART 2), by E.M. Forster. (9.5/10)
♥♥♥ Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay. (8/10)
♥ Rage by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman). (5.5/10)
♥ The Shack by Wm. Paul Young. (4/10)
♥♥♥ The Neverending Story ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Michael Ende. (10/10)
♥ Forrest Gump by Winston Groom. (7/10)☁
♥♥♥ Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien. (8.5/10)
♥ Stallo (aka Shapeshifters) by Stefan Spjut. (6.5/10)☁
♥♥♥ Abel's Island by William Steig. (8.5/10)
♥ Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (translated by Lisa Dillman). (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Mary Poppins in the Kitchen: A Cookery Book with a Story by P.L. Travers. (7.5/10)☁
♥ In the Tall Grass by Stephen King. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm Story by Gary Larson. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau. (9/10)
♥♥♥ How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired by Dany Laferrière (translated by David Homel). (8/10)
♥♥♥ James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. (9/10)
♥ The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark. (7/10)
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥ The Iron Man: A Children's Story in Five Nights by Ted Huges. (7.5/10)
♥ The Iron Woman by Ted Huges. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie. (7.5/10)☁
♥ Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie (8/10)**
♥♥♥ Tunnels of Blood by Darren Shan. (8/10)☁
♥ Vampire Mountain by Darren Shan. (6.5/10)
♥ The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. (5.5/10)
♥ The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks. (5.5/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
** --> Short stories/plays chronicled here for the purpose of listing series continuity. (Refer to the Short Stories header below for break-down of individual stories.)
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
SHORT STORIES:
♥ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume 2 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. (8/10):☼
♡ The New Traveller's Almanac. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain. (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ Extracts from Adam's Diary: Translated from the Original Ms.. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Eve's Diary. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Micromegas and Other Stories by Voltaire. (8/10):☼
♡ Cosi-Sancta, A Small Sin to Achieve a Greater Good: An African Tale (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Plato's Dream. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Micromegas. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Way of the World: Babouc's Vision. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Memnon. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Letter from a Turk: about Fakirs and His Friend Bababec. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Scarmentado's Travels. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Consolation for Two. (7.5/10)
♡ Story of a Good Brahmin. (7.5/10)
♡ Jeannot and Colin. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Short Digression. (9/10)
♡ An Adventure in India: Translated by the Ignoramus. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Adventure of Memory. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Korean Folk-Tales (compiled and retold) by James Riordan. (8/10):
♡♡♡ Dan-Gun, First Emperor of Korea. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Blindman's Daughter Shiim Chung. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Weaver and Herdsman Chik-Nyo and Kyun-Woo. (7.5/10)
♡ Son-Nyo the Nymph and the Woodcutter. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Snail Woman. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Distant Journey. (8.5/10)
♡ Blindman and the Demons. (7.5/10)
♡ The Fox Girl. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Tiger's Grave. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Hare's Liver. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ How the Cat Saved the Magic Amber. (8.5/10)
♡ Choi Chum-Ji. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars. (8/10)
♡ Bride Island. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Magic Club. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Three Dead Wives. (8.5/10)
♡ The Four Mighty Brothers. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Adventures of the Three Sons. (8.5/10)
♡ The Centipede Girl. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ The Accusation by Bandi. (9/10):
♡♡♡ Record of a Defection. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ City of Spectres. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Life of a Swift Steed. (8/10)
♡♡♡ So Near, Yet So Far. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Pandemonium. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ On Stage. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Red Mushroom. (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell. (8/10):☼✿♧
♡♡♡ The Appointment. (7.5/10)
♡ The Bus Stop. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Faster and Faster. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Just Delicious. (7.5/10)
♡ Hello, Kate! (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Black Dog. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Footsteps. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Like Cats' Eyes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Bess. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Harold. (8.5/10).
♡♡♡ The Dead Hand. (8/10)
♡ Such Things Happen. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Wolf Girl. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Dream. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sam's New Pet. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Maybe You Will Remember. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Red Spot. (8.5/10)
♡ No, Thanks. (6/10)
♡♡♡ The Trouble. (7.5/10)
♡ Strangers. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Hog. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Is Something Wrong? (8/10)
♡ It's Him! (7/10)
♡ T-h-u-p-p-p-p-p-p-p! (7/10)
♥♥♥ Eight Tales of Hoffmann by E.T.A. Hoffmann. (8/10):
♡ The Lost Reflection. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Sandman. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Jesuit Church at Glogau. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Deserted House. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Councillor Krespel. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mines of Falun. (8/10)
♡ A Ghost Story. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Gamblers' Luck. (8/10)
♥♥♥ A Bottomless Grave and Other Victorian Tales of Terror ( PART 1--- PART 2) by Various. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Devil on the Marsh by H.B. Marriott-Watson. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Tragic Honeymoon by G.R. Sims. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Battle of the Monsters by Morgan Robertson. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Return by R. Murray Gilchrist. (8/10)
♡ The Corpse Light by Dick Donovan. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ship That Saw a Ghost by Frank Norris. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Bottomless Grave by Ambrose Bierce. (9/10)
♡♡♡ One Summer Night by Ambrose Bierce. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Ghosts that have Haunted Me by J.K. Bangs. (8/10)
♡ Haunted by Spirits by George Manville Fenn. (7.5/10)
♡ A Ghost Slayer by J. Keighley Snowden. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Tomb by Guy de Maupassant. (9/10)
♡ The Man with the Nose by Rhoda Broughton. (7.5/10)
♡ My Nightmare by Dorothea Gerard. (7/10)
♡♡♡ A Life-Watch by Georgina C. Clark. (8/10)
♡ The Haunted Chair by Richard Marsh. (7/10)
♡ Coolies by W. Carleton Dawe. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Three Souls by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian. (8/10)
♡ A Strange Goldfield by Guy Boothby. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ An Alpine Divorce by Robert Barr. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Story of Baelbrow by E. and H. Heron. (7.5/10)
♥ Ghost Stories by E.F. Benson. (7.5/10):
♡ Spinach. (7/10)
♡♡♡ In the Tube. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Man Who Went Too Far. (8/10)
♡ Mrs. Amworth. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Room in the Tower. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Bus Conductor. (7.5/10)
♡ Negotium Perambulans. (7/10)
♡♡♡ And No Bird Sings. (7.5/10)
♡ Caterpillars. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Folk Tales from Bohemia by Adolf Wenig (translated by Lillian P. Mokrejs). (8/10):
♡♡♡ How a Devil Contended with Man. (8/10)
♡♡♡ How a Soldier Punished the Devils. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ About the Real and the Unreal Devils. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Devil's Gifts. (8/10)
♡♡♡ About the Devil and the Blacksmith. (8/10)
♡ How the Devil Became Afraid of a Woman. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ How a Young Man Served in Hell. (8/10)
♡ The Devil's Mill. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ How an Old Woman Cheated the Devil. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Devil and Tom Walker and Other Selected Stories ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Washington Irving:☼
♡♡♡ Rip Van Winkle. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Specter Bridegroom. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Wife. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Devil and Tom Walker. (8/10)
♡ The Adventure of the Mason. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Widow and Her Son. (8/10)
♡ The Guests from Gibbet Island. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Legend of Don Munio Sancho de Hinojosa. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. (7.5/10):☼
♡ In the Beginning. (7/10)
♡ Sixteen Candles. (7/10)
♥♥♥ Tales of Unease by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Ring of Thoth. (8/10)
♡ The Lord of Château Noir. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The New Catacomb. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Case of Lady Sannox. (8/10)
♡ The Brazilian Cat. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Brown Hand. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Horror of the Heights. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Terror of Blue John Gap. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Captain of the Polestar. (8/10)
♡♡♡ How It Happened. (7.5/10)
♡ Playing with Fire. (7.5/10)
♡ The Leather Funnel (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Lot No. 249. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Los Amigos Fiasco. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Nightmare Room. (8/10)
♥♥♥ After Many Years: Twenty-One "Long-Lost" Stories by L.M. Montgomery. (7.5/10):
♡ The Chivers Light. (7/10)
♡ Elvie's Necklace. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ What Happened at Brixley's. (7.5/10)
♡ Janie's Bouquet. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jean's Birthday Party. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Maggie's Kitten. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Old Homestead. (8/10)
♡ The Pineapple Apron. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ How Bobby Got to the Picnic. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Peter of the Lane. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ For the Good of Anthony. (7.5/10)
♡ Our Neighbours at the Tansy Patch. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Matchmaker. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Bloom of May: The Story of an Old Apple Tree and Those Who Loved It. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Hill o' the Winds. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Jim's House. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Mirror. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Tomorrow Comes. (7.5/10)
♡ The Use of Her Legs. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Janet's Rebellion. (8/10)
♡♡♡ More Blessed to Give. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Poirot Investigates by Agatha Christie (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Adventure of "The Western Star". (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Adventure of the Cheap Flat. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Mystery of the Hunter's Lodge. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Million Dollar Bond Robbery. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Kidnapped Prime Minister. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman. (7.5/10)
♡ The Case of the Missing Will. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Veiled Lady. (7.5/10)
♡ The Lost Mine. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Chocolate Box. (8/10)
♥♥♥ The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and the Forgotten: Tales of the Supernatural, Strange, and Bizarre by Various. (/10):☁
♡♡♡ Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker. (7.5/10)
♡ A Water Witch by H.D. Everett. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Ash Tree by M.R. James. (7.5/10)
♥♥♥ Perchance to Dream: Selected Stories by Charles Beaumont (7.5/10):☁
♡♡♡ Perchance to Dream. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Jungle. (8/10)
♡ Sorcerer's Moon. (7.5/10)
♡ You Can't Have Them All. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Fritzchen. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Oh Father of Mine (Father, Dear Father). (8/10)
♥ Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (7.5/10):☁
♡ Tower of Babylon. (7.5/10)
♡ Understand. (7/10)
♡ Division by Zero. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Story of Your Life. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Hungarian Folk-tales (retold) by Val Biro. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Thieving Goblins. (8/10)☁
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Books of Blood, Volume 3 by Clive Barker. (8/10):☁✿
♡♡♡ Son of Celluloid. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Rawhead Rex. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Confessions of a (Pornographer's) Shroud. (7.5/10)
♡ Scape Goats. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Human Remains. (7.5/10)
♥ Books of Blood, Volume 4 by Clive Barker. (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Body Politic. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Inhuman Condition. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Revelations. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Down, Satan! (7.5/10)
♡ The Age of Desire (7/10)
♥ Books of Blood, Volume 5 (aka In the Flesh) by Clive Barker (8.5/10):
♡♡♡ In the Flesh. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Forbidden. (9/10)
♡♡♡ The Madonna. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Babel's Children. (7.5/10)
♥ Books of Blood, Volume 6 by Clive Barker (8/10):
♡♡♡ The Life of Death. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ How Spoilers Bleed. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Twilight at the Towers. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Last Illusion. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Book of Blood (a postscript): On Jerusalem Street. (8/10)
☁ --> Not all books in the series listed, as some have been read in previous years, or are still to be finished.
☼ --> Not only short stories included in the compendium, but only short stories listed here.
✿ --> A series of short story collections, wherein the short stories themselves are primarily independent of each other or stories within other volumes (though sometimes tied together by a general setting or plot device).
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
PLAYS:
♥♥♥ Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco. (8.5/10)
POETRY:
♥♥♥ The Accusation by Bandi. (9/10):☼
♡♡♡ In Place of a Preface. (10/10)
♡♡♡ In Place of Acknowledgements. (10/10)
♥♥♥ Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz, illustrated by Stephen Gammell. (8/10):☼
♡♡♡ You May Be the Next... (8/10)
♥♥♥ Beowulf by Anonymous (translated by Seamus Heaney). (8.5/10)
♥♥♥ Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl (9/10):
♡♡♡ Cinderella. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Jack and the Beanstalk. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Goldilocks and the Three Bears. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. (10/10)
♡♡♡ The Three Little Pigs. (9.5/10)
♥ Now We Are Sick: An Anthology of Nasty Verse by Various (edited by Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones) (7/10):
♡♡♡ Now We Are Sick by Neil Gaiman and Stephen Jones. (8.5/10)
♡ A Slice of Life by Diana Wynne Jones. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Auntie Ethel by Richard Hill. (8/10)
♡♡♡ You Always Eat the One You Love by Kim Newman. (8/10)
♡ Chocolate and Worms by David Garnett. (7/10)
♡ The Dangers of Color TV by Simon Ian Childer. (0/10)
♡♡♡ The Children's Hour by Alan Moore. (8.5/10)
♡ Radio Nasty by Stephen Gallagher. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Something Came Out of the Toilet by Harry Adam Knight. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Secret Book of the Dead by Terry Pratchett. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Mummy's Blocked the Lav Again by John Grant. (9/10)
♡ Rice Pudding by Brian Aldiss. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The Good Ship "Revenger", Or, What the Crew Don't Know Won't Hurt Me by Galad Elflandsson. (7.5/10)
♡ The Dream of Omar K. Yam by David Sutton. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ You're Deceased, Father William by Colin Greenland. (9/10)
♡♡♡ A Landlady's Lament by Ramsey Campbell. (7.5/10)
♡ The Borgia Brats by Garry Kilworth. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Another Cursed House Story (or) Always Enquire About the Prior Tenants by John M. Ford. (8/10)
♡ Waiting... by James Herbert. (7.5/10)
♡ The Thing at the Top of the Stairs by Sharon Baker. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Things that Go Bump in the Night by Ian Pemble. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ In the Dark by Storm Constantine. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Lights Out by Alex Stewart. (7.5/10)
♡ A Mother's Tender Love by Jo Fletcher. (7/10)
♡ Catcawls by Samantha Lee. (7.5/10)
♡ The Haunted Henhouse; Or The Irate Ghost of Thomas Hood by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. (7/10)
♡♡♡ When the Music Breaks by R.A. Lafferty. (8/10)
♡ Nasty Snow by Jody Scott. (6.5/10)
♡ Why Private War Or, "Why They Pinned This Name on My Progenitor by Gene Wolfe. (5.5/10)
♡ The Answering Machine by S.P. Somtow. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Warning: Death My Be Injurious to Your Health by Robert Bloch. (9/10)
♥♥♥ Poems of Gratitude ( PART 1--- PART 2), by Various (compiled by Emily Fragos) (8/10):
♡♡♡ Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Today, Like Every Other Day, We Wake Up Empty by Jalal Al-Din Rumi. (10/10)
♡ A Blessing by James Wright. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors by William Butler Yeats. (10/10)
♡ Thanks by W.S. Merwin. (7.5/10)
♡ The Selkirk Grace by Robert Burns. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Invocation, 1926, for Loretta Dixon Turnbough by Natasha Trethewey. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Thanks by Yusef Komunyakaa. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Letter to Mrs. Bixby by Abraham Lincoln. (8/10)
♡♡♡ I'm Thankful That My Life Doth Not Deceive by Henry David Thoreau. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Xaipe by E.E. Cummings. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Gratefulnesse by George Herbert. (8/10)
♡ From Pippa Passes by Robert Browning. (6/10)
♡ Night Pieces by Mark Strand. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Late Hours by Lisel Mueller. (7.5/10)
♡ At Least by Raymond Carver. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Welcome Morning by Anne Sexton. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Te Deum by Charles Reznikoff. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Here, There Are Blueberries by Mary Szybist. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Sonnets From the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (9/10)
♡♡♡ Hearts-of-Gold by Herman Melville. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Prayer of the Traveler Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Thanks in Old Age by Walt Whitman. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Utitia'q's Song, tradition Inuit poem (translated by Franz Boaz). (7.5/10)
♡ The Summer Day by Mary Oliver. (7/10)
♡ Thank You, My Fate by Anna Swir. (7.5/10)
♡ For the Anniversary of My Death by W.S. Merwin. (7/10)
♡ Gift by Czeslaw Milosz. (7/10)
♡ Pastoral by William Carlos Williams. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Into My Head Rose, traditional Eskimo poem (translated by W.S. Merwin). (8/10)
♡♡♡ Praise Song for the Day by Elizabeth Alexander. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ God's World by Edna St. Vincent Millay. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Eternity by William Blake. (9/10)
♡ Abba Jacob and Miracles by Marilyn Nelson. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Ithaka by Constantine P. Cavafy. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Tea at the Plaza of Hoon by Wallace Stevens. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Salutation by Thomas Traherne. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Love After Love by Derek Walcott. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Late Fragment by Raymond Carver. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ At the Border of Paradise by Anna Kamienska (translated by Grazyna Drabik and David Curzon). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Waking by Theodore Roethke. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Three Haiku by Issa (translated b y Sam Hamill). (7.5/10)
♡ Autumn, Love, Commercials by Yehuda Amichai (translated by Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld). (7/10)
♡♡♡ Tattered Kaddish by Adrienne Rich. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Child's Evening Prayer by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (8/10)
♡ Rain Light by W.S. Merwin. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Ein Leben by Dan Pagis. (8/10)
♡♡♡ To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet. (7.5/10)
♡ Fulfillment by William Cavendish. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe. (8/10)
♡♡♡ To His Dying Brother, Master William Herrick by Robert Herrick. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux. (8/10)
♡ Special Orders by Edward Hirsch. (6.5/10)
♡ Like the New Moon, My Mother Drifts Through the Night Sky by Charles Wright. (7/10)
♡ To My Aunt Margie by W.S. Merwin. (6/10)
♡♡♡ Daughters by Lucille Clifton. (8/10)
♡ Father by Ted Kooser (translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh). (7/10)
♡ In Praise of My Sister by Wislawa Szymborska. (7.5/10)
♡ From Gabreil by Edward Hirsch. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Lineage by Margaret Walker. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Mother by Ted Kooser. (8/10)
♡ Because by Nikki Giovanni. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Paradise Lost by John Milton. (9.5/10)
♡♡♡ Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar. (8/10)
♡ Love Lightly Praised by Robert Herrick. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Afternoon Sun by Constantine P. Cavafy (translated by Edmund Keely and Philip Sherrard). (8/10)A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe. (9/10)
♡♡♡ From The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare. (8.5/10)
♡ Fragment by Sappho (translated by F.T. Palgrave). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ First Love by John Clare. (8.5/10)
♡ Rose-Cheeked Laura by Thomas Campion. (7/10)
♡♡♡ From Sonnets by the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (10/10)
♡♡♡ The Oblation by Algernon Charles Swinburne. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Birthday by Christina Rossetti. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay. (8/10)
♡♡♡ "Pack, Clouds, Away, and Welcome Day" by Thomas Heywood. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence Dunbar. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare. (8/10)
♡ The Blue Booby by James Tate. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Upon Julia's Clothes by Robert Herrick. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ L'Amitié Est L'Amour Sans Ailes by Lord Byron. (10/10)
♡♡♡ O My Friends by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by A. Poulin, Jr.). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Travelling by William Wordsworth. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Invitation to Love by Emily Brontë. (8/10)
♡♡♡ From To a Cat by Algernon Charles Swinburne. (8.5/10)
♡ Friendship, Traditional Aztec. (7.5/10)
♡ Odes, I.36 by Horace (translated by Debora Greger). (7/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet: I Thank You by Henry Timrod. (8.5/10)
♡ Inviting a Friend to Supper by Ben Jonson. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Meat Without Mirth by Robert Herrick. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Forbearance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sonnet 30 by William Shakespeare. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Friendship by Dinah Maria Craik. (8/10)
♡ Sitting at Night by Om Ui-Gil (translated by Kim Jong-Gil). (6/10)
♡ "Rest and Be Thankful!" by William Wordsworth. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Old Familiar Faces by Charles Lamb. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ To My Friends by Primo Levi (translated by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann). (7.5/10)
♡ Being Visited by a Friend During Illness by Po Chu-I (translated by Arthur Waley). (7/10)
♡♡♡ Recovery by Edward Hirsch. (7/10)
♡ One Heart by Franz Wright. (7/10)
♡ Otherwise by Jane Kenyon. (6/10)
♡ A Mistake by Czeslaw Milosz (translated by Renata Gorczynski and Robert Hass). (7/10)
♡♡♡ On His Blindness by John Milton. (8/10)
♡♡♡ "My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On" by Gerard Manley Hopkins. (8.5/10)
♡ After a Long Illness by Nicholas Christopher. (7/10)
♡ After Dürer by Emily Fragos. (7.5/10)
♡ Spell to Be Said After Illness by Jane Hirshfield. (7/10)
♡ Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Of Many Worlds in This World by John Dryden. (8/10)
♡♡♡ From Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart. (8/10)
♡♡♡ War God's Horse Song, Navajo Native American (words by Tall Kia Ahni, interpreted by Louis Watchman). (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Prayer to Go to Paradise with the Donkeys by Francis Jammes (translated by Richard Wilbur). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ "See Yonder Leafless Trees Against the Sky" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8/10)
♡ Weeds by J.D. McClatchy. (7/10)
♡ The Evening is Tranquil, and Dawn is a Thousand Miles Away by Charles Wright. (6.5/10)
♡♡♡ Eagle Poem by Joy Harjo. (8.5/10)
♡ The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Patience Taught by Nature by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Thyrsis by Matthew Arnold. (8/10)
♡♡♡ The Cricket by Edwin Markham. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling. (8.5/10)
♡ Little Birds of the Night by Stephen Crane. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. (7.5/10)
♡ Ku'u Pua I Paoakalani by Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawaii. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Ode to a Day in the Country by Gary Soto. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Father, We Thank Thee by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (8/10)
♡ Prayer by Maya Angelou. (7.5/10)
♡ Ghanaian Prayer by Anonymous. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Amazing Grace by John Newton. (9/10)
♡♡♡ "Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace by St. Francis of Assisi (translated by anonymous). (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ God's Gardener by Gerard Manley Hopkins. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Psalm 23 by The Holy Bible (King James). (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Tao Te Ching by Laozi (translated by Chungliang Al Huang). (8/10)
♡♡♡ Buddhist Prayer by Venerable Dhammananda Bhikkhuni. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ The Qua'an 1:1-7, translated by Shaykha Halima Krausen. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Shema Koleinu, Jewish Prayer, Day of Atonement (translated by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg). (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ From The Vedas. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ From Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ African Canticle by Anonymous. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Light Shining Out of Darkness by William Cowper. (8/10)
♡ From Holy Sonnets by John Donne. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Miracles by Walt Whitman. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Prayer at Sunrise by James Weldon Johnson. (8.5/10)
♡ "Bent with Worry" by Marina Tsvetaeva (translated by Elaine Feinstein). (7/10)
♡♡♡ Prayer by Langston Hughes. (8/10)
♡♡♡ A Vision by Henry Vaughan. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ "Ample Make This Bed" by Emily Dickinson. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Now May Every Living Thing by The Buddha. (8/10)Thanksgiving by Traditional Iroquois (translated by Harrier Maxwell Converse). (8/10)
♡ At the First Thanksgiving by X.J. Kennedy. (7/10)
♡ What They Ate by Campbell McGrath. (6.5/10)
♡ A Romance for the Wild Turkey by Paul Zimmer. (7/10)
♡♡♡ The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day by Lydia Maria Child. (8/10)
♡ From Two Thanksgiving Poems by Billy Collins. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Point of View by Shel Silverstein. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ Harvest Home by Henry Alford. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Harvest Hymn by John Greenleaf Whittier. (8/10)
♡ Harvest Sunset by Carl Sandburg. (6.6/10)
♡♡♡ The Harvest Moon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. (8/10)
♡♡♡ Farewell to the Farm by Robert Louis Stevenson. (9/10)
♡ Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins. (7/10)
♡♡♡ Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost. (8.5/10)
♡♡♡ To Autumn by John Keats. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Wildtrack by John Wain. (8/10)
♥♥♥ Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg. (7.5/10):
♡♡♡ Howl: For Carl Solomon. (8/10)
♡ A Supermarket in California. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Transcription of Organ Music. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Sunflower Sutra. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ America. (8/10)
♡ In the Baggage Room at Greyhound. (7.5/10)
♡ An Asphodel. (7.5/10)
♡♡♡ Song. (8.5/10)
♡ Wild Orphan. (7.5/10)
♡ In Back of the Real. (7/10)
☼ --> Not only poetry included in compendium, but only poetry listed here.
GRAPHIC NOVELS:
♥ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume 2 by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. (8/10)♧
♥ Sin City: Hell and Back by Frank Miller. (8/10)♧
Series and Sequeled Works:
♥♥♥ Maus, A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman. (8.5/10)
♥ Maus, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman. (9/10)
♧ --> Part of a series, but the only book from it read this year.
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