My Year in books
So here's my book list. Only 39 this year, unlike my 45 last year. ):
My book resolutions are : Read Gravity's Rainbow and write about Reader's Block
(also: screw those lj cuts!)
1. Virtual Light - William Gibson
2. Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
3. Springer's Progress - David Markson
4. The Little Endless Storybook - Jill Thompson
5. The Boy in the Striped Pajams - John Boyne
6. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
7. Tithe: A modern faerie tale - Holly Black
8. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind
9. Epitaph for a Tramp - David Markson
10. The Gunslinger - Stephen King
11. The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid
12. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
13. Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
14. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
15. The Telling - Ursula K. LeGuin
16. Epitaph for a Dead Beat - David Markson
17. The Last Novel - David Markson
18. Wizards - ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
19. Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway - Mike Carey
20. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick
21. Kushiel's Justice - Jacqueline Carey
22. Un Lun Dun - China Mieville
23. Interworld - Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
24. Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff
25. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
27. Timbuktu - Paul Auster
28. Under the Volcano - Malcom Lowry
29. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
30. New Moon - Stephanie Meyer
31. Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
32. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
33. Acacia - David Anthony Durham
34. Lucifer: Children and Monsters - Mike Carey
35. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
36. Lucifer: Dalliance with the Damned - Mike Carey
37. Mister B. Gone - Clive Barker
38. Lucifer: The Divne Comedy - Mike Carey
39. Digging to America - Anne Tyler
So I read a lot of young adult books, graphic novels, and David Markson. All and all a very good year.
My book resolutions are : Read Gravity's Rainbow and write about Reader's Block
(also: screw those lj cuts!)
1. Virtual Light - William Gibson
2. Five Quarters of the Orange - Joanne Harris
3. Springer's Progress - David Markson
4. The Little Endless Storybook - Jill Thompson
5. The Boy in the Striped Pajams - John Boyne
6. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
7. Tithe: A modern faerie tale - Holly Black
8. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer - Patrick Suskind
9. Epitaph for a Tramp - David Markson
10. The Gunslinger - Stephen King
11. The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid
12. The Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
13. Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
14. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
15. The Telling - Ursula K. LeGuin
16. Epitaph for a Dead Beat - David Markson
17. The Last Novel - David Markson
18. Wizards - ed. Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
19. Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway - Mike Carey
20. The Invention of Hugo Cabret - Brian Selznick
21. Kushiel's Justice - Jacqueline Carey
22. Un Lun Dun - China Mieville
23. Interworld - Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
24. Bad Monkeys - Matt Ruff
25. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino
26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
27. Timbuktu - Paul Auster
28. Under the Volcano - Malcom Lowry
29. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
30. New Moon - Stephanie Meyer
31. Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer
32. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
33. Acacia - David Anthony Durham
34. Lucifer: Children and Monsters - Mike Carey
35. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
36. Lucifer: Dalliance with the Damned - Mike Carey
37. Mister B. Gone - Clive Barker
38. Lucifer: The Divne Comedy - Mike Carey
39. Digging to America - Anne Tyler
So I read a lot of young adult books, graphic novels, and David Markson. All and all a very good year.