Contained within this post is a list of all of the books, magazines, comics, movies, television box sets, and books on tape (and now albums, too!) that I own but have not yet read/watched/listened to.
I am posting this here in order that I may have some public record of these things that may shame me into actually watching, reading, and listening to new things instead of just revisiting the same stories over and over. I will update the list with any new media I acquire and cross off entries move entries to the
Achievement Masterpost as I finish them (or give up on them for good), adding a review if the mood strikes me.
(This post replaces the post from 23 April that I briefly used to keep track of my 2012 Friends of the Library loot as I finished it.)
(This list includes movies and books I have been given over the years that I have had little interest in. Just because it's here doesn't mean it's necessarily something I'm chomping at the bit to read/watch. I'm looking at you, copy of The Pink Panther that the hermana gave me for my birthday years and years ago because it has Kevin Kline.)
(The above parenthetical aside, the vast majority of the books and movies here are things that I am very interested in, so when you inevitably see something listed that you gave to me at some point in the distant past, do not think it's on the list because I have been avoiding it. There are things on here that I spent months tracking down, only to leave them on my bookshelf for four years because other things came up. One of these books has actually been on my bookshelf unread for twenty years. No lie.)
Now that I've gotten all of the disclaimers out of the way, I can post this, and then make some headway on crossing things off the list. (I kind of cheated by putting The Batman: Season 4 on when I knew full well I was going to finish it tonight, but whatevs. It counts.)
Books
100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories - Al Sarrantonio, et al
18th and 19th Century British Drama
The Absolute Sandman Preview - Neil Gaiman, et al
Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies - C.S. Forester
The Adventures of Alyx - Joanna Russ
Again, Dangerous Visions - Harlan Ellison, et al
America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't - Stephen Colbert, et al
American Vampire #1 - Scott Snyder, et al
And Another Thing... - Eoin Colfer
And Chaos Died - Joanna Russ
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Angel: A Hole in the World #4 - Scott Tipton, et al
Angel: Not Fade Away #1-3 - Scott Tipton, et al
Angel: Smile Time #1-3 - Scott Tipton, et al
Anna Karenin - Leo Tolstoy
Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women - Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
Anything Goes - John Barrowman
Apes, Angels, and Victorians: Darwin, Huxley, and Evolution - William Irvine
The Atom #15 - Gardener Fox, et al
The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats - W.B. Yeats
Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise, Part 3 - Gene Luen Yang, Gurihiru, and Michael Heisler
Barack Obama: The Road to the White House - Jeff Mariotte, et al
Batgirl #0 & 13 - Gail Simone, et al
Batgirl vol. 2: Kightfall Descends - Gail Simone, et al
Batman Beyond (1999) #1-3, 6, 21 - Hilary J. Bader, et al
Batman Beyond (2010) #3, 5, 6 - Adam Beechen, et al
Batman Beyond Unlimited #4-11 - Adam Beechen, et al
Baudolino - Umberto Eco
Beethoven's Hair - Russell Martin
Bernard Shaw: A Prose Anthology
Birds of Prey: Between Dark & Dawn - Gail Simone, et al
Black Orchid (1993) #1 - Dick Foreman, et al
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
Bornholm Night-Ferry - Aidan Higgins
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer
Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Journey into Vampire Country and the Dracula Phenomenon - Elizabeth Miller, et al
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Brightonomicon - Robert Rankin
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus, Vol 7 - AJ & Klebs, et al
Bullfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
The Cabin in the Woods Official Visual Companion
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Collected Ghost Stories - M.R. James
Commodore Hornblower - C.S. Forester
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Mark Twain
The Courageous Princess - Rod Espinosa
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dangerous Visions - Harlan Ellison, et al
DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore - Alan Moore, et al
Delicate Burdens Issue Two - Constance
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
A Distant Soil vol II: The Ascendant - Colleen Doran
The Divine Comedy - Dante
Doctor Who, Vol II #1 - Tony Lee, et al
Doctor Who Storybook 2010 - Oli Smith, et al
Dracula: Asylum - Paul Witcover
Dracula: The Un-Dead - Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
Dracula’s Guest & Other Tales of Horror - Bram Stoker
Eastern Approaches - Fitzroy Maclean
Edmund Bertram’s Diary - Amanda Grange
Einstein's Universe - Nigel Calder
Ethan Frome - Edith Warton
Everything that Rises Must Converge - Flannery O’Connor
Ex-Foliations: Reading Machines and the Upgrade Path - Terry Harpold
Fairies - Yoshitaka Amano
Fallen Angel #5, 29-32 - Peter David and J.K. Woodward
Father and Son - Edmund Gosse
A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels, and Other Subversive Spirits - Carol K. Mack and Dinah Mack
A Fine and Private Place - Peter S. Beagle
The Forsyte Saga - John Galsworthy
Foundation - Isaac Asimov
Gargoyles: Clan-Building, Volume 1 - Greg Weisman, et al
Ghost Stories of Henry James - Henry James
Giant Bones - Peter S. Beagle
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
Gothic Short Stories - David Blair, et al
Gulliver’s Travels - Jonathan Swift
The Gunslinger - Stephen King
Harker - Tony Lee, et al
The History of Henry Esmond - William Makepeace Thackeray
How to Be Good - Nick Hornby
How to Read Literature Like a Professor - Thomas C. Foster
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
I, Lucifer - Glen Duncan
I Sing the Body Electric - Ray Bradbury
In a Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu
Interworld - Neil Gaiman and Michael Reaves
John Dies at the End - David Wong
Johnny and the Dead - Terry Pratchett
Journey Through the Impossible - Jules Verne
Juneteenth - Ralph Ellison
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
Keeping Hearth and Home in Old Alabama - Carol Padgett
Lady Audley’s Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Legends of the Brethren Court: The Caribbean - Rob Kidd
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Long Day’s Journey into Night - Eugene O’Neill
Lord Hornblower - C.S. Forester
Magneto #1-4 - Peter Milligan, et al
The Man of Property - John Galsworthy
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
Mapping the World - Michael Swift
Mark Reads Twilight - Mark Oshiro
Mark Twain’s (Burlesque) Autobiography
Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Vol 1 - Art Spiegelman
Melmoth the Wanderer - Charles Robert Maturin
a mercy - Toni Morrison
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works - Jonathan Swift
Monkey Brain Sushi - Alfred Birnbaum, et al
The Museum at Purgatory - Nick Bantock
Mr. Britling Sees It Through - H.G. Wells
The Museum at Purgatory - Nick Bantock
Neil Gaiman and Philosophy: Gods Gone Wild! - Tracy L. Bealer, et al
The New Annotated Dracula - Bram Stoker and Leslie S. Klinger
The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai - Matthew Meyer
No Future - Paul Cornell
The Old Curiosity Shop - Charles Dickens
On Time: How America Has Learned to Live by the Clock - Carlene E. Stephens
One Way or Another - Leonardo Sciascia
The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Pagan’s Nightmare - Ray Blackston
Paradiso Diaspora - John Yau
The Parasites - Daphne du Maurier
Perdido Street Station - China Miéville
Peter and the Secret of Rundoon - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Peter and the Shadow Thieves - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
The Phantom Stranger #1 - Paul Kupperberg, et al
The Portable Dorothy Parker
The Portable Steinbeck
Posthumous Keats - Stanley Plumly
The Power of the Atom #1-18 - Roger Stern, et al
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
The Professor - Charlotte Brontë
The Professor and the Madman : A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary - Simon Winchester
Quicksand - Nella Larsen
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
The Red Pony - John Steinbeck
Romola - George Eliot
Salt - Betsy Rossen Elliot
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Science Fair - Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
The Seven Golden Keys - Lev Grossman
Shadows in the Asylum: The Case Files of Dr. Charles Marsh - D.A. Stern
Sherlock's Home: The Empty House - Pamela Bodziock, et al
S.H.I.E.L.D. - Jonathan Hickman, et al
Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know (Instructions for Life from the Everyday to the Exotic) - Derek Fagerstrom, Lauren Smith, & the Show Me Team
Stories - Neil Gaiman, et al
Thomas Hardy - Claire Tomalin
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Torchwood: The Official Comic #6 - Gary Russell, et al
The Town that Forgot How to Breathe - Kenneth J. Harvey
The Truth of Buffy: Essays on Fiction Illuminating Reality - Emily Dial-Driver, et al
The Two of Them - Joanna Russ
Undici Novelle - Luigi Pirandello
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural - Barbara H. Solomon, et al
Van Gogh - Tamsin Pickeral
Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Violent Bear it Away - Flannery O’Connor
The Vintage Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction - Peter Kravitz, et al
Vintage Vampire Stories - Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Richard Dalby, ed
The Virtual Window - Anne Friedberg
The Voice at the Back Door - Elizabeth Spencer
Voices from the Street - Philip K. Dick
Walden and Other Writings - Henry David Thoreau
The Warden - Anthony Trollope
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew - Daniel Pool
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire
Wild Seed - Octavia E. Butler
Wise Blood - Flannery O’Connor
Wizards - Jack Dann, et al
Womanthology: Heroic
The Woman Who Wouldn't - Gene Wilder
Wonder Woman: Rise of the Olympian - Gail Simone, et al
X-Factor #13-18 - Peter David, et al
Y: The Last Man: Unmanned - Brian K. Vaughan, et al
Magazines (I am so pathetic…I can't even read magazines in a timely manner)
Doctor Who Insider Issue 3
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 432
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 434
Doctor Who Magazine Issue 436
Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition: In Their Own Words Volume 6
Entertainment Weekly #1171/1172
Fantasy & Science Fiction January 2005
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1983
Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 1983
Sci-Fi June 2011
SFX Summer 2011
Torchwood: The Official Magazine #25
TV Guide Dec 5-18, 2011
Books on tape/Radio Plays
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents - Terry Pratchett
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary Edition - Neil Gaiman
The Autobiography of Black Hawk
Carnival of Souls - Melissa Marr
Carpe Jugulum - Terry Pratchett
Casino Royale Rifftrax
The Classic Hundred Poems - Willaim Harmon, ed
Cold Days - Jim Butcher
Daemon - Daniel Suarez
Death's Daughter - Amber Benson
The Fifth Elephant - Terry Pratchett
Fuzzy Nation - John Scalzi
Glory - Vladamir Nabokov
Going Postal - Terry Pratchett
A Hat Full of Sky - Terry Pratchett
Hogfather - Terry Pratchett
Human Resources
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Interlopers - Alan Dean Foster
Jingo - Terry Pratchett
The Last Continent - Terry Pratchett
The Last Hero - Terry Pratchett
Listening Is an Act of Love - Dave Isay
Making Money - Terry Pratchett
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Night Watch - Terry Pratchett
No More Lies
Phobos
Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Plague Herds of Excelis
Reamde - Neal Stephenson
The Shadow: "The Cat That Killed"
The Shadow: "Death Rides High"
The Shadow: "Ghost Town"
The Shadow: "The Shadow Returns"
Sherlock Holmes: "The Adventure of the Retired Colourman"
Sherlock Holmes: "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
Sherlock Holmes: "The Great Gandolfo"
Sherlock Holmes: "The Manor House Case"
Sherlock Holmes: "Murder By Moonlight"
The Speckled Band
Star Trek VI Rifftrax
Thief of Time - Terry Pratchett
Thud! - Terry Pratchett
The Truth - Terry Pratchett
Unseen Academicals - Terry Pratchett
The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett
Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
The Word Lord
Albums
Animal Vehicle - The Axis of Awesome
The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
The Atlantic Recordings - Marc Broussard
B-Sider - Ghost of the Robot
Brave - Patrick Doyle
Cake and Pie - Lisa Loeb
An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer Disc 3
Exile on Mainstream - Matchbox
Twenty
Folklore - Nelly Furtado
How I Met Your Music - HIMYM cast
Invisible Inc. - Watsky
Mad Brilliant - Ghost of the Robot
Meczup - Can Bonomo
Next Big Nashville Presents Soundland
Next to Normal - Original Broadway Cast
Noisetrade Sampler - The Damnwells
Peter Pan, 6 Years On - Tom Dickins
The Pirates of Penzance
Prometheus Brown and Bambu Walk into a Bar
Radio Music Society - Esperanza Spalding
several attempts to cover songs by The Velvet Underground & Lou Reed (and some other stuff) for Neil Gaiman as his birthday approaches - Amanda Palmer
Sing Out Loud - Soluna Samay
Somewhere Under the Rainbow - The Jane Austen Argument
The Sound of the Life of the Mind - Ben Folds Five
The Space Tour - Team StarKid
storyboards - Sleeping at Last
Thanks for the Ether - Rasputina
Tsuyako Soundtrack
The Ultimate Collection - Zeljko Joksimovic
Undun - The Roots
What the Crow Brings - The Low Anthem
Wicked - Original Broadway Cast
Movies
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1953)
Anna Karenina (1948)
Avatar (2009)
Aziz Ansari: Dangerously Delicious (2012)
Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
Blackmail (1929)
Capote (2005)
Champagne (1928)
The Colour of Magic (2008)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1952)
The Core (2003)
Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
David Copperfield (1970)
Day Watch (2006)
De-Lovely (2004)
Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest (2008)
Easy Virtue (1926)
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Emma (1996)
The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011)
Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown (1997)
Holiday (1938)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000)
An Ideal Husband (1999)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Jane Eyre (1971)
The Jungle Book (1942)
Juno and the Paycock (1930)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Legend of the Sea Wolf (1975)
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
Little Men (1940)
A Little Princess (1995)
The Lodger (1926)
Macbeth (1961)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
A Month By the Lake (1995)
Much Ado About Nothing (2011)
Murder at the Baskervilles (1937)
My Life So Far (1999)
Number Seventeen (1932)
Of Human Bondage (1934)
Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)
The Pink Panther (2006)
The Pirates of Penzance (2007)
Restoration (1995)
The Ring (1927)
The Royal Scandal (2001)
Sabotage (1936)
The Scorpion King (2002)
Secret Agent (1936)
Shackleton (2002)
Sharpe’s Mission (1996)
Sharpe’s Regiment (1996)
Sharpe’s Siege (1996)
Short Circuit (1986)
The Sign of Four (1932)
The Skin Game (1931)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
The Stand (1994)
Sweet Revenge (1998)
Swing Kids (1993)
Tale of Two Cities (1953)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935)
Tom & Viv (1994)
The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
Tsuyako (2011)
Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
The Woman in Green (1945)
Young and Innocent (1937)
Television seasons
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1954)
All Creatures Great and Small: Season 4
All Creatures Great and Small: Season 5
All Creatures Great and Small: Season 6
All Creatures Great and Small: Season 7
Animaniacs, vol 3
The Avengers: Season 1
The Avengers: Season 2
The Avengers: Season 3
The Avengers: Season 4
The Avengers: Season 5
The Avengers: Season 6
Babylon 5: Season 1
Batman: The Animated Series, Volume 1
Batman: The Animated Series, Volume 3
Birds of Prey
Castle: Season 1
Count Duckula: Season 1
Count Duckula: Season 2
Count Duckula: Season 3
Count Duckula: Season 4
Doctor Who: Series 6
Golden Girls: Season 4
Golden Girls: Season 5
Golden Girls: Season 6
Golden Girls: Season 7
InuYasha Season Two
InuYasha Season Three
Jeeves & Wooster
The New Avengers
The Pirates of Dark Water
Reboot: Season 1
Reboot: Season 2
Reboot: Season 3
Reboot: Season 4
Roseanne: Season 1
Roseanne: Season 2
Roseanne: Season 3
Roseanne: Season 4
The Sarah Jane Adventures: Series 3
The Sarah Jane Adventures: Series 4
Star Trek: Season 2
Star Trek: Season 3
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 1
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 2
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 3
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 4
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 5
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 6
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 7
Star Trek: Voyager: Season 1
Studio 60
Superman: The Animated Series Season 2
The West Wing: Season 2
The West Wing: Season 3
The West Wing: Season 4
The West Wing: Season 5
The West Wing: Season 6
The West Wing: Season 7
The Wire: Season 1
The Wire: Season 2
The Wire: Season 3
The Wire: Season 4
The Wire: Season 5
World's Worst Musical
Oh, jeeze, I bought more books today. Watch me ruin my whole thing. (2 May 2012)
In cleaning my room, I have found a few more things that I had completely forgotten about, and I realized just how many albums I have bought that I haven't listened to all the way through and threw them on the list, too. (27 May 2012)
I hit the maximum data capacity on this post this evening, so instead of crossing things off this list, I will now be moving completed entries to the
Achievement Masterpost. OMG, this is ridiculous. (23 July 2012)