2008 Reading List
Every year my goal is to read at least fifty-two books, the majority of them novels and new to me (with a few favourites thrown in for good measure).
* – indicates books I highly recommend (whether for great stories, great writing, or both).
** – indicates books read for research.
- Joseph Weisberg, An Ordinary Spy
- George Alec Effinger, When Gravity Fails
- Charles McCarry, Old Boys
- Iain M Banks, The State of the Art
- Paul Verhaeghen, Omega Minor
- John Banville, The Untouchable *
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Stamping Butterflies
- Richard Flanagan, The Unknown Terrorist
- Graham Greene, The Quiet American *
- Storm Constantine, Wraeththu (The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit)
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow *
- Justina Robson, Silver Screen
- Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds *
- Christopher Priest, The Separation *
- Charles McCarry, The Better Angels *
- John Crowley, The Solitudes *
- John Crowley, Love & Sleep *
- Richard Bausch, Peace *
- John Crowley, Little, Big *
- Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe *
- Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan *
- Philip K Dick, VALIS *
- Bryan Talbot, Alice in Sunderland *
- Joseph Heller, Catch-22 *
- Terry Southern, Blue Movie
- Matthew Brennan, Brennan’s War
- Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers *
- Jerzy Kosinski, Blind Date
- Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Fables Volume 10: The Good Prince *
- Graham Greene, Orient Express *
- John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer *
- M John Harrison, Light *
- David Mitchell, Black Swan Green *
- Cameron Crowe, Fast Times at Ridgemont High *
- Rick Moody, The Ice Storm
- Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle *
- John Crowley, Dæmonomania *
- James Wood, How Fiction Works *
- Christopher Priest, Inverted World *
- Steph Swainston, Dangerous Offspring
- Jonathan Coe, The Rotters’ Club *
- Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions *
- José Saramago, Blindness *
- Alan Moore, Kevin O’Neill, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
- Malachi Martin, The Jesuits **
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, Zoran Janjetov, Mœbius, The Incal (Orphan of the City Shaft; John Difool, Class “R” Detective; The Epic Conspiracy; The Epic Journey) *
- Neal Stephenson, Anathem
- Jonathan Ames, Dean Haspiel, The Alcoholic *
- Arvid Nelson, EricJ, Jeromy Cox, Rex Mundi Book One: The Guardian of the Temple
- Robert Littell, The Company
- Don DeLillo, Falling Man
- John Crowley, Endless Things *
- Richard Yates, A Good School *
- Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
- Roberto Bolaño, 2666 *
- Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Fables Volume 11: War and Pieces *
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot *
- Mary McCarthy, Cannibals and Missionaries
- AB Yehoshua, A Woman in Jerusalem *
- Victor Serge, Unforgiving Years *
- John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues