2008 Reading List

My yearly goal is to read at least fifty-two books . . . some old, some new . . . some for the first time, some for the nth time . . . some good, some not so much.

  1. Joseph Weisberg, An Ordinary Spy
  2. George Alec Effinger, When Gravity Fails
  3. Charles McCarry, Old Boys
  4. Iain M Banks, The State of the Art
  5. Paul Verhaeghen, Omega Minor
  6. John Banville, The Untouchable
  7. Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Stamping Butterflies
  8. Richard Flanagan, The Unknown Terrorist
  9. Graham Greene, The Quiet American
  10. Storm Constantine, Wraeththu (The Enchantments of Flesh and Spirit)
  11. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
  12. Justina Robson, Silver Screen
  13. Flann O’Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
  14. Christopher Priest, The Separation
  15. Charles McCarry, The Better Angels
  16. John Crowley, The Solitudes
  17. John Crowley, Love & Sleep
  18. Richard Bausch, Peace
  19. John Crowley, Little, Big
  20. Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe
  21. Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
  22. Philip K Dick, VALIS
  23. Bryan Talbot, Alice in Sunderland
  24. Joseph Heller, Catch-22
  25. Terry Southern, Blue Movie
  26. Matthew Brennan, Brennan’s War
  27. Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers
  28. Jerzy Kosinski, Blind Date
  29. Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Fables Volume 10: The Good Prince
  30. Graham Greene, Orient Express
  31. John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer
  32. M John Harrison, Light
  33. David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
  34. Cameron Crowe, Fast Times at Ridgemont High
  35. Rick Moody, The Ice Storm
  36. Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  37. John Crowley, Dæmonomania
  38. James Wood, How Fiction Works
  39. Christopher Priest, Inverted World
  40. Steph Swainston, Dangerous Offspring
  41. Jonathan Coe, The Rotters’ Club
  42. Hari Kunzru, My Revolutions
  43. José Saramago, Blindness
  44. Alan Moore, Kevin O’Neill, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
  45. Malachi Martin, The Jesuits
  46. Alejandro Jodorowsky, Zoran Janjetov, Mœbius, The Incal (Orphan of the City Shaft; John Difool, Class “R” Detective; The Epic Conspiracy; The Epic Journey)
  47. Neal Stephenson, Anathem
  48. Jonathan Ames, Dean Haspiel, The Alcoholic
  49. Arvid Nelson, EricJ, Jeromy Cox, Rex Mundi Book One: The Guardian of the Temple
  50. Robert Littell, The Company
  51. Don DeLillo, Falling Man
  52. John Crowley, Endless Things
  53. Richard Yates, A Good School
  54. Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate
  55. Roberto Bolaño, 2666
  56. Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Fables Volume 11: War and Pieces
  57. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
  58. Mary McCarthy, Cannibals and Missionaries
  59. AB Yehoshua, A Woman in Jerusalem
  60. Victor Serge, Unforgiving Years
  61. John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues