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2012 Reading List

I want to keep track of what I read for a year, because I really never know how many books it is. I meant to do this last year but forgot somewhere along the way. If you didn’t know I’ve been writing about the books I’m reading over on my second twitter account. I post there on average once a week, I think, in a short burst of tweets.

My books will be broken into 4 different groups: comics, novels, non fiction, other. In a similar fashion as my Watching list I’ll be denoting different things here. New read will be in plain text Re-read as bolded text Unfinished as of New Years Eve will be in italicized text. What’s fun and irritating about this one is I read multiple books at once so I’ll try to include a starting date and completion date, the twitter feed should make that a bit easier.

This should document most of the books I read for the year, text book readings won’t count, nor will short stories unless I read the entire anthology.

Comics

1) The Sixth Gun 1

2) Plastic Man, Jack Cole et others

3) Static Shock: The Rebirth of Cool

4) The Boys TPB 9 - Ennis and crew

5) The Quitter - Harvey Pekar and Dean Haspiel

6) Myspace Dark Horse Presents vol 6

7) Locke & Key vol 1

8) The Sixth gun vol 2

9) In The Shadow of No Towers - Art Spiegleman

10) Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@*?! - Art Spigeleman

11) Bottomless Belly Button

12) The Complete Collection of R. Crumb vol 12

13) The Boys vol 10

14) Hopeless Savages Greatest Hits

15) Stumptown THC 1

16) American Splendor

17) Johnny Wander vol 2 - Ananth and Yuko

18) The Chronicles of Wormwood - Garth Ennis

19) Lost at Sea - Bryan Lee O’Malley

20) Locke & Key 2-4

21) The Boys tpb 11

22) Chester 500 XYV

23) King City - Cat Master —

24) Blacksad Dark Horse collection 1 

25) Blacksad: Silence of Hell

26) Superman: Birthright

26) Atomic Robo 6 (1-6)

27) Cow Boy

28) Tale of Sand- Jim Henson, John Jhul, Ramon Perez

29) TeenBoat - John Green and Dave…?

30) Rice Boy - Evan Dahm

31) Christopher - Christopher Williams

32) Boxer Hockey 1 and 2 - Tyson Hesse

33) Little Guardians 1

34) Octopus Pie: No Stars in Brooklyn

35) Escaping “Special” - Missy Lasko-Gross

36) Alias the Cat: Kim Deitch

37) Atomic Robo (Again) 1-6

38) American Elf - James Kolchaka

39) Azumanga Daioh vol 3 &4

Novels

1) American Psycho, Bret Ellis - Nove 2011-Feb 2012

2) Big Fish - Jan 2012-March 2012

3) The Fault in Out Stars, John Green Jan 2012

4) Breakfast At Tiffany’s, Truman Capote - Feb 2012 (~3-4 days)

5) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy, Jon Le Carre - Feb 2012-

6) Sabriel, Garth Nix - March

7) Lireal, Garth Nix -March

8) Abhorsen, Garth Nix - April

9) Across the Wall and Other Tales - Garth Nix - April

10) American Gods, Neil Gaiman (April -

11) Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides - April -

12) The Hunger Games - May

13) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol

14) Catching Fire - May

15) Mockingjay - November?

16) Feed, MT Anderson - December

Non Fiction

1) Serpico, Peter Maas - Jan 2012 -

2) Down and Dirty Pictures: Rise of Independent Film July 2011-

3) Meta Maus, Art Speigleman and Hillary Chute w/ Pantheon Jan 2012-Feb 2012

4) Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry - Feb 2012 (3-4 days)

5) Stephen Fry in America, Stephen Fry - late spring

6)The Fry Chronicles, Stephen Fry - late spring

7) Never Stop Shutting Up - Mike Falzone - august

8) Just A Geek - Wil Wheaton - August

9) Sex at Dawn - Summer through fall

10) Sleepwalk with Me: Mike Birbiglia - Sept

11) The Big Rewind: Nathan Rabin - Sept - Oct

12) The Jerusalem Syndrome: Marc Maron - October

13) How To Be Black - Baratunde Thurston -November

14) Nerd Do Well - Simon Pegg

Other

1) Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman

2) The Tiny Book of Stories, Hit reCORD - RegularJoe

3) hit reCORD RECollections vol 1 - RegularJoe

4) Dean Haspiel: The Early Years (It’s comics and prose, so it goes under Other)

5) The Collected Plays of Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermere’s Fan Salome The Importance of Being Ernest

6) Bruce Nauman: 100 Fish Sculpture

7) 30 Americans gallery book

8) Dorkismo: The Macho of the Dork (May -

9) The Dalek Handbook Feb - June (picked it up in earnest in June)

10) The Nerdist Way - June - July (3 weeks)

11) How to Archer: Sterling Archer - july

12) The War of Art:

13) Dress York Family in Corduroy and Denim: David Sedaris  - August

Audiobooks?

Do these count?

1) Bossypants

2) How to Be Black

So many books! I finished 69 books (ish - the comic series i recorded some combined and some on their own so they throw off the number a little)

Fun is between this and my movie list, you can see when I stopped doing many things for entertainment because I was too busy with school and working on comics. I wonder how many books I’ll finish this year, starting the year with a fresh slate and no plans presents its own challenges, I have no expectations on where I’m going to end up in December, unlike last year where my year long goal was graduation.

Happy New Year and happy reading!