Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."
Promethea, Vol. 1
Alan Moore
America's Best Comics
isbn 9781563896675
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Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London
Paul S. Seaver
Stanford University Press
isbn 9780804712675
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Patriarchalism in Pol Thought
Gordon J. Schochet
British Autobiography In The Seventeenth Century
Paul Delany
The Abstract: Tales of Wickedness and Sorrow
Goodloe Byron
Brown Paper Publishing
isbn 6444437000000
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Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England
Jonathan Gil Harris
Cambridge University Press
isbn 9780521034685
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Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England
Susanne Scholz
Publics and Counterpublics
Michael Warner
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Lee Edelman
Duke University Press Books
isbn 9780822333692
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In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
J. Jack Halberstam
New York University Press
isbn 9780814735855
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Ali and Nino
Kurban Said
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
Judith Butler
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
José Esteban Muñoz
Univ Of Minnesota Press
isbn 9780816630158
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Post Office
Charles Bukowski
Novo, Vol. 1: The Birth of Novo (Novo #1)
Michael S. Bracco
Up, Up, and Oy Vey! How Jewish History, Culture, and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero
Simcha Weinstein
Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England
David Cressy
Oxford University Press, USA
isbn 9780198207887
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Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing
Alan Moore
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Sigmund Freud
Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil
Mike Mignola
Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm
Bill Willingham
The Ultimates, Volume 1: Super-Human
Mark Millar
The Incredible Hulk: Prelude To Planet Hulk
Daniel Way
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault
Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditions of the Table)
Carlo Petrini
Columbia University Press
isbn 9780231128452
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Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
Neil Gaiman
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
Watchmen
Alan Moore
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
Marcel Proust
I Spit on Your Graves (Vernon Sullivan, #1)
Boris Vian
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing
Charles Papazian
William Morrow Paperbacks
isbn 9780060531058
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
Fourth Estate Paperbacks
isbn 9781841156736
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The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
Marcel Proust
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Max Brooks
Madman Volume 3
Mike Allred
Universe X, Vol. 1 (Earth X 2)
Jim Krueger
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
Superman: Red Son
Mark Millar
Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction
Mike Mignola
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons (Y: The Last Man, #8)
Brian K. Vaughan
Real Food: What to Eat and Why
Nina Planck
Sin City, Vol. 2: A Dame to Kill For (Sin City, #2)
Frank Miller
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7: Paper Dolls (Y: The Last Man, #7)
Brian K. Vaughan
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth (Y: The Last Man, #5)
Brian K. Vaughan
What Is the What
Dave Eggers
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl (Y: The Last Man, #6)
Brian K. Vaughan
How to Be Idle
Tom Hodgkinson
Second Foundation (Foundation #3)
Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire (Foundation #2)
Isaac Asimov
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Isaac Asimov
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword (Y: The Last Man, #4)
Brian K. Vaughan
Concrete, Volume 3: Fragile Creature
Paul Chadwick
A Hero of Our Time
Mikhail Lermontov
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
The War against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
Martin Amis
Two Early Tudor Lives: The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper
George Cavendish
Yale University Press
isbn 9780300002393
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The Aesthetics of Comics
David Carrier
Penn State University Press
isbn 9780271021881
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Black Mane
Michael V. Lariccia
Drawn & Quarterly Showcase: Book One
Chris Oliveros
The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 8: Featuring the Death of Fritz the Cat
Robert Crumb
The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 1: Buddy Does Seattle, 1990-1994
Peter Bagge
The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 1: The Early Years of Bitter Struggle
Robert Crumb
Chaotique #1
Chris Dreyer
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
A Passage to India: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism
Betty Jay
All the Pretty Horses
Cormac McCarthy
Howards End
E.M. Forster
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
The Mother's Recompense
Edith Wharton
The Best American Short Stories 2004
Lorrie Moore
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
Nine Stories
J.D. Salinger
Little, Brown and Company
isbn 9780316767729
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
J.D. Salinger
Cat's Cradle
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier
Cathedral
Raymond Carver
Vintage Contemporaries
isbn 9780679723691
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Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Raymond Carver
Vintage Contemporaries
isbn 9780679722311
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The Painted Drum
Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
isbn 9780060786465
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Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Continental Drift
Russell Banks
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
isbn 9780060854942
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Portrait in Sepia
Isabel Allende
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (NY)
isbn 9780374292799
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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Tom Holland
The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
isbn 9780060935467
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The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom
Animal Farm
George Orwell
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
HarperCollins Publishers
isbn 9780060256654
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
J.K. Rowling
Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Inc.
isbn 9780439064866
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
J.K. Rowling
In the Lake of the Woods
Tim O'Brien
The Toughest Indian in the World
Sherman Alexie
Reservation Blues
Sherman Alexie
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie
Survivor
Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters
Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
W.W. Norton & Company (NYC)
isbn 9780393327342
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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
isbn 9780151009985
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Ignorance
Milan Kundera
Identity
Milan Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
HarperPerennial Modern Classics
isbn 9780060932145
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You Must Remember This
Joyce Carol Oates
Memories of the Ford Administration
John Updike
Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
John Updike
Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom #4)
John Updike
Rabbit Redux (Rabbit Angstrom #2)
John Updike
Random House Trade Paperbacks
isbn 9780449911938
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Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom #1)
John Updike
Hardboiled & Hard Luck
Banana Yoshimoto
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence
American Pastoral (The American Trilogy, #1)
Philip Roth
Bee Season
Myla Goldberg
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984
George Orwell
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
Gregory Maguire
William Morrow Paperbacks
isbn 9780060987107
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Indecision
Benjamin Kunkel
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1)
Daniel Quinn
Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1)
Joseph Heller
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Jurassic Park (Parque Jurásico, #1)
Michael Crichton
DeBolsillo (Argentina)
isbn 9789871138807
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
Tracy Kidder
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Speaker for the Dead (Ender’s Saga, #2)
Orson Scott Card
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
The Lost World (Jurassic Park #2)
Michael Crichton
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
isbn 9780752224411
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Washington Square Press / Pocket Books
isbn 9780671014803
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Franny and Zooey
J.D. Salinger
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
William Gibson
Velocity
Dean Koontz
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
N.P
Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
Madman Adventures Collection
Mike Allred
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step (Y: The Last Man, #3)
Brian K. Vaughan
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles (Y: The Last Man, #2)
Brian K. Vaughan
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned (Y: The Last Man, #1)
Brian K. Vaughan
Sin City, Vol. 1: The Hard Goodbye (Sin City, #1)
Frank Miller
Concrete, Volume 2: Heights
Paul Chadwick
Concrete, Volume 1: Depths
Paul Chadwick
Amphigorey Also (Amphigorey, #3)
Edward Gorey
Bone: The Complete Edition
Jeff Smith