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
Wallington's World: A Puritan Artisan in Seventeenth-Century London
Paul S. Seaver
Patriarchalism in Pol Thought
Gordon J. Schochet
British Autobiography In The Seventeenth Century
Paul Delany
The Abstract: Tales of Wickedness and Sorrow
Goodloe Byron
Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England
Jonathan Gil Harris
Made me think about:
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Body Narratives: Writing the Nation and Fashioning the Subject in Early Modern England
Susanne Scholz
Publics and Counterpublics
Michael Warner
Made me think about:
- Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Lee Edelman
Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
J. Jack Halberstam
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
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
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
Made me think about:
- Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond Productivity Culture
Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
Neil Gaiman
Made me think about:
- The Crow
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
Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
I Spit on Your Graves (Vernon Sullivan, #1)
Boris Vian
Made me think about:
- The Crow
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Frank Miller
The Complete Joy of Homebrewing
Charles Papazian
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
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
Made me think about:
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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
Made me think about:
- Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
- Death and the Penguin
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
The Aesthetics of Comics
David Carrier
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
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
Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
Raymond Carver
The Painted Drum
Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine
Louise Erdrich
Tender is the Night
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Continental Drift
Russell Banks
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
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Tom Holland
The French Lieutenant's Woman
John Fowles
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom
Animal Farm
George Orwell
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
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
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
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Ignorance
Milan Kundera
Identity
Milan Kundera
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
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
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
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
Anthem
Ayn Rand
Made me think about:
- Lady Chatterley's Lover & A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover
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
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
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
Made me think about:
- The Crow
Concrete, Volume 2: Heights
Paul Chadwick
Concrete, Volume 1: Depths
Paul Chadwick
Amphigorey Also (Amphigorey, #3)
Edward Gorey
Bone: The Complete Edition
Jeff Smith