Books I've read this year

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This is not quite a full list, as I've only started keeping track since April 13th, but I think it'll be interesting to keep tabs on what I manage to make my way through. I re-read often, particularly if I liked a book. The first re-read of a book for the year is noted with (R); subsequent re-reads are ignored.

Fiction/Non-Fiction/Short Story Collections
Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones (R)
As Meat Loves Salt - Maria McCann
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
Cell - Stephen King
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
Stalking Darkness - Lynn Flewelling
Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling
(note: I really disliked The Nightrunner Series. Like, REALLY.)
On Writing - Stephen King (R)
Castle in the Sky - Diana Wynne Jones
A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
Kirith Kirin - Jim Grimsley
The Ordinary - Jim Grimsley
Comfort & Joy - Jim Grimsley
Anno Dracula - Kim Newman
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Dragon's Winter - Elizabeth A. Lynn
The Store - Bentley Little
Storm Front - Jim Butcher
Fool Moon - Jim Butcher
Assasination Vacation - Sarah Vowell*
Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
Summer Knight - Jim Butcher
Death Masks - Jim Butcher
Blood Rites - Jim Butcher
Dead Beat - Jim Butcher
Proven Guilty - Jim Butcher
World War Z - Max Brooks

Plays
Wit - Margaret Edson
Angels in America: Millenium Approaches - Tony Kushner (R)
Angels in America: Perestroika - Tony Kushner (R)


Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels
Powers:SuperGroup - Brian Michael Bendis
Stardust - Neil Gaiman (artist Charles Vess)
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman
Sandman: The Dream Hunters - Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano
Powers: The Sellouts - Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
Lucifer: Exodus - Mike Carey and artists (various)
Lucifer: The Wolf Beneath the Tree - Mike Carey and artists (various)
Tom Strong, Book Four - Alan Moore, et al.
Powers: Little Deaths - Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
Powers: Anarchy - Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
Powers: Legends - Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
Secret Identity - Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen

The "Meh, Maybe I'll Get Around to Finishing It Eventually" List
An Arrow's Flight - Mark Merlis
Nightswimmer - Joseph Olshan
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst

Comments

[alicetheowl.livejournal.com]

I, too, have read Howl's Moving Castle and Cell. I read Howl's last year, though. I did buy myself a copy so I could read it again.

What'd you think of Cell?

[1x2foralways.livejournal.com]

I, sadly, have not read any of those books, although I've been meaning to read Cell, but I always either forget, or something else comes up. Hehe.

May I make a suggestion about a book? Anthony Rapp's book about his experience in RENT, as well as other points in his life, is definitely worth it. It's very emotional, and very well-written. He has an awesome way with words. (:

[lanaya1980.livejournal.com]

Is Atonement any good? The only Ian McEwan book I've read so far is Saturday.

[juanitadark.livejournal.com]

Atonement is on my very long 'To Read' list.

Btw, Erik Larsen? As in Spiderman penciller Erik Larsen?

[twoworldsin1.livejournal.com]

Atonement's a pretty good one; I read it (or at least part of it) in my British Novel class last year. But then again, I like pretentious snobby Literature major-type novels like that.

Have you read all of the Sandman books? I'm on The Wake right now. The Sandman is an amazing series of comics, I love it. I've been wanting for a while to write in some sort of encounter with the Endless into the Ariel comics. I know it isn't Marvel but I'll make an exception in this case, since they're not strictly DC either.

[doingsoso.livejournal.com]

I just reread Crystal Singer(trilogy) by Anne McCaffrey, and I'm folowing up with Swan Song by Robert McCammon..

Swan Song is similar to The Stand but it has more character..he's also got a book about zombie natzies from a submarine, I have it somewhere around here, and I have to get around to reading it..sigh. It was OOP when I bought it on eBay:) So many books, so little time:)