Boring personal reading habits 2k12

Here is the list of books I completed in 2012. I only read 56 books this year versus 70 last year. However, I'm unsure how to count the graphic novels and comics I've read. (I've read so many in part, as I said last year, because I'm working on a graphic novel with John Dermot Woods). I've tried to go for the largest collection there is, but that's led me to include massive hundred issue trade paperbacks alongside single issues. Okay, this is pretty irrelevant. I'm going to separate the graphic novels from text works though, leaving me with 31 text books and 25   art and text books. * means I've read the book before.



BOOKS:

1.      The Shadow of the Torturer – Gene Wolfe

2.      The Claw of the Conciliator – Gene Wolfe

3.      The Sword of the Lictor – Gene Wolfe

4.      The Colour Out of Space (and other stories) – H. P. Lovecraft*

5.      Othello – William Shakespeare*

6.      Meat Heart – Melissa Broder

7.      NOON 2012

8.      On Bullshit – Harry Frankfurt

9.      Windeye – Brian Evenson

10.  Flatscreen – Adam Wilson

11.  Immobility – Brian Evenson

12.  Peru – Gordon Lish

13.  The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector*

14.  A Storm of Swords – George R. R. Martin

15.  A Feast for Crows – George R. R. Martin

16.  A Dance with Dragons – George R. R. Martin

17.  The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien

18.  Camera Lucida – Roland Barthes

19.  Road-Side Dog – Milosz

20.  Nine Months – Paula Bomer

21.  The Journalist and the Murderer – Janet Malcolm

22.  The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira – Cesar Aira

23.  The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde*

24.  By Night in Chile – Roberto Bolano

25.  Was This Man a Genius? – Julie Hecht

26.  The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler*

27.  Motorman – David Ohle

28.  Exercises in Style – Robert Queneau

29.  Vicky Swanky is a Beauty – Diane Williams

30.  T Zero – Italo Calivino

31.  End Zone – Don DeLillo

Favorites:
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien 
 Windeye – Brian Evenson (which I reviewed for Bookforum)
The Journalist and the Murderer – Janet Malcolm 

Although I also really loved the DeLillo, the Diane Williams, the Roberto Bolano, the Gordon Lish, and was thrilled to read my good friend Adam Wilson's debut novel. Lots of good stuff this year!

Stats: 17 novels, 6 collections/lit mags, 4 works of non-fiction, 2 books of poetry, and 2 plays.

COMICS:

1.      Lose #2 – Michael Deforge

2.      Lose #3 – Michael Deforge

3.      The Book of Human Insects – Osamu Tezuka

4.      Ants Have Sex in Your Beer – David Shirgley

5.      Asterios Polyp – David Mazzucchelli

6.      I Want You #2 – Lisa Hanawalt

7.      Stay Away From Other People – Lisa Hanawalt

8.      Skyscrapers of the Midwest – Joshua Cotter

9.      Action Philosophers! – Fred Van Lente, Ryan Dunlavey

10.  Top 10 Volume 1 – Alan Moore, et al

11.  Top 10 Volume 2 – Alan Moore, et al

12.  Bone #1: Out from Boneville – Jeff Smith

13.  Smax – Alan Moore, et al

14.  Miracleman, Vol 1: A Dream of Flying – Alan Moore, et al

15.  Miracleman, Vol 1: The Red King – Alan Moore, et al

16.  Miracleman, Vol 3: Olympus – Alan Moore, et al

17.  Fight or Run! – Kevin Huizenga

18.  My Boy – Olivier Schrauwen

19.  King City – Brandon Graham

20.  I Killed Adolf Hitler – Jason*

21.  Ultimate X-Men Volumes 1-9

22.  Ultimatum

23.  Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? – Alan Moore

24.  Both – Tom Gauld and Simone Lia

25.  Forming – Jesse Moynihan

Favorites:
The various works from Jesse Moynihan (I reviewed Forming for The Rumpus), Lisa Hanawalt, Michael Deforge, and Alan Moore.