This list might be incomplete. It is tough to tell. I've included books I've re-read this year, and books I'm still working on(listed at the bottom separately). The list is large. Keep in mind I hardly watch TV, and the only movie I remember going to this year was Inception. Each book has a link if you'd like to read more about them/purchase a copy for yourself. I own probably 90 percent of these books, so if you are interested and would like to borrow my copy, let me know. I will soon post my top ten books from the year. The first two books listed below are probably on my top ten books of all time.
The Instructions by Adam Levin
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
The Body Artist: A Novel by Don DeLillo
The Avian Gospels, book 1 by Adam Novy
Columbine by Dave Cullen
The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Joseph Shea
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers
How the Water Feels to the Fishes by Dave Eggers
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lost in the Funhouse by John Barth
Chimera by John Barth
All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost: A Novel by Lan Samantha Chang
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
The King by Donald Barthelme
Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts by Donald Barthelme
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine by Donald Barthelme
Snow White by Donald Barthelme
The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar
The Making of Pink Floyd: The Wall by Gerald Scarfe
Which One's Pink?: An Analysis of Concept Albums of Roger Waters and "Pink Floyd" by Phil Rose
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
2666 by by Roberto Bolaño
Poetry As Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History by Jonathan Franzen
How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky
Love Me, Hate Me by Jeff Pearlman
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis
The Secret Knowledge of Water : There are Two Easy Ways to Die in the Desert: Thirst and Drowning by Craig Childs
Live For A Living by Buddy Wakefield
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (Illustrated Classics): A Graphic Novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) by Stephen King
The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) by Stephen King
Blockade Billy by Stephen King
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by JD Salinger
The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest by Ellen Meloy
Cold Fusion (HOW) by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey
Giraffes? Giraffes! Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton
The Art of Travel by Alain De Botton
The Birth of Tragedy & The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Rolling Nowhere by Ted Conover
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
The Areas of My Expertise by John Hodgman
Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books by Slavoj Zizek
A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez by Selena Roberts
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America by Joe Posnanski
Illuminated Poems by Allen Ginsberg
The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971 by Allen Ginsberg
Reality Sandwiches: 1953-60 by Allen Ginsberg
Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-60 by Allen Ginsberg
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Book of Haikus by Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
Scattered Poems by Jack Kerouac
Mexico City Blues by Jack Kerouac
Pomes All Sizes by Jack Kerouac
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
Riding Toward Everywhere by William T. Vollmann
Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson
Collected Poems by David Markson
The Universe in a SIngle Atom by Dalai Lama
Screwjack by Hunter S. Thompson
The Pharmacist's Mate by Amy Fusselman
Maus I by Art Spiegelman
Be A Nose! by Art Spiegelman
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Wolfgang Von Johann Goethe
Illuminations by Walter Benjamin
Mythologies by Roland Barthes
Rumpus Women, Vol I. Personal Essays by Women of The Rumpus
Deus Ex Machina by Andrew Foster Altschul
Introducing: Wittgenstein by John Heaton
The Future of Human Nature by Jurgen Habermas
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
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I started these books and either didn't finish them or am currently working on them.
The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3) by Stephen King
Bob Dylan In America by Sean Wilentz
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Twenty-Seventh City by Jonathan Franzen
Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward
Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek
Holler if You Hear Me: searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson
The Big If by Mark Costello
Arkansas by John Brandon
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Reality Hunger by David Shields
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Brothers K by David James Duncan
Imperial Bedrooms by Bret Easton Ellis
The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will by David Foster Wallace
Imperial by William T. Vollmann
Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Liar's Club by Mary Karr
Lit by Mary Karr
Decoded by Jay Z
Autobiography of Mark Twain: The Complete and Authoritative Edition, Volume 1 (Mark Twain Papers) by Mark Twain
Woody Guthrie, American Radical by Will Kaufman (this is a galley proof -- the book will be released on 04/04/2011)
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
1 comments:
Art Spiegelman is truly talented. I read both Maus books this year. You read a lot. You need to get out more. :)
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