pages.
[BOOKS]
(since August 2008, as best remembered and in no particular order. For memory purposes since, as in all of the below, I probably forgot something…and then forgot that too. My taste is not reliable as I tend to just pick up stuff. Textbooks and manga are generally discounted.)
+ [on the floor] +
+ [off the floor] +
(* more recommended)
(// the sadly not-so-recommended)
- Matchstick Men - Eric Garcia
- Speaking with the Angel* – various, edited by Nick Hornby
- The Salmon of Doubt* – Douglas Adams
- Saturday* – Ian McEwan
- Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
- Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
- On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
- Solar – Ian McEwan
- Daisy Kutter: The Last Train* – Kazu Kibuishi
- Runaways Vol.1 – Brian K. Vaughn
- Slam – Nick Hornby
- Shakespeare Wrote for Money – Nick Hornby
- Juliet, Naked – Nick Hornby
- About a Boy – Nick Hornby
- Second Chance – Jane Green
- The Beach House – Jane Green
- Mr. Maybe – Jane Green
- Dune Road – Jane Green
- Promises to Keep – Jane Green
- Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
- Life Sucks// – Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria
- Blankets* – Craig Thompson
- Cover Girl – Andrew Cosby, Kevin Church
- Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms – Fumiyo Kouno
- Offroad* - Sean Murphy
- Batgirl: Year One – Scott Beatty, Chuck Dixon
- Batgirl: Destruction’s Daughter – Andersen Gabrych, Pop Mhan
- Shutterbug Follies// - Jason Little
- JLA: Earth 2 – Grant Morrison
- Stardust* – Neil Gaiman
- Psyche in a Dress - Francesca Lia Block
- Astro City: Life in the Big City - Kurt Busiek
- Teen Titans: Year One - Amy Wolfram
- Love and Capes - Thomas F. Zahler
- Tales of Beedle the Bard – J.K. Rowling
- Indivisible by Four * – Arnold Steinhardt
- Violin Dreams* – Arnold Steinhardt
- A Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genius – Dave Eggers
- Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- The Partly Cloudy Patriot - Sarah Vowell
- Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
- The Wordy Shipmates – Sarah Vowell
- The Penelopiad – Margaret Atwood
- Evening – Susan Minot
- Y: The Last Man – Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra
- Scott Pilgrim: Volumes 1-6 – Bryan Lee O’Malley
- Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood * – Marjane Satrapi
- Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return – Marjane Satrapi
- Embroideries – Marjane Satrapi
- Nextwave: Ultimate Collection* – Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – Eric Shanower and Skottie Young, adapted from L. Frank Baum
- Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis
- Me Talk Pretty One Day – David Sedaris
- Swapping Lives – Jane Green
- Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson
- The Song is You – Arthur Phillips
- Pattern Recognition – William Gibson
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay* – Michael Chabon
- Zorro – Isabel Allende
- I am Charlotte Simmons – Tom Wolfe
- The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger
- Kick-Ass – Mark Millar, John Romita Jr.
- The Ultimates, 1 and 2 – Mark Millar, Bryan Hitch
- Michael Chabon presents The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist – Michael Chabon and various
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex – Mary Roach
- The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim – David Sedaris
- A Manual for the Performance Library – Russ Girsberger
- Straight Talking - Jane Green
- Three Spheres: A Life in Music, Business, and Politics - Guenter Henle
- Empire Falls* - Richard Russo
- Another Piece of My Heart - Jane Green
- One Day - David Nicholls
- The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
- A Question of Attraction (Starter for Ten) - David Nicholls
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris
- Demonology – Rick Moody
+ [ frequent revisits] +
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
- Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
- His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- High Fidelity – Nick Hornby
- Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
- A Wrinkle in Time – Madeline L’Engle
- The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
- A Cricket in Times Square - George Selden
- Jemima J – Jane Green
- Prague - Arthur Phillips
- So Long and Thanks for All the Fish – Douglas Adams
- Batman: The Long Halloween – Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale
- The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas, père
- The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
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