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2010 Reading List grand finale (plus lists from the past)
2010 Reading List Total:
1. "The Devil: Perceptions of Evil From Antiquity to Primitive Christianity" (Jeffrey Burton Russell) 1/1/10 2. "V." (Thomas Pynchon) 1/11/10 3. "Naked Lunch: The 50th Anniversary Edition" (William S. Burroughs) 1/16/10 * 4. "Hollywood Babylon" (Kenneth Anger) 1/19/10 5. "T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism" (Hakim Bey) 1/29/10 6. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (Lewis Carroll/Camille Rose Garcia) 2/1/10 * 7. "Impossible Princess" (Kevin Killian) 2/7/10 8. "Satan and the Early Christian Tradition" (Jeffrey Burton Russell) 2/19/10 9. "Child of God" (Cormac McCarthy) 2/23/10 10. "The Origin of Satan" (Elaine Pagels) 2/27/10 11. "The History of Hell" (Alice K. Turner) 3/2/10 12. "Blood Meridian: or the Evening Redness of the West" (Cormac McCarthy) 3/13/10 13. "Good Girls Don't" (J.M. Cosentino) 3/14/10 14. "Tongues Tied to Anchors" (Laurence Wilhelm Lillvik) 3/20/10 15. "No Country for Old Men" (Cormac McCarthy) 3/22/10 16. "The Road" (Cormac McCarthy) 3/26/10 17. "Grimoire" (James Champagne) 3/30/10 * 18. "Despair" (Vladimir Nabokov) 4/7/10 19. "Invitation to a Beheading" (Vladimir Nabokov) 4/13/10 20. "Port of Saints" (William S. Burroughs) 4/18/10 21. "Maldoror" (Comte de Lautreamont) 4/23/10 * 22. "Turmoil in the Toybox" (Phil Phillips) 4/25/10 23. "Mere Christianity" (C.S. Lewis) 4/29/10 24. "The New Testament" (various) 5/2/10 25. "The Abolition of Man" (C.S. Lewis) 5/3/10 26. "The Great Divorce" (C.S. Lewis) 5/9/10 27. "A Grief Observed" (C.S. Lewis) 5/10/10 28. "Lolita" (Vladimir Nabokov) 5/15/10 29. "The Screwtape Letters"/"Screwtape Proposes a Toast" (C.S. Lewis) 5/15/10 30. "Wittgenstein's Nephew" (Thomas Bernhard) 5/19/10 31. "Pnin" (Vladimir Nabokov) 5/20/10 32. "Death Sentence" (Maurice Blanchot) 5/22/10 33. "Less Than Zero" (Bret Easton Ellis) 5/26/10 * 34. "American Psycho" (Bret Easton Ellis) 6/3/10 * 35. "Psycho" (Robert Bloch) 6/4/10 36. "Moonchild" (Aleister Crowley) 6/12/10 * 37. "The Book of the Law" (Aleister Crowley) 6/13/10 * 38. "Imperial Bedrooms" (Bret Easton Ellis) 6/17/10 39. "Coma" (Pierre Guyotat) 6/22/10 40. "Pale Fire" (Vladimir Nabokov) 6/30/10 41. "The Conspiracy Against the Human Race" (Thomas Ligotti) 7/11/10 42. "Smothered in Hugs" (Dennis Cooper) 7/12/10 43. "Tao Te Ching" (Lao Tzu) 7/14/10 44. "Necronomicon" (Simon) 7/19/10 * 45. "The Naked Civil Servant" (Quentin Crisp) 7/20/10 46. "The Hellbound Heart" (Clive Barker) 7/24/10 47. "Books of Blood Volume I" (Clive Barker) 8/3/10 48. "Closer" (Dennis Cooper) 8/8/10 * 49. "Kwaidan: Japanese Ghost Stories" (Lafcadio Hearn) 8/8/10 50. "Bruges-la-Morte" (Georges Rodenbach) 8/10/10 51. "Frisk" (Dennis Cooper) 8/11/10 * 52. "Try" (Dennis Cooper) 8/15/10 * 53. "Guide" (Dennis Cooper) 8/19/10 * 54. "Period" (Dennis Cooper) 8/21/10 * 55. "Scorch Atlas" (Blake Butler) 8/22/10 56. "Crash" (J.G. Ballard) 8/29/10 57. "The Curse of the Blue Figurine" (John Bellairs) 9/7/10 * 58. "Brother Curwen, Brother Crowley: a Correspondence" (Aleister Crowley/David Curwen) 9/8/10 59. "American Campgrounds" (Philip Best/Peter Sotos) 9/9/10 60. "The Cathedral" (J.K. Huysmans) 9/25/10 61. "The Malady of Death" (Marguerite Duras) 9/25/10 62. "Recollections of the Golden Triangle" (Alain Robbe-Grillet) 9/25/10 63. "Imperial Bedrooms" (Bret Easton Ellis) 9/28/10 * 64. "At the Feet of the Guru" (Kenneth Grant) 10/2/10 * 65. "Hidden Lore" (Kenneth & Steffi Grant) 10/3/10 66. "Songs of a Dead Dreamer" (THomas Ligotti) 10/5/10 * 67. "Obsessions" (Joseph Mills) 10/9/10 * 68. "Soluble Fish" (Andre Breton) 10/11/10 69. "The Upanishads" (translator: Eknath Easwaran) 10/12/10 70. "First Steps 2 Forever: My Story" (Justin Bieber) 10/15/10 71. "The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi" (Ramana Maharshi) 10/17/10 72. "Uncle Silas" (J.S. Le Fanu) 10/21/10 73. "Siddhartha" (Herman Hesse) 10/27/10 74. "Frankenstein" (Mary Shelley) 10/28/1 75. "ACT" (N.J. Rhoades) 11/7/10 76. "The Collector" (John Fowles) 11/8/10 77. "Dark Awakenings" (Matt Cardin) 11/19/10 78. "Communion" (Whitley Strieber) 11/20/10 79. "Close Range: Wyoming Stories" (Annie Proulx) 11/27/10 80. "The Problem of Pain" (C.S. Lewis) 11/28/10 81. "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman" (Angela Carter) 12/8/10 82. "The Man Who Was Thursday" (G.K. Chesterton) 12/10/10 83. "Dark Entries" (Robert Aickman) 12/30/10 *= something I've read at least once in the past. Not included in this list are all the individual short stories I've read this year (essentially, 15 of Poe's, 5 of Kafka's, 13 of Flannery O'Connor's, 6 of Nabokov's, 1 of Algernon Blackwood's and Guy De Maupassant's, 5 of Borges', 3 of J.G. Ballard's, and a few Lovecraft's). I also read the first two volumes of Alan Moore's "Swamp Thing" and re-read the first two volumes of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" graphic novel (and also re-read Grant Morrison's "Doom Patrol" series). Also read some of Enid Blyton's Noddy books. 2008 reading list: 1. "The City and the Pillar" (Gore Vidal) (Jan. 3) 1948 2. "Sway" (Zachary Lazar) (Jan. 9) 2008 3. "Paradoxia" (Lydia Lunch) (Jan. 12) 1997 4. "Eden Eden Eden" (Pierre Guyotat) (Jan. 23) 1970 5. "The Maimed" (Hermann Ungar) (Jan. 25) 1923 6. "Jack the Modernist" (Robert Gluck) (Jan. 25) 1985 7. "The Stranger" (Albert Camus) (Jan. 26) 1946 8. "Less Than Zero" (Bret Easton Ellis) (Jan. 30) 1985 * 9. "The Torture Garden" (Octave Mirbeau) (Jan. 31) 1899 10. "Zombie" (Joyce Carol Oates) (Jan. 31) 1995 11. "The Atrocity Exhibition" (J.G. Ballard) (Feb. 7) 1970 12. "Play it as it Lays" (Joan Didion) (Feb. 10) 1970 13. "The Blind Owl" (Sadegh Hedayat) (Feb. 10) 1937 14. "La-Bas" (J.K. Huysmans) (Feb. 15) 1891 * 15. "Against Nature" (J.K. Huysmans) (Feb. 22) 1884 16. "Moravagine" (Blaise Cendrars) (Feb. 29) 1926 17. "Briefing for a Descent Into Hell" (Doris Lessing)(March 14)1971 18. "In a Glass Darkly" (Sheridan Le Fanu) (March 18) 1872 19. "The Weaklings" (Dennis Cooper) (March 22) 2008 20. "The Mage's Holiday" (Tom Champagne) (April) 2003 21. "Invisible Cities" (Italo Calvino) (April 9) 1972 22. "Exercises in Style" (Raymond Queneau) (April 17) 1947 23. "The Wild Boys" (William S. Burroughs) (April 21) 1969 * 24. "Downstream" (J.K. Huysmans) (April 21) 1882 25. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) (April 27) 1965 26. "The End of the World Book" (Alistar McCartney) (May 1) 2008 27. "Foucault's Pendulum" (Umberto Eco) (May 8) 1988 28. "Us Ones in Between" (Blair Mastbaum) (May 10) 2008 29. "The Man Who Fought Alone" (Stephen R. Donaldson)(May 23) 2001 * 30. "Valis" (Philip K. Dick) (May 26) 1981 * 31. "Angels of Perversity" (Remy de Gourmont) (June 30) late 1890's 32. "Monsieur de Phocas" (Jean Lorrain) (July 6) 1901 33. "Inferno" (August Strindberg) (July 10) 1897 34. "Soul Kitchen" (Poppy Z. Brite) (July 19) 2006 35. "Monsieur Venus" (Rachilde) (July 20) 1884 36. "A Haven" (J.K. Huysmans) (July 26) 1886 37. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (Truman Capote) (July 30) 38. "Surfaces" (Thomas Moore) (Aug. 7) 2008 39. "Bat-Wing" (Sax Rohmer) (Aug. 13) 1921 40. "Convolvulus & Other Poems" (Kenneth Grant) (Aug. 14) 2005 41. "Recollections of the Golden Triangle" (Alain Robbe-Grillet) (Aug. 18) 1978 42. "Gamaliel/Dance, Doll, Dance!" (Kenneth Grant) (Aug. 23) 2003 43. "The Other Child & Other Tales" (Kenneth Grant) (Aug. 27) 2003 44. "Our Lady of the Flowers" (Jean Genet) (Sept. 3) 1943 45. "The Street of Crocodiles" (Bruno Schulz) (Sept. 7) 1934 46. "The Hearing Trumpet" (Leonora Carrington) (Sept. 10) 1976 47. "En Route" (J.K. Huysmans) (Sept. 10) 1895 48. "Some Kind of Love" (Jack Dickson) (Sept. 14) 2002 49. "God Jr." (Dennis Cooper) (Sept. 21) 2005 * 50. "The Beetle" (Richard Marsh) (Sept. 22) 1897 51. "Action Kylie" (Kevin Killian) (Oct. 20) 2008 52. "Against the Light" (Kenneth Grant) (Nov. 5) 1997 * 53. "The Elementary Particles" (Michel Houellebecq) (Nov. 15) 2001 54. "The Miracle of the Rose" (Jean Genet) (Nov. 22) 1946 55. "Teatro Grottesco" (Thomas Ligotti) (Dec. 17) 2008 56. "Grimscribe" (Thomas Ligotti) (Dec. 23) 1994 2009 reading list: 1. "Songs of a Dead Dreamer" Thomas Ligotti (1/6/09) short story collection 2. "Gnosticism" Stephen Hoeller (1/9/09) religion 3. "Voudon Gnosis" David Beth (1/10/09) occult 4. "My Work is Not Yet Done" Thomas Ligotti (1/12/09) short story collection 5. "Hospital" Thomas Moore (1/23/09) poetry 6. "Nausea" Jean-Paul Sarte (2/18/09) novel 7. "Kierkegaard for Beginners" Donald D. Palmer (2/20/09) non-fiction 8. "Ariel: Restored Edition" Sylvia Plath (2/21/09) poetry 9. "The Bell Jar" Sylvia Plath (2/23/09) novel 10. "Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos" Various (3/12/09) short story collection 11. "The Mind Parasites" Colin Wilson (3/23/09) novel 12. "The Philosopher's Stone" Colin Wilson (4/2/09) novel 13. "The Magus" John Fowles (4/27/09) novel 14. "Snakewand/The Darker Stain" Kenneth Grant (5/2/09) novella collection 15. "Noctuary" Thomas Ligotti (5/8/09) short story collection 16. "Lovely Biscuits" Grant Morrison (5/21/09) short story collection 17. "Ugly Man" Dennis Cooper (5/23/09) short story collection 18. "The Space Vampires" Colin Wilson (5/30/09) novel 19. "Cities of the Red Night" William S. Burroughs (6/29/09) novel * 20. "Safe" Dennis Cooper (7/7/09) novel 21. "The Show That Smells" Derek McCormack (7/8/09) novel 22. "Count Magnus & Other Ghost Stories" M.R. James (7/11/09) short story collection 23. "The Burning Bombing of America" Kathy Acker (7/11/09) novella 24. "Great Expectations" Kathy Acker (7/18/09) novel 25. "Empire of the Senseless" Kathy Acker (7/19/09) novel 26. "Florida" Kathy Acker (7/22/09) novella? 27. "The Place of Dead Roads" William S. Burroughs (7/27/09) novel * 28. "Blood and Guts in High School" Kathy Acker (8/1/09) novel 29. "Perdido Street Station" China Mieville (8/4/09) novel 30. "A Season in Hell/Illuminations" Arthur Rimbaud (8/5/09) poetry 31. "The #### of God" Diamanda Galas (8/6/09) poetry 32. "Ficciones" Jorge Lois Borges (8/9/09) short stories 33. "The Consumer" Michael Gira (8/17/09) short stories 34. "Funeral Rites" Jean Genet (8/26/09) novel 35. "Inherent Vice" Thomas Pynchon (8/28/09) novel 36. "The Thief's Journal" Jean Genet (9/10/09) novel 37. "The Western Lands" William S. Burroughs (9/16/09) novel 38. "Magic & Mystery in Tibet" Alexandra David-Neel (9/18/09) Hindu/Buddhist 39. "The Gita: a New Translation of Sacred Hindu Scripture" Irina N. Gajjar (9/19/09) Hindu 40. "Official Book Club Selection" Kathy Griffin (9/23/09) biography 41. "Shy" Kevin Killian (9/30/09) novel 42. "Ether, God & Devil/Cosmic Superimposition" Wilhelm Reich (10/3/09) philosophy? 43. "The Letters of Mina Harker" Dodie Bellamy (10/10/09) novel 44. "The Interior Castle" St. Teresa of Avila (10/20/09) mysticism 45. "Lost Souls" Poppy Z. Brite (10/29/09) * novel 46. "Marthe: The Story of a Whore" J.K. Huysmans (10/29/09) novel 47. "The Dhammapada" Buddha (10/29/09) * Buddhist 48. "Downstream" J.K. Huysmans (10/31/09) * novella 49. "The Wall" Jean-Paul Sartre (11/2/09) short stories 50. "The Plague" Albert Camus (11/6/09) novel 51. "The Flowers of Evil" Charles Baudelaire (11/10/09) poetry 52. "The Informers" Bret Easton Ellis (11/14/09) * novel 53. "Cold Print" Ramsey Campbell (11/25/09) short stories 54. "Against Nature" J.K. Huysmans (11/29/09) * novel 55. "The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis" Mark Gluth (12/4/09) novella 56. "In November We'll Burn" Andrew Champagne (12/10/09) novel 57. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" Oscar Wilde (12/16/09) novel 58. "No Exit" Jean-Paul Sartre (12/25/09) play |
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Re: 2010 Reading List grand finale (plus lists from the past)
Going into 2010, did you have a list of books you intended to read? Is there a list for 2011?
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