InPUTS ARCHIVE

(If the title is underlined, I’ve written about it, be it a word or six or a thousand; if the creator is underlined, I’ve interviewed them. For this year’s list, go here.

2023

THE ENCHANTERS, by James Ellroy

THE BLACKOUT BOMBSHELL, by Louis Southard and Dean Kotz

KLAN WAR: ULYSSES S. GRANT AND THE BATTLE TO SAVE RECONSTRUCTION, by Fergus M. Bordewich

A MOUNTAIN TO THE NORTH, A LAKE TO THE SOUTH, PATHS TO THE WEST, A RIVER TO THE EAST, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

BATMAN: HAUNTED GOTHAM, by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones

THE FRAUD, by Zadie Smith

SWANN’S WAY, by Marcel Proust

30 DAYS OF NIGHT OMNIBUS, Vol. 1, by Steve Niles & Ben Templesmith

DKIII: THE MASTER RACE, by Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, Andy Kubert, & Klaus Janson

THE MYSTERIES, by Bill Watterson and John Kascht

DOPPELGANGER, by Naomi Klein

LIBERATION DAY, by George Saunders

SUPERMAN YEAR ONE, by Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.

THE CONSTANT GARDENER, by John Le Carré

NIGHT FEVER, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

MISTER MIRACLE, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads

V, by Thomas Pynchon (re-read)

WONDER WOMAN: HISTORIA, by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Phil Jiminez, Gene Ha, and Nicola Scott

DARK KNIGHT RETURNS: THE LAST CRUSADE, by Frank Miller, Brian Azzarello, John Romita Jr, and Peter Stiegerwald

THE FIRST TRUE HITCHCOCK, by Henry K. Miller

RONIN, by Frank Miller

THE DIVING POOL, by Yoko Ogawa

ROBERT B. PARKER’S BAD INFLUENCE, by Alison Gaylin

BLACKJACKED AND PISTOL-WHIPPED: A CRIME DOES NOT PAY PRIMER, by Bob Wood, Charles Biro, Denis Kitchen, et al

HOW TO FIND ZODIAC, by Jarrett Kobek

AGE OF VICE, by Deepti Kapoor

MIGHTY MARVEL MASTERWORKS: DAREDEVIL, Vol. 1, by Stan Lee, Wally Wood, Bill Everett, and Joe Orlando

BATMAN: THE CULT, by Jim Starlin, Bernie Wrightson, and Bill Wray

COMBATING CULT MIND CONTROL, by Steven Hassan (audiobook)

BUTCHER’S CROSSING, by John Williams

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, by Shirley Jackson

RED MARS, by Kim Stanley Robinson

BATMAN UNSEEN, by Doug Moench and Kelley Jones

THE QUESTION OMNIBUS, Vol. 1, by Dennis O’Neil and Denys Cowan

THE QUESTION (2005), by Rick Veitch and Tommy Lee Edwards

SMALL MERCIES, by Dennis Lehane

THE WORLD GOES ON, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

BATMAN: ONE DARK KNIGHT, by Jock

A MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, by Mark Dawidziak

CATCHING THE BIG FISH (audiobook), by David Lynch (re-read)

REMINA, by Junji Ito

THE BOOKS OF JACOB, by Olga Tokarczuk

SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW, by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Matheus Lopez

THE SHADOW: BLOOD AND JUDGEMENT, by Howard Chaykin

BATMAN: EARTH ONE, Vol 3, by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank

THE CULT OF TRUMP, by Steven Hassan

BATMAN: EARTH ONE, Vol 2, by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank

STELLA MARIS, by Cormac McCarthy

THE PASSENGER, by Cormac McCarthy

THE CREATIVE ACT (audiobook), by Rick Rubin

MIRACLEMAN: THE GOLDEN AGE, by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham

BATMAN: EARTH ONE, Vol 1, by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank

CITY OF GLASS, by Paul Auster

THE SHADOW 1941: HITLER’S ASTROLOGER, by Denny O’Neil, Michael Kaluta, and Russ Heath

CASTE: THE ORIGINS OF OUR DISCONTENTS, by Isabel Wilkerson

MIRACLEMAN OMNIBUS, by The Original Writer, Garry Leach, Alan Davis, et al

BATMAN, VOL 7: ENDGAME, by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Danny Miki

THE KEEP, by Jennifer Egan

TITUS GROAN, by Mervyn Peake

ATOMIC HABITS, by James Clear (audiobook)

BATMAN: THREE JOKERS, by Geoff Johns, Jason Fabok, and Brad Anderson

CULT X, by Fuminori Nakamura

THINKING, FAST AND SLOW, by Daniel Kahneman

ELSEWORLDS: BATMAN, Volume Two, by Doug Moench & Kelley Jones

2022

AUGUSTUS, by John Williams

THE TURNAROUND, by George Pelecanos

AFTER DARK, by Liam Wong

CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez

CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD, by Gabriel García Márquez (re-read)

THE MEMORY POLICE, by Yoko Ogawa

THE SANDMAN, BOOK ONE, by Neil Gaiman, et al

MOTOR SPIRIT, by Jarrett Kobek

THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, by Norman Mailer

RECKLESS, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

CONFIDENCE MAN, by Maggie Haberman

CITY ON FIRE, by Don Winslow

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE, by Shirley Jackson

FANTASTIC FOUR: FULL CIRCLE, by Alex Ross

BATMAN ‘89, by Sam Hamm, Joe Quinones, & Leonardo Ito

BREASTS AND EGGS, by Mieko Kawakami

CRIMINAL MACABRE: SPIRIT OF THE DEMON, by Steve Niles and Szymon Kudranski

ANCESTOR TROUBLE, by Maud Newton (re-read)

AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH, by Neil Postman

WHITE JAZZ, by James Ellroy

ALL-STAR SUPERMAN, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely

THE CANDY HOUSE, by Jennifer Egan

THE BOOK OF DISQUIET, by Fernando Pessoa

PARKER: THE MARTINI EDITION, by Richard Stark and Darwyn Cook

THE WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS, by Isabel Wilkerson

THE SILVER AGE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA, VOL 2, by Gardner Fox, et al

THE WAKE, by Scott Snyder & Sean Murphy

THE SENTENCE, by Louise Erdrich

INVISIBLE CITIES, by Italo Calvino (re-read)

BATMAN, VOL. 5 - ZERO YEAR: DARK CITY, by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Danny Miki

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, by Carson McCullers (re-read)

DARTH VADER: DARK LORD OF THE SITH VOL. 1, by Charles Soule & Giuseppe Camuncoli

BATMAN, VOL. 4: ZERO YEAR: SECRET CITY, by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Danny Miki

THE BODY ARTIST, by Don DeLillo (re-read)

SEA OF TRANQUILITY, by Emily St John Mandel

THE WITCHES, by Stacy Schiff

THE BIG NOWHERE, by James Ellroy

MOTH SMOKE, by Mohsin Hamid

DESTROYER, by Victor La Valle, Dietrich Smith, and Joana LaFuente

ANCESTOR TROUBLE, by Maud Newton

PÈRE GORIOT, by Honoré de Balzac

THE ORIGINS OF TOTALITARIANISM, by Hannah Arendt

INFIDEL, by Pornsak Picheshote, Aaron Campbell, Jose Villarrubia, and Jeff Powell

THE GOOD ASIAN, Vol. 1, by Pornsak Pischeshote, Alexander Tefengki, and Lee Loughridge

52 STORIES, by Anton Chekhov

THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS, by Octavia E. Butler

THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR, by Ram V and Filipe Andrad

ISOLARII 6: ARCHIPELAGO, by Édouard Gilssant and Hans Ulrich Obrist

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (re-read), by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

FICTIONAL FATHER, by Joe Ollmann

FAR SECTOR, by N.K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell

THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS, by Arundhati Roy

REIGN OF TERROR, by Spencer Ackerman

LES MISÉRABLES, by Victor Hugo

2021

THE PRACTICE OF GROUNDEDNESS (Audio), by Brad Stulberg

ÁGUA VIVA, by Clarice Lispector

THE UNDERWATER WELDER, by Jeff Lemire

EX LIBRIS, by Matt Madden

THE COLLECTIVE, by Alison Gaylin

DISCOURSES AND SELECTED WRITINGS, by Epictetus

GHOSTS, by Edith Wharton

THE GODFATHER, by Mario Puzo

FLOAT, by Howie Noel

THE SEA WE SWIM IN, by Frank Rose

DREAMER, by Charles Johnson

A HISTORY OF SOLITUDE, by David Vincent

BITCH PLANET, VOLUME 1, by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro

THE COMMITTED, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, by Cormac McCarthy

INVISIBLE MEN: THE TRAILBLAZING BLACK ARTISTS OF COMIC BOOKS, by Ken Quattro

MONSTERS, by Barry Windsor-Smith

MONTAIGNE, by Stefan Zweig

THE TURNOUT, by Megan Abbott

FOUR THOUSAND WEEKS: TIME MANAGEMENT FOR MORTALS, by Oliver Burkeman

PARABLE OF THE SOWER, by Octavia E. Butler

AMERICAN ROSE, by Karen Abbott

CRIMINAL: THE DELUXE EDITION VOL 1, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

RUN (Book One), by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell

A DELICATE TRUTH, by John Le Carré

DISSIPATIO H.G., by Guido Morselli

BLACK SPARROW, by Steve Niles, Jay Russell, and Scott Hampton

THICK, by Tressie McMillan Cottom

IDORU, by William Gibson

SHOOT THE WOMAN FIRST, by Wallace Stroby

JOSEPH ANTON, by Salman Rushdie

FRANKENSTEIN ALIVE, ALIVE!, by Steve Niles, Bernie Wrightson,and Kelley Jones

DRINK, by Iain Gately

THAT ONE SHOULD DISDAIN HARDSHIPS, by Musonius Rufus

THE SILENCE, by Don DeLillo (reviewed)

INTO THIN AIR, by Jon Krakauer

DOWNTOWN: MY MANHATTAN, by Pete Hamill

LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET, by Rainer Maria Rilke

MEAN… MOODY… MAGNIFICENT!: JANE RUSSELL AND THE MARKETING OF A HOLLYWOOD LEGEND, by Christina Rice

THE MINISTRY FOR THE FUTURE, by Kim Stanley Robinson

30 DAYS OF NIGHT, Vol. One, by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith

MW, by Osamu Tezuka

ANN DVORAK: HOLLYWOOD’S FORGOTTEN REBEL, by Christina Rice

A SWIM IN THE POND IN THE RAIN, by George Saunders

CHATTER, by Ethan Kross

ANDREW’S BRAIN, by E.L. Doctorow

THE GREAT SUCCESSOR, by Anna Fifield

HEAVEN’S A LIE, by Wallace Stroby

A MATHEMATICIANS’S APOLOGY, by G.H. Hardy

THESE TRUTHS, by Jill Lepore

FALLOUT: THE HIROSHIMA COVER-UP AND THE REPORTER WHO REVEALED IT TO THE WORLD, by Lesley M.M. Blume

KINDRED: A GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION, by Damian Duffy and John Jennings

WORKING, by Robert A. Caro

XX, by Rian Hughes

BATMAN: DEATH OF THE FAMILY, by Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo

X-MEN: GRAND DESIGN, by Ed Piskor

SLOW LEARNER, by Thomas Pynchon

UNFLATTENING, by Nick Sousanis (re-read)

WHITEY BULGER, by Kevin Cullen & Shelley Murphy

NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING, by Gabriel García Márquez

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, by Louise Erdrich

STOP-TIME, by Frank Conroy

THE DARK SIDE, by Jane Mayer

MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, by John Berendt

NEVER LOOK BACK, by Alison Gaylin

CRISIS OF CONSCIENCE: WHISTLEBLOWING IN AN AGE OF FRAUD, by Tom Mueller

SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN, by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru

2020

THE WORLD IN A GRAIN, by Vince Beiser

RIVEN ROCK, by T.C. Boyle

THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE, by Masha Gessen

THE KEY, by Junichirō Tanizaki

IN THE WAKE OF THE BUTCHER, by James Jessen Badal

IF I DIE TONIGHT, by Alison Gaylin

THE VICTORIAN INTERNET, by Tom Standage

THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES, by Jane Jacobs

THE BLACK DAHLIA, by James Ellroy

DREAMLAND, by Sam Quinones

BAT-MANGA: THE SECRET HISTORY OF BATMAN IN JAPAN, by Jiro Kuwata, et al. (re-read)

SUPERINTELLIGENCE, by Nick Bostrom

I’LL BE GONE IN THE DARK, by Michelle McNamara

BLACK JACK, Vol.2, by Osamu Tezuka

BERLIN, by Jason Lutes

THERE WAS A COUNTRY, by Chinua Achebe

BLACK SPRING, by Henry Miller

THE STANDARDIZATION OF DEMORALIZATION PROCEDURES, by Jennifer Hofmann

BATMAN: THE COURT OF OWLS SAGA, by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo

THE POWER BROKER, by Robert A. Caro

NICOMACHEAN ETHICS, by Aristotle

BATMAN: CURSE OF THE WHITE KNIGHT, by Sean Murphy, Klaus Janson, and Matt Hollingsworth.

CRUEL SUMMER, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

THE BEST OF THE SPIRIT, by Will Eisner (re-read)

DEATH WITH INTERRUPTIONS, by José Saramago

LET THEM EAT TWEETS: HOW THE RIGHT RULES IN AN AGE OF EXTREME INEQUALITY, by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson

PULP, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT, by Hilary Mantel

BLACK JACK, Vol. 1, by Osamu Tezuka

BAD WEEKEND, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

MAKING COMICS, by Scott McCloud

MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN, by Salman Rushdie

TO:KY:OO, by Liam Wong (review)

DIGITAL MINIMALISM, by Cal Newport

PARKER: THE HUNTER, by Darwyn Cooke (re-read)

INVISIBLE CITIES, by Italo Calvino

ESSENTIAL TOMB OF DRACULA, Vol. 1, by Marv Wolfman, Gene Colan, et al.

THE FIVE, by Hallie Rubenhold

MOBY DICK, by Herman Melville

SPY X FAMILY, VOL. 1, by Tatsuya Endo

THE GLASS HOTEL, by Emily St. John Mandel

THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, by A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.

THE NICKEL BOYS, by Colson Whitehead

BATMAN: LAST KNIGHT ON EARTH, by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo

BARON WENCKHEIM’S HOMECOMING, by László Krasznahorkai

TOMIE, by Junji Ito

IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS, by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

DEEP WORK, by Cal Newport

THE KNOWN CITIZEN, by Sarah E. Igo

VAGABOND VOL. 1, by Takehiko Inoue

THE NAMESAKE, by Jhumpa Lahiri

THE COMPLETE ESSAYS, by Michel de Montaigne

4321, by Paul Auster

TORSO, by Brian Michael Bendis & Marc Andreyko (re-read)

A WORLD LIT ONLY BY FIRE, by William Manchester

AGENT RUNNING IN THE FIELD, by John Le Carré

THE MILL ON THE FLOSS, by George Eliot

UZUMAKI, by Junji Ito (review)

THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, by Shoshana Zuboff

NEW GODS, by Jack Kirby, Mike Royer, Vince Colletta, and D. Bruce Berry

AGENCY, by William Gibson

THE STORY OF A NEW NAME, by Elena Ferrante

CRIME IN PROGRESS, by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch

NOVEMBER, VOL.1: THE GIRL ON THE ROOF, by Matt Fraction, Elsa Charretier, Matt Hollingsworth, and Kurt Ankeny.

WARLIGHT, by Michael Ondaatje

MISTER MIRACLE, by Jack Kirby, Mike Royer, and Vince Colletta

KILLING COMMENDATORE, by Haruki Murakami

NO TIME TO SPARE, by Ursula K. Le Guin

THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST, by Mohsin Hamid

ANTISOCIAL, by Andrew Marantz

THE PRINCE, by Niccolò Machiavelli

THE TESTAMENTS, by Margaret Atwood

KILL OR BE KILLED, VOLUME ONE, by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, and Elizabeth Breitweiser

STAND FIRM, by Svend Brinkmann

SLUM WOLF, by Tadao Tsuge

THE HARDER THEY COME, by T.C. Boyle

INVISIBLE WOMEN, by Caroline Criado Perez

BATMAN ARCHIVES, VOLUME ONE, by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, et. al.

THE FORCE, by Don Winslow

THE POETICS OF SPACE, by Gaston Bachelard

2019

MIDDLE PASSAGE, by Charles Johnson

ARE YOU LISTENING?, by Tillie Walden

THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, by Henry James

RETURN TO PERDITION, by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty

THE ART OF MEMOIR, by Mary Karr

HACKING LIFE: SYSTEMATIZED LIVING AND ITS DISCONTENTS, by Joseph M. Reagle Jr

FLOW: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF OPTIMAL EXPERIENCE, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

DAY OF THE OPRICHNIK, by Vladimir Sorokin

FOUR SOULS, by Louise Erdrich

THIS STORM, by James Ellroy

THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK, by Karen Abbott

INDISTRACTABLE, by Nir Eyal

THE FADE OUT, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

MR. SAMMLER’S PLANET, by Saul Bellow

THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES, by Tom Wolfe

FROM HELL, by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (re-read)

FANTASYLAND, by Kurt Andersen

THE LIVING, by Annie Dillard

ON A SUNBEAM, by Tillie Walden

MISSING PERSON, by Patrick Modiano

AMERICAN CARNAGE, by Tim Alberta

GNOMON, by Nick Harkaway

MASKS, by Fumiko Enchi

STRESS-PROOF, by Mithu Storoni, MD, PhD

ABSALOM, ABSALOM!, by William Faulkner

21 LESSONS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, by Yuval Noah Harari

BATMAN ‘66, VOLUME ONE, by Jeff Parker, et al.

ZORRO, by Isabel Allende

THE CHILD IN TIME, by Ian McEwan

BAD BLOOD, by John Carreyrou (review-ish)

BATMAN: EUROPA, by Matteo Casali, Brian Azzarello, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Jim Lee, Diego Latorre, and Gerard Parel

THE DISPOSSESSED, by Ursula K. Le Guin

REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATION INTO RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III

GREAT JONES STREET, by Don DeLillo

BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF, by Marlon James

THE IMMORTAL HULK,  VOL. ONE: ... OR IS HE BOTH?, by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett

LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA, by Gabriel García Márquez

SING, UNBURIED, SING, by Jesmyn Ward

LEONARDO DA VINCI, by Walter Isaacson

WABI-SABI, FOR ARTISTS, DESIGNERS, POETS, AND PHILOSOPHERS, by Leonard Koren

THE LAUGHING MONSTERS, by Denis Johnson

SILAS MARNER, by George Eliot

SATANTANGO, by László Krasznahorkai

MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER: FROM PREHUMAN TIMES TO THE FRENCH REVOLUTION,  by Francis Fukuyama

L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, by James Ellroy

ORYX & CRAKE, by Margaret Atwood

EXIT WEST, by Mohsin Hamid

LIKEWAR: THE WEAPONIZATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA, by P.W. Singer and Emmerson T. Brooking (review)

TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM, by Paul Auster

THE  LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE, by Louise Erdrich

2018

DROP CITY, by T.C. Boyle

MOONLIGHT MILE, by Dennis Lehane

OUTER DARK, by Cormac McCarthy

BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT, by Sean Murphy with Matt Hollingsworth

THERE THERE, by Tommy Orange

THE EMPEROR OF ALL MALADIES, by Siddhartha Mukherjee

HUMAN ACTS, by Han Kang

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE, by Thomas Hardy

10:04, by Ben Lerner

OPEN LETTERS: SELECTED WRITINGS 1965-1990, by Václav Havel

DARK NIGHTS: METAL, by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo

MIDDLESEX, by Jeffrey Eugenides

THE MARS ROOM, by Rachel Kushner

OXHERDING TALE, by Charles Johnson

THE BROTHERS, by Masha Gessen

UNFLATTENING, by Nick Sousanis

THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, by Edith Wharton

TO END A PRESIDENCY, by Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz

MASON & DIXON, by Thomas Pynchon

THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, by Isabel Allende

THE CAVE, by José Saramago

ENCHIRIDION, by Epictetus

TWITTER AND TEAR GAS, by Zeynep Tufecki

THE BLIZZARD, by Vladimir Sorokin

MILLENNIUM PEOPLE, by J.G. Ballard

THE GENERAL IN HIS LABYRINTH, by Gabriel García Márquez

IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, by Erik Larson

CAT’S EYE, by Margaret Atwood

ANNA KARENINA, by Leo Tolstoy

CONSIDER THE LOBSTER, by David Foster Wallace

FISKADORO, by Denis Johnson

MANHATTAN BEACH, by Jennifer Egan

PEDRO PÁRAMO, by Juan Rulfo

AN ANTHROPOLOGIST ON MARS, by Oliver Sacks

THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS, by Ursula K. Le Guin (review)

1876, by Gore Vidal

A MOST WANTED MAN, by John Le Carré

2017

THE MULTIVERSITY, by Grant Morrison, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Jim Lee, Doug Mahnke, Frank Quitely, Chris Sprouse, Ben Oliver, and Cameron Stewart

FAHRENHEIT 451, by Ray Bradbury

ON TYRANNY, by Timothy Snyder (review)

TWO YEARS EIGHT MONTHS AND TWENTY-EIGHT NIGHTS, by Salman Rushdie

LOVE MEDICINE, by Louise Erdrich

ON SUCH A FULL SEA, by Chang-rae Lee

A DEATH IN BELMONT, by Sebastian Junger

THE HAMLET, by William Faulkner

1984, by George Orwell

NIGHT, by Elie Wiesel

WATER MUSIC, by T.C. Boyle

THE WAR OF ART, by Steven Pressfield

NUMERO ZERO, by Umberto Eco

DARK MONEY, by Jane Mayer

GRENDEL, by John Gardner

IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS, by Paul Auster

DON QUIXOTE, by Miguel de Cervantes

THE POLITICAL SPEECHWRITER'S COMPANION, by Robert Lehrman

SINCE WE FELL, by Dennis Lehane (review)

FATES AND FURIES, by Lauren Groff

THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY, by Alan W. Watts

THE ACCUSATION, by Bandi

HOPE IN THE DARK, by Rebecca Solnit

THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES, by Roberto Bolaño

BRING UP THE BODIES, by Hilary Mantel

ON WRITING WELL, by William Zinsser

THE REFUGEES, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, by George Saunders

ABSOLUTELY ON MUSIC: CONVERSATIONS WITH SEIJI OZAWA, by Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa

TROPIC OF CANCER, by Henry Miller

HALF OF A YELLOW SUN, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

MAO II, by Don DeLillo

MARCH, by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD, by Gabriel García Márquez

MIDDLEMARCH, by George Eliot

TIME TRAVEL: A HISTORY, by James Gleick

THE QUEUE, by Basma Abdel Aziz

MOONGLOW, by Michael Chabon

BLACK PANTHER, BOOK ONE: A NATION UNDER OUR FEET, by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Brian Stelfreeze, and Laura Martin

2016

THE COMPLETE STORIES, by Clarice Lispector

WOLVERINE: OLD MAN LOGAN, by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven

TAO TE CHING: A BOOK ABOUT THE WAY AND THE POWER OF THE WAY, by Lao Tzu, translated by Ursula K. Le Guin

THE FLAMETHROWERS, by Rachel Kushner

DEPT. OF SPECULATION, by Jenny Offill

CONCRETE ISLAND, by J.G. Ballard

NETWORKS OF NEW YORK, by Ingrid Burrington

V, by Thomas Pynchon

THE DOUBLE, by George Pelecanos

EUTHYPHRO, by Plato

SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by Elizabeth Hardwick

MENO, by Plato

ISLAND BENEATH THE SEA, by Isabel Allende

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL: ECONOMICS AS IF PEOPLE MATTERED, by E.F. Schumacher

WHY WE WRITE, edited by Meredith Maran

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN, by James Baldwin

THE SEA, THE SEA, by Iris Murdoch

THE REPUBLIC, by Plato

ZAMA, by Antonio Di Benedetto

THE DARK NET, by Jamie Bartlett

FRANKENSTEIN, by Mary Shelley

ESSAYS IN ZEN BUDDHISM, SERIES ONE, by DT Suzuki

THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, by Colson Whitehead

ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

LAROSE, by Louise Erdrich

THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES, by Kobo Abe

SOUTHERN BASTARDS, VOLUME ONE: HERE WAS A MAN, by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour

JANE EYRE, by Charlotte Brontë

ESSAYS AND POEMS, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

THE NIGHT OF THE GUN, by David Carr

SPEEDBOAT, by Renata Adler

CHILD OF GOD, by Cormac McCarthy

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE, by Virginia Woolf

INFINITE JEST, by David Foster Wallace

THE LITTLE FRIEND, by Donna Tartt

ZERO K, by Don DeLillo (review)

WAITING, by Ha Jin

THE ROUND HOUSE, by Louise Erdrich

GIOVANNI'S ROOM, by James Baldwin

AGAINST THE DAY, by Thomas Pynchon

THE WRITING LIFE, by Annie Dillard

STEERING THE CRAFT, by Ursula K. Le Guin

DISTRUST THAT PARTICULAR FLAVOR, by William Gibson

MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, by Elena Ferrante

THE NEWS: A USER'S MANUAL, by Alain De Botton

WOLF HALL, by Hilary Mantel

THE SYMPATHIZER, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

LETTERS FROM A STOIC, by Seneca

CEREMONY, by Leslie Marmon Silko

FORTUNE SMILES, by Adam Johnson

ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, by Anthony Doerr

BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

LIGHT IN AUGUST, by William Faulkner

THE CARTEL, by Don Winslow

STEALING REMBRANDT, by Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg

2015

A LITTLE LIFE, by Hanya Yanagihara

THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, by John Le Carré

ZONE ONE, by Colson Whitehead

A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS, by Marlon James

THE CONFIDENCE MAN, by Herman Melville

ULYSSES, by James Joyce

THE MUSEUM OF EXTRAORDINARY THINGS, by Alice Hoffman

PURITY, by Jonathan Franzen

THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER, by Carson McCullers

MYSTIC RIVER, by Dennis Lehane

INHERENT VICE, by Thomas Pynchon

PRODIGAL SUMMER, by Barbara Kingsolver

SUTTREE, by Cormac McCarthy

A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD, by Jennifer Egan

RAGTIME, by E.L. Doctorow

THE LOWLAND, by Jhumpa Lahiri

WORKING DAYS: THE JOURNALS OF THE GRAPES OF WRATH, by John Steinbeck

MAUS, by art spiegelman (re-read)

THE BURIED GIANT, by Kazuo Ishiguro

ZEN IN THE ART OF WRITING, by Ray Bradbury

2666, by Roberto Bolaño

THE SILENT CRY, by Kenzaburo Oe

THOMAS JEFFERSON: THE ART OF POWER, by Jon Meacham

THE PLAGUE OF DOVES, by Louise Erdrich

WAR AND PEACE, by Leo Tolstoy

THE FATAL FLAME, by Lynday Faye

BLEEDING EDGE, by Thomas Pynchon

GROTESQUE, by Natsuo Kirino

BLACK FRIDAY, by David Goodis (re-read)

FREEDOM, by Jonathan Franzen

ALIAS GRACE, by Margaret Atwood

AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD, by Kazuo Ishiguro

MY DARK PLACES, by James Ellroy

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, by Ernest Hemingway

NEUROMANCER, by William Gibson

EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, by Celeste Ng

THE ASSASSINS, by Joyce Carol Oates

WORLD GONE BY, by Dennis Lehane

VINELAND, by Thomas Pynchon

DRACULA, by Bram Stoker (re-read)

DEAD WAKE:THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA, by Erik Larson

BLOOD MERIDIAN, by Cormac McCarthy

WHITE NOISE, by Don DeLillo

AS I LAY DYING, by William Faulkner

KINDRED, by Octavia Butler

THE BONE CLOCKS, by David Mitchell

THE EXECUTIONER’S SONG, by Norman Mailer

MEDITATIONS, by Marcus Aurelius

THE SATANIC VERSES, by Salman Rushdie

THE BLIND ASSASSIN, by Margaret Atwood

LIAR TEMPTRESS SOLDIER SPY: FOUR WOMEN UNDERCOVER IN THE CIVIL WAR, by Karen Abbott

2014

THE CRYING OF LOT 49, by Thomas Pynchon

SILENCE, by Shusaku Endo

THE ACCURSED, by Joyce Carol Oates

PLANET OF EXILE, by Ursula K. Le Guin

PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT, by Philip Roth

STONER, by John Williams

THE VALLEY OF AMAZEMENT, by Amy Tan

THE PERIPHERAL, by William Gibson

THE RISE OF AURORA WEST, by Paul Pope, JT Petty and David Rubín

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, by Thomas Pynchon

STATION ELEVEN, by Emily St. John Mandel

PERFIDIA, by James Ellroy

V FOR VENDETTA, by Alan Moore and David Lloyd

TELEGRAPH AVENUE, by Michael Chabon

THE HANDMAID'S TALE, by Margaret Atwood

COLORLESS TSUKURU TAZAKI AND HIS YEARS OF PILGRIMAGE, by Haruki Murakami

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, by Muriel Spark

THE GREAT GATSBY, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

UNEXPECTED STORIES, by Octavia Butler

THE BODY ARTIST, by Don DeLillo

PRAYERS FOR RAIN, by Dennis Lehane

WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING, by Haruki Murakami

WONDERLAND, by Joyce Carol Oates

SHAKEDOWN: FREDDY OTASH CONFESSES, by James Ellroy

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, by Gabriel García Márquez

MEMENTO MORI, by Muriel Spark

THE FEVER, by Megan Abbott

MR. MERCEDES, by Stephen King

PATTERN RECOGNITION, by William Gibson

GOODBYE, COLUMBUS, by Philip Roth

THE ANGEL OF DARKNESS, by Caleb Carr

TENDER IS THE NIGHT, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, by Junot Díaz

HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD, by Haruki Murakami

SEVEN FOR A SECRET, by Lyndsay Faye

THE MASTER & MARGARITA, by Mikhail Bulgakov

THE GOLDFINCH, by Donna Tartt

DROWN, by Junot Díaz

THE BULLY PULPIT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF JOURNALISM, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

BUILDING STORIES, by Chris Ware

ZERO HISTORY, by William Gibson

THE SON, by Philipp Meyer

ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW, by Nathaniel Rich

THE LUMINARIES, by Eleanor Catton

MEANWHILE, by Jason Shiga

2013

BATTLING BOY, by Paul Pope

LIVE BY NIGHT, by Dennis Lehane

THE ORPHAN MASTER'S SON, by Adam Johnson

THE SECRET HISTORY, by Donna Tartt

THE NIGHT OF THE GUN, by David Carr

SPOOK COUNTRY, by William Gibson

THE GRAPES OF WRATH, by John Steinbeck

THE GODS OF GOTHAM, by Lyndsay Faye

DAWN, by Octavia E. Butler

THE MAID'S VERSION, by Daniel Woodrell

AFTER DARK, by Haruki Murakami

THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy

A DRINK BEFORE THE WAR, by Dennis Lehane

TENTH OF DECEMBER, by George Saunders

WHEN THE THRILL IS GONE, by Walter Mosley

WHITE TEETH, by Zadie Smith

THE GIVEN DAY, by Dennis Lehane

THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, by Junot Díaz

JOYLAND, by Stephen King

THE COLD SIX THOUSAND, by James Ellroy

ASTERIOS POLYP, by David Mazzuchelli

LIBRA, by Don DeLillo

EASTERN WISDOM, MODERN LIFE: COLLECTED TALKS 1960-69, by Alan Watts

WINTER'S BONE, by Daniel Woodrell

LITTLE SCARLET, by Walter Mosley

VIRTUAL LIGHT, by William Gibson

THE ALIENIST, by Caleb Carr

LONG AFTER MIDNIGHT, by Ray Bradbury

A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INIQUITY, by Jorge Luis Borges (from COLLECTED FICTIONS)

DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, by Erik Larson (2nd read-through)

TWELVE TALES OF SUSPENSE AND THE SUPERNATURAL, by Davis Grubb

THE SECRET SHARER, by Joseph Conrad

MICKEY MOUSE: THE RACE TO DEATH VALLEY, VOLUME ONE by Floyd Gottfredson

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, by Ken Kesey

POINT OMEGA, by Don DeLillo

THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, by H.G. Wells

BRAVE NEW WORLD, by Aldous Huxley

TOMATO RED, by Daniel Woodrell

UNDERWORLD, by Don DeLillo (review)

PROPHET VOLUME ONE - REMISSION, by Brandon Graham (review)

THE DEATH OF SWEET MISTER, by Daniel Woodrell

SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM, by Joan Didion

THE GIVER, by Lois Lowry

FALLING MAN, by Don DeLillo

BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN, by Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor

11/22/63, by Stephen King

BATMAN NOEL, by Lee Bermejo

THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH, by Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer

BLOODY CRIMES: THE CHASE FOR JEFFERSON DAVIS AND THE DEATH PAGEANT FOR LINCOLN'S CORPSE, by James L. Swanson.