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.