reading list (2023-present)
(If the title is underlined, I’ve written about it, be it a word or a Postscript; if the author is underlined, I’ve interviewed them. For 2013-2022’s list, go here.
CURRENTLY
A RAGE IN HARLEM, by Chester Himes
A MANUAL FOR CLEANING WOMEN, by Lucia Berlin
THE EC ARCHIVES: TALES FROM THE CRYPT, Vol. 1, by Various
(pull list)
BATMAN (Zdarsky / Jimenez)… W0RLDTR33 (Tynion IV / Blanco)… BIRDS OF PREY (Thompson / Romero)… DAREDEVIL (Ahmed / Kuder)… CAPTAIN AMERICA (JMS / Saiz)… RARE FLAVOURS (V / Andrade)… WONDER WOMAN (King / Sampere)… BATMAN: GARGOYLE OF GOTHAM (Grampá / Lopes)… THE FLASH (Spurrier / Deodato) … SPACE USAGI (Sakai)… USAGI YOJIMBO: ICE AND SNOW (Sakai)… THE PENGUIN (King / De La Torre)… … SLOW BURN (Masters / Minotti)… FANTASTIC FOUR (North / Coello)… WESLEY DODDS: THE SANDMAN (Venditti / Rossmo)… BATMAN: CITY OF MADNESS (Ward)… BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES (Horvath)… SUBGENRE (Kindt / Torres)… CANARY (Snyder / Panosian)… DETECTIVE COMICS (V / et al)… ANIMAL POUND (King / Gross)… THE DEVIANT (Tynion IV / Hixson)… LOTUS LAND (Van Poelgeest / Filipe)… PETROL HEAD (Williams / Parr)… SUPERMAN ‘78: THE METAL CURTAIN (Venditti / Guidry)… DAREDEVIL: BLACK ARMOR (Chichester / Diaz)… BATMAN: OFF-WORLD (Aaron / Mahnke)… SOMNA (Cloonan / Lotay)… BASIC INSTINCT (Freeman / Del Ray)… CRAVE (Llovet)… ALAN SCOTT: THE GREEN LANTERN (Sheridan / Tormey)… BATMAN ‘89: ECHOES (Hamm / Quinones)… OUR BONES DUST (Stenbeck)… BEYOND REAL (Kaplan / Mascolo / Fejzula)… INVASIVE (Bunn / Hervás)… MASTERPIECE (Bendis / Maleev)… UNDERHEIST (Lapham / Lapham)… DUKE (Williamson / Reilly)… COBRA COMMANDER (Williamson / Milana)… VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT (MacKay / Cappucio)… PINE & MERRIMAC (Starks / Galán)… ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN (Hickman / Checchetto)… ACTION COMICS (Aaron / Timms)… ZORRO: MAN OF THE DEAD (Murphy)… AVENGERS: TWILIGHT (Zdarsky / Acuña)… JAMES BOND 007 (Ennis / Lobosco)… DEER EDITOR (Lindsay / Kivela)
2024
GREEN MARS, by Kim Stanley Robinson
THE INTELLIGENT INVESTOR, by Benjamin Graham (audio)
CYBERPUNK 2077: XOXO, Bartosz Sztybor & Jakub Rebelka
UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: DRACULA, by James Tynion IV & Martin Simmonds
WHERE YOU END, by Abbott Kahler
SUPERMAN BY GRANT MORRISON OMNIBUS, by Grant Morrison, et al
WHERE THE BODY WAS, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
GIANT ROBOT HELLBOY, by Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo
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