This Year's Books

The books I read this year. Unfinished books, zines, or chapbooks were not included. Graphic novel-ly things are included, because I couldn't determine a compelling reason not to. It's about half text and half graphic novels.

1. A Wolf at the Door; Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.
2. Pedro Almodóvar, translation by Kirk Anderson: Patty Diphusa and Other Writings
3. Max Barry: Jennifer Government
4. Josephine Carr: The Dewey Decimal System of Love
5. Dame Darcy: Dame Darcy's Meatcake Collection
6. Philip K. Dick: The Cosmic Puppets
7. Philip K. Dick: Lies, Inc.
8. Philip K. Dick: Solar Lottery
9. Philip K. Dick & Roger Zelazny: Deus Irae
10. Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani: The Doom Patrol Archives Volume 1
11. Drawn & Quarterly Volume 3, (May 2000)
12. Bart D. Ehrman: Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
13. Carol Emshwiller: The Mount
14. Carol Emshwiller: Report to the Men's Club and Other Stories
15. Neil Gaimen & Terry Pratchett: Good Omens
16. Gilbert Hernandez: Palomar
17. Jack Kirby: The Challengers of the Unknown Archives Volume 1
18. Carol Lay: Now, Endsville
19. Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies, ed. art spiegelman
20. Little Lit 2:Strange Stories for Strange Kids, ed. art spiegelman
21. Charles Ludlam: The Mystery of Irma Vep and Other Plays
22. McSweeney's Issue 13, Chris Ware, ed.
23. Grant Morrison, Chris Weston, Gary Erskine: The Filth
24. Gary Panter: Jimbo in Purgatory
25. Max Phillips: Fade to Blonde
26. Terry Pratchett: The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
27. Terry Pratchett: Carpe Jugulum
28. Terry Pratchett: Eric
29. Terry Pratchett: The Fifth Elephant
30. Terry Pratchett: Going Postal
31. Terry Pratchett: Hogfather
32. Terry Pratchett: The Last Continent
33. Terry Pratchett: Maskerade
34. Terry Pratchett: Monstrous Regiment
35. Terry Pratchett: Mort
36. Terry Pratchett: Night Watch
37. Terry Pratchett: Reaper Man
38. Terry Pratchett: Thief of Time
39. Terry Pratchett: The Truth
40. Terry Pratchett: The Wee Free Men
41. Terry Pratchett and Paul Kidby: The Last Hero
42. Michel Rabagliati: Paul Has a Summer Job
43. Michel Rabagliati: Paul in the Country
44. Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
45. Charles Schulz: The Complete Peanuts 1950-1952
46. Charles Schulz: The Complete Peanuts, Dailies & Sundays 1953-1954
47. Charles Schulz: Li'l Beginnings
48. Osamu Tezuka: Buddha,Volume One: Kapilavastu
49. Osamu Tezuka: Buddha,Volume Two: The Four Encounters
50. Osamu Tezuka: Buddha,Volume Three: Devadatta
51. Osamu Tezuka: Buddha,Volume Four: The Forest of Uruvela
52. Top Shelf: Asks the Big Questions
53. Trampoline; Kelly Link ed.
54. Ray Vukcevich: Meet Me in the Moon Room
55. Chris Ware: Jimmy Corrigan
56. Steven Weissman: The Kid Firechief
57. Steven Weissman: White Flower Day
58. The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror; Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant, eds.
59. Neil Zawacki and Bill Brown: The Villain's Guide to Better Living
60. Ron Zimmerman and John Severin: Rawhide Kid: Slap Leather

Not too bad; at least it puts me solidly in the column of frequent readers, rather than those lousy moderate readers. I wish I were an avid reader, but every year I sort of tire of reading, and spend maybe 5 months doing something else, like watching old movies or drawing Pop Art pictures of the Venus of Willendorf. I vaguely wish that my list wasn't so dominated by a single author, but I's gets me enthusiasms, and I runs wit' 'em. Besides, he's a prolific writer, and I was catching up with his back-catalog.