Wednesday, January 05, 2011

BOOKS I READ IN 2010

Thanks to my friend Winslow's suggestion, I decided to post a list of all the books I read last year. Other than the first ten, which I picked as my favorites for the North Coast Journal, they're in no specific order. There might be a few I forgot. This year I'm going to make an effort to get off the new release treadmill and read more older stuff.

  • The Professor by Terry Castle
  • Long, Last, Happy by Barry Hannah
  • Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
  • A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  • Role Models by John Waters
  • Weathercraft by Jim Woodring
  • Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens
  • Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume 1
  • The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño
  • X'ed by Charles Burns
  • Antwerp By Roberto Bolaño
  • Zero History by William Gibson
  • Spook Country by William Gibson
  • The Ask by Sam Lipsyte
  • The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
  • Lowboy by John Wray
  • Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
  • C by Tom McCarthy
  • Wilson by Dan Clowes
  • Point Omega by Don DeLillo
  • In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
  • Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
  • In-House Weddings by Bohumil Hrabal
  • Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati
  • You Are There by Jean-Claude Forest and Jacques Tardi
  • Skim by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
  • Reality Hunger by David Shields
  • Life by Keith Richards
  • Just Kids by Patti Smith
  • A Bomb in Every Issue by Peter Richardson
  • Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris
  • Griftotopia by Matt Taibbi
  • The Whites of Their Eyes by Jill Lepore
  • On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno by David Shepard
  • Apathy for the Devil by Nick Kent
  • American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
  • Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt
  • Listen to This by Alex Ross
  • The Second City Unscripted by Mike Thomas
  • I'm Dying Up Here by William Knoedelseder
  • But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz by Geoff Dyer
  • Hail, Hail, Euphoria! by Roy Blount Jr.
  • Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith
  • Love and Rockets: New Stories 3 by Los Bros. Hernandez

Since I haven't posted here in over a year, I think it's safe to say that this blog is kaput. It's been fun, and I hope to do a completely updated new blog somewhere else soon. Don't hold your breath though.