reading log

2013 Reading Log

1. The Joke’s on You: How to Write Comedy: Stephen Hoover

2. Doing Life: A Pragmatist Manifesto: Lee Thayer

3. Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett

4. Three Miles Past: Stephen Graham Jones

5. Communication: A Pocket Oracle for Leaders: Lee Thayer

6. The Comedy Bible: Judy Carter

7. Waste: Eugene Marten

8. The Dream Life of Balso Snell: Nathanael West

9. Diegeses: D. Harlan Wilson

10. Leadership Virtuosity: Lee Thayer

11. Miss Lonelyhearts: Nathanael West

12. Gateless Reflections: David K. Reynolds

13. The Competent Organization: Lee Thayer

14. Alcestis: Euripides

15. A Cool Million: Nathanael West 

16. Zombie Bake-Off: Stephen Graham Jones

17. Hamlet: Poem Unlimited: Harold Bloom

18. Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith: Joanna Ruocco

19. Dark Matter: Aase Berg

20. As a Man Thinketh: James Allen

21. Colony Collapse: J.A. Tyler

22. Haute Surveillance: Johannes Goransson

23. So You Know it’s Me: Brian Oliu

24. Level End: Brian Oliu

25. On Looking: Essays: Lia Purpura

26. High Priest of California: Charles Willeford

27. Poontang and Other Poems: Charles Willeford

28. Anatomy Courses: Blake Butler & Sean Kilpatrick

29. The Great Fires: Jack Gilbert

30. Motorman: David Ohle

31. Nature Stories: Jules Renard

32. How the Days of Love & Diphtheria: Robert Kloss

33. A Tale of Two Gardens: Octavio Paz

34. Vox: Nicholson Baker

35. Scop: Barry Malzberg

36. Mindsploitation: Vernon Chatman

37. The Riddle of the Traveling Skull: Harry Stephen Keeler

38. Whim Man Mammon: Abraham Smith

39. The Last Final Girl: Stephen Graham Jones

40. Will Oldham on Bonnie “Prince” Billy: Will Oldham, Alan Licht

2012 Reading Log (Total: 130 Books Read)

1. Drive: James Sallis

2. The Book of the Damned: Tanith Lee

3. Good, Brother: Peter Markus

4. Flats/Quake: Rudolph Wurlitzer

5. Ledfeather: Stephen Graham Jones

6. Waste: Eugene Marten

7. Dead in the West: Joe R. Lansdale

8. The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti: Stephen Graham Jones

9. The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart: Jesse Bullington

10. On Writing Horror: Mort Castle, Horror Writers Association

11. Fugue State: Brian Evenson

12: Communication: A Pocket Oracle for Leaders: Lee Thayer

13: Cypress Grove: James Sallis

14. Eight Pounds: Eight Tales of Crime, Horror, & Suspense: Chris F. Holm

15. The Orphan Palace: Joseph S. Pulver

16. No Shelter: Z. Constance Frost and Robert Swartwood

17. The Blade Itself (First Law #1): Joe Abercrombie

18. Gun Sex: Pearce Hansen

19. Macbeth: William Shakespeare

20. Last Days: Brian Evenson

21. Supernatural Noir: Ellen Datlow (editor)

22. Stagger Bay: Pearce Hansen

23. Unholy Dimensions: Jeffrey Thomas

24. A Voyage to Arcturus: David Lindsay

25. Anatomy Courses: Sean Kilpatrick & Blake Butler

26. The Tragedy of Hamlet: William Shakespeare

27. Zombie Bake-Off: Stephen Graham Jones

28. The Empty Space: Peter Brook

29. The Complete Poems of Hart Crane: Hart Crane

30. Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare

31. Hamlet: Poem Unlimited: Harold Bloom

32. As You Like It: William Shakespeare

33. All Gall is Divided: E.M. Cioran

34. The Tempest: William Shakespeare

35. Poison Vapors: Chris Moran

36. Measure for Measure: William Shakespeare

37. The Merry Wives of Windsor: William Shakespeare

38. The Mothering Coven: Joanna Ruocco

39. News of the World: Philip Levine

40. Tulips and Chimneys: E.E. Cummings

41. Very Good, Jeeves: P.G. Wodehouse

42. Refusing Heaven: Jack Gilbert

43. As a Man Thinketh: James Allen

44. The Fall into Time: E.M. Cioran

45. There is No Year: A Novel: Blake Butler

46. The Man Who Followed Me Home: Sean Kilpatrick

47. A High Wind in Jamaica: Richard Hughes

48. Kings of the Fucking Sea: Dan Boehl

49. The Poem’s Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody: Alfred Corn

50. Carry Me Father No More: Lee Klein

51. The Singing Fish: Peter Markus

52. Doing Life: A Pragmatist Manifesto: Lee Thayer

53. So You Know it’s Me: Brian Oliu

54. Toward You: Jim Krusoe

55. Players: Don Delillo

56. The Executioner: Joseph de Maistre

57. The Adventures of Lucky Pierre: Robert Coover

58. Reflections on the Human Condition: Eric Hoffer

59. Unconventions: Attempting the Art of Craft and the Craft of Art: Michael Martone

60. On Looking: Lia Purpura

61. Malone Dies: Samuel Beckett

62. Dear Ra: Johannes Goransson

63. The Unnamable: Samuel Beckett

64. Tender Buttons: Gertrude Stein

65. How It Is: Samuel Beckett

66. Nohow On: Company/Ill Seen Ill Said/Worstward Ho: Samuel Beckett

67. The Orange Eats Creeps: Grace Krilanovich

68. Endgame: Samuel Beckett

69. Worstward Ho: Samuel Beckett

70. Leadership Virtuosity: Lee Thayer

71. The Passionate State of Mind: Eric Hoffer

72. The Good Leader: Lee Thayer

73. The Art of Recklessness: Dean Young

74. The Cow: Ariana Reines

75. Constructive Living: David K. Reynolds

76. Bad Bad: Chelsey Minnis

77. Mercier and Camier: Samuel Beckett

78. Watt: Samuel Beckett

79. Explaining Things: Lee Thayer

80. Waiting for Godot: Samuel Beckett

81. Quiet Therapies: David K. Reynolds

82. Joy in the Morning: P.G. Wodehouse

83. Stories and Texts for Nothing: Samuel Beckett

84. Pieces: Lee Thayer

85. Right Ho, Jeeves: P.G. Wodehouse

86. Communication: A Pocket Oracle: Lee Thayer

87. Zeroville: Steve Erickson

88. Another Governess/The Least Blacksmith: Joanna Ruocco

89. Windeye: Brian Evenson

90. Bartleby the Scrivener: Herman Melville

91. Pick Up: Charles Willeford

92. A Compendium of Domestic Incidents: Joanna Ruocco

93. One Love Affair: Jenny Boully

94. Couer de Lion: Ariana Reines

95. Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer: Kenneth Patchen

96. Midnight Flame: Alessandra Shahbaz

97. Death, Sleep, and the Traveler: John Hawkes

98. Dead Space: Martyr: Brian Evenson

99. Ghazal in the Moonlight: Alessandra Shahbaz

100. The Orthodox Way: Kallistos Ware

101. The Thanatos Syndrome: Walker Percy

102. The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly: Denis Johnson

103. Border Run: Shya Scanlon

104. Linger Awhile: Russell Hoban

105. Desire Provoked: Tracy Daugherty

106. Second Skin: John Hawkes

107. All the Beautiful Sinners: Stephen Graham Jones

108. Going Native: Stephen Wright

109. We Live Inside You: Jeremy Robert Johnson

110. It Came from Del Rio: Stephen Graham Jones

111. The Light is the Darkness: Laird Barron

112. A Pretty Mouth: Molly Tanzer

113. The Last Final Girl: Stephen Graham Jones

114. The Cannibals of Candyland: Carlton Mellick III

115. They Had Goat Heads: D. Harlan Wilson

116. In the Mean Time: Paul Tremblay

117. Die You Doughnut Bastards: Cameron Pierce

118. Pike: Benjamin Whitmer

119. Rico Slade will Fucking Kill You: Bradley Sands

120. Love in the Time of Dinosaurs: Kirsten Alene

121. Storm Giants: Pearce Hansen

122. Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy: Jay Sankey

123: Human Wishes/Enemy Combatants: Edmond Caldwell

124. Mastery: Robert Greene

125. Born Standing Up: Steve Martin

126. Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury

127. Comedy by Numbers: Eric Hoffman

128. Comedy Writing Secrets: Mel Helitzer with Mark Shatz

129. Comedy Workshop by Dave Schwensen

130. The Pillowman: Martin Mcdonagh