Here is a list of the works read by me in 2012. I'm not entirely sure this is a complete list. My Macbook was stolen in September, which contained the updated document. Some of the books were partially read in late 2011, and finished in 2012. It appears that I read less this year than I have in the past. This is probably due to my having been in a healthy relationship most of the year(finally).
books I loved are in bold
books I liked are in italics
books that were "okay" are in regular fontbooks I disliked but finished are in regular font with XXXX in bold next to it (those I disliked enough to stop early I kept off the list)
an *asterisk means I re-read the book or read it twice this year
I didn't post any book links, because you can find them on your own. I recommend these links to find books Ken Sanders Rare Books or Weller Book Works or King's English in Salt Lake City, or Powell's in Portland. Support local bookstores!
FICTION(27):
"The Angel Esmeralda" by Don DeLillo
"End Zone" by Don DeLillo
"Child of God" by Cormac McCarthy
"Chronic City" by Jonathan Lethem
"Dora: A Headcase" by Lidia Yuknavitch
"The Broom of The System" by David Foster Wallace*
"Levitation" by Cynthia Ozick
"The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon*
"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins (only read ~2/3s of it)
"A Short Stay In Hell" by Steven Peck
"We Only Know So Much" by Elizabeth Crane
"Leaving The Atocha Station" by Ben Lerner
"J R" by William Gaddis
"Girl Imagined By Chance" by Lance Olsen
"Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino*
"Roadside Picnic" by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
"A Brilliant Novel In The Works" by Yuvi Zalkow
"And Now You Can Go" by Vendela Vida*
"Forty Stories" by Donald Barthelme*
"Shenanigans" by Joseph Michael Owens
"Metamorphosis and Other Stories" by Franz Kafka*"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers*
"A Hologram For The King" by Dave Eggers
"Less Than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis XXXX
"Imperial Bedrooms" by Bret Easton Ellis XXXX
"Life: A User's Manual" by Georges Perec
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera
NON-FICTION, MEMOIRS, ETC(14):
"Both Flesh And Not" by David Foster Wallace
"Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity" by David Lynch
"Wild: From Lost to Found on The Pacific Crest Trail" by Cheryl Strayed
"Tiny Beautiful Things" by Cheryl Strayed
"Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life Of David Foster Wallace" by DT Max
"Blue Nights" by Joan Didion
"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace*
"The Sublime Object of Ideology" by Slavoj Zizek
"David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide(1st Edition)" by Stephen Burn
"Chaos" by James Gleick
"Writing Pynchon" by Alec McHoul, David Wills
POETRY(3):
"Selected Poems" by Michael McClure*
"Howl and other Poems" by Allen Ginsberg*
"S/He" by Saul Williams*
BOOKS, ESSAYS OR SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS that I read partially or most of, but not all. It's usually because they are favorite authors and I like to spread out the reading. Or they were stolen with my Macbook. This list is actually much longer, as I have maaaaaaany books I begin reading, but I will stick to books in which I read a decent chunk.
“The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us” by James W. Pennebaker
"Dhalgren" by Samuel R. Delany (Book was stolen, couldn't finish it)
"Conversations with David Foster Wallace(Literary Conversations Series)" edited by Stephen J. Burn(Book was stolen, couldn't finish it)
books I loved are in bold
books I liked are in italics
books that were "okay" are in regular fontbooks I disliked but finished are in regular font with XXXX in bold next to it (those I disliked enough to stop early I kept off the list)
an *asterisk means I re-read the book or read it twice this year
I didn't post any book links, because you can find them on your own. I recommend these links to find books Ken Sanders Rare Books or Weller Book Works or King's English in Salt Lake City, or Powell's in Portland. Support local bookstores!
FICTION(27):
"The Angel Esmeralda" by Don DeLillo
"End Zone" by Don DeLillo
"Child of God" by Cormac McCarthy
"Chronic City" by Jonathan Lethem
"Dora: A Headcase" by Lidia Yuknavitch
"The Broom of The System" by David Foster Wallace*
"Levitation" by Cynthia Ozick
"The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon*
"The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins (only read ~2/3s of it)
"A Short Stay In Hell" by Steven Peck
"We Only Know So Much" by Elizabeth Crane
"Leaving The Atocha Station" by Ben Lerner
"J R" by William Gaddis
"Girl Imagined By Chance" by Lance Olsen
"Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino*
"Roadside Picnic" by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess
"A Brilliant Novel In The Works" by Yuvi Zalkow
"And Now You Can Go" by Vendela Vida*
"Forty Stories" by Donald Barthelme*
"Shenanigans" by Joseph Michael Owens
"Metamorphosis and Other Stories" by Franz Kafka*"A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers*
"A Hologram For The King" by Dave Eggers
"Less Than Zero" by Bret Easton Ellis XXXX
"Imperial Bedrooms" by Bret Easton Ellis XXXX
"Life: A User's Manual" by Georges Perec
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera
NON-FICTION, MEMOIRS, ETC(14):
"Both Flesh And Not" by David Foster Wallace
"Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity" by David Lynch
"Wild: From Lost to Found on The Pacific Crest Trail" by Cheryl Strayed
"Tiny Beautiful Things" by Cheryl Strayed
"Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life Of David Foster Wallace" by DT Max
"Blue Nights" by Joan Didion
"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace*
"The Sublime Object of Ideology" by Slavoj Zizek
"David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide(1st Edition)" by Stephen Burn
"Chaos" by James Gleick
"Writing Pynchon" by Alec McHoul, David Wills
"The Beats: A Graphic History" by Harvey Pekar*
"The Black Dot Series" & "Pretty Flowers" by Gabby Gabby
"The Black Dot Series" & "Pretty Flowers" by Gabby Gabby
"Signifying Rappers" by David Foster Wallace and Mark Costello*
POETRY(3):
"Selected Poems" by Michael McClure*
"Howl and other Poems" by Allen Ginsberg*
"S/He" by Saul Williams*
BOOKS, ESSAYS OR SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS that I read partially or most of, but not all. It's usually because they are favorite authors and I like to spread out the reading. Or they were stolen with my Macbook. This list is actually much longer, as I have maaaaaaany books I begin reading, but I will stick to books in which I read a decent chunk.
“The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us” by James W. Pennebaker
"Dhalgren" by Samuel R. Delany (Book was stolen, couldn't finish it)
"Conversations with David Foster Wallace(Literary Conversations Series)" edited by Stephen J. Burn(Book was stolen, couldn't finish it)
"David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, Second Edition: A Reader's Guide" by Stephen Burn(Book was stolen, couldn't finish it)
"Hot Pink" by Adam Levin
"The History of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn
"The Grand Design" Stephen Hawking
“A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” by David Foster Wallace*
“Consider The Lobster” by David Foster Wallace*
"Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace*
"It Is Right To Draw Their Fur" by Dave Eggers
“God Bless America: Stories” by Steve Almond
"American Tabloid" by James Ellroy
"Major Works" by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Grantland Quarterly: Volume 1
"Hot Pink" by Adam Levin
"The History of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn
"The Grand Design" Stephen Hawking
“A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” by David Foster Wallace*
“Consider The Lobster” by David Foster Wallace*
"Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace*
"It Is Right To Draw Their Fur" by Dave Eggers
“God Bless America: Stories” by Steve Almond
"American Tabloid" by James Ellroy
"Major Works" by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Grantland Quarterly: Volume 1
Grantland Quarterly: Volume 2
Grantland Quarterly: Volume 3
McSweeney's Quarterly: Issue 16*
McSweeney's Quarterly: Issue 24*
McSweeney's Quarterly: Issue 25*
