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Books I finished reading

Books I finished reading

in 2024

  • Both Flesh and Not - David Foster Wallace
  • The Human Target - Tom King, Greg Smallwood
  • 7 Against Chaos - Harlan Ellison, Paul Chadwick, Ken Steacy
  • Every Man For Himself and God Against All (Audiobook) - Werner Herzog
  • The Suitcase Clone - Robin Sloan
  • claus and the scorpion - lara dopazo ruibal, laura cesarco eglin (trans.)
  • The Clean Coder - Robert C. Martin
  • The Country of the Blind (Audiobook) - Andrew Leland
  • Salt Fat Acid Heat (Audiobook) - Samin Nosrat
  • Making It All Work (Audiobook) - David Allen
  • Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow - Tom King, Bilquis Evely, Matheus Lopes
  • Kitchen Confidential (Audiobook) - Anthony Bourdain
  • Kitchen Confidential (Audiobook) - Anthony Bourdain
  • The Hulk: Grand Design - Jim Rugg

in 2023

  • The Human Target - Tom King, Greg Smallwood
  • Ways of Being (Audiobook) - James Bridle
  • The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick - Volume 3: Second Variety - Philip K. Dick
  • Ducks - Kate Beaton
  • Zero History - William Gibson
  • Spook Country - William Gibson
  • Pattern Recognition - William Gibson

in 2022

  • Lurking (Audiobook) - Joanne McNeil
  • Powers: The Best Ever - Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming
  • Groo: Fray of the Gods - Sergio Aregones, Mark Evanier, et al.
  • Debt: The First 5000 Years (Audiobook) - David Graeber
  • The Best American Comics 2007 - Chris Ware, ed.
  • Wonder Woman: Earth One - Grant Morrison, Yanick Paquette
  • The Future Is Ours: The Collected Science Fiction of Edward D. Hoch - Edward D. Hoch
  • The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Vol. 6) - Ryan North, Erica Henderson, et. al
  • A Garden of Creatures - Sheila Heti, Esmé Shapiro
  • The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Vol. 1–5) - Ryan North, Erica Henderson, et. al
  • The Odyssey Homer, Emily Wilson (trans.)
  • Goes - Luke Kruger-Howard
  • An Ideal Presence - Eduardo Berti, Daniel Levin Becker (trans.)
  • Discipline - Dash Shaw
  • Rain Like Hammers - Brandon Graham
  • Hawkeye - Matt Fraction, David Aja
  • All the Marvels (Audiobook) - Douglas Wolk

in 2021

  • All Tomorrow’s Parties - William Gibson
  • H is for Hawk (Audiobook) - Helen Macdonald
  • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Audiobook) - Merlin Sheldrake
  • Remainder - Tom McCarthy
  • LaserWriter II - Tamara Shopsin
  • The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
  • Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet (Audiobook) - Claire L. Evans
  • Guantanamo Voices - Sarah Mirk
  • Sex Criminals - Matt Fraction, Chip Zdarsky
  • Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (Audiobook) - George Dyson
  • The Eternals - Neil Gaiman, John Romita Jr.
  • The Delivery - Peter Mendelsund
  • Young Gods and Friends Barry Windsor-Smith
  • Monsters - Barry Windsor-Smith
  • Bubblegum - Adam Levin
  • Idoru - William Gibson
  • Virtual Light - William Gibson

in 2020

  • Between Silk and Cyanide (Audiobook) - Leo Marks
  • Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? - Matt Fraction, Steve Leiber
  • The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist - Adrian Tomine
  • The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
  • One Trick Rip-Off + Deep Cuts - Paul Pope
  • Mona Lisa Overdrive - William Gibson
  • Count Zero - William Gibson
  • Agency - William Gibson
  • The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries - R. Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann, Carl A. P. Ruck
  • The Wicked + The Divine (Vol 2-9) - Kieron Gillen, Jamie Mckelvie
  • Hellboy in Hell (Omnibus vol. 4) - Mike Mignola
  • The Wicked + The Divine (Vol 1) - Kieron Gillen, Jamie Mckelvie
  • Powers (Book 7) - Bendis, Oeming

in 2019

  • Powers (Book 6) - Bendis, Oeming
  • Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic - Green, Jones
  • Hellboy (Omnibus vol. 3–4) - Mike Mignola
  • Books of Magic - Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess, Scott Hampton, John Bolton, Paul Johnson
  • Watchmen - Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons
  • Kirby: King of Comics - Mark Evanier
  • The Amber Spyglass (Audiobook) - Philip Pullman
  • The Subtle Knife (Audiobook) - Philip Pullman
  • The Golden Compass (Audiobook) - Philip Pullman
  • The Wicked + The Divine (Vol 5-9) - Kieron Gillen, Jamie Mckelvie
  • Paper Girls (Vol 6) - Brian K. Vaughn, Cliff Chiang
  • The Wicked + The Divine (Vol 1–4) - Kieron Gillen, Jamie Mckelvie
  • 1602 - Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert
  • Silver Surfer (Vol 4–5) - Dan Slott, Mike Allred
  • Berlin - Jason Lutes
  • Kingdom Come - Mark Waid, Alex Ross
  • Next Men (Aftermath) - John Byrne
  • The Book of Drugs - Mike Doughty
  • Silver Surfer (Vol 1–3) - Dan Slott, Mike Allred
  • Rusty Brown - Chris Ware
  • A City Inside - Tillie Walden
  • Rose - Jeff Smith
  • Bone (Vol 5-9) - Jeff Smith
  • Starman Omnibus 1 - James Robinson, Tony Harris
  • Bone (Vol 1-4) - Jeff Smith
  • The Three Paradoxes - Paul Hornschemeier
  • My Favorite Thing Is Monsters - Emil Ferris
  • Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture - Dan Gearino
  • Marvel Comics: The Untold Story - Sean Howe
  • Comic Wars: Marvel's Battle for Survival - Dan Raviv
  • Poisoned Chalice: The Extremely Long and Incredibly Complex Story of Marvelman (and Miracleman) - Pádraig Ó Méalóid
  • Soft Volcano - Libby Burton
  • Death - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Sandman: Endless Nights - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Sandman: Overture - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Sandman: The Wake - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Sandman: The Kindly Ones - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Javascript for Web Designers - Mat Marquis
  • Sandman: Fables & Reflections - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Sandman: A Game of You - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Death: The High Cost of Living - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Room to Dream (Audiobook) - David Lynch and Kristine McKenna
  • Sandman: Season of Mists - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Sandman: Dream Country - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Sandman: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman et al.
  • Jupiter’s Legacy - Mark Millar and Frank Quitely
  • Jupiter's Circle - Mark Millar and Frank Quitely
  • The Coldest Winter - Antony Johnston, Sam Hart
  • Mister Miracle - Tom King, Mitch Gerads
  • Ice Cream Man (Vol 1–2) - W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo
  • All-Star Superman - Grant Morrison, Frank Quiteley
  • Mister Miracle - Tom King, Mitch Gerads
  • Life in Code - Ellen Ullman
  • Mister Miracle - Tom King, Mitch Gerads
  • The Sandman Overture - Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III, and Dave Stewart
  • Paper Girls (Vol 1–5) - Brian K. Vaughn, Cliff Chiang

in 2018

  • Stray Bullets: Dark Days - David Lapham, Maria Lapham
  • Stray Bullets: Other People - David Lapham, Maria Lapham
  • Stray Bullets: Somewhere Out West - David Lapham, Maria Lapham
  • Stray Bullets: Killers - David Lapham, Maria Lapham
  • Ocean - Warren Ellis, Chris Sprouse
  • Stray Bullets: Hijinks and Derring-Do - David Lapham, Maria Lapham
  • The Vision - Tom King, Michael Walsh, Gabriel Hernandez Walta
  • The Filth - Grant Morrison
  • Stray Bullets: The Innocence of Nihilism - David Lapham, Maria Lapham
  • Ghost World - Daniel Clowes
  • Stray Bullets: The Innocence of Nihilism - David Lapham, Maria Lapham
  • X'd Out, The Hive, Sugar Skull - Charles Burns
  • The Real World of Technology - Ursula Franklin
  • The Wild Storm (Vol. 1–2) - Warren Ellis
  • Top 10: The Forty-Niners - Alan Moore
  • Black Bolt - Saladin Ahmed
  • Avengers: Eternal War - Warren Ellis
  • The End of Summer - Tillie Walden
  • Zero History - William Gibson
  • Trinity - Jonathan Fetter-Vorm
  • Room to Dream - David Lynch and Kristine McKenna
  • Dune Messiah - Frank Herbert
  • Moon Cop - Tom Gauld
  • Goliath - Tom Gauld
  • Imagine Wanting Only This - Kristen Radtke
  • Dune - Frank Herbert
  • Fun Home - Alison Bechdel
  • Red Mafiya - Robert Friedman
  • Getting Things Done (Audiobook) - David Allen
  • Responsive Design: Patterns and Principles - Ethan Marcotte
  • Getting Things Done (Audiobook) - David Allen
  • Views of Jeopardy - Jack Gilbert
  • The View From Flyover Country - Sarah Kendzior
  • Motherhood - Sheila Heti
  • The Art of Asking (Audiobook) - Amanda Palmer
  • Gnomon - Nick Harkaway
  • Annihilation - Jeff VanderMeer
  • Satin Island - Tom McCarthy
  • Fire and Fury - Michael Wolff
  • Preparation for the Next Life - Atticus Lish

in 2017

  • Illuminations - Walter Benjamin
  • Killing and Dying - Adrian Tomine
  • We3 - Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
  • Making Friends Among The Taliban - Jonathan P. Larson
  • New York Drawings - Adrian Tomine
  • Evicted - Matthew Desmond
  • The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
  • The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
  • Lentil - Robert McCloskey
  • The Evidence of Things Not Seen - James Baldwin
  • Patience - Daniel Clowes
  • The Man Without A Face - Masha Gessen
  • To Our Friends - Invisible Committee
  • Eichmann in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt
  • Public Power in the Age of Empire - Arundhati Roy

in 2016

  • Daredevil: The Man Without Fear - Frank Miller and John Romita Jr.
  • Fast Food - Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers
  • Batman: The Killing Joke - Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
  • We Found A Hat - Jon Klassen
  • The Inspection House: An Impertinent Field Guide to Modern Surveillance - Emily Horne and Tim Maly
  • Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tales - Art Spiegelman and Barbara McClintock (Editors)
  • The Self Unstable - Elisa Gabbert
  • Pictures from the Surface of the Earth - Wim Wenders
  • The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LeValle
  • Beowulf - Seamus Heaney (trans.)
  • Last Stop on Market Street - Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
  • The Mushroom at the End of the World - Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
  • The Other Paris - Luc Sante
  • Written in the West - Wim Wenders
  • Meanwhile in San Francisco - Wendy MacNaughton
  • Days: Tangier Journals 1987-1989 - Paul Bowles
  • Where The Bird Sings Best - Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Ballad - Blexbolex
  • Practical SVG - Chris Coyier
  • Drawing Blood- Molly Crabapple
  • The Vision: Little Worse Than A Man - Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta
  • The Multiversity - Grant Morrison
  • Kid Eternity - Grant Morrison
  • Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga - Jiro Kuwata
  • Dash Snow: Polaroids
  • Batman: Year 100 - Paul Pope
  • Networks of New York - Ingrid Burrington
  • The Fall of the House of West - Paul Pope and J.T. Petty
  • The Rise of Aurora West - Paul Pope and J.T. Petty
  • Battling Boy - Paul Pope
  • Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture - Jace Clayton (aka DJ Rupture)
  • The Body Keeps The Score - Bessel van der Kolk
  • Make Way For Ducklings - Robert McCloskey
  • The Mindbody Prescription - John Sarno, M.D.
  • The First Signs - Genevieve von Petzinger
  • Jupiter’s Legacy - Mark Millar and Frank Quitely
  • Kill Your Boyfriend - Grant Morrison and Philip Bond
  • Peek a Who? - Nina Laden
  • The Peripheral - William Gibson
  • Empires of EVE - Andrew Groen
  • The Argonauts - Maggie Nelson
  • Eating the Alphabet - Lois Ehlert
  • Git for Humans - David Demaree
  • The Pale King - David Foster Wallace
  • The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • St. Paul: A Screenplay - Pier Paolo Pasolini

in 2015

Continuing to challenge myself to finish books I've already started before starting too many new ones.

  • I Know A Rhino - Charles Fuge
  • Forty Days Alone - A Visual Chronicle - Asha Greer
  • Ms. Marvel (Vol 4) - G. Willow Wilson
  • To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  • Into The War - Italo Calvino
  • A People’s History of the United States - Howard Zinn
  • Ex Machina (Vols 1-5) - Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris
  • Bone (Vols 3, 6–9) - Jeff Smith
  • Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slovaj - Nadya Tolokonnikova and Slavoj Žižek
  • Unschooling - Astra Taylor
  • The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
  • Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men - Lundy Bancroft
  • Manwatching - Desmond Morris
  • Preacher (Vols 1-6) - Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
  • Bitch Planet (Vol 1) - Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro
  • Transmetropolitan (Vols 1-10) - Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
  • Ms. Marvel (Vols 1-3) - G. Willow Wilson
  • Responsible Responsive Design - Scott Jehl [re-read]
  • Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth - Ina May Gaskin
  • Modern PHP - Josh Lockhart
  • Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Edge Becomes The Center - DW Gibson
  • The Internet Of Garbage - Sarah Jeong
  • Building Web Apps with WordPress - Brian Messenlehner and Jason Coleman
  • Responsible Responsive Design - Scott Jehl
  • Being Mortal: Medecine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
  • The Colossus of New York - Colson Whitehead
  • A Primate’s Memoir - Robert Sapolsky
  • The Chairs Are Where The People Go - Misha Glouberman with Sheila Heti
  • Sublime Text Power User - Wes Bos
  • The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
  • Trees (Vol 1) - Warren Ellis, Jason Howard
  • The Night of the Gun - David Carr
  • Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose - Nicole Fenton and Kate Kiefer Lee
  • Javascript & jQuery: Interactive Front-end Web Development - Jon Duckett
  • Planetary (Omnibus) - Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
  • When The Only Light Is Fire - Saeed Jones
  • Web Performance - Andy Davies
  • Wild - Cheryl Strayed
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