Top Books First Read in 2017

[dreamdead]

We're three months in, so what have you been reading so far this year. For me, it's been filling in the blind spots with Lahiri's work. I expect that later this year I'll visit one of her novels. Also, Kang's novel on the Gwangju Uprising was incredibly powerful--great prose and style after I found The Vegetarian merely good.

Each year at this time I find myself turning to the Tournament of Books (http://themorningnews.org/tob/), which is its own March Madness styled bracket where a set of novels from the past year compete against one another. Several books make it from there onto my "to-read" pile pretty much immediately...

1. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
2. Han Kang’s Human Acts
3. Zadie Smith’s On Beauty
4. Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs
5. Ian McGuire’s The North Water
6. Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky
7. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth: Stories
8. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees: Stories
9. Peter Ho Davies’s The Fortunes
10. Chris Bachelder’s Throwback Special
11. Joy Williams’s Ninety Nine Stories of God
12. Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn
13. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nocturnes: Stories
14. H. T. Tsiang’s And China Has Hands

Plays
Frank Chin’s The Chickencoop Chinaman and Year of the Dragon: Two Plays

[baby doll]

Novels:
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)

Non-Fiction:
Making Personas: Transnational Stardom in Modern Japan (Fujiki Hideaki, 2013)

[Peng]

Just notice they are all series books.

1. All the Wrong Questions#3: Shouldn't You Be in School? (Lemony Snicket)
2. AtWQ#4: Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights? (Lemony Snicket)
3. AtWQ#2: When Did You See Her Last? (Lemony Snicket)
4. Career of Evil (Robert Galbraith)
5. AtWQ#1: Who Could That Be at This Hour? (Lemony Snicket)
6. AtWQ#2.5: File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (Lemony Snicket)
7. The Silkworm (Robert Galbraith)
8. The Girl in the Spider's Web (David Lagercrantz)

[Melville]

All I read is comics.

1. Goodnight Punpun Vol. 1-3 (Inio Asano)
2. How to Be Happy (Eleanor Davis)
3. Last Look (Charles Burns)
4. Paper Girls Vol. 1-2 (Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, and Matt Wilson)
5. Deadly Class Vol. 5 (Rick Remender, Wes Craig, Jordan Boyd)
6. The Eyes of the Cat (Moebius and Jodorowsky)

[dreamdead]

Update--I'm about to start David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, so this will be the list for some time:


1. Shūsaku Endō’s Silence
2. Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Talents
3. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
4. Han Kang’s Human Acts
5. Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
6. Zadie Smith’s On Beauty
7. James Joyce’s Dubliners
8. Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kittridge
9. Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
10. Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs
11. Ian McGuire’s The North Water
12. Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky
13. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth: Stories
14. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees: Stories
15. Peter Ho Davies’s The Fortunes
16. Jennifer Latham’s Dreamland Burning
17. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck: Stories
18. Chris Bachelder’s Throwback Special
19. Teresa Cha’s Exile and Temps Morts: Selected Works
20. Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle
21. Eleanor Henderson’s Ten Thousand Saints
22. Joy Williams’s Ninety Nine Stories of God
23. Elizabeth Strout’s My Name is Lucy Barton
24. Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn
25. J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories
26. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nocturnes: Stories
27. H. T. Tsiang’s And China Has Hands

Frank Chin’s The Chickencoop Chinaman and Year of the Dragon: Two Plays
Greg Sestero’s The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

[Dead & Messed Up]

Fiction

1. Coldheart Canyon (current) (Clive Barker, 2001)

Non-Fiction

1. Global Weirdness (Climate Central, 2012)
2. The Great Courses: Classical Mythology (Elizabeth Vandiver, 2002)
3. Fossil Fuels (Ed. Robert Curley, 2012)
4. Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (current) (ed. Vere Chappell, 1999)
5. Calvin: For Armchair Theologians (Christopher Ellwood, 2002)
6. Half-Earth (Edward Wilson, 2017)

Theater

1. No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944)
2. Waiting for Godot (current) (Samuel Becket, 1953)

[baby doll]

Novels:
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper, 1826)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)

Short Stories:
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz, 1934)

Plays:
The Theban Plays (Sophocles, c.441-401 BC)

Non-Fiction:
Making Personas: Transnational Stardom in Modern Japan (Fujiki Hideaki, 2013)

[Peng]

1. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
2. It (Stephen King)
3. All the Wrong Questions#3: Shouldn't You Be in School? (Lemony Snicket)
4. City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Otto Friedrich)
5. AtWQ#4: Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights? (Lemony Snicket)
6. AtWQ#2: When Did You See Her Last? (Lemony Snicket)
7. Career of Evil (Robert Galbraith)
8. AtWQ#1: Who Could That Be at This Hour? (Lemony Snicket)
9. AtWQ#2.5: File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (Lemony Snicket)
10. The Silkworm (Robert Galbraith)

[baby doll]

Novels:
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper, 1826)
Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy, 1874)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood, 1985)

Short Stories:
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz, 1934)

Plays:
The Theban Plays (Sophocles, c.441-401 BC)

Non-Fiction:
Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema (Murray Smith, 1995)
Making Personas: Transnational Stardom in Modern Japan (Fujiki Hideaki, 2013)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Jung's final work was sorta tedious when it tried to tie any dream to Jung's preconceived notions of what the symbols meant. As much as he wants to suggest the elasticity of symbols, the entire process stank of confirmation bias to me. But it was a fascinating book anyway, and its exploration of mythic symbols was useful given my familiarity with Joseph Campbell remixing ideas from Jung.

And The Bacchae was phenomenal. Expected to "appreciate" it for literary merit, but the drama kicked in hard. Beyond its symbology and messaging, it's just good clean story.

Fiction

1. Coldheart Canyon (partial) (Clive Barker, 2001)

Non-Fiction

1. Global Weirdness (Climate Central, 2012)
2. The Great Courses: Classical Mythology (Elizabeth Vandiver, 2002)
3. Man and His Symbols (ed. Carl Jung, 1964)
4. Fossil Fuels (Ed. Robert Curley, 2012)
5. Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (partial) (ed. Vere Chappell, 1999)
6. Calvin: For Armchair Theologians (Christopher Ellwood, 2002)
7. Half-Earth (Edward Wilson, 2017)

Theater

1. The Bacchae (Euripides, 405 BC)
2. No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944)
3. Waiting for Godot (partial) (Samuel Becket, 1953)

[baby doll]

Novels:
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper, 1826)
Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy, 1874)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood, 1985)

Short Stories:
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz, 1934)

Plays:
The Theban Plays (Sophocles, c.441-401 BC)
The Player Queen (William Butler Yeats, 1922)
Suddenly Last Summer (Tennessee Williams, 1958)
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Notes Toward a Definition of Tragedy) (Edward Albee, 2002)

Non-Fiction:
Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema (Murray Smith, 1995)
Making Personas: Transnational Stardom in Modern Japan (Fujiki Hideaki, 2013)

[baby doll]

Novels:
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper, 1826)
Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy, 1874)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood, 1985)
The Flamethrowers (Rachel Kushner, 2013)

Short Stories:
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz, 1934)

Plays:
The Theban Plays (Sophocles, c.441-401 BC)
Desire Under the Elms (Eugene O'Neill, 1924)
Suddenly Last Summer (Tennessee Williams, 1958)
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Notes Toward a Definition of Tragedy) (Edward Albee, 2002)
Love and Information (Caryl Churchill, 2012)
The Player Queen (William Butler Yeats, 1922)

Non-Fiction:
Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema (Murray Smith, 1995)
Making Personas: Transnational Stardom in Modern Japan (Fujiki Hideaki, 2013)

[Peng]

1. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
2. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
3. It (Stephen King)
4. All the Wrong Questions#3: Shouldn't You Be in School? (Lemony Snicket)
5. City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Otto Friedrich)
6. AtWQ#4: Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights? (Lemony Snicket)
7. AtWQ#2: When Did You See Her Last? (Lemony Snicket)
8. Career of Evil (Robert Galbraith)
9. AtWQ#1: Who Could That Be at This Hour? (Lemony Snicket)
10. AtWQ#2.5: File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents (Lemony Snicket)

[Dukefrukem]

Finally finished The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla....

Started Song of Susannah....

[baby doll]

Novels:
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper, 1826)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville, 1851)
Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy, 1874)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)
I Spit on Your Graves (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1946)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood, 1985)
The Flamethrowers (Rachel Kushner, 2013)

Short Stories:
The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories (Nikolai Gogol, 1832-1842)
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz, 1934)

Plays:
The Theban Plays (Sophocles, c.441-401 BC)
Desire Under the Elms (Eugene O'Neill, 1924)
Suddenly Last Summer (Tennessee Williams, 1958)
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Notes Toward a Definition of Tragedy) (Edward Albee, 2002)
Love and Information (Caryl Churchill, 2012)
The Player Queen (William Butler Yeats, 1922)

Non-Fiction:
Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema (Murray Smith, 1995)
Making Personas: Transnational Stardom in Modern Japan (Fujiki Hideaki, 2013)

[Dead & Messed Up]

Fiction

1. Revival (Stephen King, 2014)
2. Coldheart Canyon (partial) (Clive Barker, 2001)
3. The Scarlet Plague (Jack London, 1912)

Non-Fiction

1. Global Weirdness (Climate Central, 2012)
2. The Great Courses: Classical Mythology (Elizabeth Vandiver, 2002)
3. Man and His Symbols (ed. Carl Jung, 1964)
4. Fossil Fuels (Ed. Robert Curley, 2012)
5. Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (partial) (ed. Vere Chappell, 1999)
6. Calvin: For Armchair Theologians (Christopher Ellwood, 2002)
7. Half-Earth (Edward Wilson, 2017)

Theater

1. The Bacchae (Euripides, 405 BC)
2. No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944)
3. Waiting for Godot (partial) (Samuel Becket, 1953)

Comic Books

1. Uzumaki (Junji Ito, 1998-1999)

[D_Davis]

I like Revival. One of King's strongest and bleakest endings. Damn.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I like Revival. One of King's strongest and bleakest endings. Damn.

I have 3 discs left on my 11 disc audiobook. David Morse is crushing it.

[Dukefrukem]

Finally finished The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla....

Started Song of Susannah....

Song of Susannah finished.

Man these books do not get any better as you get to the end...

[D_Davis]

Song of Susannah finished.

Man these books do not get any better as you get to the end...


Book V is the best of the series, my favorite single King book. Love book VII as well. Book VI has some amazing moments. I'd love to read an entire trilogy on the Tet Corporation protecting the Rose from Sombra. King could do some really cool things with corporate horror and supernatural espionage.

Book V
Book III
Book II
Book I
Book VII
Book VI
Book IV

This order was solidified after my 6th re-read of the series.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Fiction

1. Coldheart Canyon (partial) (Clive Barker, 2001)
2. Revival (Stephen King, 2014)
3. The Scarlet Plague (Jack London, 1912)
4. Good Omens (partial) (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, 1990)
5. Weird Tales: Select Stories... (William F. Nolan et al, 2009)

Non-Fiction

1. Global Weirdness (Climate Central, 2012)
2. The Great Courses: Classical Mythology (Elizabeth Vandiver, 2002)
3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Frederich Nietzsche, 1883)
4. Man and His Symbols (ed. Carl Jung, 1964)
5. Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (partial) (ed. Vere Chappell, 1999)
6. Nordic Mythology (Shirley Ray Redmond, 2012)
7. Roman Mythology (Don Nardo, 2012)
8. Fossil Fuels (Ed. Robert Curley, 2012)
9. Calvin: For Armchair Theologians (Christopher Ellwood, 2002)
10. Half-Earth (Edward Wilson, 2017)

Theater

1. The Bacchae (Euripides, 405 BC)
2. No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944)
3. Waiting for Godot (partial) (Samuel Becket, 1953)

Comic Books

1. Uzumaki (Junji Ito, 1998-1999)

[Peng]

1. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
2. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
3. It (Stephen King)
4. The Cat's Table (Michael Ondaatje)
5. All the Wrong Questions#3: Shouldn't You Be in School? (Lemony Snicket)
6. City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Otto Friedrich)
7. AtWQ#4: Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights? (Lemony Snicket)
8. AtWQ#2: When Did You See Her Last? (Lemony Snicket)
9. The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
10. Career of Evil (Robert Galbraith)

[baby doll]

Novels:
Emma (Jane Austen, 1815)
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper, 1826)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville, 1851)
Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy, 1874)
The Ambassadors (Henry James, 1903)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)
I Spit on Your Graves (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1946)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood, 1985)
The Flamethrowers (Rachel Kushner, 2013)

Short Stories:
The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories (Nikolai Gogol, 1832-1842)
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz, 1934)

Plays:
The Theban Plays (Sophocles, c.441-401 BC)
Desire Under the Elms (Eugene O'Neill, 1924)
Suddenly Last Summer (Tennessee Williams, 1958)
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Notes Toward a Definition of Tragedy) (Edward Albee, 2002)
Love and Information (Caryl Churchill, 2012)
The Player Queen (William Butler Yeats, 1922)

Non-Fiction:
Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema (Murray Smith, 1995)
Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia (Marijke de Valck, 2007)
Making Personas: Transnational Stardom in Modern Japan (Fujiki Hideaki, 2013)

[Peng]

1. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
2. Call Me By Your Name (André Aciman)
3. Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
4. It (Stephen King)
5. The Cat's Table (Michael Ondaatje)
6. All the Wrong Questions#3: Shouldn't You Be in School? (Lemony Snicket)
7. The Disaster Artist (Greg Sestero & Tom Bissell)
8. City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (Otto Friedrich)
9. AtWQ#4: Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights? (Lemony Snicket)
10. AtWQ#2: When Did You See Her Last? (Lemony Snicket)

[ledfloyd]

I read far fewer books than I planned to this year (around 25), but here goes:

1. Evicted by Matthew Desmond
2. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
3. Dreamland by Sam Quinones
4. Electric Arches by Eve Ewing
5. Swing Time by Zadie Smith
6. Kindred by Octavia Butler
7. Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick
8. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
9. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
10. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Runner-up: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

[Dead & Messed Up]

Fiction

1. Coldheart Canyon (partial) (Clive Barker, 2001)
2. Revival (Stephen King, 2014)
3. The Scarlet Plague (Jack London, 1912)
4. Good Omens (partial) (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, 1990)
5. Weird Tales: Select Stories... (William F. Nolan et al, 2009)

Non-Fiction

1. Global Weirdness (Climate Central, 2012)
2. The Great Courses: Classical Mythology (Elizabeth Vandiver, 2002)
3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Frederich Nietzsche, 1883)
4. Hot: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth (Mark Hertzgaard, 2012)
5. Man and His Symbols (ed. Carl Jung, 1964)
6. The Great Courses: Hinduism (Mark W. Muesse, 2003)
7. Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (partial) (ed. Vere Chappell, 1999)
8. Nordic Mythology (Shirley Ray Redmond, 2012)
9. Roman Mythology (Don Nardo, 2012)
10. Fossil Fuels (Ed. Robert Curley, 2012)
11. Calvin: For Armchair Theologians (Christopher Ellwood, 2002)
12. Half-Earth (Edward Wilson, 2017)

Theater

1. The Bacchae (Euripides, 405 BC)
2. No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944)
3. Waiting for Godot (partial) (Samuel Becket, 1953)

Comic Books

1. Uzumaki (Junji Ito, 1998-1999)[/QUOTE]

[dreamdead]

This has been a year where I found myself much more invested in books than in film, and probably resulted in the fewest number of films watched since the earlier 00s. That said, it was a vibrant year for lit:

Fiction:
1. Shūsaku Endō’s Silence
2. Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Talents
3. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
4. Han Kang’s Human Acts
5. Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
6. Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel
7. Zadie Smith’s On Beauty
8. James Joyce’s Dubliners
9. Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing
10. Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kittridge
11. Megan Abbott’s Queenpin
12. Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
13. Celeste Ng’s Little Fires Everywhere
14. Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones
15. Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being
16. Edna O’Brien’s The Little Red Chairs
17. Ian McGuire’s The North Water
18. Charlie Jane Anders’s All the Birds in the Sky
19. Chester Himes’s If He Hollers Let Him Go
20. Joy Kogawa’s Obasan
21. Jhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth: Stories
22. Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express
23. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees: Stories
24. Yi Mun-yol’s Meeting with My Brother
25. Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13
26. Liz Moore’s The Unseen World
27. Don Lee’s Lonesome Lies Before Us
28. Peter Ho Davies’s The Fortunes
29. Claire Keegan’s Walk the Blue Fields
30. Gabriel GarcÃ*a Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold
31. Rachel Cusk’s Transit
32. Robert Olen Butler’s A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
33. Jennifer Latham’s Dreamland Burning
34. Victor LaValle’s The Ballad of Black Tom
35. Katie Kitamura’s A Separation
36. Sebastian Barry’s Days Without End
37. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck: Stories
38. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Homesick for Another World
39. Chris Bachelder’s Throwback Special
40. Erika L. Sánchez’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
41. N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn
42. Teresa Cha’s Exile and Temps Morts: Selected Works
43. Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream
44. Diana Wynne Jones’s Howl’s Moving Castle
45. Eleanor Henderson’s Ten Thousand Saints
46. Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers
47. Elliot Ackerman’s Dark at the Crossing
48. Joy Williams’s Ninety Nine Stories of God
49. Shūsaku Endō’s Deep River
50. Allegra Goodman’s The Chalk Artist
51. Octavia Butler’s Blood Child and Other Stories
52. Elizabeth Strout’s My Name is Lucy Barton
53. Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn
54. Eugene Lim’s Dear Cyborgs
55. Sky Lee’s Disappearing Moon Cafe
56. Julie Schumacher’s Dear Committee Members
57. J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories
58. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nocturnes: Stories
59. H. T. Tsiang’s And China Has Hands

Plays
Frank Chin’s The Chickencoop Chinaman and Year of the Dragon: Two Plays
Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia

Nonfiction
James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon: Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
James Baldwin’s Nobody Knows My Name
Dave Levitan’s Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science
Allen Gee’s My Chinese-America: Essays
Greg Sestero’s The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

[baby doll]

Novels:
Emma (Jane Austen, 1815)
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper, 1826)
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville, 1851)
Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy, 1874)
Moonfleet (John Meade Falkner, 1898)
The Ambassadors (Henry James, 1903)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene, 1938)
I Spit on Your Graves (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1946)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood, 1985)
The Flamethrowers (Rachel Kushner, 2013)

Short Stories:
The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories (Nikolai Gogol, 1832-1842)
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz, 1934)

Plays:
The Theban Plays (Sophocles, c.441-401 BC)
Desire Under the Elms (Eugene O'Neill, 1924)
Suddenly Last Summer (Tennessee Williams, 1958)
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (Notes Toward a Definition of Tragedy) (Edward Albee, 2002)
Love and Information (Caryl Churchill, 2012)
The Player Queen (William Butler Yeats, 1922)

Non-Fiction:
Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema (Murray Smith, 1995)
Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia (Marijke de Valck, 2007)
Making Personas: Transnational Stardom in Modern Japan (Fujiki Hideaki, 2013)

[ledfloyd]

7. Zadie Smith’s On Beauty
I adore this book. It's my favorite of hers, and I like her a lot.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Excluding books I didn't finish.

Fiction

1. Revival (Stephen King, 2014)
2. The Scarlet Plague (Jack London, 1912)
3. Weird Tales: Select Stories... (William F. Nolan et al, 2009)

Non-Fiction

1. Global Weirdness (Climate Central, 2012)
2. The Great Courses: Classical Mythology (Elizabeth Vandiver, 2002)
3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Frederich Nietzsche, 1883)
4. Man and His Symbols (ed. Carl Jung, 1964)
5. Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (ed. Vere Chappell, 1999)
6. Nordic Mythology (Shirley Ray Redmond, 2012)
7. Roman Mythology (Don Nardo, 2012)
8. Fossil Fuels (Ed. Robert Curley, 2012)
9. Calvin: For Armchair Theologians (Christopher Ellwood, 2002)
10. Half-Earth (Edward Wilson, 2017)

Theater

1. The Bacchae (Euripides, 405 BC)
2. No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944)

Comic Books

1. Uzumaki (Junji Ito, 1998-1999)

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Dune (1965, Frank Herbert)
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007, Junot DÃ*az)
3. The Thief's Journal (1949, Jean Genet)
4. Darkness at Noon (1940, Arthur Koestler)
5. Earth Abides (1949, George R. Stewart)
6. Rebecca (1938, Daphne du Maurier)
7. The Cement Garden (1978, Ian McEwan)
8. The Berlin Stories (1935-39, Christopher Isherwood)
9. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968, Philip K. Dick)
10. Camp Concentration (1967, Thomas M. Disch)