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    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]

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    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
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    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
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    The Boat People - 9
    The Power of the Dog - 7.5
    The King of Pigs - 7

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    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)

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    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)
    Just because...
    The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
    Petite maman (CĂ©line Sciamma, 2021) mild
    The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild

    The last book I read was...
    The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain


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    Quote Quoting dreamdead (view post)
    7. Zadie Smith’s On Beauty
    I adore this book. It's my favorite of hers, and I like her a lot.

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    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)

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    1. Dune (1965, Frank Herbert)
    2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007, Junot DĂ*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)

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