2009 Reading List

So this is the 3rd or so year I have done this. It really helps to have a nice little list you can check back on when your memory fails you. Plus it is an easy way to update! So here it is...

• The Sky People, S.M. Stirling
• Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure, Carol Brightman
• Dr. Identity or Farewell to Plaquedemia, D. Harlan Wilson
• Phish: The Biography, Parke Puterbaugh
• Prince: A Thief in the Temple, Brian Morton
• Ororo: Before the Storm, Marc Sumerak & Carlo Barberi
• Yokkaiden Vol. 2, Nina Matsumoto
• Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
• Genesis, Poul Anderson
• Consider the Lobster, And Other Essays, David Foster Wallace
• 99 More Unuseless Japanese Inventions: The Japanese Art of Chingodu, Kenji Kawakami
• The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, annotations by David Dodd, foreward by Robert Hunter
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
• The Amazing Spider-Man: Election Day, Guggenheim, Romita Jr., & Kitson
• Shadow of the Scorpion: A Novel of the Polity, Neal Asher
• Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 1: Power and Responsibility, Brian Micheal Bendis, Mark Bagley
• Dutchman's Flat, Louis L'Amour
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 1, ed. by Jonathan Strahan
• The Big Khan, Neil Kleid, Nicolas Cinquegrani
• Tomorrowland: 10 Stories About the Future, compiled by Micheal Cart
• The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 2, ed. by Jonathan Strahan
• There Ain't No Bugs On Me, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Bruce Whatley
• A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge, Josh Neufeld
• Burn, James Patrick Kelly
• Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!. Scott Morse
• Space Boy, Orson Scott Card
• A War of Gifts, Orson Scott Card
• Generation A, Douglas Coupland
• West of Dodge, Louis L'Amour
• Clubbing, Andi Watson & Josh Howard
• Brass Man, Neal Asher
• The Skinner, Neal Asher
• Man-Kzin Wars IX, Niven, Anderson, Chafe, & Colebatch
• Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?, Neil Gaiman & Andy Kubert
• In the Garden of Iden, Kage Baker
• The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg Volume Four: Trips 1972-73, Robert Silverberg
• Living With the Dead, Rock Scully with David Dalton
• The Water of Life: A Tale of the Grateful Dead, Alan Trist & Jim Carpenter
• Prador Moon, Neal Asher
• The Hunter, Richard Stark & Darwyn Cooke
• Hondo, Louis L'Amour
• Concrete: Fragile Creature, Paul Chadwick
• The Empress of Mars, Kage Baker
• The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2, Peter & Barbara Jenkins
• Embroideries, Marjane Satrapi
• Dark Horse: The Private Life of George Harrison, Geoffrey Giuliano
• One More Saturday Night: Reflections with the Grateful Dead, Dead Family, and Dead Heads, Sandy Troy
• There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm's Story, Gary Larson
• Black Milk, Robert Reed
• With These Hands, Louis L'Amour
• Supergirl: Beyond Good and Evil, Puckett, Kelley, Johnson & Drew
• Push, Freeman, Bernardin, Redondo & Minier
• Off the Mangrove Coast, Louis L'Amour
• Mister X: The Archives, Dean Motter
• May There Be a Road, Louis L'Amour
• Heroes Volume 1, Various
• Freddie and Me: A Coming of Age (Bohemian) Rhapsody, Mike Dawson
• Children of the Sea, Daisuke Igarashi
• Button, Button: Uncanny Stories, Richard Matheson
• Beanworld: A Gift Comes!, Larry Marder
• Batman: Face the Face, James Robinson, Don Kramer, & Leonard Kirk
• All Star Superman Volume 2, Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely
• Ultimate Power, Bendis, Straczynski, Loeb & Land
• Batman: Cacaphony, Kevin Smith & Walt Flanagan
• John Constantine: Hellblazer-The Roots of Coincidence, Andy Diggle & Leonardo Manco
• Jonah Hex: Bullets Don't Lie, Justin Gray, Darwyn Cooke, Jimmy Palmiotti & J.H. Williams III
• Gotham Central: Book Two-Jokers and Madmen, Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka & Micheal Lark
• Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns, Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis, Micke McKone & Shane Davis
• Zen Guitar, Philip Toshio Sudo
• The Black Star Passes, John W. Campbell
• The Engineer Reconditioned, Neal Asher
• Glacier Terror, David Thompson
• Winterkill, David Thompson
• The Legend of the Mountain, Will Henry
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• No One Writes to the Colonel, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Leaf Storm, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Catch A Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, Timothy White
• A Wrinkle In Time, Madeleine L'Engle
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
• High Country Showdown, Ray Gaulden
• Nemi II, Lise Myhre
• Bob Marley: The Life of a Musical Legend, Gary Jeffrey & Terry Riley
• The First Fast Draw, Louis L'Amour
• War Party, Louis L'Amour
• The Rabbi's Cat 2, Joann Sfar
• Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest, Walter Noble Burns
• Harp, Pipe, & Symphony, Paul Di Filippo
• Reggae Bloodlines: In Search of the Music and Culture of Jamaica, Stephen Davis & Peter Simon
• Asimov's Choice: Black Holes and Bug-Eyed Monsters, ed. by Isaac Asimov
• Trader to the Stars, Poul Anderson
• Utah Blaine, Louis L'Amour
• Tau Zero, Poul Anderson
• High Trail, Vivian Breck
• You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day, Mo Willems
• Green Arrow and Black Canary: A League of Their Own, Jusdd Winick, Mike Norton & Wayne Faucher
• The Surrogates: Flesh and Bone, Robert Venditti & Brett Weldele
• The League of Extraordinary Gentleman Century: 1910, Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill
• Batman: The Man Who Laughs, Ed Brubaker, Doug Mahnke & Patrick Zircher
• Justice Society of America: Thy Kingdom Come, Geoff John, Alex Ross, Dale Eaglesham & Fernando Pasarin
• Starman Jones, Robert Heinlein
• The New York Four, Brian Wood & Ryan Kelly
• Token, Alisa Kwitney & Joelle Jones
• The Big Book of Hell, Matt Groening
• X-Men: Magneto-Testament, Pak & Di Giandomenico
• Nemi, Lise Myhre
• Kitt Peak, Al Sarrantonio
• Batman: Hush, Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, & Scott Williams
• The Sheriff of Yrnameer, Michael Rubens
• The 14th Dalai Lama, Tetsu Saiwai
• A Graphic Biography of Malcolm X, Andrew Helfer & Randy DuBurke
• The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga Vol. 3, ed. by Ilya
• Batman: Harley and Ivy, Paul Dini, Judd Winick, Bruce Timm & Joe Chiodo
• Faking It: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually Improving Yourself, Amir Blumenfeld, Neel Shah & Ethan Trex
• Joker, Brian Azzarello & Lee Bermejo
• Renegade: The Lost Books, Ted Dekker
• Robin: A Hero Reborn, Grant, Dixon, etc.
• Superman: The Coming of Atlas, James Robinson, Renato Guedes & Wilson Magalhaes
• A Drifting Life, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
• Life Sucks, Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria & Warren Pleece
• More Science Braintwisters and Paradoxes, Christopher P. Jargocki
• Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter, Michelle Mercer
• Punk Rock Etiquette: The Ultimate How to Guide for DIY, punk, indie, and underground bands, Travis Nichols
• The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow, AJ Mackinnon
• The Rabbi's Cat, Joann Sfar
• Too Much Hopeless Savages Vol. 3, Van Meter, Norrie, Campbell
• Putomayo Presents World Playground Multicultural Activity Kit (Super fun!)
• The Happiest Man in the World: An Account of The Life of Poppa Neutrino, Alec Wilkinson
• Clapton: The Autobiography, Eric Clapton
• Rabbi Harvey Rides Again, Steve Sheinkin
• JLA Unlimited: The Ties That Bind, Various
• Iron and Silk, Mark Salzman
• Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music, Blair Tindall
• The Universal Composer: Beethoven, Edmund Morris
• Re-Gifters, Mike Carey, Sonny Liew & Marc Hempel
• Batman-Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, Grant Morrison & Dave McKean
• Dungeon-Monstres Vol. 2: The Dark Lord, Sfar, Trondheim & Blanquet
• The Eternal Smile, Gene Luen Yang & Derek Kirk Kim
• Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology, ed. by Jeff Yang, Parry Shen, Keith Chow & Jerry Ma
• The Strange Intruder, Arthur Catherall
• Jean and Johnny, Beverly Cleary
• Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates, David Cordingly
• So You Want to Join the Peace Corps...What to Know Before You Go, Dillon Banerjee
• More Than Drumming: Essays on African and Afro-Latin American Music and Musicians, ed. by Irene V. Jackson
• The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA, Mark Schultz with Zander and Kevin Cannon
• America The Beautiful, Moon Unit Zappa
• Runaways: Dead End Kids, Joss Whedon and Michael Ryan
• Arab in America, Toufic El Rassi
• Holes, Louis Sachar
• Will Eisner's The Spirit-Book One, Darwyn Cooke
• Vroom With a View-In Search of Italy's Dolce Vita on a '61 Vespa, Peter Moore
• My Old Man and The Sea: A Fathers and Son Sail Around Cape Horn, David and Daniel Hays
• Usagi Yojimbo Vol. 12: Grasscutter, Stan Sakai
• The Real Frank Zappa, Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso
• The Sunny Side, A.A. Milne
• Black Jack Vol. 1, Osamu Tezuka
• Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction, ed. by Al Sarrantonio
• Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Burne Hogarth
• Demo, Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
• Walt Disney: Creator of Magical Worlds, Charnan Simon
• Walt Disney, Maxine Fisher
• Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
• Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron, Daniel Clowes
• The Batman Chronicles Volume 2, Various
• Walt Disney's Donald Duck Adventures Vol. 6, Various
• Walt Disney's Uncle $crooge Adventures the Barks/Rosa collection Vol. 1: "Land of the Pygmy Indians," and "War of the Wendigo," Carl Barks and Don Rosa
• Walt Disney's Treasures Uncle Scrooge: A Little Something Special, Various
• The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories, Mark Twain
• Pluto 001, Urasawa Tezuka
• Graphic Classics: Oscar Wilde, Various
• Ultimate X-Men: The Tomorrow People, Mark Millar with Adam and Andy Kubert
• OMAC: One Man Army Corps, Jack Kirby
• Comet in Moominland, Tove Jansson
• Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
• We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women In Rock, Gerri Hirshey
• The Soddyssey and Other Tales of Supernatural Law, Batton Lash
• Spiderman: Doom with a View, Various
• Spyboy: Final Exam, Peter David and Pop Mhan
• Monster Zoo, Doug TenNapel
• Street Figher Alpha: Vol. 1, Masahiko Nakahira
• Fantastic Four: Monsters, Moles, Cowboys, and Coupons, Various
• The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
• Jo-Jo and the Fiendish Lot, Andrew Auseon
• Sidescrollers, Matthew Loux
• Light Brigade, Peter J. Tomasi & Peter Snejberg
• Graphic Classics: Jack London, Various
• The Tale of One Bad Rat, Brian Talbot
• Livewires: CLockwork Thugs, Yo!, Adam Warren & Rick Mays
• Justice League Unlimited Vol. 2, Various (delightful)
• As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Stay in Denial, Derrick Jensen & Stephanie McMillan
• The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite, Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba
• Soundtrackers: Reggae, Bob Brunning
• The Sun, Steele Hill and Michael Carlowicz
• Beyond the Myth: The Story of Joan of Arc, Polly Schoyer Brooks
• Distant Stars, Samuel R. Delany
• My Brother, Jamaica Kincaid
• Dororo Vol. 1, Osamu Tezuka
• Interviews with B Science Fiction and Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, Moguls, and Makeup, Tom Weaver
• The Fifties, David Halberstam
• Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film, Vivian Sobchack
• Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag
• A People's History of American Empire, Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle
• The Cockatrice Boys, Joan Aiken
• One Love, One Heart: A History of Reggae, James Haskins
• Moomin Vol. 3, Tove Jansson
• The End League, Vol. 1: Ballad of Big Nothing, Rick Remender and Matt Broome
• Ex Machina: Ex Cathedra, Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris
• Meridian: FLying Solo, Barbara Kessel and Joshua Middleton
• Fuzz & Pluck: Splitsville, Ted Stearn
• Girl Stories, Lauren R. Weinstein
• Black Beauty, Walter Farley
• Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
• Blue Beetle: Reach for the Stars, John Rogers and Rafael Albuquerque
• Jamaican Warriors: Reggae, Roots, & Culture, Stephen Foehr
• Archie Americana Series: Best of the Sixties, Various
• The Replacements-All Over But The Shouting: An Oral History, Jim Walsh
• Owly-The Way Home & The Bittersweet Summer, Andy Runton
• The Castaways, Rob Vollmar & Pablo G. Callejo
• Garcia, the Editors of Rolling Stone
• Action Philosophers! Vol. 1, Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey
• The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, Yann Martel
• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
• Bourbon Island 1730, Appolo and Lewis Trondheim
• Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music, Irwin Chusid
• Accordion Crimes, E. Annie Proulx
• Tortures of the Tower of London, G. Abbott
• The Giver, Lois Lowry
• The Unruly American Revolution, Gary B. Nash
• Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventures Vol. 1 and 2, Evan Dorkin
• Maximum Light, Nancy Kress
• A Feast of Snakes, Harry Crews
• Cash: The Autobiography, Johnny Cash (with Patrick Carr)
• Houston, Houston, Do You Read?, James Triptree Jr.
• Souls, Joanna Russ
• The Saturn Game, Poul Anderson
• Iceborn, Gregory Benford and Paul A. Carter
• Galactic North, Alastair Reynolds
• Crazy Loco, David Rice
• Love Hina: Volumes 1-14, Ken Akamatsu
• Nova, Samuel R. Delany
• Beaker's Dozen, Nancy Kress
• The New Space Opera, ed. by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan
• Neutron Star, Larry Niven
• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection, ed. by Gardner Dozois