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- Ghost Tales of the Uwharries- Fred T. Morgan
- V for Vendetta- Alan Moore
- The Savage Detectives- Roberto Bolano
- The Braindead Megaphone- George Saunders
- A Good Man is Hard to Find- Flannery O'Connor
Books Read: 2010
- 7/25- Down by the River- Charles Bowden
- 7/23- The Longest Line: An inquiry into what happened on election day, 2004, in Gambier, Ohio
- 7/18- It Could Happen Here: America on the Brink- Bruce Judson
- 7/3- The Braindead Megaphone- George Saunders
- 6/29- Punk 365- Holly George-Warren
- 6/10- The Freedom Manifesto- Tom Hodgkinson
- 5/22- Prosperity & Violence: The Political Economy of Development- Robert H. Bates
- 5/20- Ways of War and Peace- Michael W. Doyle
- 3/25- Generation X- Douglas Coupland
- 3/13- World War Z- Max Brooks
- 3/1- CivilWarLand in Bad Decline- George Saunders
- 2/11- Endgame- Sameul Beckett
- 2/9- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier- Alan Moore
- 1/24- Indignation- Philip Roth
- 1/14- Dreaming War: Blood For Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta- Gore Vidal
- 1/14- The Cure At Troy- Seamus Heaney
- 1/12- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised- Joe Trippi
- 1/7- Waiting For Godot- Sameul Beckett
Books Read: 2009
- 12/21- It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies- Michael Spladin
- 12/17- Elizabeth Costello- J.M. Coetzee
- 12/16- 2666- Roberto Bolaño
- 12/14- Hellspawn: The Ashley Wood Collection
- 12/12- Millennium- Steve Englehart
- 11/31- Eating Animals- Jonathan Safran Foer
- 11/15- The Lives of Animals- J.M. Coetzee
- 10/16- Poems 1920- T.S. Eliot
- 10/15- Prufrock and Other Observations-T.S. Eliiot
- 10/13- The Waste Land- T.S. Eliiot
- 9/24- I'm Having More Fun Than You- Aaron Karo
- 9/14- Batman: The Killing Joke- Alan Moore
- 9/11- Falling Man- Don Delillo
- 9/5- Batman: The Complete History- Les Daniels
- 8/27- Grendel- John Gardner
- 8/25- Spawn: Endgame- Todd McFarlane
- 8/21- Army of Darkness: Ash Saves Obama #1- Elliot Serrano
- 8/7- New Rules- Bill Maher
- 8/3- Batman: Year One- Frank Miller
- 8/2- 9-11: Artists Respond, Volume 1- Various Authors
- 7/31- Watchmen- Alan Moore
- 7/15- The Human Fly and Other Stories- T.C. Boyle
- 7/14- Ronin- Frank Miller
- 7/8- Writing Fiction: Step by Step- Josip Novakovich
- 7/8- Darkness at Noon- Arthur Koestler
- 7/4- Everything that Rises Must Converge- Flannery O'Connor
- 6/30- Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again- Frank Miller
- 6/12- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns- Frank Miller
- 5/27- How We Are Hungry- Dave Eggers
- 5/10- In the Presence of Fear- Wendell Barry
- 5/6- The Great Divorce- C.S. Lewis
- 4/23- Jesus' Son- Denis Johnson
- 4/14- The Man in the High Castle- Philip K. Dick
- 4/8- The Alphabet of Manliness- Maddox
- 3/30- A Happy Death- Albert Camus
- 3/12- Watchmen- Alan Moore
- 3/10- Planetary: Crossing Worlds- Warren Ellis
- 3/9- The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and Other Stories- Yann Martel
- 3/9- The One Percent Doctrine- Ron Suskind
- 2/11- A Wrinkle in Time- Madeleine L'Engle
- 1/31- Travels in the Scriptorium- Paul Auster
- 1/13- Dexter in the Dark- Jeff Lindsay
- 1/3- A Cynic's Guide to a Rich and Full Life- Mario DiGiorgio
Books Read: 2008
- 12/7- IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas- Chuck Klosterman
- 12/4- Mumbo Jumbo- Ishmael Reed
- 12/1- The Best American Essays- DFW (Editor)
- 11/28- Pure Drivel- Steve Martin
- 10/28- Prometheus Unbound- P.B. Shelley
- 10/28-The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil- George Saunders
- 10/1- Foe- J.M. Coetzee
- 9/28- New Seeds of Contemplation- Thomas Merton
- 9/25- A Testament of Devotion- Thomas Kelly
- 9/24-Bushido: Samurai Ethics and the Soul of Japan
- 9/24- Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind- Shunryu Suzuki
- 9/23- Soul of the Samurai- Thomas Cleary
- 9/22- Zen Awakening and Society- Christopher Ives
- 9/21- Zen War Stories- Brian Daizen Victoria
- 9/20- Book of Five Rings- Miyamoto Musashi
- 9/8- Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
- 9/7- The Poe Shadow- Matthew Pearl
- 8/31- Understanding David Foster Wallace- Marshall Boswell
- 8/30- The Zombie Survival Guide- Max Brooks
- 8/28- The Discomfort Zone- Jonathan Franzen
- 8/26- Oblivion- DFW
- 8/22- Beasts of No Nation- Uzodinma Iweala
- 8/17- Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity- DFW
- 7/23- In Persuasion Nation- George Saunders
- 7/21- What is the What- Dave Eggers
- 7/4- A Confederacy of Dunces- John Kennedy Toole
- 7/2- Lost's Buried Treasures- Lynette Porter, David Lavery, and Hillary Robson
- 6/29- McCain's Promise- DFW
- 6/25- A Brief History of Nearly Everything- Bill Bryson
- 6/25- Under the Banner of Heaven- Jon Kraukauer
- 6/19- Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim- David Sedaris
- 6/14- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again- DFW
- 6/1- Girl with Curious Hair- DFW
- 5/21- The Sinner's Guide to the Evangelical Right- Robert Lanham
- 5/16- Lullaby- Chuck Palahniuk
- 5/10- Living Buddha, Living Christ- Thich Nhat Hanh
- 5/8- Samurai: The World of the Warrior- Stephen Turnbull
- 5/2- How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World- Francis Wheen
- 5/1- God and Caesar in America- Gary Hart
- 4/28- The Medium is the Massage- Marshall McLuhan
- 4/15- Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- 3/25- The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity- Philip Jenkins
- 3/21- Lost in the Funhouse- John Barth
- 3/9- Amusing Ourselves to Death- Neil Postman
- 3/3- The Diamond Sutra & The Sutra of Hui-Neng
- 2/7- Poems, Protest, and a Dream- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
- 1/31- A Saintly Scent of Amber- Concha Romero
- 1/26- I am America (And So Can You!)- Stephen Colbert
- 1/22- Consider the Lobster- David Foster Wallace
- 1/20- The Areas of My Expertise- John Hodgman
- 1/15- Timbuktu- Paul Auster
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