I read a frankly scary number of books last year. It’s the act of a philistine to say “this year I intend to read less”, and reading fewer – but longer – books doesn’t mask the issue that I spend an awful lot of my free time with my nose in a book. Which has always been the case, but not until now have I known to what extent.
(R) signifies a re-read.
January
1. Rinzler, J.W. – The Making of Return of the Jedi (R)
2.Caine, Michael – Blowing the Bloody Doors Off
3. Stokes, John & Goodall, Scott M. – Marney the Fox (review here)
4. Stilgoe, John R. – What is Landscape?
5. Simenon, Georges – The Mahé Circle
6. Green, Julian – Paris
7. Higgs, John – William Blake Now: Why He Matters More Than Ever (article here)
8. Miéville, China – Railsea (R)
9. Gide, Andre – The Immoralist
10. Marriott, James & Newman, Kim – Horror! 333 Films to Scare You to Death
11. Spark, Muriel – The Driver’s Seat (R)
12. Warner, Daniel – Live Wires: A History of Electronic Music
13. Simenon, Georges – The Blue Room
14. Spurrier, Si & Evely, Bilquis – The Sandman Universe: The Dreaming, volume 1 – Pathways and Emanations (review here)
15. Watterson, Bill – The Authoritative Calvin & Hobbes
16. Simon, Claude – The Wind (Nouveau Roman article here)
17. Thomas, Roy & Chaykin, Howard (ill.) – Star Wars: A New Hope
18. Higgs, John – Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century (R) (article here)
19. Simenon, Georges – The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By
20. Wiggins, Bradley – Icons
21. Higgs, John – The Future Starts Here: Adventures in the Twenty-First Century (article here)
February
22. Thomas, Chris: How Star Wars Conquered the Universe
23. Mackesy, Charlie – The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
24. Macfarlane, Robert & Donwood, Stanley – Ness
25. Machen, Arthur – The Great God Pan and other Horror Stories
26. Houser, Jody & Martino, Stefano – Stranger Things: The Other Side
27. Lovecraft, H.P. – The Classic Horror Stories (R)
28. Lockwood, Dan (ed.) – The Lovecraft Anthology, volume 1 (R)
29. Ellis, Warren & Doran, Colleen – Orbiter
30. Lemire, Jeff & Nguyen, Dustin – Descender, volume 1: Tin Stars
31. Scovell, Adam – How Pale The Winter Has Made Us (review here)
32. Houellebecq, Michel – H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
33. Lemire, Jeff – Trillium
March
34. Poe, Edgar Allen – The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
35. Pullman, Philip – Once Upon a Time in the North
36. Myers, Benjamin – The Offing
37. Lemire, Jeff & Nguyen, Dustin – Descender, volume 2: Machine Moon
38. Lemire, Jeff & Nguyen, Dustin – Descender, volume 3: Singularities
39. Lemire, Jeff & Nguyen, Dustin – Descender, volume 4: Orbital Mechanics
40. Pearson, Harry – The Beast, The Emperor & The Milkman: A Bone-shaking Tour Through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands
41. Thompson, Hunter S. – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (R)
42. Houser, Jody & Laiso, Emilio – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
43. Kerouac, Jack – The Haunted Life
44. Wolfe, Tom – The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
45. Lemire, Jeff & Nguyen, Dustin – Descender, volume 5: Rise of the Robots
46. Kerouac, Jack – The Dharma Bums
47. Kerouac, Jack – Doctor Sax
48. Calvino, Italo – Under the Jaguar Sun
49. Rushdie, Salman – The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey
50. Faulkner, William – As I Lay Dying
51. Wolfe, Tom – The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (R)
52. Kerouac, Jack – Tristessa
53. Lemire, Jeff & Nguyen, Dustin – Descender, volume 6: The Machine War
54. Carter, Angela – The Bloody Chamber
April
55. Cabut, Richard – Dark Entries (review here)
56. Auster, Paul – Timbuktu
57. Wolfe, Tom & Johnson, E.W. – The New Journalism
58. Simenon, Georges – The Yellow Dog
59. Calvino, Italo – The Path to the Spiders’ Nests
60. Sartre, Jean-Paul – The Wall
61. Huxley, Aldous – The Doors of Perception / Heaven and Hell (R)
62. Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations (R)
63. Simenon, Georges – The Pitards
64. Rushdie, Salman – The Enchantress of Florence (R)
65. Kesey, Ken – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (R)
66. Leo & Icar – Distant Worlds, Episode 1
67. Kesey, Ken – Sometimes a Great Notion
68. Stalner, Eric – The Route 66 List: 1 – Illinois
69. Vehlmann, Gazzotti & Meyer – Clear Blue Tomorrows
70. Gifford, Barry – Wild At Heart
71. Tutuola, Amos – Feather Woman of the Jungle
72. Vehlmann, Fabien & Gazzotti, Bruno – Alone, volume 1: The Vanishing
73. McCloud, Scott – The Sculptor (R)
74. Coxon, Dan – Green Fingers (review here)
May
75. Rushdie, Salman – Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
76. Mieville, China – UnLunDun (R) (article here)
77. Stalner, Eric – The Route 66 List: 2 – Missouri
78. Shakespeare, William – The Merchant of Venice (R)
79. Landy, Derek – Demon Road
80. Leo & Icar – Distant Worlds, Episode 2
81. Shakespeare, William – Cymbeline
82. Batchelor, David – Chromophobia
83. Gifford, Barry – The Wild Life of Sailor and Lula
84. Danielewski, Mark Z – House of Leaves (R)
85. Le Blanc, Michelle & Odell, Colin – Pocket Essentials: David Lynch
86. Coverley, Merlin – Psychogeography
87. Moffat, Alistair – Arthur & The Hidden Kingdoms
88. Hopper, Justin – The Old Weird Albion (R)
89. Allende, Isabel – The House of the Spirits (R)
90. Honnef, Klaus – Andy Warhol
91. Barker, Andrew David – Winter Freits (review here)
92. Prince, Stephen – A Year in the Country: Straying from the Pathways
93. Shakespeare, William – Measure for Measure (R)
94. Maynard, Christopher – Usborne’s The World of the Unknown: Ghosts (R)
95. Landy, Derek – Desolation
June
96. Haqq, Abdul Qadim – The Book of Drexciya, volume 1 (Drexciya article here)
97. Gaiman, Neil & McKean, Dave – Black Orchid (R)
98. Morris, Mark – Toady (R) (Horror Rewind article here)
99. Gifford, Barry – Southern Nights
100. Graham, Ben – Amorphous Albion (review here)
101. Morris, Mark – The Secret of Anatomy
102. Laws, Stephen – The Wyrm (Horror Rewind article here)
103. Lopez, Barry – Horizon
104. Carey, Mike & Manco, Leonardo – Hellblazer: All His Engines
105. Watson, Ian – The Fire Worm (Horror Rewind article here)
106. Landy, Derek – American Monsters
107. Wheatley, Mark & Hempel, Marc – Breathtaker (R)
July
108. Morris, Mark – Albion Fay
109. Delano, Jamie; Ennis, Garth & Morrison, Grant et al. – Hellblazer: Rare Cuts
110. Gaiman, Neil, et al. – The Sandman, volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes (R)
111. Gaiman, Neil, et al. – The Sandman, volume 2: The Doll’s House (R)
112. Gaiman, Neil, et al. – The Sandman, volume 3: Dream Country (R)
113. Gaiman, Neil, et al. – The Sandman, volume 5: A Game of You (R)
114. Laws, Stephen – Spectre (Horror Rewind article here)
115. Gaiman, Neil, et al. – The Sandman, volume 7: Brief Lives (R)
116. Gaiman, Neil, et al. – The Sandman, volume 8: Worlds’ End (R)
117. Ellis, Warren, et al. – Hellblazer: Setting Sun
118. Gaiman, Neil, et al. – The Sandman, volume 9: The Kindly Ones (R)
119. Gaiman, Neil, et al. – The Sandman, volume 10: The Wake (R)
120. Gaiman, Neil, et al. – The Sandman: Endless Nights (R)
121. Gaiman, Neil – Norse Mythology
122. Bradbury, Ray – Something Wicked This Way Comes (R)
123. Gaiman, Neil, et al. – The Sandman, volume 4: Season of Mists (R)
124. Herbert, Frank – Dune (R)
125. Mieville, China – Embassytown (R)
126. Ennis, Garth, et al. – Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits
127. Milton, John – Paradise Lost (R)
August
128. Ruff, Matt – Lovecraft Country
129. Derleth, August (as “H.P. Lovecraft”) – The Watchers Out of Time (R) (Derleth article here)
129. Derleth, August (as “H.P. Lovecraft”) – The Lurker at the Threshold (R)
130. Derleth, August (ed.) – Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
131. Ní Fhlainn, Sorcha (ed.) – Clive Barker: Dark Imaginer
132. Wyndham, John – The Midwich Cuckoos
133. Hadley, Christopher – Hollow Places: An Unusual History of Land and Legend (review here)
134. Gaiman, Neil – The Ocean at the End of the Lane (R)
135. Aickman, Robert – Cold Hand in Mine (Horror Rewind article here)
136. Winter, Douglas E. – Clive Barker: The Dark Fantastic (R)
137. Winter, Douglas E. (ed.) – Prime Evil (Horror Rewind article here)
September
138. Hutson, Shaun – Tortured Souls
139. Grant, Charles L. – The Pet (Horror Rewind article here)
140. Backderf, Derf – My Friend Dahmer
141. Fowler, Christopher – Roofworld
142. Mieville, China – Three Moments of an Explosion (R)
143. Ernst, Max – The Hundred Headless Woman
144. Selby Jr., Hubert – Last Exit to Brooklyn
145. Straub, Peter – Ghost Story
146. Morris, Stephen – Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk percussionist
147. Bewes, Diccon: Swiss Watching – Inside Europe’s Landlocked Island
October
148. Thacker, David J – Once: A Belmouth Tale
149. Bulgakov, Mikhail – The Master and Margarita (R)
150. Bissette, Stephen R.; Morris, Mark; Golden, Christopher; Lebbon, Tim; & Volk, Stephen – Studio of Screams (review at Horrified magazine)
151. Reve, Gerard – The Evenings
152. Middles, Mick – From Joy Division to New Order: The true story of Anthony H Wilson and Factory Records
153. McMahon, Gary – At Home in the Shadows
154. Beckett, Chris – Beneath the World, A Sea
155. Pratchett, Terry – The Colour of Magic
156. Hill, M.T. – The Breach
157. Rushdie, Salman – Quichotte
November
158. Rees, Gareth E. – Unofficial Britain (review here)
159. Delano, Jamie & Jock – Hellblazer: Pandemonium
160. Ballard, J.G. – Concrete Island
161. Ennis, Garth & Dillon, Steve – Hellblazer: Damnation’s Flame
162. Aycliffe, Jonathan – The Talisman
163. Carey, Mike & Frusin, Marcello – Hellblazer: Stations of the Cross
164. Rushdie, Salman – Grimus
165. Pratchett, Terry – Mort
166. Rushdie, Salman – The Golden House
167. Briggs, Raymond – When the Wind Blows (R)
168. Rushdie, Salman – The Satanic Verses (R)
169. Rushdie, Salman – BFI Film Classics: The Wizard of Oz (R)
170. Rushdie, Salman – Joseph Anton (R)
171. Rushdie, Salman – East, West (R)
172. Brunvand, Jan Harold – The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings
173. Carey, Mike & Manco, Leonardo – Hellblazer: The Gift
December
174. Ballard, J.G. – The Day of Creation
175. Wiles, Will – The Way Inn
176. Cabut, Richard – Looking For a Kiss (review here)
177. Rushdie, Salman – Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-91 (R)
178. Harrison, Rebecca – BFI Film Classics: The Empire Strikes Back
179. Cooke, Tim – Where We Live (review here)
180. Goodwin, Archie; Williamson, Al; et al. – Star Wars Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years, volume 3
181. Carter, Angela – Nights at the Circus (R)
182. Borges, Jorge Luis – Labyrinths
183. Micheline, David; Simonson, Walter & Duffy, Jo; et al. – Star Wars Epic Collection: The Original Marvel Years, volume 4
184. Marquez, Gabriel Garcia – One Hundred Years of Solitude (R)
185. Grant, Alan & Ranson, Arthur – Mazeworld (R)
186. Rushdie, Salman – Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction 1992-2002 (R)
187. Oor Wullie annual 2021
188. Packard, Edward – Exploration Infinity
189. Goodwin, Archie & Williamson, Al – Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Strips, vol. 2
190. Anniss, Matt – Join The Future: Bleep Techno and the Birth of British Bass Music
Into the Gyre 