Final 2010 Reading List

Alas my blog has basically died, but in the interest of keeping my list of what I've read for future reference I thought I'd post it here. Maybe one of the days I'll even get back to some regular posts, but no promises.

I didn't quite hit my 50 book goal this year, but Infinite Jest should really count for about 10 :-)

1. Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron - Daniel Clowes
2. Ransom - Jay McInerney
3. Nog - Rudolph Wurlitzer
4. Let The Great World Spin* - Colum McCann
5. Welcome to The Terrordome - Dave Zirin
6. Eating Animals* - Jonathan Safran Foer
7. Juliet, Naked* - Nick Hornby
8. Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli
9. Point Omega - Don DeLillo
10. Electric Literature #2 - Various
11. Boomerang - Barry Hannah
12. Baseball's Greatest Series - Chris Donnelly
13. Infinite Jest* - David Foster Wallace
14. How It Ended - Jay McInerney
15. More of This World or Maybe Another* - Barb Johnson
16. Alternadad - Neal Pollack
17. The Unnamed* - Joshua Ferris
18. Tin House: Spring 2010 - Various
19. Electric Literature #1 - Various
20. New Stories From The South 2009 - Various
21. Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine* - Thom Jones
22. The Bullpen Gospels - Dirk Hayhurst
23. Imperial Bedrooms - Bret Easton Ellis
24. You Are Not a Gadget - Jaron Lanier
25. The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
26. Footnotes in Gaza - Joe Sacco
27. The Lonely Polygamist* - Brady Udall
28. True Grit* - Charles Portis
29. Super Sad True Love Story - Gary Shteyngart
30. Brief Interview With Hideous Men* - David Foster Wallace
31. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 1 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
32. The Ask - Sam Lipsyte
33. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 2 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
34. The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut
35. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 3 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
36. Nemesis - Philip Roth
37. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 4 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
38. Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives* - Brad Watson
39. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 5 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
40. Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6 - Bryan Lee O'Malley
41. The Dog of the South - Charles Portis

* = highly recommended

My 2009 reading list
My 2008 reading list
My 2007 reading list
My 2006 reading list
My 2005 reading list

Final 2009 Reading List

This year's reading list clocked in at an even 50, just barely extending my 50-book challenge streak to 5 years running!

1. The Mammoth Book of Crime Comics - Various
2. El Borbah - Charles Burns
3. Cold Snap* - Thom Jones
4. Pimp - Iceberg Slim
5. The Best American Non-Required Reading 2008 - Various
6. And the Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks - Kerouac & Burroughs
7. Oblivion* - David Foster Wallace
8. McSweeney's #30 - Various
9. The Outlaw Bible of American Essays - Various
10. The Best American Comics 2008 - Various
11. The Soul of Baseball: A Journal Through Buck O'Neil's America* - Joe Posnanski
12. Welcome to the Monkeyhouse* - Kurt Vonnegut
13. Songbook - Nick Hornby
14. 3 Nights In August - Buzz Bissinger
15. Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Thomas Friedman
16. Cosmopolis* - Don DeLillo
17. Celebration* - Harry Crews
18. High Lonesome* - Barry Hannah
19. Money - Martin Amis
20. Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned - Wells Tower
21. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
22. Amplified - Various
23. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again* - David Foster Wallace
24. A Jello Horse - Matthew Simmons
25. Requiem For A Paper Bag - Various
26. Odd Man Out - Matt McCarthy
27. Shadow Country* - Peter Matthiessen
28. New Stories From The South 2008* - Various
29. American Flagg v. 1 - Howard Chaykin
30. Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend* - Larry Tye
31. Love and Rockets: New Stories #1 - Jaime Hernandez
32. Misconception - Ryan Boudinot
33. Zeitoun* - Dave Eggers
34. The Interrogative Mood: A Novel?* - Padgett Powell
35. Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon
36. Americana - Don DeLillo
37. Crash - J.G. Ballard
38. The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment - A.J. Jacobs
39. The Best American Non-Required Reading 2009 - Various
40. The Humbling* - Philip Roth
41. Dangerous Laughter* - Steven Millhauser
42. Filthy Rich - Brian Azzarello
43. Thirteen Stories - Eudora Welty
44. Nobody Move - Denis Johnson
45. Eating The Dinosaur - Chuck Klosterman
46. The Best American Comics 2009 - Various
47. Checkpoint - Nicholson Baker
48. What's Not To Love - Jonathan Ames
49. Wise Blood* - Flannery O'Connor
50. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest* - Ken Kesey

* = Highly recommended

Previously:
My 2008 reading list
My 2007 reading list
My 2006 reading list
My 2005 reading list

Final 2008 Reading List

Ladies and Gentlemen, I humbly present my final 2008 reading list:

1. The Best American Non-Required Reading 2007* - Various
2. This Is Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin
3. Hellfire* - Nick Tosches
4. The Nimrod Flipout - Etgar Keret
5. Shortcomings* - Adrian Tomine
6. McSweeney's #25 - Various
7. Kafka - R. Crumb & David Mairowitz
8. The Worst Hard Time* - Timothy Egan
9. The Fermata - Nicholson Baker
10. The Call of the Weird - Louis Theroux
11. Y: The Last Man, Volume 1: Unmanned - Vaughan and Guerra
12. An American Dream - Norman Mailer
13. My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead - Various
14. Y: The Last Man, Volume 2: Cycles - Vaughan and Guerra
15. Rock On - Dan Kennedy
16. The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
17. Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step - Vaughan and Guerra
18. Knockemstiff* - Donald Ray Pollock
19. A Voyage Long and Strange* - Tony Horwitz
20. All the Pretty Horses* - Cormac McCarthy
21. McSweeney's #24 - Various
22. Candy Girl - Diablo Cody
23. Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me - Various
24. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
25. Y: The Last Man, Volume 4: Safeword - Vaughan and Guerra
26. Maps and Legends - Michael Chabon
27. The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs
28. The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
29. Bastard Out of Carolina* - Dorothy Allison
30. Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth - Vaughan and Guerra
31. The Sandman: Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
32. The Mulching of America - Harry Crews
33. Y: The Last Man, Volume 6: Girl on Girl - Vaughan and Guerra
34. Bad Behavior* - Mary Gaitskill
35. End Zone - Don DeLillo
36. A People's History of American Empire - Howard Zinn
37. Y: The Last Man, Volume 7: Paper Dolls - Vaughan and Guerra
38. Y: The Last Man, Volume 8: Kimono Dragons - Vaughan and Guerra
39. Y: The Last Man, Volume 9: Motherland - Vaughan and Guerra
40. The Moviegoer* - Walker Percy
41. Indignation* - Philip Roth
42. The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
43. An Anthology of Graphic Fiction* - Ivan Brunetti (ed.)
44. The Best of Roald Dahl - Roald Dahl
45. The Moon is Down - John Steinbeck
46. Consider the Lobster* - David Foster Wallace
47. The Lottery* - Shirley Jackson
48. Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores - Vaughan and Guerra
49. Bright Lights, Big City* - Jay McInerney
50. Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Joan Didion
51. Speaking With the Angel - Nick Hornby (ed.)
52. An Anthology of Graphic Fiction Vol. 2* - Ivan Brunetti (ed.)
53. The Point - Charles D'Ambrosio

* = Highly recommended

Previously: My 2007 reading list, My 2006 reading list, My 2005 reading list

2008 Reading List - Books #1-40

Here are the first forty books of my '08 50 book challenge:

1. The Best American Non-Required Reading 2007* - Various
2. This Is Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin
3. Hellfire* - Nick Tosches
4. The Nimrod Flipout - Etgar Keret
5. Shortcomings* - Adrian Tomine
6. McSweeney's #25 - Various
7. Kafka - R. Crumb & David Mairowitz
8. The Worst Hard Time* - Timothy Egan
9. The Fermata - Nicholson Baker
10. The Call of the Weird - Louis Theroux
11. Y: The Last Man, Volume 1: Unmanned - Vaughan and Guerra
12. An American Dream - Norman Mailer
13. My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead - Various
14. Y: The Last Man, Volume 2: Cycles - Vaughan and Guerra
15. Rock On - Dan Kennedy
16. The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
17. Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step - Vaughan and Guerra
18. Knockemstiff* - Donald Ray Pollock
19. A Voyage Long and Strange* - Tony Horwitz
20. All the Pretty Horses* - Cormac McCarthy
21. McSweeney's #24 - Various
22. Candy Girl - Diablo Cody
23. Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me - Various
24. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
25. Y: The Last Man, Volume 4: Safeword - Vaughan and Guerra
26. Maps and Legends - Michael Chabon
27. The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs
28. The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
29. Bastard Out of Carolina* - Dorothy Allison
30. Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth - Vaughan and Guerra
31. The Sandman: Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
32. The Mulching of America - Harry Crews
33. Y: The Last Man, Volume 6: Girl on Girl - Vaughan and Guerra
34. Bad Behavior* - Mary Gaitskill
35. End Zone - Don DeLillo
36. A People's History of American Empire - Howard Zinn
37. Y: The Last Man, Volume 7: Paper Dolls - Vaughan and Guerra
38. Y: The Last Man, Volume 8: Kimono Dragons - Vaughan and Guerra
39. Y: The Last Man, Volume 9: Motherland - Vaughan and Guerra
40. The Moviegoer* - Walker Percy

* = Highly recommended

Previously: My 2007 reading list, My 2006 reading list

2008 Reading List - Books #1-30

Here are the first thirty books of my '08 50 book challenge:

1. The Best American Non-Required Reading 2007* - Various
2. This Is Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin
3. Hellfire* - Nick Tosches
4. The Nimrod Flipout - Etgar Keret
5. Shortcomings* - Adrian Tomine
6. McSweeney's #25 - Various
7. Kafka - R. Crumb & David Mairowitz
8. The Worst Hard Time* - Timothy Egan
9. The Fermata - Nicholson Baker
10. The Call of the Weird - Louis Theroux
11. Y: The Last Man, Volume 1: Unmanned - Vaughan and Guerra
12. An American Dream - Norman Mailer
13. My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead - Various
14. Y: The Last Man, Volume 2: Cycles - Vaughan and Guerra
15. Rock On - Dan Kennedy
16. The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
17. Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step - Vaughan and Guerra
18. Knockemstiff* - Donald Ray Pollock
19. A Voyage Long and Strange* - Tony Horwitz
20. All the Pretty Horses* - Cormac McCarthy
21. McSweeney's #24 - Various
22. Candy Girl - Diablo Cody
23. Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me - Various
24. Snuff - Chuck Palahniuk
25. Y: The Last Man, Volume 4: Safeword - Vaughan and Guerra
26. Maps and Legends - Michael Chabon
27. The Year of Living Biblically - A.J. Jacobs
28. The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
29. Bastard Out of Carolina* - Dorothy Allison
30. Y: The Last Man, Volume 5: Ring of Truth - Vaughan and Guerra

* = Highly recommended

Previously: My 2007 reading list, My 2006 reading list

2008 Reading List - Books #1-20

Here are the first ten books of my '08 50 book challenge:

1. The Best American Non-Required Reading 2007* - Various
2. This Is Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin
3. Hellfire* - Nick Tosches
4. The Nimrod Flipout - Etgar Keret
5. Shortcomings* - Adrian Tomine
6. McSweeney's #25 - Various
7. Kafka - R. Crumb & David Mairowitz
8. The Worst Hard Time* - Timothy Egan
9. The Fermata - Nicholson Baker
10. The Call of the Weird - Louis Theroux
11. Y: The Last Man, Volume 1: Unmanned - Vaughan and Guerra
12. An American Dream - Norman Mailer
13. My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead - Various
14. Y: The Last Man, Volume 2: Cycles - Vaughan and Guerra
15. Rock On - Dan Kennedy
16. The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall
17. Y: The Last Man, Volume 3: One Small Step - Vaughan and Guerra
18. Knockemstiff* - Donald Ray Pollock
19. A Voyage Long and Strange* - Tony Horwitz
20. All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy

* = Highly recommended

Previously: My 2007 reading list, My 2006 reading list

2008 Reading List - Books #1-10

Here are the first ten books of my '08 50 book challenge:

1. The Best American Non-Required Reading 2007* - Various
2. This Is Your Brain on Music - Daniel Levitin
3. Hellfire* - Nick Tosches
4. The Nimrod Flipout - Etgar Keret
5. Shortcomings* - Adrian Tomine
6. McSweeney's #25 - Various
7. Kafka - R. Crumb & David Mairowitz
8. The Worst Hard Time* - Timothy Egan
9. The Fermata - Nicholson Baker
10. The Call of the Weird - Louis Theroux

* = Highly recommended

Previously: My 2007 reading list, My 2006 reading list

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007

The first book of my fourth shot at the fifty book challenge was The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (that's a lotta numbers for one sentance).

I'm not exactly sure what makes the stuff in this book non-required, but I am sure that it's all darned good. There are several pieces well worth reading, but some that particularly stood out to me were Alison Bechdel's comic "A Happy Death", Jennifer Egan's "Selling the General", Kevin A. Gonzalez's "Loteria", Nam Le's "Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice" and David J. Morris' "The Big Suck: Notes from the Jarhead Underground". Conan O'Brien's high school commencement speech is also pretty durn funny.

To top it off, courtesy of the 'other notables' index in the back of the book I found out that Padgett Powell published a piece in Subtropics a cool new(ish) literary zine published by my beloved University of Florida. Sweet!

Final 2007 Reading List

Here is my complete reading list for 2007. 3 years running of fifty plus :-)

1. Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser
2. The Boys From Old Florida - Buddy Martin
3. An American Family - Harry Crews
4. Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
5. What is the What* - Dave Eggers
6. I Love You More Than You Know - Jonathan Ames
7. White Noise* - Don DeLillo
8. Fiskadoro - Denis Johnson
9. US Guys - Charlie LeDuff
10. Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender
11. Decoding the Universe - Charles Seife
12. Twin Study* - Stacy Richter
13. The Complete Maus* - Art Spiegelman
14. We Have Always Lived in the Castle* - Shirley Jackson
15. The Cheater's Guide to Baseball - Derek Zumsteg
16. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
17. Baseball Between the Numbers* - Jonah Keri
18. But I Like It - Joe Sacco
19. Chuck Klosterman IV - Chuck Klosterman
20. Watchmen* - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
21. No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
22. V For Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd
23. The Dead Fish Museum* - Charles D'Ambrosio
24. You Don't Love Me Yet - Jonathan Lethem
25. Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Falling Man - Don DeLillo
27. In the Heart of the Sea* - Nathaniel Philbrick
28. A Feast of Snakes* - Harry Crews
29. Complications - Atul Gawande
30. Mere Anarchy - Woody Allen
31. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
32. Best of American Splendor - Harvey Pekar
33. Chester Square - Jaime Hernandez
34. Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
35. Surveillance - Jonathan Raban
36. Scar Lover* - Harry Crews
37. The John Fante Reader* - John Fante
38. Palestine* - Joe Sacco
39. The Braindead Megaphone*- George Saunders
40. Facing the Music* - Larry Brown
41. My Date with Satan - Stacey Richter
42. I Am America (And So Can You!) - Stephen Colbert
43. The Best American Comics 2007* - Various
44. War's End - Joe Sacco
45. Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
46. Death By Black Hole* - Neil deGrasse Tyson
47. McSweeney's #23 - Various
48. The Pugilist at Rest* - Thom Jones
49. Like You'd Understand Anyways* - Jim Shepard
50. Ask the Dust* - John Fante
51. Body* - Harry Crews
52. Clumsy - Jeffrey Brown
53. In Cold Blood* - Truman Capote
54. The Book of Other People - Various

* = Highly recommended

Previously: My 2006 reading list and my 2005 reading list.

Ask The Dust

For the third year running I've completed the 50 book challenge! This year's lucky no. fifty was John Fante's classic novel Ask the Dust.

It's a great book, you should read it, yada, yada, yada. Fifty! Woot, woot! Seriously though, Fante's the man.

John Fante article on Salon
Post Road Magazine review

2007 Reading List - Books #1-40

Here's a recap of the first forty books of my '07 50 book challenge:

1. Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser
2. The Boys From Old Florida - Buddy Martin
3. An American Family - Harry Crews
4. Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
5. What is the What* - Dave Eggers
6. I Love You More Than You Know - Jonathan Ames
7. White Noise* - Don DeLillo
8. Fiskadoro - Denis Johnson
9. US Guys - Charlie LeDuff
10. Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender
11. Decoding the Universe - Charles Seife
12. Twin Study* - Stacy Richter
13. The Complete Maus* - Art Spiegelman
14. We Have Always Lived in the Castle* - Shirley Jackson
15. The Cheater's Guide to Baseball - Derek Zumsteg
16. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
17. Baseball Between the Numbers* - Jonah Keri
18. But I Like It - Joe Sacco
19. Chuck Klosterman IV - Chuck Klosterman
20. Watchmen* - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
21. No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
22. V For Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd
23. The Dead Fish Museum* - Charles D'Ambrosio
24. You Don't Love Me Yet - Jonathan Lethem
25. Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Falling Man - Don DeLillo
27. In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
28. A Feast of Snakes* - Harry Crews
29. Complications - Atul Gawande
30. Mere Anarchy - Woody Allen
31. The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon
32. Best of American Splendor - Harvey Pekar
33. Chester Square - Jaime Hernandez
34. Reasons to Live - Amy Hempel
35. Surveillance - Jonathan Raban
36. Scar Lover* - Harry Crews
37. The John Fante Reader* - John Fante
38. Palestine* - Joe Sacco
39. The Braindead Megaphone*- George Saunders
40. Facing the Music* - Larry Brown

* = Highly recommended

Previously: My 2006 reading list and my 2005 reading list.

2007 Reading List - Books #1 - 30

Here's a recap of the first thirty books of my '07 50 book challenge:

1. Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser
2. The Boys From Old Florida - Buddy Martin
3. An American Family - Harry Crews
4. Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
5. What is the What* - Dave Eggers
6. I Love You More Than You Know - Jonathan Ames
7. White Noise* - Don DeLillo
8. Fiskadoro - Denis Johnson
9. US Guys - Charlie LeDuff
10. Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender
11. Decoding the Universe - Charles Seife
12. Twin Study* - Stacy Richter
13. The Complete Maus* - Art Spiegelman
14. We Have Always Lived in the Castle* - Shirley Jackson
15. The Cheater's Guide to Baseball - Derek Zumsteg
16. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
17. Baseball Between the Numbers* - Jonah Keri
18. But I Like It - Joe Sacco
19. Chuck Klosterman IV - Chuck Klosterman
20. Watchmen* - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
21. No One Belongs Here More Than You - Miranda July
22. V For Vendetta - Alan Moore and David Lloyd
23. The Dead Fish Museum* - Charles D'Ambrosio
24. You Don't Love Me Yet - Jonathan Lethem
25. Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
26. Falling Man - Don DeLillo
27. In the Heart of the Sea - Nathaniel Philbrick
28. A Feast of Snakes* - Harry Crews
29. Complications - Atul Gawande
30. Mere Anarchy - Woody Allen

* = Highly recommended

Previously: My 2006 reading list and my 2005 reading list.

2007 Reading List - Books #1-20

Here's a recap of the first twenty books of my '07 50 book challenge:

1. Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser
2. The Boys From Old Florida - Buddy Martin
3. An American Family - Harry Crews
4. Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
5. What is the What - Dave Eggers
6. I Love You More Than You Know - Jonathan Ames
7. White Noise - Don DeLillo
8. Fiskadoro - Denis Johnson
9. US Guys - Charlie LeDuff
10. Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender
11. Decoding the Universe - Charles Seife
12. Twin Study - Stacy Richter
13. The Complete Maus - Art Spiegelman
14. We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
15. The Cheater's Guide to Baseball - Derek Zumsteg
16. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
17. Baseball Between the Numbers - Jonah Keri
18. But I Like It - Joe Sacco
19. Chuck Klosterman IV - Chuck Klosterman
20. Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Previously: My 2006 reading list and my 2005 reading list.

2007 Reading List - Books #1-10

Here are the first ten books of my '07 50 book challenge:

1. Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser
2. The Boys From Old Florida - Buddy Martin
3. An American Family - Harry Crews
4. Profiles in Courage - John F. Kennedy
5. What is the What - Dave Eggers
6. I Love You More Than You Know - Jonathan Ames
7. White Noise - Don DeLillo
8. Fiskadoro - Denis Johnson
9. US Guys - Charlie LeDuff
10. Willful Creatures - Aimee Bender

Previously: My 2006 reading list

Martin Dressler

Book numero uno of my 2007 50 Book Challenge (yeah I'm doing it again) was Steven Millhauser's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer.

Dressler is an allegorical fairy tale of an over-ambitious young man set in New York City in the late 1800's. The story has all of the makings of a classic Greek tragedy, with Martin playing the role of the tragic hero as he goes from shopkeeper's son to hotel maven to broke. Although the book is technically adept and works well as a commentary on progress/the American dream/ etc., it didn't really resonate with me as the fun read I was expecting.

New York Times review
Wikipedia entry

Final 2006 Reading List

Here is my complete reading list for 2006. 3 less than last year, but still more than one a week!

1. The Dirt - Motley Crue
2. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil - George Saunders
3. A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
4. Chance - Amir Aczel
5. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #18 - Various
6. Science Friction - Michael Shermer
7. Oh the Glory of it All - Sean Wilsey
8. Yes Man - Danny Wallace
9. Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
10. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 - Various
11. All The President's Pets - Mo Rocca
12. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
13. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
14. Vox - Nicholson Baker
15. Summer of '49 - David Halberstam
16. Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
17. Don't Get Too Comfortable - David Rakoff
18. Fantasyland - Sam Walker
19. Airships - Barry Hannah
20. Typical - Padgett Powell
21. From Bauhaus To Our House - Tom Wolfe
22. Cathedral - Raymond Carver
23. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #5 - Various
24. Black Hole - Charles Burns
25. The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman
26. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #19 - Various
27. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
28. In Persuasion Nation - George Saunders
29. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
30. A Woman Named Drown - Padgett Powell
31. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #20 - Various
32. The Revolution Will Not Be Accessorized - Various
33. The Rescue Artist - Edward Dolnick
34. Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
35. Room Full of Mirrors - Charles Cross
36. Independence Day - Richard Ford
37. The Littlest Hitler - Ryan Boudinot
38. Permanent Visitors - Kevin Moffett
39. Conservatize Me - John Moe
40. The Dead Emcee Scrolls - Saul Williams
41. Everyman - Philip Roth
42. Edisto Revisited - Padgett Powell
43. Watch Your Mouth - Daniel Handler
44. The Stranger - Albert Camus
45. Orphans - Charles D'Ambrosio
46. Factotum - Charles Bukowski
47. The Best American Comics 2006 - Various
48. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #21 - Various
49. The Night in Question - Tobias Wolff
50. A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing - Various
51. Chronicles - Bob Dylan
52. The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner
53. Florida Frenzy - Harry Crews
54. Deliverance - James Dickey

Previously: My 2005 reading list

50 Book Challenge Cont.

Cool, Brian posted about the 50 Book Challenge over on the Seattle Weekly blog (which BTW is brilliantly titled Post Alley). His top 10 of '06 is listed as is Rachel Shimp's. I added mine as well, so checka-checka-check 'em out and get those '07 lists ready.

The 2006 50 Book Challenge

Here in all their glory are the 50 books I've read this year for my 50 book challenge!

1. The Dirt - Motley Crue
2. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil - George Saunders
3. A Man Without a Country - Kurt Vonnegut
4. Chance - Amir Aczel
5. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #18 - Various
6. Science Friction - Michael Shermer
7. Oh the Glory of it All - Sean Wilsey
8. Yes Man - Danny Wallace
9. Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
10. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003 - Various
11. All The President's Pets - Mo Rocca
12. Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk
13. Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis
14. Vox - Nicholson Baker
15. Summer of '49 - David Halberstam
16. Galapagos - Kurt Vonnegut
17. Don't Get Too Comfortable - David Rakoff
18. Fantasyland - Sam Walker
19. Airships - Barry Hannah
20. Typical - Padgett Powell
21. From Bauhaus To Our House - Tom Wolfe
22. Cathedral - Raymond Carver
23. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #5 - Various
24. Black Hole - Charles Burns
25. The World Is Flat - Thomas Friedman
26. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #19 - Various
27. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
28. In Persuasion Nation - George Saunders
29. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
30. A Woman Named Drown - Padgett Powell
31. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #20 - Various
32. The Revolution Will Not Be Accessorized - Various
33. The Rescue Artist - Edward Dolnick
34. Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
35. Room Full of Mirrors - Charles Cross
36. Independence Day - Richard Ford
37. The Littlest Hitler - Ryan Boudinot
38. Permanent Visitors - Kevin Moffett
39. Conservatize Me - John Moe
40. The Dead Emcee Scrolls - Saul Williams
41. Everyman - Philip Roth
42. Edisto Revisited - Padgett Powell
43. Watch Your Mouth - Daniel Handler
44. The Stranger - Albert Camus
45. Orphans - Charles D'Ambrosio
46. Factotum - Charles Bukowski
47. The Best American Comics 2006 - Various
48. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #21 - Various
49. The Night in Question - Tobias Wolff
50. A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing - Various

Previously: My 2005 reading list