Published on 04 January 2015
Books from last year
I read a lot. This year was no exception. I failed to keep a list, and I moved from New York to San Francisco in June. I’m not sure what I read in paperback before I moved, so this list isn’t complete. I’ve also given away some books, and I don’t remember some of those.
- As You Were: A Punk Comix Anthology Surprisingly had one of my favourite strips of all time, about a man missing a Mountain Goats concert
- Tim Atkins - Horace Really quite atrocious
- Robert Bringhurst - A Story As Sharp As A Knife Incredible work about Haida mythtellers. I wish it was longer
- Bruce Chatwin - What Am I Doing Here Still the best storyteller I’ve read
- Anderson Cooper - Dispatches from the Edge Good
- Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth Amazingly long book about building a cathedral. I wouldn’t suggest reading this on your phone.
- Allen Ginsberg - Howl and other poems He wrote other poems, too!
- John Green - Looking for Alaska Good
- Frank Herbert - Dune Best book ever
- Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis, in the penal colony, and other stories A Hunger Artist was a fantastic story
- Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums A must read
- Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon Made me cry
- Martin Luther King Jr. - Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community Fantastic and still very pertinent read
- CS Lewis - The Great Divorce Worst book ever
- CS Lewis - Prince Caspian So, apparently, Lewis was incredibly sexist
- Lois Lowry - The Giver
- Alice Miller - The Drama of the Gifted Child No comment
- Yukio Mishima - The Sound of Waves My favorite Japanese author. Astoundingly good
- John Myers Myers - Silverlock Someone published this?
- Ryan North - B to the F: The Novelization of the Feature Film: Ryan North reviews George Gipe’s insane novelization of the major motion picture If you want to laugh, this was the funniest book I have ever read
- Sean Patrick - Nikola Tesla Don’t download free books from iTunes people
- Penny Arcade - Epic Legends of the Magic Sword Kings Did not age well\
- Rogers, Sharp, Preece - Interaction Design This was a very good introduction to design and UI and I actually thoroughly enjoyed it
- Gary Snyder - Turtle Island
- Gary Snyder - The Real Work This was incredibly, equally as good as my favourite book of his, The Practice of the Wild
- Gary Snyder - The Back Country You know, I don’t think I like Snyder’s poetry all that much
- Elizabeth George Speare - The Sign of the Beaver Reading young adult books in old age is amusing
- Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash Amusing
- Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels This wasn’t worth the read, but there were some fun moments
- David Troupes - The Fountain
- David Troupes - Parsimony
- Gene Wolfe - There Are Doors I gave up on this book the first time I’ve read it; I read it twice this year. It’s an incredible fantasy set in 1920s SF or so.
- Gene Wolfe - The Book of the New Sun (Tetrology)
- Gene Wolfe - The Urth of the New Sun This is the addendum to the Book of the New Sun, my favorite series
- Gene Wolfe - The Wizard I read the Wizard and the Knight at least once a year
- Gene Wolfe - The Knight
- Gene Wolfe - The Ziggurat
- Robert Zelazny - Doorways in the Sand