endless iterations

1. Questionable Content Volume 3 by Jeph Jacques
2. Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
3. Gothic High-Tech by Bruce Sterling
4. By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
5. Tell The Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
6. Complication by Isaac Adamson
7. The Ore by Gheorghi Vladimov
8. I'd Be Honest If They'd Let Me by Vladimir Voinovich
9. Halfway To The Moon by Vasilii Aksenov
10. The Kabaiasy Imps by Yurii Kazakov
11. The Mournful Demeanor of Lieutenant Borovka by Josef Skvorecky
12. Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
13. Amberjack: Tales of Fear and Wonder by Terry Downling
14. Godmother by Carolyn Turgeon
15. The Road Home by Rose Tremain
16. Flesh and Blood by Michael Cunningham
17. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

18. An American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
19. Cousin Bette by Balzac
20. The Magician King by Lev Grossman
21. The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan
22. Generation Loss by Elizabeth Hand
23. Available Dark by Elizabeth Hand
24. Habits of the House by Fay Weldon
25. The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
26. Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman
27. Russian Winter by Daphne Katolay
28. The Devil's Brood by Sharon Kay Penman
29. Sins for Father Knox by Josef Skvorecky
30. The End of Lieutenant Boruvka by Josef Skvorecky
31. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
32. Last Summer At Mars Hill by Elizabeth Hand
33. Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
34. Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson
35. Elizabeth I by Margaret George
36. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
37. How It Ended by Jay McInerney
38. The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
39. When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
40. Lionheart by Sharon Kay Penman

41. Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
42. Falls the Shadow by Sharon Kay Penman
43. After The Quake by Haruki Murakami
44. The Snow Fox by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
45. The Keep by Jennifer Egan
46. Look At Me by Jennifer Egan
47. Mantrapped by Fay Weldon
48. The Queen's Man - A Medieval Mystery by Sharon Kay Penman
49. A Single Shot by Matthew F Jones
50. The God of the Razor by Joe R Lansdale
51. Wicked Women by Fay Weldon
52. Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
53. The Black Isle by Sandi Tan
54. Auto da Fay by Fay Weldon
55. The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
56. The St. Zita Society by Ruth Rendell
57. The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
58. Good Christian Bitches by Kim Gatlin
59. Don't Cry by Mary Gaitskill
60. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
61. Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
62. A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
63. Dracula in Love by Karen Essex
64. Appetite for America by Stephen Fried
65. Tokyo Fiancee by Amelie Nothomb
66. The Passage by Justin Cronin

67. The Twelve by Justin Cronin
68. Cosmopolis by Don Delillo
69. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
70. The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman & Yoshitaka Amano
71. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
72. The Lone Star Stories Reader edited by Eric T. Martin
73. Robots: the recent a.i. edited by Rich Horton & Sean Wallace
74. The Sacred Book of the Werewolf by Victor Pelevin
75. Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads by Sylvia Lovegren
76. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
77. Freakangels Vol. 1 by Warren Ellis
78. Freakangels Vol. 2 by Warren Ellis
79. Drifting House by Krys Lee
80. The Sandman Endless Nights by Neil Gaiman
81. The Steep Approach to Garbadale by Iain Banks
82. Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
83. Orbiter by Warren Ellis
84. When it Happens to You by Molly Ringwald
85. Haunted Legends edited by Ellen Datlow & Nick Mamatas
86. Big Breasts and Wide Hips by Yan Mo
87. The Dream Life of Sukhanov by Olga Grushin
88. Freakangels Vol. 3 by Warren Ellis
89. Freakangels Vol. 4 by Warren Ellis
90. Freakangels Vol. 5 by Warren Ellis
91. The Queen's Lover by Francine du Plessix Gray
92. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
93. Freakangels Vol. 6 by Warren Ellis
94. Tallula Rising by Glen Duncan

95. Mirrorshades edited by Bruce Sterling
96. Black Butler Vol. 1 by Yana Toboso
97. Black Butler Vol. 2 by Yana Toboso
98. The King's Mistress by Emma Campion
99. Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope by Francine du Plessix Gray
100. Mercenary Road by Hideyuki Kikuchi
101. Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson
102. The Red Chamber by Pauline A. Chen
103. Handling the Undead by John A Lindeqvist
104. Black Butler Vol. 3 by Yana Toboso
105. Black Butler Vol. 4 by Yana Toboso
106. Black Butler Vol. 5 by Yana Toboso
107. Kingdom Come by JG Ballard
108. White Fever by Jacek Hugo-Bader
109. Black Butler Vol. 6 by Yana Toboso
110. Black Butler Vol. 7 by Yana Toboso
111. Black Butler Vol. 8 by Yana Toboso
112. Long Live The King by Fay Weldon
113. Moscow Noir edited by Natalia Smirnova & Julia Goumen
114. The Beijing of Possibilities by Jonathan Tel
115. Nefertiti by Michelle Moran
116. Strawberry Panic by Sakurako Kimino
117. The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran
118. Code Breaker Vol. 1 by Akimine Kamijyo
119. Code Breaker Vol. 2 by Akimine Kamijyo
120. Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
121. Brothers by Hua Yu
122. Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert
123. Hard Time to be a Father by Fay Weldon
124. Ghost in the Shell: Human Error Processor 1.5 by Masamune Shirow
125. The Cloning of Joanna May by Fay Weldon
126. Girlfriends Collection 1 by Milk Morinaga
127. Epic Legends of Fantasy edited by John Joseph Adams
128. Rhode Island Blues by Fay Weldon

129. You by Austin Grossman
130. Black Butler Vol. 9 by Yana Toboso
131. Black Butler Vol. 10 by Yana Toboso
132. Waiting by Ha Jin
133. Nana Vol. 1 by Ai Yazawa
134. Nana Vol. 2 by Ai Yazawa
135. Nana Vol. 3 by Ai Yazawa
136. Library Wars Vol. 1 by Kiiro Yumi
137. Smile As They Bow by Nu Nu Yi
138. Let The People In: The Life & Times of Ann Richards by Jan Reid
139. A Free Life by Ha Jin
140. Nana Vol. 4 by Ai Yazawa
141. Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
142. The Story of SaiunKoku Vol. 1 by Sai Yukino
143. Sympathy for the Devil edited by Tim Pratt
144. The Drifting Classroom Vol. 1 by Kazuo Umezu
145. The Drifting Classroom Vol. 2 by Kazuo Umezu
146. The Drifting Classroom Vol. 3 by Kazuo Umezu
147. The Drifting Classroom Vol. 4 by Kazuo Umezu
148. The Drifting Classroom Vol. 5 by Kazuo Umezu
149. The Drifting Classroom Vol. 6 by Kazuo Umezu
150. The Drifting Classroom Vol. 7 by Kazuo Umezu
151. The Drifting Classroom Vol. 8 by Kazuo Umezu
152. The Drifting Classroom Vol. 9 by Kazuo Umezu
153. The Drifting Classroom Vol. 10 by Kazuo Umezu
154. The Drifting Classroom Vol. 11 by Kazuo Umezu
155. Wild Ones Vol. 1 by Kiyo Fujiwara
156. Wild Ones Vol. 2 by Kiyo Fujiwara
157. Wild Ones Vol. 3 by Kiyo Fujiwara
158. Wild Ones Vol. 4 by Kiyo Fujiwara
159. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

160. Wild Ones Vol. 5 by Kiyo Fujiwara
161. Wild Ones Vol. 6 by Kiyo Fujiwara
162. Wild Ones Vol. 7 by Kiyo Fujiwara
163. Wild Ones Vol. 8 by Kiyo Fujiwara
164. Black Wings of Cthulhu edited by ST Joshi
165. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
166. Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory
167. Wild Ones Vol. 9 by Kiyo Fujiwara
168. Wild Ones Vol. 10 by Kiyo Fujiwara
169. Peninsula of Lies by Edward Ball
170. Merivel by Rose Tremain
171. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

172. 1356 by Bernard Cornwell
173. Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman
174. My Appetite for Destruction by Steven Adler
175. Library Wars Vol. 2 by Kiiro Yumi
176. Library Wars Vol. 3 by Kiiro Yumi
177. Library Wars Vol. 4 by Kiiro Yumi
178. Library Wars Vol. 5 by Kiiro Yumi
179. Library Wars Vol. 6 by Kiiro Yumi
180. Library Wars Vol. 7 by Kiiro Yumi
181. Library Wars Vol. 8 by Kiiro Yumi
182. Library Wars Vol. 9 by Kiiro Yumi
183. The Bathing Women by Ning Tie
184. Angelica by Arthur Phillips
185. VN by Madeline Ashby
186. Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
187. Johnny Cash: I See A Darkness by Reinhard Kleist

188. Constellation Games by Leonard Richardson
189. Black Sun Rising by CS Friedman
190. Federations edited by John Joseph Adams
191. The Crow Road by Ian Banks
192. Five Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth by the Oatmeal
193. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
194. House of Thieves by Kaui Hart Hemmings
195. Tokyo Cancelled by Rana Dasgupta
196. The Flowers of Evil Vol. 1 by Shūzō Oshimi
197. The Flowers of Evil Vol. 2 by Shūzō Oshimi
198. The Flowers of Evil Vol. 3 by Shūzō Oshimi
199. When True Night Falls by CS Friedman
200. The Lying Year by Andrei Gelasimov
201. The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales
202. The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
203. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

204. New York by Edward Rutherford
205. Novels and Stories by Shirley Jackson
206. Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
207. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
208. Black Butler Vol. 11 by Yana Toboso
209. Black Butler Vol. 12 by Yana Toboso
210. Black Butler Vol. 13 by Yana Toboso
211. Black Butler Vol. 14 by Yana Toboso
212. Crown of Shadows by CS Friedman
213. Girlfriends Collection 2 by Milk Morinaga
214. Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes
215. The Center of Winter by Marya Hornbacher
216. The Flowers of Evil Vol. 4 by Shūzō Oshimi
217. The Flowers of Evil Vol. 5 by Shūzō Oshimi
218. The Flowers of Evil Vol. 6 by Shūzō Oshimi
219. The Lullaby of Polish Girls by Dagmara Domincyzk
220. Snobs by Julian Fellowes
221. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
222. Rose: My Life in Service to Lady Astor by Rosina Harrison
223. Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
224. First Rule of Swimming by Courtney Angela Brkic
225. I am Pusheen by Claire Belton
226. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

227. You Are One of Them by Elliot Holt
228. No Hero by Warren Ellis
229. The Eye of Minds by James Dashner
230. Evil and the Mask by Fuminori Nakamura
231. The Raven Girl by Audrey Niffenegger
232. Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann
233. The Dark Road by Jian Ma
234. Errantry by Elizabeth Hand
235. The Starry Rift edited by Jonathan Strahan
236. Doll Bones by Holly Black
237. The Coldest Girl in Cold Town by Holly Black
238. Black Venus by James MacManus
239. Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
240. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
241. Tampa by Alisa Nutting
242. Heirs and Graces by Rhys Bowen
243. Sister Mother Husband Dog Etc by Delia Ephron

244. Long Live The King by Fay Weldon
245. You Only Get Letters From Jail by Jodi Angel
246. Medea by Kerry Greenwood
247. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
248. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
249. Ash by Malinda Lo
250. Turn Around Bright Eyes by Rob Sheffield
251. Gods of the Steppe by Andrei Gelasimov
252. Studio Saint-Ex by Ania Szado

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72. Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko
73. Stripping Gypsy: The Life of Gypsy Rose Lee by Noralee Frankel
74. The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton (completed by Marion Mainwaring)

I bought some books the other day, one of which was Emma Bull's War for the Oaks. I have a sort of uneasy relationship with urban fantasy as a genre. Part of me really wants to like it and love it, but often it feels so twee and full of violet eyed vampire dragon pixie hybrids to the point of absurdity. I wasn't sure I really wanted to be reading a book that involve faerie and a rock band but I picked it up anyway.

Well, it really hammered my prejudices about novels with bright eyed magical beings and rock bands and urban fantasy. The writing was amazing, vivid and forceful. I read this book in four hours today, carrying it from lunch to the shower to the sofa. I only put it down to wash my hair.

In other news, I forgot to obtain caffeine while grocery shopping. I did buy gelato though.

I'm deeply interested in the results of the poll in Saturday's entry. (Thank you for filling it out.) Many of the comments touched on reasons or ideas that I didn't include in the poll.

Currently I'm reading a book called Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima that I admit I picked up because I read something that compared the author to Dostoevsky and because my knowledge of serious business Japanese literature is sparse. Honestly though, it feels a little like a formal Japanese Catcher in the Rye and I've never had fond feelings towards that book. I'm not sure what it is that is preventing me from getting invested or interested in the book. Partly I think it is the style and maybe that's a translation issue. Maybe it sings and flows better in Japanese.

If there was a simple super power I could have, it would be a mastery of all languages so I could read everything.

As I mentioned, I've quit very few books. Something that surprised me in the poll results is the number of people who said they were more likely to quit reading a book they didn't enjoy if it was Serious Business Literature. (Those Books With Important Ideas! Books Professors Assign! Though the debate over whether we need such a distinction is for another time.) I'm even less likely to quit reading if it is something that falls onto that pile because I feel like I should figure out why I don't like, or what I'm missing that causes other people to feel it is such an important book. Sometimes I'm secretly worried that I'm not smart enough to get why the book seems to matter or why people find it important.

Catcher in the Rye is one of those books. I loathed it so strongly and was so genuinely puzzled by the appeal that I read it five times during a semester and made it a major part of a paper I wrote comparing it to another novel. I still don't like it, but I understand it more now. At least, I understand why it appeals to certain people and why it received the critical reception it did. But I had to read the damn book five times.

Two notable exceptions to my general habits - I have never made it through any Faulkner ever and I forced myself to read the entirety of the execrable Twilight. Proof perhaps that I care more about vampires than Americana, I suppose. (Though I did stop after the first one and I couldn't get rid of it fast enough.) In the case of Faulkner I found it nearly unreadable with the dialogue and dialect, but not in the way of William S. Burroughs. When I first read Naked Lunch I could only manage fifteen or so pages a day before my brain would begin to hurt and I had to stop. I'm still really not sure why I can't find Faulkner engaging but I've stopped trying.

I'm far more likely to stop reading nonfiction, or fantasy fiction that I don't enjoy. I gave up on Robert Jordan a few years back because I had just stopped being interested even though at times his writing was engaging and cinematic. I stopped reading a book on the history of pineapples because the writing (by a television producer with the BBC) was so deplorable and wretched that it wasn't even worth it to gain a few more exciting bits of trivia. (I love food trivia too.) But I ultimately don't feel the same compulsion to understand why I'm bored or the same compulsion to keep going in search of some elusive literary merit.

At this time, I've read about 75 pages of the Mishima novel and I think I'm just going to put it aside in hopes I can come back to it some other day. Feeling vaguely guilty at my lack of literary fortitude I went and bought an armful of books - two historical novels of vastly different time periods, two memoirs from women of the early 20th century, some classic science fiction short stories and a book of nonfiction about food. Surely one of them will capture my interest.

If you're curious about what I have read recently, I have lists from the past couple years.
2008
2009
so far, 2010

Yesterday I broke my french press, which didn't cause quite the mess I expected. But still, I need a new french press and a soap dish and some other things. I intended to go out and procure these things. But I didn't.

Instead, I sat down and started reading Dust by Joan Frances Turner. (You can learn about that here) I started reading, and could not stop reading. I read the entire thing today. It was just that compelling, that interesting. Seriously, this book is fascinating and hard to quantify. It's spooky. It's also a compelling and wonderful take on a mythos that is coherent and amazing and does not involve sparkles. It defies easy categorization. This is a book about the undead but it isn't just that.

(There is a part of me that thinks it is terribly unfair for me to rip through a novel in a day that I know took the author a long, long time to write. I remember when this novel was a very secret project, its specifics never mentioned. Now it is sitting on the arm of my chair in hardback form with a smooth dust jacket and a map drawn on the inside of the cover.)

I'm going to read it again, perhaps a little slower.

So many things to say, but I feel everything fly out of my head each time I sit down to write them. We left the house yesterday because I couldn't stand the silence in my own head and it was a good thing because an electrical substation just north of us caught on fire and all the power went out in the area. We got to spend a good evening hanging out with Stacy & Eric, eating sandwiches and watching Riff Tracks. I'm not sure I can scrub my brain enough to get rid of the utterly moronic mess that was The Happening. But I really loved the guys singing about pork and apparently people used to think it was a good idea to wash clothes in gasoline at home!

A couple days ago I read Sacred Country by Rose Tremain. This is a fascinating story about Martin Ward and his struggle to find his way back to the right body. I suppose after a lifetime spent reading science fiction and fantasy it doesn't seem so hard for me to relate to someone living in a completely different time and setting than my own. Martin is born as Mary and grows up on a farm in the English countryside. When the story started shifting perspectives to other family members and even other people living in the village, my first reaction was "No, no, no, I need to be with Mary/Martin." I didn't want to have to empathize with the drunk father or the awful little sibling. But I found it gave me a fuller picture of Martin, and Martin's world, without forcing me into some painful reconciliation with the others. In the end I was glad for it, because it allowed the story to happen.

There's a lot of sadness and missed things, a lot of cruelty to the life in the pages. But it comes round to something like peace and a greater sense of happiness.

Reading Sacred Country has made me think about what I want for myself.

I've attempted to start at least three different books this weekend. I can't focus on any one enough to get past the first twenty pages. I can't focus on writing anything. There are ideas, but they slip right by me. I should probably attempt to channel this restless, directionless energy into something worthwhile. I've already prepped the things I'm going to cook for dinner. (Spilled a bunch of melted butter too, ugh) I'm having trouble focusing on doing any one thing for more than five minutes. I've attempted at least a half dozen different LJ entries on various subjects over the weekend and none of them have seen the light of day. My focus is so poor I think I'm going to bake dinner instead of pan frying it, so as not to burn things or set myself on fire.

Things are not bad. Therapy makes me exhausted and cranky and leaves me with little emotional energy for anything else. My waist has expanded a couple inches that I do not like, so I am trying to do crunches every day and commit myself more firmly to exercise. (Please no advice on that front - thank you, I appreciate it, but not right now okay) Maybe this current spate of hummingbird intensity aimlessness is related to the increase in exercise. I am full of formless energy even though I don't want to do anything.

Today's weather is also strange and that might be it. My joints ached last night and I think it was the shift in pressure. Today it has been sunny, with a cloudless sky, and the rolling sound of thunder. Oh summer, I love you when you're strange.

If Rachel Zoe is supposed to be some incredible fashionable lady, then why is she always wearing a giant shapeless sack anytime I see her commercials on Bravo? Really?

I have recovered some over the loss of the tree/bush in the back yard. I am reasonably sure it was some kind of rose of sharon, with very blue/purple flowers. It was really lovely. Sadness. When the weather eventually clears up we will have to do a lot of yard work. The rosemary bush is out of control.

Maybe next year I will plant a pomegranate tree. I'm so bad with plants though. Still, the flowering pear in the front yard seems to be doing okay. The marigolds continue to grow and bloom. The blue argentum have died though. Plants confuse me.

I feel like I should tell you that I read a collection of zombie short stories today, including one by Max Brooks that was unutterably sad. There were some genuinely creepy stories, so much that I scared myself and actually spent ten minutes hiding in the bathroom this morning, wondering if there was a zombie in my house. Or something, maybe not a zombie, but I heard a noise damn it.

The advantage of a small house is that I am reasonably able to survey the entire place at once.

I should also tell you about how I read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins in one day. I put off reading this for ages, because every time I saw the title I would think "Oh is that going to be some gross pro-eating disorder book? ick." Then there was the author's name, which made me think of Joan Collins and Suzanne Somers and just sort of reinforced the idea that it was some crappy book. But all those things were wrong, wrong, wrong.

The book has the sort of idea of Battle Royale involving teenagers picked to fight to the death for the entertainment of others in this terrible post apocalyptic North America. But I found myself genuinely interested in the characters, in the world, in the slowly evolving child's point of view of history and events and hunger and death and survival. It is surprising and good. I feel bad for judging the book entirely on my imagination for so long, but at least now I only have to wait a month for the third book in the series to come out, so I can rip through them again.

Since I have never once tried to keep track, it might be interesting to see. A journal post the other day sparked the realization that I don't read as much as I did at one time. When I was too scared of people to have a social life and didn't have a video game system, I spent most of my free time in books or movies. I estimate though that I still read more than the average person.


Fiction:
World War Z by Max Brooks
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
Poison by Kathryn Harrison
Vampire Hunter D Volume 8: Mysterious Journey to the North Sea Part 2 by Hideyuki Kikuchi and Yoshitaka Amano
Vampire Hunter D Volume 9: The Rose Princess by Hideyuki Kikuchi and Yoshitaka Amano
Silk by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
M is for Magic by Neil Gaiman
The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Vampire Hunter D Volume 10: Dark Nocturne by Hideyuki Kikuchi and Yoshitaka Amano
Twilight Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller
A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Under The Skin by Michael Faber
Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury
Tales of Pain & Wonder by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Murder of Angels by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Children of Men by PD James
Havemercy by Jaida Jones and Danielle Bennett
Low Red Moon by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Threshold by Caitlín R. Kiernan
To Charles Fort, With Love by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Girls Guide to Hunting & Fishing by Melissa Banks
The Secret History by Donna Tart
One More Year by Sana Krasikov
Daughter of Hounds by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Mercury by Caitlín R. Kiernan
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Black Wine by Canadas Jane Dorsey
Splitting by Faye Weldon
Angel of Darkness by Charles de Lint
The Haunted Ring & Other Stories by Robert E Howard
Dreams Underfoot by Charles de Lint
The Bride of Texas by Josef Skvorecky
Dreams Made Flesh by Anne Bishop
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Manga:
Deathnote #1 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Deathnote #2 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Deathnote #3 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Deathnote #4 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Deathnote #5 by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
Goth by Otsuichi and Kendi Oiwa
Necratoholic by Maguro Wasasbi

Non-Fiction & Biography:
Slash by Slash and Anthony Bozza
Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life by Kate Darnton, Kayce Freed Jennings, and Lynn Sherr
Love is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century by Catherine Clinton
Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger
The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright by Jean Nathan
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1916 by Kate Roiphe
Around The Bloc by Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Moura: The Dangerous Life of the Baroness Budberg by Nina Berberova


Magazines: read on a monthly basis
Harper's
Vanity Fair
Texas Monthly
Game Informer