Books Read in 2010

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January

1. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, by David Sedaris

2. Holding Still for as Long as Possible, by Zoe Whittall

3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon

4. Aleister Crowley: A Modern Master, by John Moore

5. Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works, translated by Paul Schmidt

February

6. New Selected Poems 1957-1994, by Ted Hughes

7. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, by Richard Dawkins

8. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, by David Foster Wallace

9. White Stains, by Aleister Crowley

10. A Room With a View, by EM Forster

11. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, by Francis A Yates

12. Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast, by Colin Wilson

March

13. The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated, by Vladimir Nabokov

14. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold, by C.S. Lewis

15. Frances Yates and the Hermetic Tradition, by Marjorie G. Jones

16. Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

17. A Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore

18. Slouching Toward Nirvana: New Poems, by Charles Bukowski

19. The Door, by Margaret Atwood

20. Morning in the Burned House, by Margaret Atwood

21. Come On In!, by Charles Bukowski

22. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce

April

23. The Triumph of the Moon, by Ronald Hutton

24. Too Much Happiness, by Alice Munro

25. 100 Selected Poems, by E. E. Cummings

26. Pictor’s Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies, by Hermann Hesse

27. The Journals of Susanna Moodie: Poems, by Margaret Atwood

28. On Writing, by Stephen King

29. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, Alice Munro

30. Death & Fame: Last Poems 1993-1997, Allen Ginsberg

- The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi

May

31. District and Circle: Poems, by Seamus Heaney

32. Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End, by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

33. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson

34. Concrete and Wild Carrot, by Margaret Avison

35. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot

36. The End of the Poem, by Paul Muldoon

37. The Colossus and Other Poems, by Sylvia Plath

38. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, by Sylvia Plath

39. The Immoralist, by Andre Gide

40. Satori in Paris, by Jack Kerouac

41. Pic, by Jack Kerouac

42. Paris Stories, by Mavis Gallant

June

43. The Age of Reason, Jean-Paul Sartre

44. Ten Years of Triumph of the Moon, edited by Dave Evans and Dave Green

45. The Wars, by Timothy Findley

46. The Journey to the East, by Hermann Hesse

47. Abecedarium, by Peter Lamborn Wilson

48. Aimless Wandering: Chuang Tzu’s Chaos Linguistics, by Hakim Bey

49. Selected Poems, by E. E. Cummings

50. The Girl Who Played with Fire, by Stieg Larsson

51. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson

July

52. Free, by Chris Anderson

53. Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov

54. The Emily Valentine Poems, by Zoe Whittall

55. Fragile Things, by Neil Gaiman

56. Bottle Rocket Hearts, by Zoe Whittall

57. A Poetry Handbook, by Mary Oliver

58. Precordial Thump, by Zoe Whittall

59. The Book of the Law: Liber Al Vel Legis, by Aleister Crowley (reread)

- Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, by Bryan Lee O’Malley

August

60. The Year of the Flood, by Margaret Atwood

61. Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood (reread)

62. Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison, Volume 1, by Jim Morrison

63. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction, by Michel Foucault

64. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure, by Michel Foucault

65. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self, by Michel Foucault

66. An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, by Nigel Lawson

67. Apocalypse Now and Then, by Catherine Keller

68. Principia Discordia, by Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (reread)

September

69. The Eye in the Pyramid, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (reread)

70. The Golden Apple, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (reread)

71. Leviathan, by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (reread)

72. Dancing Girls, by Margaret Atwood

73. The Language of Birds, by Dale Pendell

74. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

75. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell

- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, by Bryan Lee O’Malley (reread)

- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World, by Bryan Lee O’Malley (reread)

- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness, by Bryan Lee O’Malley (reread)

- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, by Bryan Lee O’Malley (reread)

- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe, by Bryan Lee O’Malley (reread)

- Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 6: Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, by Bryan Lee O’Malley (reread)

October

76. Wizard’s First Rule, by Terry Goodkind

77. Stone of Tears, by Terry Goodkind

78. Blood of the Fold, by Terry Goodkind

79. Temple of the Winds, by Terry Goodkind

80. Soul of the Fire, by Terry Goodkind

81. February, by Lisa Moore

82. Very Good, Jeeves!, by P. G. Wodehouse

83. Beyond This Dark House, by Guy Gavriel Kay

84. Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley, by Lawrence Sutin

November

85. Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems, by Emily Dickinson

86. Selected Poems, by William Carlos Williams

87. The Final Solution: A Story of Detection, by Michael Chabon

88. Asphodel, by Michael Redhill

89.The Magician, by W. Somerset Maugham

90. Spirit Engine, by John Donlan

91. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, by Judith Butler

92. Handwriting: Poems, by Michael Ondaatje

93. Iron-on Constellations, by Emily Pohl-Weary

94. Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn

95. Yellow Dog, by Martin Amis

96. Bone Dream, by Moira MacDougall

97. The Diary of a Drug Fiend, by Aleister Crowley

98. Somewhere to Run from: Poems, by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk

99. Sexual Outlaw, Erotic Mystic: The Essential Ida Craddock, by Vere Chappell

December

100. Confessions of a Crap Artist, by Philip K Dick

101. Tulips and Chimneys, by E.E. Cummings

102. Ossuaries, by Dionne Brand

103. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card

104. The Cocktail Party, by T.S. Eliot

105. Selected Poems, by Paul Verlaine

106. Last Night in Twisted River, by John Irving

107. Room, by Emma Donoghue

108. The Crow’s Vow, by Susan Briscoe

109. The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall

110. Soul on Standby, by Antony Di Nardo