Where I Was From

2008 Recap

No probing survey this year: just books. And a couple of very serious magazines. Top five are bolded.

1. Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey – Karen Wilkin
2. Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life – Bryan Lee O’Malley
3. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder – Lawrence Weshchler
4. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller (re-read)
5. Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott
6. Bone – Jeff Smith (complete series)
7. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Michael Chabon
8. Scott Pilgrim VS the World – Bryan Lee O’Malley
9. Scott Pilgrim and the Infinite Sadness – Bryan Lee O’Malley
10. Scott Pilgrim Gets it Together – Bryan Lee O’Malley
11. Red Eye, Black Eye – K. Thor Jensen
12. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age – Modris Eksteins
13. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men – David Foster Wallace
14. Water for Elephants – Sara Gruen
15. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner (re-read)
16. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
17. A Light in August – William Faulkner
18. Absalom, Absalom – William Faulkner (second aborted effort)
19. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
20. Journal of Ride Theory Omnibus – Dan Howland
21. The Beauty Myth – Naomi Wolf
22. Girl with the Curious Hair – David Foster Wallace
23. Buckminster Fuller: At Home in the Universe – Alden Hatch
24. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann (aborted effort)
25. Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
26. Berlin: City of Stones – Jason Lutes (re-read)
27. Berlin: City of Smoke – Jason Lutes
28. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (re-read)
29. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil – George Saunders
30. The Second Tree from the Corner – E. B. White
31. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt – Aimee Bender
32. Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
(33. The New Yorker)
(34. Harper’s)

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