Books

For a variety of reasons, I decided to keep track of the books I read over the past year.  Since I'm the type of person who posts these kind of things, I'm posting it.  I'm at least being nice enough to put it behind "the fold" so as to not make the page too long to scroll along.

If you're curious about a given book then feel free to ask and I'll try to comment on it as best I remember.

Books finished since Dec. 3, 2005 (likely minus one or two I forgot to insert into the list):

1. Lord Dunsany - Don Rodriguez: The Chronicles of Shadow Valley.
2. Robert E. Howard - The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian.
3. Norman Spinard - The Iron Dream.
4. Harlan Ellison - Approaching Oblivian.
5. Douglas A. Anderson (Ed.) - H.P. Lovecraft's Favorite Weird Stories.
6. Lin Carter (Ed.) - The Spawn of Cthulhu.
7. Mordecai Richler - Solomon Gursky Was Here.
8. Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote.
9. Joseph P. Allen - Don Quixote: Hero or Fool?.
10. Lord Dunsany - The King of Elfland's Daughter.
11. Ambrose Bierce - The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce.
12. Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.
13. Leonard Cohen - Book of Mercy.
14. Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth.
15. Robert Graves - I, Claudius.
16. H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines.
17. Lewis Carrol - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
18. Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita.
19. Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising.
20. Michael Young - The Rise of the Meritocracy: 1870-2033.
21. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems.
22. Robert Graves - Claudius the God.
23. George MacDonald Frasier - Flashman.
24. Raymond Chandler - The Little Sister.
25. Isaac Asimov (Ed.) - The Hugo Winners Vol. I & II.
26. Scott Rice (Ed.) - It Was a Dark and Stormy Night.
27. Fritz Leiber - The Three of Swords.
28. Ray Bradbury - The Illustrated Man.
29. Fritz Leiber - A Specter is Haunting Texas.
30. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness.
31. Mordecai Richler - Cocksure.
32. Leonard Cohen - The Favourite Game.
33. Eric Frank Russell - Wasp.
34. James Randi - An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural.
35. Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic.
36. Eric Frank Russell - Next of Kin.
37. H.P. Lovecraft - The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Tales.
38. Sax Rohmer - The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu.
39. Lord Dunsany - The Gods of Pegana.
40. Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
41. Cotton Mather - Decennium Luctuosum.
42. Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic.
43. Franz Kafka - The Trial.
44. Charles Mackay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.
45. Cotton Mather - On Witchcraft. (aka Wonders of the Invisible World)
46. Simon Pearson - A Brief History of the End of the World.
47. Arthur Miller - The Crucible.
48. Raymond Chandler - Killer in the Rain.
49. Fredric Wertham - Seduction of the Innocent.
50. Robert M. Price (Ed.) - Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos.
51. Sir Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur.
52. Cory Doctorow - Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town.
53. Marshall McLuhan & Quentin Fiore - The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects.
54. Richard Overy with Andrew Wheatcroft - The Road to War, Revised and Updated Edition.
55. David A. Neiwert - In God's Country: The Patriot Movement & the Pacific North-West.
56. Raymond Chandler - Playback.
57. Kim Stanley Robinson - Red Mars.
58. F. Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise.
59. Richard Woodman - A Brief History of Mutiny.
60. Philip Warner - Passchendaele.
61. Terry Pratchett - The Dark Side of the Sun.
62. Raymond Chandler - The Simple Art of Murder.
63. Edmond Rostand - Cyrano de Bergerac. (Burgess translation)
64. Friedrich Max Müller (Translator/Editor) - The Dhammapada.
65. Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot.
66. Louise Guiness (Ed.) - The Everyman Book of Nonsense Rhymes.
67. Tom Stoppard - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
68. Leonard Cohen - Stranger Music.

Books started but not finished (for a variety of reasons):

1. Martin Halleck and Barbara Karasek (Eds.) - Folk & Fairy Tales, Second Edition. (Just had the essays left to read, but Becca needed it back for a paper she was writing.)
2. Cotton Mather - Paterna. (Cotton Mather's life in his own words.  Sounds interesting, right?  Well, except that he leaves all the interesting parts out which results in roughly 300 pages consisting of little more than tortured 17th century prose and holier than thou attitudes.)

Books started and still reading:

1. J. Edward Chamberlain - If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?
2. Philip K. Dick - The Man in the High Castle.  (I've read it before, this is merely a re-read.)
3. Iraj Pezeshkzad - My Uncle Napoleon.