Books Read in 2005

F = Fiction
NF = Non-Fiction
B = Biography
P = Poetry
PL = Play
GN = Graphic Novel


1) Neal Stephenson - The System of the World (Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3) (F)

2) Rex Stout - Too Many Cooks (F)

3) P.G. Wodehouse - Jeeves in the Morning (F)

4) Da Chen - Sounds of the River (B)

5) Nick Hornby - How to be Good (F)

6) Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle (reread) (F)

7) David Gemmell - Morningstar (F)

8) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Preludes And Nocturnes (reread)
(GN)
9) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: The Doll's House (reread) (GN)

10) Garth Ennis - Preacher: Until The End of the World (GN)

11) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: The Dream Country (reread) (GN)

12) Algis J. Budrys - Michaelmas (F)

13) Jamie Delano et al. - Hellblazer: Original Sin (GN)

14) David Eddings - Pawn of Prophecy: The Belgariad, book 1 (reread) (F)

15) David Eddings - Queen of Sorcery: The Belgariad, book 2 (reread) (F)

16) David Eddings - Magician's Gambit: The Belgariad, book 3 (reread) (F)

17) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Season of Mists (reread) (GN)

18) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: A Game of You (reread) (GN)

19) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Fables & Reflections (reread) (GN)

20) David Eddings - Castle of Wizardy: The Belgariad, book 4 (reread) (F)

21) David Eddings - Enchanters' End Game: The Belgariad, book 5 (reread) (F)

22) Garth Ennis et al. - Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits (GN)

23) Rex Stout - Trio for Blunt Instruments (F)

24) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: Devil in the Gateway (GN)

25) Garth Ennis et al. - Preacher: Ancient History (GN)

26) David Eddings - Guardians of the West: The Mallorean, book 1 (reread) (F)

27) William Logan - Macbeth in Venice (P)

28) Tom Stoppard - The Invention of Love (PL)

29) David Eddings - The King of The Murgos: The Mallorean, book 2 (reread) (F)

30) Isabel Fonseca - Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (NF)

31) David Eddings - Demon Lord of Karanda: The Mallorean, book 3 (reread) (F)

32) T. S. Eliot - The Waste Land and Other Poems (P)

33) Jamie Delano, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis et al. - Hellblazer: Rare Cuts (GN)

34) David Eddings - Sorceress of Darshiva: The Mallorean, book 4 (reread) (F)

35) Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (GN) (B)

36) Umberto Eco, trans. William Weaver - Serendipities: Language & Lunacy (NF)

37) David Eddings - The Seeress of Kell: The Mallorean, book 5 (reread) (F)

38) Neil Gaiman - The Sandman: Brief Lives (reread) (GN)

39) Alan Moore - Saga of the Swamp Thing (GN)

40) Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon - Hellblazer: Fear and Loathing (GN)

41) Sophocles, trans. Rachel Kitzinger & Eamon Grennan - Oedipus at Colonus (PL)

42) Art Spiegelman - In the Shadow of No Towers (GN)

43) Frank Miller - Sin City: The Hard Goodbye (GN)

44) Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year (F)

45) Glen Cook - The Black Company (F)

46) Dick Francis - Odds Against (F)

47) Dick Francis - Whip Hand (F)

48) Dick Francis - Come to Grief (F)

49) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: Children and Monsters (GN)

50) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: A Dalliance with the Damned (GN)

51) Neil Gaiman et al. - The Books of Magic (GN)

52) Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment (reread) (F)

53) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: The Divine Comedy (GN)

54) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: Inferno (GN)

55) Glen Cook - Shadows Linger (F)

56) B. H. Liddell Hart - Scipio Africanus: Greater Than Napoleon (B)

57) Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - Hellblazer: Tainted Love (GN)

58) P. G. Wodehouse - How Right You Are, Jeeves (F)

59) Mike Carey et al. - Lucifer: Mansions of the Silence (GN)

60) Jasper Fforde - The Eyre Affair (F)

61) Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon et al. - Hellblazer: Damnation's Flame (GN)

62) Robert Pinsky - Jersey Rain (P)

63) John Stewart- Naked Pictures of Famous People (F)

64) Richard Hooker - MASH (F)

65) Neal Gaiman - Sandman: The World's End (GN)

66) Dick Francis - Reflex (F)

67) E. M. Forster - A Room With A View (F)

68) Dave Sim - Cerebus (GN)

69) Anthony Hecht - The Darkness and the Light (P)

70) Dick Francis - Forfeit (F)

71) Thich Nhat Hanh - The Miracle of Mindfulness (NF)

72) Alan Moore and David Lloyd - V for Vendetta (GN)

73) R. Crumb and Peter Poplaski - The R. Crumb Handbook (GN/B)

74) Paul Cartledge - The Spartans (NF)

75) David Gemmell - The Swords of Night and Day (F)

76) Oscar Wilde - The Ballad of Reading Gaol (P)

77) Rex Stout - Murder By the Book (F)

78) Jack Keruoac - On the Road (F)

79) Will Eisner - Invisible People (GN)

80) Glen Cook - Whispering Nickel Idols (F)

81) Rex Stout - Red Threads (F)

82) Mickey Spillane - I, The Jury (F)

83) Robert Kirkman & Cory Walker - Invincible: Family Matters (GN)

84) Arthur Gelb - City Room (B)

85) Dick Francis - Risk (F)

86) Alan Moore - The Swamp Thing: Love and Death (GN)

87) Alexandre Dumas trans. Robin Buss - The Black Tulip (F)

88) Lewis Black - Nothing's Sacred (NF)

89) Wislawa Szymborska trans. Clare Cavanagh - Nonrequired Reading (NF)

90) Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon - Hellblazer: Rake at the Gates of Hell (GN)

91) Joyce Johnson - Minor Characters (B)

92) Lois McMaster Bujold - The Hallowed Hunt (F)

93) Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Conflict of Honors (F)

94) Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Agent of Change (F)

95) Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Carpe Diem (F)

96) Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - Plan B (F)

97) Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - I Dare (F)

98) Nick Hornby - The Polysyllabic Spree (NF)

99) Dick Francis - Blood Sport (F)

100) Lawrence Robinson - The Accidental Connoisseur (NF)

101) David Sedaris - Barrel Fever (F)

102) Ian Fleming - Doctor No (F)

103) Michael Chabon - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (F)

104) Ian Fleming - Casino Royale (F)

105) Trans. Barbara Stoler Miller - The Bhagavad-Gita (P)

106) Dick Francis - Knockdown (F)

107) Allen Ginsberg - Howl and Other Poems (P)

108) Rick Gekoski - Nabakov's Butterfly (NF)

109) Dick Francis - Flying Finish (F)

110) Robert Sullivan - Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (NF)

111) J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (F)

112) Ian Fleming - Diamonds Are Forever (F)

113) Joseph Heller - Picture This (F)

114) Jeff Smith - Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume (GN)

115) Lewis Lapham - 30 Satires (NF)

116) Carl Reiner - My Anecdotal Life (B)

117) Ross King - Ex Libris (F)

118) Ian Fleming - From Russia With Love (F)

119) Rex Stout - Before Midnight (F) (reread)

120) I.J. Parker - The Dragon Scroll (F)

121) Dick Francis - Nerve (F)

122) Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely - WE3 (GN)

123) Rex Stout - Death of a Dude (F) (reread)

124) Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die (F)

125) Robert Graves - Goodbye to All That (B)

126) Raphael Sabatini - Scaramouche (F)

127) H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines (F)

128) Marquis de Sade - The Crimes of Love (F)

129) Mickey Spillane - My Gun is Quick (F)

130) Will Eisner - The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (GN) (NF)

131) Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrel (F)

132) Marco Polo - The Travels of Marco Polo (NF)

133) Terry Pratchett - Thud! (F)

134) Jon Stewart et al. - America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy (NF)

135) Isaac Asimov - The Return of the Black Widowers (F)

136) Glen Cook - The White Rose (F)

137) Charles MacLean - Scotch Whisky: A Liquid History (NF)

138) Art Spiegelman - Maus: A Survivor's Tale, My Father Bleeds History (GN)(B)

139) Art Spiegelman - Maus: A Survivor's Tale, And Here My Troubles Began (GN)(B)

140) John Ruskin - Unto This Last, and Other Writings (NF)

141) Lenny Bruce - The Essential Lenny Bruce (NF)

142) Arturo Perez-Reverte, trans. Margaret Jull Costa - The Fencing Master (F)

143) Inga Saffron - Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy (NF)

144) George Plimpton - The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair and Other Excursions and Observations (NF)

145) Boris Akunin, trans. Andrew Bromfield - The Winter Queen (F)

146) Ian Fleming - Goldfinger (F)

147) Frank Miller - Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (GN)

148) Sara Bader - Strange Red Cow: and other curious classified ads from the past (NF)

149) David Sedaris - Holidays On Ice (F and NF)

150) Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Stephen Mitchell - The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (P)

151) Zbigniew Herbert - THe King of the Ants: Mythological Essays (NF)

152) Mark Kurlansky - The Basque History of the World (NF)

153) R.A. Lafferty - Nine Hundred Grandmothers (F)

154) Michael Chabon et al. - The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, vol. 2 (GN)

155) Euripides, trans. Richmond Lattimore et al. - Euripides III, Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women, and Ion (PL)

156) Mickey Spillane - Vengeance is Mine! (F)

157) Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch (NF)