Year in Review: Books

2005 Reading List

National Geographic - Jan
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
Priest vol 5 - Min-Woo Hyung
Perdido Street Station - China Miéville
National Geographic - Feb
Peace Maker Kurogane vol 1 - Nanae Chrono
National Geographic - Mar
A Series of Unfortunate Events: the Bad Beginning - Lemony Snicket
Samurai Executioner vol 2 - Kazuo Koike/Goseki Kojima
The Last Juror - John Grisham
Mega Tokyo vol 3 - Fred Gallagher
Peace Maker Kurogane vol 2 - Nanae Chrono
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Priest vol 6 - Min-Woo Hyung
Peace Maker Kurogane vol 3 - Nanae Chrono
National Geographic - Apr
Samurai Executioner vol 3 - Kazuo Koike/Goseki Kojima
National Geographic - May
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig (DNF)*
Samurai Executioner vol 4 - Kazuo Koike/Goseki Kojima
National Geographic - June
Priest vol 7 - Min-Woo Hyung
Priest vol 8 - Min-Woo Hyung
Priest vol 9 - Min-Woo Hyung
National Geographic - July
The Te of Piglet - Benjamin Hoff
Angels & Visitations - Neil Gaiman
National Geographic - Aug
No Plot? No Problem! - Chris Baty
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
Priest vol 10 - Min-woo Hyung
Priest vol 11 - Min-woo Hyung
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Samurai Executioner vol 5 - Kazuo Koeki/Goseki Kojima
Fell 1 - Warren Ellis/Ben Templesmith
Fell 2 - Warren Ellis/Ben Templesmith
Tarantula - Bob Dylan
National Geographic - Sept
National Geographic - Oct
National Geographic - Nov
Blade of the Immortal: Blood of a Thousand - Hiroaki Samura
Usagi Yojimbo book 1 - Stan Sakai
National Geographic – Dec
Lady Snow Blood vol 1 – Kazuo Koike/Kazuo Kamimura


DNF = did not finish (so I used the NASCAR term. It seemed like a good idea at the time.)

Best thing I read this year -- I'd say it's a toss up between Anansi Boys and all the volumes of Samurai Executioner.

Worst thing I read this year -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. And if that doesn't count since I didn't finish it, The Last Juror was pretty rotten as well.

Looking forward to getting through the massive stack I have waiting that includes Bob Dylan's Chronicles vol one, a book of Native American tales, Stephen King's Wolves of the Calla, Ursula Le Guin's classic The Left Hand of Darkness and many, many, many more.

Happy reading in 2006!