Complete Book List for 2012


  • 34. NW - Zadie Smith
  • 33. Winter in the Blood - James Welch
  • 32. Selected Poems - Langston Hughes
  • 31. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • 30. The Coxswain Encyclopedia - Laura Simon, Stew Stokes, Margot Zalkind
  • 29. The Waste Land and Other Writings - T.S. Eliot
  • 28. The Awakening - Kate Chopin
  • 27. Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
  • 26. A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
  • 25. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
  • 24. A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf
  • 23. The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
  • 22. Le Scaphandre et le Papillon - Jean-Dominique Bauby
  • 21. Macbeth - William Shakespeare
  • 20. The Dead - James Joyce
  • 19. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  • 18. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
  • 17. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
  • 16. Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
  • 15. The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
  • 14. King Lear - William Shakespeare
  • 13. The Man Who Would Be King - Rudyard Kipling
  • 12. As You Like It - William Shakespeare
  • 11. The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  • 10. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 9. Kiffe kiffe demain - Faïza Guène
  • 8. Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
  • 7. Hard Times - Charles Dickens
  • 6. L'Etranger - Albert Camus
  • 5. Richard III - William Shakespeare
  • 4. Richard II - William Shakespeare
  • 3. The Sonnets - William Shakespeare
  • 2. Huis clos - Jean-Paul Sartre
  • 1. A Room with a View - E.M. Forster


To be a dumb gay person is a luxury that was won for you by gay people who came before when being gay was so complicated and so difficult that dumb gay people didn’t last.

- Dan Savage


Just a note of clarification: the "Visual Check List" sidebar is a list of all the movies I've watched this year. It's a meager attempt at being more decisive regarding the number and quality of films I watch in an effort to increase the amount of productivity in my life.

Complete Book List for 2011


  • 30. Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire
  • 29. After Dark - Haruki Murakami
  • 28. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
  • 27. Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me - Chelsea's family, friends, and other victims
  • 26. The Tempest - William Shakespeare
  • 25. Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang - Chelsea Handler
  • 24. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - Chelsea Handler
  • 23. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands - Chelsea Handler
  • 22. The Curfew - Jesse Ball
  • 21. Not a Star - Nick Hornby
  • 20. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
  • 19. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
  • 18. Howard's End - E.M. Forster
  • 17. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
  • 16. Suicide - Edouard Levé
  • 15. The Tales of Beedle the Bard - J.K. Rowling
  • 14. Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
  • 13. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
  • 12. Collected Stories - Franz Kafka
  • 11. Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
  • 10. On Beauty - Zadie Smith
  • 9. The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
  • 8. The Way Through Doors - Jesse Ball
  • 7. Close to Jedenew - Kevin Vennemann
  • 6. The Girl with the Golden Eyes - Honoré de Balzac
  • 5. Still Life With Woodpecker - Tom Robbins
  • 4. Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
  • 3. Thursday Next: First Among Sequels - Jasper Fforde
  • 2. Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde
  • 1. The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde