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Sunday 30 September 2018

So That I Remember: All the Books I Have Read Since September 2018


If Art Garfunkel did it, why not me, a man from Gloucestershire you've never heard of?

 September 2018: 
-George Orwell- Down and Out in Paris and London
-Cormac McCarthy- Outer Dark
-Sarah Glidden- Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria and Iraq 
-Brecht Evens- The Making Of
-Jim Harrison- Legends of the Fall
-Craig Thompson- Blankets
-Harvey Pekar, Ed Piskor & Others- The Beats: A Graphic History
-Riad Sattouf- The Arab of the Future 2
-Joyce Farmer- Special Exits
October 2018:
-Tillie Walden- On A Sunbeam (read it here)
-Jim Crumley- The Last Wolf 
-Jeff VanderMeer- Annihilation
November 2018:
-Jeff Vandermeer- Authority 
-Kate Beaton- Step Aside, Pops.
-John Wagner & John Ridgway- The Dead Man
-Karrie Fransman- The House that Groaned 
-Jeff Vandermeer- Acceptance
December 2018:
-Jean Giono- The Man Who Planted Trees
-Clarice Lispector- Daydreams and Drunkenness of a Young Lady 
-James Rebanks- The Shepherd's Life: a Tale of the Lake District
-Jérôme Ruillier- The Strange 


 January 2019:
-Phillipa Perry & Junko Grant- Couch Fiction: a Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy
-Bastien Vivés- Polina 
-Cormac McCarthy- Blood Meridian 
-Alison Bechdel- Are You My Mother?
-Sebastian Barker- Monastery of Light
February 2019:
-John Fante- Ask the Dust
March 2019: 
-Laurie Lee- Cider With Rosie
-John Steinbeck- The Pearl 
-Adrian Tomine- Scenes From an Impending Marriage 
-Frank Herbert- Dune Messiah
April 2019:
-Cormac McCarthy- All the Pretty Horses
-Noah Van Sciver- Fante Bukowski Three: A Perfect Failure
-Chester Brown- The Playboy
May 2019:
-Lisa Hanawalt- Hotdog Taste Test
-Michela Wrong- I Didn't Do It For You
June 2019:
-Iain Banks- Song of Stone
July 2019: 
-A.G Street- Farmer's Glory
-Will Eisner- Minor Miracles
August 2019:
-Mark Twain- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
-P.J Harvey & Seamus Murphy- The Hollow of the Hand
-[re-read] Pat Grant- Blue (read it here)
September 2019:
-Michelle Obama- Becoming 
-Junji Ito- Uzumaki
-Junji Ito- Gyo
-John Porcellino- Perfect Example
-Raynor Winn- The Salt Path 
October 2019:
-Raymond Briggs- Ethel & Ernest: A True Story
-Jim Ottaviani & Leland Myrick- Feynman
-Patti Smith- Just Kids
-William Carlos Williams- Selected Poems 
November 2019:
-Ron Wimberly- Prince of Cats
-Scott McCloud- The Sculptor

 January 2020:
-Winshluss- Pinocchio
-Evan Dorkin & Jill Thompson- Beasts of Burden
February 2020:
-Andrew Wood- The Word
-Isabella Tree- Wilding (used a quote as a prompt for this article)
-Ricardo Delgado- Age of Reptiles 
-Ezra Claytan Daniels- Upgrade Soul
April 2020:
-Seamus Heaney- Seeing Things 
May 2020:
-John Porcellino- From Lone Mountain
-Guy Delisle- Hostage
June 2020:
-Declan Shalvey & Gavin Fullerton- Bog Bodies
-Declan Shalvey, Phillip Barrett, Jordie Bellaire & Clayton Cowles- Savage Town
July 2020:
-Manu Larcenet- Blast
August 2020:
-Roberto Bolaño- 2666
September 2020:
-Junot Díaz- Drown
October 2020:
-Delia Owens- Where the Crawdads sing
November 2020:
-Alan Moore & Kevin O' Neill- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest
-Roy Dennis- Cottongrass Summer
December 2020:
-Gilbert Hernandez- Heartbreak Soup 
-Gilbert Hernandez- High, Soft Lisp
-Gilbert Hernandez- Luba 
-[Re-read] Raymond Briggs- When the Wind Blows 

January 2021:
-Brian 'Box' Brown- Andre the Giant: Life and Legend 
-Pat Mills & Kevin O'Neill- Marshal Law: The Deluxe Collection
-Daniel Clowes- Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
-Paco Roca- The Lighthouse
February 2021:
-J.M Coetzee- The Death of Jesus
-Xinran- The Good Women of China
March 2021:
-David Aja & Ann Nocenti- The Seeds 
-Gilbert Hernandez- Bumperhead
-Gilbert Hernandez- Loverboys
-Eimear McBride- A Girl is A Half Formed Thing
April 2021:
-Bastien Vivès- A Sister
-Herr Seele & Kamagurka- Cowboy Henk: King of Dental Floss
-Daniel Clowes- Ice Haven
-Gene Yang- American Born Chinese 
-Carolyn Novak- Girl Town 
-Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O'Connell- Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me
-[Re-read] Brian Ralph- Daybreak
-Benoit Peeters & Francois Schuiten- Samaris 
-Alys Fowler- Hidden Nature
-Joe Sacco- Paying the Land 
May 2021:
-Neil Gaiman & Eddie Campbell- The Truth is a Black Cave in the Mountains
-Anne Simon & Catherin Sauvat- Man In Furs
-Tillie Walden- A City Inside
-Shaun Tan- The Arrival
-Micah Stahl & Bram Algoed- Assholes
June 2021:
-George Orwell- Burmese Days
-Zeina Abirached- A Game for Swallows
July 2021:
-Inés Estrada- Alienation
-Cookie Kalkair & Ophélie Damblé- Guerilla Green: An Urban Gardening Survival Guide
-Graham Greene- Brighton Rock
-Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie- Aya
August 2021
-Jeff Lemire- Roughneck
-Noah Van Sciver & Paul Buhle- Johnny Appleseed
-Noah Van Sciver- Saint Cole 
-Seth- It's a Good Life if You Don't Weaken 
-J.G Ballard- High Rise
-Seth- Clyde Fans
-Guy Singh-Watson- Vegetables, Soil & Hope
-Adrian Tomine- The Intruder
-Adrian Tomine- Shortcomings
-Adrian Tomine- Killing and Dying 
September 2021
-Kseniya Melnik- Snow in May
-Noah Van Sciver- Disquiet
-Nick Drnaso- Beverly
-Eleanor Davis- How to be Happy
October 2021
-Nick Drnaso- Sabrina
-Jason- I Killed Adolf Hitler
-Jason- Werewolves of Montpelier
-Jason- Why are you Doing this?
-Jason- The Iron Wagon
-Fred Pearce- The New Wild
-Edward M. Hallowell M.D.- Driven to Distraction [audio]
-Robie Macauley- A Secret History of Time to Come (wrote a short review here)
-R. Kikuo Johnson- Night Fisher
November 2021
-Jason- On the Camino
-Frank Herbert- Children of Dune 
-Jason- O Josephine!
December 2021
-Max Porter- Lanny 
-Michael W. Conrad & Noah Bailey- Double Walker
-Various, Ed. Catherine Thornhill- Tamesis Street
-Chris Ware- Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth
-Thomas Ott- Dead End
January 2022
-Adrian Tomine- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
March 2022
-Chuck Palahniuk- Damned
-Chester Brown- I Never Liked You
-Michael Chabon- The Yiddish Policemen's Union
-Cormac McCarthy- The Orchard Keeper
-Noah Van Sciver- Slow Grafitti
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez- Clandestine in Chile 
-James Albon- The Delicacy
-Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips- Bad Weekend
April 2022
-Ray Fawkes- One Soul
-Eleanor Davis- The Hard Tomorrow
-Frankie Boyle- The Prometheus Vol. II (an audiobook in Boyle's The Prometheus series that collects much of his written work) [audio]
Frankie Boyle- The Future of British Politics [audio]
May 2022
-Linnea Starte- Stages of Rot
-Robert MacFarlane- The Old Ways [audio]
June 2022
-Dave Goulson- Silent Earth [audio]
-Mark Boyle- The Way Home [audio]
-Durian Sukegawa- Sweet Bean Paste
July 2022
-Hal Herzog- Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat
-Tillie Walden- Clementine
-Cal Flyn- Islands of Abandonment [audio]
-Diego Agrimbau & Lucas Varela- Human 
August 2022
-Brian Ralph- Daybreak [re-read]
-Cormac McCarthy- The Road [re-read]
-Tillie Walden- On a Sunbeam [re-read]
-Bastien Vivés- The Blouse
-Merwan & Bastien Vivés- For the Empire
September 2022 
-Ali Smith- Autumn
-Derf Backderf- Trashed
-Adrian Tomine- 32 Stories
-Noah Van Sciver- Please Don't Step on my JNCO Jeans
-Apollo, Brüno, Laurence Croix- Tzee: An African Tragedy
October 2022
-Margaret Atwood- Year of the Flood
-Various- Granta 160: Conflict
-George Orwell- The Road to Wigan Pier
-Roberto Bolaño- The Romantic Dogs
-Jesse Jacobs- Safari Honeymoon
-Jesse Jacobs- Crawl Space 
November 2022
-Jordan Crane- Keeping Two
-Primo Levi- If This Is a Man

January 2023
-George Monbiot- Regenesis [audio]
-Tracey Williams- Adrift
-David Sedaris- Me Talk Pretty One Day [audio]
-William Goulding- Lord of the Flies
-Patti Smith- Year of the Monkey [audio]
-Koren Shadmi- The Abaddon
-Seth- Wimbledon Green
-Will Eisner- Last Day in Vietnam
-Patti Smith- M Train [audio]
-John Steinbeck- Cannery Row
-Will Eisner- Fagin the Jew
-David Sedaris- Naked [audio]
-Olga Ravn- The Employees
February 2023
-Olga Tokarczuk- Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead [audio]
-Dash Shaw- Doctors
-Joff Winterhart- Days of the Bagnold Summer
-Brecht Evens- The Wrong Place
March 2023
-Manuele Fior- Hypericon
-J.G Ballard- The Drowned World
-Wasil Bolverton (Basil Wolverton)- Meating People: A Beginner's Guide
-Will Eisner- Dropsie Avenue: A Neighbourhood
April 2023
-Dash Shaw- The New School
-Spike Milligan- Puckoon
-Chris Gooch- Under Earth
-Cormac McCarthy- Child of God
May 2023
-David Sedaris- Happy-Go-Lucky [audio]
June 2023
-Primo Levi- The Truce
-Roger Deakin- Waterlog [audio]
-Amy Krouse Rosenthal- Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal [audio]
July 2023
-Brian ‘Limmy’ Limmond- Incredibly Down to Earth and Very Funny [audio]
-Wendell Berry- Nathan Coulter [audio]
August 2023 
-David Graeber- Bullshit Jobs: A Theory [audio] 
-Sjón- From the Mouth of the Whale (read my short review here)
September 2023
-J.M Coetzee- Life & Times of Michael K
October 2023
-B.S Johnson- Christie Malry's Own Double Entry 
-Luis Alberto Urrea- The Devil's Highway: A True Story [audio]
November 2023
-Claudia Rankine- Citizen: An American Lyric [audio]
-Paul Lynch- Prophet Song [audio]
December 2023
-Justin Madsen- Breathers
-Don DeLillo- White Noise

January 2024
-Blindboy Boatclub- Topographia Hibernica [audio]
February 2024
-Miriam Toews- Fight Night [audio]
-Derek Walcott- White Egrets
March 2024
-Claire Keegan- Antarctica [audio]
-Cormac McCarthy- The Crossing
April 2024
-Jennifer Egan- A Visit from the Goon Squad [audio]

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