Reading List

The reading list is usually inversely proportional with the watch list.
Per year: 2012 <> 2011 <> 2010 <> 2009

2012

March

Stephen King • 11/22/63 • 8/10

February
Dan Simmons • Endymion • 6/10
Walter Tevis • Mockingbird • 8/10

January
Daniel Abraham • Killing Rites • 7/10
Rafael Alvarez • The Wire: Truth Be Told • 10/10
Scott Westerfeld • Leviathan • 7/10

2011

December

Alan Moore • From Hell • 9/10
Brian Selznick • The Invention of Hugo Cabret • 7/10
Greg Bear • Eon • 8/10

November

 Adrian Tchaikovsky • Empire in Black and Gold • 8/10
 Adrian Tchaikovsky • Dragonfly Falling • 8/10
 Adrian Tchaikovsky • Blood of the Mantis • 7/10
 Adrian Tchaikovsky • Salute the Dark • 7/10
 Ari Marmell • The Conqueror’s Shadow • 7.5/10
 Ari Marmell • The Warlord’s Legacy • 6/10
Brandon Sanderson • The Alloy of Law • 8/10
Neil Gaiman • The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes • 7/10
Richard Morgan • Altered Carbon • 8.5/10
Richard Morgan • Broken Angels • 8/10
Richard Morgan • Woken Furies • 7/10
 Scott Lynch • The Lies of Locke Lamora • 8.5/10
 Scott Lynch • Red Seas Under Red Skies • 8/10

October

Michael J. Sullivan • The Crown Conspiracy • 9/10
Michael J. Sullivan • Avempartha • 8/10
Michael J. Sullivan • Nyphron Rising  • 8/10
Michael J. Sullivan • The Emerald Storm • 7/10
Michael J. Sullivan • Wintertide • 9/10
Michael J. Sullivan • The Viscount and the Witch • 8/10
Richard Kadrey • Aloha from Hell • 8/10

September

Carlos Ruiz Zafon • The Shadow of the Wind • 7.5/10

August

Adam Baker • Outpost • 7.5/10
Daniel Handler • The Bad Beginning • 8/10
Daniel Handler • The Reptile Room • 9/10
Daniel Handler • The Wide Window • 7/10
James Blish • They Shall Have Stars • 7.5/10
L. J. Smith • The Awakening • 4/10
L. J. Smith • The Struggle • 4/10

July

Brandon Sanderson • Elantris • 7/10
Daniel Abraham • Unclean Spirits • 8/10
Daniel Abraham • Darker Angels • 8/10
Daniel Abraham • Vicious Grace • 7.5/10
Elizabeth Moon • Sheepfarmer’s Daughter • 6/10
Elizabeth Moon • Divided Allegiance • 4/10
G. R. R. Martin • A Dance With Dragons • 7/10
Jonathan L. Howard • Johannes Cabal the Necromancer • 7/10
Mark Hodder • The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man • 10/10
Mary Doria Russell • Children of God • 7/10
Stephen Deas • The Thief-Taker’s Apprentice • 6/10

June

Brent Weeks • Perfect Shadow • 8/10

May

Theodore Roszak • Flicker (ro) • 7/10

April

Daniel Keyes • Flowers for Algernon • 9/10
G. R. R. Martin • A Feast For Crows • 7/10
Hannu Rajaniemi • The Quantum Thief • 6/10
J. L. Bourne • Day By Day Armageddon • 8.5/10
J. L. Bourne • Day By Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile • 8/10
Joe Abercrombie • The Heroes • 7/10
John W. Campbell • Who Goes There? • 8/10
K. J. Parker • Colours in the Steel • 8/10
Patrick Rothfuss • The Wise Man’s Fear • 8.5/10
Richard Kadrey • Sandman Slim • 8/10
Richard Kadrey • Kill The Dead • 8/10
Robert McCammon • Swan Song • 10/10
Shirley Jackson • The Haunting of Hill House • 7/10
Stephen King • UR • 5/10

March

Glenn Cooper • Library of the Dead (ro) • 6/10
John Joseph Adams • Brave New Worlds • 9/10
John Scalzi • Old Man’s War (ro) • 6/10
Lev Grossman • Codex (ro) • 6/10
Kim Stanley Robinson • Red Mars (ro) • 7/10

February

Brandon Sanderson • The Final Empire • 9/10
Brandon Sanderson • The Well of Ascension • 8/10
Brandon Sanderson • The Hero of Ages • 7/10
Joe Abercrombie • The Blade Itself • 7/10
Joe Abercrombie • Before They Are Hanged • 8/10
Joe Abercrombie • Last Argument of Kings • 8/10
Mark Hodder • Burton and Swinburne in the Strange Affair of Spring-Heeled Jack • 10/10

2010

December

Horia Ursu • Galileo #2 • 6/10

November

Serge Brussolo • Cosmar de Inchiriat • 8/10
William Gibson • Johnny Mnemonic • 9/10

October

Bret Easton Ellis • Lunar Park • 7/10
Christopher Moore • A Dirty Job • 7/10
Jim Butcher • Storm Front • 6/10
Jim Butcher • Fool Moon • 6/10
Markus Zusak • The Book Thief • 8/10
Steven Hall • The Raw Shark Texts • 7/10

September

Carlos Ruiz Zafon • The Angel’s Game • 9/10
Elizabeth Moon • The Speed of Dark • 8/10
K. J. Parker • The Company • 9/10
Ken Scholes • Lamentation • 7/10
Liz Williams • Snake Agent • 8/10

August

Alice Sebold • The Lovely Bones • 6/10
Brent Weeks • The Way of Shadows • 8/10
Brent Weeks • Shadow’s Edge • 9/10
Brent Weeks • Beyond the Shadows • 8/10
Brian Keene • A Gathering of Crows • 6/10
Michael Chabon • The Yiddish Policemen’s Union • 9/10
Patrick Rothfuss • The Name of the Wind • 10/10

July

G. R. R. Martin • A Game of Thrones • 9/10
G. R. R. Martin • A Clash of Kings • 8/10
G. R. R. Martin • A Storm of Swords • 7/10
Justin Cronin • The Passage • 8/10

June

Brandon Sanderson • Warbreaker • 9/10
Georges Simenon • Louise Laboine (ro) • 7/10
Horia Ursu • Millennium F&SF #1 • 6/10
Joe Abercrombie • Best Served Cold • 9/10
Kelly Link • Magic for Beginners (ro) • 5/10
Ken Grimwood • Replay (ro) • 8/10
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes • The Legacy of Heorot (ro) • 6/10
Philip K. Dick • Time Out of Joint (ro) • 7.5/10
Stephen King • Pet Sematary (ro) • 7/10

May

John Joseph Adams • Wastelands (ro) • 8/10
Philip K. Dick • Minority Report (ro) • 9/10
Horia Ursu • Galileo #1 • 7/10
Marian Coman • Nopti Albe, Zile Negre • 6/10
Roxana Branceanu • Sharia • 7/10
Sebastian A. Corn • Adrenergic! • 8/10

April

Philip Kerr • Berlin Noir II (ro) • 8/10
Silviu Genescu • Rock me Adolf Adolf Adolf • 7/10

March

Alfred Bester • The Demolished Man (ro) • 10/10
Dan Simmons • Hyperion • 10/10
Dan Simmons • The Fall of Hyperion • 9/10
Dan Simmons • Ilium 9/10
Dan Simmons • Olympos • 8/10
Dan Simmons • The Terror • 9/10
Horia Ursu • The Transformation of Martin Lake and other stories (ro) • 6.5/10
Serge Brussolo • Krucifix (ro) • 8/10

February

Joe Meno • The Boy Detective Fails • 7/10
John Shirley • Living Shadows • 7/10
Mary Doria Russell • The Sparrow • 9/10
Michael Chabon • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay • 10/10
Neal Asher • Prador Moon • 5/10
Philip K. Dick • Ubik (ro) • 10/10
Philip Roth • The Plot Against America • 7.5/10
Richard Kadrey • Butcher Bird • 8/10
Ronald Wright • A Scientific Romance • 7/10
Simon Kernick • Target • 5/10

January

K. J. Bishop • The Etched City (ro) • 8/10
Philip Kerr • Berlin Noir I (ro) • 8/10
Matthew Pearl • The Poe Shadow (ro) • 7.5/10

2009

December

F. Scott Fitzgerald • The Great Gatsby 9/10

November

Mircea Eliade • Nopti la Serampore • 9/10
Mircea Eliade • Secretul Doctorului Honigberger • 9/10

October

Greg Bear • Eon • 8/10
Raymond Chandler • Farewell My Lovely • 8/10
Raymond Chandler • The Big Sleep • 10/10
Raymond Chandler • The Long Goodbye • 9/10
Stephen King • Duma Key • 8/10
Stephen King • Four Past Midnight • 7/10

September

Isaac Asimov • Foundation • 9/10
Jack Kerouac • On The Road • 9/10
Michael Crichton • Disclosure • 4/10
Oscar Wilde • The Happy Prince & Other Stories • 7/10
Raymond Chandler • Killer in the Rain (The Short Stories of RC) • 8/10
Stephen King • Misery • 7/10
Stephen King • The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition • 10/10

August

Isaac Asimov • Foundation • 9/10
Neal Stephenson • Snow Crash  • 8/10
Neal Stephenson • The Diamond Age • 9/10
Philip K. Dick • The Man in the High Castle • 6/10

July

Bram Stoker • Dracula • 9/10
Hunter S. Thompson • Hell’s Angels • 7/10
Jerome Charyn • The New Mystery • 7.5/10
Stephen King • IT • 9/10
Stephen King • ‘Salem’s Lot • 8/10
Stephen King • Cell • 8/10

June

Aldous Huxley • Brave New World • 10/10
Arthur C. Clarke • Rendezvous with Rama • 9/10
Brian Azzarello • 100 Bullets • 7/10
J. R. R. Tolkien • Silmarillion • 5/10
J. R. R. Tolkien • The Children of Hurin • 7/10
J. R. R. Tolkien • The Hobbit, or There and Back Again • 9/10
Jack Kirby • Essential Silver Surfer V2 • 7/10
Joe Haldeman • Camouflage • 6/10
Joe Haldeman • The Forever War • 9/10
Richard Price • Samaritan • 8/10
Robert Ferrigno • Dead Silent • 7/10

May

Alan Moore • V For Vendetta • 10/10
Alan Moore • Watchmen • 10/10
George Orwell • 1984 • 10/10
James Patterson • The Jester • 3/10
James Patterson • Black Market • 4/10
Kathy Reichs • Bare Bone • 4/10
Kathy Reichs • Grave Secrets • 4/10
Michael Crichton • State of Fear • 5/10
Orson Scott Card • Ender’s Game • 9/10