No, I don't tire of writing lists.

Why do you ask?

Another kind of list struck me - one that I can through in a single blog post. What books did I read in the course of 2008? It came to me when I considered how many people don't read any books cover-to-cover in a year.

Non-Fiction Books

• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
• The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
• Maps and Legends by Michael Chabon
• The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City by Peter Sanderson
• My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin
• The One That Got Away by Kendal Burt & James Leasor
• The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios
• Terror on the Air: Horror Radio in America by Richard J. Hand
• Your Movie Sucks by Roger Ebert

Fiction Books

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Best Stories of Guy de Maupassant
• The Blanket of the Dark by John Buchan
• The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
• The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer
• The Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Grey Face by Sax Rohmer
• The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
• The Half-Hearted by John Buchan
• Hard Times by Charles Dickens
• In a Glass Darkly by Sheridan Le Fanu
• The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
• The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
• A Lodge in the Wilderness by John Buchan
• The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Midwinter by John Buchan
• The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
• A Prince of the Captivity by John Buchan
• The Peace War by Vernor Vinge
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
• The Power House by John Buchan
• The Runagates Club by John Buchan
• Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
• The Secret People by John Wyndham
• Sir Quixote of the Moors by John Buchan
• Sleepers of Mars by John Wyndham
• Storm Front by Jim Butcher
• Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Supernatural Tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
• Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque
• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
• The Yellow Claw by Sax Rohmer

Non-Fiction Graphic Novels

• Action Philosophers! (3 vols) by Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey
• Maus (2 vols) by Art Spiegelman
• Reinventing Comics by Scott McCloud

Fiction Graphic Novels

• Adventure Classics by various
• The Al Williamson Reader
• Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
• Batman: Year One by Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli
• Bookhunter by Jason Shiga
• Conan the Barbarian by Roy Thomas & Barry Windsor-Smith
• Dr. Mid-Nite by Matt Wagner & John K. Snyder III
• Dr. Thirteen: Architecture and Mortality by Brian Azzarello & Cliff Chiang
• Empowered by Adam Warren
• Fear Agent (3 vols) by Rick Remender & Tony Moore
• Firebirds by Jay Faerber & Andres Ponce
• Firebreather by Phil Hester & Andy Kuhn
• Invincible (9 vols) by Robert Kirkman & Ryan Ottley
• JLA Presents: Aztek the Ultimate Man by Grant Morrison & N. Steven Harris
• The Liberty Project by Kurt Busiek & James W. Fry III
• M by Jon J. Muth
• Midnight Sun by Ben Towle
• The Nearly Complete Essential Hembeck Archives Omnibus by Fred Hembeck
• North World by Lars Brown
• Shockrockets by Kurt Busiek & Stuart Immonen
• Terry and the Pirates: the Normandie Affair by Milton Caniff