What I read in 2009

In 2009 I continued to restrict the number of books I bought while increasing the amount I read from the University library. Of course, I still made plenty of exceptions for comic book-related material. Beyond comics, my tastes haven't really changed: when it comes to fiction, I like the classics; when it comes to non-fiction, I like learning about film.

Regular fiction:

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
• Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque
• The Best of John Collier
• The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque
• Bleak House by Charles Dickens
• Brood of the Witch Queen by Sax Rohmer
• The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester
• The Flying Inn by G.K. Chesterton
• The Glass Key by Daishell Hammett
• Guys and Dolls and Other Writings by Damon Runyon
• Hangover House by Sax Rohmer
• The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
• Kim by Rudyard Kipling
• The King of Terrors by Robert Bloch
• Lady of the Barge by W.W. Jacobs
• Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague DeCamp
• Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
• A Medicine for Melancholy by Ray Bradbury
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
• The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
• The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Stories by Rudyard Kipling
• The Poison Belt by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Spook House by Ambrose Bierce
• Strange Stories by Algernon Blackwood
• This Gun for Hire by Graham Greene
• When the World Screamed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Yu'an Hee See Laughs by Sax Rohmer

Regular non-fiction:

• Adventures of Amos 'N' Andy: a Social History of an American Phenomenon by Melvin Ely
• Boris Karloff: a Critical Account of his Screen, Stage, Radio, Television and Recording Work by Scott Nollen
• The Complete Hitchcock by Paul Condon
• Escape or Die by Paul Brickhill
• Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel: the Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show by Michael Barson
• The Golden Age of Cinema: Hollywood, 1929-1945 by Richard Jewell
• Grand Guignol: the French Theatre of Horror by Richard J. Hand
• The Great Radio Sitcoms by Jim Cox
• The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made by David Hughes
• Halliwell's Hundred by Leslie Halliwell
• The Jack Benny Show by Milt Josefsberg
• John Buchan by Andrew Lownie
• Karloff & Lugosi: the Story of a Haunting Collaboration by Gregory Mank
• Marvel Comics in the 1960s by Pierre Comtois
• Never Met a Man I Didn't Like by Will Rogers
• Of Gods and Monsters by John T. Soister
• The Original Amos 'N' Andy by Elizabeth McLeod
• Stan Lee: Conversations
• Strange and Stranger: the World of Steve Ditko by Blake Bell
• Sunday Nights at Seven by Jack Benny
• Ten Cent Plague by David Hajdu
• The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years of Scary Entertainment by Walter Kendrick
• The Warner Brothers by Michael Freedland
• Wheelchair Warrior by Melvin Juette

Comic book trades & graphic novels:

• Al Williamson's Flash Gordon
• Blazing Combat
• A Contract With God by Will Eisner
• Dan Dare Omnibus by Garth Ennis
• Eerie Archives
• Five Fists of Science by Matt Fraction
• Golgo 13 V.1-4,9-11 by Takao Saito
• Immortal Iron Fist Vol.5: Escape From the Eighth City
• It Rhymes With Lust by Drake Waller
• Johnny Hiro by Fred Chao
• Marvel Adventures: Triple Threat
• Marvel Illustrated: Kidnapped
• Marvel Masterworks: Black Knight & Yellow Claw
• Masterpiece Comics by R. Sikoryak
• The Midnight People by Ray Bradbury
• Noble Causes Archives Vol.2 by Jay Faerber
• North World: Other Sagas by Lars Brown
• North World Vol.2: the Epic of Conrad by Lars Brown
• Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughn
• Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
• The Rocketeer: the Complete Collection
• Scott Pilgrim Vol.5: Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• Seven Sons by Alex Grecian
• Showcase Presents Bat Lash
• Stephen King's Dark Tower Vol.1
• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
• A Wizard's Tale by Kurt Busiek
• Zot! Vol.1 by Scott McCloud
• Zot! the Complete Black & White Collection by Scott McCloud