The 365 Books Project
The project began as an attempt to read 183 books in 2006, or a book every two days, rounded down. I then decided to read another 182 books in 2007, making it 365 books in total. Unfortunately, I fell into a bottomless crackpipe and only made it to another 100.
183 books in 2006 + 100 books in 2007 expands to 120 novels, 45 short story collections, 33 comics, 28 books of general non-fiction, 17 essay collections, 17 journals, 6 picture books, 5 art books, 3 magazines, 3 books of poetry, 2 books of plays, 2 unclassifiable anthologies, 1 unpublished manuscript, and 1 screenplay.
The authors I read most are William T. Vollmann (10), Javier Marias (7), Eddie Campbell (6), and Katsuhiro Otomo (6). Otomo is famously quick. Also Michael Chabon, Robert Coover, Umberto Eco, Rick Moody, George Saunders, David Sedaris, Ali Smith, and David Foster Wallace at 4 each.
The only books I got more than 100 pages into and abandoned because of basic shitness were Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver, and Coming Soon...! by John Barth. I liked almost everything I finished; loved most of it, but there is a + next to stuff I loved particularly and personally.
1. McSweeney's 17 edited by Dave Eggers
2. A Model World and Other Stories by Michael Chabon
3. Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
4. McSweeney's 18 edited by Dave Eggers
5. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
6. The Whole Story and other stories by Ali Smith
+7. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
8. The Final Solution by Michael Chabon
9. Blood Song by Eric Drooker
10. The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven by Rick Moody
11. McSweeney's 15 edited by Dave Eggers
12. Free Love and other stories by Ali Smith
13. Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
14. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
+15. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
16. On Beauty by Zadie Smith
17. Ice Haven by Daniel Clowes
18. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
+19. Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite
20. Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
21. Other Stories and other stories by Ali Smith
22. Hot Water Music by Charles Bukowski
23. A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweet Bird of Youth and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
+24. Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
+25. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
+26. Everything That Rises by Lawrence Weschler
27. The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
28. Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
29. Thinking from A to Z by Nigel Warburton
30. Flight Animals by Bronwyn Lea
31. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
32. Understanding David Foster Wallace by Marshall Boswell
33. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
34. The Elements of Style by Strunk and White
35. Batman: Hush by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee
36. Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco
37. Batman: Under the Hood by Judd Winick and Doug Mahnke
38. The Diviners by Rick Moody
39. The Stranger by Albert Camus
40. Banvard's Folly by Paul Collins
+41. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
+42. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and other stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
43. Dying for Cake by Louise Limerick
44. Transmetropolitan Vol. 3 by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
45. Transmetropolitan Vol. 4 by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
46. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
+47. Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies by Lucy Thomas
48. McSweeney's 11 edited by Dave Eggers
49. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
50. How We Are Hungry by Dave Eggers
51. McSweeney's 14 edited by Dave Eggers
52. The Middle Stories by Sheila Heti
+53. Everything and More by David Foster Wallace
54. The Facts of Winter by Paul Poissel and Paul La Farge
+55. Mythologies by Roland Barthes
56. Giants of the Frost by Kim Wilkins
57. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
58. Dog 37 by Johnny Danalis
59. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
+60. A Passion for Narrative by Jack Hodgins
61. My Words Consume Me: An Anthology of Youth Speaks Poets
62. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
63. Please Don't Come Back From the Moon by Dean Bakopoulos
+64. Locos by Felipe Alfau
65. Here They Come by Yannick Murphy
66. Voyage Along the Horizon by Javier Marias
67. The Postmodern by Simon Malpas
68. McSweeney's 12 edited by Dave Eggers
69. Samuel Johnson is Indignant by Lydia Davis
70. The Pharmacist's Mate by Amy Fusselman
71. Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
72. Beegu by Alexis Deacon
73. Don Quixote by Cervantes
+74. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
75. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
+76. McSweeney's 19 edited by Dave Eggers
77. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
78. The Sea by John Banville
79. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
+80. City of Glass by Paul Auster
+81. Ghosts by Paul Auster
82. The Locked Room by Paul Auster
83. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
84. A Complete Lowlife by Ed Brubaker
85. A Night at the Movies or, You Must Remember This by Robert Coover
86. Pinocchio in Venice by Robert Coover
87. The Secret Language of Sleep by Evany Thomas
88. The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
89. The King is Dead by Jim Lewis
+90. A Bee Stung Me, So I Killed All the Fish by George Saunders
91. Icelander by Dustin Long
92. Adverbs by Daniel Handler
+93. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
+94. The Art of the Novel by Milan Kundera
+95. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
96. McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories edited by Michael Chabon
97. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
98. The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman
99. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
+100. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
+101. Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
102. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
103. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
+104. A Heart So White by Javier Marias
+105. Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology edited by David Young and Keith Hollaman
+106. Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon
107. Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
108. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
109. The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders and Lane Smith
110. The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
111. Akira volume 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo
112. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
113. Akira volume 2 by Katsuhiro Otomo
114. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
115. Akira volume 3 by Katsuhiro Otomo
116. Superbad by Ben Greenman
117. Akira volume 4 by Katsuhiro Otomo
118. The Night of the Iguana and Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams
119. Akira volume 5 by Katsuhiro Otomo
120. This Shape We're In by Jonathan Lethem
121. Akira volume 6 by Katsuhiro Otomo
122. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
123. Rising Up and Rising Down volume 1 by William T. Vollmann
124. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
125. Alias by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos
126. Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
127. McSweeney's 20 edited by Dave Eggers
128. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
129. Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
130. Tricked by Alex Robinson
131. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
132. The Castle by Franz Kafka
133. The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
+134. The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil by George Saunders
135. In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
136. Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
137. Let it Be by Colin Meloy
138. Your Face Tomorrow, 1: Fever and Spear by Javier Marias
+139. I. by Stephen Dixon
140. Fury by Salman Rushdie
141. The Fate of the Artist by Eddie Campbell
+142. The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula Le Guin
143. The Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov
144. Rising Up and Rising Down volume 2 by William T. Vollmann
145. Life After God by Douglas Coupland
146. Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
+147. Language and its Structure by Ronald W. Langacker
148. The Farthest Shore by Ursula Le Guin
149. Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
150. Alec: The King Canute Crowd by Eddie Campbell
151. Alec: How to Be an Artist by Eddie Campbell
152. From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
+153. After the Snooter by Eddie Campbell
154. Alec: Three Piece Suit by Eddie Campbell
155. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
156. The Beatrice Letters by Lemony Snicket
157. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Thirteenth: The End by Lemony Snicket
158. Your Face Tomorrow, 2: Dance and Dream by Javier Marias
+159. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
+160. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
161. Baudolino by Umberto Eco
162. Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias
163. Like by Ali Smith
164. Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
165. A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
166. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
167. Rising Up and Rising Down volume 3 by William T. Vollmann
168. Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
169. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
170. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
+171. McSweeney's 21 edited by Dave Eggers
172. Far Eastern Tales by W. Somerset Maugham
+173. Rising Up and Rising Down volume 4 by William T. Vollmann
174. End of I. by Stephen Dixon
175. The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian
176. Lemon by Lawrence Krauser
177. Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
178. The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke
179. Thrilling Detection and Mystery Stories edited by Leonard Matthews
180. The Oxford Book of Sea Stories edited by Tony Tanner
+181. Iron Council by China Mieville
182. A Convergence of Birds edited by Jonathan Safran Foer
183. Housekeeping vs. The Dirt by Nick Hornby
184. What Good Are the Arts? by John Carey
+185. Rising Up and Rising Down volume MC by William T. Vollmann
186. Looking for Jake and other stories by China Mieville
187. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
188. What is the What by Dave Eggers
189. Rockpool Comics by Mel Stringer and Benjamin Sea
190. Ghost Town by Robert Coover
191. Oh The Glory Of It All by Sean Wilsey
+192. The Believer, September 2006 edited by Heidi Julavits, Ed Park and Vendela Vida
193. Naked by David Sedaris
194. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
195. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
196. Garden State by Rick Moody
197. How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
+198. Silas Marner by George Eliot
199. Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz
200. God Lives in St. Petersburg by Tom Bissell
+201. All Souls by Javier Marias
202. The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 edited by Dave Eggers
203. The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits
204. You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann
205. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
+206. The Paris Review Book of People with Problems by the editors of the Paris Review
+207. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
208. Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon
209. McSweeney's 1 edited by Dave Eggers
210. Demonology by Rick Moody
+211. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
212. Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut
213. Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut
214. Plump Oyster 3 by Ben Constantine
215. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
216. McSweeney's 22 edited by Dave Eggers
217. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
218. Preacher: Gone to Texas by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
219. Preacher: Until the End of the World by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
220. The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 2007 edited by Ted Genoways
+221. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
222. Dark Back of Time by Javier Marias
+223. Body Language by Allan Pease
224. Girlie Pains April 2007 by Mel Stringer
225. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
226. Plump Oyster 5 by Ben Constantine
227. The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 2007 edited by Ted Genoways
228. Pedro and Me by Judd Winick
229. The Virginia Quarterly Review: Writers on Writers edited by Ted Genoways
230. In One Skin by Kristina Olsson
231. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
232. Ulysses by James Joyce
233. The Spirit of Carnival: Magical Realism and the Grotesque by David K. Danow
234. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
235. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place by Jean Baudrillard
236. McSweeney's 23 edited by Dave Eggers
237. The Father of All Things by Tom Bissell
+238. The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
+239. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
240. My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up by Stephen Elliott
241. No one belongs here more than you by Miranda July
242. Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford
243. Bed by Tao Lin
244. Baby Doll by Tennessee Williams
245. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
246. How to Dress for Every Occasion by the Pope
247. Careless by Deborah Robertson
248. Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
249. Home Land by Sam Lipsyte
250. The Island by Armin Greder
251. Poor People by William T. Vollmann
252. The Berlin Years by Marcel Dzama
253. The Believer, March 2004 edited by Heidi Julavits, Ed Park and Vendela Vida
254. Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
+255. The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald
256. A Draft of Shadows by Octavio Paz
257. The Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 2007 edited by Ted Genoways
258. Black Hole by Charles Burns
+259. McSweeney's 24 edited by Dave Eggers
260. 13 Stories & 13 Epitaphs by William T. Vollmann
261. Stepmother by Robert Coover
262. Twentieth Century Eightball by Daniel Clowes
263. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
264. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We Couldn't Quite Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out edited by Ted Thompson
265. The Virginia Quarterly Review Fall 2007 edited by Daniel Alarcon and Ted Genoways
266. Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
267. The Believer, September 2004 edited by Heidi Julavits, Ed Park and Vendela Vida
268. Girlie Pains 10 by Mel Stringer
269. Arboretum by David Byrne
270. Final Exam by Pauline W. Chen
+271. For Esme - With Love & Squalor by J.D. Salinger
+272. The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming by Lemony Snicket, illustrations by Lisa Brown
273. The Great Gatsby by Nicki Greenberg
+274. Rising Up and Rising Down volume 5 by William T. Vollmann
275. Herzog by Saul Bellow
276. Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Project by David Horvitz
277. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
+278. The Best American Essays 2007 edited by David Foster Wallace
279. East of Here, Close to Water by Josephine Rowe
280. Expelled from Eden: A William T. Vollmann Reader edited by Larry McCaffery and Michael Hemmingson
281. Side-Close-Side by Krissy Kneen
282. Seven Hundred Penguins
283. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
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