May 9, 2013
Winter Semester 2013: The Books I Read

Here’s a list of all the books I read from January to April 2013, organized by author/editor’s surname.

César Aira: An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
Algernon Blackwood: Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood
Robert Bloch: Dragons and Nightmares
Gilles Boulenger: John Carpenter: The Prince of Darkness
Ray Bradbury: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Judith Butler: Gender Trouble
James M. Cain: The Root of His Evil
Ramsey Campbell: The Doll Who Ate His Mother
Truman Capote: The Grass Harp
Anne Carson: Autobiography of Red
Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journey to the End of the Night
John Clute: The Darkening Garden: A Short Lexicon of Horror
Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves
Jacques Derrida: The Gift of Death and Literature in Secret
Jacques Derrida: The Animal That Therefore I Am
Jacques Derrida: Genres, Genealogies, Genres, and Genius: The Secrets of the Archive
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Gambler
Jack Ketchum: Off Season
Stephen King: Skeleton Crew
Stephen King: Insomnia
Stephen King: Under the Dome
Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan
Richard Matheson: A Stir of Echoes
Charles Maturin: Melmoth the Wanderer
Herman Melville: Billy Budd, Sailor
Frank Norris: McTeague
Sylvia Plath: Ariel
Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Writings of Edgar Allan Poe
Eden Robinson: Blood Sports
Marcel Schwob: The Book of Monelle
Tim Underwood & Chuck Miller (eds.): Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King
Tim Underwood & Chuck Miller (eds.): Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King
Matthew Vollmer: Inscriptions for Headstones
Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto

December 31, 2012
The Books I Read in 2012

I read 114 books altogether in 2012. Here is the list, organized by the author or editor’s surname.

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
Silk
by Alessandro Baricco
The Damnation Game
by Clive Barker
The Hellbound Heart
by Clive Barker
Cabal
by Clive Barker
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man
by Georges Bataille
Story of the Eye
by Georges Bataille
The Bataille Reader
by Georges Bataille
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For
by Alison Bechdel
Psycho
by Robert Bloch
Night-World
by Robert Bloch
American Gothic
by Robert Bloch
Lucky at Cards
by Lawrence Block
Monsieur Pain
by Roberto Bolaño
Mind Grabber
by Gary Brandner
Factotum
by Charles Bukowski
The Asphalt Jungle
by W.R. Burnett
The Soft Machine
by William S. Burroughs
Queer
by William S. Burroughs
The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
Double Indemnity
by James M. Cain
Serenade
by James M. Cain
If on a winter’s night a traveler
by Italo Calvino
The Outsider
by Albert Camus
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
More
by Austin Clarke
The Favourite Game
by Leonard Cohen
Beautiful Losers
by Leonard Cohen
The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror
edited by Ian Conrich & David Woods
Cosmopolis
by Don DeLillo
Monolingualism of the Other or the Prosthesis of Origin
by Jacques Derrida
A Scanner Darkly
by Philip K. Dick
The Obscene Bird of Night
by José Donoso
Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Blood on the Moon
by James Ellroy
Baby Moll
by John Farris
Flappers and Philosophers
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction
by Michel Foucault
“Master Harold”…and the Boys
by Athol Fugard 
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
The Great Leader
by Jim Harrison
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Kamouraska
by Anne Hébert
Winner Take Nothing
by Ernest Hemingway
Demian
by Herman Hesse
Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies
by Cressida J. Heyes
The Lost Weekend
by Charles Jackson
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
The Subterraneans
by Jack Kerouac
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac & William S. Burroughs
The Shining
by Stephen King
The Stand: Complete and Uncut Edition
by Stephen King
The Long Walk
by Stephen King
Roadwork
by Stephen King
The Tommyknockers
by Stephen King
Gerald’s Game
by Stephen King
Dolores Claiborne
by Stephen King  
Bag of Bones
by Stephen King 
From a Buick 8 
by Stephen King
The Talisman
by Stephen King & Peter Straub
Green Grass, Running Water
by Thomas King
Obasan
by Joy Kogawa
The Studhorse Man
by Robert Kroetsch
The Nightrunners
by Joe R. Lansdale
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
by D.H. Lawrence
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
by H.P. Lovecraft
Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
by H.P. Lovecraft
Cape Fear
by John D. MacDonald
I Am Legend and Other Stories
by Richard Matheson
Monoceros
by Suzette Mayr
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
White-Jacket or the World in a Man-of-War
by Herman Melville
Pierre or the Ambiguities
by Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
by Herman Melville
The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder by Henry Miller 
Quiet Days in Clichy
by Henry Miller
Paradise Lost
by John Milton
House Made of Dawn
by N. Scott Momaday  
My Place
by Sally Morgan 
Genre and Hollywood
by Steve Neale
Houseboy
by Ferdinand Oyono  
The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath 
Voyage in the Dark
by Jean Rhys
Trap Lines
by Eden Robinson
Monkey Beach
by Eden Robinson
As for Me and My House
by Sinclair Ross
Feral
by Berton Roueché 
Conversations with Scorsese
by Richard Schickel
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Now and on Earth
by Jim Thompson
Heed the Thunder by Jim Thompson
The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
Recoil
by Jim Thompson
The Golden Gizmo
by Jim Thompson
A Hell of a Woman
by Jim Thompson
After Dark, My Sweet
by Jim Thompson
Wild Town
by Jim Thompson
The Grifters
by Jim Thompson
South of Heaven
by Jim Thompson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark Twain
Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
by Lois Tyson
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Diamond Grill by Fred Wah
All the King’s Men
by Robert Penn Warren
The Double Hook
by Sheila Watson
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
The Valley of Spiders
by H.G. Wells
361 
by Donald E. Westlake
Some Must Watch
by Ethel Lina White

October 11, 2012
Mike Thorn’s 10 Favorite Books

Limit of one book per author.

01. Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
02. Moby-Dick or the Whale by Herman Melville
03. Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin
04. McTeague by Frank Norris
05. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
06. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
07. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
08. The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
09. It by Stephen King
10. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

(Source: infraread)

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