2024 Book List

Beat last year by 18 books, and nearly doubled my goal for the year (40) as well.  A number of graphic novels helped with that, as well as some audiobooks (notably the rereads of the Bernard Cornwell books). 

-The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000: The Book - Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner

-The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession - Michael Finkel

-Atari Classics: Swordquest - Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, George Perez & Dick Giordano

-Autopsy for a Cosmonaut - Jacob Hay & John M. Keshishian, M.D.

-Bart Simpson’s Guide to Life - Matt Groening, et.al.

-Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth - Grant Morrison & Dave McKean

-Batman: Gotham by Gaslight - Brian Augustyn & Mike Mignola

-Batman: Master of the Future - Brian Augustyn & Eduardo Barreto 

-Batman: The Dark Knight Returns - Frank Miller with Klaus Janson & Lynn Varley

-Batman: The Long Halloween - Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale

-Batman: Year One - Frank Miller & David Mazzucchelli with Richmond Lewis

-The Best of H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft

-The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson

-Blacksad: They All Fall Down, Part Two - Juan Diaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido (trans. Diana Schutz & Brandon Kander)

-Blues - John Hersey

-Bored of the Rings: A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings - Henry N. Beard & Douglas C. Kenney

-The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1929-1961 - Jeff Kisseloff

-Butler of Butler St. - Reed Seifer & Chris Burnside

-Camelot 3000 - Mike W. Barr & Brian Bolland

-A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.

-Cell 2455, Death Row: A Condemned Man’s Own Story - Caryl Chessman

-The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling - Aubrey Sitterson & Chris Moreno

-Curious Myths of the Middle Ages - Sabine Baring-Gould

-Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time (Dinotopia #1) - James Gurney*

-Enemy of God (Warlord Chronicles #2) - Bernard Cornwell*

-Excalibur (Warlord Chronicles #3) - Bernard Cornwell*

-The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1) - J.R.R. Tolkein

-Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive: I II III IV V VI, Volume 1 - Square Enix 

-Fish Men Fear… SHARK! - Jerry Greenberg & Idaz Greenberg

-The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television - David Weinstein

-Here Is New York - E.B. White

-Hiroshima - John Hersey

-The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again (The Lord of the Rings #0) - J.R.R. Tolkien

-Home Sweet Hole: A Folio of “Feasible Fantasy” Floor Plans - Lynn Dean

-The Illustrated Al: The Songs of “Weird Al” Yankovic - “Weird Al” Yankovic, et. al.

-The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells

-Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach*

-Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy with the Rolling Stones at Altamont - Saul Austerlitz

-Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America’s Deadliest Rock Concert - John Barylick

-The Last Kingdom (Saxon Stories #1) - Bernard Cornwell*

-The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin*

-Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

-The Moonshine War - Elmore Leonard

-More Balls Than Strikes: 120 Years of Baseball in New York’s Hudson Valley - Charlie Tiano

-More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz 

-Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure (Revised & Expanded Edition) - ed. Rachel Fershleiset & Larry Smith

-Pizza and Taco: Wrestling Mania! (Pizza and Taco #7) - Stephen Shaskan

-Quest for a King: Searching for the Real King Arthur - Catherine M. Andronik

-Rachel DuMont; A Brave Little Maid of the Revolution: A True Story of the Burning of Kingston; for Girls and Boys, and Older People - Mary Westbrook van Deusen

-The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings #3) - J.R.R. Tolkien

-Roadways - Jeff Lang & Ted Slampyak

-The Romance of Tristan and Iseult - Joseph Bédier (trans. Hillaire Belloc)

-The Saga of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald - Unknown (trans. William Morris & Eiríkr Magnússon)

-Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones - Alvin Schwartz

-Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz*

-Shemp!: The Biography of the Three Stooges’ Shemp Howard, the Face of Film Comedy - Burt Kearns

-Shirtless Bear-Fighter! - Jody LeHeup, Sebastian Girner & Nil Vendrell

-Shirtless Bear-Fighter! 2 - Jody LeHeup, Sebastian Girner & Nil Vendrell

-So, You Want to Be a Wrestling Promoter? - Ric Drasin with Bruce Dwight Collins

-Squad - Maggie Tokuda-Hall & Lisa Sterle

-Stooges Among Us - ed. Lon Davis & Debra Davis

-Strange Red Cow: and Other Curious Classified Ads from the Past - Sara Bader

-Super Mario Adventures - Kentaro Takekuma & Charlie Nozawa 

-The Sweet Science - A.J. Liebling

-Swordquest: RealWorld - Chad Bowers, Chris Sims & Ghostwriter X

-Swords of Rome Vol. 1: The Conquerors - Jean Dufaux & Phillippe Delaby (trans. Elena Magistro) 

-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin - Lost Years - Kevin Eastman & Tom Waltz

-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 4 - Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird & Jim Lawson

-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Vol. 5 - Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird & Jim Lawson

-Ten from Infinity - Ivar Jorgensen (Paul W. Fairman)

-The Thief of Always  - Clive Barker

-Thinner - Richard Bachman (Stephen King)

-The Time Machine - H.G. Wells*

-The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings #2) - J.R.R. Tolkien

-The Waste Land and Other Poems - T.S Eliot

-Welcome to Night Vale (Night Vale #1) - Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor

-Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries that Inspired the Golden Age of Animation - Reid Mitenbuler

-The Winter King (Warlord Chronicles #1) - Bernard Cornwell*

*Re-read

Total books: 78