Reading List, Week of 2026-08-23

Reading List 2026-08-24:

*Barker, Nicola. The Three Button Trick and Other Stories (started)
*Birkerts, Sven. The Other Walk: Essays (started)
*Gillen, Kieron et al. The Power Fantasy, Vol. 1: The Superpowers (started)
*Tejaratchi, Sean. Liartown: The First Four Years (reread/started)
*Fratricide Punished, or, Prince Hamlet of Denmark (transl. Horace Howard Furness) (started/finished)
*Kirby, Jack. The Hunger Dogs (started/finished)
*Ram V., Evan Cagle, et al. The New Gods, Vol. 1: The Falling Sky (reread/started/finished)
*Ram V., Evan Cagle, et al. The New Gods, Vol. 2: Edge of Darkness (started/finished)
*Iyer, Pico. A Beginner's Guide to Japan (finished)
*Vollmann, William T. The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, Vol. 1) (finished)
*Cook, Richard. It's About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-08-16

Reading List 2026-08-17:

*Iyer, Pico. A Beginner's Guide to Japan (started)
*Vollmann, William T. The Ice-Shirt (Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes, Vol. 1) (started)
*Brubaker, Ed, and Sean Phillips. Criminal, Vol. 5: The Sinners (started/finished)
*Brubaker, Ed, and Sean Phillips. Criminal, Vol. 6: The Last of the Innocent (started/finished)
*Kirby, Jack. Jack Kirby's Fourth World, featuring: Mister Miracle (reread/started/finished)
*Shakespeare, William. Hamlet (Arden 3rd ed., ed. Harold Jenkins) (reread/started/finished)
*Barker, Nicola. Darkmans (finished)
*Cook, Richard. It's About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-08-09

Reading List 2026-08-10:

*Cook, Richard. It's About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record (started)
*Brubaker, Ed, and Sean Phillips. Criminal, Vol. 4: Bad Night (started/finished)
*Drnaso, Nick. Sabrina (started/finished)
*Birkerts, Sven. American Energies: Essays on Fiction (finished)
*Barker, Nicola. Darkmans (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-08-02

Reading List 2026-08-03:

*Tynion IV, James, et al. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2 (started/finished)
*Christgau, Robert. Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 (finished)
*Kirby, Jack. Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle (reread/finished)
*Barker, Nicola. Darkmans (in progress)
*Birkerts, Sven. American Energies: Essays on Fiction (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-07-26

Reading List 2026-07-27:

*Barker, Nicola. Darkmans (started)
*Birkerts, Sven. American Energies: Essays on Fiction (started)
*Kirby, Jack. Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle (reread/started)
*Barker, Nicola. Clear: A Transparent Novel (started/finished)
*Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending (started/finished)
*Brubaker, Ed, and Sean Phillips. Criminal, Vol. 1: Coward (started/finished)
*Brubaker, Ed, and Sean Phillips. Criminal, Vol. 2: Lawless (started/finished)
*Brubaker, Ed, and Sean Phillips. Criminal, Vol. 3: The Dead and the Dying (started/finished)
*Tynion IV, James, et al. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 (started/finished)
*Barker, Nicola. Wide Open (finished)
*Schoenbaum, S. Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship (finished)
*Christgau, Robert. Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-07-19

Reading List 2026-07-20:

*Barker, Nicola. Wide Open (started)
*Schoenbaum, S. Internal Evidence and Elizabethan Dramatic Authorship (started)
*Smith, Ali. Glyph (started/finished)
*Brainard, Joe. The Complete C Comics (finished)
*Ellroy, James. Red Sheet (finished)
*Kirby, Jack. Jack Kirby's Forever People (reread/finished)
*Styan, J. L. The Shakespeare Revolution: Criticism and Performance in the Twentieth Century (finished)
*Christgau, Robert. Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-07-12

Reading List 2026-07-13:

*Brainard, Joe. The Complete C Comics (started)
*Ellroy, James. Red Sheet (started)
*Kirby, Jack. Jack Kirby's Forever People (reread/started)
*Styan, J. L. The Shakespeare Revolution: Criticism and Performance in the Twentieth Century (started)
*Birkerts, Sven. An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th-Century Literature (finished)
*Forrest, Leon. Divine Days (finished)
*Kirby, Jack. Jack Kirby's New Gods (reread/finished)
*Christgau, Robert. Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-07-05

Reading List 2026-07-06:

*Kirby, Jack. Jack Kirby's New Gods (reread/started)
*Birkerts, Sven. An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th-Century Literature (in progress)
*Christgau, Robert. Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 (in progress)
*Forrest, Leon. Divine Days (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-06-28

Reading List 2026-06-29:

*Birkerts, Sven. An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th-Century Literature (started)
*McKinney, Devin. Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History (reread/finished)
*Christgau, Robert. Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 (in progress)
*Forrest, Leon. Divine Days (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-06-21

Reading List 2026-06-22:

*Drnaso, Nick. Acting Class (finished)
*Christgau, Robert. Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 (in progress)
*Forrest, Leon. Divine Days (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
*McKinney, Devin. Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History (reread/in progress
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-06-14

Reading List 2026-06-15:

*Forrest, Leon. Divine Days (started)
*Drnaso, Nick. Acting Class (started)
*McKinney, Devin. Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History (reread/started)
*Burns, Charles. Hard-Boiled Defective Stories (started/finished)
*Birkerts, Sven. Reading Life: Books for the Ages (finished)
*Sorrentino, Gilbert. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things (reread/finished)
*Christgau, Robert. Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-06-07

Reading List 2026-06-08:

*Birkerts, Sven. Reading Life: Books for the Ages (started)
*Sorrentino, Gilbert. Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things (reread/started)
*Homer. The Odyssey (transl. Emily Wilson) (reread/finished)
*Rothfuss, Patrick. The Wise Man's Fear (reread/finished)
*Christgau, Robert. Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-05-31

Reading List 2026-06-01:

*Christgau, Robert. Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 (started)
*Boyd, Brian. Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery (finished)
*Clowes, Daniel. The Complete Eightball: Issues 1-18 (finished)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
*Homer. The Odyssey (transl. Emily Wilson) (reread/in progress)
*Rothfuss, Patrick. The Wise Man's Fear (reread/in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-05-24

Reading List 2026-05-25:

*Clowes, Daniel. The Complete Eightball: Issues 1-18 (started)
*Homer. The Odyssey (transl. Emily Wilson) (reread/started)
*Pullman, Philip. Dæmon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling (finished)
*Boyd, Brian. Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
*Rothfuss, Patrick. The Wise Man's Fear (reread/in progress)

 

Reading List, Week of 2026-05-17

Reading List 2026-05-18:

*Pullman, Philip. Dæmon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling (started)
*Rothfuss, Patrick. The Wise Man's Fear (reread/started)
*Rothfuss, Patrick. The Name of the Wind (reread/finished)
*Sorrentino, Gilbert. Splendide-Hôtel (reread/finished)
*Boyd, Brian. Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery (in progress)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-05-10

Reading List 2026-05-11:

*Boyd, Brian. Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery (started)
*Rothfuss, Patrick. The Name of the Wind (reread/started)
*Sorrentino, Gilbert. Splendide-Hôtel (reread/started)
*King, Stephen, and Peter Straub. Black House (reread/finished)
*Wilmer, Valerie. As Serious as Your Life: The Story of the New Jazz (rev. ed.) (reread/finished)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-05-03

Reading List 2026-05-04:

*King, Stephen, and Peter Straub. Black House (reread/started)
*King, Stephen, and Peter Straub. The Talisman (reread/finished)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
*Munday, Anthony et al. Sir Thomas More (Arden Shakespeare 3rd series, ed. John Jowett) (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-04-26

Reading List 2026-04-27:

*King, Stephen, and Peter Straub. The Talisman (reread/started)
*Munday, Anthony et al. Sir Thomas More (Arden Shakespeare 3rd series, ed. John Jowett) (started)
*DuBois, Gaylord et al. Brothers of the Spear, Vol. 1 (finished)
*Hummer, T. R. The Infinity Sessions: Poems (finished)
*Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire (reread/finished)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-04-19

Reading List 2026-04-20:

*DuBois, Gaylord et al. Brothers of the Spear, Vol. 1 (started)
*Nabokov, Vladimir. Pale Fire (reread/started)
*Creepy Archives, Vol. 1 (ed. Shawna Gore) (finished)
*Green, Daniel. Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction (finished)
*Herriman, George. Krazy and Ignatz: "There Is a Heppy Lend--Fur, Fur Awa-a-ay": 1925-1926 (finished)
*King Edward III (Arden Shakespeare 3rd series, ed. Richard Proudfoot and Nicola Bennett) (reread/finished)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
*Hummer, T. R. The Infinity Sessions: Poems (in progress)
 

Reading List, Week of 2026-04-12

Reading List 2026-04-13:

*Creepy Archives, Vol. 1 (ed. Shawna Gore) (started)
*Green, Daniel. Gilbert Sorrentino: An Introduction (started)
*Hummer, T. R. The Infinity Sessions: Poems (started)
*King Edward III (Arden Shakespeare 3rd series, ed. Richard Proudfoot and Nicola Bennett) (reread/started)
*Ferrante, Elena. The Story of the Lost Child (transl. Ann Goldstein) (started/finished)
*Ferrante, Elena. Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (transl. Ann Goldstein) (finished)
*Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Arden 3rd series, ed. Sukanta Chaudhuri) (reread/finished)
*Yoakum, Jim. The (Non-Inflatable) Monty Python TV Companion (finished)
*Garner, Bryan A. Modern American Usage, 2nd ed. (in progress)
*Herriman, George. Krazy and Ignatz: "There Is a Heppy Lend--Fur, Fur Awa-a-ay": 1925-1926 (in progress)