2011 Reading Roundup

I didn't read nearly as much non-fiction or as many graphic novels as I wanted to, but the bright side is that I discovered some great writers (Amelia Gray, Shane Jones, Valzhyna Mort) that are perhaps not new to the world, but new to me. And it's been a long time since I've been able to add new writers to my favorites list.

I've also enjoyed shifting over to more small/indie press work (Dancing Girl Press, Mudluscious Books, New Michigan Press), much of which has greatly helped with my own projects. All with the added benefit of supporting small presses, of course.

Stars by my favorites (that all of you must read, it goes without saying). Also, tell me what you read and liked, this year.

Fiction

*AM/PM - Amelia Gray

*Light Boxes – Shane Jones

Museum of the Weird – Amelia Gray

Scorch Atlas – Blake Butler

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary – David Sedaris

House of Leaves – Mark Danielewski

Bed – Tao Lin

Point Omega – Don DeLillo

Skippy Dies – Paul Murray

The Tortilla Curtain – T.C. Boyle

The Instructions – Adam Levin

Day of the Oprichnik – Vladimir Sorokin

One Hundred Percent Lunar Boy – Stephen Tunney

Hector and the Search for Happiness – Francois Lelord

The Pale King – David Foster Wallace

There is No Year – Blake Butler

The Failure Six – Shane Jones

The Curfew – Jesse Ball

The Last Werewolf – Glen Duncan

Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami

Train Dreams: A Novella – Denis Johnson

Stone Arabia – Dana Spiotta

Someone Like You – Roald Dahl

The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides
*When All Our Days Are Numbered – Sasha Fletcher
1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

Non-Fiction

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself – David Lipsky

My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands – Chelsea Handler

Beautiful and Pointless – David Orr

Bill Moyers Journal – Bill Moyers

Bossypants – Tina Fey

The Social Animal – David Brooks

One Day It’ll All Make Sense – Common

Poetry

The Best of It: New and Selected Poems – Kay Ryan

The Romantic Dogs – Roberto Bolano

Moy Sand and Gravel: Poems – Paul Muldoon

*Factory of Tears – Valzhyna Mort

Sixty Poems – Charles Simic

The Door – Margaret Atwood

Circle – Victoria Chang

Slur Ouevre – James D’Agostino

We Take Me Apart – Molly Gaudry
Of Which Anything Consists - Barbara Maloutas

Plays

The Book of Liz – David Sedaris

Graphic Novels

Black Hole – Charles Burns

*Epileptic – David B.

Asterios Polyp – David Mazzucchelli