This is the total list of everything that I read in full for the year of 2012. I feel like it is important for me to say that–I read outside of this list, sometimes extensively, but what makes the list are things that I read all the way through, front cover to back cover.

The links that pepper the list are links to books that I enjoyed a lot, or books that lit up in my mind as I was copying the list, or books that have altered me permanently as a person. Somewhere in there.

So, before the list, some numbers:

125 total books (the list below is short because I collapsed some multivolume things into single lines)

15 of those books were written by women, which is 12.9%, which is absolutely shameful. That said, I actually increased over last year, which was 3.8%. That is still a terrible ratio, and I am going to try to push it even further next year. That said, about halfway through the year I instituted a leisure reading policy based around getting rid of books in my home–I have (literally) thousands that I have accrued over the years, and I have decided I don’t want to move that many. I started reading a lot of things that I had picked up in thrift stores, book sales, or whatever so that I could get rid of them. That’s why the latter half of this list is so damn weird (and also why I haven’t finished a book in two weeks [I am reading the longest Hemingway bio]).

In any case, here is the list:

1. John Dies At The End – Wong
2. Unit Operations  – Bogost
3. Milk and Cheese Omnibus – Dorkin
4. Rant  – Palahniuk
5. Extra Lives  – Bissell
6. The Monsters of Templeton – Groff
7. The Soul at Work – “Bifo” Berardi
8. Doom Patrol vols. 1-6 – Morrison
9. Spheres vol.1 Bubbles – Sloterdijk
10. The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood
11. Sophie’s Choice – Styron
12. Do Anything – Ellis
13. Looking for Jake – Mieville
14. Sexual Politics – Millett
15. Essex County – Lemire
16. Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen – Shulman
17. 11/23/63 – King
18. Quest for Lost Heroes – Gemmell
19. How To Do Things With Video Games  – Bogost
20. The Mirror in the Well  – Marcom
21. Ethics of Computer Games – Sicart
22. Gaming: Essays in Algorithmic Culture – Galloway
23. The Female Man – Russ
24. Ironic Ethics – Berardi
25. Flex Mentallo – Morrison
26. Rise of the Videogame Zinesters – Anthropy
27. Robopocalypse – Wilson
28. American Vampire vols 1-3 – Snyder
29. Art Power – Groys
30. Jennifer Government – Barry
31. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Foer
32. The Princess and Curdie – MacDonald
33. Sharp Teeth – Barlow
34. Games of Empire – Dyer-Witheford and Peuter
35. Alien Phenomenology – Bogost
36. V For Vendetta – Moore and Lloyd
37. Why We Love Sociopaths – Kotsko
38. Absolute Planetary v.1 – Ellis and Cassiday
39. After the Future – “Bifo” Berardi
40. My Friend Dahmer – Backderf
41. The Half Made World – Gilman
42. The Truth: Red, White, and Black – Morales
43. The Wind Through the Keyhole – King
44. Vibrant Matter – Bennett
45. Virgin – Blank
46. The Marvelous Hairy Girls – Hanks
47. Are You My Mother? – Bechdel
48. Gameplay Mode – Crogan
49. The Einstein Intersection  – Delaney
50. “You’ll Die in Singapore!” – McCormac
51. Not In Kansas Anymore – Wicker
52. All-Star Batman and Robin – Miller
53. Wonder Woman v.1 – Azzarello
54. The Dark Knight Strikes Again – Miller
55. Absolute Planetary v.2 – Ellis
56. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1-3 – Moore
57. Absolute Sandman v.1 – Gaiman
58. Zelda – Milford
59. Comic Book History of Comics – Van Lente
60. The Supergirls – Madrid
61. Absolute Sandman v.2 – Gaiman
62. Introduction to Antiphilosophy – Groys
63. A Thousand Plateaus – Deleuze and Guattari
64. Absolute Sandman v.3 – Gaiman
65. Blindness – Saramango
66. Dark Reign: Fantastic Four – Hickman
67. Fantastic Four v.1 – Hickman
68. Absolute Sandman v.4 – Gaiman
69. Post-Cinematic Affect – Shaviro
70. Absolute New Frontier – Cook
71. The Artificial Silk Girl – Keun
72. Chaos, Territory, Art – Grosz
73. Black Kiss – Chaykin
74. Collected Writings – Laure
75. Cloud Atlas – Mitchell
76. Orc Stain v.1 – Stokoe
77. Wild Children – Kot
78. Seeing Through Race – Mitchell
79. Prophet: Remission – Graham
80. Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller – Lambert
81. Protocol – Galloway
82. JLA: Earth-2 – Morrison
83. Batman: Year 1oo – Pope
84. This is Not a Pipe – Foucault
85. Hey Wait… – Jason
86. Doom Patrols – Shaviro
87. The Serpent and the Rainbow – Davis
88. Camera Lucida – Barthes
89. American Elf v.4 – Kochalka
90. Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy – Harman
91. The Beach – Garland
92. Ugly Man – Cooper
93. Pistolwhip – Kindt
94. The Underwater Welder – Lemire
95. Poetics of Relation – Glissant
96. Stranger From Abroad – Maier-Katton
97. Digestate
98. Coward – Brubaker
99. Lawless – Brubaker
100. The Dead and the Dying – Brubaker
101. Black Hole – Burns
102. Slime Dynamics – Woodard
103. Complete Bone – Smith
104. Comics vs. Art – Beaty
105. The Book of Mr. Natural – R. Crumb
106. Maus I – Spiegelman
107. Batman: Death and the Maidens – Rucka
108. Maus II – Spiegelman
109. Vampyroteuthis Infernalis – Flusser
110. Too Cool To Be Forgotten – Robinson
111. West Coast Blues – Manchette/Tardi
112. The Uprising – “Bifo” Berardi
113. Killing is Harmless – Keogh
114. The Making of Indebted Man – Lazzarato
115. Osborn: Evil Incarcerated – DeConnick
116. Violent Cases – Gaiman