Books I Read in 2013

Posted on 01/10/2014 by kunzelman

For previous years, look here: 2012, 2011.

the bolan pass

This is a list of all the books that I read in 2013. The number is a little bit off — as you can see, I read a whole lot of BPRD in preparation for Catachresis, which I have grouped by story arc because I read them in single issues instead of trades — but for the most part this is all correct. I read less than I wanted to this year, partially because I was reading lots of essays and shorter stuff while writing my prospectus and partially because I felt off in some way for the latter half of 2013. I never really felt like I had firm footing, and I sort of failed at reading some books over the summer, which really put me in a bad place for reading some of the theory books that I wanted to get to.

Usually I run the numbers on the breakdown of the books that I read through the year, but this time I just have to say that way more than 90% of the books I read were by white men and that sucks, especially coming from 2012, where I felt like I had made some progress breaking out of that mold.

Reminder: these are books that I read in their entirety, from the first to the last pages.

  1. Ahmed – Queer Phenomenology
  2. Raengo – On the Sleeve of the Visual
  3. Adams – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
  4. The Correspondence of Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris
  5. Montfort – Twisty Little Passages
  6. Sinclair – The Life and Death of Harriet Frean
  7. Kant – Prolegomena
  8. Meillassoux – After Finitude
  9. Halberstam – The Queer Art of Failure
  10. Shaviro – Without Criteria
  11. Gaiman – The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch
  12. Mignola – Hellboy Library Edition v.5
  13. Galloway – The Interface Effect
  14. Gaiman – The Books of Magic
  15. Miller – The Long, Hard Goodbye
  16. Miller – A Dame to Kill For
  17. Miller – The Big Fat Kill
  18. Miller – That Yellow Bastard
  19. Morton – The Ecological Thought
  20. Miller – Family Values
  21. Miller – Booze, Broads, and Bullets
  22. Miller – Hell and Back
  23. Delanda – Philosophy and Simulation
  24. Parikka – Insect Media
  25. Lebeau – Psychoanalysis and Cinema
  26. Wallace – Big Fish
  27. Wolfe – Innocents Aboard
  28. Juul – The Art of Failure
  29. Kushner – Jacked: The Grand Theft Auto Story
  30. Cullen – Columbine
  31. Dick – Ubik
  32. Marcus – The Wand in the Word
  33. Lapham – Young Liars v1
  34. Lapham – Young Liars v2
  35. Lapham – Young Liars v3
  36. Nadel – Art in Time
  37. Bukowski – Post Office
  38. Rasumussen – Experiencing Architecture
  39. Ennis – The Punisher MAX v1
  40. Hill – 20th Century Ghosts
  41. Moore – Nemo: Heart of Ice
  42. Ennis – The Punisher MAX v2
  43. Ennis – The Punisher MAX v3
  44. Ellis – Absolute Planetary v1
  45. Ennis – The Punisher MAX v4
  46. Ennis – The Punisher MAX v6
  47. Lambert – Weaponized Architecture
  48. Ennis – The Punisher MAX v7
  49. Ennis – The Punisher MAX v9
  50. Ennis – The Punisher MAX v10
  51. Ellis – Absolute Planetary v2
  52. Brautigan – In Watermelon Sugar
  53. Eisner – The Contract With God
  54. Taylor – Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever
  55. Hurwitz – The Punisher: Girls in White Dresses
  56. Gischler – The Punisher: Welcome to the Bayou
  57. Swiercynski – The Punisher: Six Hours to Kill
  58. Hellboy Library Edition v6
  59. Ranciere – Aisthesis
  60. Ott – Cinema Panopticum
  61. Jason – Athos in America
  62. Tardi – The Arctic Marauder
  63. Groys – Under Suspicion
  64. Dean – The Communist Horizon
  65. Lipsky – Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
  66. Berman – Adventures in Marxism
  67. Mignola/Davis – Plague of Frogs
  68. Mignola/Davis – The Dead
  69. Mignola/Arcudi/Davis – The Black Flame
  70. ibid – The Universal Machine
  71. ibid – Garden of Souls
  72. Wolfe – Starwater Strains
  73. King – The Long Walk
  74. Clemens and Pettman – Avoiding the Subject
  75. Pisters – The Neuro-Image
  76. Mignola – The Killing Ground
  77. Mignola – The Warning
  78. King – Pet Sematary
  79. Graham – Prophet v1 – Remission
  80. Mignola/Davis – The King of Fear
  81. Mignola/Davis – Hell on Earth: New World
  82. Mignola/Davis – Hell on Earth: Gods
  83. Mignola – BPRD: 1946
  84. Mignola – BPRD: 1947
  85. McCoy – ANESthetized
  86. Mignola – BPRD: Hell on Earth: Monsters
  87. Mignola – BPRD: Hell on Earth: Russia
  88. Mignola – BPRD: Hell on Earth: The Long Death
  89. Mignola – BPRD: Hell on Earth: The Devil’s Engine
  90. Mignola – BPRD: Hell on Earth: The Return of the Master
  91. Mignola – BPRD: Hell on Earth: Pickins County Horror
  92. Mignola – BPRD: Hell on Earth: Exorcism
  93. Mignola – BPRD: Hell on Earth: The Abyss of Time
  94. Mignola – BPRD: Hell on Earth: A Cold Day in Hell
  95. Mignola – BPRD: Hell on Earth: Wasteland
  96. Gibson – Neuromancer
  97. Andrews – Nothing is Forgotten
  98. Hickman – Fantastic Four v1
  99. Hickman – Fantastic Four v2
  100. Hickman – Fantastic Four v3
  101. Tao Lin – Richard Yates
  102. Berardi – Felix Guattari
  103. Pettman – Look At the Bunny
  104. Derrida – The Work of Mourning
  105. Gilman – Thunderer
  106. Sutton-Smith – The Ambiguity of Play
  107. Henricks – Play Reconsidered
  108. Foucault – Discipline and Punish
  109. Gilman – The Gears of the City
  110. Lyotard – The Inhuman
  111. Morton – Hyperobjects
  112. Harrison – Forests: The Shadow of Civilization

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2 Responses to Books I Read in 2013

  1. Puddingbrummsel says:
    01/17/2014 at 2:46 pm

    Would you recommend all of them, some of them, some of them especially? I’d be interested in reading Queer Phenomenology, is it worth a look?

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