2008 Reading List

This is something I've been meaning to post for a couple of weeks. I wasn't as diligent a recorder this year so I think I may have left a couple of stories out.

2008 Reading List (Date is the day completed)

Jan 30th – “Samuel” by Grace Paley (Short Story)
Feb 3rd – “Happy Endings” by Margaret Atwood (Short Story)
Feb 12th – “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Short Story)
Feb 13th – “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe (Short Story)
Feb 28th – “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley
March 4th – “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant (Short Story)
March 5th – “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin (Short Story)
March 10th – “The Yellow Wall-Paper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Short Story)
March 22nd – “Wanted” by Mark Miller, J. G. Jones, Paul Mounts (Graphic Novel)
March 24th – “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner (Short Story)
March 27th – “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway (Short Story)
March 31st – “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’ Connor (Short Story)
April 3rd – “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Short Story)
April 8th – “The Man who was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright (Short Story)
April 10th – “The Lesson” by Tori Cade Bambara (Short Story)
April 14th – “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver (Short Story)
April 15 – “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich (Short Story)
April 19th – “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’ Brien (Short Story)
April 22nd – “The Management of Grief” by Bharati Mukherjee (Short Story)
May 12th – “Beloved” – Toni Morrison
May 14th – “Nation of Nations – A concise Narrative of the American Republic. Vol I to 1877” by James West Davidson (History Text Book)
May 28th – “Bigfoot – I Not Dead” by Graham Romney
May 28th – “Preacher Vol 5-8” by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion
June 6th – “Rebel Without a Crew” by Robert Rodriguez
June 11th – “Slaughter House-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut
June 23rd – “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card
July 20th – “The Thin Red Line” by James Jones
Aug 24th – “My Tank is Fight” by Zack Parsons
Sep 17th – “Best American Short Stories” edited by Ann Patchett
Sep 28th – “The Odyssey” – Homer
Oct 7th – “In Praise of Shadows” – Jun’ichiro Tanizaki (Short Story Collection)
Oct 30th – “Barefoot Gen” – Keiji Nakazawa (Graphic Novel)
Nov 15th – “The Watchmen” – Alan Moore
Dec 18th – “Joker” – Brian Azzorello (Graphic Novel)
Dec 22nd – “Booknotes: Stories from American History” – Brian Lamb
Dec 27th – “Preacher: Until the End of the World” – Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion

Let me know if I misspelled any names or titles. I enjoy not looking like an idiot. Hope you enjoyed!

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