Books of 2012: January

This time, with the author’s preferred text! Sure, I already owned the original American Gods, but for $1.99 I couldn’t really pass on the tenth anniversary edition.

  1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (January 1 - 12)
  2. Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle (January 1 - 11)
  3. Maus by Art Spiegelman (January 2 - 8)
  4. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (January 12 - 16)
  5. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (January 14 - 16)
  6. A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (January 17)
  7. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (January 18 - 24)
  8. Blow up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar (January 23-)
    • “Axototl” and “House Taken Over” (January 23)
    • “The Distances,” “The Idol of Cyclades,” and “Letter to a Young Lady in Paris” (January 24)
    • “A Yellow Flower” and “Continuity of Parks” (January 25)
    • “The Night Face Up” and “Bestiary” (January 26)
  9. Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (January 24 - 28)
  10. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (January 29 -)

Notes

  1. mattlovescomics said: I started American Gods and enjoyed it, but never finished it because it didn’t have pictures. You’ll probably get a kick out of it, though, especially if you got the 10th anniversary version.
  2. waltorr posted this