Reading List: 65 Books to Madness

This year--like every year-- I vowed to read 52 books. I like to have a healthy mix of fiction and poetry, but this year, I wanted to add in some nonfiction, some drama, and most importantly, tons of graphic novels. In fact, this was the year where I sat myself down and said "Stephanie, we're going to accept that we love comics and we're going to jump in and read a bunch this year. No more putting it off." So that's exactly what I did, and I loved it! In fact, I plan on finishing my three favorite series next year: The Sandman, Locke and Key, and Batman: Arkham Unhinged.


Now here is my reading list for 2014--you'll see I beat my yearly goal of 52.

• My favorite novel was: Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
• My favorite poetry collection was: The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski

Next year, I'm going to vow to read more classic literature and start reading memoirs. We'll see how I do!

1.      Embrace the Hideous Immaculate by Chad Hensley

2.      Orchid Carousals by Lucy A. Snyder

3.      How to be a Wicked Witch: Good Spells, Charms, Potions and Notions for Bad Days by Patricia J. Telesco

4.      The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

5.      Black Box Theater as Abandoned Zoo by Dana Elkun

6.      A Pilgrim’s Guide to Chaos in the Heartland by Jessica Goodfellow

7.      Old Man Scratch by Rio Youers

8.      Down the Road by Lee Blessing

9.      Ink by Damien Walters Grintalis

10.  NOS4A2 by Joe Hill

11.  Ruins of the Heart by Rumi

12.  30 Days of Night, Vol.6: Spreading the Disease by Steve Niles

13.  Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation by Tim Hamilton, Ray Bradbury

14.  We are Three by Rumi

15.  Wilderness by Jim Morrison

16.  Notes from the Cathouse by Jack Ketchum

17.  Hair Side, Flesh Side by Helen Marshall

18.  The Woman by Jack Ketchum

19.  Female Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky

20.  Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke

21.  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

22.  Barfodder by Rain Graves

23.  The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien

24.  Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie

25.  Bird Box by Josh Malerman

26.  The Pleasures of the Damned by Charles Bukowski

27.  Halloween, New Poems edited by Al Sarrantonio

28.  Jabberwocky and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll

29.  Doubt, A Parable by John Patrick Shanley

30.  The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

31.  Tales of Jack the Ripper edited by Ross E. Lockhart

32.  100 Love Sonnets by Pablo Neruda

33.  The Troop by Nick Cutter

34.  Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

35.  Hot Metal Tonic by Ron Gavalik

36.  Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker

37.  Songs of Ophelia by Theodora Gross

38.  The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman

39.  Snowblind by Christopher Golden

40.  The Book of Goodbyes by Jillian Weise

41.  Cosmopolitan Greetings by Allen Ginsberg

42.  The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll’s House by Neil Gaiman

43.  Locke and Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill

44.  Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

45.  Swam Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore

46.  Batman: Arkham Asylum- A serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison

47.  Put Your Hands in by Chris Hosea

48.  The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman

49.  Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

50.  30 Days of Night, Vol. 7: Eben and Stella by Steve Niles

51.  The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman

52.  Locke and Key, Vol. 2: Head Games by Joe Hill

53.  The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You

54.  Prophets by Peter Adam Salomon

55.  Saga, Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan

56.  100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello

57.  Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway by Mike Carey

58.  Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

59.  Batman: Arkham Unhinged, Vol. 3 by Derek Fridolfs

60.  The Tent by Kealan Patrick Burke

61.  Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb

62.  Horns by Joe Hill

63.  Batman: Arkham Unhinged, Vol. 2 by Derek Fridolfs

64.  The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway

65.  Batman: Arkham Unhinged, Vol. 4. By Derek Fridolfs