Reading List: September 2008

Following the recent advice of my good friend Allyn Gibson, there is going to be a lot more content here in the coming months. As anyone who reads this blog knows, I burn through a lot of books. Rather than making a list at the end of each month with a couple of sentences on each, I am now trying to write a a few hundred words when I finish one. If current trends hold up, that should equal four to five posts a week, a number that will be supplemented with posts on other things as well.

That said, I like the round-up every month, so I likely will provide a quick list with links to the commentary. Anyway, in September I finished 18 books and graphic novels:

• The Explosionist by Jenny Davidson
• Brave New World by Chris Roberson
• Fun Home by Allison Bedchel
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
• Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
• Sword of Damocles by Geoffrey Thorne
• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
• Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
• Drown by Junot Diaz
• Fables: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham, et al.
• The Best American Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King
• Cop Hater by Ed McBain
• Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
• Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen
• God Lives in St. Petersburg by Tom Bissell
• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion by Don Rosa
• In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders

Check back for frequent updates throughout the month.