• i think i'm failing at reading 50 books this year so i'm going to ignore one of my own personal rules and include the ones i've reread in my end total for books read this year (but i'm still not including graphic novels or comic books because i looked at more pictures than read words with those things)
• italics=first read this year; bold=reread
• total=48/50

JANUARY

• Book of Sketches JACK KEROUAC
• Brains: A Zombie Memoir ROBIN BECKER
• Fantastic Four 1234
• My Boring Ass Life: the Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith
• Palo Alto JAMES FRANCO
• Subterraneans JACK KEROUAC
• The Walking Dead Book 1

FEBRUARY

• Detective Comics-Batman: Blind Justice issues 598-600
• Fight Club CHUCK PALAHNIUK
• Psycho ROBERT BLOCH
• Rumble Fish SE HINTON
• X-Men Evolution

MARCH

• Batman: Heart of Hush
• Batman International
• Batman: Jekyll and Hyde
• Batman: Widening Gyre
• Batman: The Wrath
• How to Survive a Horror Movie : all the Skills to Dodge the Kills SETH GRAHAME-SMITH
• Invisible Monsters CHUCK PALAHNIUK
• Iron Horse ALLEN GINSBERG
• Morality & Blockade Billy STEPHEN KING (combined)
• On the Road JACK KEROUAC
• The Joker: the Greatest Stories Ever Told
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (adapted from the novel by L. Frank Baum)
• X2: X-Men United comic book adaption

APRIL

• A Clockwork Orange ANTHONY BURGESS
• All Star Batman and Robin: the Boy Wonder #1
• Batman & Robin: Batman reborn
• Batman: R.I.P.
• CSI: The Killing Jar DONN CORTEZ
• CSI NY: Four Walls KEITH R.A. DeCANDIDO

MAY

• Boondock Saints In Nomine Patris vol. 3
• Cell STEPHEN KING
• Here Comes...Daredevil...the Man without Fear! vol. 26
• Hannibal Rising THOMAS HARRIS
• Into the Wild JOHN KRAKAUER
• Nineteen Eighty-Four GEORGE ORWELL
• Of Mice and Men JOHN STEINBECK
• 'salem's Lot STEPHEN KING

JUNE

• The Outsiders SE HINTON
• Mystic River DENNIS LEHANE

JULY

• A Drink Before the War DENNIS LEHANE
• Animal Farm GEORGE ORWELL
• Gone, Baby, Gone DENNIS LEHANE
• My Own Private Idhao: a Film by Gus van Sant
• The Walking Dead Book 2
• The Walking Dead Book 3

AUGUST

• Degrassi: Generations - The Official 411 KATHRYN ELLIS
• Einstein's Dreams ALAN LIGHTMAN
• Pygmy CHUCK PALAHNIUK
• The Witch of Babylon D.J. MCINTOSH
• Snuff CHUCK PALAHNIUK

SEPTEMBER

• Cowboys and Aliens
• CSI: In Extremis KEN GODDARD
• The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas JOHN BOYNE
• Moonlight Mile DENNIS LEHANE

OCTOBER

• Choke CHUCK PALAHNIUK
• Survivor CHUCK PALAHNIUK
• Zombies: an Illustrated History of the Undead JOVANKA VUCKOVIC

NOVEMBER

• Lullaby CHUCK PALAHNIUK
• Oleanna DAVID MAMET
• The Crucible: a Play in Four Parts ARTHUR MILLER
• The Moon is Down: a play in two parts & Of Mice and Men: a play in three acts JOHN STEINBECK (combined)

DECEMBER

• Brave New World ALDOUS HUXLEY
• The Catcher in the Rye JD SALINGER
• The World's Shortest Stories edited by STEVE MOSS; illustrated by GLEN STARKEY