100 Books I Read in the Year 2015 by Tosh Berman (all reviewed in Good Reads)
James Kaplan (Doubleday)
Samuel Fuller (Hard Case Crime)
Brian Dillon (Sternberg Press)
Max Jacob (oberlin)
Sarah Gerard (Two Dollar Radio)
Marcel Bénabou (Bison Books)
Terayama Shūji (Merwin Asia)
Ian F. Svenonius ( Akashic Books)
Robert Scotto (Process)
Rudolph Wurlitzer (Two Dollar Radio)
Louis-Ferdinand Cèline (Atlas Press)
Honore de Balzac (Wakefield Press)
O. Nicolai & J. Wenzel (Spector Books)
Frank O'Hara (Grove Press)
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (Wakefield Press)
Charles Jackson (Vintage)
Rosemary Tonks
C.D. Rose (Melville House)
Ludwig Bemelmans
Glyn Johns (Blue Rider Press)
Benjamin Piekut (University of California Press)
Mark E. Smith (Penguin)
Ludwig Bemelmans
Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Little Brown Press)
Kim Gordon (Dey Street)
Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
Ludwig Bemelmans (Viking)
William Hackman (The Other Press)
Mark Webber (The Visible Press)
Hunter Drohojowska - Philp (Henry Holt)
Cookie Mueller (Semoitext[e])
Ken Emerson (Viking)
Jim Krusoe (Tin House Books)
Robert Fripp (Rare Bird Books)
Keith Porter (Cambridge University Press)
Steve Reich (Oxford University Press)
Italo Svevo (Melville House)
Bernard Cooper (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
Phillip Glass (Liveright)
Alfred Hayes (NYRB)
Don Ryan
F.T. Marinetti (Sternberg Press)
Alain Robbe-Grillet (Calder)
Don DeLillo (Picador USA)
Ralph Rumney (Manchester University)
Shinobu Hashimoto (Vertical)
Pierre Michon (Yale University Press)
Friedrich Reck (NYRB)
Robert Benchley (Ameron House)
Enrique Vila-Matas (New Directions)
B.S. Johnson (New Directions)
Howard Devoto (Black Spring Press)
Albertine Sarrazin (New Directions)
Royston Ellis (Kicks Books)
David Castronova (Continuum )
Dennis Duncan (Atlas Press)
Janis Londraville & Richard Londraville (University of Nebraska Press)
George Herms (Hamilton Press)
Mark Gluth (Akashic Books)
Joris-Karl Huysmans (Wakefield Press)
Shigeru Mizuki (Drawn & Quaterly)
Yasunari Kawabata (Counterpoint)
Nik Cohn (Knoph)
Edogawa Rampo (Kurodahan Press)
Kenkō (Penguin)
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Penguin)
Eve Babitz (NYRB)
Emmanuel Bove (NYRB)
Morrissey (Penguin)
Marcus O'Dair (Soft Skull Press)
Simon Critchley (OR Books)
Patti Smith (Knoph)
Boris Vian (Black Widow Press)
Richard Hell (Soft Skull Press)
Deborah Davis (Atria Books)
Boyd McDonald, Introduction by William E. Jones (Semoitext[e])
Bruno Corra (Atlas Press)
Roland Barthes (Seagull Press)
Lee Falk & Phil Davis (Nostalgia Press)
Edouard Levé (Dalkey Archive Press)
Stéphane Mallarmé (Berg)
Michael Peppiatt (Bloomsbury)
Fred Goodman (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Greil Marcus (Yale University Press)
John Wieners (City Lights Publishers)
Roland Barthes (Seagull Books)
Alexander Vvedensky (NYRB Poets)
Nell Dunn (Virago)
Linda Rosenkrantz (NYRB)
Brigid Berlin (Reel Art Press)
David Hurn (Reel Art Press)
Peter Guralnick (Little Brown & Company)
Duffy (ACC Distribution)
Luc Sante (Vintage)
David L. Ulin (University of California Press)
Hunter Barnes (Reel Art Press)
Burt Glinn (Reel Art Press)To read the reviews of the above books, go here: https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/1926501
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Dec 14, 2015 04:39PM
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Barry don't be. I'm a compulsive reader. It's a nervous habit of mine! i was going to do a ten best list thing, but I thought, it would be more honest if I just listed the books I have read this year. There were only a few of the books that I read this year, that I didn't like.
I read more than most people, but less than I would like to because of other distractions (such as this). But much of the reading I do is very directed, toward specific projects I have in mind. Your reading seems very "free" and open to so many things.
Barry yes and no. First of all, I use Goodreads as a device to keep track of the books I want to read, and what I have read. I take advantage of their "challenge" not to compete or beat how many books I have read, but more to keep track and remind me what I read this past year. As I look down my list, it's interesting to see certain patterns. For the past few years I have been reading a lot of music-related books - and it seems that the book industry is really into publishing musician memoirs of a certain (my) generation. The other trend I see is off-shoots of Japanese literature as well as focusing on some obscure American lit from the 40s and 50s. For the past year and this year, I have become totally fascinated with Robert Benchley as well as a new obsession: Ludwig Bemelmans. So, it's interesting to see what one had read in a period of time. in a way, it's like a self-portrait.
I agree--that's how I use this site too. What I would say is: I see some of your patterns, and I imagine that the patterns of your reading are congruent with the patterns of your developing interests...whereas the patterns of my reading mostly show what I was interested enough in to decide to write about--but there are other interests I could not follow up on because they didn't turn into a writing project, and I feel some regret about the latter.
Interesting! Everything I read I want to turn it into a writing project or exercise of some sort. A discipline act on my part.
