This page lists what books I’ve read over the last few years. Had I been on top of things, I would have recorded all the articles I’ve read and had a bibliography for my entire graduate school career but it’s far too late for that now!
Key
(A) = Audio | (PhD) = Ph.D. Coursework | (MA) = Masters Coursework | (R) = Previously Read | (GN) = Graphic Novel
2010
Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition by Wysocki, Johnson-Eilola, Selfe, and Sirc
The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning by Katie Salen ed.
The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(A)
Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected by Tara McPherson ed.
Good Video Games + Good Learning: Collected Essays on Video Games, Learning, and Literacy by James Paul Gee
What Video Games Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(A)
Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution by Dennis Baron
Teaching the New Writing: Technology, Change, and Assessment in the 21st-Century Classroom by Herrington, Hodgson, and Moran
The Digital Writing Workshop by Troy Hicks
The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media by Jeff Rice
Multiliteracies for a Digital Age by Stuart Selber
Love in Two Languages by Abdelkebir Khatibi
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Bearheart by Gerald Vizenor
The Light People by Gordon Henry
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge by Jean-François Lyotard
2009 (43 books)
Blow-Up and Other Stories by Julio Cortázar
The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Kafka: A Very Short Introduction by Ritchie Robertson
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design by Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller(PhD)
Thinking With Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students by Ellen Lupton(PhD)
Picture This: How Pictures Work by Molly Bang(PhD)
Graphic Design: The New Basics by Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips(PhD)
Digital Literacy for Technical Communication: 21st Century Theory and Practice by Rachel Spilka ed.(PhD)
The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams(PhD)
Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez
Conjuctions 39: The New Wave Fabulists Peter Straub ed.
The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, and Mike Dringenberg(GN)
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Quitter by Harvey Pekar and Dean Hapsiel(GN)
It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken by Seth (GN)
A Contract With God by Will Eisner(GN)
The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun
City of Glass by Paul Auster, Paul Karasik, and David Mazzucchelli(GN)
So Far From God by Ana Castillo
Death: The High Cost of Living by Neil Gaiman and Chris Bachalo(GN)
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland(GN)
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd(GN)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller(GN)
From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell(GN)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon(A)
The Birth of Biopolitics by Michel Foucault(PhD)
Kindred by Octavia Butler(A)
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy(A)
The Theological-Politcal Treatise by Baruch Spinoza(PhD)
The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass(A)
On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche(PhD)
The Fantastic: A Structuralist Approach to a Literary Genre by Tzvetan Todorov
Discourse on Inequality and the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau(PhD)
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes(PhD)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrrison
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Postmodernist Fiction by Brian McHale
2008 (54 books)
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov(A)
Magic(al) Realism by Maggie Ann Bowers
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami(A)
Watchmen by Alan Moore and David Gibbons(GN)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami(A)
The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien(PhD)
The Journalist by Harry Matthews(PhD)
The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus(PhD)
How I Wrote Certain of my Books by Raymond Roussel(R, PhD)
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (A)
The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith (PhD)
The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz Kafka(A)
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler
Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey(A)
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy(R)
The Virginian by Owen Wister(A)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdrich
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling(PhD)
Black Eagle Child by Ray Young Bear(PhD)
The Last Report on the Miracles of Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich(PhD)
Raymond Roussel : A Critical Guide by Rayner Heppenstall(PhD)
How I Wrote Certain of my Books by Raymond Roussel(PhD)
Wild Indians and Other Creatures by Adrian Louis(PhD)
Writing Machines by Katherine Hayles(PhD)
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie(PhD)
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich(A)
Landfill Meditation by Gerald Vizenor(PhD)
Green Grass, Running Water by Tom King(PhD)
Networked Art by Craig Saper(PhD)
The Translation of Dr. Apelles by David Treuer(PhD)
Native American Fiction: A User’s Manual by David Treuer
Hundred in the Hand by Joseph Marshall III(PhD)
Four Souls by Louise Erdrich(A)
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter(PhD)
The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich(PhD)
This Is Not A Pipe by Michel Foucault(PhD)
Libra by Don Delillo(A)
Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan(PhD)
Species of Spaces & Other Pieces by Georges Perec(PhD)
Tracks by Louise Erdrich(PhD)
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino(PhD)
Fools Crow by James Welch(PhD)
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko(R)(PhD)
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut(A)
Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction by David Hopkins(PhD)
House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday(PhD)
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Road by Cormac McCarthy(A)
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
2007 (64 books)
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy(A)
The Wild God of the World by Robinson Jeffers(PhD)
James Joyce’s Ulysses: Critical Essays by Clive Hart and David Hayman, eds.(PhD)
Ulysses by James Joyce(PhD)
Pacific Edge: Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson(PhD)
The Gold Coast: Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson(PhD)
The Call of the Wild by Jack London(A)
Ubik by Philip K. Dick(PhD)
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick(PhD)
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy(A)
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick(PhD)(R)
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck(PhD)
The Iron Heel by Jack London(PhD)
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler(PhD)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler(PhD)
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling (PhD)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (PhD)
Iron Council by China Mieville (PhD)
Dubliners by James Joyce (PhD)
The Scar by China Mieville (PhD)
The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (A)
The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke
The Eye In the Door by Pat Barker (A)
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War by Ernest Hemingway
Regeneration by Pat Barker (A)(R)
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (A)
The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick (A)
Feeling Very Strange by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, eds.
King Rat by China Mieville
Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (MA)
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut (A)(R)
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (A)(R)
Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia by Fredric Jameson (MA)
Critical Theory and Science Fiction by Carl Freedman (MA)
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany(MA)
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (A)
Heirs of Columbus by Gerald Vizenor (MA)
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (MA)
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway (A)
The Physiognomy by Jeff Ford (MA)(R)
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (A)
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood (MA)
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (A)
Minority Report and Other Stories by Philip K Dick (A)
The Wild Shore: Three Californias by Kim Stanley Robinson (MA)
Neuromancer by William Gibson (A)
He, She, and It by Marge Piercy (MA)
Me Funny edited by Drew Hayden Taylor (MA)
The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin (MA)
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer by Philip K Dick (MA)
The Divine Invasion by Philip K Dick (MA)
Valis by Philip K Dick (MA)
One Good Story, That One by Thomas King (MA)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick (MA)(R)
Walking the Rez Road by Jim Northrup (MA)
Camp Concentration by Tom Disch (MA)
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline by George Saunders (MA)
Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria, Jr. (MA)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (A)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (A)
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2006 (34 books)
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway(A)
Four Front by various (MA)
Mercier and Camier by Samuel Beckett (MA)
The Hunters by Claire Messud
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote(A)
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (A)
Autobiography of a Tattoo by Stan Persky (MA)
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (MA)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (A)
Candide by Voltaire (A)
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (A)
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (A)
Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee (MA)
Second Space by C. Milosz (MA)
Don Quixote by Miguel Cervates (A)
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schaller (A)
Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer (A)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (A)
The Thousand Nights and the One Night, Book 1
Selected Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (A)
How Soccer Explains the World: An [Unlikely] Theory of Globalization by Francis Foer
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Empire of Ice Cream by Jeff Ford
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Selected Stories by Franz Kafka
Attack of the Jazz Giants by Greg Frost
The Dark Tower: Dark Tower Book 7 by Stephen King (A)
The Song of Susannah: Dark Tower Book 6 by Stephen King (A)
Wolves of the Calla: Dark Tower Book 5 by Stephen King (A)
Dogs in Moonlight by Jay Lake
Bandamanna Saga
Beowulf (R)