Now that we are at the tail end of 2009, I thought it would be a completely inappropriate and pointless time to post this.

In 2008 I set the resolution to read 52 books or a book a week,  I ended up counting graphic novels, which I was initially unsure about.  First, I reread Maus which I felt absolutely should be counted . . . but Eat-Man?  Too late I was already counting comics.

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Night by Elie Wiesel
Maus by Art Spiegelman*
Batman Animated by Paul Dini, Chip Kidd
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting by Syd Field
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Eat-Man by Akihito Yoshitomi*
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
DC: The New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke*
Catwoman: When in Rome by Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale*
Spawn: The Armageddon Collection by Todd McFarlane*
The Chosen by Chaim Potok
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
Enemy Ace: War in Heaven by Garth Ennis, Chris Weston*
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi*
Turning the Mind into an Ally by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 1 – 9 by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto*
Iron West by Doug Tennapel*
Plastic Man: Rubber Bandits by Kyle Baker*
Houdini: The Handcuff King by Jason Lutes*
Nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E: This Is What They Want by Warren Ellis, Stuart Immonen*
Gear by Doug Tennapel*
The Arthur Rackham Treasury by Arthur Rackham
Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need by Blake Snyder
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Showcase Presents: Enemy Ace, Vol. 1 by Robert Kanigher*
Batman/Houdini: The Devil’s Workshop by Howard Chaykin, John Francis Moore, Mark Chiarello*
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Fables: Sons of Empire by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha*
Fables: The Good Prince by Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha*
The Hellboy Companion by Stephen Weiner, Jason Hall
Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Other Stories by Mike Mignola, Richard Corben, P. Craig Russell*
Pinochio by Carlo Collodi
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Batman: Year One Hundred by Paul Pope*
Batman and the Monster Men by Matt Wagner*
Batman and the Mad Monk by Matt Wagner*
Hulk: Gray by Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale*
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose
To Draw Closer to God: A Collection of Discources by Henry B. Eyring
Baltimore: Or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire by Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden
Jack of Fables: The Bad Prince by Bill Willingham*
Usagi Yojimbo: Tomoe’s Story by Stan Sakai*
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus
Super-Patriot: Liberty and Justice by Keith Giffen, Mary Bierbaum, Dave Johnson*
Amulet: The Stone Keeper by Kazu Kibuishi*
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Shazam!: Monster Society of Evil by Jeff Smith*
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

My brother J.C. had this resolution for the last couple years, and was the one who gave me the idea.  However he didn’t do it last year because he found he was avoiding bigger books that would take him longer than a week to read.  I kinda wanted to read Don Quixote last year but I didn’t because it would take me months, and ruin my goal.   With the exception of Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino, which I had been reading one folktale a day over the last couple years, pretty much every book I read in 2008 was 500 pages or less.  So there’s pros and cons.  However this year I’m going to try again for 52, but this time be more discerning on what I “count”.

* – Graphic Novel or Manga