100+ Books in 2025 discussion

I've never tracked this before. It's a fun/scary idea. Will have exact finish dates moving forward.

January
1. Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell - Bruce Eric Kaplan
2. The Arrival - Shaun Tan
3. Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking : Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America - Jessamyn Neuhaus
4. Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds : Poems - Eleanor Lerman
5. Bachelor Girls - Wendy Wasserstein
6. Wolf in Chef's Clothing - Robert H. Loeb, Jr.
7. The Space of Freedom : Apartment Exhibitions in Leningrad, 1964-1986
8. Cast Iron Decoration : A World Survey
9. Preacher v.6 : War in the Sun

February
10. Reading Comics - Douglas Wolk
11. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You - Peter Cameron
12. I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets : The Comics of Fletcher Hanks - Paul Karasik
13. Caring For Your Aging Cat : A Quality of Life Guide for Your Cat's Senior Years
14. The Golden Age of Couture : Paris and London, 1947-1957
15. An Arsonist's Guide to Writer's Homes in New England - Brock Clarke

March
16. 84, Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff
17. The Pill Versus The Springhill Mining Disaster [poetry] - Richard Brautigan
18. It's So You : 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and Style
19. Maynard & Jennica - Rudolph Delson
20. Last Night at the Lobster - Stewart O'Nan

21. Gastroanomalies : Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery - James Lileks (03/24)

22. Sex and the Single Girl - Helen Gurley Brown (04/03)

23. Sisterhood Interrupted : From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild - Deborah Siegel (04/08)

24. Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook - Jamie Oliver (04/17)

25. Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Home or Office - David Shipley (04/20)

26. Style Dictionary - Ruben Toledo (04/24)

27. BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine (04/26)

28. Good Taste Costs No More - Richard Gump (04/28)

29. Eavesdrop Soup [poetry] - Matt Cook (04/29)

30. The Raw Shark Texts - Steven Hall (05/03)

31. Hitman: Who Dares Wins (v5) - Garth Ennis (05/09)

32. Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder - David Weinberger (05/24)

33. The Order of the Stick: No Cure for the Paladin Blues (v2) - Rich Berlew (05/25)

34. One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding - Rebecca Mead (05/26)

35. Pictures of You - Damon Hurd & Tatiana Gill (05/31)

36. Life Sucks - Jessica Abel, Gabe Soria, Warren Pleece (05/31)

37. Rabbi Harvey Rides Again - Steve Sheinkin (05/31)

38. Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday - Alex Cox (05/31)

39. Gentlemen of the Road - Michael Chabon (06/01)

40. Farewell, My Lovely - Raymond Chandler (06/09)

41. Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink

42. Appetite - Nigel Slater

43. The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

44. Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich - Robert Frank

45. I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith Through an Atheist's Eyes - Hemant Mehta

46. Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less - Barry Schwartz

47. Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus, vol. 1

48. My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk

49. The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More - Chris Anderson

50. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture - Ariel Levy

51. Five Fists of Science - Matt Fraction, Steve Sanders

52. Halo & Sprocket v2: Natural Creatures - Kerry Callen

53. Trading Up: Why Consumers Want New Luxury Goods and How Companies Create Them - Michael Silverstein, Neil Fiske

54. The Big Sort: Why The Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart - Bill Bishop

55. Captain Alatriste - Arturo Perez-Reverte

56. Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived - Daniel Wilson

57. Immortal Iron Fist v2: The Seven Capitol Cities of Heaven - Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction

58. Shortcomings - Adrian Tomine

59. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

60. The Invention of Everything Else - Samantha Hunt

61. A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller Jr.

62. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers - Xiaolu Guo

63. Spellbinders: Signs and Wonders - Mike Carey, Mike Perkins

64. Last Call - Vasilis Lolos

65. Absolute Sandman, v. 1 - Neil Gaiman

66. Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days - Neil Gaiman

67. Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home - Pamela Stone

68. Madman Gargantua - Mike Allred

It's probably a little late now, but I wonder whether if we'd all been adding the books to the group's bookshelf all along, if it would give stats on how many people read each book. So then we could see which were the most popular. I do see some titles coming up over and over, so it would be a fun thing to see.

69. Pounded - Brian Wood, Steve Rolston

70. Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

71. Books: A Memoir - Larry McMurtry

72. Too Cool to be Forgotten - Alex Robinson

73. The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thorton Wilder

74. Why Not Marry - Anna Steese Richardson (ed.)

75. Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story about Parenting! - Sandra Tsing Loh

76. Casanova v. 1: Luxuria - Matt Fraction, Gabriel Ba

77. The Originals - Dave Gibbons

78. Women Who Eat: A New Generation on the Glory of Food - Leslie Miller (ed.)

79. The Mystery of Meteors - Eleanor Lerman

80. Absolute Sandman v. 2 - Neil Gaiman

81. Underfoot in Show Business - Helene Hanff

82. Help is on the Way: A Collection of Basic Instructions - Scott Meyer

83. Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food - Susan Marks

84. Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus v.2

85. Super Spy - Matt Kindt

86. Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter - Steven Johnson

87. Pride of Baghdad - Brian K. Vaughan, Nico Henrichon

88. Tender is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald

89. The Umbrella Academy v. 1 : Apocalypse Suite - Gerard Way, Gabriel Ba

90. Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him - Patricia Marx

91. Annihilation v. 1 - Keith Giffen, et. al.

92. Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin

93. Annihilation v. 2 - Keith Giffen et. al.

94. Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence - Joe Dominguez, Vicki Robin

95. Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein

96. The Quality of Life Report - Meghan Daum

97. What Mad Universe - Fredric Brown

98. The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back - Andrew Sullivan

99. Girls with Slingshots v. 1 - Danielle Corsetto


Oh yikes. I'd better make the next one something really good.

100. Annihilation v. 3 - Keith Giffen et. al.

101. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury


I really slacked off once I knew I was going to make it. I'm going for 125 in 2009.