Books Read: August 2026

It's been another month, so time for one of these vaguely-index-like posts. As always, I'll add links later, once the posts go live. This is what I read this past month:

Pierre-Henry Gomont, Brain Drain, Part 2 (digital, 8/1)

Joshua Barkman, Ew, It's Beautiful (digital, 8/2)

Kenneth Fearing, The Big Clock (in Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 40s, 8/2)

Alejandro Jodorowski & Mœbius, The Incal, Vol. 5: The Fifth Essence - The Dreaming Galaxy (digital, 8/8)

P.G. Wodehouse, Nothing Serious (8/8)

Gus Gordon, Into the Bewilderness (digital, 8/9)

Zidrou & Jordi Lefebre, Glorious Summers, Vol. 3: Little Miss Esterel (digital, 8/14)

Bob DeGroot & Turk, Leonardo the Genius (digital, 8/15)

Walter Mosley, Blonde Faith (8/15)

Benoit Feroumont, The Kingdom, Vol. 1: Anne (digital, 8/16)

Lewis Trondheim & Manu Larcenet, Cosmonauts of the Future, Vol. 3: Resurrection (digital, 8/22)

Joshua Kendall, Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography (8/22)

Juan Berrio, Seven Places Without You (digital, 8/23)

Kay Sohini, This Beautiful, Ridiculous City (8/29)

Donald E. Westlake, The Hot Rock (8/29)

Hope Larson, All My Friends (8/30)

Xavier Dorison & Ralph Meyer, The Undertaker, Vol. 3: The Ogre of Camp Sutter (digital, 8/31)

John Hodgman, Medallion Status (8/31)

I plan to keep reading books in the coming months, too.

Books Read: July 2026

I'm slightly back-dating this; I'm writing in the late morning of August 2, and setting the post-time to be a few hours ago, mostly for tidiness reasons. (I don't remember why I set posts for 8:30 AM in my time zone, but, by Gum! it's my standard and a man has got to have standards.)

Here's what I read this past month:

Ana Oncina, Planeta (digital, 7/3)

Kristen Radtke, Seek You (7/4)

Gene Wolfe, Interlibrary Loan (7/4)

Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 10: Hostage Child (digital, 7/5)

Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud, The Cartoonists Club (digital, 7/6)

P.G. Wodehouse, Much Obliged, Jeeves (7/6)

Kim Deitch, How I Make Comics (7/7)

Guy Delisle, Muybridge (7/8)

Ross Macdonald, The Moving Target (7/8)

John Porcellino, Perfect Example (7/9)

Gilbert Hernandez, Proof That the Devil Loves You (7/10)

John Cuneo's Good Intentions (7/11)

Shinji Kaijo and Kenji Tsuruta, Emanon, Vol. 1 (digital, 7/12)

Martha Wells, Witch King (7/12)

Mike Dawson, The Hidden Dominion of Geordie James (7/18)

David Small, The Werewolf at Dusk and Other Stories (7/19)

Joe Sacco, The Once and Future Riot (7/25)

Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo Book 11: Seasons (digital, 7/26)

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, and Jack Cohen, The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (7/28)

Next month I'll be back with another one of these.

Books Read: June 2026

I'm back-dating this post, because I already have two quote posts "today" (Saturday, the Glorious Fourth, when I'm typing this) and a massive number of hourly quote posts for tomorrow, the twice-yearly day I burn off my excess book quotes.

You don't care about that. But I might wonder, looking back sometime in the future, so, Hi Future Me! that's why you did this.

Here's what I read this past month. I'll add links once the posts go live; that's running five to six weeks ahead, pretty consistently, these days.

Flore Vesco & Kerascӧet, The Court Charade (digital, 6/1)

Edward Anderson, Thieves Like Us (in Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s and 1940s, 6/1)

Tom Gauld, Physics for Cats (6/6)

Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, Daredevil: Born Again (6/7)

P.G. Wodehouse, Laughing Gas (6/7)

Juan Díaz Canales & Juanjo Guarnido, Blacksad, Vol.2: Arctic Nation (digital, 6/13)

Drew Friedman's Chosen People (digital, 6/14)

Meg Elison, Foundling Fathers (6/14)

Roy Thomas, Michael T. Gilbert, P. Craig Russell, & George Freeman, Elric: The Weird of the White Wolf (digital, 6/19)

Nicolas Pothier & Johan Pilet, Mickey Mouse Vs. The Mouseton Society of Evil (digital, 6/20)

Martha Wells, Platform Decay (6/20)

Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, Murder Book (digital, 6/21)

Jon Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats (6/26)

Doug Savage, Laser Moose and Rabbit Boy: Spidermania (digital, 6/27)

Katriona Chapman, The Pass (digital, 6/28)

Christopher Brookmyre, Quite Ugly One Morning (6/28)

Next month, I do expect to read more books.

Books Read: May 2026

So, yeah, another month down. We're all that much closer to death, I suppose. But, while we're waiting to die, we can at least read good books, right? Here are the ones I finished this past month.

I'm not claiming they're all "good," though maybe they were. You always hope they will be when you pick them up.

Links will be added sometime later, once the posts go live.

Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, 1957 to 1958 (5/2)

P.G. Wodehouse, French Leave (5/2)

Jeff Lemire & Teddy Kristiansen, Black Hammer: Spiral City (digital, 5/3)

Justin Feinstein, Your Behavior Will Be Monitored (ARC, 5/3)

Seymour Chwast & Steven Brower, Charlie: Charles Chaplin: The Funniest Man in the World (digital, 5/8)

Zidrou & Jordi Lefebre, Glorious Summers, Vol. 2: The Calanque (digital, 5/9)

Geof Darrow, Shaolin Cowboy: Start Trek (digital, 5/10)

Catana Chetwynd, Still Smitten (digital, 5/16)

Ellin Stein, That's Not Funny, That's Sick (5/16)

Lewis Trondheim & Manu Larcenet, Cosmonauts of the Future, Vol. 2: The Return (digital, 5/17)

Peter Bagge, The Complete Hate, Vol. 1(digital, 5/22)

John Updike, Bech Is Back (in The Complete Henry Bech, 5/22)

Evelyn Waugh, The Holy Places (in Waugh Abroad, 5/22)

Peter & Maria Hoey, The Shadower (digital, 5/23)

Evelyn Waugh, A Tourist in Africa (in Waugh Abroad, 5/23)

Mathieu Sapin, Gérard: Five Years with Depardieu (digital, 5/24)

Joshua Slocum & Jon Buller, Sailing Alone Around the World (digital, 5/25)

David Kantrowitz, Rats, Demons & Dayjobs (digital, 5/30)

Benjamin Black, Christine Falls (5/30)

Xavier Dorison & Ralph Meyer, The Undertaker, 1: The Gold Eater & Dance of the Vultures (digital, 5/31)

In the coming month (which is already this month, since time never stops), I will continue to read books, and probably to blather about them here. If you keep coming back, I don't know what to tell you.

Books Read: April 2026

I am finding it increasingly difficult to believe my calendar. April 2026 just ended? Surely that's a science-fictional year, yes? Whatever month or year it actually is - the empire never ended - here's what I read over the past thirty-one days. I will add links later, once my posts actually go live.

Kenji Tsurata, Captain Momo's Secret Base, Vol. 1 (digital, 4/3)

Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart, Uri Tupka and the Gods (digital, 4/4)

Loïc Clément and Anne Montelk, Days of Sugar and Spice (digital, 4/5)

Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo Book 10: The Brink of Life and Death (digital, 4/11)

Mark Twain, Roughing It (in Library of American omnibus with The Innocents Abroad, 4/11)

Pierre-Henry Gomont, Brain Drain, Part 1 (digital, 4/12)

Raymond Chandler, Playback (in Later Novels & Other Writings, 4/15

Philippe Riche, The Alliance of the Curious, #2: Neandertalensis (digital, 4/17)

Ben Sears, Young Shadow and the Watchdogs (digital, 4/18)

Jordan Crane, Goes Like This (digital, 4/19)

Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre (4/19)

Alexandro Jodorowsky & Mœbius, The Incal, Vol. 4: What Is Above (digital, 4/25)

Hope Larson, Be That Way (4/25)

Lauren Haldeman, Wild That We're Alive (digital, 4/26)

I will read more books in May (May?!). Pretty sure of that, at least.

Books Read: March 2026

Is it really April of 2026? Neither of those things seems plausible. (I also had an AI tool at work confidently tell me it was 2025 several times this past week, which may be adding to my confusion. Maybe 2025 will never end.)

Anyway, assuming a month did just end, and that it was actually March of 2026, here's what I read:

Anders Nilsen, Tongues, Book 1 (3/1)

Peter Kuper, Insectopolis (3/6)

Roy Thomas and P. Craig Russell, Elric: The Dreaming City (digital, 3/7)

Jordi Lafebre, I Am Their Silence (digital, 3/8)

Ian Frazier, Paradise Bronx (3/10)

Doug Savage, Laser Moose and Rabbit Boy: As the Deer Flies (digital, 3/14)

Osamu Tezuka, Tomorrow the Birds (digital, 3/15)

P.G. Wodehouse, The Girl on the Boat (3/15)

Ana Oncina, Just Friends (digital, 3/20)

Max Huffman, Dogtangle (digital, 3/21)

Lavie Tidhar, A Man Lies Dreaming (3/21)

Zabus and Hippolyte, Incredible! (digital, 3/22)

Mike Dawson, Fun Time Omnibus, Vol. One (3/28)

Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 9: Echo of the Assassin (digital, 3/29)

Michael Swanwick, The Universe Box (ARC, 3/31)

In April, if this is April, which I'm not sure I'm convinced of, I will read more books.

Books Read: February 2026

I do this every month: at this point, mostly because I have been doing it every month. I think it's useful, to me at least, as an index. My posts on all of these books have already been written; they'll go live over the next six weeks and I'll eventually add links. (Most likely each month, as I do this post each time and update the previous ones.)

Here's what I read last month.

Manu Larcenet, Ordinary Victories, Vol. 4: Swing That Hammer (digital, 2/1)

Zidrou and Jordi Lefebre, Glorious Summers, Vol. 1: Southbound! (digital, 2/7)

Juan Barrio, Kiosco (digital, 2/8)

Jeff VanderMeer, Acceptance (2/8)

Rick Geary, A Billy the Kid Alphabet (2/13)

Naoki Matayoshi & Shiunsuke Yoshitake, The Neverending Book (ARC, 2/13)

Lewis Trondheim & Nicolas Karamidas, Walt Disney's Donald Duck: Donald's Happiest Adventures (digital, 2/14)

Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson, Vol.3 (digital, 2/15)

Alex Potts, Was That Normal? (digital, 2/16)

Kate Atkinson, Big Sky (2/16)

Manuele Fior, Red Ultramarine (digital, 2/21)

Gregory Hirschak, E Is for Edward (2/22)

Lewis Trondheim & Manu Larcenet, Cosmonauts of the Future, Vol. 1 (digital, 2/22)

Juan Diaz Canales & Junajo Guarnido, Blacksad, Vol. 1: Somewhere Within the Shadows (digital, 2/28)

In March, I plan to read more books.

Books Read: January 2026

During the first, and very cold, month of 2026, I stayed inside a lot and read books. (Spoiler Alert! I do that in all seasons anyway.) Here's what I read; links to my posts will be added later:

Jared Throne, Bridge Planet Nine (digital, 1/1)

Laura Pérez, Nocturnos (digital, 1/3)

P.G. Wodehouse, Pigs Have Wings (1/3)

Philippe Riche, The Alliance of the Curious: #1 Sapiens (digital, 1/4)

Matt Foy and Christopher J. Olson, Mystery Science Theater: A Cultural History (1/4)

Alexandro Jodorowsky and Mœbius, The Incal, Vol. 3: What Lies Beneath (digital, 1/10)

Pornsak Pinchetshote, Jesse Lonergan and Jeff Powell, Man's Best (digital, 1/11)

Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (in Counterfeit Unrealities, 1/11)

Jeff Lemire and Malachi Ward, Black Hammer, Vol. 8: The End (digital, 1/16)

Lawrence Wood, Your Caption Has Been Selected (1/17)

Dave Barry, Class Clown (1/17)

Navied Mahdavian, This Country (1/18)

Matt Wagner and Brennan Wagner, Grendel: Devil's Odyssey (digital, 1/19)

Yasuhiko Nishizawa, The Man Who Died Seven Times (1/19)

Jean Zeid and Emilie Rouge, The Age of Video Games (digital, 1/24)

Caroline Cash, Girl in the World (digital, 1/25)

Peter Bagge, The Complete Neat Stuff (digital, 1/31)

James Thurber, Writings & Drawings (1/31)

I'm writing this right after having added the book I finished on February 1 into my reading notebook, so I can state definitively this time that I continued to read after this point. I expect I will list them here in time, too.

Books Read: December 2025

As always, this is mostly an index, mostly for me, and not-particularly-useful until the posts actually go live and I come back and update this. (And that will be roughly six weeks from now; I'm running about that far ahead.)

René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, Asterix and Cleopatra (12/6)

George O'Connor, Asgardians: Loki (12/7)

Mervyn Peake, Mr. Pye (12/11)

Wiley Miller, The Non Sequitur Guide to Finance (digital, 12/13)

Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell, The Joy of Snacking (digital, 12/14)

Ana Ocina, Croquette & Empanada: A Love Story (digital, 12/20)

James Thurber, The 13 Clocks (in Writings & Drawings, 12/20)

John Allison and Max Sarin, The Great British Bump-Off: Kill or Be Quilt (digital, 12/21)

Jason, Death in Trieste (digital, 12/24)

Jack Vance, Wyst: Alastor 1716 (in Alastor)

Roger Langridge and Ryan Ferrier, Criminy (digital, 12/25)

Jeff Lemire, Fishflies (digital, 12/26)

Edward Welch, ed., Captain Cuttle's Mailbag (12/26)

Sergio Aragonés, Louder Than Words, Actions Speak (digital, 12/27)

Gilbert Hernandez, Lovers and Haters (digital, 12/28)

Evelyn Waugh, Robbery Under Law (in Waugh Abroad, 12/28)

Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima, Lone Wolf & Cub, Vol.8: Chains of Death (digital, 12/29)

Kenji Tsurata, Wandering Island, Vol.2 (digital, 12/30)

Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo, Book 9: Daisho (digital, 12/31)

Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (in Later Novels & Other Writings, 12/31)

I plan to keep reading books in 2026. Not all my plans come true, but I'm pretty sure that one will.

Books Read: November 2025

Here's a list of the books I read in the past month. As always, it's mostly an index, and almost entirely for my own use later. Also, the posts about these books mostly haven't gone live yet, so I'll be updating this later to include those.

Naomi Nowak, Graylight (11/1)

Roy Thomas, Michael T. Gilbert, and George Freeman, Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate (digital., 11/2)

John Sladek, The Muller-Fokker Effect (in SF Gateway Omnibus, 11/2)

Matt Kindt, Tyler Jenkins, and Hilary Jenkins, Apache Delivery Service (11/8)

Doug Savage, Laser Moose and Rabbit Boy: Time Trout (digital, 11/9)

Jack Vance, Marune: Alastor 933 (in Alastor, 11/9)

Ludovic Debeurme, Renée (11/14)

Tom Toro, And to Think We Started as a Book Club... (digital, 11/16)

Richard Wolinksy, ed., Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods! (11/16)

Ulf K., Hieronymus B.: 1997-2007 (11/21)

Bill Griffith, Photographic Memory (digital, 11/22)

Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl, and Roger Langridge, Jim Henson's The Musical Monsters of Turkey Hollow (11/23)

P.G. Compton, The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe (11/23)

Walker Tate, Laser Eye Surgery (digital, 11/27)

Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (in Christmas Books, 11/27)

Jennifer Hayden, Where There's Smoke, There's Dinner (digital, 11/28)

Asher Perlman, Hi, It's Me Again (digital, 11/29)

P.G. Wodehouse, Spring Fever (11/29)

Debbie Tung, My Perfectly Imperfect Body (digital, 11/30)

Loren D. Estleman, Burning Midnight (11/30)

Next month I'm pretty sure I will read more books.

Books Read: October 2025

I do this every month, mostly for myself. This is what I read last month. I'll add links once the posts go live. As usual, I do it largely because I've been doing it for a long time: it's somewhat useful and very familiar, and I guess that's good enough.

Robin Enrico, Life of Vice (10/4)

Art Bathazar & Franco, ArkhaManiacs (10/5)

Brian Doherty, Dirty Pictures (10/5)

Yves Chaland, Freddy Lombard, Vol. 5: F.52 (digital, 10/11)

P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season (10/11)

Matt Kindt & Wilfredo Torrres, Bang! (10/12)

Drew Friedman, All the Presidents (10/18)

Loren D. Estleman, Infernal Angels (10/18)

Séverine Vidal & Kim Consigny, George Sand: True Genius, True Woman (10/19)

Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man (in Complete Novels, 10/19)

Alexandro Jodorowsky & Mœbius, The Incal, Vol. 2: The Luminous Incal (digital, 10/24)

Zach Worton, The Disappearance of Charley Butters (10/25)

James Thurber, The Last Flower (in Writings and Drawings, 10/25)

Manuelle Fior, The Interview (digital, 10/26)

Dino Pai, Dear Beloved Stranger (10/27)

Kim Newman, Something More Than Night (10/27)

In November, I will continue to read books, and, if I'm not hit by a bus, I'll list them here in time.

Books Read: September 2025

I do this every month, and it's boring this time as always before. This is what I read; once the posts go live, I'll add links. I don't know if this is actually as useful as an index to the blog as I say it is, but it's a thing I do consistently, and I'm old and set in my ways enough to be very fond of consistency.

Cathy Malkasian, The Heavy Bright (digital, 9/1)

James Thurber, The Seal in the Bedroom (in Writings and Drawings, 9/1)

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (in Writings and Drawings, 9/1)

Thijs Desmet, Smoking Kills (digital, 9/6)

Tony Millionaire, Drinky Crow Drinks Again (digital, 9/7)

John Updike, Bech: A Book (in The Complete Henry Bech, 9/7)

John Lustig, Last Kiss: Casual Fridays (digital, 9/13)

Roger Langridge and Andy Hirsh, The Baker Street Peculiars (digital, 9/14)

Evelyn Waughh, Waugh in Abyssinia (in Waugh Abroad, 9/14)

Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith, Who Killed Nessie? (digital, 9/20)

Renaud Dilles, Betty Blues (9/21)

Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister (in Later Novels & Other Writings, 9/21)

Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson, Vol. 2 (digital, 9/26)

James Kochalka, Quit Your Job and Other Stories (9/27)

Patrick Wirbeleit and Uwe Heidschötter, Box (9/28)

Next month I will probably read more books.

Books Read: August 2025

This is what I read last month; as always, it's mostly an index to the blog and primarily useful to me  rather than you the home viewer. But there it is:

Richard Sala, Night Drive (digital, 8/2)

Ruth Goodman, How to Be a Victorian (8/2)

Doug Savage, Laser Moose and Rabbit Boy (digital, 8/3)

Mark Chiarello, editor, Wednesday Comics (8/9)

William Goldman, The Princess Bride (8/9)

René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, Asterix the Gladiator (8/10)

Sophie Goldstein, House of Women (digital, 8/16)

Jack Vance, Trullion: Alastor 2262 (in Alastor, 8/16)

Sergio Aragones' Groo: The Hogs of Horder (digital, 8/17)

Jeff Lemire, 10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir (digital, 8/23)

Various, The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide (8/23)

Peter Bagge and Gilbert Hernandez, Yeah! (digital, 8/24)

Ambrose Bierce, In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (in The Devil's Dictionary, Tales & Memoirs, 8/24)

Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima, Lone Wolf & Cub, Vol. 7: Cloud Dragom, Wind Tiger (digital. 8/25)

Carol Lay, Murderburg (digital, 8/26)

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (in Prose and Poetry, 8/26)

Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo, Book 8: Shades of Death (digital, 8/27)

P.G., Wodehouse, The Small Bachelor (8/27)

Kenji Tsuruta, Wandering Island, Vol. 1 (digital, 8/28)

Philippe Riche, Bad Break, Chapter #2 (digital, 8/29)

Loren D. Estleman, The Left-Handed Dollar (8/29)

Michael Sweater, Everything Sucks: Kings of Nothing (digital, 8/30)

Denis-Pierre Filippi & Silvio Camboni, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse and the Amazing Lost Ocean (digital, 8/31)

Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key (in Complete Novels, 8/31)

I plan to keep reading books in the future.

Books Read: July 2025

This is what I read this past month. I post these as indices, mostly for my own benefit later, and add links when the posts go live. Apologies for interrupting your Sunday-morning browsing with such trivia.

Dale Sherman, The Worst We Can Find (7/1)

Alexandro Jodorowski and Mœbius, The Black Incal (digital, 7/4)

Julian Hanshaw, Free Pass (digital, 7/5)

Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (in Novels & Stories, 1963-1973, 7/5)

Manuele Fior, Hypericum (digital, 7/6)

Chris McCoy, Safely Endangered Comics (digital, 7/7)

Evelyn Waugh, Ninety-Two Days (in Waugh Abroad, 7/7)

P. Craig Russell & others, Doctor Strange: What Is It That Disturbs You, Stephen? (digital, 7/12)

Gou Tanabe, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu (digital, 7/13)

Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake (in Later Novels & Other Writings, 7/17)

Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi, Dante's Inferno (digital, 7/19)

Tom Fonder, Business Cat: Hostile Takeovers (digital, 7/20)

P.G. Wodehouse, The Man With Two Left Feet (7/20)

Jaime Hernandez, Life Drawing (digital, 7/25)

Roy Thomas, Michael T. Gilbert, and P. Craig Russell, Elric of Melniboné (digital, 7/26)

Ernie Bushmiller, Nancy Wears Hats (digital, 7/27)

In August, I'm pretty sure I will read more books.

Books Read: June 2025

The monthly index returns again - as always, I really doubt anyone other than me ever looks at these posts. But here's what I read last month:

George O'Connor, Asgardians: Thor (6/1)

Heath Robinson and K.R.G. Browne, How to Be a Motorist (6/5)

Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo, Book 7: Gen's Story (digital, 6/7)

Evelyn Waugh, Scoop (6/7)

Philiipe Riche, Bad Break, Vol. 1 (digital, 6/8)

Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral, The Treasure of the Black Swan (digital, 6/14)

Auston Habershaw, If Wishes Were Retail (6/14)

Cathy Malkasian, Temperance (digital, 6/15)

Frank Conniff, Twenty-Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life in No Way Whatsoever (6/15)

John Lustig, Last Kiss: Sex Day (digital, 6/19)

Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon (in Complete Novels, 6/19)

Daredevil by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson, Vol.1 (digital, 6/20)

Yves Chaland, Freddy Lombard, Vol.4: Holiday in Budapest (digital, 6/21)

Hope Larson and Tintin Pantoja, Who Is AC? (6/22)

Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls (6/22)

Annie Goetzinger, The Provocative Colette (digital, 6/28)

James Albon, Love Languages (digital, 6/29)

Next month there will be more books. And some of the names above will have links added once my posts go live.

Books Read: May 2025

Here's what I read last month; I publish this mostly for myself. If you find it useful, too - hey, that's two of us!

Powerpaola, All My Bicycles (5/2, digital)

Eric Drooker, Naked City (digital, 5/4)

Osamu Tezuka, Shakespeare Manga Theater (digital, 5/9)

Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, Lone Wolf & Cub, Vol. 6: Lanterns for the Dead (digital, 5/10)

Kate Atkinson, Started Early, Took My Dog (5/10)

Axelle Lenoir, What If We Were...2 (digital, 5/11)

Raymond Chandler, The High Window (in Stories & Early Novels, 5/11)

Derek Evernden, Bogart Creek, Vol. 3 (digital, 5/17)

Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz, War and Peas: Hi, Earth (digital, 5/18)

Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers (in Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, 5/18)

Noah Van Sciver, Beat It, Rufus (digital, 5/19)

P.G. Wodehouse, Leave It To Psmith (5/19)

Kris, Rob, Matt & Dave, Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo (digital, 5/24)

William Kotzwinkle, The Midnight Examiner (5/24)

Laura Pérez, Ocultos (digital, 5/25)

Grant Snider, Thinking About Thinking (digital, 5/26)

Martin Millar, The Good Fairies of New York (5/26)

Mia Oberlӓnder, Anna (digital, 5/31)

Jack Vance, The Pnume (in Planet of Adventure, 5/31)

Next month I will read more books: that's my promise to you the home viewer.

Books Read: April 2025

This is the monthly index of the blog, basically - it exists to make the search function more useful (for me, I think) and possibly less useful (for you, assuming you are not me, as you search for something and find both an index and the thing itself).

More prosaically, it's the list of what I read, since Antick Musings long ago turned into a book blog. Links get added later, once the posts go live.

Here's what I read in April:

Michael Avon Oeming, William of Newbury (4/5, digital)

Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (4/5, digital)

Paul Milo, Your Flying Car Awaits (4/6)

Wulff & Morgenthaler, WuMo: Something Is Wrong (4/12, digital)

Thomas McGuane, Something To Be Desired (4/13)

Craig Thompson, Ginseng Roots (4/14, digital proof)

Matthew Klickstein & Rick Geary, Daisy Goes to the Moon (4/19, digital)

John McNamee, Just Act Normal (4/20, digital)

Jack Vance, The Dirdir (4/20, in Planet of Adventure)

Greg & Fake, Santos Sisters, Vol. 1 (4/26, digital)

Kayla E., Precious Rubbish (4/27, digital)

Tim Glynne-Jones, compiler, Witty Comebacks (4/27)

Daria Tessler, Cult of the Ibis (4/28, digital)

Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun (4/28)

Look for a similar post in about a month, covering the stuff I'm reading in May.

Books Read: March 2025

Here's what I read this past month. I list it here mostly as a way to keep track of it for myself; if it helps one other person in the world I suppose that's a bonus. I add links as the posts go live; I'm currently running five to six weeks ahead, so you'll have a bit of a wait.

James Kochalka, Mechaboys (3/1, digital)

Helene Stapinski, Five-Finger Discount (3/1)

J.L. Westover, Mr. Lovenstein Presents: Feelings (3/2, digital)

Jack Vance, Servants of the Wankh (3/2, in Planet of Adventure)

Yves Chaland, Freddy Lombard, Vol. 3: The Comet of Carthage (3/8, digital)

Jaime Hernandez, Queen of the Ring: Wrestling Drawings: 1980-2020 (3/9, digital)

Evelyn Waugh, Remote People (3/9, in Waugh Abroad)

Andrea "Casty" Castellan, Mickey Mouse: Trapped in the Shadow Dimension (3/15, digital)

Mike Mignola, Bowling with Corpses and Other Strange Tales from Lands Unknown (3/16, digital)

Louise Brooks, Lulu in Hollywood (3/16)

Julian Hanshaw, Cloud Hotel (3/22, digital)

Megan Nicole Dong, Sharky Malarky: A Sketchshark Collection (3/23, digital)

David Goodis, Down There (3/23, in Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s)

Brian Michael Bendis and Bill Walko, Fortune & Glory: The Musical (3/28, digital)

P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves (3/28)

Sophie Goldstein and Jenn Jordan, An Embarrassment of Witches (3/29, digital)

Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier, Space Circus (3/30, digital)

Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse (3/30, in Complete Novels)

Carl Hiaasen, Paradise Screwed (3/31)

In April, I'm pretty sure I will read some more books.

Books Read: February 2025

This is basically an index, and it's mostly for my benefit, which is why I bury it on a weekend and usually post it dated in the past. Links will be added once the posts go live; I'm running about 6 weeks ahead at the moment, which is where I like to be.

This is what I read in February:

Axelle Lenoir, What If We Were.... (2/2, digital)

Lucy Knisley, Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair (2/8)

Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely (2/8, in Stories and Early Novels)

Derek Evernden, Bogart Creek, Vol. 2 (2/9, digital)

P.G. Wodehouse, A Prefect's Uncle (2/9)

Vivek J. Tiwary and Andrew C. Robinson, The Fifth Beatle (2/15, digital)

Kris Wilson, Rob Den Blyker, and Dave McElfatrick, Cyanide and Happiness: Twenty Years Wasted (2/16, digital)

Stan Sakai, Usagi Yojimbo, Book 6: Circles (2/17, digital)

Tim Powers, My Brother's Keeper (2/17)

Zach M. Stafford, Good Comics for Bad People (2/22, digital)

Daniel Pinkwater, Jules, Penny, and the Rooster (2/22, bound galleys)

Cathy Malkasian, Percy Gloom (2/23, digital)

Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, Batman: Year One (2/24, digital)

In March, I have continued to read books.

Books Read: January 2025

This is going up late, which is pretty common. I type this on February 24th - almost time for the next month! - but it's purely an index anyway, and one that's basically useless until I publish the posts in another couple of weeks. Anyway, I'm burying it on a weekend a few weeks back, and here's what I read the first month of the year:

Chip Kidd, Only What's Necessary: Charles M. Schulz and the Art of Peanuts (1/1, digital)

A.J. Liebling, The Earl of Louisiana (in The Sweet Science & Other Writings, 1/1)

Mathilde Ramadier and Anais Deponnier, Sartre (1/4, digital)

George O'Connor, Odin (1/5)

Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz, Once Upon a Workday (1/11, digital)

Patricia A. McKillip, The Book of Atrix Wolfe: 30th Anniversary Edition (1/11, bound galleys)

John Hendrix, The Mythmakers (1/12, digital)

Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 5: Black Wind (1/18/ digital)

Stewart O'Nan, Snow Angels (1/18)

Jean "Moebius" Giraud, The Major (1/19, digital)

Michael Sweater, Please Destroy the Internet (1/20, digital)

Jack Vance, City of the Chasch (1/20, in Planet of Adventure)

Carol Lay, My Time Machine (1/25, digital)

Liniers, Macanudo: The Way of the Penguin (1/26, digital)

In February, I have continued to read books, and I'll post a similar list sometime after this month ends - maybe right away, maybe substantially later. We shall see.