This is not a ‘best books of 2012’ list, and I have neither the time nor the inclination to review or comment on the books listed here (other than those I’ve written reviews for or otherwise commented on, and those reviews can be found here and there and wherever). I spend enough of my life reviewing stuff and spouting opinion: I read for pleasure and research and reference and sometimes purely to learn. Some of the books I read during 2012 were books I had read before (Bukowski’s Post Office and Cunt by Stewart Home) and some of the books I read I enjoyed more than others. Many of them have informed my own writing in one way or another, or may do so in the future. The order they’re listed in is the order I read them in. So here it is, just because: my year in books. Nothing more – but nothing less.
Henry Sutton – Get Me Out of Here!
Adam Kotsko – Awkwardness
Jurek Becker – Sleepless Days
Alain Robbe-Grillet – The Voyeur
Marek Hlasko – Killing the 2nd Dog / The 8th Day of the Week
Various – A Dream of Stone and Other Stories
J G Ballard – Cocaine Nights
Chuck Palahniuk – Survivor
Henry Sutton – Bank Holiday Monday
Ian Price – The Activity Illusion
Carl Weissner – Death in Paris
J G Ballard – The Crystal World
Harry Harrison – Homeworld
John Steinbeck – Tortilla Flats
J G Ballard – The Unlimited Dream Company
Terry Taylor – Baron’s Court, All Change
Alain Robbe-Grillet – Repetition
Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer – The Dialectic of Enlightenment
Malcolm Mc Neill – The Lost Art of Ah Pook is Here: Images from the Graphic Novel
Malcolm Mc Neill – Observed While Falling: Bill Burroughs, Ah Pook and Me
Supervert – Necrophilia Variations
Colin Wilson – Adrift in Soho
Dire McCain – Raising McCain
Steve Urwin – Tightrope Walker
Charles Bukowski – Post Office
Roger Protz – 300 Beers to Try Before You Die!
Stewart Home – Cunt
Carl Cederstrom and Peter Fleming – Dead Man Working
Karl van Cleave – Incisions, Collisions and Aborted Missions
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