read 100 books this year

At 48 and on track. The best thing I have read so far this year was Candyfreak by Steve Almond. The worst was Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel

‘Scuse Me While I Whip This Out – Kinky Friedman

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson

Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto

Reflections – Hermann Hesse

Chocolate Lizards – Cole Thompson

I Smell Esther Williams – Mark Leyner

The Cheese Monkeys – Chip Kidd

Syrup – Maxx Barry

Consider the Lobster – David Foster Wallace

Serendipities – Umberto Eco

Up the Amazon Without a Paddle – Doug Lansky

Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaardner

Lisey’s Story – Stephen King

The Physics of Superheroes – James Kakalios

The Sweet Smell of Psychosis – Will Self

Einstein’s Monsters – Martin Amis

The History of Rasselas – Samuel Johnson

Pan – Knut Hamsun

The Fuckup – Arthur Nersesian

A Voyage to Arcturus – David Lindsay

What is the What – David Eggers

Special Topics in Calamity Physics – Marisha Pessl

The Doctor is Sick – Anthony Burgess

The Straight Dope Tells All – Cecil Adams

Like a Hole to the Head – Jen Bradbury

Lizard – Banana Yoshimoto

The Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson

The Prestige – Christopher Priest

Life After God – Douglas Coupland

The Essential Lenny Bruce – Lenny Bruce

The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins

The Boy Detective Fails – Joe Meno

Everything And Nothing – Jorge Luis Borges

A Confederate General From Big Sur – Richard Brautigan

Sadness – Donald Barthelme

A Spot of Bother – Mark Haddon

The Joke’s Over – Ralph Steadman

The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins

The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists – Gideon Dafoe

The Pirates! in an Adventure with Ahab – Gideon Dafoe

A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick

Nothing’s Sacred – Lewis Black

Apathy And Other Small Victories – Paul Neilan

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro

Gonzo Marketing – Christopher Locke

Player of Games – Iain M. Banks

More Ripping Yarns – Micheal Palin & Terry Jones

Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse

Nymphomation – Jeff Noon

Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth

Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov

40 Stories – Donald Barthelme

My Goodness – Joe Queenan

Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse

Stories of Five Decades – Hermann Hesse

Historical Illuminatus I: The Earth Will Shake – Robert Anton Wilson

Historical Illuminatus II: The Widow’s Son – Robert Anton Wilson

Historical Illuminatus III: Nature’s God – Robert Anton Wilson

Amnesia Moon – Jonathan Lethem

The Secret History – Donna Tartt

A Right to be Hostile – Aaron MacGruder

Public Enemy #2 – Aaron MacGruder

An Underacheiver’s Diary – Benjamin Anastas

Fear & Loathing – Paul Perry

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami

Zodiac – Neal Stephenson

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist – Mark Leyner

Logic Bomb – Steve Beard

My Mother: Demonology – Kathy Acker

Now Dig This: The Unspeakable Writings of – Terry Southern

Mind Games – Micheal Powell

How to Cheat Your Friends at Poker – Penn Jillette

The Illuminati Papers – Robert Anton Wilson

The Planets – Dava Sobel

Forbidden Knowledge – Mental Floss

Now, Discover Your Strengths – Clifton

The Colorado Kid – Stephen King

Walking a Literary Labyrinth – Malone

Cell – Stephen King

The Panda’s Thumb – Stephen J Gould

Podcasting Do-It-Yourself – Cochrane

Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman

Vernon God Little – DBC Pierre

Confessions of a Raving Unconfined Nut – Paul Krassner

Jennifer Government – Max Barry

Grendel – John Gardner

Kingdom of Fear – Hunter S. Thompson

Fifty Days of Solitude – Doris Grumbach

The Cyberiad – Stanislaw Lem

A Dirty Job – Christopher Moore

Tenacity of the Cockroach – Onion AV Club

Under the Frog – Tibor Fischer

The New Age – Martin Gardner

Some Freaks – David Mamet

Monty Python & Philosophy – Hardcastle

How to Travel with a Salmon – Umberto Eco

Ella Minnow Pea – Mark Dunn

Kill 2 Birds & Get Stoned – Kinky Friedman

A-Z of Cult Films – Steven Paul Davis

Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster – Bobby Henderson