1990s Books
For many of these, the dates I read them are approximate.
| Title | Author | Date Finished | Rating | Publisher | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas | Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Joe R. Lansdale | 1999/01/01 | 5 | Vertigo, 1996 | |
| Preacher, Volume 2: Until the End of the World | Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon | 1999/01/01 | 5 | Vertigo, 1997 | |
| Preacher, Volume 7: Salvation | Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon | 1999/01/01 | 5 | Vertigo, 1999 | |
| Preacher, Volume 4: Ancient History | Garth Ennis, Steve Dillon, Steve Pugh, Matt Hollingsworth, Carlos Ezquerra, Richard Case | 1999/01/01 | 5 | Vertigo, 1998 | |
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 | Alan Moore | 1999/01/01 | 4 | America’s Best Comics, 2002 | |
| Cthulhu 2000: Stories | Jim Turner, Gahan Wilson, Bruce Sterling, T.E.D. Klein, Esther M. Friesner, Thomas Ligotti, James P. Blaylock, Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, F. Paul Wilson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Basil Copper, Poppy Z. Brite, Fred Chappell, Michael Shea, Kim Newman, Joanna Russ | 1999/01/01 | 4 | Del Rey, 1999 | WAAAAAAY better than it has any right or need to be. My fave pieces are by Zelazny, Copper, and the humorous piece by Friesner. |
| The Starry Wisdom | D.M. Mitchell, Alan Moore, Ramsey Campbell | 1999/01/01 | 5 | Creation Books, 2003 | Stories by Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, William S. Burroughs, Michael Gira of the Swans, and many many others. It’s probably the sickest collection of Lovecraft-inspired stories I’ve read, and it’s great. |
| From Hell | Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell | 1998/01/10 | 5 | Top Shelf Productions, 2004 | Takes one of MANY theories about Jack the Ripper and transforms it into a chaotic, delirious story about consciousness, class, and magic. Plus, Moore annotates the whole thing, so all you fact-checkers (like me) can follow up on source material. The version I have concludes with a great comic/essay about the history of ripper-ology, and is both funny, and a good read. |
| The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare | G.K. Chesterton, Jonathan Lethem, José Laurênio de Mello | 1998/01/01 | 0 | Modern Library, 2001 | |
| The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5) | Douglas Adams | 1998/01/01 | 4 | Del Rey Books, 2002 | |
| The Sandman Companion | Hy Bender, Neil Gaiman | 1998/01/01 | 4 | DC Comics, 1999 | |
| Foucault’s Pendulum | Umberto Eco, William Weaver | 1998/01/01 | 5 | Mariner Books, 2007 | A critique of post-modern history, wrapped in one hell of a funny historical mystery. Taught me critical theory before I knew what that was. |
| Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag | Henry Rollins | 1998/01/01 | 5 | 2.13.61, 2004 | |
| Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1) | Gregory Maguire, Douglas Smith | 1997/07/30 | 4 | ReganBooks, 2000 | |
| The Kobayashi Maru (Star Trek: The Original Series, #47) | Julia Ecklar | 1997/01/01 | 3 | Pocket Books, 1989 | |
| House of Leaves | Mark Z. Danielewski | 1997/01/01 | 5 | Pantheon Books, 2000 | The only book I’ve read in recent memory to actually scare the shit out of me. |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 1997/01/01 | 5 | New American Library, 1950 | |
| The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death | H.P. Lovecraft, Neil Gaiman | 1997/01/01 | 5 | Del Rey, 2003 | |
| The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness | H.P. Lovecraft, John Jude Palencar, Barbara Hambly | 1997/01/01 | 5 | Del Rey, 1996 | |
| The Sandman Vol. 2: The Doll’s House | Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli, Steve Parkhouse, Todd Klein, Clive Barker | 1997/01/01 | 4 | Vertigo, 1999 | |
| Brief Lives (The Sandman, #7) | Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson, Vince Locke, Peter Straub, Dick Giordano | 1997/01/01 | 5 | Vertigo, 1995 | |
| Steppenwolf | Hermann Hesse, Basil Creighton | 1997/01/01 | 3 | Penguin, 1999 | |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | 1997/01/01 | 5 | Scribner, 1925 | |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff | 1997/01/01 | 3 | Signet Book, 1996 | Made a lot of sense when I was 16. Now, not so much… actually, it just kind of pisses me off. |
| The Long Hard Road Out of Hell | Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss | 1997/01/01 | 3 | ReganBooks, 1999 | |
| Watchmen (Watchmen, #1-12) | Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins | 1997/01/01 | 5 | DC Comics, 2005 | Not sure what to say…. it’s canon, at this point. If you know or care anything about the role of superheroes in 20th century western culture, you should read this. Even if you don’t, it’s a great story about authority, power, fate, and responsibility, and contains the best writing and art the format (comics) has to offer. |
| Stranger in a Strange Land | Robert A. Heinlein, James Warhola | 1997/01/01 | 4 | Ace, 1991 | |
| Candide | Voltaire, Rockwell Kent, Walter Jerrold, Don Hagen, Sara Gioacchino Corcos | 1996/01/01 | 0 | Dover Publications, 1991 | |
| The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre | H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, Robert Bloch | 1996/01/01 | 5 | Ballantine Books, 2002 | |
| The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, E.W. Kemble, John Seelye, Walter Trier, Tom Wilson, William Little Hughes | 1996/01/01 | 3 | Penguin Classics, 2002 | |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | 1996/01/01 | 5 | Penguin Books , 1999 | |
| The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1995/01/01 | 3 | Back Bay Books, 2001 | |
| Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1995/01/01 | 4 | Penguin Books, 2002 | |
| I, the Jury (Mike Hammer, #1) | Mickey Spillane | 1994/01/01 | 0 | Signet, 1975 | |
| No One Here Gets Out Alive | Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugerman | 1994/01/01 | 4 | Grand Central Publishing, 2006 | |
| The Name of the Rose | Umberto Eco, William Weaver | 1993/01/01 | 5 | Warner Books, 1984 | “"”…comely as Jersalem, terrible as an army with banners.""" |
| Lioness Rampant (Song of the Lioness, #4) | Tamora Pierce | 1993/01/01 | 3 | Simon Pulse, 2005 | |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell, Chris Mould, Αύγουστος Κορτώ, Boris Grabnar, Celâl Üster, Николай Николов, Κυριάκος Ντελόπουλος, Peter Škerl, Pau Masiques, José Manuel Moreno Cidoncha, Τζωρτζ Όργουελ, Celâl Üstüner | 1992/01/01 | 5 | NAL, 2003 | |
| The Woman Who Rides Like a Man (Song of the Lioness, #3) | Tamora Pierce | 1992/01/01 | 3 | Simon Pulse, 2005 | |
| In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2) | Tamora Pierce | 1992/01/01 | 3 | Simon Pulse, 2005 | |
| Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1) | Tamora Pierce | 1992/01/01 | 4 | Simon Pulse, 2005 | |
| I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) | Isaac Asimov | 1991/01/01 | 4 | Bantam Books, 2004 | |
| Nighty-Nightmare (Bunnicula, #4) | James Howe, Leslie Morrill | 1990/01/01 | 4 | Aladdin, 1997 | |
| The Celery Stalks at Midnight (Bunnicula, #3) | James Howe, Leslie H. Morrill | 1990/01/01 | 4 | Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006 | |
| Howliday Inn (Bunnicula, #2) | James Howe, Lynn Munsinger | 1990/01/01 | 4 | Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006 | |
| Bunnicula (Bunnicula, #1) | Deborah Howe, James Howe, Victor Garber, Alan Daniel | 1990/01/01 | 5 | GREAT SOURCE, 2010 | |
| The Hobbit (The Lord of the Rings, #0) | J.R.R. Tolkien, Douglas A. Anderson, Michael Hague, Jemima Catlin | 1988/01/01 | 5 | Houghton Mifflin, 2002 | |
| The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) | J.R.R. Tolkien, Francis Ledoux, Maria Skibniewska | 1988/01/01 | 5 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003 | |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies | Jared Diamond | 1999/06/01 | 0 | W.W. Norton & Company, 2005 | |
| The Sound and the Fury | William Faulkner | 1998/01/01 | 0 | Vintage International, 1990 | |
| Atlas Shrugged | Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff | 1998/01/01 | 0 | Plume, 1999 | |
| The Secret History of Rock: The Most Influential Bands You’ve Never Heard | Roni Sarig, Sylvia Warren, Ebet Roberts | 1998/01/01 | 5 | Watson-Guptill Publications, 1998 | |
| A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess, Κώστας Γαλανόπουλος | 1996/01/01 | 0 | W. W. Norton & Company, 1986 | |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. | 1996/01/01 | 0 | Dial Press, 1999 | |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Nina Baym | 1995/01/01 | 0 | Penguin Books, 2003 | |
| On the Road | Jack Kerouac | 1995/01/01 | 0 | Penguin Books, 1976 | |
| Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) | Anne Rice | 1994/01/01 | 0 | Ballantine Books, 2004 | |
| It | Stephen King | 1993/01/01 | 0 | New English Library, 1987 |
