2023 Reading List

This is the first of these I've done on this blog since starting it almost 5 years ago. To experience both writer's block AND reader's block for close to 4 years is...well, it causes certain strains on the mental. Especially when both are so tied to who you are as a person. 

I started with baby steps, using graphic novels as a kind of crutch. Not that they are lowly reading, or that there's something wrong with them, only that I know I needed to begin with formats that weren't just pure walls of text. My brain needed other ways into the narratives, and the accompanying illustrations helped dislodge me and made the reading easier. It wasn't until October, however, that I was finally able to devour some text-only books. I also started REALLY writing again. 

Anyway, another hard year down. I'm going into 2024 with zero expectations as I am often let down by what actually ends up happening in reality. I'm not even doing a year in lessons post; the lessons are too many and I think I'm failing them all regardless. 

Love hard, love often, and be good to each other. 

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JANUARY (26 Books | 4,758 pgs)

01.) Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins I & II Collection (Graphic Novel, 320pgs)

02.) Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins III (Graphic Novel, 152 pgs)

03.) The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel, 200 pgs)

04.) Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel, 128 pgs)

05.) Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 2 (Graphic Novel, 144 pgs)

06.) Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 3 (Graphic Novel, 144 pgs)

07.) Keeper Tips: Collected Wisdom on Running Games (Nonfiction, 113 pgs)

08.) Cthulhu Tales Omnibus: Delirium (Graphic Novel, 224 pgs)

09.) Kafka (Graphic Novel, 3176 pgs)

10.) At the Mountains of Madness, Vol. I (Illustrated Fiction, 64 pgs)

11.) At the Mountains of Madness, Vol. II (Illustrated Fiction, 64 pgs)

12.) Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4 (Graphic Novel, 144 pgs)

13.) Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 5 (Graphic Novel, 144 pgs)

14.) Locke & Key (#6.5): The Golden Age (Graphic Novel, 264 pgs)

15.) Locke & Key (#1): Welcome to Lovecraft (Graphic Novel, 168 pgs)

16.) Locke & Key (#2): Head Games (Graphic Novel, 160 pgs)

17.) Locke & Key (#3): Crown of Shadows (Graphic Novel, 152 pgs)

18.) Locke & Key (#4): Keys to the Kingdom (Graphic Novel, 152 pgs)

19.) Locke & Key (#5): Clockworks (Graphic Novel, 160 pgs)

20.) Locke & Key (#6): Alpha & Omega (Graphic Novel, 192 pgs)

21.) House of Slaughter Vol. 1: The Butcher's Mark (Graphic Novel, 144 pgs)

22.) House of Slaughter Vol. 2: Scarlet (Graphic Novel, 144 pgs)

23.) Critical Role | Tales of Exandria: The Bright Queen (Graphic Novel, 120 pgs)

23.) Critical Role | The Mighty Nein Origins: Yasha Nydoorin (Graphic Novel, 56 pgs)

23.) Critical Role | The Mighty Nein Origins: Caleb Widogast (Graphic Novel, 56 pgs)

23.) Critical Role | The Mighty Nein Origins: Jester Lavorre (Graphic Novel, 56 pgs)

FEBRUARY (11 books | 3,151 pgs)

27.) Critical Role | The Mighty Nein Origins: Fjord Stone (Graphic Novel, 56 pgs)

28.) Critical Role | The Mighty Nein Origins: Nott the Brave (Graphic Novel, 56 pgs)

29.) Providence by Alan Moore (Graphic Novel, 480 pgs)

30.) Mork Borg by Pelle Nilsson & Johan Nohr (System Manual, 88 pgs)

31.) Pirate Borg by Luke Stratton (System Manual, 167 pgs)

32.) True Detective and Philosophy: A Deeper Kind of Darkness (Nonfiction, 224 pgs)

33.) The Wicked + The Divine Deluxe Edition: Year One (Graphic Novel, 400 pgs)

34.) The Wicked + The Divine Deluxe Edition: Year Two (Graphic Novel, 400 pgs)

35.) The Wicked + The Divine Deluxe Edition: Year Three (Graphic Novel, 400 pgs)

36.) The Wicked + The Divine Deluxe Edition: Year Four (Graphic Novel, 680 pgs)

37.) The Wicked + The Divine Deluxe Edition: Year Four, Pt. II (Graphic Novel, 200 pgs)

MARCH (2 books | 1,544 pgs)

38.) House of M Omnibus (Graphic Novel, 1,368 pgs)

39.) The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2 (Graphic Novel, 176 pgs)

APRIL (3 books | 1,193 pgs)

40.) The Stygian Library (System Manual, 161 pgs)

41.) The New Mutants Epic Collection, Vol. 7: Cable (Graphic Novel, 496 pgs)

42.) Joe Golem: Occult Detective Omnibus (Graphic Novel, 536 pgs)

MAY (0 books | 0 pgs)

(N/A)

JUNE (2 books | 200 pgs)

43.) Critical Role | The Mighty Nein Origins: Mollymauk Tealeaf (Graphic Novel, 56 pgs)

44.) Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 6 (Graphic Novel, 144 pgs)

JULY (0 books | 0 pgs)

(N/A)

AUGUST (1 book | 169 pgs)

45.) The Happiest Apocalypse on Earth (System Manual, 169 pgs)

SEPTEMBER (1 book | 52 pgs)

46.) Mesmerism, Unveiled! (1885 Reprint, 52 pgs)

OCTOBER (5 books | 972 pgs)

47.) The Goetia Hymns (Religious Text, 259 pgs)

48.) Dreamhounds of Paris (System Manual, 160 pgs)

49.) Gyo by Junji Ito (Graphic Novel, 398 pgs)

50.) Farsickness by Joshua Mohr (Fiction, 140 pgs)

51.) The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Fiction, 15 pgs)

NOVEMBER (9 books | 3,519 pgs)

52.) The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin (Nonfiction, 406 pgs)

53.) The Dunwich Horror by Francois Baranger (Illustrated Fiction, 56 pgs)

54.) Uzumaki by Junji Ito (Graphic Novel, 653 pgs)

55.) Die by Kieron Gillen (Graphic Novel, 656 pgs)

56.) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Omnibus (Graphic Novel, 416 pgs)

57.) The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories by Tim Burton (Fiction, 115 pgs)

58.) Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib (Nonfiction, 207 pgs)

59.) Tomie by Junji Ito (Graphic Novel, 750 pgs)

60.) The Resound Fields by Donald Scribe Ross (Graphic Novel, 260 pgs)

DECEMBER (1 books | 382 pgs)

61.) Under a Black Rainbow (Fiction, 382 pgs)

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Total Books Read: 61

Total Pages Read: 15,940

(9,138)