A reading list.
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I like to read. Reading offers welcome distraction and allows me some quiet time to explore some other place, some other time, some other way of thinking. It changes my day-to-day perspective, puts me in someone else's shoes and teaches me something new.

Listed below are some of the books — from fiction to nonfiction to graphic novels — that I've recently read and some that are waiting patiently on the bookshelf.*

Currently reading The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin and Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seichō Matsumoto

On the bookshelf

— The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
— This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack
— An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor by Michael Smith
— Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman
— Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
— Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
— Beyond the Sea by Paul Lynch
— Bowie's Books by John O'Connell
— Design is a Job by Mike Monteiro
— Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
— Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
— Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
— Design As Art by Bruno Munari
— The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
— The High Window by Raymond Chandler
— Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson
— Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
— Rusty Brown by Chris Ware
— Tales from the Inner City by Shaun Tan
— Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand
— What Do People Do All Day? by Richard Scarry
— The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
— Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
— Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
— Hey: Design & Illustration by Counter-Print

Recently read

— The Snow Was Dirty by Georges Simenon
— The Shining by Stephen King
— Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
— The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
— Dracula by Bram Stoker
— Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
— M Train by Patti Smith
— Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
— Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
— The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
— Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes & Zosia Dzierzawska
— Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson ★
— Canada by Richard Ford
— That Old Country Music by Kevin Barry
— Stoner by John Williams
— The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
— Paul at Home by Michel Rabagliati
— Americana (and the Art of Getting Over It) by Luke Healy
— Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
— Nobber by Óisin Fagan
— Clyde Fans by Seth ★
— Night Boat to Tangiers by Kevin Barry
— The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman ★
— We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
— We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
— The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John le Carré
— Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
— The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber
— Under the Skin by Michel Faber ★
— Under Major Domo Minor by Patrick deWitt
— High-Rise by JG Ballard
— The Outsider by Albert Camus
— The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
— The Ginger Man by JP Donleavy

Fiction & nonfiction favourites

— Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy ★
— Perfume by Patrick Süskind ★
— The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
— The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
— City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
— Bright's Passage by Josh Ritter
— The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt
— Just Kids by Patti Smith ★
— At the Mountains of Madness by PH Lovecraft
— Dubliners by James Joyce
— The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
— Sutree by Cormac McCarthy
— The Spire by William Golding
— The Castle by Franz Kafka
— A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain
— This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson
— First Love & Other Novellas by Samuel Beckett
— The Snow Lepoard by Peter Matthiessen
— Factotum by Charles Bukowski
— Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer
— For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
— Touching from a Distance by Deborah Curtis

Graphic novel & picture book favourites

— Here by Richard McGuire ★
— Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware ★
— The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
— Moon Man by Tom Gauld
— Two Brothers by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá
— Shoplifter by Michael Cho
— Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
— This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
— Dockwood by Tom McNaught
— Bone by Jeff Smith
— The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III and Dave Stewart
— Cages by Dave McKean ★
— The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and P. Craig Russell
— Richard Stark's Parker: The Hunter by Darwyn Cooke
— Blacksad by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido
— Through The Woods by Emily Carroll
— Hilda and the Black Hound by Luke Pearson
— Irelandopedia by Fatti and John Burke
— Sisters by Raina Telgemeier
— This is Ireland by Miroslav Šašek
— Nightlights by Lorena Alvarez
— Moon Man by Tomi Ungerer

*I'm a slow reader
★ = Highly recommended

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