SUMMER READING:
Here’s What The Contributors To FOG! Are Reading This Summer

At Forces Of Geek, it’s believed that one the best parts of geekdom is introducing someone to something that they didn’t even know existed.  As summer tends to be the season for people everywhere to find a bit more time to read, we thought that it would be interesting to share what we’re reading this summer.

Be sure and leave a comment about what’s on your reading list this summer as well!

Stefan Blitz
editor-in-chief

I’m hoping to catch up on a number of books this summer including (hopefully), the Millennium Trilogy and the Hunger Games series.  Plus, I’m also doing a bunch of research for a planned novel.

Strong Vengeance by Jon Land
Apocalypse on the Set: Nine Disastrous Film Productions by Benjamin Taylor 
Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film by Kendall R. Phillips
Conversations at the American Film Institute with the Great Moviemakers: The Next Generation by George Stevens Jr.
My Life as a Mankiewicz: An Insider’s Journey through Hollywood by Tom Mankiewicz
Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel by Nick Dawson
The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s by Peter Doggett
Fooling Houdini by Alex Stone
Wayne of Gotham by Tracy Hickman
Generation Xbox: How Videogames Invaded Hollywood by Jamie Russell
Replay: The History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan
The Secret History of AA Comics by Bob Rozakis
Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero by Larry Tye 
Talk About Cinema by Jean-Baptiste Thoret
Alpha by Greg Rucka
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Batman Incorporated by Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham
Animal Man Vol. 1: The Hunt by Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman
Various comics, screenplays and magazines

Andrez Bergen
columnist, Flash in Japan

Jackalope by Tony Pacitti
In Loco Parentis by Nigel Bird
The Kingdom of Four Rivers by Guy Salvidge
Seven Wonders by Adam Christopher
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Plus I’ll be re-reading my novel One Hundred Years of Vicissitude once it’s published over summer!

Kyle Jackson
former Entertainment News Editor

Letters to Kurt by Eric Erlandson
Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday by Alex Cox
Cogan’s Trade by George V. Higgins
Let It Blurt: The Life and Times Of Lester Bangs: America’s Greatest Rock Critic by Jim Derogatis
Dog Eat Dog by Edward Bunker
Education of a Felon by Edward Bunker

Steve Ahlquist
columnist, Applied Mythographics

The Hope of Liberation in World Religion by Miguel A De La Torre
The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
Myths to Live By by Joseph Campbell
In the Beginning… Introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism and Taoism by Blaize Clement
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Islam without Extremes by Mustafa Akyol
Living High or Letting Die: Our Illusions of Innocence by Peter Unger
And every Marvel Comic in reading order, starting with Fantastic Four #1

Charles J. Baserap
columnist, Danger Rooms, I Was a Teenage Meteor Freak, Theater of The Absurb

I’ve got a lot on my summer reading list, not even counting the back issues of comics I’ll inevitably dip into during some downtime! Throughout the year, I normally shoot to read 2-3 books a month, schedule permitting, so this summer on my list I have the following awaiting me to get me though the end of August


A Song of Fire and Ice Part V: A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Pragmatism by William James
Random tales from The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Terminal Spy by Alan S. Cowell
The Reivers by William Faulkner

I’m also keeping up with my insane amount of comics.

From Dark Horse: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine, Angel and Faith, the Spike mini series.

From DC: Action Comics, Animal Man, Aquaman, Batgirl, Batman, Batman and Robin, Batman Incorporated, Batman: The Dark Knight, Batwoman, Birds of Prey, Detective Comics, Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child, Earth 2, Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps, Green Lantern: New Guardians, iZombie, Justice League, Justice League Dark, Justice League International, Legion Lost, Legion of Superheroes, Nightwing, Red Lanterns, The Savage Hawkman, Stormwatch, Suicide Squad, Superboy, Supergirl, Superman, Swamp Thing, Teen Titans, The Unwritten, Wonder Woman, Worlds’ Finest.

From Marvel: Age of Apocalypse, Astonishing X-Men, Avengers, Avengers Academy, Avengers Vs. X-Men, Avengers Vs. X-Men: Vs., Captain America, Captain America and Whoever, Captain Marvel, Fantastic Four, FF, Hawkeye, The Invincible Iron Man, Journey Into Mystery, New Avengers, New Mutants, Scarlet, Secret Avengers, SHIELD, The Mighty Thor, Ultimates, Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-Men, Uncanny X-Force, Uncanny X-Men, Winter Soldier, Wolverine, Wolverine and the X-Men, X-Factor, X-Men, X-Men: First X-Men, X-Men: Legacy, X-Treme X-Men.

Salvatore Cucinotta
columnist, The Footprints of Monsters

Codex Alera: First Lord’s Fury by Jim Butcher
Charles R. Knight: The Artist Who Saw Through Time by Richard Milner and Rhoda Knight Kalt
Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures by Theresa Bane

Matt Barry
columnist, The Bad & The Beautiful

The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela Lugosi by Arthur Lennig
Empire of Dreams by Scott Eyman
Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy by Saul Austerlitz
American Silent Film by William K. Everson

Crystal Durant
columnist, DuRant

Since I plan on being super busy with my Rock Star steeze this summer, I won’t have a lot of time to read.  But my best friend Paul Bertolino (he’s a GREAT musician, look him up on Bandcamp – you may know of him, he was the drummer for Persophone’s Bees for 12 years) reads a LOT of books, because he’s a layabout Musician with the time to read, in between writing, singing, and playing.

Brendan O’Connell
Entertainment News Editor

Daniel Dockery
columnist, Don’t Go In The Basement

David Bitterbaum
columnist, The Comic Drawer

First off I’m going to re-read all of Rob Williams run on Daken: Dark Wolverine that had a variety of great artists and now is fully available in 3 various hardcovers with the first book, Big Break out in trade paperback too.

I’m reading many of the BFI Film Classics Books, I’ve enjoyed the ones on Night Of The Living Dead and Citizen Kane and now have ones on The Godfather and The Terminator to read by Jon E. Lewis and Sean French, respectively.

Continuing a movie theme I am reading and hope to finish The Good, The Bad, And The Godawful, by Kurt Loder. He is clever in his reviews even if I don’t always agree.

One more movie book is the new edition of Tales From Development Hell by David Hughes about movies that were never made for all kinds of reasons.

I plan to read my copy of Kramers Ergot 8 finally with its myriad creators involved.

A book about fonts may sound dull, but Just My Type by Simon Garfield is fascinating to me and I am excited to delve into it.

Another book about design in general which is a piece of design and art in and of itself is the book Cult-Ure by Rian Hughes, it looks quite fun.

I’m not a huge manga reader, but I’m planning to do, Pluto in at least some of its volumes by Naoki Urasawa as I’ve heard it is so great.

Joshua W. Cotter makes great tales so I’m excited to go into the pages of, Skyscrapers Of The Midwest.

Back before anyone else had the backbone to tell political jokes about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, David Rees was pointing out in the hilarious, Get Your War On that everything wasn’t going to come up roses. The collection of the strips I got shall bring me a giggle-fit.

Another political book but one that is not funny at all is, We Meant Well” by Peter Van Buren in which he tells his insider account of how things went so badly in Iraq despite good intentions.

I plan to re-read the mini-series Osborn, by writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and artist Emma Rios as it was just so good.

I have had the Ghost Rider Omnibus with writer Jason Aaron where his writing job is just stellar on the series and reading it all in one book is sure to be a treat.

I’ve had many if these for so long but just lacked the time to read them. I may not even get to them all but I hope I do as I have other stuff I’m forgetting I bet too! And I have individual comics, of course, I will have many comics.

Ryan Jackson
former columnist, Welcome to the Thunderhouse

 
Comics:
The New Batman, Inc. by Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham
Before Watchman by various
A re-read of Frank Miller’s Ronin

Books:
Hell & Gone/ Point & Shoot by Duane Swierczynski
Alpha by Greg Rucka
Wild Thing by Josh Bazell
Choke Hold by Christa Faust
The Pack by Jason Starr
The Infernals by John Connolly
The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan

Possibly start a re-read of A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin …

Atlee Greene
columnist, The Pull List

Spider-Men by Brian Michael Bendis (Peter Parker & Miles Morales crossover)
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (I know, I know I’m the last person on Earth to read them)
The Laws of the Ring by Urijah Faber and Tim Keown
Star Wars: Darth Plagueis by James Luceno

Ellen Wadell
columnist, Letters To Hollywood

Deadlocked by Charlene Harris
The Tesseract by Alex Garland
The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
All Terrence Rattigan plays (I hope)
Scarlet by Brian Michael Bendis

Seth Levi
columnist, Maximum Pixels

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro

Emma-Jane Corsan
columnist, Excuse Me While I Geek Out
As well as continuing with The New Avengers (I’m currently on Volume 6 of the hardback collections), I’ll be continuing my single issues of the new 52 All-Star Western, Action Comics and World’s Finest but also catching up on the #1 trade paperbacks of Batman and Animal Man.

A few books I intend to read are The Twelve by Justin Cronin and All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman

I’m also planing on re-reading various novels by Angela Carter, was reminded how awesome her writing is by a friend recently.

Oh also, I regularly read online comics on Hadron Colliderscope, especially looking forward to more Sherbet Lock stories!

Jonathan Ryder
columnist, The History Geek

Given that I’m a known bibliophile with a late June birthday, my actual summer reading list isn’t determined until that point. However, here are a few things I’d like to read:

Third Reich Victorious: Alternate Decisions of World War II edited by Peter G. Tsouras
Changes by Jim Butcher
A Bride Most Begrudging by Deeanne Gist
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Don Roff
former columnist, Clown In The Moonlight

Fated by Scott G. Browne
Sliver by Ira Levin
Cape Fear (The Executioners) by John D. McDonald
The Mousetrap and Other Plays by Agatha Christie
The African Queen by C.L Forrester
The Beach by Alex Garland
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Buckaroo Banzai by Earl Mac Rauch
Rambo: First Blood Part II by David Morrell
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Eddie and the Cruisers by P.F. Kluge
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
Penguin Lost by Andrey Kurkov
Death of a Transvestite/Devil Girls by Edward D. Wood Jr.
The Wrath of God by Jack Higgins
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt
Neither Victim Nor Executioners by Albert Camus
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven
Old School by Tobias Wolff
Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond by Larry McMurtry
Death is a Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury
Hell House by Richard Matheson
Heebie-Jeebies: Volume One by Don Roff (Gee, self-promote much?)

Jonathan Dantzler
columnist, Short Circuits

Dreamsongs: Volume II by George RR Martin.
The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.

Matt Bergin
former columnist, Pop on Pop

As a regular contributor to the annual Book of the Month Club’s Stephen King Desk Calendar, the King’s time travel tome 12/22/63 is at the top of my to-read list.

I’ve also taken advantage of two recent Comixology sales to catch up with large chunks of The Boys and Fables, so reading through those virtual stacks and staying current on the series is a reading priority.

I’m only a few chapters into my good friend Myke Cole’s debut novel Shadow Ops: Control Point, an awesome kickoff to a planned series just begging for multimedia spinoffs.

My own serialized high school-based adventure Project Genesis is going to be just as exciting for me to read as I hope it will be for you. Keeping things fresh and fluid week to week and welcoming reader feedback has me in suspense about what I’ll write next. Visit Roots2Words.com for more on the project.

Christy Gibbs
columnist, Otaku Lounge 

This summer I’ll be heading to Japan and with a very restricted weight limit, I won’t be able to take any books with me. That being the case, before I leave New Zealand I’ll be re-reading some of my very favourite titles.

The Name of the Wind and its sequel Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (unequivocally my 2 favourite books of all time).

The Sevenwaters Trilogy (Daughter of the Forest, Son of the Shadows, and Child of the Prophecy) by Juliet Marillier.

The Modern Faerie Tales series (Tithe, Valiant, and Ironside) by Holly Black.

The Tales of the Otori trilogy (Across the Nightingale Floor, Grass for his Pillow, and Brilliance of the Moon) by Lian Hearn.

Other than that, this summer I expect I’ll be reading an awful lot of Japanese language textbooks, and probably a heap of manga to try and get my hiragana and katakana reading skills up the scratch.

John P. McCann
columnist, Reviews of Films I Have Never Seen

This summer I plan on reading:

Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears
A Life in Letters: The Essential Collection of Thomas Merton edited by William H. Shannon and Christine M. Bochen
Issues 65 and 66 of Cemetery Dance – The Magazine of Horror and Suspense

Alex C. Telander
book news editor, and columnist, Book Banter 

Okay, here’s what I’m hoping to/planning on reading once they get released:

In One Person by John Irving
The Mongoliad by Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, Mark Teppo, and Erik Bear
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Earth Remembered by Alastair Reynolds
Existence by David Brin
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Telegraph Road by Michael Chabon

Rich Redman
columnist, Damning With Faint Praise

I plan to finish reading The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway, and then I want to read Angelmaker by the same author.

I would love to read another Patrick Lee book. I hear that Deep Sky, the final book of his Anomaly trilogy, is out, so I’ll have to look for it.

Supposedly, the next book in Charles Stross’ The Laundry series, The Apocalypse Codex, is coming out this year. When it does, I must read it. It’s a moral imperative.

Harry Connolly says there won’t be any more Twenty Palaces novels for “awhile,” but if you haven’t read the first four, you should.

Clay N. Ferno
former columnist, Jumping On Point

My Summer will be filled with reading Night Of the Owls Event kicked off by Scott Snyder in the Batman Books in the New 52. Also, in between panels I’ll be catching up and finishing the 8 Volume graphic novel series of BUDDHA by Osamu Tezuka (Astro Boy).

Mark Wensel
columnist, My Top 5

Finish my James Bond project. I only have four more books in the original Ian Fleming series to go and I’ve been reviewing them on my own website in conjunction with the movies. Been working on it WAY too long to not be finished by now.

Game Of Thrones by George RR Martin–although this is contingent on finding the damn thing at a used book store…and actually being able to finish it in one summer. I’m not really that fast of a reader.

All the Kurt Vonnegut I can get my hands on. I just recently (like, in the last two weeks) started reading his stuff and I love it. Of course. I want to read more. Those I HAVE been able to find used, so this one’s easy.

That’s really it. Hopefully I get some of this done. We’ll see.

Todd Sokolove
columnist, Don’t You Forget About Me, In Defense Of, Netfix

Top of the Rock by Warren Littlefield
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Lawson
Kirby: King of Comics by Mark Evanier
Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem

Bill Machon
Columnist, Welcome To The Future

Game of Thrones (all) by George RR Martin
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card
The Queen’s Conjurer: The Science and Magic of Dr. John Dee, Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I by Benjamin Woolley

Steven Segal 
columnist, Geek Spasm

Having recently visited New Orleans for the first time, I’m looking forward to reading A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, which somebody is finally attempting to adapt into a movie.

In celebration of James Bond’s 50th Anniversary, I’m keen to revisit Ian Fleming’s original 007 novels, particularly the so-called “Blofeld trilogy” of Thunderball, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice.

I’m very curious to read Skagboys, Irvine Welsh’s long-gestating prequel to Trainspotting.

Damned by Chuck Palahniuk sounds like a twisted hoot. I’ve slagged off my Palahniuk reading lately, so perhaps I can squeeze in Tell-All  as well, which sounds equally deranged.

Believe it or not, I’ve never read a word of any of the Harry Potter books, despite my affinity for the movies. I’d like to finally find out what all the fuss over J.K Rowling’s spry turn of phrase is all about. Year Three (The Prisoner of Azkaban) is my favorite of the film series, so I’ll start there.

Jenn Kearby
upcoming columnist

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Let’s Pretend This Never Happened (A Mostly True Memoir) by Jenny Lawson
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life by Charles J. Shields

Elizabeth Weitz
managing editor / columnist, Sweet Nostalgia

My summer Reading List is all about my youth.

To celebrate the fact that I am going to my 20-year High School reunion this July, I plan on re-reading all the books that my mother bought me to keep me from embarrassing her at the PTA meetings with any abnormal and non-suburban behavior.

She probably would have been better off just talking to me:

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (drug use is bad)

Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis (again, drug use is bad)

The Chocolate War by Robert Corimer (being an individual is good…although she forgot all about this one when I shaved the sides of my head and dyed my hair candy apple red).

Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume (puberty and boobs…thanks mom)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask by David R. Ruben (This was a lesson in what could actually be inserted into various orifices, sex for pay and other aspects of sexuality that a sixteen-year-old should never have to know about sober).


Annie on My Mind by  Nancy Garden (YA lesbian fiction. Mom got this confused with Go Ask Alice and it has been my pleasure to remind her of her attempt to indoctrinate me into an alternative lifestyle ever since).

Jason Edwards
columnist, Before We Cared, Then What Happened

Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture by Daniel Radosh
Emperor Mollusk versus the Sinister Brain by A. Lee Martinez
Fifty-to-One by Charles Ardai
The Wind Through the Key-Hole by Stephen King
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Given Day by Dennis Lehane
Cerebus by Dave Sim

(The last three are books or series that I have started reading at various points–the earliest being when I was 17 years old–that I’d like to finally finish this summer.

I also have a half-formed notion that I’m going to start in on Robert Caro’s never-ending biography of Lyndon Johnson with The Path to Power, but it’s unlikely that I will get around to that.)

Robert Jaz
columnist, The Mystery Box

The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You to Read! by Jim Trombetta and R.L. Stine
The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography by Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter
The Eurospy Guide by Matt Blake and David Deal
Godzilla and Godzilla Legends from IDW Publishing
Reset by Peter Bagge
Men Of Tomorrow – Geeks, Gangsters and The Birth of The Comic Book by Gerard Jones
Space Is The Place – The Life and Times of Sun Ra by John Szwed
Kirby: King of Comics by Mark Evanier and Neil Gaiman

Mike Calahan
columnist, General Pop Culture, Mouse Trap
For some, it’s the beach, the outdoor activities, the vacation that define summer. For me, it is the alien Conservative ideals, a presidential assassination and America’s first serial killer that will take up my lazy days of summer.

The Reactionary Mind by Corey Robin
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Devil In The White City by Erik Larson

Marvin C. Pittman
columnist, Blerd Vision

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars books: I bought an anthology of A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars. After seeing the John Carter movie, I thought I owed it to myself to get down with the source material.

The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle: It’s all 37 short stories and a novel as they appeared in The Strand when first published. I haven’t read many of these. Also, Connecticut is home to William Gillette, a stage actor of the early 20th century who popularized Holmes on stage and came up with things such as Holmes wearing the deerstalker hat, using a gooseneck pipe and the catchphrase “Elementary, my dear Watson.” He designed and built a castle for himself in Connecticut overlooking a river and with a private 1/4-scale train. He could have been Batman.

Under Current Conditions by Kyle Darcy: Released last year, it follows an Irish-immigrant engineer in the Boston area who gets mixed up in some industrial espionage, kidnapping, FBI stings and murder. It’s based on true events. I met Darcy at the bookstore in town. Awfully nice man, and his book’s a good read so far.

How To Be Black by Baratunde Thurston: I know Baratunde, of The Onion and “PopSci’s The Future Of” fame, from our Harvard days. He fits into the ever-growing blerderati discussing and dissecting their experiences as black nerds. I know this book will be hilarious.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling: What’s not to love about this woman? Her new sitcom looks funny as hell.

Bossypants by Tina Fey: Everyone else has read it, and so can I. Plus I always give love to my Philly-area celebrities. Her cuttingly sarcastic humor always screamed Philly to me.

Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse: Lovely graphic novel, and I met Cruse at an event last year and got a new, signed hardcover.

Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow: Heard awesome things about this modern-day werewolf yarn. As a kid, lycanthropes were my favorite. I used to take books on the occult out of my Catholic elementary school library and spend afternoons reading about how men would draw pentagram circles under moonlight and shape-shift.

Snark by David Denby: I do have a degree in language, after all. And maybe this will shed a light into our current irony-wrapped culture of Internet/cable news game of nana-nana-boo-boo.

Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America by Eugene Robinson: We’re at an interesting crossroads of racial politics and identity in this country, and I look forward to seeing where I fit in this analysis.

In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson: The man behind The Devil in the White City put this book out last year, and my copy is still sitting on the shelf. Time to break out this arresting, true account of America’s ambassador to Germany that gets caught up in the Nazi regime. I love World War II stuff almost as much as I love Batman.

Krystin Burtt
Los Angeles correspondent

My summer reading list:

For Fun:
Mindy Kaling’s Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

For My Inner Geek:
What You See In the Dark by Manuel Muñoz a novel about the filming of Psycho and a murder that happens off-screen.

For Work:
50 Shades of Grey by E.L. James
(I swear it’s for work……I have to talk about it on my Cocktails and Conversation appearances this summer.)

Ryan Ferrier
former columnist, Quietly Judging You

I’m pretty much exclusively reading comics lately (no time for books, Dr. Jones), so here’s my pull list for the next while:

Morning Glories, Hell Yeah, Saga, The Manhattan Projects, Peter Panzerfaust, Rebel Blood, Debris, Fatale, The Shadow, Near Death, Glory, Prophet, America’s Got Powers, Grim Leaper, The Activity, Dancer, Danger Club, Daredevil, Winter Soldier, Batman Inc.

Dean Galanis
contributor

All Those Memories by Rutger Hauer
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Not Bad For a Human by Lance Henriksen
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (never read it)
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Darwin (ditto)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Revenge of the Manitou by Graham Masterson (just read the first one on a plane)
A Thin Dark Line by Tami Hoag (halfway thru it)
Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween by David J. Skal
Spider-Man: Reign by Kaare Andrews with Jose Villarrubia
and possibly The Hunger Games…but we’ll see….