State of the Art
by Pauline Kael

Sputnik Sweetheart

South of the Border, West of the Sun

and

Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami

Burma Chronicles
by Guy Delisle

D&Q Showcase #5
-great

Jamilti and other stories
by Rutu Modan

The Explainers (complete Village Voice strips 1956-1966)
by Jules Feiffer

picked up two books on a whim while cruising the Humanities Dept. at the library (they have an awesome fiction selection thanks to Sean P.):

The Adventures of Maqroll: four novellas by Alvaro Mutis (totally blew me away, so I checked out his site on Club Cultura (http://www.clubcultura.com/clubliteratura/clubescritores/mutis/) and based on his "recommended titles" started reading "Remembrance of things Past")

and

Wellsprings, essays by Mario Vargas Llosa

which led me to finally read

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (read in White River Junction, VT while visiting the Center for Cartoon Studies)

also while there read

Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (borrowed from the Schultz library)

while in San Francisco this past week read

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (I'm counting each part separately in an attempt to read as many books if not more than Kevin)

The Savage Detectives
by Roberto Bolano
-really great.

Maakies with the Wrinkled Knees
by Tony Millionaire

Little Lulu Vol: 15

A Personal Matter
by Kenzaburo Oe

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
by Haruki Murakami

Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters; and, Seymour, and Introduction
by J.D. Salinger

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
by Vladimir Nabakov

A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf

working through Selected Essays of Montaigne
trans. by Donald Frame

I Am a Strange Loop
by Douglas Hofstadter

Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter

Little Lulu Vol. 14
by John Stanley and Irving Tripp
(also have read Vol. 1-13)

The Intuitionist
by Colson Whitehead

Death Note Vols. 4-8

What It Is
by Lynda Barry

Death Note Vols. 1-4
by Tsugumi Ohba

Best Essays 2004
ed. Louis Menand

Bottomless Belly Button
by Dash Shaw

After Dark
by Haruki Murakami

Adventures of Tintin Vol. 4
-I'm reading this for the first time, trying to study the storytelling style and decide what the deal is...and finding the stories really tiresome reading–the coincidences, the lame humor. "Prisoners of the Sun" was particularly awful.

Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan

I picked this up after I read a favorable review (which I only read because I liked the title) of his latest book, "Life and Death are Wearing Me Out." I couldn't get that one right away so this is an older book of his short stories, kind of hit and miss but I really liked the title story ("Shifu etc."), "Man and Beast," and "Abandoned Child." Here's a sample: "Just then, gusts of wind made the coarse sunflower leaves rustle coarsely as they brushed my head and face and, at the same time, rubbed against my pitted heart like sandpaper."

The Wu-Tang Manual
by RZA, etc.

Consider the Lobster
by David Foster Wallace

Sorry, I'm a bit behind:

Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann
Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard
Trust Me: Short Stories by John Updike
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R.Saks

Scott Pilgrim Vol: 4
by Bryan Lee O' Malley

The Uses of Argument
by Stephen E. Toulmin
(skimmed)

Cat Speak
by Bash Dibra
(skimmed, not recommended)

Melville's Letters in Norton Moby-Dick
and The Indispensible Melville
ed. Jay Leyda

Adventures of Tintin Volume 3
(read it all, finally.)

365 Days: A Diary
by Julie Doucet
(read it all! great drawings.)

Who Hates Whom: Well-Armed Fanatics, Intractable Conflicts, and Various Things Blowing Up. A Woefully Incomplete Guide
by Bob Harris
-The jokes can seem kind of inappropriate, but I admit they're pretty good jokes.

Ready for Anything
by David Allen

Best American Essays 2007
ed. David Foster Wallace

Moby Dick; or, The Whale
by Herman Melville
!!!!

Kill All Your Darlings
by Luc Sante

In the Blink of an Eye
by Walter Murch

Brainiac: Adventures in the Curious, Competitive, Compulsive World of Trivia Buffs
by Ken Jennings
Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking
by Eric Lax

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky)

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
and
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

I miss Fafblog.
update:
It's back!

The Braindead Megaphone
by George Saunders
Recommended.
(finished this about a week ago)

Born Standing Up
Steve Martin

Estrella Distante and
Nocturno de Chile
by Roberto Bolaño

The Owl Service and
The Stone Book
by Alan Garner

The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud

Essays
by William James
(and this completes the two Library of America volumes of James' Writings)
(really enjoyed this)