2026

So far I’ve read 17 fiction books, 2 non-fiction books, 84 short stories, 5 poems, 35 essays, 22 comic books and 68 floppy comics.

Fiction

• I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
• The Litany of Earth, Ruthanna Emrys
• Everything’s Eventual, Stephen King
• Hearts in Atlantis, Stephen King
• Insomnia, Stephen King
• It, Stephen King
• The Mist, Stephen King
• The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, Stephen King
• Skeleton Crew, Stephen King
• The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle
• At the Mountains of Madness, H. P. Lovecraft
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, H. P. Lovecraft
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, H. P. Lovecraft
• The Shadow Out of Time, H. P. Lovecraft
• The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, H. P. Lovecraft
• The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories, H. P. Lovecraft
• Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir

Non-Fiction

• James Baldwin: Collected Essays, James Baldwin, edited by Toni Morrison
• Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

Short Stories

• I, Robot, Isaac Asimov
  • “Robbie”
  • “Runaround”
  • “Reason”
  • “Catch That Rabbit”
  • “Liar!”
  • “Little Lost Robot”
  • “Escape!”
  • “Evidence”
  • “The Evitable Conflict”
• Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales & Memoirs
  • “A Horseman in the Sky”
  • “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
  • “Chickamauga”
  • “A Son of the Gods”
  • “One of the Missing”
  • “Killed at Resaca”
  • “The Affair at Coulter’s Notch”
  • “The Coup de Grâce”
  • “Packer Adderson, Philosopher”
  • “An Affair of Outposts”
  • “The Story of a Conscience”
  • “One Kind of Officer”
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches
  • “The Hollow of the Three Hills”
• Everything’s Eventual, Stephen King
  • “Autopsy Room Four”
  • “The Man in the Black Suit”
  • “All That You Love Will Be Carried Away”
  • “The Death of Jack Hamilton”
  • “The Deathroom”
  • “Everything’s Eventual”
  • “L.T.’s Theory of Pets”
  • “The Road Virus Heads North”
  • “Lunch at the Gotham Café”
  • “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French”
  • “1408”
  • “Riding the Bullet”
  • “Luckey Quarter”
• Skeleton Crew, Stephen King
  • “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut”
  • “The Jaunt”
  • “The Wedding Gig”
  • “The Raft”
  • “Word Processor of the Gods”
  • “The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands”
  • “Beachworld”
  • “The Reaper’s Image”
  • “Nona”
  • “Survivor Type”
  • “Uncle Otto’s Truck”
  • “Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)”
  • “Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2)”
  • “Gramma”
  • “The Reach”
• The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories, H. P. Lovecraft
  • “Polaris”
  • “The Doom That Came to Sarnath”
  • “The Terrible Old Man”
  • “The Tree”
  • “The Cats of Ulthar”
  • “From Beyond”
  • “The Nameless City”
  • “The Moon-Bog”
  • “The Other Gods”
  • “Hypnos”
  • “The Lurking Fear”
  • “The Unnamable”
  • “The Shunned House”
  • “The Horror at Red Hook”
  • “In the Vault”
  • “The Strange High House in the Mist”
  • “The Silver Key”
  • “Through the Gates of the Silver Key”
  • “The Dreams in the Witch House”
• The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, H. P. Lovecraft
  • “The Tomb”
  • “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”
  • “The White Ship”
  • “The Temple”
  • “The Quest of Iranon”
  • “The Music of Erich Zann”
  • “Under the Pyramids”
  • “Pickman’s Model”
  • “The Dunwich Horror”
  • “The Thing on the Doorstep”
• Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales
  • “Ligeia”
  • “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
  • “The Mystery of Marie Rogêt”
  • “The Gold-Bug”
  • “The Black Cat”

Essays

• James Baldwin: Collected Essays
  • “Smaller Than Life”
  • “History as Nightmare”
  • “The Image of the Negro”
  • “Lockridge: ‘The American Myth’”
  • “Preservation of Innocence”
  • “The Negro at Home and Abroad”
  • “The Crusade of Indignation”
  • “Sermons and Blues”
  • “On Catfish Row”
  • “They Can’t Turn Back”
  • “Color”
  • “A Talk to Teachers”
  • “‘This Nettle, Danger…’”
  • “Nothing Personal”
  • “Words of a Native Son”
  • “The American Dream and the American Negro”
  • “On the Painter Beauford Delaney”
  • “The White Man’s Guilt”
  • “A Report from Occupied Territory”
  • “Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White”
  • “White Racism or World Community?”
  • “Sweet Lorraine”
  • “How One Black Man Came To Be an American”
  • “An Open Letter to Mr. Carter”
  • “Last of the Great Masters”
  • “Every Good-bye Ain‘t Gone”
  • “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me What Is?”
  • “Open Letter to the Born Again”
  • “Dark Days”
  • “Notes on the House of Bondage”
  • “Introduction to Notes of a Native Son, 1984”
  • “Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood”
  • “The Price of the Ticket”
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: Tales and Sketches
  • “Sir William Phips”
  • “Mrs. Hutchinson”

Poetry

• Skeleton Crew, Stephen King
  • “Paranoid: A Chant”
  • “For Owen”
• Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales
  • “Hymn”
  • “To My Mother”
  • “Annabel Lee”

Comic Books

• World Heist, Linnea Sterte
• Simplicity, Mattie Lubchansky
• Neonomicon
  Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows, Juanmar, Anthony Johnston
  • The Courtyard #1–2
  • Neonomicon #1–4
• Nameless
  Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham, Nathan Fairbairn, Simon Bowland
  • Nameless #1–6
• Adam Warlock Omnibus
  Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Mike Friedrich, Jim Starlin, Mark Gruenwald, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, Bob Brown, Herb Trimpe, Jerry Binghman, et al.
  • The Fantastic Four vol. 1 #66–67
  • The Mighty Thor vol. 1 #165–166
  • Marvel Premiere #1–2
  • Warlock vol. 1 #1–15
  • Strange Tales vol. 1 #178–181
  • The Incredible Hulk vol. 1 #176–178
  • The Incredible Hulk Annual vol. 1 #6
  • Marvel Team-Up vol. 1 #55
  • The Avengers Annual vol. 1 #7
  • Marvel Two-In-One #61–63
  • Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2
• The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 4
  Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, Neal Adams, Sal Buscema, Bob Brown, et al.
  • Avengers vol. 1 #89–119
  • Daredevil vol. 1 #99
  • The Defenders vol. 1 #8–11
• The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 5
  Steve Englehart, Sal Buscema, George Tuska, George Pérez, et al.
  • The Avengers vol. 1 #120–149
  • Captain Marvel vol. 1 #33
  • The Fantastic Four vol. 1 #150
• Captain Mar-Vell Omnibus
  Roy Thomas, Arnold Drake, Gene Colan, Don Heck, Gil Kane, Jim Starlin, et al.
  • Marvel Super-Heroes vol. 1 #12–13
  • Captain Marvel vol. 1 #1–33
  • The Invincible Iron Man vol. 1 #55
• The Defenders Omnibus Vol. 1
  Roy Thomas, Steve Englehart, Len Wein, Sal Buscema, Ross Andru, et al.
  • Doctor Strange vol. 1 #183
  • The Sub-Mariner vol. 2 #22, #34–35
  • The Incredible Hulk vol. 1 #126
  • Marvel Feature vol. 1 #1–3
  • The Defenders vol. 1 #1–19
  • Giant-Size Defenders #1–2
  • The Avengers vol. 1 #115–118
• The Defenders Omnibus Vol. 2
  Steve Gerber, Sal Buscema, et al.
  • The Defenders vol. 1 #20–41
  • Giant-Size Defenders #3–5
  • The Defenders Annual #1
  • Marvel Two-In-One #6–7
  • Marvel Treasury Edition #12
  • Marvel Super-Heroes vol. 1 #18
  • material from Mystery Tales #21
  • material from World of Fantasy #11
  • material from Tales of Suspense vol. 1 #9
• Doctor Strange: Master of the Mystic Arts Omnibus Vol. 1
  Steve Englehart, Frank Brunner, Gene Colan, et al.
  • Marvel Premiere #3–14
  • Dctor Strange vol. 2 #1–22
  • Doctor Strange Annual vol. 1 #1
  • The Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #44
• Incredible Hulk (2023): Vol. 6: Monster Road
  Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein, Kev Walker, Adam Gorham, Cam Smith, Matthew Wilson, et al.
  • Incredible Hulk vol. 6 #26–30
• The Mighty Thor Omnibus Vol. 4
  Gerry Conway, John Buscema, et al.
  • The Mighty Thor vol. 1 #195–228
• The Mighty Thor Omnibus Vol. 5
  Gerry Conway, Len Wein, John Buscema, Walter Simonson, et al.
  • The Mighty Thor vol. 1 #229–266
  • The Mighty Thor Annual vol. 1 #5–6
  • Marvel Spotlight vol. 1 #30
  • Marvel Premiere #26
• Omega the Unknown Classic
  Steve Gerber, Mary Skrenes, Steven Grant, Jim Mooney, Herb Trimpe, et al.
  • Omega the Unknown vol. 1 #1–10
  • Defenders vol. 1 #76–77
• Planet Hulk Prelude
  J. Michael Straczynski, Daniel Way, Mike McCone, Keu Cha, Juan Santacruz, Andy Lanning, Simon Coleby, Cam Smith, Paul Mounts, Jason Keith, William Murai, Rus Wooten, Randy Gentile
  • Fantastic Four vol. 3 #533–535
  • Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #88–91
• Planet Hulk
  Greg Pak, Carlo Pagulayan, Michael Avon Oeming, Alex Niño, Marshall Rogers, Aaron Lopresti, Gary Frank, Takeshi Miyazawa, Jeffrey Huet, Mike Allred, Alex Niño, Tom Palmer, Danny Miki, Sandu Florea, John Sibal, Chris Sotomayor, Laura Martin, Lovern Kindzierski, Christina Lanphear, Randy Gentile, Nathan Cosby
  • Incredible Hulk vol. 2 #92–105
  • material from Amazing Fantasy vol. 2 #15
  • material from Giant-Size Hulk vol. 2 #1
• Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection Vol. 2
  Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, Chris Claremont, Gary Friedrich, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Tony Isabella, Gene Colan, Mike Ploog, Ross Andru, Don Heck, John Buscema, Dick Giordano, et al.
  • The Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #16–24
  • Werewolf by Night vol. 1 #15
  • Giant-Size Spider-Man vol. 1 #1
  • Giant-Size Chillers #1
  • Giant-Size Dracula #1
  • Frankenstein #7–9
  • Dracula Lives! vol. 2 #5
  • Dracula Lives! vol. 1 #6–7
• Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection Vol. 3
  Marv Wolfman, Chris Claremont, Doug Moench, Roy Thomas, Gerry Conway, Steve Gerber, David Anthony Kraft, Gene Colan, Don Heck, Tony DeZuniga, Dick Giordano, Bob Brown, Virgilio Redondo, Tom Palmer, Frank Springer, Pablo Marcos, Dan Adkins, Linda Lessman, Petra Goldberg, Don Warfield, John Costanza, Ray Holloway, Artie Simek, Marcos Pelayo, et al.
  • The Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #25–35
  • Giant-Size Dracula #3–5
  • Dracula Lives! vol. 1 #8–11
• Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection Vol. 4
  Doug Moench, Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Steve Englehart, Steven Gan, Tom Sutton, Gene Colan, Tom Palmer, Joe Rosen, John Costanza, et al.
  • The Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #36–54
  • Doctor Strange vol. 2 #14
  • Dracula Lives! vol. 1 #12–13
  • material from Legion of Monsters vol. 1 #1
• Werewolf by Night Omnibus
  Doug Moench, Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Don Perlin, Mike Ploog, et al.
  • Marvel Spotlight vol. 1 #2–4
  • Werewolf by Night vol. 1 #1–43
  • Marvel Team-Up vol. 1 #12
  • Tomb of Dracula vol. 1 #18
  • Giant-Size Creatures #1
  • Giant-Size Werewolf #2–4
  • Marvel Premiere #28
  • material from Monsters Unleashed vol. 1 #6–7
• X-Men Epic Collection Vol. 4: It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn
  Steve Englehart, Len Wein, Sal Buscema, Tom Sutton, Herb Trimpe, Gil Kane, Vince Colletta, Mike Esposito, Jack Abel, Glynis Wein, Art Simek, John Costanza, Charlotte Jetter
  • Amazing Adventures vol. 2 #11–17
  • Amazing Spider-Man vol. 1 #92
  • Incredible Hulk vol. 1 #150, #161, #172, #180–182
  • Marvel Team-Up vol. 1 #4, #23
  • Avengers vol. 1 #110–111
  • Captain America vol. 1 #172–175
  • Defenders vol. 1 #15–16
  • Giant-Size Fantastic Four vol. 1 #4

Comic Books (Floppies)

• Absolute Batman #16–19
  Scott Snyder, Nick Dragotta, Eric Canete, Frank Martin, Clayton Cowles
• Absolute Batman: Ark M (2026)
  Scott Snyder, Frank Tieri, Joshua Hixson, Roman Stevens, Clayton Cowles
• Absolute Martian Manhunter (2025) #8–10
  Deniz Camp, Javier Rodríguez, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
• Absolute Wonder Woman (2024) #16–19
  Kelly Thompson, Hayden Sherman, Jordie Bellaire, Becca Carey
• Absolute Wonder Woman 2026 Annual
  Kelly Thompson, Mattia De Iulis, Becca Carey
• Amazing Spider-Man vol. 7 (2025) #19–22
  Joe Kelly, Pepe Larraz, John Romita Jr., Paco Diaz, Todd Nauck, Scott Hanna, Marcio Menyz, Erick Arciniega, Marte Gracia, Joe Caramagna
• Black Panther: Intergalactic #1–4
  Victor LaValle, Stefano Nesi, Bryan Valenza, Ariana Maher
• Cyclops vol. 4 (2026) #1–4
  Alex Paknadel, Rogê Antônio, Fer Sifuentes-Suju, Joe Caramagna
• Defenders vol. 1 #73–75
  Ed Hannigan, Herb Trimpe, Mike Esposito, Steve Mitchell, Ben Sean, George Roussos, Carl Gafford, John Costanza, Clem Robins, Irving Watanabe
• Generation X-23 (2026) #1–2
  Jody Houser, Jacopo Camagni, Erick Arciniega, Ariana Maher
• Infernal Hulk (2025) #1–6
  Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Nic Klein, Kev Walker, Adam Gorham, Cam Smith, Matthew Wilson, Cory Petit
• Magik & Colossus (2026) #1–3
  Ashley Allen, Germán Peralta, Arthur Hesli, Ariana Maher
• Moonstar (2026) #1–2
  Ashley Allen, Edoardo Audino, Arthur Hesli, Clayton Cowles
• The Mortal Thor (2025) #6–9
  Al Ewing, Pasqual Ferry, Juann Cabal, Matt Milla, Jesus Aburtov, Joe Sabino
• Nova: Centurion (2025) #3–6
  Jed MacKay, Álvaro López, Matteo Della Fonte, Mattia Iacono, Joe Caramagna
• The Power Fantasy (2024) #15–16
  Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard, Clayton Cowles, Rian Hughes
• Swamp Thing 1989 #1
  Rick Veitch, Michael Zulli, Vince Locke, Trish Mulvihill
• Uncanny X-Men vol. 6 (2024) #22–27
  Gail Simone, David Marquez, Luciano Vecchio, Matthew Wilson, Clayton Cowles
• Uncanny X-Men Annual (2026)
  Gail Simone, Mikki Kendall, Francesco Mortarino, Elisabetta D’Amico, Mattia Iacono, Clayton Cowles
• X-Men vol. 7 (2024) #23–29
  Jed MacKay, Netho Diaz, Tony Daniel, Sean Parsons, Mark Morales, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo, Clayton Cowles
• X-Men Annual (2026)
  Ryan Stegman, Steve Scroce, Sanford Greene, Arthur Hesli, Clayton Cowles
• X-Men United #1
  Eve L. Ewing, Tiago Palma, Brian Reber, Joe Sabino