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Bedside Spanner : Recommended reading

Vic Spanner wishes he had more time to read, or that he could read more quicker like.

Here is a list of books what he's read this year, last year, and the year before that.
Maybe you should read them too.

2012
Michael Foley - The Age Of Absurdity
Cormac McCarthy - Child Of God
Daniel Woodrell - The Ones You Do
Udo Grashoff - Let Me Finish
Amelie Nothomb - Sulphuric Acid

2011
Charles Bukowski - New Poems, Book 2
Cory Doctorow - Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom
Charles Bukowski - The Most Beautiful Woman In Town
JG Ballard - The Drowned World
Chuck Palahniuk - Snuff
Dan Fante - Kissed By A Fat Waitress (New Poems)
William Burroughs - Junky
Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
Robert Silverberg - Up The Line
Richard Brautigan - The Pill vs The Springhill Mine Disaster
Charles Portis - True Grit
Sam Lipsyte - The Ask
Richard Brautigan - Loading Mercury With A Pitchfork
Cormac McCarthy - The Sunset Limited
JG Ballard - Kingdom Come
Bret Easton Ellis - Less Than Zero
Jay McInerney - Bright Lights, Big City
Hank Moody - God Hates Us All
Richard Barutigan - Willard And His Bowling Trophies
B.S. Johnson - Christy Malry's Own Double-Entry
Jim Dodge - Fup
Bret Easton Ellis - Imperial Bedrooms
Richard Brautigan - Sombrero Fallout
Keith Abbott - Downstream From Trout Fishing In America
Bill Hicks - Love All The People
Scott Frost - The Autobiography of Special Agent Dale Cooper
Walter Tevis - Mockingbird
Charles Bukowski - Bone Palace Ballet
Ivor Southwood - Non-Stop Inertia
Daniel Woodrell - Give Us A Kiss (A Country Noir)
Dan Fante - 86'd
Gerald Locklin - The Case of the Missing Blue Volkswagen
JG Ballard - High Rise
John Fante - Dreams From Bunker Hill
Hunter S Thompson - The Rum Diary
Dan Fante - A Gin Pissing, Raw Meat, Dual Carburettor V-8 Son-of-a-Bitch from Los Angeles
Rebecca Solnit - A Field Guide To Getting Lost
Richard Brautigan - The Tokyo-Montana Express
Daniel Woodrell - Woe To Live On
Sam Lipsyte - Homeland
Richard Brautigan - Rommel Drives on Deep into Egypt
Chuck Palahniuk - Choke
Dave Eggers - Zeitoun
Lee Rourke - Everyday
Tony O'Neill - Digging The Vein
Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
Castle Freeman - Go With Me
Dan Fante - Corksucker
Grant Morrison - Supergods
Ben Myers - The Book Of Fuck
Jonny Flynn - The Seven Days Of Peter Crumb
Billy Childish - I'd Rather You Lied
Simon Reynolds - Retromania
Cory Doctorow - Little Brother
Dan Fante - Fante: A Memoir
Chris Petit - The Hard Shoulder
Julian Assange - The Unauthorised Autobiography
Matthew F. Jones - A Single Shot
Cory Doctorow - The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow
Reading Deadwood (edited by David Lavery)
Richard Brautigan - Dreaming Of Babylon
James Sallis - Drive
Anneli Rufus & Kristan Lawson - The Scavengers' Manifesto
Pentti Linkola - Can Life Prevail?
Richard Seymour - The Meaning of David Cameron
Daniel Woodrell - Under The Bright Lights
Richard Brautigan - Revenge Of The Lawn
The Invisible Committee - The Coming Insurrection
Tony O'Neill - Down And Out On Murder Mile
Charles Bukowski - New Poems Bk 3
Susan Strasser - Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash

2010
Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy
Cormac McCarthy - No Country For Old Men
Herman Hesse - Siddhartha
Kalle Lasn - Culture Jam
Elmore Leonard - Hombre
Steve Goodman - Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect and The Ecology Of Fear
Charles Bukowski - Post Office
Richard Brautigan - In Watermelon Sugar
Bryan Lee O'Malley - Scott Pilgrim Vols 1 - 5
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Tao Lin - EEEEE EEE EEEE
Paul Neilan - Apathy And Other Small Victories
Cormac McCarthy - The Gardener's Son
Lucian Randall - Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris
Charles Bukowski - Ham On Rye
Kim Paffenroth - The Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth
Philipp Meyer - American Rust
Richard Brautigan - Trout Fishing In America
John Fante - Wait Until Spring, Bandini
Daniel Woodrell - Winter's Bone
Philip Pullman - The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ
Dan Fante - Chump Change
Richard Brautigan - An Unfortunate Woman
Charles Bukowski - Barfly
Cormac McCarthy - The Stonemason
Charles Bukowski - Hollywood
Eric Schlosser - Reefer Madness and other tales from the American Underground
John Fante - 1933 Was A Bad Year
Dan Fante - Mooch
Steven Hall - The Raw Shark Texts
Richard Brautigan - The Hawkline Monster
Ianthe Brautigan - You Can't Catch Death
Charles Bukowski - New Poems Book 1
Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast Of Champions
John Fante - The Road To Los Angeles
M Glenn Taylor - The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
Dan Fante - Spitting Off Tall Buldings
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Charles Bukowski - Come On In! (new poems)
Richard Brautigan - So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
Chris Rose - 1 Dead In Attic (After Katrina)
Charles Bukowski - Women
Daniel Keyes - Flowers For Algernon
Daniel Woodrell - Muscle For The Wing
John Fante - West Of Rome
Charles Bukowski - The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over The Hills
Mark SaFranko - Hating Olivia
J.G.Ballard - Concrete Island
John Fante - Ask The Dust
Cormac McCarthy - All The Pretty Horses

2009
Warren Ellis - Crooked Little Vein
Rudolph Grey - Nightmare Of Ecstacy: The Life & Art Of Edward D.Wood
Blake Bell – Strange & Stranger: The World Of Steve Ditko
Arthur Schnitzler - Dream Story
Rudolph Wurlitzer – The Drop Edge Of Yonder
Simon Bridgestock – Id Log
Christopher Petit - Robinson
Cormac McCarthy - The Orchard Keeper
Nick Cave - And The Ass Saw The Angel
Tom Baker - The Boy Who Kicked Pigs
David Lynch - Catching The Big Fish
Daniel Harris - Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism
Jake Horsley - Dogville vs Hollywood
Strange Attractor, Journal One (edited by Mark Pilkington)
Michael Kupperman - Tales Designed To Thrizzle, Volume One
John Gray - Straw Dogs
Nick Cave - The Death Of Bunny Munro
Naomi Klein - No Logo
M.T. Anderson - Feed
Robert Silverberg - The Second Trip
Cormac McCarthy - The Road (re-read)
Charlie Brooker - The Hell Of It All
Richard Brautigan - The Abortion

2008

B. Traven – The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Chris Salewicz - Redemption Song
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
Chris Rodley - Lynch On Lynch
Ron Hansen - The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Charlie Brooker - Screen Burn
Charlie Brooker - Dawn Of The Dumb
Ken Hollings - Welcome To Mars