Reading Roundup Wrapup: January 2013

Pick of the month: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis. I'd heard this book was good, but I hadn't expected it to be this good. Not only is it the sort of bildungsroman that I always love, not only did it have me on the verge of tearing up, but it actually manages to dramatize in a very natural and un-contrived fashion the consequences of scientific objectivity, managing to make the emotional and scientific hearts of the story the same event, the same dilemma. Very impressive.

I read the most books this month of any month in my entire life, I am pretty sure. Over a book a day! Now that I have no courses and no exam reading left, though, I am anticipating a massive drop-off here.

All books read:
1. The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope
2. Two on a Tower: A Romance by Thomas Hardy
3. Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England by George Levine
4. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, With Illustrations by the Author, A Square by Edwin A. Abbott
5. Black Canary/Oracle/Huntress: Birds of Prey by Chuck Dixon with Jordan B. Gorfinkel
6. Birds of Prey: Old Friends, New Enemies by Chuck Dixon
7. Tales from Super-Science Fiction edited by Robert Silverberg
8. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy
9. The Doings of Raffles Haw by A. Conan Doyle
10. DC Comics: The Sequential Art of Amanda Conner by Barbara Kesel, Chuck Dixon, Jai Nitz, Terry Moore, Patton Oswalt, Geoff Johns, Mark Waid, Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti, Judd Winick, and Amanda Conner
11. News from Nowhere, or An Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance by William Morris
12. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle
13. The Pelican History of England: 8. England in the Nineteenth Century (1815-1914) by David Thomson
14. Visual and Other Pleasures by Laura Mulvey
15. Evolution & Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley
16. Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars, 1763-3749 by I. F. Clarke
17. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
18. The British Barbarians: A Hill-Top Novel by Grant Allen
19. The Early Fiction of H. G. Wells: Fantasies of Science by Steven McLean
20. The Beetle by Richard Marsh
21. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
22. Faction Paradox: A Romance in Twelve Parts edited by Stuart Douglas & Lawrence Miles
23. Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments by Edmund Gosse
24. The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton, edited by Martin Gardner
25. Birds of Prey: Of Like Minds by Gail Simone
26. Born in Exile by George Gissing
27. Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells
28. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
29. Birds of Prey: Sensei & Student by Gail Simone
30. Victorian Science Fiction in the UK: the Discourses of Knowledge and of Power by Darko Suvin
31. The Ring Sets Out: Being the First Book of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
32. Birds of Prey: Between Dark & Dawn by Gail Simone
33. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation by Mary Louise Pratt
34. Origins of Futuristic Fiction by Paul K. Alkon
35. Victorian Detective Fiction and the Nature of Evidence: The Scientific Investigations of Poe, Dickens, and Doyle by Lawrence Frank
36. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna J. Haraway

All books acquired:
1. Doctor Who in an exciting adventure with the Daleks by David Whitaker
2. Bernice Summerfield VIII: Collected Works by Nick Wallace
3. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
4. The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
5. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis
6. The British Barbarians: A Hill-Top Novel by Grant Allen
7. The Virgin in the Garden by A. S. Byatt
8. Star Wars: Knight Errant, Volume One: Aflame by John Jackson Miller
9. Star Wars: Knight Errant by John Jackson Miller
10. Star Wars: Knight Errant, Volume Two: Deluge by John Jackson Miller
11. Science Fiction Writers: Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Day edited by E. F. Bleiler
12. Born in Exile by George Gissing
13. Calling the Shots: Directing the New Series of Doctor Who by Graeme Harper with Adrian Rigelsford
14. Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells
15. Timelink: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Exploration of Doctor Who Continuity, Volume One by Jon Preddle
16. Timelink: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Exploration of Doctor Who Continuity, Volume Two by Jon Preddle
17. John Brunner Presents Kipling's Science Fiction by Rudyard Kipling
18. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
19. The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton

#2, 4-6, 12, 14, 17, and 19 were the last of my exam books, so now I'm out of excuses to constantly buy new Penguin Classics.

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 480