Reading Roundup Wrapup: May 2013

Pick of the month: The Ring Goes East by J. R. R. Tolkien. A hard month to make this call: I read a lot of good books.  Both The Ring Goes East and The War of the Ring were seriously contenders, but ultimately I gave the nod to this one because of the awesomeness of Frodo, Sam, and Faramir. Who would have though that a book about slogging through a swamp could be so good? Other favorites, though, included Birds of Prey: Trouble in Mind, Superman: Miracle Monday, and Iris: Abroad (probably my favorite Iris Wildthyme anthology thus far).

All books read:
1. Birds of Prey: The Death of Oracle by Gail Simone and Marc Andreyko
2. Birds of Prey, Volume 1: Trouble in Mind by Duane Swierczynski
3. Superman: Miracle Monday by Elliot S. Maggin
4. Caesar’s Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Ignatius Donnelly
5. The Ring Goes East: Being the Fourth Book of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
6. Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups, Volume One by Gardner Fox with John Broome
7. Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman by Mark Tyler Nobleman
8. The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
9. Enter Wildthyme by Paul Magrs
10. A, A′ [A, A Prime] by Moto Hagio
11. Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction edited by Mark Bould and China Miéville
12. The War of the Ring: Being the Fifth Book of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
13. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Volume Ten: War by John Jackson Miller
14. The Essays of “George Eliot”: Complete: Collected and Arranged, with an Introduction on Her “Analysis of Motives” by Nathan Sheppard
15. Iris: Abroad edited by Paul Magrs and Stuart Douglas
16. Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups, Volume Two by Gardner Fox and John Broome with Mike Friedrich

All books acquired:
1. Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women by Carol Dyhouse
2. Star Wars: Knight Errant, Volume Three: Escape by John Jackson Miller
3. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Volume Ten: War by John Jackson Miller
4. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault
5. The Jack Kirby Omnibus, Volume Two: Starring the Super Powers by Jack Kirby with Joe Simon, Dennis O’Neil, Martin Pasko, Steve Sherman, Michael Fleisher, Joey Calvieri, Bob Rozakis, and Paul Kupperberg
6. Time & Space Visualiser: The story and history of Doctor Who as data visualisations by Paul Smith
7. Star Wars: Adventures: Chewbacca and the Slavers of the Shadowlands by Chris Cerasi

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 512