Eligible Works for Dead End Follies' 2019 Year-End's Best Reads
It’s already December. You know what it means: starting next week, I’m going to start singling out my best reads of the year. It’s been somewhat of a different ride in 2019. I’ve read just as much, but I’ve reviewed less and I’ve reviewed better (at least, it’s what I like to believe). By decreasing the output on the site, I focused on media (books, movies, music, etc.) I had something of value to say about. It also enabled me to do other shit.
It’s been a somewhat underwhelming reading year in general, but gathering my reviews in this post reminded me that a couple titles did stand out from the pack after all. Here are all of them in one place this year again. I invite you to browse them, speculate and/or ask me questions about the titles I haven’t reviewed on the site because YES some of them will end up on the Year End’s lists. There are 94 of them in all. Let’s GO.
Hermes Tristmegius - Corpus Hermeticum
John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
Max Booth III - Carnivorous Lunar Activities
Lawrence Block - A Time to Scatter Stones
The Kybalion
Pillars: The Scalding of Sapientia
Rose-Aimée Automne T. Morin - Ton Absence M’Appartient
Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings
Michel Houellebecq - La Carte et le Territoire
Alex Garland - The Tesseract
Rosarium Philosophorum
Taylor Larsen - Stranger, Father, Beloved
Alan Moore - Promethea Vol. 3
Catherine Lepage - 12 mois sans intérêt
William Giraldi - Hold the Dark
The Bro Code
Robert Greene - The 48 Laws of Power
J. David Osborne - A Minor Storm
Robert Greene - Mastery
Dylan Struzan - A Bloody Business
Dan Chaon - Ill Will
J. David Osborne & Cody Goodfellow - The Snake Handler
Norman N. Holland - The Critical I
Brad Phillips - Fictions & Essays
Michael Stawicki - Directed by Purpose
Tom Pitts - 101
Brian Azarello - Joker
Nathan Ballingrud - The Visible Filth
Alan Moore - Promethea Vol. 4
Craig Williams - Cult of Golgotha
Mike McCrary - Remo Went Down
Michael Faust - Kaballah, Hemeticism & M-Theory
Hilary Davidson - One Small Sacrifice
Scott Snyder - Batman Vol. 1
Scott Snyder - Batman Vol. 2
Scott Snyder - Batman Vol. 3
Brian Evenson - Song for the Unraveling of the World
Grant Wamack - A Lightbulb’s Lament
Hermes Tristmegius - The Emerald Tablet of Hermes
Joe R. Lansdale - Hap & Leonard: Blood Lemonade
Michael Onofrey - Sightseeing
John C. Maxwell - The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
Chuck Klosterman - Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction
Will Viharo - Vic Valentine, Private Eye: 14 Vignettes
Tales from the Crust: An Anthology of Pizza Horror
Seth Vannatta (edited by) - Chuck Klosterman & Philosophy
Michael Connelly - The Lincoln Lawyer
Rudy Rucker - The Fourth Dimenson: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality
Brian Alan Ellis - Road Warrior Hawk: Poems About Depression, Anxiety and Pop Culture
David Lynch & Kristine McKenna - Room to Dream
Ed Brubaker - Kill or be Killed Vol. 1
John D. MacDonald - Bright Orange for the Shroud
Extreme Metaphors: Collected Interviews with J. G Ballard
Jon Schnepp - Slayer: Repentless
John D. MacDonald - Darker Than Amber
Fred Venturini - The Escape of Light
Lisa Taddeo - Three Women
Jon Bassoff - The Drive-Thru Crematorium
Dave Hickey - Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
Homeless - Please Buy This Book So I Can Feel Validated & (Finally) Love Myself
Joshua Chaplinsky - Whispers in the Ear of a Dreaming Ape
Dennis William Hauck - The Emerald Tablet
Alan Moore - Promethea Vol. 5
Martin Meadows - How to Help Yourself with Self-Help
Patricia Smiley - The Second Goodbye
Henrik Rodgers - Master Critical Thinking
Hugo Meunier - Le Patron
J.G Ballard - The Crystal World
Justin Grimbol - I Still Love You, Peggy Bundy
Patrick King - Control Your Emotions
Lawrence Block - Even the Wicked
Graham Best - Your Complete Guide to Building a Memory Palace
Paula Prober - Your Rainforest Mind
Noah Hawley - A Conspiracy of Tall Men
Brian Alan Ellis - Something Sexy, Something Stupid
Mary-Elaine Jacobsen - The Gifted Adult
Sylvie Simmons - I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Leonard Cohen - The Book of Longing
Nick Kolakowski - Maxine Unleashes Doomsday
Peter Hollins - Mental Models
Gillian Flynn - Dark Places
Shea Serrano - Movies (and Other Things)
