My Favorite Reads From 2019

Top 10 Non-Fiction

1.      The Autobiography of Malcolm X- Alex Hailey

2.      The Beatles: A Biography- Bob Spitz

3.      The Anatomy of Story- John Truby

4.      The Actor’s Life- Jenna Fischer

5.      Conservatives Without Conscience- John Dean

6.      Fariña- Nacho Carretero

7.      Los antiguos mexicanos- Miguel León Portilla

8.      Despatches, Letters and Diary- Horatio Nelson

9.      A la sombra de la Revolución mexicana- Lorenzo Meyer y Hector Aguilar Camín

10.  Making Movies- Sidney Lumet

Top Novels

1.      Warlock- Oakley Hall

2.      The Plot Against America- Philip Roth

3.      A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms- George R.R. Martin

4.      The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas

5.      The Moonstone- Wilkie Collins

6.      Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy

7.      Johnny Alucard- Kim Newman

8.      The Casual Vacancy- J.K. Rowling

9.      Fat City- Leonard Gardner

10.  Horseman, Pass By- Larry McMurtry

11.  The Case Against Satan- Ray Russell

12.  Cockfighter- Charles Willeford

13.  The Maltese Falcon- Dashiell Hammett

14.  Catch 22- Joseph Heller

15.  The Dain Curse- Dashiell Hammett

Top 4  Story Collections

1.      Guerra de tiempo- Alejo Carpentier

2.      Perchance to Dream- Charles Beaumont

3.      Kwaidan- Lafcadio Hearn

4.      Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark- Alvin Schwartz

Top 3 Plays

1.      Death Trap- Ira Levin

2.      Coriolanus- William Shakespeare

3.      Death of A Salesman- Arthur Miller

Top Graphic Novels/Comic Collections

1.      Maus- Art Spiegelman

2.      Watchmen- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

3.      The New Frontier- Darwyn Cooke

4.      Marvels- Kurt Busiak & Alex Ross

5.      Superman: Red Son- Mark Millar, et al.

6.      Before Watchmen: Minutemen- Darwyn Cooke

7.      The Hunter- Darwyn Cooke

8.      The Long Halloween- Jeph Loeb & Tim Sale, Gregory Wright & Richard Starkings

9.      Batman: Year One- Frank Miller & David Mazzuchelli

10.  The Outift- Darwyn Cooke

11.  Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre II- Amanda Conner

12.  Secret Empire- Steve Englehart, Mike Friedrich &Sal Buscema

13.  Gotham By Gaslight- Mike Mignola & Craig Russell

14.  Master of the Future- Bryan Augustyn & Eduardo Barreto

15.  Hawkeye: My Life As A Weapon (and the Dog story in “Little Hits”)- Matt Fraction, et al.

Honorary Mention: Narrative Poetry

The Alamo- Michael Lind