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Beginning June 2003, I started keeping track of comics read, but only when they were collected in book form. I call them all “graphic novels,” making no distinction between a Batman collection and a literal graphic novel. This was also the year I finished graduate school, so I had more free time on my hands.

January
A Voyage to Arcturus, by David Lindsay
Mindswap, by Robert Sheckley
Journey Beyond Tomorrow, by Robert Sheckley
Peregrine Primus, by Avram Davidson
The Elf King’s Daughter, by Lord Dunsany

February
Quin’s Shanghai Circus, by Edward Whittemore
A Storm of Wings, by M. John Harrison
Album Zutique (collection), edited by Jeff VanderMeer
Seed of the Dreamers, by Emil Petaja
Bring the Jubilee, by Ward Moore
Blind Voices, by Tom Reamy
Mockingbird, by Walter Tevis

March
Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 1, by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
Adventures in Unhistory (non-fiction), by Avram Davidson
The Etched City, by K.J. Bishop
Clash of the Star-Kings, by Avram Davidson
Rawhead & Bloody Bones and Elusive Plato, by Rhys Hughes
Nowhere Near Milkwood, by Rhys Hughes
Norstrilia, by Cordwainer Smith
A Case of Conscience, by James Blish
The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
Bill, the Galactic Hero, by Harry Harrison

April
The Well and the Unicorn, by Fletcher Pratt
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold, by Kate Bernheimer
My Work is Not Yet Done, by Thomas Ligotti
The Chronicles of Solar Pons (collection), by August Derleth
The Turk (non-fiction), by Tom Standage
To Your Scattered Bodies Go, by Philip Jose Farmer

May
Who Fears the Devil? (collection), by Manly Wade Wellman
The Violent Bear it Away, by Flannery O’Connor
The Ghosts of Manacle (collection), by Charles G. Finney
The Victorian Internet (non-fiction), by Tom Standage
King Solomon’s Mines, by H. Rider Haggard
In Viriconium (collection), by M. John Harrison

June
Loving Little Egypt, by Thomas McMahon
The Purple Cloud, by M.P. Shiel
Viriconium Nights, by M. John Harrison
The Tale of One Bad Rat (graphic novel), by Bryan Talbot
The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

July
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by R.L. Stevenson
Last Letters from Hav, by Jan Morris
The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells
Trampoline (collection), edited by Kelly Link
Sandman 7: Brief Lives (graphic novel), by Neil Gaiman

August
A New Universal History of Infamy, by Rhys Hughes
The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
The Traveler in Black, by John Brunner
The Haunted Air, by F. Paul Wilson

September
The Complete John Silence Stories (collection), by Algernon Blackwood
Tales of Science and Sorcery (collection), by Clark Ashton Smith
The Fourth Dimension (non-fiction), by Rudy Rucker
IN & OZ, by Steve Tomasula
The Tomb, by F. Paul Wilson
Beg the Question (graphic novel), by Bob Fingerman

October
The Queen’s Conjurer (non-fiction), by Benjamin Woolley
White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, by Iain Sinclair
Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street (graphic novel), by Warren Ellis
Transmetropolitan 2: Lust For Life (graphic novel), by Warren Ellis
Transmetropolitan 3: The Year of the Bastard (graphic novel), by Warren Ellis
Transmetropolitan 4: The New Scum (graphic novel), by Warren Ellis
Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained (graphic novel), by Peter Lenkov and Frazer Irving
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
The Steampunk Trilogy, by Paul Di Filippo
Swords and Deviltry (collection), by Fritz Leiber
Hellboy: Wake the Devil (graphic novel), by Mike Mignola

November
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
Ruse: Enter the Detective (graphic novel), by Mark Waid, et al
Top Ten vol. 1 (graphic novel), by Alan Moore, et al
Necronauts (graphic novel), by Gordon Rennie and Frazer Irving
Scarlet Traces (graphic novel), by Edginton and Disraeli
Nightshades and Demons (collection), by Gerald Kersh
Batman: Dark Legends (graphic novel)
Singularity Sky, by Charles Stross
Veniss Underground, by Jeff VanderMeer
Fisher of Devils, by Steve Redwood
Dracula, by Bram Stoker
Anno-Dracula, by Kim Newman
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 2 (graphic novel), by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
Budayeen Nights (collection), by George Alec Effinger

December
The Third Policeman, by Flann O’Brien
The Rover, by Mel Odom
The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope
Dream Park, by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
The Anvil of the World, by Kage Baker
The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman

(Total: 88)

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