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A total of 127 books this year. But look: 19 in March, and just three in September! I’ll be nowhere near this number in 2006.

January
Nevermore, by William Hjortsberg
The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle
Nymphomation, by Jeff Noon
Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan
Not Quite Dead Enough, by Rex Stout
Barnum (graphic novel), by Harold Chaykin, et al
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (new annotated collection), by Arthur Conan Doyle
Gun, with Occasional Music, by Jonathan Lethem
Empire of Bones, by Liz Williams
Kiss Me, Judas, by Will Christopher Baer
Broken Angels, by Richard K. Morgan
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (new annotation collection), by Arthur Conan Doyle
Natural History, by Justina Robson
Penny Dreadful, by Will Christopher Baer
After You With the Pistol, by Kyril Bonfiglioli
The Inimitable Jeeves (collection), by P.G. Wodehouse

February
Hell’s Half Acre, by Will Christopher Baer
Jennifer Government, by Max Barry
Mr. Timothy, by Louis Bayard
The List of 7, by Mark Frost
The 6 Messiahs, by Mark Frost
Very Good, Jeeves! (collection), by P.G. Wodehouse
Falling Angel, by William Hjortsberg
The Prestige, by Christopher Priest
Jigsaw Men, by Gary Greenwood
Infernal Devices, by K.W. Jeter
His Last Bow (new annotated collection), by Arthur Conan Doyle
Brittle Innings, by Michael Bishop
Hellblazer: Rare Cuts (graphic novel), by Garth Ennis, et al
Hellblazer: Dangerous Habits (graphic novel), by Garth Ennis, et al
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, by Nicholas Meyer
The Magician’s Study, by Tobias Seamon

March
All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories (collection), ed. Moles and Lake
Legacies, by F. Paul Wilson
What Rough Beast, by H.R. Knight
Pavane, by Keith Roberts
Right Ho, Jeeves (collection), P.G. Wodehouse
Top 10, book 2 (graphic novel), by Alan Moore, Gene Ha, Zander Cannon
Hellblazer: Fear & Loathing, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
The Reluctant Spiritualist: The Life of Maggie Fox (nonfiction), by Nancy Rubin Stuart
From Hell (graphic novel), by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell
The Alienist, by Caleb Carr
Inamorata, by Joseph Gangemi
Pashazade, by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Home Land, by Sam Lipsyte
Norton Vyse: Psychic (collection), by Rose Champion de Crespigny
The Limits of Enchantment, by Graham Joyce
Hand to Mouth (nonfiction), by Paul Auster
Squeeze Play, by Paul Auster
When Gravity Fails, by George Alex Effinger
Some Buried Caesar, by Rex Stout

April
The New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster
The Irregulars (graphic novel), by Altman, Reaves, and Dazo
Sebastian O (graphic novel), by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell
A Fire in the Sun, by George Alex Effinger
The Angel of Darkness, by Caleb Carr
Paul Auster’s City of Glass (graphic novel), by Paul Kasarik and David Mazzucchelli
Under the Banner of Heaven (nonfiction), by Jon Krakauer
Kings of Infinite Space, by James Hynes
Perfume, by Patrick Suskind
One Day the Ice Will Reveal Its Dead, by Clare Dudman
The Innocence of Father Brown (collection), by G.K. Chesterton
Smax (graphic novel), by Alan Moore and Zander Cannon
The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
The Devil in the White City (nonfiction), by Erik Larsen

May
Ex Machine: The First Hundred Days (graphic novel), by Vaughan, harris, Feister
Stories of Your Life and Others (collection), by Ted Chiang
Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson
Larceny and Old Leather (nonfiction), by Eldon Ham
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, by Gene Wolfe
Wordcraft (nonfiction), by Alex Frankel
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
Borges and the Eternal Orangatan, by Luis Fernando Verissimo
Lint, by Steve Aylett
The Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe
The Claw of the Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe
Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company (nonfiction), by Constance L. Hayes

June
Foam of the Daze, by Boris Vian (tr. Brian Harper)
Mind Wide Open (nonfiction), by Steven Johnson
Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner (nonfiction), by Nina Munk
Foucault’s Pendulum, by Umberto Eco
Boggs: A Comedy of Values (nonfiction), by Lawrence Weschler
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams
dot.con (nonfiction), by John Cassidy
Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gas Mask, by Jim Munroe
Bang the Drum Slowly, by Mark Harris

July
Everyone in Silico, by Jim Munroe
The Club Dumas, by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Masters of Atlantis, by Charles Portis
Fancies and Goodnights (collection), by John Collier
Vermeer in Bosnia (nonfiction), by Lawrence Weschler
Everything Bad is Good for You (nonfiction), by Steven Johnson
The Partly Cloudy Patriot (nonfiction), by Sarah Vowell
1602 (graphic novel), by Gaiman, Kubert, and Isanove
Unstable Molecules (graphic novel), by James Sturm and Guy Davis
Angry Young Spaceman, by Jim Munroe
Black Widow: Homecoming (graphic novel), by Richard K. Morgan, et al
Count Geiger’s Blues, by Michael Bishop
Freakonomics (nonfiction), by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

August
Kingdom of the Wicked (graphic novel), by Ian Edgington and D’Israeli
We3 (graphic novel), by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
Flicker, by Theodore Roszak
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Girl in the Glass, by Jeffrey Ford
Dead Lines, by Greg Bear
Top 10: The Forty-Niners (graphic novel), by Alan Moore, Gene Ha, et al
Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Promethea: Book 1 (graphic novel), by Alan Moore, et al
Promethea, Book 2 (graphic novel), by Alan Moore, et al

September
Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Search (nonfiction), by John Battelle
The Tipping Point (nonfiction), by Malcolm Gladwell

October
A Million Little Pieces (nonfiction), by James Frey
The Vesuvius Club, by Mark Gatiss
Conspiracies, by F. Paul Wilson
Wicked, by Gregory Maguire

November
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, by George Saunders
The Riddle of the Traveling Skull, by Harry Stephen Keeler
All the Rage, by F. Paul Wilson
Database Nation (nonfiction), by Samson Garfinkle
The Red Magician, by Lisa Goldstein

December
Hosts, by F. Paul Wilson
The Google Story (nonfiction), by David A. Vise and Mark Malseed
The Keep, by F. Paul Wilson
Heroes Die, by Matthew Woodring Stover
Demon Download, by Jack Yeovil

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