Just for chuckles, I thought I'd try another one of these. The period will cover from today, 10/31/2011 through 10/29/2012. (There's a "Leap Day" next year.)
1)H.P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural, edited by Stephen Jones. Started: 10/31/2011, Finished: 11/4/2011.
2)The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins. Started: 11/4/2011, Finished: 11/6/2011.
3)The Book of Cthulhu, edited by Ross E. Lockhart. Started: 11/6/2011, Finished: 11/10/2011.
4)The Jedi Path: A Manual for Students of the Force, by Daniel Wallace. Started: 11/10/2011, Finished: 11/11/2011.
5)The Stupidest Things Ever Said Book of All-Time Stupidest Top 10 Lists, by Kathryn & Ross Petras. Started: 11/12/2011, Finished: 11/12/2011.
6)Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov. Started: 11/11/2011, Finished: 11/19/2011.
7)Cthulhu's Reign, edited by Darrell Schweitzer. Started: 11/19/2011, Finished: 11/21/2011.
8)Kokoro, by Natsume Sōseki. Started: 11/21/2011, Finished: 11/23/2011.
9)All She Was Worth, by Miyuki Miyabe. Started: 11/21/2011, Finished: 11/26/2011.
10)Beautiful Fighting Girl, by Saitō Tamaki. Started: 11/26/2011, Finished: 11/28/2011.
11)The Devil's Whisper, by Miyuki Miyabe. Started: 11/28/2011, Finished: 12/3/2011.
12)Sci-Fi Movie Freak, by Robert C. Ring. Started: 12/3/2011, Finished: 12/4/2011.
13)Doctor Who - The Brilliant Book 2012, edited by Clayton Hickman. Started: 12/7/2011, Finished: 12/7/2011.
14)The Beautiful and the Grotesque, by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Started: 12/4/2011, Finished: 12/9/2011.
15)The Book of Heroes, by Miyuki Miyabe. Started: 12/9/2011, Finished: 12/10/2011.
16)The Adventures of Hergé, Creator of Tintin, by Michael Farr. Started: 12/10/2011, Finished: 12/11/2011.
17)Thousand Cranes, by Yasunari Kawabata. Started: 12/11/21011, Finished: 12/12/2011.
18)An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Started: 12/12/2011, Finished: 12/13/2011.
19)Harp of Burma, by Michio Takeyama. Started: 12/13/2011, Finished: 12/14/2011.
20)Doctor Who - The Encyclopedia, by Gary Russell. Started: 12/9/2011, Finished: 12/14/2011.
21)Secret Rendezvous, by Kobe Abe. Started: 12/14/2011, Finished: 12/18/2011.
22)Audition, by Ryu Murakami. Started: 12/18/2011, Finished: 12/20/2011.
23)Shadow Family, by Miyuki Miyabe. Started: 12/20/2011, Finished: 12/21/2011.
24)The Woman in the Dunes, by Kobo Abe. Started: 12/21/2011, Finished: 12/23/2011.
25)Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata. Started: 12/23/2011, Finished: 12/24/2011.
26)Crazy Stuff Long Island, by Camille Smith Platt. Started: 12/25/2011, Finished: 12/25/2011.
27)Crossfire, by Miyuki Miyabe. Started: 12/24/2011, Finished: 12/30/2011.
28)50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know - Religion, by Daniele Bolelli. Started: 12/30/2011, Finished: 12/30/2011.
29)Elisabeth Sladen - The Autobiography, by Elisabeth Sladen, with Jeff Hudson. Started: 12/31/2011, Finished: 1/1/2012.
30)God and Sex, by Michael Coogan. Started: 1/1/2012, Finished: 1/3/2012.
31)150 Movies You Should Die Before You See, by Steve Miller. Started: 1/3/2012, Finished: 1/4/2012.
32)Silence, by Shusaku Endo. Started: 1/4/2012, Finished: 1/6/2012.
33)The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England, by Ian Mortimer. Started: 1/6/2012, Finished: 1/9/2012.
34)The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis. Started: 1/9/2012, Finished: 1/15/2012.
35)Rude Hand Gestures of the World, by Romana Lefevre. Started: 1/15/2012, Finished: 1/15/2012.
36)Geek Wisdom, edited by Stephen H. Segal. Started: 1/15/2012, Finished: 1/16/2012.
37)A Little History of the World, by E.H. Gombrich. Started: 1/16/2012, Finished: 1/19/2012.
38)Where Europe Begins, by Yoko Tawada. Started: 1/19/2012, Finished: 1/20/2012.
39)MetaMaus, by Art Spiegelman. Started: 1/20/2012, Finished: 1/21/2012.
40)Lovecraft Unbound, edited by Ellen Datlow. Started: 1/21/2012, Finished: 1/25/2012.
41)The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse, translated and with introductions by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite. Started: 1/25/2012, Finished: 1/27/2012.
42)Legends of the Samurai, by Hiroaki Sato. Started: 1/27/2012, Finished: 1/31/2012.
43)The Life-Giving Sword, by Yagyu Munenori. Started: 1/31/2012, Finished: 2/1/2012.
44)The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi and Arrowroot, by Junichirō Tanizaki. Started: 2/1/2012, Finished: 2/6/2012.
45)Admiral Tōgō: Nelson of the East, by Jonathan Clements. Started: 2/6/2012, Finished: 2/7/2012.
46)The Master of Go, by Yasunari Kawabata. Started: 2/7/2012, Finished: 2/8/2012.
47)10 Billion Days & 100 Billion Nights, by Ryu Mitsuse. Started: 2/8/2012, Finished: 2/12/2012.
48)MM9, by Hiroshi Yamamoto. Started: 2/12/2012, Finished: 2/13/2012.
49)Thirst for Love, by Yukio Mishima. Started: 2/13/2012, Finished: 2/15/2012.
50)One Hundred Frogs, by Hiroaki Sato. Started: 2/15/2012, Finished: 2/19/2012.
51)Let Me In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Started: 2/19/2012, Finished: 2/24/2012.
52)The 100 Best Movies Ever Made...Mostly Suck, by Nigel S. Started: 2/24/2012, Finished: 2/25/2012.
53)Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, by Haruki Murakami. Started: 2/25/2012, Finished: 2/27/2012.
54)The Wavering of Haruhi Suzumiya, by Nagaru Tanigawa. Started: 2/27/2012, Finished: 3/2/2012.
55)The Cage of Zeus, by Sayuri Ueda. Started: 3/2/2012, Finished: 3/9/2012.
56)Handling the Undead, by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Started: 3/9/2012, Finished: 3/13/2012.
57)Looking Backward 2000-1887, by Edward Bellamy. Started: 3/13/2012, Finished: 3/16/2012.
58)Five by Endo, by Shusaku Endo. Started: 3/16/2012, Finished: 3/16/2012.
59)Death March on Mount Hakkōda, by Jirō Nitta. Started: 3/16/2012, Finished: 3/17/2012.
60)A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Started: 3/17/2012, Finished: 3/19/2012.
61)Things Japanese, by Basil Hall Chamberlain. Started: 3/19/2012, Finished: 3/25/2012.
62)In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians, by John Dougill. Started: 3/25/2012, Finished: 3/27/2012.
63)Those Guys Have All the Fun, by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales. Started: 3/27/2012, Finished: 3/31/2012.
64)ICO: Castle in the Mist, by Miyuki Miyabe. Started: 3/31/2012, Finished: 4/2/2012.
65)Al Jaffee's Mad Life, by Mary-Lou Weisman. Started: 4/2/2012, Finished: 4/2/2012.
66)I am a Cat, by Sōseki Natsume. Started: 4/2/2012, Finished: 4/7/2012.
67)Dark Shadows: Return to Collinwood, by Kathryn Leigh Scott and Jim Pierson. Started: 4/7/2012, Finished: 4/8/2012.
68)Fake ID, by Mariko Tamaki. Started: 4/8/2012. Finished: 4/8/2012.
69)The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson. Started: 4/8/2012, Finished: 4/11/2012.
70)After the Banquet, by Yukio Mishima. Started: 4/11/2012, Finished: 4/13/2012.
71)The Onion Presents: Love, Sex, and Other Natural Disasters, by the Staff of The Onion. Started: 4/13/2012, Finished: 4//13/2012.
72)Basket Case, by Carl Hiaasen. Started: 4/13/2012, Finished: 4/16/2012.
73)Invasion of the Sea, by Jules Verne. Started: 4/17/2012, Finished: 4/18/2012.
74)Secrets of the Freemasons, by Michael Bradley. Started: 4/18/2012, Finished: 4/19/2012.
75)Brave Story, by Miyuki Miyabe. Started: 4/19/2012, Finished: 4/26/2012.
76)The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Started: 4/26/2012, Finished: 4/27/2012.
77)The Anthology of Really Important Modern Poetry, by Kathryn & Ross Petras. Started: 4/27/2012, Finished: 4/27/2012.
78)The Girl Who Played WIth Fire, by Stieg Larsson. Started: 4/27/2012, Finished: 5/2/2012.
79)Samurai - The Japanese Warrior's Unofficial Manual, by Stephen Turnbull. Started: 5/2/2012, Finished: 5/3/2012.
80)The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, by Nikolai Gogol. Started: 5/3/2012, Finished: 5/5/2012.
81)The Shooting Gallery & Other Stories, by Yūko Tsushima. Started: 5/5/2012, Finished: 5/8/2012.
82)March Was Made of Yarn, edited by Elmer Luke and David Karashima. Started: 5/8/2012, Finished: 5/10/2012.
83)The Supervillain Handbook, by Matt. D. Wilson. Started: 5/10/2012, Finished: 5/10/2012.
84)The Tale of the Heike, translated by Helen Craig McCullough. Started: 5/10/2012, Finished: 5/19/2012.
85)Awa Maru - Titanic of Japan, by Rei Kimura. Started: 5/19/2012, Finished: 5/19/2012.
86)Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams, edited by Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicserv-Ronay Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi. Started: 5/19/2012, Finished: 5/28/2012.
87)The Box Man, by Kobo Abe. Started: 5/28/2012, Finished: 6/1/2012.
88)Napoleon's Privates, by Tony Perrottet. Started: 6/1/2012, Finished: 6/2/2012.
89)The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, by Stieg Larsson. Started: 6/2/2012, Finished: 6/14/2012.
90)Why Does Batman Carry Shark Repellent?, by Brian Cronin. Started: 6/14/2012. Finished: 6/14/2012.
91)Facing the Bridge, by Yoko Tawada. Started: 6/14/2012, Finished: 6/18/2012.
92) A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt. Started: 6/18/2012,Finished: 6/18/2012.
93)The Last Days of Socrates, by Plato. Started: 6/18/2012, Finished: 6/21/2012.
94)Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes. Started: 6/21/2012, Finished: 7/3/2012.
95)Botchan, by Natsume Sōseki. Started: 7/3/2012, Finished: 7/5/2012.
96)Almuric, by Robert E. Howard. Started: 7/5/2012,Finished: 7/6/2012.
97)Jonathan Edwards: Basic Writings, edited by Ola Elizabeth Winslow. Started: 7/6/2012, Finished: 7/13/2012.
98)Good Luck, Yukikaze, by Chōhei Kambayashi. Started: 7/13/2012, Finished: 7/16/2012.
99)The Sound of Waves, by Yukio Mishima, Started: 7/16/2012, Finished: 7/20/2012.
100)The Ark Sakura, by Kobo Abe. Started: 7/20/2012, Finished: 7/28/2012.
101)Doctor Who - Monster Miscellany, by Justin Richards. Started: 7/28/2012, Finished: 7/28/2012.
102)Doctor Who - 100 Scariest Monsters, by Justin Richards. Started: 7/28/2012, Finished: 7/28/2012.
103)America's Geisha Ally, by Naoko Shibusawa. Started: 7/28/2012, Finished: 8/2/2012.
104)Moju: The Blind Beast, by Edogawa Ranpo. Started: 8/2/2012, Finished: 8/2/2012.
105)Future Lovecraft, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles. Started: 8/2/2012, Finished: 8/4/2012.
106)Gush, by Yo Hemmi. Started: 8/4/2012, Finished: 8/7/2012.
107)Bodies of Memory, by Yoshikuni Igarashi. Started: 8/7/2012, Finished: 8/13/2012.
108)The Intrigues of Haruhi Suzumiya, by Nagaru Tanigawa. Started: 8/13/2012, Finished: 8/16/2012.
109)The Sound of the Mountain, by Yasunari Kawabata. Started: 8/16/2012, Finished: 8/19/2012.
110)Was Superman A Spy?, by Brian Cronin. Started: 8/19/2012, Finished: 8/20/2012.
111)In Godzilla's Footsteps, edited by William M.Tsutsui and Michiko Ito. Started: 8/20/2012, Finished: 8/25/2012.
112)The Psychopath Test, by Jon Ronson. Started: 8/25/2012, Finished: 8/26/2012.
113)Doctor Who: Shada - The Lost Adventure by Douglas Adams, by Gareth Roberts. Started: 8/26/2012, Finished: 8/27/2012.
114)Japan's Longest Day, compiled by the Pacific War Research Society. Started: 8/27/2012, Finished: 8/29/2012.
115)The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, Started: 8/29/2012, Finished: 9/16/2012.
116)Mythology, by Philip Wilkinson. Started: 9/16/2012, Finished: 9/21/2012.
117)Baseball in Blue and Gray, by Geroge B. Kirsch. Started: 9/21/2012, Finished: 9/22/2012.
118)Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu, translated by Donald Keene. Started: 9/22/2012, Finished: 9/28/2012.
119)The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht. Started: 9/28/2012, Finished 10/1/2012.
120)Bacchae and Other Plays, by Euripides. Started: 10/1/2012, Finished: 10/5/2012.
121)Nippon Wars and Other Plays, by Takeshi Kawamura. Started: 10/5/2012, Finished: 10/9/2012.
122)Dean & Me, by Jerry Lewis and James Kaplan. Started: 10/9/2012, Finished: 10/9/2012.
123)Theogony and Works and Days, by Hesiod. Started: 10/9/2012, Finished: 10/10/2012.
124)How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob A. Riis. Started: 10/10/2012, Finished: 10/16/2012.
125)The Mabinogion, translated by Jeffrey Gantz. Started: 10/16/2012. Finished: 10/21/2012.
126)Wonderful Life With the Elements, by Bunpei Yorifuji. Started: 10/21/2012, Finished: 10.21/2012.
127)The Book of the Bizarre, by Varla Ventura. Started: 10/21/2012, Finished: 10/22/2012.
128)The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. Started: 10/22/2012, Finished: 10/26/2012.
129)American Nations, by Colin Woodard. Started: 10/26/2012, Finished: 10/29/2012..
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Updated. I found Kokoro to be an interesting and enjoyable read. I heartily recommend it.
Updated. Quite enjoyed the Miyabe book. A fun, exciting read.
Updated. Saitō's book was interesting, although I'm not sure I quite understood everything he was trying to say. One interesting thing - apparently one of the inspirations for the "magical girl" genre in manga and anime was the TV show Bewitched.
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