Read in December

Here's what I read this last month, as my year-long Book-A-Day string chugged to a conclusion. This is purely an index, and so probably not interesting to anyone who isn't me. Luckily, I'm burying it at the moment of the most pointless holiday ever invented, so hardly anyone will notice it.

Jimmy Gownley, The Dumbest Idea Ever! (12/1)

Nick Nertozzi, Shackleton: Antarctic Odyssey (12/2)

Emily Carroll, Through the Woods (12/3)

Sebastian Faulks,  Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (12/3)

Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti, Hansel and Gretel (12/4)

Anne Rice and Ashley Marie Witter, The Wolf Gift: The Graphic Novel (12/5)

Jiro Kuwata, Batman: The Jiro Kuwata Batmanga, Vol. 1 (digital proofs, 12/6)

Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, Jane, the Fox, and Me (12/7)

Kerascoet and Hubert, Beauty (digital proof, 12/8)

Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown, 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy (12/9)

Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, and various artists, The Graveyard Book, Vol. 1 (12/10)

Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, and various artists, The Graveyard Book, Vol. 2 (12/11)

Milt Gross, Hearts of Gold (12/12)

Diana Wynne Jones, Deep Secret (12/12)

S. Morgan Friedman and Michael Malice, Overheard in New York (12/13)

Ilan Stavans and Lalo Alcaraz, A Most Imperfect Union (12/15)

Inio Asano, Nijigahara Holograph (12/16)

Brandon Graham, The Complete Multiple Warheads, Vol. 1 (12/17)

Max Brooks and Caanan White, The Harlem Hellfighters (12/18)

Jonathan Stroud, The Whispering Skull (12/19)

Gilbert Hernandez, Loverboys (12/19)

Theresa J. Slowik, America's Art: Smithsonian American Art Museum (12/19)

Stephen Collins, The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil (12/20)

Charles Burns, Sugar Skull (12/21)

Abel Lanzac and Christophe Blain, Weapons of Mass Diplomacy (12/23)

Joe Sacco, Bumf, Vol. 1 (12/23)

Rob Davis, The Motherless Oven (12/24)

G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona, Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal (12/25)

Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin, Satellite Sam, Vol. 1: The Lonesome Death of Satellite Sam (12/26)

Jorg Tittel and John Aggs, Ricky Rouse Has a Gun (12/27)

Richard McGuire, Here (12/28)

Guy Delisle, Even More Bad Parenting Advice (12/29)

Raymond Carver, Cathedral (12/30)

Jeffrey Brown, Kids Are Weird (12/31)


And if you detect a certain headlong effort to get to as many of the well-reviewed graphic novels of the year in those last two weeks -- to better inform my Favorites of the Year -- well spotted, friend. That's exactly what happened.